TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume I - v1.1
Part 1
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 19 April 1994. All rights reserved.
This is part one of a series of articles that will endeavour to
define the astral world and the projection process.
Please keep in mind, while reading v1.x of this Treatise, that it
was my first attempt at serious writing. That is, I was learning
to write while writing them.
I have been studying the astral plane, in my astral form, for most
of my life. I have attempted, by careful observation and critical
thinking, to understand it, and hopefully, to shed a little light
on it.
Everybody, without exception, leaves their body in a low powered
projection, when they go to sleep. I call this sleep projection.
The astral body hovers a few inches above the physical like a
balloon on a string, mimicking the sleeping position and going no
further. Once the astral body has separated, it is free to create
dreams. This is the natural (sleep, dream) process we are all
familiar with. During this, you sink into the collective dream
consciousness of the world. This `dream pool' settles into
layers. According to what type of person you are, spiritual,
moral advancement etc, you will tune in to a level you have
affinity with. These levels are commonly called the `Planes' or
sub Planes. There is nothing wrong with this analogy except that
it can confuse things when you try to grasp the whole concept.
If you become aware during sleep projection you can take some
control over it as in a lucid dream, and move amongst the levels.
If you do take control though, you cannot return to the real world
and function as an astral form in it. You are in the topsy-turvy
world of the dream pool or astral planes, where everything is
possible, but not very plausible.
When you do a `fully conscious' projection of the astral form you
project into the physical world, not any astral world. This has
long been misunderstood. What is usually thought of as astral
projection today is better called `Lucid Dreaming' which is
completely different.
Many authors suggest we all race about the universe in AP every
night. This is simply not true. You will find the world a lonely
place in your astral form and will rarely see anyone else
projecting there. If you do see someone, often they are just
standing, confused and befuddled, caught in a `between' state of
projecting and creating. This is what happens when you lose
control during a conscious OBE. I call it `The Alice and
Wonderland Effect' It is an effective barrier to the untrained
mind.
In the astral form you have an incredibly strong creative ability,
normally used to create dreams. Once free of the fetters of the
physical world, you can create an entire world, and often do.
This creative ability is the problem, and the cause, of all the
misunderstandings about AP.
There is a natural barrier in AP just as there is with any other
form of psychic ability. The `Alice' effect, limits projection
time in the real world to a few minutes, in most cases, unless you
can control your mind and energy level well. If there was not a
barrier - think about it - millions of people flitting around the
world every day and night, no privacy, no secrets. This would be
a very unhappy world to live in.
What happens during a fully conscious AP if you can't control your
mind and energy? Well, at some point during the AP you will start
to lose control over the experience and well known things will be
found in wrong places. Doors, windows, furniture; extra rooms
will appear etc. Your subconscious mind has started creating or
you are tuning into a dream plane. Once this happens it is
impossible to know what is real any more. Some of the dream pool
levels, or planes, are a carbon copy of the real world. You may
tune into one of them and think you are projecting in the real
world - until you meet a Cheshire cat.
One final thing, the Eastern concept of the levels; physical,
astral, mental, buddhic, atmic etc are very real. They have been
confused though and mixed in with the Western concept of astral
projection. They are different levels of consciousness, not
planes as such. When you AP you don't raise your consciousness,
it is the same as when you are awake. These `higher' levels can
only be reached by raising your consciousness, you can't just
project into them. It is a different kind of `projection'. I
have been in these higher levels but it is difficult to explain
them, they really have to be experienced. They are normally
reached during deep meditation.
In order to reach these higher levels, some clairvoyant ability is
required. This can be developed, or natural ability.
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TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume I - v1.1
Part 2
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 19 April 1994. All rights reserved.
Astral Projection (AP') is an automatic reflex, built in to your
body and mind. To trigger it, while fully conscious, there are
three major requirements.
1. The ability to relax your body 100% and stay awake.
2. You have to be able to shift your consciousness point outside
of your body.
3. You need enough mental and psychic energy to maintain control
over the projection and not slip into the dream state.
Together, these will trigger the automatic projection reflex
for a full powered AP'. There are a few minor conditions but
these can be varied to suit your experience and surroundings.
Relaxation: You must `master' a full body relaxation exercise.
If you know one already it can be adapted to suit. Sit in a
`chair' and relax. Starting with the feet, tense them and relax
them. Continue this with calves, thighs, hips, stomach, chest,
arms, neck and face. Go over this a few times until you feel
completely relaxed. Breathe deeply and slowly throughout this and
try to become `aware' of the breath entering and leaving your
body.
Mental hands: Imagine you have a pair of `mental hands'. Stroke
yourself with these `hands' in an upward motion from your feet and
up your legs, over and over again. Try and `feel' them relaxing
and soothing you. Continue this up through the centre of your
torso, paying particular attention to the chakras. The mental
hands technique will also get you used to shifting your point of
consciousness to different parts of your body. Try and put as
much of yourself as you can into these mental hands.
Energy raising: As you pull upwards through your legs with your
mental hands, imagine you are gripping the energy that flows there
and pull it up through you. This is the natural path of the
psychic/life energy that flows through you. With practise you
will actually `feel' this energy tingling and surging through you.
It will literally `charge' you up like a battery.
Chakras: These are situated at: 1. the base of the spine (between
the anus and the genitals) 2. The spleen (slightly below the belly
button) 3. The solar plexus (1 hand-span above the belly button)
4. The heart (centre of the chest) 5. the throat. 6. forehead.
7. Crown (full top of your head). They are best imagined as
roughly the size of your hand.
Chakra stimulation: Chakras are centres for the transformation of
energy. Each chakra transforms the raw life energy of the planet
into a different type. As you pull this energy up through you
with your mental hands, stop at each chakra and imagine your
mental hands opening it. Pull the energy up through it to the
next one and so on. Repeat this a few times, you may not feel
anything at first but with practise you will feel a fluttering or
pulsing under your skin.
Stop Check: Keep checking your muscles for any tensioning
throughout these exercises and re-relax as needed. A common
problem is the automatic tensing of muscles as you pull energy up
through you. Remember, this is all mental, the body must stay
dormant and relaxed throughout this.
Point shift: To shift your point of consciousness, imagine you
are a foot or two out in front of yourself. NOT a figure in front
of you but YOU are in front of your physical body. Keep in mind
your physical body being behind you. This is tricky but you will
get used to it quickly. Don't tense or strain any muscles during
this, your body will try to obey you `physically', don't let it.
Mental state: Your surface mind will be fully occupied by these
exercises so no mental exercise is needed up to this point. When
you feel so relaxed your body begins to feel `heavy' you are
entering a light trance. Cease the other exercises and use breath
awareness to stop your mind wandering.
Breath awareness: `Feel' your breath coming in and `feel' it
going out. With the inhale, `pull' energy up from the base chakra
to your heart chakra with your mental hands. Note: If you feel
any vibration start in your body at this point, and don't want to
project yet, move your head slightly, and gently sway your body
into normal alertness.
These exercises should be carried out daily. Some of them can be
done anywhere and anytime you have a few minutes to spare. You
will, in time, condition your body to respond quickly and easily.
With practise you will be able to attain a state of `total
relaxation' in just a few minutes. This training will reduce the
amount of effort needed, and the fatigue produced, when you
attempt a fully conscious AP.
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most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
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TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume I - v1.1
Part 3
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 19 April 1994. All rights reserved.
This article will deal with actually leaving the body (AP'). If
you have read the previous two parts - and I strongly recommend
you do - you will have some understanding of the AP' process. I
will go into more detail on related subjects, ie: duality,
multiple bodies, paralysis, the psychic wind, long distance AP',
fear, astral sex, ethics, entering other bodies, astral entities,
limitations to AP', thought forms, healing, problems, and other
topics in subsequent articles.
Note: The projection method I use and describe here is slightly
different to what is called AP' today. It is how to do a `fully
conscious' projection of the astral body into the real world - not
the astral world. This is equivalent to a safe (near death
experience).
Conditions:
Stated here are the IDEAL conditions for AP'. Some of them can be
varied according to your circumstances and needs.
You need a quiet room where you will be undisturbed. If
background noise is a problem, tune a TV or radio - off station -
to provide white noise which will blanket it. I advise against
music. Make sure the temperature is comfortable as you will tend
to lose body heat during AP'.
The light must be soft and fairly dim, not dark. The burning of
incense, while not necessary, helps condition your body to relax.
If you use incense, use one type exclusively for AP', and use that
type for no other purpose.
You need a comfortable chair with arm and neck support. This can
be a lounge chair or of the recliner type. AP' is much more
successful when done from a SITTING position. The chair must be
slightly reclined to stop the head rocking forward. A phone book
under the front of it will do. A pillow is needed for the feet,
and sometimes a small pillow or towel behind the neck. The type
of neck pillow used on aircraft are good. Play around with this
until you are 100% comfortable. Note: wear loose clothing.
If you must use a bed, say you are unable to sit due to illness,
injury or circumstance, prop yourself up in bed with pillows, as
you would when you eat. As I have said, any of this can be
dispensed with according to your needs and circumstances. I am
giving you here the optimum conditions for AP'.
Tiredness:
To AP' you don't want to be too tired. The state needed is that
found after you have exercised, showered, had your evening meal
and relaxed for an hour or so. A feeling of well being and
freshness, not exhaustion or over tiredness, is best. If you are
projecting in the day-time, I recommend some form of vigorous
exercise, a hot shower and some relaxation first. The body will
be physically tired - thus easier to relax - but the mind will be
awake and alert. If light is a problem, use blackout goggles like
the ones they give you on air craft. They are comfortable and will
not interfere.
Note: If saliva builds up in your mouth at any time, before,
during or while you are AP' you can swallow, move your tongue etc
- it won't affect it at all. If you have to move your body
slightly, to ease it, do it in a sleepy, stretchy way, without
breaking relaxation. If you have to cough, cough gently. If you
are coughing and sneezing, as with a cold - forget it - and get
some sleep. One other sensation you may feel is the (cobwebs) a
tickling sensation on the face, this is normal. In the early stage
you may scratch them if you wish. In the latter stage, after the
heaviness starts, ignore them, they will soon stop. It is caused
by chakra energy and the subtle bodies loosening.
THE EXIT
--------
When your chosen time comes, form a STRONG intention to AP', sit
in your chair, stretch and get comfortable. Do the relaxation
exercises and energy raising until you feel the heavy condition as
you enter a light trance. Switch to breath awareness and keep
your consciousness shifted out in front. Stay aware of your
physical body being behind you and keep checking for tension.
A humming will start inside and around you. It will increase to a
much deeper vibration, depending on the chakra activity. With
heavy chakra involvement this can be a truly awesome feeling and
is very frightening - if you don't know what is happening. Your
heart will FEEL like it is speeding up to an impossible rate.
This is NOT your heart but the heart chakra! Ignore it.
This feels like: Place your hand on your chest, with your finger
tips resting in the centre of it over your heart. Tap your
fingers on your chest, in time with your heart. Increase this
rate slowly, until you are tapping as fast as your fingers can.
This is how a chakra feels when it is fully activated, it varies
from a gentle pulsing, like a muscular twitch under the skin, to a
deep robust thrumming, like a muscle gone mad.
Ignore the thrumming and vibrations and stay frosty. Adopt a ho-
hum attitude to all of this and you will be out in a jiffy. The
vibes and thrumming may feel as though they are increasing to an
unbearable pitch - but you must ignore them. With subsequent
projections, it will be less noticeable, as the dormant chakras
stabilise.
The thrumming and vibes reach a crescendo as the AP' reflex cuts
in. You buzzzz forward out of your body, feeling a slight falling
sensation in the pit of your stomach. The deep vibes are replaced
by a quiet purring inside your chest. You are now floating, or
hovering, a few feet in front of, or above, your physical body.
Stop all exercises - concentrate - and stay frosty.
This is great! you'll think, YES.... I did it! You are now
consciously projecting your astral body, and hey, it DOES feel
great!
The first time out, limit it to a few minutes - please trust me on
this - it is important. Move around the room - slowly. You
haven't really got legs, and DON'T look for them. The law of
gravity doesn't apply any more, so be careful. Just move around
the room a bit, don't think about how - just do it!
You may feel a purring deep in your chest as you move, from your
heart chakra. This is like a little motor, it speeds up as you
move and slows to a gentle (putt putting) when you stop. This is
your power pack, your energy, the strength of it will depend on
the amount of chakra involvement and how close you are to your
body.
Keep control of your mind - stay frosty - and don't get over
excited during the AP'. Don't imagine at all, or expect anything
that was not there when you left your body. This is essential to
keep from falling into the ALICE effect.
Now move back to your body with the intention of re-entering. You
are new to the astral form and if you go charging off there is a
99% chance you will lose control, fall into the `Alice' effect,
and remember nothing. Learn to crawl before you fly? You can go
further afield in later AP's but it is important you limit the
first one to this.
Re-entry is simple. Move into your body, any old how, and it will
straighten itself out. The re-entry reflex will take over - and
snap - you're back. GET UP straight away, keeping in mind what
you have done and WRITE IT DOWN.
The astral mind is like the RAM in a computer, the physical mind
is like a hard disk and the paper is like a floppy. Switch off
the power in a computer without saving to hard disk and all data
in high mem is gone - poof - just like that! When you write it
down it makes a wrinkle in your hard disk mind. You just need a
few key words - not a full essay - you can fill in the details
later. Start a journal of your AP'S.
A typical Projection
--------------------
I sit in my chair, comfortable and warm. I am going to AP, come
hell or high water. I WILL do it! I do the relaxation
thoroughly, as I know it is the REAL secret to AP'. I raise
energy with my mental hands to activate my chakras. They start to
thrum nicely. I concentrate more on my heart chakra, pulling more
and more power to it through the others, until it throbs with a
deep primal rhythm. The heavy feeling comes over me as I enter
trance. I feel like a corpse, a dead weight. My face tickles all
over with cobweb sensation, but I ignore it. I shift my point of
focus to the ME in front. I AM in front, but I am also aware of
my body behind me. The vibes start from deep within my body, I
concentrate on breathing but keep my focus out in front. The
vibes increase to a huge droning, power house generator intensity,
but I ignore it. My spine thrills as adrenalin courses through
me, but I ignore it. I focus on breathing and where I am going.
My heart chakra feels like it's going to blow a gasket, but ha, I
know it's not my heart, so I ignore it. The droning change into a
deep buzzing and I am suddenly lifting free, I feel a slight
falling, buzzing sensation. I buzz out and am standing before
myself in a couple of seconds. Damn but this feels good! I move
around the room, searching - hunting. The little motor in my
heart purrs louder as I move, keeping pace with my movement.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
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TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume I - v1.1
Part 4
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 12 May 1994. All rights reserved.
SPLITTING
---------
The splitting of your consciousness, into two separate, but
identical minds, happens every time you go to sleep or have any
kind of out of body projection. This splitting happens for a very
good reason:
If you read the case histories in books on astral projection,
lucid dreaming, OOBE's and near death experience; you will find
many accounts illustrating the splitting effect. It is common,
during an out of body experience, to be aware of your physical
body while also being aware you are existing in a separate, finer
body. This is due to a telepathic link between your two bodies.
In the case of astral projection this link serves the purpose of
monitoring the physical body, so no harm comes to it.
When you project, your astral double leaves the physical body and
the mind splits. One part is centred in the astral body and the
other in the etheric body, which must stay with the physical.
When the astral form is generated, it has a mirror image of your
mind. It is YOU, in every respect, like a tape recording of a
tape recording; both identical, both YOU!
Often, during sleep, the mirrored minds mix in a kind of
telepathic dream sharing. The physical, etheric minds are also
capable of having dreams. This dream mixing results in a kind of
dream memory schizophrenia, caused by having more than one point
of consciousness. For those of you unfamiliar with schizophrenia,
sufferers of it can have more than one set of thoughts in their
mind at the same time.
DUALITY
-------
If the astral and the etheric bodies, when they are both fully
aware, concentrate on each other at close range during a
projection; a two way telepathic link is formed. This is very
disturbing and I don't recommend you try it too often. The
physical/etheric YOU and the astral YOU will see each other
clearly, and at the same time. You will be looking out of each
others eyes at the same time, aware of both sets of vision
simultaneously.
On top of this, making it even more confusing, you are also aware
of each others thoughts, as well as your own, simultaneously.
This is telepathic feed back, like holding two mirrors facing each
other to give you a glimpse of infinity, a reflection of a
reflection of a reflection etc.
This uncomfortable and confusing state can be avoided by not
looking too closely at each other and not thinking of each other
when you are projecting.
This, in a way, goes a long way to explaining why dreams are
sometimes so confused and chaotic. The mind splits for a VERY
good reason and the two parts are meant to function separately.
I have experienced this phenomena many times during projection. I
studied it because I was curious of the way I could feel my
physical body when in close proximity to it. I also kept getting
confusing memories of doing two things at once while projecting.
ie. Being aware of events and noises, in the house and in the
street, as well as remembering the projection. This duality has
been reported by other projectors, but never properly explained or
understood.
Here is an account of the first time I experienced duality and
telepathic feedback:
I had been meditating in my chair by the fire and returned to
normal awareness as the rain started drumming on the roof. The
wind was getting up and it was shaking the windows. I looked at
the clock, it was three in the morning. This was not unusual,
sometimes I meditate all night. I felt well rested and full of
energy. I thought to myself, `I've never projected in the rain
before, I wonder what its like?'
Closing my eyes once again, I soon projected out of my body.
Moving through the wall, I went out into the rain. What a
gloriously wet feeling it was. I could feel the rain passing
through me. The smell of rain and wetness was everywhere, it
seemed to fill me with energy. I floated up to the roof, sat on
the chimney and looked out over the town. I watched the rain
dancing on the roofs and streets, swirling down gutters and
gurgling into drains. It seemed to have a friendly voice and
rhythm all its own, it said "drink me, splash me, gurgle me, slosh
me." It was funny at the time.
Sitting on the roof, I noticed I could feel my body below me in
the chair. This had often intrigued me, how I could feel my
physical body when I was near it but not when I was further away.
Sliding back through the roof, I decided to study my it more
closely.
Suddenly, I could see myself floating through the wall as well as
seeing myself sitting in the chair. It was ME, sitting in the
chair looking at myself floating through the wall, but also ME
floating in front of the chair ten feet away watching myself
sitting in the chair. This was not only confusing, it made me feel
quite ill.
I had two sets of vision, two sets of thoughts, all the same and
all joined together, it was fascinating. It also made sense.
Just because my astral was separated from my physical, why should
the physical have to stop thinking.
The astral ME moved around the room, observing my body in the
chair while it was watching me. I could still see the astral ME,
even when I was behind the physical me. I could feel myself in
the chair, trying to follow my astral body around the room. It
took a real effort, as if I had no energy to move. I felt as if I
were huge and was moving against enormous pressure. I was moving
my viewpoint but I wasn't physically moving at all.
My awareness was existing in both my etheric and astral bodies at
the same time. This was how my physical ME was able to see the
astral ME so easily, and from any angle. My etheric was,
literally, turning around in my skin. This ability to see through
closed eyelids and from different perspectives is often described
by projectors and meditators.
This duality seems remarkably similar to how schizophrenics
describe what they feel during an attack: The nausea, lack of
energy, multiple sets of thoughts and feelings of disorientation.
This terrible disorder may be caused by a dislocation of the
astral body? The only way to find out if this is the case, would
be to study a schizophrenic during an attack, from the astral
viewpoint.
After studying the etheric/physical bodies from my astral form I
have come to the following conclusions:
During normal sleep, the etheric, better described as the energy
body or vitality sheath, expands and acts like an energy sponge or
solar accumulator. It swells and opens, allowing the astral body
to float free, while it absorbs some kind of energy (cosmic
energy?) from the universe.
When it expands, all the chakras, both major and minor, slowly
open up like the flowers in a garden, catching and absorbing
energy. When we awake, the etheric body contracts and re-absorbs
the astral body; forming a dense etheric sheath, or skin, which
holds within it our stored energy and subtle bodies.
According to some sources we have 300 chakras, if you count all
the minor ones.
The swelling of the etheric body, while awareness is centred in
it, also appears to be responsible for the sensation of swollen
hugeness in the body coupled with a feeling of smallness in self.
This strange mix of sensations is often reported by people during
astral projection or meditation. It appears to be caused by the
etheric body swelling and interacting with the universe.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
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TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume I - v1.1
Part 5
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 14 May 1994. All rights reserved.
Projection Problems
-------------------
Here are some answers to the most common problems people are
having with projection. Thank you all for the hundreds of email
letters you have sent me. Your feedback is helping me to improve
this treatise, which ultimately helps everybody. If you write to
me and don't get a reply within a week, write again, I sometimes,
inadvertently, loose a few letters.
I have done away with the original technique of shifting the
consciousness out of the body. Most people find this kind of
visualisation far too difficult, and waste precious energy trying
to do it. Visualisation is the biggest problem with all
projection techniques. To overcome this, I have developed a
simpler method that is much more efficient.
The most common problems are:
1. Visualisation, out in front of yourself.
2. Paralysis, after an apparently successful projection.
3. Fear.
4. Remembering the projection.
1. The visualisation problem:
------------------------------
Shifting your point of consciousness away from your body, by
visualising, is simply a way of exerting pressure on the astral
body. There are many ways to do this other than the method I gave
earlier in this series. The biggest difficulty with this is it
requires you to imagine yourself in a different position from the
one you are in.
For example, if you are lying down, you are (horizontal) and you
will be trying to imagine you are standing at the foot of the bed,
which is (vertical). This is one reason projection is easier to
do from a chair. In a chair you are (vertical) and are
visualising yourself standing in front (vertical). Sitting and
standing are both (vertical) positions. Close your eyes now, and
try to imagine yourself lying on the floor, and you will see what
I mean.
This is not the only difficulty. Any visualisation that requires
you to imagine yourself at a different place from where you
actually are is unnatural and hence extremely difficult. This, I
believe, is the cause of most failures. A great deal of energy is
wasted on this, energy which can be better used on the projection
itself.
Visualisation is a big hurdle for people when they are learning to
project. Many have trouble with it because they think they have
to actually SEE what they are visualising, you DON'T. People who
can visualise things clearly DON'T actually see anything. If they
do, it is no longer a visualisation but a clairvoyant vision.
Visualisation is simply the ability to construct a representation
of what something would look, or feel like, in your minds eye. It
is better termed fantasising, an imaginary perception of reality.
Many people who say they can't visualise at all, are still able to
create elaborate fantasies.
To overcome this problem I have developed a simple extension of
the mental hands technique that will do the same thing. If you
managed the mental hands in the relaxation exercise OK, you will
have no problems with this.
MENTAL HANDS PROJECTION
-----------------------
Use a thumb-tack to attach a length of ribbon to the ceiling over
your bed or chair. Have it hanging over your chest, with the end
within arms reach. IF you are using a chair, have it a foot or so
in front of you and within arms reach. NOTE: This is a visual
aide only.
Before you attempt your next projection, get used to reaching out
and holding the ribbon. Remember where it is and what it feels
like. You are going to use this ribbon to pull yourself out of
your body.
Start your projection the same as outlined in Part 3. When you
enter the trance state, instead of imagining you are out in front
of yourself, use your mental hands to pull yourself hand over hand
out of your body. Reach up with your mental hands and imagine you
are climbing the cord. Feel yourself coming loose from your
physical body every time you hand over hand up the cord. Make
sure you don't tense any muscles while you are doing this. Put
everything you have in the way of will-power into doing this.
While you are using the mental hands to pull yourself out you can
also dispense with the breath awareness. Climbing the ribbon with
your mental hands will fully occupy your mind, making any other
mental exercise redundant. This will let you put every ounce of
mental energy you have into the one activity, projection, instead
of wasting it on a complicated visualisation exercise.
While you are climbing the ribbon imagine you are coming loose
from the physical body. Imagine you can feel yourself rising a
little with each new hand hold. Feel yourself floating free. You
will feel a slight giddy feeling in the pit of your stomach, or
solar plexus, as pressure is put on the astral body.
2. Paralysis after an apparently successful projection:
--------------------------------------------------------
This happens when, after everything appears to goes well, you feel
all the sensations, heaviness, heart chakra thrumming, vibrations
etc, but nothing seems to happen. You lie there, unable to move,
feeling very light, and with a floating sensation. This is a form
of waking paralysis.
What has happened is, you have activated the projection reflex,
the etheric body has expanded but only partially freed the astral
body. This is like waking sleep projection.
To overcome this when it happens, increase the effort in climbing
the ribbon with your mental hands, apply all the will power you
have to this. This should put enough pressure on the astral body
to complete the projection. If this fails, there is a strong
possibility you have already projected and are centred in your
physical or etheric body.
If you think this is the case, and you can't break out of it, use
it. Observe all you can, experiment, feel, see what you can see
through your eyelids, try looking behind yourself. Another thing
you can try is to convert it into a lucid dream. Try focusing on
a fantasy, or a place you would like to go. Build it in your mind
so you can tune into it.
Not enough is known about the above condition of waking paralysis.
If you discover a way to do something about it, or with it, please
email me. I will include these findings in a future rewrite to
help others with it.
3. Fear:
---------
Many people have written to me describing their feelings of fear
during projection. This is a kind of natural barrier to some
people that must be overcome. Some call it "The Dweller on the
Threshold." It is a manifestation of your own inner fears, very
much like a child's unreasoned fear of the dark; a fear of the
unknown.
Many people feel there is something evil waiting for them, or a
nasty spirit trying to stop them projecting. This must be faced
with courage! Look upon it as a test, an exam, that must be
passed before you can project freely. Once you do project, and
face it, you will find it is only a hollow threat that will
crumple into nothing.
I have projected hundreds of times in my life, and in my astral
form, have never been attacked. I did, however, have strong
feelings of fear to conquer when I first taught myself to project
consciously.
There is also this to consider: You are invulnerable in your
astral form and your body has excellent defences to protect you
during a projection. Your expanded etheric will react instantly
at the slightest intrusion or unfriendly touch. It can pull you
back in a second, no matter how far away you are.
Ways to help overcome fear are:
- Project during the day.
- Leave plenty of lights on in the house.
- Project with a friend. (joint projection)
- Pray to whatever deity you believe in for protection.
4. Remembering it all:
-----------------------
If your projection seems to happen OK but you only remember laying
on the bed and falling asleep after it. The problem could be in
remembering the astral experience.
Here's what you can do about not remembering. As soon as you
awake, sit up and pull those memories back. Sit up and think
hard. Put aside a few minutes quiet time each morning and do
this. It will train you to remember your projections and dreams.
During this quiet time, run key phrases through your mind until
you hit on something. Say things like: I was walking... I was
talking to... I was just going to... I was over at... I was
flying over... I was having a... I was inside a... These are
examples of phrases that can lead to a fragment of memory you can
lock on to. Make up some more phrases for yourself.
It may not feel like there is anything in your mind to remember,
but try hard and put some real effort into it. They are there,
you just have to reach in and locate them. Once you lock onto a
fragment of memory, more can be located and more still. You will
be surprised how much you can remember this way.
It is important to write these down as you remember them. They
may seem vivid and unforgettable but they will vanish in a few
minutes if you don't record them. Just a few key words will do.
One other aid to remembering is to give yourself post hypnotic
suggestions before you project, or go to bed. This can take the
form of an affirmation. Say something like "I will remember
everything I do tonight." Say it over and over until you get sick
of saying it.
Lastly, it helps if you have a mission goal for each projection,
something you especially want to do. Combine this with the
affirmation and program yourself to do it. For example, say: I
will go to the beach and remember..... I will go to the beach and
remember......
Lastly, remember to keep the first few projections ultra short.
This is an absolute must! It is more important to have a 30 Sec
projection you can remember that an all nighter you forget.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
----------------- http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ -----------------
TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume II - v1.1
Part 1
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 2 July 1994
This version has been completely rewritten and updated, with
thought to all the questions and comments received since its first
posting. I have tried, by applying my experience as a projector
and mystic, to solve some of the basic problems people are having
with projection. This has become an interactive work thanks to all
the constructive feedback and experimentation it has inspired on
the Internet.
There are certain aspects of the astral dimension and the
projection process that are very complicated. Much of it is
misunderstood and it can all be very confusing at times. This
series of articles attempts to shed a little light on the subject,
and hopefully, explain what its all about. The theories and
conclusions in this Treatise are largely drawn from my own
projection experience. It is the goal of this Treatise to develop
greater understanding and new, simpler and more effective
techniques for projection. The ideas, theories and techniques
discussed here are constantly under development and are subject to
modification and change as new discoveries and insights come to
light.
What is the Astral Dimension?
-----------------------------
The astral is the closest dimension to the physical. It overlays
and permeates the world like a huge mind net, catching and holding
all thought. Its contents are created by the collective
consciousness of the world mind. It contains all the thoughts,
memories, fantasies, and dreams of every living thing in the
world. In it, the laws of sympathetic attraction, or like
attracts like, causes this ocean of mind stuff to strata and
settle into layers or pools. These pools of thought are more
commonly called astral planes, astral worlds, astral sub planes or
astral realms.
The astral dimension is composed of astral matter and is aptly
described as mind stuff. It is extremely sensitive to thought and
can be moulded into any shape or form. These creations can be so
perfect as to be indistinguishable from reality.
The best way to explain this, mind stuff, is to draw a comparison
between astral matter and unexposed, high speed photographic film.
When this film is exposed to light, focused by the cameras lens, a
perfect image of reality is instantly burnt into the film by the
chemical reaction of the film to light. When astral matter is
exposed to thought, focused by the lens of the mind, a perfect
image of reality is instantly formed out of astral mind stuff by
the reaction of astral matter to thought. The complexity and
durability of any creation in the astral dimension depends largely
on the strength of the mind doing the creating.
Dreams
------
This is how the subconscious mind creates dreams: By tuning into
the astral dimension during sleep, it can create any scenario it
wishes. This is the subconscious mind's way of solving problems
and of communicating with the conscious mind. It creates a series
of complex thought form scenarios and projects them into the mind
stuff of the astral dimension, where they become solid. The
conscious mind then lives through and experiences these created
scenarios in the dream state. In a way its like a movie projector
(subconscious mind) projecting onto a movie screen (astral
dimension).
Thought Forms
-------------
Any new object in the real world is assimilated into the astral
dimension over a period of time. A thought form representation of
it first grows in the lowest part of the astral, close to the
physical dimension, becoming more and more permanent as time goes
on. As with all thought forms, the more attention paid to it the
quicker it grows.
The higher up in the astral dimension, or the further away from
the physical, the less thought forms, of the physical world, as we
know it, are found. Physical things have to soak in to it for a
very long time before they take shape, and are found, in the
higher astral.
Have you ever tried to move around a strange house in the dark?
You bump into everything, right. But as you become familiar with
it though, a mental picture of your surroundings forms in your
mind, and you can find your way around it better. The longer you
spend in this house the stronger this mental picture becomes.
This is similar to how things are assimilated and grown, as
thought forms, in other dimensions.
The generation of thought forms in the astral also works in the
reverse. If a physical object has been around for a very long
time, it will have grown a lasting thought form impression in the
astral. After the object is destroyed or removed, its thought
form still endures. You may, for example, in the astral, find
furniture in your house you don't have, jumbled up with your own.
This is caused by the decaying thought forms of old stuff,
belonging to previous tenants etc, still being there, years after
the originals have gone.
Old thought forms do not follow their physical counterpart around
when they are moved. New ones begin to grow in the astral
wherever it is while the old ones slowly decay. The longer a
thing is in one place, the stronger the thought form will become
in that place. This also applies to buildings, structures and
geological features. You may project into a park and find a house,
bridge, stream, hill etc that you know is definitely not there.
These may have existed in times past. The higher up in the astral
you go, the older the thought forms are, or the further back in
geological time you appear to be.
The rate of growth of a thought form depends largely on the amount
of attention paid to it. For example, a famous painting; loved,
viewed and highly thought of by millions, will have a much
stronger thought form than that of a common painting that hangs in
someone's bedroom and is only viewed by a few. The number of
thought forms you find in the astral also depends on how close you
are to the physical dimension. If you are very close, as in a
real time projection or OOBE, very few thought forms, if any, will
be found. In a real time OOBE you are not quite in the astral
dimension but are existing as an astral form in the buffer zone
between the astral and the physical dimensions.
Astral Vision
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In the physical body we have 220 degrees of vision, i.e. we can
only see in front of us, but not behind, above and below at the
same time. In the Astral body we have MORE than 360 degrees of
vision and can see on all sides at once. This is Spherical
vision. During projection, habit forces us to focus our attention
in one direction only, where we feel the forward part of our
vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right is still
there, and seen all at once, but it can not be assimilated by the
brain, all at once. This goes against the brains lifelong habit
of frontal vision. Spherical vision is like being one huge multi
faceted eye that can see in all directions, up, down, left, right,
front, back, but all at once!
In the astral body you do not have any physical organs, i.e.,
eyes. You are a non-physical point of consciousness floating in
space. You are also unaffected by gravity and other laws of
physics. In this state there are no ups or downs, backs or
fronts, left or rights. It is only lifelong habit that tries to
force this perspective on you during projection.
It is important to understand spherical vision, if you are to
operate competently in the astral. This is especially so when you
project, in real time, close to the physical dimension. Spherical
vision will often cause you to think you are in a mirror image
dimension, or a reversed copy of reality. This means your house,
for example, will appear to be reversed, back to front. This is
caused by you losing your original natural viewpoint during
projection.
At some point during the projection you have become disoriented
and taken a different viewpoint from normal, i.e., you have
rotated or turned upside down or inside without thinking. This
reverses your natural left right, up down viewpoint. This tricks
the subconscious mind into reversing the place you are in so your
conscious mind can function properly.
As you don't have a physical body in the astral, if you want to
look behind yourself you don't have to turn around, or move at
all. You just change your viewpoint to the rear. This, when done
without moving, causes the mirror image effect, in a way its like
looking in a mirror to see behind.
The diagram below illustrates this reversal of viewpoint without
turning, note left and right do not change:
Right | Right
|
(A) <<<<<<<<<--------|-------->>>>>>>>>> (B)
|
Left | Left
That is, if viewpoint (A) becomes viewpoint (B) without turning,
then Left and Right are not reversed. This causes the
subconscious mind to use its creative power to correct the view by
reversing it, or parts of it. This is easier and causes fewer
problems for the conscious mind than if it had to try and accept a
reversal of left and right.
A similar effect can be had by lying down and looking above your
head, or standing on your head and trying to pick the left and
right sides of things. This causes a slight confusion in your
sense of left and right, i.e., you have to consciously calculate
which is left and right from your reversed position. This slight
confusion is all that is needed to trick the subconscious mind
into creating something easier to accept.
Your brain is unable to assimilate this reversal and thus gives
you a new perspective according to what it feels is left and right
at the time. Once you consciously notice this anomaly it is too
late to reverse it. The brain cannot accept a conscious change of
left and right.
If you understand spherical vision though, and happen to get
reversed sometime during a projection, it is no longer a problem.
You can take it into account and function normally, rather than
thinking you are wasting your time in some strange mirror
dimension, i.e., if you had plans to do something in the astral
you still can. All you have to do is, take your left right
coordinates from the building or structure around you, and ignore
your own sense of left and right completely.
Everything you see while you are in the astral dimension is
directly perceived by the mind. It is a simple matter for the
subconscious mind to twist or reverse, all, or even part of, your
conscious perception of reality during a projection.
Note: This reversal of viewpoint can happen many times during any
one real time projection.
Creative Visualisation Power
----------------------------
The subconscious mind has VASTLY greater powers of visualisation
than the conscious mind. It is like comparing a super computer to
an child's calculator. In the astral dimension, during any
conscious projection or lucid dream, where the conscious mind is
aware, this difference can cause great confusion. The
subconscious mind simmers beneath the surface during any
projection. All that creative power is just bursting to get out,
to create, and it will do just that any chance it gets. This
difference in creative power, combined with the lifelong habit of
normal frontal vision, is the cause of the "Alice In Wonderland
Effect." Let me explain....
Take these together:
1. The incredible creative power of the subconscious mind.
2. The weak creative powers of the conscious mind.
3. The sensitivity of astral matter to thought.
4. Spherical vision.
5. Left, right sense reversals.
And you have a recipe for total confusion.
The Alice In Wonderland Effect
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You project your astral body and look around your room.
Everything appears normal, but suddenly, you notice the door is on
the wrong wall? While looking around, you have seen this door with
your rear vision, confusing your natural left, right, brain
perspective. The brain can't assimilate this because your frontal
perspective, and the position of the furniture, pictures, windows
etc, are normal; but the view behind you is reversed. This tricks
the subconscious mind into creating a door where it thinks it
should be. When you look at this door, it appears real, even
though you know it is in the wrong place. Once it has been
created, it will not be uncreated, as that would be unacceptable
to your conscious mind. i.e. solid doors don't normally have a
habit of vanishing before your eyes.
When you turn to where the door really should be, you will,
usually, find the door there as normal. Now you may have two, or
more, doors where there should only be one. If you go through the
real door, you will find the rest of the house as it should be,
hopefully. But, if you go through a false door, the mind knows
its false and won't accept it opening to a normal part of your
house that it knows can't possibly be there. So, if you open this
door you will find something else. It is usually a corridor or
passage, you don't have, leading off into other parts of the house
you don't have either.
From then on, if you go through this door, you are in Wonderland,
where everything is possible, just not very plausible. What you
are doing, in effect, is entering the astral dimension via
uncontrolled creation, through this door you don't have, but now
do. Once the subconscious mind starts creating like this it
continues to do so at a geometric rate. It has to, for the
conscious mind to assimilate the abnormal situation it is in. At
some stage, in this creative maelstrom, the subconscious mind
loses it completely and starts tuning in to other parts of the
astral. At this point of the projection, all semblance of reality
is lost and you fade into the astral dimension proper.
There are many ways this "Alice" effect can happen during a
projection, the above example is just one variation. It has been
noted by many projectors that at sometime during a projection they
seem to lose control of it. Objects appear, disappear, and
generally everything gets a little strange. This is caused,
basically, by the subconscious mind's vast creative ability being
triggered. It starts making and unmaking things, and tuning into
other areas of the astral and generally making everything
difficult for the poor projector.
To avoid the above problem: Concentrate on what you are doing
while you are projecting and don't let your mind wander. The
vision reversal problem can be minimised if you concentrate on
your forward vision during projection, i.e., focus in one
direction at a time. When you turn, follow the room around with
your vision and don't allow it to flit from one view to another.
The astral is not a good place to relax if you have serious plans.
The vast creative power of the subconscious can, however, be
utilised. It is an extremely valuable tool if you know how to use
it. I will outline ways to do this, in the third part of this
series, under the heading: "Virtual Reality Projection" where I
will outline how to custom create your own personal astral realm.
Melting Hands
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When you project the astral body close to the physical world you
do not have a body as such. But, the mind cannot accept this and
so provides a thought form one made out of etheric matter. If you
try and look at your body, say your hands, you will find they
start to melt very quickly. They look pale and odd, and in a
couple of seconds your fingers start to melt away like ice under a
blow torch. They shorten into pale stumps, then the rest of your
hand and arm starts to melt away too. This melting effect only
seems to happen when you deliberately try and observe a body part
or consciously create something.
Deliberately observing an astral body part like this, uses the
conscious mind, which, having poor creative powers, can't hold
complex shapes together for very long and it is this that causes
the melting effect. If you happen to notice parts of your body,
in passing, during projection this melting effect will not be
seen.
Created Thought Form Objects
----------------------------
You can use your conscious mind to create objects while
projecting. The duration of these, thought form, created objects
depends on the strength of your creative visualisation ability.
It also depends on how much time and effort you put in to a
creation.
This same melting phenomena happens with any conscious creation
done in the astral dimension. If you create for example, a sword,
it will appear in your hand just as you imagine it, briefly, and
then melt away just like the hand did. If you concentrate on it
you can hold it in shape, but as soon as your concentration wavers
so does the creation. This is similar to any other visualisation
you do in the real world. It is difficult, and you have to
concentrate to hold the visualisation in your minds eye. Once
your concentration wavers, so does the visualised image. This
illustrates the vast difference between the creative powers of the
conscious and the subconscious mind.
To make a lasting thought form object you have to trick the
subconscious mind into creating it for you. I will deal with this
subject, in greater depth, later in the series.
How does Projection Happen?
---------------------------
During sleep, the energy body, also known as the etheric body or
vitality sheath, is put on charge. It expands and opens in order
to accumulate and store energy. The energy body can, normally,
only do this in its expanded state during sleep. Once expanded,
the chakras trickle power, in the form of etheric matter, into the
energy body. During this recharging process the astral body
separates and tunes into the astral dimension where it can create
and experience dreams.
If this separation is done consciously, or if you become aware
after it, you can take some control over it. It then becomes an
OOBE, astral projection or lucid dream.
The main differences between an OOBE, astral projection and a
lucid dream are:
The OOBE
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The OOBE (out of body experience) is a real time projection close
to the physical world. This often occurs as part of a near death
experience. This is where a person is knocked out of their body
as a result of some kind of severe trauma, i.e. car accident,
surgery, heart attack, child birth etc. OOBE'ers are aware of
things happening in the real world, in real time; such as
conversations and events centred around, or near to, their
physical body. In many cases, these events and conversations are
accurately reported by the person after they have returned to
their body.
Note: The OOBE is slightly different from astral projection or
lucid dreaming because of its real time, objective aspect. This
is caused by the astral body containing a large amount of etheric
matter, which holds it close to the physical world.
There are two main causes of real time OOBE:
1. A person's body is near death, or thinks it is, which causes a
large amount of etheric matter to be channelled into the astral
body in preparation for the death process.
2. The person has active chakras which are doing a similar thing,
i.e. channelling etheric matter into the astral body. Having
active chakras can be a natural ability, or it can be developed
by training.
Note: You can project consciously, and have a real time OOBE
if enough etheric matter is generated by the chakras. In an
OOBE, reality is perceived as objective (real) and time is
normal (real time).
Technically, when you project into the physical world in real time
as in an OOBE, it is really into the boundary area of the buffer
zone, between the physical and astral dimensions. If the astral
body contains enough etheric matter it can exist only slightly out
of phase from reality. This means the projection is in real time
and so close to the physical dimension as to be indistinguishable
from it.
Note: I have checked this many times, by projecting, in real
time, during the day and scouting my local area for road works,
accidents, incidents etc, then verifying the accuracy of my
findings afterwards.
There are strong natural barriers to conscious, real time
projection, the OOBE, in the physical world. The amount of
etheric matter generated and channelled to the astral body, is one
of them. It limits the duration of any real time projection to
the degree of chakra development and control.
The Astral Projection
---------------------
This is where the astral body is projected into the astral
dimension, where things are quite different from the real world.
Time is distorted and extended, i.e., an hour in the astral can be
like a few minutes in the physical dimension, depending on what
part of the astral you are in. Reality is fluid and changeable.
The Lucid Dream
---------------
This is where a person becomes fully aware that they are dreaming
during a dream. They either take some kind of conscious control
over the course of events, or they convert the experience into an
astral projection. Lucid dreaming is more similar to an astral
projection than to an OOBE, as time and reality are distorted.
Astral Projection Or Lucid Dream?
---------------------------------
Many astral projectors black out before making a conscious exit
from their body and return to awareness in the astral dimension.
You become aware after the actual separation from the physical
body and are usually already in the astral dimension. If you miss
the conscious exit from your body you are technically having a
lucid dream, not an astral projection as you have become aware
after separation.
All three types of projection are closely related, i.e., they all
involve the astral body separating from the physical and
experiencing a reality separate from the physical body.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
----------------- http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ -----------------
TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume II - v1.1
Part 2
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 2 July 1994
Starting Out
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After the physical body has fallen asleep, the astral body always
projects into the physical world. Once the energy body has
expanded, the astral body floats free and hovers just above the
physical body, but within the expanded energy body's field of
influence. Within this field, known as cord activity range, the
astral body is held close to the physical world as it is within a
field of etheric matter.
During a conscious astral projection it may appear as if you are
projecting straight into an astral plane. But there is always an
intermediary phase at the beginning, when you are existing as an
astral form close to the physical dimension. This, real time part
of any projection, may be missed if you black out at the moment of
projection. The area around the body, within cord activity range,
is flooded with etheric matter and within this field the astral
body is held in real time close to the physical dimension.
Etheric Matter
--------------
Etheric matter is the actual life force substance generated by all
living things by simply being alive. It is a substance in-between
physical matter and astral matter, part physical and part astral.
This etheric matter has actual weight. It is a very refined
substance in between matter and energy and is similar to its
coarser cousin, ectoplasm.
There have been scientific studies done on this phenomena. Dying
people in hospitals have had their beds placed on delicate scales
shortly before death and hooked up to EEG and ECG monitors. In
all cases, at the exact moment of death, a sudden weight loss of
approximately one quarter of an ounce is observed. This is caused
by a large amount of etheric matter being transferred into the
astral body at the moment of physical death. This is similar to
the sudden transfer of etheric matter into the astral body during
a near death experience where the body believes it is dying. This
sudden, massive transfer of etheric matter is the start of the
death process.
Ectoplasm
---------
Ectoplasm has been studied in a similar fashion. Materialisation
mediums have been placed on delicate scales and then asked to
produced ectoplasm onto another set of fine scales. These mediums
were observed to lose weight at exactly the same rate as the
weighed ectoplasm gained weight. When the medium reabsorbed the
ectoplasm this weight transfer was reversed. Ectoplasm is
produced by the chakras. It converts part of the physical mass of
the mediums body into another substance, ectoplasm.
Interdimensional Manifestation
------------------------------
Any non-physical or disincarnate entity, including the astral
body, in order to function, in real time, close to the physical
dimension; must contain etheric matter. Without etheric matter,
nonphysical entities fade back into their dimension of origin.
Etheric matter can only be obtained from living inhabitants of the
physical world.
Energy Flow
-----------
The famed "Silver Cord" does more than just tie the two bodies
together. It is a true umbilical cord, transmitting information
and energy between the physical and subtle bodies. It is seen by
some projectors and not seen by others. Sometimes it is seen
emanating from the navel, sometimes from the forehead. The area
the cord is seen emanating from may depend on chakra activity.
Whichever chakra is the strongest, most active, could have control
of energy flow to the subtle bodies. There is also the belief
system of the projector to consider and the creative power of the
subconscious mind. The cord will usually appear to be wherever
you believe it will be, courtesy of the subconscious.
Once the astral body enters the astral dimension it must have a
good supply of astral energy from the chakras in order to interact
strongly with that dimension. Clear astral memory depends greatly
on the amount of energy available. As the astral dimension is the
natural domain of the astral body, it will not fade out of it due
to a lack of energy. As in the real world, if a person hasn't
eaten or slept for a few days they don't dissolve into another
dimension. They just get weak and listless and don't interact
strongly with the physical world.
What it boils down to is this: The astral mind must have enough
energy to give it strong, vivid memories. These astral memories
must be strong enough to make a good sized wrinkle in the physical
brain, so the physical mind can recall them when it wakes up.
For example, if you haven't slept for a few days you will be
tired, listless and your interaction with reality will be weak and
vague. If you see a movie in this tired state you will retain
little memory of it. Afterwards, you may only remember fragments
of it and your memory of it will be a vague blur. If, however,
you see a movie when you are well rested, fresh and full of
energy, it is different. You take in everything about the movie
and enjoy it. Your memory of it will be crystal clear.
This is similar to what happens after a low powered astral
journey. The astral body lacks energy and so does not have clear
enough impressions of its journey. This causes it to fail making
its memories the dominant ones when it returns return to the
physical body. As I stated earlier, there must be strong, vivid
memories if a wrinkle is to be made in the physical brain and the
experience remembered.
Chakras Use
-----------
Fully developing the chakras and learning how to control them can
take many years, depending on natural ability. This will not,
however, stop you using them in a very basic way; to enhance your
OOBE's and lucid dreams, at a very early stage in your
development. Raising energy and stimulating the chakras is
extremely simple to do. This raised energy will automatically
flow into your astral body, prior to and during projection.
By learning to raise energy and control the flow of power through
the chakras, the nature of your dreams, lucid dreams and OOBE's
will change. They will become vivid and unforgettable
experiences. This, in a way, gives you a second life, full of
rich experiences you can enjoy, learn and grow from.
Higher Levels And Their Buffer Zones
------------------------------------
The commonly accepted names for the seven known levels of
existence, from lowest to highest, are: Physical, Astral, Mental,
Buddhic, Atmic, Anupadaka and Adi. These higher planes are
similar in structure to the astral dimension but at a much higher
level of consciousness and are completely separate from it. In
between the different levels are intermediary areas or buffer
zones, sometimes called lower sub planes.
A good analogy for the different dimensions and their buffer zones
is the Earth's atmosphere: If the air in the Earth's atmosphere
was the astral dimension, the stratosphere would be the buffer
zone and the vacuum of space would be the mental dimension. You
can fly in the Earth's atmosphere in a normal air plane/astral
body. A very powerful jet plane is needed to take you into the
stratosphere, but you need a space ship/mental body, to travel
through space. This explains why a different subtle body is
needed to travel into these different levels of existence.
The astral body can enter the buffer zones, or sub planes, of the
dimensions above and below the astral dimension, if it contains
the correct type of energy. i.e. To exist in the buffer zone
between the physical/astral levels (in real time) the astral body
must contain etheric energy. To exist in the buffer zone between
the astral/mental levels it must contain mental energy.
Higher Level Projection
-----------------------
With enough control over the chakras, the energy for these higher
levels can be produced. The production of one particular type of
energy will raise the consciousness to that level and energise the
corresponding subtle body. This is usually done by consciousness
raising meditation and advanced energy work on the chakras. The
consciousness can then experience that level of existence. If
enough energy is available, and conditions are right, the
meditator can project that particular subtle body directly into
its natural dimension.
Depending on the skill and natural ability of the operator, if a
higher body is energised and projected so, usually, are the lower
ones. The astral body contains within it all the other subtle
bodies and can, during a projection, project the mental body into
the mental dimension and so on. This will sometimes give multiple
sets of memories from the one projection. The general rule is,
whichever subtle body contains the greatest amount of energy, will
have the strongest memories. These dominant memories will be the
ones retained by the physical mind upon its return to the waking
state.
Projecting consciously into levels higher than the astral
dimension takes a high level of skill. You need to be proficient
in both consciousness raising and chakra control, but it is
achievable. I have, so far, projected into the Astral, Mental,
Buddhic and Atmic levels of existence. It is commonly believed
that it is only possible for a human to project into the Astral,
Mental and Buddhic levels and not possible to project into the
higher Adi and Anupadaka.
These dimensions have been named, and are described, so someone
must have been there or they would be unknown. If you realise the
true nature of the mind you will understand there are no limits.
It was also once said that the sound barrier would never be
broken.
BTW: These dimensions don't have signposts on them saying
"Welcome to the Astral dimension, ta...daa!" or "Mental dimension,
watch your mind!". So I will describe the higher levels I have
been to using these accepted names.
The Astral Dimension
--------------------
This is a topsy-turvy world like Alice found in Wonderland.
Everything seems objective (real) but is changeable and fluid.
Anything and everything can be found there, from base, coarse
levels full of sexual energy; to beautiful, serene places full of
spiritual harmony. Time is distorted and extended there. An hour
in the Astral can seem like only a few minutes here in the
physical. Compared to the physical world it is at a much higher
vibration. It's like playing a video tape at twenty times normal
speed, although this is not apparent when you are there.
Moving amongst the astral dream pools is usually a hit or miss
affair for most projectors. It takes a lot of experience to make
planned astral journeys to specific realities.
There are an infinite number of realities, planes, realms and
dream pools in this dimension. As I stated before, they naturally
strata and settle into pools of related thought. During sleep, or
in a lucid dream, the subconscious mind usually creates one
especially for you, your own personal dream theatre. When you
become aware during a dream, you take control over it. This
control is taken over from the powerful subconscious mind.
Without its powerful controlling influence, your personal custom
created realm will change. You will begin tuning into other
sympathetic parts of the astral, and the reality you are in will
mix with other realities and take on different aspects.
In a conscious projection into the astral dimension, you can tune
into any part of it and travel into different realities, other
dream pools, or a mix of many. There are various techniques for
this but they all involve some way to disorient the subconscious
mind, tricking it into moving you into a different Astral reality.
Some projectors look at their hands and watch them melt. Others
spin around, causing left right reversals. These methods all
disorient the mind and trick the subconscious into tuning into
another part of the astral.
It's very difficult to describe how to move amongst the levels,
you really have to learn by doing it, by trial and error. You
have to learn how to use and control the subconscious mind, how to
trick it for a specific result.
Virtual Reality Projection
--------------------------
Here is a simple, reliable method, I have developed, to create
your own personal realm: Get a poster of a pleasant scene,
something bright and sunny. The bigger the better, but standard
poster size will do. Hang it on the wall of the room you are
going to project in, or another room close by. Get a small
spotlight and set it so the poster is highlighted when the main
light is turned off, a normal directional bedside lamp will do.
Place the light under, or above, so the light spreads out over it
giving a diffused effect illuminating it, a bit like a movie
screen.
Entering your custom realm: When you project, go towards the
poster, keeping your mind blank. Don't think about what you are
doing, just gaze at it and move towards it. As you approach it in
this way, your subconscious mind will be tricked into creating an
astral realm exactly like the poster. Just move up to and into
the poster. It is like stepping into another world. Everything
in this world will be exactly like in the poster. It will appear
to be a normal three dimensional world, an exact copy,
indistinguishable from reality.
To customise this world: Cut and paste small pictures of things,
or people, you want to find in this world with you when you enter
it. Don't just stick a whole picture on the poster. Get scissors
and cut around the object, or person. Try and find pictures that
are approximately the same scale as the poster. If you cut out a
small picture of someone, living or dead, your subconscious will
create a thought form shell of them and they will be there waiting
for you. This may be an excellent way of communicating with those
that have died.
Spirit Communication: (I have a theory) The subconscious creates
this thought form shell of a person. This shell can be animated
by the perfect, detailed memory of your subconscious. But, if
there is love there, between the projector and this created
person, the spirit of this, diseased person, will be drawn to this
scenario and will use this opportunity to communicate with the
projector, by animating the created image of their body.
The Akashic Records
-------------------
These are found in the buffer zone between the astral and mental
worlds, part astral part mental and, in a way, extending into all
levels. They are a record of every thought and event that has
ever occurred, like a huge, infinite, mental history, picture
book. The Akashic records also contain probabilities stemming
from, and created by, past events, actions and thoughts. This is
like looking into the future. To make any kind of sense of the
Akashic records yourself, some skill in clairvoyance is a definite
help.
If you tune into the Akashic records yourself you will normally
see those events with the greatest amount energy around them.
Wars and disasters are the easiest to see because of this. The
energy surrounding these events make them stand out above all the
rest, making them easier to see. If you look into the future, the
area of probabilities, you enter into a confusing maelstrom of
symbolism mixed with actual events.
This future symbolism is caused by the belief systems of the major
religions. Millions of people in the world have believed in some
form of prophecy for thousands of years. Whether it is the
Bible's "Book of Revelations" or the prophecies of Nostradamus.
These ancient prophecies are all richly steeped in symbolism.
This symbolism affects the way people think and dream about the
future. This symbolism, in turn, manifests in the Akashic records
as symbolic representations of future events. The symbolism is a
big help, it makes consulting the Akashic records easier.
You can use the Akashic symbolism as an index. For example, the
reference below to "The Dogs of War" is easily understandable as
representing war. The "Grim Reaper" is a universal symbol of
death and destruction. So, if you are interested in this kind of
future event you tune into this symbolic index for WAR, then
browse through the category of past and future wars. Apart from
some clairvoyant ability, a knowledge of history, geography,
religious symbolism, current affairs world leaders and heads of
state is a big help; when indexing past and future events.
For example, in the future vision I give below: If I had known
WHO the well known person I saw addressing a crowd below WAS, and
recognised the country; I could have made an accurate prediction
of future events instead of being wise, AFTER the event.
I entered the state of consciousness called the Akashic records.
There I was inundated with a mass of symbolism. I was seeing in
four dimensions at once. My conscious mind did not assimilate
this very well. I saw wars, famines, plagues, disasters,
earthquakes, volcanoes erupting, plane crashes, murders, etc, it
was terribly confusing and depressing.
I saw one piece of symbolism I recognised though and tuned into
it, indexed it. The Grim Reaper holding The Dogs of War (as
described by various prophets) These dogs were fearsome beasts
with Red eyes and slavering jaws. They were held in check by this
hooded figure, with an evil skull for a face, carrying a sickle.
He released these dogs as I watched, symbolising a coming war.
Tuning into this scene, I was there floating above it all, I could
feel the sunshine and smell the city below me. I saw a man
standing on a raised dais, under two giant scimitar swords. He
was giving a charismatic speech to many thousands of people. One
of the swords turned into a Christian Crusader's broad sword. The
man was Saddam Hussein, the scene was in Baghdad, at the monument
to the unknown soldier. I saw this six months before the Gulf war
started. I did not learn WHO Saddam Hussein WAS, or WHERE this
scene took place though, until it was televised during the gulf
war.
Looking through the Akashic records is like leafing through an
infinite mental photo album. You are bombarded with an awesome
array of the sights and sounds of past, present and probable
futures. You have to select one of these thought records, tune
into it and enter it. You will then live through the record as if
you were really there, watching it as it happens.
Consulting with the Akashic records can be done alone if you have
the skill, but is normally done with the assistance of an advanced
being from a higher level of existence. This is done as a sort of
telepathic guided tour. The enormous amount of information and
chaff is filtered out for you and the selected record, of past
events or future probability, is presented to you clairvoyantly,
via a telepathic link with the... librarian.
Some people claim to have entered the Akashic Records and found
something like a library there, with real books. The past,
present and future was recorded as text in these books. Some
people even say they have read a record, then entered into it, and
experience the record first hand.
All these claims are consistent with the Akashic Records. These
are librarian assisted guided tours, where the Akashic Records
have been presented as something familiar, easy to use and easy to
accept.
The Mental Dimension
--------------------
This is a spectacular dimension! Iridescent rivers of sound
bounded by rainbow shores of pulsating light. Thoughts appear as
kaleidoscopic patterns of light and sound. You walk across fields
of ideas under a sparkling crystal sky of inspiration. If you
enter this world don't try to rationalise or understand it, or you
may go mad, for it is beyond human understanding. Just accept it
all, go with the flow and enjoy it!
This dimension is what, I believe, the ancient Vikings called the
famed "Rainbow Bridge" into Asgard. It truly looks and feels as
if you are walking up a rainbow into some wonderful world where
the Gods must surely dwell.
Exist here in wondrous amazement. Let loose the child within you
to play in this fairy wonderland. Everything feels real and
solid. Time is even further distorted here than in the Astral and
reality is kaleidoscopic.
Buddhic Dimension
-----------------
This is a warm, abstract world filled with utter peace and
infinite love. It is a dimension of pure White. There is no
sight or sound perception here other than the all pervading,
brilliant White. In this dimension you very quickly relinquish
conscious thought and individuality. You cannot think for long
once you enter here and there is no need or desire to do so.
There is an irresistible urge drawing you into a quiet stillness.
It is like being immersed in warm, pure White cotton wool. In
this world you cease to be an individual and you become, PART OF
THE ONE. You also cease to be male or female. In a way this is
like returning to the Mother's womb. You are surrounded, absorbed
and assimilated by infinite loving warmth, understanding,
forgiveness and atonement. AT-ONE-MENT
Time here ceases to have any meaning. If you enter this world you
will never, ever want to leave it, you cannot leave it, until your
physical body calls and drags you back. This is the healing,
resting place of the soul.
Atmic Dimension
---------------
This dimension appears be the spirit world. Here, spirits wait
for those they loved during their time on earth. This is the
happy place of the gathering. It is the place where the reunion
of souls takes place.
The light in this world is purest, brightest silver, brighter than
the flash of an arc welder. It is so bright it seems impossible
to look at, but it is, for all that, a supremely gentle light,
soft and soothing. It is the light of divine love. The people
here appear as they did in the physical world, but at their most
magnificent. They glow ecstatically, ablaze with the brightest
love, happiness and joy imaginable. The atmosphere is electric
and vital, but at the same time deeply spiritual. In this world
you can FEEL the presence of God as a tangible all pervading
force.
Communication here, is done by high level telepathic imaging,
similar to one-on-one clairvoyance only much more vivid and real.
It leaves speech and thought for dead. Time stands utterly still
here. Reality is more real and solid than normal reality.
Compared to this, the physical world is a vague, tired dream full
of half dead people.
I have entered this dimension only four times in my life. Each
time from the very deepest consciousness raising meditation, with
all my chakras wide open and fully functioning. There was also
extreme crown chakra activity. The feeling of this was like a
thousand fingers vibrating, and deeply massaging, the whole top of
my head above the hairline.
On these four occasions my energy has soared to seemingly
impossible heights within me, carrying my spirit and consciousness
with it. At the climax of this deeply mystical experience I have
heard the sound of one long, pure musical note slowly rising in
pitch. I have felt this note in the core of my being, in my
heart, calling me, drawing me to it.
I have focused on this note and attuned to it. With every ounce
of strength and energy I possessed I have focussed my
consciousness on it and projected to it. Stripping away my
physical body, I have projected straight into this dimension. It
was just like stepping, slipping, through a heavy curtain into
another place and another world. I am still aware of my physical
body, duality, during this whole experience.
I look about me with wonder, the light is so silver and bright it
burns deeply into my soul and I can feel its healing touch within
me. There in front of me is my long dead son. He was eight years
old when he left me, and he looked just as he did when I last saw
him. He was beaming with happiness, his eyes bright and shining.
I cuddled him up to me and wept with the joy of seeing him. I
looked beyond him and there was a large crowd of people waiting
for me. These were all the friends and family I had known and
loved and lost during my life. There were also many people I did
not know. They all seemed very familiar though and I felt I loved
them all. They were clapping and jumping up and down, cheering me
in greeting. There were many tears of joy and lots of hugging and
kissing.
Looking beyond them, I see we are in a natural stone amphitheatre.
The ground is smooth rock and it rises to a ridge a couple of
hundred meters away that curves towards us. On the top of this
ridge are Angels. They looked just like Michaelangelo painted
them. They were incredibly beautiful, with large White feathered
wings, curly Golden hair and Alabaster skin. They were blowing
long sparkling golden horns, and the pure high note came from
them.
Stepping from the crowd I walked into the open. I look in awe at
these angels and wave at them. The note started to die away as I
did this and the Angels began lowering their horns. I stand for a
timeless moment in silence, looking all around me. Then
everything began to shimmer and I slipped, fell back into my
physical body. I wept. I have never wanted to come back.
Death
-----
When you leave your body for the final time, at death, this is
what I believe will happen:
You will be projecting, in real time, for the first few days,
close to the physical world, until your supply of etheric matter
runs out. Then you will go through the second death and enter the
Astral dimension. There, you will purge yourself of all desire, by
being able to have anything you have ever wanted, in abundance.
This is done through having the full use of your subconscious
mind's powerful creative ability. Here you can saturate your
every need and desire, until you see these desires for the
illusions they really are.
You will then shed your Astral (desire body) and enter the Mental
dimension. There you will see your past life, examine and express
every thought you have ever had and every action you have ever
done. There, your thoughts, memories and experiences will be added
to the Akashic Record. Which is the recorded experience of the
entire human existence in the physical dimension.
Shedding your mental body you will then enter the Buddhic
dimension. There you will stay for timeless healing, for rest,
atonement, forgiveness and understanding of self. In this world
your inner wounds will heal and your soul will be nurtured by
divine love. Your spirit will become whole and perfect once more.
Then you will shed your Buddhic body and enter the Atmic
dimension. There you will wait in the divine presence for those
you love. Then, one day, you will go on to the next level of
existence; where the last great mystery of life will be revealed
to you....
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
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TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume II - v1.1
Part 3
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 2 July 1994
PROJECTION TRAINING
-------------------
To trigger the projection of the Astral body, while fully
conscious, there are four major requirements:
1. Relaxing your body 100% while staying awake.
2. Concentrating 100% on what you are doing.
3. Having enough energy available.
4. Pressuring the astral body to separate.
Together, these four things will trigger an OOBE.
Below are exercises that will teach how to relax the body,
concentrate, clear the mind, raise energy, stimulate the chakras
and enter the trance state.
CALMING THE MIND
----------------
Relaxation
----------
You must learn and master, a full body relaxation exercise. If
you know one already it can be adapted to suit. Here is a very
simple one:
Sit, or lie down, and relax. Starting with the feet, tense and
relax them. Continue this with calves, thighs, hips, stomach,
chest, arms, neck and face until your whole body is deeply
relaxed. Go over this a few times, making sure your muscles stay
relaxed.
Note: Deep physical relaxation is the key to bringing on the
trance state, i.e., deep relaxation CAUSES the trance state. Once
you are in the trance state, projection on the astral body is
relatively easy.
Contemplation
-------------
When you begin meditation, you will be plagued with thoughts from
your surface mind, which acts like a huge Memo pad. It carries
messages, reminders, pressing thoughts, problems to solve,
unresolved issues etc. It is constantly busy, it NEVER rests,
thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, one after the other, all clamouring
for attention.
Before you attempt to clear your mind, with the breath awareness
exercise below, it is wise to deal with these surface thoughts by
the act of contemplating them. Sit comfortably, do the relaxation
exercise and think, nothing more, just think. Search out the
strongest thoughts in your mind and examine them, try to resolve
and understand them.
Note the word: THINKING. Contemplation does not involve clearing
the mind, or visualisation. It requires you to THINK, deeply and
thoroughly, about something, to gain a deeper understanding of its
nature and how it relates to you, an insight.
Breath Awareness Meditation
---------------------------
This is a simple form of meditation. It will clear your mind and
focus your awareness.
Sit or lie down, close your eyes, do the relaxation exercise and
clear your mind. Breathe deeply and slowly and focus on the
breath entering and leaving your body. Feel it coming in and feel
it going out. Focus your whole attention on your lungs and the
breathing process. This simple action is enough to occupy your
surface mind. Firmly push intruding thoughts away, as they begin,
before they can gather strength and distract you.
Breath awareness occupies the surface mind and allows you to think
on a much deeper level.
Surface Thoughts
----------------
Sounds are very distracting, they generate surface thoughts. A
car horn will generate: "Who's that, what's happening?" A door
opening will generate: "Who's coming in or going out?" The
surface mind is always very curious about what is happening around
you. It wants to know all, and it wants to inform you of every
little thing going on around you. It will pressure you to open
your eyes, get up and go find out what's happening.
Don't allow this to happen. USE these annoying, attention getting
thoughts as a training aide. By learning to quash and ignore
them, your powers of concentration will grow.
Stop these annoying little thoughts as they begin, before they can
take root and grow into something stronger.
For example:
"Who's that, what's happening?" becomes: "Who's th............"
"Who's coming in, or going out?" becomes: "Who's co............"
With practise the start of these distracting thoughts will get
shorter and shorter until you get:
" Wh....?........?.........." and " W...?................... "
And finally:
".......?........?...........................?..................."
Many people say they can't clear their mind as they are too easily
distracted by all the small noises that surround them, in normal
day to day activity. DON'T use music or other sounds to blanket
these out, USE them for training. It's like weight lifting, if
you train with feather dusters your strength will not increase.
You need to master this, the hard way, if you want to give your
mind real muscle.
Slowly but surely you will master the ability to clear your mind.
Once accomplished, you will have gained a valuable mental tool.
You will be able to concentrate 100% of your attention, on one
task, to the TOTAL exclusion of everything else.
I sometimes meditate, in the trance state, successfully, in a
noisy, crowded room with little children crawling all over me.
NOTHING breaks my concentration.
CONCENTRATION
-------------
You must be able to concentrate and focus completely on what you
are doing. Lack of concentration is the single, biggest cause of
projection failure. It affects every aspect of projection, from
the relaxation exercise, to the trance state and actual
projection.
To test your ability to concentrate: Sit and relax. Close your
eyes and clear your mind of ALL thought. Breath slowly and deeply
and count each breath, at the end of each exhale. Hold it totally
BLANK, apart from the counting, for as long as you can. See how
long you can hold it like this. Be honest with yourself, every
time a thought intrudes start counting from the beginning again.
You are doing well if can do this for longer than ten breaths.
Ten breaths is, however, not long enough. Don't worry though,
this can be improved on with the exercises below.
Concentration Exercise (1)
--------------------------
After image retention: Relax, calm your mind, and look at a
candle or a light bulb. Place this light in front of you, a
couple of feet away, and stare fixedly at it for a minute or two.
Close your eyes and concentrate on the after image this will
generate behind your closed eyelids. Try and keep sight of it for
as long as possible. Use breath awareness to keep the mind clear,
while you are doing this. Try and make the after image grow,
instead of fading away.
Concentration Exercise (2)
--------------------------
One point stare: Pick a spot on a wall and gaze at it. Don't
focus on it, just gaze at it gently. Clear your mind of ALL
thoughts and forcibly hold it blank. Concentrate HARD, on breath
awareness while you are doing this. When you feel a thought
beginning, push it away, don't let it finish! Hold this for as
long as you can. Do this several times a day, or more if you can.
Concentration Exercise (3)
--------------------------
Energy breathing: Sit and relax. Close your eyes and clear your
mind. Do the breath awareness exercise and imagine the air you are
breathing IN is brightly coloured energy of your favourite colour.
Imagine the air you are breathing OUT is a murky Grey, full of
toxic waste. This is a purification exercise. It stimulates your
chakras into absorbing energy on the inhale and getting rid of
negative energy on the exhale.
Note: Try your best not to tense up while you are doing these
concentration exercises, it is ALL mental. In the beginning, it
may feel as if you have to tense your mind into a tight ball to
stop it thinking, but in time you will find the opposite to be
true. When you get used to it, clearing the mind is VERY
relaxing.
The Trance State
----------------
When you have attained a deep level of relaxation and mental
calmness, you will feel your body begin to get very, very heavy.
This heaviness is the main symptom of your brain waves changing
from the Beta to the Alpha level as you enter a trance. The
trance state is caused by deep physical and mental relaxation.
There is nothing weird or supernatural about it. It simply means
your body has entered the sleep state while your conscious mind is
fully awake.
How To Enter A Trance
---------------------
Do the relaxation exercise and calm your mind through breath
awareness. Imagine you are climbing down a ladder in the dark.
Don't visualise a ladder, just imagine you can feel yourself doing
it. On the exhale, feel yourself climbing a step or two down the
ladder with your imaginary Hands (outlined below). On the inhale,
feel yourself holding still on the ladder. What is needed is a
mental falling effect inside your mind. This changes the level of
brain wave activity from the awake level (Beta) to the asleep
level (Alpha) or the deep sleep level (Theta). Once your level of
brain wave activity reaches Alpha you will enter a trance. Keep
doing this for as long as it takes. The time it takes to enter
trance will vary, depending on your experience with deep
relaxation and mental calmness.
Note: Once you get the heavy feeling, stop the mental falling
exercise.
If you don't like the ladder, imagine you are in a lift, feel
yourself falling on the exhale and holding on the inhale. Or,
Imagine you are a feather, feel yourself floating down on the
exhale and holding still on the inhale. As I stated above, you
need a mental falling effect to lower your level of brain wave
activity. This mental falling effect, when combined with deep
relaxation and mental calmness, will cause you to enter the trance
state. Feel free to use any scenario you are familiar with to
bring about this going deeper feeling.
A trance feels like: Everything gets quieter and you feel like
you are in a much bigger place. There is a very slight humming
feeling in your body. Everything feels different. It feels a bit
like putting a cardboard box over your head in the dark, you can
feel the atmosphere change. It's like everything goes fuzzy or
slightly blurred. Any sharp noises, while in trance, feel like a
physical blow to the Solar Plexus.
Deep Trance
-----------
The level of trance you achieve depends greatly on your
relaxation, concentration skills and will power. To enter a
deeper trance, i.e., Theta level and beyond, you have to
concentrate much more and for much longer, on the mental falling
sensation aided by breath awareness. The first level of trance,
i.e., when you get very heavy, is quite deep enough for
projection. I strongly advise against forcing yourself deeper
than a light trance, until you have plenty of experience with the
trance state.
How can you tell if you are entering a deep trance? There are
four very noticeable symptoms:
1. An uncomfortable feeling of cold that doesn't make you shiver,
coupled with a steady loss of body heat.
2. Mentally, you will feel very odd and everything will feel
extremely slooooow. Your thought processes will slow down as if
you had been given a strong pain killing injection.
3. You will feel disassociated from your body, i.e., a strong
floating sensation and everything will seem far away.
4. Total physical Paralysis.
Note: These four things, ALL TOGETHER, signify you are entering a
deep trance.
Do not mistake the mild floating sensation you sometimes get with
light trance, i.e., as you astral body comes loose. Or the slight
loss of body heat from sitting still for a long time and the mild
paralysis, i.e., the heaviness, for a deep trance. The sensation
of deep trance is quite uncomfortable and unmistakable for what it
is.
It is very difficult to get into the deep trance state, as you
need highly developed relaxation, concentration and trance state
skills plus lots and lots of will power and mental energy. You
will not accidentally fall into it.
If you are worried you are going too deep, remember this:
You CAN pull yourself out of it at any time. Concentrate ALL your
will on moving your fingers or toes. Once you can move a finger
or toe, flex your hands, move your arms, shake your head, i.e.,
reanimate your body; and get up and walk around for a few minutes.
Falling into a deep trance should not be a problem with these
exercises.
I have seen many people in meditation groups etc, enter a light
trance and not be able to pull themselves out of it, i.e., they
float away with the faeries. Usually some kind person will talk
them out of it or massage their wrists etc to get them to come
back to reality. This is unnecessary and is the result of lop-
sided training, i.e., no concentration or will power training.
The person only THINKS they cannot come back and therefore does
not try very hard. It is also a good way of getting attention
from the group.
Note: Your mind is extremely powerful and has vast untapped
resources. It can do ANYTHING, no limits, if it is trained,
conditioned and properly motivated.
Energy Body Expansion
---------------------
At some point after entering the trance state, you will feel a
mild paralysis come over you. This will soon be accompanied by a
deepening vibration and a buzzing feeling all over. You may also
feel like you are huge and swollen. The paralysis, vibrations and
the huge feeling are symptoms of the energy body expanding and the
astral body loosening. This is part of the normal sleep process.
The energy body expands and opens in order to accumulate and store
energy. During this, the astral body drifts free, slightly out
phase with the physical body.
Trance Familiarity
------------------
Many people blow their projection simply because they are not used
to the trance state. They think it is a briefly opened window
into the Astral dimension. This is simply NOT true. If you stay
mentally and physically calm when you enter the trance state, you
can maintain it for hours. I regularly spend several hours at a
time in the trance state, during meditation.
If, when you enter trance, you think: "Yes! I've done it!...I'm
in a trance! Gotta hurry and get out quick...before it stops!"
You'll blow it for sure! The trance will be ended by the simple
act of getting over excited, i.e., breaking relaxation and mental
calmness.
It's a good idea to spend time in the trance state, just getting
used to it, before you try and project. Just relax, stay calm,
focus on breath awareness, and hold the trance. It won't end
until you want it to. Get used to how it feels.
When you are comfortable doing this, do the energy raising and
chakra stimulation exercises, below, in trance.
Note:
1. You do not HAVE to be in a trance to learn energy and chakra
work, it just works better in trance.
2. Trance practise can be done lying down, but is best done in
a comfortable arm chair.
Your astral body will be loose in the trance state, so try lifting
your astral arms and legs out, one at a time. Use your HANDS to
do this, as shown in the next section. Focus and FEEL your
awareness in an arm and slowly lift it free of your body. You may
feel a slight tickling or localised dizziness inside your arm or
leg, as you do this. Lift your astral arm up and look at it, with
your eyes closed, but DON'T move a muscle. In this state you
should be able to see it through your closed eyelids, but don't
worry if you can't, this will come later.
Lifting your astral arms free is good practise for projection.
Later, you will use these astral arms to pull your astral body
free of the physical.
Tactile Imaging
---------------
Tactile imaging is a perception or FEELING of localised bodily
awareness.
Your hands are very closely linked to your bodily awareness. They
are intimately aware of every part of your body. Imaginary HANDS,
outlined below, is only an extension of this (hand to body)
awareness. When you are asked to feel your awareness, in any part
of your body, PRETEND your hands, your real hands, are going to
touch that area of your body. Then use the awareness this
generates in that area to imagine your imaginary HANDS are there.
Keep your eyes closed and hold your hands out a foot or so in
front of your face. Concentrate, FEEL where they are and try and
SEE them through the blackness behind your closed eyes. Cross
your wrists, slowly move them about, turn your hands over, open
and close your fingers. Look hard, concentrate, as if you were
trying to see in the dark, and you will see a faint moving shadow
in your minds eye, where your hands and arms are.
Close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose with the index
finger of your right hand. You'll find you can accurately put
that finger on any part of your body with your eyes closed. Try
it, put your hand, your real hand, on different parts of your body
like this. You know exactly where your hands are at all times,
you can sense and feel where they are. If you observe what is
happening in your mind, while you are doing this, you will notice
you become aware of the part of your body you are going to touch,
the instant you make the decision to touch it.
Go over your whole body like this, getting used to the sensation
of awareness it generates in different areas of your body.
What is happening is this: Part of your mind is shifting into,
and HIGHLIGHTING, the area you are going to touch, in order to
guide your hand to the exact spot. Your mind shifts part of its
awareness to this spot and acts like a homing beacon for your
hand.
The ability to shift your awareness into different parts of your
body like this is VITAL to energy work and this projection method.
Note: You do not have to actually visualise these HANDS, i.e.,
see or imagine you can see them. It is ALL tactile, NOT visual.
You just have to be able to pretend to FEEL them doing something,
like you are rehearsing some simple action in your mind.
I originally developed this technique for blind people. Blind
people cannot visualise AT ALL, if they have been blind since
birth, but they do have a very keen sense of bodily awareness.
The majority of sighted people also have great trouble with
visualisation of any kind, and all projection techniques depend
heavily on visualisation. This being the case, I developed a
projection technique that does NOT depend on visualisation to
exert pressure on the astral body to separate. It turned out to
be so much easier, and more successful, than the other
visualisation based techniques, that I discarded them in favour of
this simple tactile method.
Note: Blind people are not blind in astral form. The astral body
does not have any organs as such, it is a point of consciousness
only. The astral body you are aware of while projecting is
provided courtesy of the subconscious minds creative ability.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
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TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume II - v1.1
Part 4
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 2 July 1994
BASIC ENERGY WORK
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The Major Chakras
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The major chakras are situated at:
1. MASTER: Base chakra (base of spine, between anus and genitals)
2. Spleen chakra (slightly below the belly button)
3. Solar Plexus chakra (1 hand-span above the belly button)
4. MASTER: Heart chakra (centre of the chest)
5. Throat chakra (base of throat, above where it joins the chest)
6. Brow chakra (exact centre of forehead)
7. MASTER: Crown chakra (whole top of head above the hairline)
They are best imagined as roughly the size of the palm of your
hand, except for the crown chakra which is much larger.
What Are Chakras?
-----------------
Chakras are non-physical organs that transform raw Kundalini
energy into more subtle, and useable, forms of energy, of a
different type. The chakras do not, themselves, contain energy.
Raw energy is drawn up from the planet, by the minor chakras in
the legs and feet, and fed into the main chakra system.
Kundalini energy is, in essence, pure thought energy that
permeates and binds the universe together. This living energy
field can be tapped, more deeply, by the application of focussed,
creative will. It can be drawn into the human body and
transformed, by the chakra system, into a more subtle and useable
form of energy.
The chakras are attached to the spinal cord and nervous system via
certain glands and nerve ganglia. The full chakra system is
extremely complex. There are 3 master, 4 major and over 300 minor
chakras in the human body. There are also several non-physical
chakras situated outside of the body. Detailed maps of the chakra
system and their connecting meridians and pathways, have been used
for thousands of years in Eastern mysticism and medicine, i.e.,
acupuncture. The chakra system is used with every psychic ability,
no exceptions. Whatever the psychic ability, the method of
development or the terminology used to describe it, it is all done
the same way, through chakra stimulation. It is impossible to
manifest any psychic ability without first stimulating the
chakras.
Many people will deny this, above, and claim they have never done
any chakra, energy work, but still have psychic abilities. There
are many ways to develop yourself, agreed, but they all, directly
or indirectly, stimulate the chakra system. And let's not forget
natural ability. Many people are born with naturally active
chakras and hence, natural psychic ability.
Mediums are people who exhibit psychic abilities when aided by a
nonphysical spirit entity. This entity stimulates the chakras of
the medium directly, by melding with the medium and causing
psychic abilities, clairvoyance, channelling, healing, production
of ectoplasm etc to manifest through the medium. This is why they
are called Mediums or channels, i.e., they have the ability to
become a passive vehicle for a spirit entity to affect, or
communicate with, the physical world.
You do not need a spirit entity to develop and use, a psychic
ability. If you learn to control your own chakras and energy, you
can do these things on your own, with no spirit entity involved,
and without the inherent risk involved with that method.
Energy Raising
--------------
Sit, or lie down, do the relaxation exercise and clear you mind
with breath awareness. Focus your awareness in your feet. Use
your HANDS to pull energy up from your feet, through your legs, to
the base chakra. Imagine you are gripping energy and pulling it
up through you. Just like you did when you used these HANDS with
breath awareness and colour breathing, pulling air and energy into
your lungs.
Note: Try and imagine your HANDS are inside your legs and
just inside the front of your torso as you do this.
Use breath awareness as an aide to energy raising. Draw energy up
through you, with the inhale, and hold it in place on the exhale.
Do this over and over again, pulling energy to the Base chakra,
for at least a few minutes. You may or may not feel anything
while you do this. Even if you don't, you are still drawing some
energy with this exercise. The amount of energy drawn up through
you will increase as the chakras develop with time and use.
From the feet, up the legs to the base centre, is a natural path
for the energy that flows through you. This energy will stimulate
your chakras and they will transform this, basic energy, into
energy of a different type. This transformed energy will then
flow into your subtle bodies, energising them. With practise, you
will actually FEEL this energy tingling and surging through you.
Chakra Stimulation
------------------
Opening a chakra: Your imaginary HANDS are used for this.
Imagine you are tearing open a bread roll at the site of a chakra
when you are asked to do this. You don't have to visualise
anything, just FEEL like you are doing this, as if you were doing
it in real life without looking at what you are doing.
Chakras are non-physical centres, so you need a non physical
method to stimulate them. This is achieved by focusing your
awareness in the area of a chakra and using your mind to
manipulate it. You need a localised, mental opening effect in a
chakra to stimulate it; this tearing open action, with your
imaginary HANDS, provides it. By moving your point of awareness
to the site of a chakra and causing a mental opening effect with
your HANDS, you are directly stimulating the chakra.
Note: Do the energy raising exercise, as above, before
stimulating the chakras. Use breath awareness to aide your
HANDS in pulling energy into each chakra, i.e., draw energy
UP on the inhale and HOLD it on the exhale, with all the
chakra stimulation exercises below.
1. Base chakra: Raise energy up to your Base chakra. Use your
HANDS to open it. Pull energy INTO the Base chakra. Repeat
this first step, thoroughly, seven times.
2. Spleen chakra: Draw energy from the feet, through the Base
chakra and on up to the Spleen chakra. Open the Spleen chakra.
Repeat this three times, starting at feet.
3. Solar Plexus chakra: Draw energy from the feet, through the
Base and Spleen chakras and on up to the Solar Plexus chakra.
Open the Solar Plexus chakra. Repeat this three times, starting
at feet.
4. Heart chakra: Draw energy up from the feet, through the Base,
Spleen and Solar Plexus chakras and on up to the Heart chakra.
Open the Heart chakra. Repeat this three times, starting at
feet.
5. Throat chakra: Draw energy up from the feet, through the Base,
Spleen, Solar Plexus and heart chakras to the Throat chakra.
Open the Throat chakra. Repeat this three times, starting at
feet.
6. Brow chakra: Draw energy up from the feet, through the Base,
Spleen, Solar Plexus, Heart and Throat chakras to the Brow
chakra. Open the Brow chakra. Repeat this three times, starting
at feet.
7. Crown chakra: Draw energy up to the Crown chakra as in the
previous step. Open the Crown chakra. This chakra is much
larger than the others ( whole top of head, above hairline).
Imagine you have a much larger, flatter bread roll inside the
top of your head and are tearing it open with your HANDS, or
like you are tearing your scalp open. Repeat this entire
process twice, starting with the feet.
Note: Try your best not to tense any muscles during these
exercises. You may, however, feel a slight internal
contracting, a feeling that is NOT muscular while you are
stimulating your chakras. These are the glands and nerve
ganglia, linked to the chakras, contracting in response to
the stimulation. This internal contracting is normal.
The Base, or Root chakra, is a MASTER chakra and THE MOST
IMPORTANT ONE TO ACTIVATE. This chakra is the doorway for the
Kundalini energy. Unless this is opened sufficiently, the energy
cannot flow into the other chakras. I suggest you concentrate
most of your time and energy into stimulating your Base chakra, at
least in the early stages of chakra development.
Note: When I first started raising energy and developing
my chakras, many years ago, I didn't feel ANY sensation for
several months. Many people, though, have reported to me
strong energy and chakra sensation the first time they used
them. Some people have more natural chakra activity than
others. Lack of any sensation, though, will not stop you
from stimulating and developing them, even if, as was my
case, you feel nothing at first. I did not have ANY
natural chakra activity or ANY natural psychic ability when
I first started energy work.
Stop And Check
--------------
Check your muscles for any tensing during the energy raising and
chakra stimulation exercises, and re-relax as needed. Your
muscles will automatically try and respond to the mental action of
pulling energy up through you. Remember, this is ALL mental, your
body must stay calm and relaxed throughout.
Chakra Sensations
-----------------
The sensations you will feel in your chakras can vary, according
to the degree of activity occurring in them, i.e., your physical
make up, natural ability, concentration and relaxation skills
affect this. It can vary from a gentle warmth, a localised
pressure, or bubbling (like stomach wind), a localised dizziness,
a tingling, a gentle pulsing, to a heavier throbbing, or a
combination of some or all of the above. The heavier the
thrumming, the more active the chakra. If you place your hand on
a chakra, when it is active, you will actually feel the flesh
pulsing.
Some of the chakras, when active, can cause other odd, localised
sensations:
Base chakra: You may feel a very slight burning or tingling, or a
cramping, like you have been riding a bicycle for too long, to
begin with. Once it is working properly, you will feel a gentle
pulsing or throbbing between your legs, at the site of the chakra.
Solar Plexus Chakra: This can sometimes cause a shortness of
breath feeling, which can cause you to hyper-ventilate. This will
pass, with time and use, as the chakra stabilises.
Heart Chakra: The heart chakra merits special mention due to the
strong, and sometimes frightening, sensation it can cause. When
strongly activated it can feel like your heart is racing at an
impossible rate. It is a powerful sensation. Try and ignore this
when it happens, it won't hurt you. It is not your heart racing
but the chakra working. I know this is easier said than done,
ignoring it, but with practise and familiarity you can. This
racing is more apparent in the early stages of development. I
think this is caused by a lack of energy flowing from the lower
centres. In a way it is like a pump racing, when it does not have
enough fluid to pump.
The heart chakra, when fully operational, feels like: Place one
hand on your chest, with your finger tips resting in the middle of
it over your heart. Tap your fingers on your chest, in time with
your heart. Increase this rate until you are tapping as fast and
hard as your fingers can move.
Note: Your actual heart rate does NOT speed up with this
racing sensation. If you hook yourself up to a heart
monitor, you will see that your heat beat hardly changes at
all.
Throat Chakra: The throbbing in it can cause a very mild choking
feeling, because of the sensitive area it is in. This feels
something like having an emotional lump in the base of your
throat.
Crown Chakra: When fully active it feels like a thousand soft,
warm fingers gently massaging the inside of the top of your head,
above the hairline, and extending down in the centre of the
forehead, to include the brow chakra, which is part of it. This
sensation is the reason the Buddhists call it "The Thousand
Petalled Lotus".
Note: You may feel a stronger sensation in some chakras
and little or none in others. Concentrate on the lowest
ones with the least sensation. This will help balance the
energy flow in the chakra system.
If you are unbalanced, during projection the inactive chakras can
cause failure, i.e., you may get your body partly loose but find
you are stuck to your body at the site of the inactive chakra. If
this happens, concentrate on stimulating the inactive chakra prior
to projection.
Closing The Chakras
-------------------
After any chakras work, it is VERY important to close them, unless
you are going to use them, as in projection.
This closing is especially important if you FEEL strong activity
in them. If you leave chakras open during normal day to day
activity you will bleed energy. This can cause fatigue and even
health problems. It can also attract the unwanted attention of
undesirable astral entities. To close them, simply reverse the
process until no activity is felt. Feel your mental hands closing
the chakras and push the energy back down. The more activity you
feel, the more time you must spend learning to close them. If you
still feel any activity after doing this; eating and physical
exercise also helps to close them.
Psychic Abilities
-----------------
After beginning chakra work, you may find psychic abilities start
to grow in you. This is a natural offshoot of stimulating the
chakras. In my next series, on more advanced energy work, I will
show how to develop and use some of these abilities and how to
raise the Kundalini.
Practise
--------
Some relaxation, breath awareness, concentration and mental hands
exercises should, ideally, be carried out daily. They can be done
anywhere and anytime you have a few minutes to spare.
HOW LONG DOES IT ALL TAKE?
--------------------------
Many people have asked me "How long does it take to learn
projection?" My answer is: Because everybody has different levels
of natural ability and skill, it will take as long as it takes. I
have had letters from people, who have been trying various other
methods for several years, but with no results; get out the very
first time they tried this technique. Other people, with NO
relaxation or concentration skills at all, are looking at several
months training before they will get out.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
----------------- http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ -----------------
TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume II - v1.1
Part 5
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 2 July 1994
ASTRAL ROPE
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A key ingredient to the new projection techniques is an invisible,
imaginary ROPE hanging from your ceiling. This ROPE will be used
to exert dynamic pressure at a single point on your astral body to
force its separation from the physical.
The ROPE technique is similar, but more direct and hence more
effective than other more passive and indirect methods, such as
reaching out and pulling vibrations into you, or visualizing
yourself in front of yourself. The idea of pulling vibrations
into you is vaguely illogical, if you understand the mechanics of
projection.
The vibrations are an effect and NOT a cause of projection. When
enough pressure is exerted on the astral body to loosen it
sufficiently, the energy body expands and energy flows through the
chakra system to be stored in the energy body. This flow of
energy through the hundreds of chakras and their connecting web,
or meridians, CAUSES these vibrations. This normally happens,
unnoticed, during sleep.
PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON
-----------------------
The more passive, indirect methods of projection do exert some
pressure on the astral body to separate, but over a wide area.
They still shift the point of consciousness out of the body,
albeit obtusely. Any mental action that exteriorizes the point of
consciousness will exert some pressure on the astral body.
The action of pulling yourself hand over hand up a rope is a
strong, one pointed, natural action that is easy to imagine
yourself doing. The ROPE technique concentrates ALL your mental
resources into one strong, DYNAMIC action which exerts a high
level of pressure directly on a single point of the astral body.
There are many other, more subtle, ways that exert pressure on the
astral body as well. Many of these are unsuspected for what they
are. Most meditation exercises, for example, exert PASSIVE
pressure on the astral body. You may imagine you are going down
in a lift, falling, climbing down a ladder, or just floating
downwards. Whatever the technique, it is designed to reduce brain
activity. Any self induced, inward falling sensation places
passive pressure on the astral body, which will cause brain
activity to lower and bring on the trance state where a deeper
level of the mind is revealed.
The action of inward falling obtusely shifts the consciousness out
of the body, exerting passive pressure on the astral body over a
wide area, but in the reverse to that needed for projection, i.e.,
general downwards pressure. This, in a way, is like trying to get
your astral body to FALL out of your physical body on its own,
i.e., your point of consciousness tries to FALL, downwards, out of
the physical body.
What most people do to project is to either exert forward, passive
pressure on the astral body, by visualizing themselves floating
out of themselves, and HOPE, they can make it happen, i.e.,
trigger the projection reflex. Or, they try a more direct method,
such as visualizing themselves out of their body, which is very,
very, difficult. Lets face it, 99% of people can't visualize for
peanuts and the act of mentally visualizing yourself OUT of your
body, AND shifting your consciousness INTO this visualization is
almost impossible for most people. The other popular method is to
try to pull vibrations into you. This method is slightly more
effective than most as it exerts some pressure at a single point,
but it is still an indirect mental action and, therefore, obtuse.
All the above, and the general lack of information about the
mechanics of projection, i.e., HOW it happens, accounts for the
extremely high failure rate amongst people learning to project.
Holding passive pressure, over a wide area, on the astral body,
for long enough, WILL activate the projection reflex, eventually.
But this can take a long time and can be mentally exhausting. I
have developed, through recent research, a better, faster and more
dynamic method of projection that is very effective. I call this
technique simply ROPE. It is not that using an imaginary rope for
projection is such a new idea, it's not, but the understanding of
the mechanics of it and the application of this knowledge to ROPE
is.
If you fully understand how a thing works, you can use that thing
more efficiently and, therefore, get better results.
The new ROPE method overcomes the general misdirection of mental
resources and the chronic waste of mental energy caused by the
usual lengthy procedures needed for projection. ROPE shortens the
time needed to cause a projection and optimizes the use of
available energy.
One of the most important ingredients for a successful projection
is to be properly motivated. Without this motivation you will not
have enough mental energy to succeed and will either fall asleep
or forget the projection afterwards. It is, therefore, important
to keep preparation time as short as possible so it is not such a
daunting and mentally exhausting task.
One thing a new projector has in abundance is enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is pure mental energy. ROPE, plus the understanding of
HOW it works, harnesses and makes better use of this energy
resource and vastly improves the success rate.
Getting The Feel Of Rope
------------------------
Pin a length of ribbon, string or rope to the ceiling above you.
Have it hanging within arms reach so you can easily reach up and
touch it. Reach out and touch it frequently, until you are used to
where it is in your mind. This ribbon is only a tactile aide. By
being able to reach out and touch the ribbon, you used to the
spatial coordinates of where the invisible, imaginary ROPE is.
This grows both in your mind and hence as a thought form, making
it easier to imagine yourself reaching out and climbing the ROPE
with your imaginary HANDS.
Note: You do NOT have to actually visualize, or see, the
ROPE at any time, just know where it is supposed to be.
This method uses NO visualization at all.
Reaching out and pulling on this invisible, imaginary ROPE with
your imaginary HANDS shifts the bodily awareness induced point of
consciousness, out of the body, with a strong natural action that
puts direct pressure on one point of the astral body.
Active Chakra
-------------
One important point, if you happen to have more activity in your
Brow Chakra, rather than in your Heart Chakra, which is sometimes
the case. Move the position of your imaginary ROPE so your arms
would be at a 45 degree angle above your head. If you use the
visual aide, ribbon, move this so it is hanging down over your
head, rather than over your chest.
Changing the angle of the ROPE shifts the point of pressure you
are exerting on your astral body to the most active chakra area
and gives better results.
In any case, position the angle of the ROPE at the most natural,
and easy to imagine attitude for you. It is important that the
angle and position of the imaginary ROPE feels natural.
Experiment with this angle until it feels right for you.
ARE YOU READY TO PROJECT ?
--------------------------
All the exercises in the previous parts of this series ARE
necessary training for projection. They are, however, not all
needed, in themselves, for the projection process. If you do all
the relaxation, mental calming, mental falling, chakra opening and
energy raising exercises during the actual projection, you can use
up your supply of mental energy. This can cause mental exhaustion
and you may find yourself short of energy and willpower for the
all important exit.
All the exercises should be done separately from the projection
itself. They are training and development exercises, designed to
improve control over body and mind and to increase the flow of
energy through the chakras. This is like working out in a gym as
a part of football training. You don't actually use these
exercises to play football, they just improve your fitness and
strength so you are able to play football effectively.
Do the training exercises separately UNLESS you are trying for an
advanced, real time projection. It is, then, still necessary to
go through the full procedure, and activate all the chakras, prior
to the actual projection.
The whole point of learning to project is to get your astral body
to separate from the physical while fully conscious. The earlier
you get a fully conscious projection the better. Otherwise, you
may eventually give it all up as just too difficult. Therefore, I
strongly suggest all beginners concentrate on the simplest, most
effective way of getting a conscious projection. Once you have
some projection experiences under your belt you can try for some
of the more advanced, and hence, more difficult, types of
projection.
By doing the training exercises you have learned to relax your
body, to clear your mind and to concentrate. You have begun to
develop (MBA) (mobile bodily awareness) and how to use MBA, i.e.,
using your imaginary HANDS to preform certain tasks both inside
and outside of your body. You have also begun to awaken and
develop your chakras so your energy flow is stronger and you have,
hopefully, spent time getting used to being in trance. These
skills have prepared your body and mind for projection.
When To Do The Exercises
------------------------
Even though the exercises, in themselves, are not all used during
the projection sequence, they still need to be done regularly in
order to develop the necessary skills and energy levels for
conscious projection.
I suggest the relaxation, concentration and mental calming
exercises are done daily. Use your imaginary HANDS with these
exercises. The energy, chakra work and other exercises should be
done at least once a week to be effective. If you wish to do them
more often, fine, just don't tire yourself out too much.
Your Projection Sequence
------------------------
It is difficult to give one, universal projection sequence as
everybody has different levels of skill and natural ability. For
this reason I give a more flexible sequence and I suggest you
tailor a projection method to fit your own needs and level of
skill. Keep in mind the old saying "What works, works!" Play
around with your sequence until you find what is right for you,
what is easiest and most effective.
First, here is the full sequence for advanced, real time
projection.
Full Sequence
-------------
1. Do relaxation exercises thoroughly.
2. Clear your mind through breath awareness.
3. *Enter trance using mental falling method.
4. *Raise energy and open all chakras.
5. Pull yourself out with the imaginary rope.
Note:
1.Steps 3* and 4* can be swapped to suit, i.e., do the energy
work before, or after, entering trance. Energy and chakra
work is more effective done in trance, but some people have
trouble getting into that state. Doing the energy work first
will usually help bring about the trance state.
2.IF you still have trouble getting into trance, use the ROPE
climbing method at step 3* instead of the mental falling
exercise, until you are in trance. Then stop the ROPE
climbing and do the energy work before continuing with the
projection, i.e., using the ROPE at step 3* will help force
your body into the trance state.
How To Use ROPE
---------------
This is a complete projection method in itself, if you have good
powers of concentration. I suggest beginners concentrate solely
on this method until they have more experience. This projection
method will give you a normal Astral projection. The duration of
this projection, in real time, will depend on the level of chakra
development and energy flow you have attained.
1. Do the relaxation exercise thoroughly, until you are completely
settled. This should only take a few minutes, don't overdo it.
2. Reach out with your imaginary HANDS and pull yourself, hand
over hand, up the strong, invisible, imaginary ROPE hanging
above you. Try and imagine the feel of a strong, thick, coarse
rope in your HANDS.
Don't try and visualize this ROPE! I want you to imagine you
are reaching out and climbing this ROPE in the pitch dark, so
you can't see it at all, you just know where it is and can
imagine the feel of it. Visualization wastes valuable mental
energy that can be better put to use exerting direct pressure
on your astral body.
You will feel a slight dizzy sensation inside you as you do
this, specifically in your upper torso. This is caused by
exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body. The dizzy
sensation comes from the astral body loosening. This feeling of
vertigo will intensify the more you pull on the rope.
Very Important Note:
a) This dizzy feeling and any feelings of pressure or vertigo,
etc, caused by your mental action of pulling on the ROPE
MUST be carefully noted by you. Learn the EXACT mental
action you are doing to cause this vertigo. You will have
to train your mental climbing action to cause this feeling.
So, the first few times you try this ROPE method,
concentrate on finding the right mental action to do this.
Once you learn what it is you are doing to cause this, and
can recreate it at will, you are really starting to get
somewhere.
b) IGNORE *ALL* SENSATION YOU FEEL DURING PROJECTION or it
will distract you, break your concentration, and ruin your
chances for projection. Concentrate on the single act of
climbing your ROPE to the TOTAL exclusion of everything
else. Put everything you have into this one action, but
don't tense up, it must be all mental.
3. Keep climbing, hand over hand, ever upwards, and you will feel
the heavy sensation come over you. The pressure you are
exerting on your astral body will force you into the trance
state. Ignore this when it happens and concentrate on what you
are doing.
4. Keep climbing and you will feel your chakras open in response
to the pressure, don't stop.
5. Next you will feel the vibrations start, your whole body will
seem to be vibrating and you will feel paralysed. Concentrate,
single minded, on climbing your rope, don't stop.
6. Next you will feel yourself coming free of your body. You will
buzz slightly as you pull yourself out of your body. You will
exit your body in the direction of your imaginary ROPE and will
be hovering above your body. You're free at last!
Note:
a) Do *NOT* allow yourself to break concentration when the
vibrations start. They are a natural EFFECT caused by
energy coursing through all the hundreds of major and
minor chakras in your body. If you do find yourself being
distracted by this, spend more time and effort doing the
concentration exercises until you overcome this problem.
b) If you have not mastered using your imaginary HANDS for
relaxation, raising energy and chakra work, you may have
difficulty using them for climbing the ROPE. This does not
mean you have to be able to open your chakras successfully
to project using this method, you don't, it just helps if
you can.
This method is very direct. It shortens the time needed to
project dramatically! Once you start pulling in earnest on your
ROPE you WILL enter trance, your chakras WILL open, the vibrations
WILL start and you WILL project, very quickly! The speed of this
method may frighten you, the first time you try it. Everything
will seem to happen TOO fast. You will get used to this, though,
and will appreciate having plenty of mental energy to use during
your projection.
If your powers of concentration are good, you have a better chance
of getting out with this method than any other, even if you
haven't mastered deep relaxation and trance skills. What is
needed, apart from the ability to concentrate, is the ability to
carry out strong mental actions, without any corresponding
muscular action, i.e., you have to be able to separate mental and
physical actions.
If you have trouble with any part of the ROPE method, analyse it,
find the problem area, then go back and concentrate on the related
training exercises until you overcome the problem.
A ROPE Variation
----------------
Note: One good variation for the simple ROPE technique, is
to do the full sequence of exercises and energy, chakra
work first, but separate from, the actual projection. Do
the full sequence, but `don't' close your chakras. Get up
and have a break, make yourself comfortable, have a drink
etc. Then return to your bed /chair fresh, spend a couple
of minutes relaxing and go straight to your ROPE. This
will increase the amount of chakra energy available during
the projection.
The Mechanics OF How ROPE Works
-------------------------------
ROPE is the most dynamic projection method to date and can
override the need to do just about anything else, once it is
learned. Let me explain a little more of the mechanics of what
actually happens when you use ROPE, by breaking it down:
Clearing The Mind:
The mental act of climbing the ROPE fully occupies and clears
the mind.
Brain Wave Activity:
Clearing the mind and exerting, one pointed, dynamic pressure on
the astral body, forces the reduction of brain wave activity.
Deep Relaxation:
Reducing brain wave activity forces the body into a deep level
of relaxation.
Trance State:
Exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body, while the physical
body is deeply relaxed, and brain wave activity is at a low
level, FORCES the mind and body into the trance state.
The Chakras:
Exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body, while in trance,
FORCES the energy body to expand and the chakras to open.
Vibrations:
Exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body while the energy
body is in its expanded state and the chakras are open causes
energy to flow through the 300 odd chakras in the body and
causes the vibrational state.
Separation:
Exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body while the energy
body is in its expanded, vibrational state forces the astral
body to separate from the physical.
Note: If you exert enough pressure on the astral body,
during the final phase of the projection sequence, the
exit, it will override the projection reflex completely.
This forces a manual separation of the physical / astral
bodies.
This means: Instead of involuntarily buzzing out of your body via
the projection reflex, at the climax of the projection, and ending
standing at the foot of your bed etc, you will exit your body in
the direction you are pulling on the ROPE.
How Long Does It All Take
-------------------------
The whole projection process can be done in less than fifteen
minutes, I can do it in under five minutes. The speed of the
method allows you to use ALL your available energy in one burst.
If you don't get out in the first fifteen minutes I doubt if you
will during that attempt. IF this is the case, either get up and
have a break and come back to it later, or get some sleep.
Using the ROPE method, literally, amazed me with it's ease and
simplicity the first time I used it. It shortened my usual
projection time (20-30 minutes, from a cold start) to about 5
minutes, for a normal astral projection. I still, though, use the
full sequence when I do a real time projection.
My analysis of the mechanics of this process comes from using the
ROPE method myself and carefully observing what was happening to
my body during the separation.
My First ROPE Projection
------------------------
Here is an account of the first time I tried ROPE, while I was
developing it as a viable theory:
I laid down on my bed, I was thinking of my new theory. I
had been working out a projection technique that blind
people could do. A technique that did not require ANY
optical visualization. I had come up with the idea of
using the sense of touch to exert pressure on the astral
body, tactile imaging, as this sense is strongly developed
in blind people.
I lay there for a few minutes, mulling it over in my mind,
while I generally relaxed and settled myself, ready for
sleep. Then I decided to try it out, to see if it was
practical.
Note: I did not do any of the usual relaxation, mental
calming or chakra energy exercises. I just wanted to
see if I could exert pressure on my astral body with
this method.
I reached out my imaginary hands and began climbing the
ROPE, hand over hand. I immediately felt a sensation of
vertigo in my stomach and upper torso and a dizzy feeling
inside my bones, like a tickling inside my arms and legs.
I snapped my mind shut, stopped all thought, and focussed
my will on the climbing action. I could feel the enormous
pressure it was exerting on my astral body, my astral head
and upper torso was starting to lift free, trying to go up
the ROPE following the line of pressure I was creating.
Still pulling, I felt my brain waves drop into the alpha
state and the heavy sensation came over me as I entered
trance. I kept pulling and the trance deepened, my body
was now paralysed. Still pulling, my chakras opened and
the vibrations started. I was amazed, I had only been
doing this for a couple of minutes! I kept pulling and my
astral body soon buzzed free of the physical.
This was completely different from any other projection I
had ever done. The projection reflex did not seem to have
time to cut in and project me out of my body. I had,
literally, pulled myself free on my own. I floated above
my physical body, still aware of myself on the bed.
I went to go through the wall into the lounge, where there
was more light, as it was pretty dark in my room. Suddenly
I was in a strange world. "Where the hell am I" I thought.
There was very dim light and there was a damp fog all
around me. There was a large building in front of me with
an old fashioned thatched roof. To the side of me was an
old rail fence made of massive, rough hewn timbers. I
leaned against the fence and thought about it all. I
looked past the house and saw the reflection of water.
There was a lake on the other side of the house.
This didn't make any sense to me and I was getting bored,
so I tried to move to another realm in the dream pool. I
looked at my hand, this usually works. It was white and
pale and unreal looking, it began to melt quickly, like
white ice under a blowtorch. My fingers were soon stumps
and then my hand melted and my arm began to follow. I
tried remaking it. It grew back as I concentrated on
visualizing what it should look like, but started to melt
again as soon as I stopped concentrating.
Then it hit me, why this scene was so familiar to me, I was
in a picture! I have a large picture hanging on the wall
in my room, in the exact position where I had tried to pass
through the wall. This picture has an old house with a
thatched roof and a rough hewn fence around it. There is a
lake behind it and it is early dawn, when the sun is just
starting to illuminate things. There was no doubt about
it, I was in my picture.
I'd had enough of this, it was too dim to enjoy the
projection, or to do anything. I focussed on my physical
body, which I could still feel. I concentrated on moving my
mouth and eyes and this soon brought me back to my physical
body. I sat up in bed and thought about it while I
recorded the results of my experiment.
Settling back down again I tried climbing the ROPE again.
Within a couple of minutes I was back out of my body again.
"This is great," I thought! I hovered above my body and
looked about the room. There in the gloom was the picture
on the wall, the one I had entered by accident. I went
towards it again, just to see if it would happen again. As
I got closer it got bigger and bigger and I seemed to
shrink into it. As I got right up to it, instead of
passing through it, I seemed to move into it and there I
was again in this dimly lit, damp world with the old house
and the fence. Everything felt real about it, the fence
felt like wood and even the air smelled different, it had a
farm like, swampish smell about it.
Leaving the picture again and returning to my body, I again
wrote everything down in my notebook. I lay there for most
of the night, thinking about what had happened, mulling
over the implications of it all, what it all meant....
This is how I discovered `Virtual Reality Projection' or (VRP)
This technique is, at the moment, in its infancy and only a rough
method for creating a custom made world. I plan to do some more
experiments with it in the near future, though, to get the bugs
out of it.
Remembering It All
------------------
One of the biggest problems with any kind of conscious OOBE is
remembering it all when you wake up.
Here's what you can do about this not remembering. As soon as you
wake up, sit up in bed and pull those memories back. Sit up and
think hard. Put aside a few minutes quiet time each morning to do
this. It will train your dream memory.
During this quiet time, run key phrases through your mind until
you hit on something. Say things like: I looked at my watch
and... I looked at my hands and... I was walking... I was
talking to... I was just going to... I was over at... I was
flying over... I was having a... I was inside a... I was
with... These are examples of phrases that can lead you to a
fragment of dream memory you can lock on to. Make up some more
phrases to suit yourself.
It may feel like there is nothing in your mind to remember, but
try hard and put some REAL effort into it. They are there, you
just have to reach in and locate them. Once you lock onto a
fragment of memory, more can be located and more and more. You
will be surprised how much you can remember this way.
It is important to write these down as soon as you remember them.
Even if you have to do this several times during the night. They
may seem vivid and unforgettable at the time but dream, or astral,
memories will usually vanish in a few seconds if you don't record
them. Just write down a few key words and you can fill in the
blanks later. With practise, this writing down can be dispensed
with as your astral recall develops.
Stuck ?
-------
Some people may find they are stuck in part of their body during
projection. They may come free of their body but be stuck at
their head or stomach area. If this happens, exerting too much
pressure by pulling on the rope may cause some physical pain and
discomfort. There are two possible reasons for this: If you are
stuck in the middle, stomach area, it may be diet related, i.e., a
heavy protein or meat meal before projection can cause this.
Remedy: Eat a light meal, eat plenty but have fish or
white meat instead of red meat and avoid fats, oils, nuts
and cheese.
If you are stuck at the head, or some other part, this is a sign
of an inactive chakra, possibly caused by an energy blockage.
Remedy: Concentrate on opening this stuck chakra during
the energy exercises. If this happens during your
projection sequence, stop everything and open that chakra,
you will be in trance so it will be easier. Once you have
done some work on it, try pulling on the ROPE again.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are
most welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keep
your text to a minimum and *please* don't send great chunks of my
work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
----------------- http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ -----------------
TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTION
Volume II - v1.1
Part 6
by
Robert Bruce
Copyright(C) 24 August 1994
More On ROPE
------------
ROPE is a very effective projection technique, but it still has to
be learned to be effective. I would like to elaborate on a couple
of points about the technique, inspired by the feedback I have
received so far.
1. There is NO visualisation required - AT ALL - in the ROPE
technique. It is ALL tactile imaging. This means you do NOT have
to picture yourself doing it.
That is, to climb ROPE, the correct mental action is to REHEARSE
the climbing action in your mind.
* This mental rehearsal - IS - the ROPE technique *
2. You need to *mentally* grit your teeth and strain with the
action, i.e., you have to put maximum mental effort into it, as
if you were really climbing a ROPE, but without allowing your
muscles to take part in it - this is ALL mental. Your body must
not be allowed to respond. You also need to feel you are very
strong, full of energy and could climb like this all night.
3. You will find that a certain way of holding the focus of your
mind, while you climb, will exert more pressure on your astral
body than another. It is VERY important you note what this is
and learn how to apply it. This will tune your climbing action
for the maximum effect. When you hit on the right mental focus
for the action, you will feel a corresponding dizzy/falling
sensation in your Solar Plexus.
4. To use ROPE successfully, it is extremely important to make a
firm decision to DO IT. This commitment is VERY important to
success. A DO OR DIE effort is needed. This focuses all your
mental energy into a single point, for a single purpose - to
exit your body.
5. Many people have emailed me with ROPE success stories. In every
case - they have been practising ROPE when they suddenly decided
to give it a go - TO REALLY DO IT! This commitment to succeed
means the difference between actually getting out - OOBE - and
experiencing various levels of ROPE induced relaxation, trance,
paralysis, chakra activity etc. I cannot stress enough the
importance of this commitment to the success of ROPE induced
OOBE.
6. While using ROPE, completely IGNORE ALL PHYSICAL SENSATION AND
ANY NOISES YOU HEAR. If you react to a sensation, in any way,
you will lose the focus of your mental energy and dilute your
effort considerably.
All the energy/chakra work and other exercises in Parts 3 and 4,
are designed to stimulate the flow of energy in your body and
increase concentration, will power and mental control. By
increasing the energy flow during a projection and controlling
your mind better, your duration in real time is increased. It is
also easier to exit.
You CAN skip all the exercises entirely and just concentrate on
learning ROPE. Everyone has different levels of skill, natural
ability and energy flow. Some people need lots of training in
order to OOBE, others do not. Some people will prefer to learn
ROPE by DOING it, rather than training for it. If your goal is
just to have a conscious OOBE, of any kind, the simple use of
ROPE, below, is your best option.
SIMPLE USE OF ROPE
------------------
Some people have the impression ROPE is too complicated. This was
possibly because by the detailed explanation I gave about the
mechanics of ROPE in Part 5, i.e., HOW it works.
ROPE is THE simplest projection technique to date. All that is
needed to use ROPE in its simplest form, are these two steps:
1. Go to bed, or sit in your chair, relax and settle yourself down,
as you normally would do before going to sleep.
2. Start climbing the ROPE.
* This is all there is to the simple use of ROPE *
As there are no time consuming exercises or complicated relaxation
exercises involved, the simple use of ROPE has many advantages.
It allows you to focus all your mental resources on it. In many
cases this is all that is needed to give you your first conscious
OOBE.
Because the simple use of ROPE is less complex, you will find
yourself attempting projection more often, even when you are tired
- one of the best times to try - and cannot be bothered with
anything complicated. The increased frequency of your projection
attempts gives you more practise with ROPE and hence the technique
will be mastered sooner.
LUCID DREAM BACKUP
------------------
I have had a great many reports of vivid dreams and heightened
lucid dream activity (L.D.) from people doing the energy/chakra
training exercises. This is happening far too frequently for it
to be coincidence.
The energy/chakra work increases the level of energy flowing into
the energy body and heightens awareness and memory of the dream
and OOBE state. It is a shame to waste all this energy on
uncontrolled dreams, so I suggest L.D. be used as a secondary
goal. This will give you OOBE experience earlier, in the form of
L.D., and help keep your interest high until you learn how to do
the conscious exit.
Lucid Dreaming
--------------
To become Lucid in dream you need to program yourself with a
trigger to make you realise when you are dreaming, in order to
take control over it, i.e., become lucid. The best way of doing
this is by getting into the habit of doing frequent reality checks
during your daily life.
Reality Checking
----------------
A reality check is when you stop what you are doing and check the
reality level of your situation. This is simple to do. Every
time you do a reality check. Ask yourself:
1. Is this a normal situation, is there anything strange about it?
2. Can I fly? Try floating up in the air.
3. Try closing your eyes. This is a dead giveaway as you cannot
close your eyes in astral form.
Note: This reality checking must become habitual to be
effective.
When you do a reality check during a dream, you will realise you
are dreaming and can take control of it. It is then important to
affirm to yourself you are going to remember everything. Tell
yourself over and over, " I will remember this when I wake up."
L.D. Trigger
------------
The key to success with reality checks is to have a good trigger
for it. This should be something you would normally do many times
a day. This can be any kind of habitual action, but here are a few
ideas:
1. Time: Every time you look at your watch, do a reality check. An
electronic watch is a good aid. Set the timer to beep hourly.
When it beeps, do a reality check.
* A wrist watch, beeping hourly, is the most effective *
2. Hands: Every time you notice your hands, do a reality check.
3. Smoking: If you smoke, every time you have a cigarette, do a
reality check. You will usually find yourself reaching for a
cigarette during the course of a dream, if you are a habitual
smoker.
Note: It takes time to make your trigger habitual, usually
a few weeks. It also helps to do a few affirmations before
you go to sleep, e.g., "I will remember to look at my
watch"
When you become aware in a dream, L.D., you should already be in a
communal dream pool. If you want to try changing this to a real
time projection, try and become aware of your physical body. If
you can sense it, you may be able to return to a time location
near it. This is difficult, though, and may end the experience
completely, i.e., forcing a return to the waking state.
I suggest you enjoy the L.D. for what it is. Communal dream pools
are very colourful places and usually lots of fun. You will see
all kinds of weird and wonderful things there and have all kinds
of adventures.
Note: To improve your memory of the L.D. don't forget to
remind yourself constantly during the L.D., to remember it
all.
Changing Your Reality Location
------------------------------
If you don't like the dream pool you are in, or are in a real time
OOBE and want to enter a dream pool, here are a couple of ways to
do it:
1. Look closely at your hands and watch them melt. (This is worth
doing just to see the melting hands phenomenon).
2. Spin around until you become disoriented.
3. Visualise a place you would like to be. (Instantaneous travel).
This will usually move you to a dream pool similar to your
visualised target destination.
4. Fly straight up, as fast as you can. If this fails to shift
your reality location, at least you will experience space
flight.
5. Fly away fast, close to the surface, until you find a place you
like. The blurring of speed will cause a reality shift.
6. Walk into a mirror, picture or painting. This is the same as
VRP (virtual reality projection).
These techniques all trick the subconscious, through
disorientation, into moving you to another reality location.
THE ASTRAL FORM IN MOTION
-------------------------
Many people have motion problems in their first few projections.
Simply getting across a room in the right direction, can be a
major accomplishment. This lack of control is simply because they
are unfamiliar with astral form. It is like being in zero
gravity. You have to learn to move all over again. When you
project in real time, you are just a point of consciousness with a
poorly constructed etheric shell surrounding it. Motion is
provided by thought - not muscles.
Astral Momentum
---------------
There is a type of momentum in astral form that causes most of the
problems. This causes you to continue moving for a while, after
you decide to stop. This may take you through a wall or a ceiling
etc. This impetus is caused by the thought you used to cause the
motion. If it is too strong, or too prolonged for the action, you
will move too quickly or too far. Only practise teaches you how
to get about with any degree of accuracy and grace.
It really is quite a comical process, learning astral motion. I
remember learning to move about my home town, in my youth. I
would start by trying to navigate through my house, usually ending
up stuck in the roof, for a while. Then I would run down the
road, trying to build up speed and take off like a plane. I would
get airborne for a while, but could never quite clear the roof
tops of the surrounding houses. I would often float
unintentionally into strange houses, blundering about like a drunk
in zero G. I seemed to be endlessly apologising to all these
strangers in passing, as I floated in and out of their houses.
How To Move
-----------
To move about in astral form, simply - DO IT. Do not think about
what you are doing, just DO IT. Be aware that motion is provided
by your mind. You have to will yourself into motion, to change
direction, and to stop. This is the best advice I can give you on
this. It really has to be learned by doing. Have fun.
When you have learned basic motion, do not try anything too
ambitious for a while. Stick close to the surface and learn to
get around your local area first. Practise varying your speed
until you gain some control over it.
Learning To Fly
---------------
Learn to fly the same way as you learned to move, by using your
mind. At first you may find something very much like gravity
affecting you. You may get yourself into the air only to find
yourself slowly arcing back to earth again. If you persevere
you'll find yourself moving in a series of short flight hops.
This is caused partly by habit and partly by the basic motion
problem in general. You sink back to earth when your motion
causing mental action falters. This causes your flight impetus to
stop and the gravity habit then pulls you down.
You may find yourself, as I did, trying to fly by running down the
road and leaping into the air. This is not necessary. Focus your
will into floating up into the air. Then use your will to provide
motion, same as with basic motion. There is NO gravity affecting
you in astral form. Convince yourself of this and you will be
flying in no time.
Speed
-----
The three speeds as defined by, S. Muldoon, and commonly accepted,
are a basic guide only. These are:
1. Walking speed.
2. Motor car speed.
3. Instantaneous travel.
I think these three speeds were a sign of the times back then.
These would have been the only types of speed known to most
people. Today, movies, computer games and air travel have
thoroughly prepared our minds to accept much higher speeds.
With practise and good mental control, you CAN vary your speed to
your purpose, from walking speed to supersonic speed. This is a
big problem for the beginner though, the control of direction and
speed. It has a lot to do with how stable the projection is and
how experienced you are at applying your will to motion.
Instantaneous Travel
--------------------
It is generally accepted that if you can visualise a destination
you can project yourself there instantly, at the speed of thought.
* I have found this to be highly unreliable *
I find this instantaneous method usually projects you straight
into a subjective location created by the visualisation of your
target. You may appear to be at your destination but you will
usually find many discrepancies between the real location and
where you are.
Instantaneous travel is very like VRP. By using your
visualisation powers to travel with, you will not actually travel.
You will create a subjective copy of a destination and enter it.
Long Distance Travel
--------------------
I have found it more reliable to follow the surface for short to
medium distance projection of up to a few hundred miles. Even
this can be difficult as it is easy to fall into the Alice effect
while travelling. All you have to do is break concentration once
and you will slip into a dream pool. Strict mental control must
be maintained at all times when travelling in real time.
It is not really practical to follow the surface for a long
distance. For example, a country on the other side of the world
from you is 12000 miles away. You would need to travel at about
64 times the speed of sound to reach there in 15 minutes. At this
speed in the atmosphere, everything blurs and clouds and surface
features cause disorientation and a corresponding reality shift.
Any real time objective aspect of the projection will then be
lost.
Note: Newbie projectors can normally hold themselves in
real time for only a few minutes. Therefore, any long
distance travel is limited by the real time part of a
projection.
To travel long distance you need to study geography. You have to
be able to recognise continents, oceans, countries, states and
cities. You also need to study a map of your target area and note
any landmarks. To project there, after this is memorised, you
must go into orbit and re-enter over your target. As you approach
the earth you must adjust your approach and aim for the geological
features and landmarks around your destination.
Orbiting the Earth
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To enter orbit is a little more difficult than it sounds. Getting
up there is easy, you just go straight up, but stopping when you
get high enough is difficult. Most people, myself included, tend
to blast themselves straight out of the solar system, sometimes
right out of the galaxy. To avoid this, it is important to
control your speed during the ascent.
It is easier to project to the moon first, as a way of entering
orbit. This gives you a large visual target you can project to in
moments. Once there, it is a simple matter to head back to Earth,
enter orbit, and circle until you are above your target. In
space, away from the atmosphere, there are no problems with speed
induced blurring.
How Far Can You Go?
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There are * NO * limits to distance, destination or speed. You
can travel to the most distant galaxy. The speed of thought is
infinite. It is like folding space and moving without moving. If
you can see something, you can be there....as quick as that. In
comparison, the speed of light is that of a snail. I often go out
into deep space, where the galaxies are just tiny smudges in the
distance, to think and meditate. That is easy, but the trick is
getting back for a conscious re-entry. Unless you have a good
knowledge of astronomy, which I do not, this is difficult.
Following the silver cord, if you can see one, is not practical at
that kind of speed, though it will give you a basic direction to
go in.
To return from a long distance projection, tune into your body and
become aware of it. Then try moving part of your physical body,
i.e., a finger or toe. This will return you to your body, and end
the projection with full memories of the OOBE.
FUTURE WIND
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There is a strange phenomenon you will come across, from time to
time, while you are projecting. I call this "Future Wind."
You will be OOBE'ing somewhere, minding your own business, when
all of a sudden you will feel an irresistible force. You will
feel yourself being moved against your will, usually backwards, by
this force. You can fight it for a while but it will grow
steadily stronger until you are blown away; over the roof tops, up
into the sky and....into the future.
Then, after a while, you will come down in a different
place....and time. Often it will be somewhere mundane, maybe a
domestic setting of some sort. You will be released there and
left to wander about... confused. You may even meet people you do
not know, yet, and they will be just as confused as you are.
This may be an actual scene out of your future life, it may be a
symbolic vision, or a mixture of both. You may be an invisible
spectator to this scene, or you may merge with your future self,
and see out of your future eyes for a while.
This can also be a scene of an important future event. It could
be a disaster, natural or otherwise, or something unusual or
exciting on the world scene. These type of events usually have a
lot of energy surrounding them, and this may be part of the reason
for the vision.
The only explanations I can give for this are:
1. The intervention of your higher self: For some reason it
decides that now is the time to show you something from your
future.
2. Clairvoyant interference: Your Brow chakra has become
clairvoyantly active and has tuned into a future setting. Your
point of consciousness is caught up by this vision and
projected into the vision.
3. A combination of both of the above - this is the most logical.
Symbolic Visions
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There is another aspect of this wind that is very similar to the
above but the vision you experience is symbolic, or has a symbolic
aspect, rather than an actual future event or scene.
Note: I would like to warn you about the symbolic aspect
of visions. If you don't understand the nature of symbolism
it can cause great harm to your life. This warning applies
to all clairvoyant visions in general, whether experienced
in astral form or not.
For example: You are taken, by a future wind, to a scene in which
you see yourself winning a lot of money. You are sitting at a
table checking your lottery ticket with the results. You see the
prize money is $18 million. You check your numbers, or ticket,
and find you have the winning ticket. You feel all the
excitement, the surge of adrenalin, dreams of wealth come flooding
into you and your heart races with excitement.
After this vision, you start buying lots of tickets. You also
start to make decisions that affect your life with a "When the
money comes through" type of attitude. This can cause irreparable
damage to your life! You lose your drive, your initiative, your
ambition, i.e., you stop trying. This imparts a "Cargo Cult" type
of belief system on you, a belief that everything will be given to
you - with all the negative aspects this primitive belief system
has.
This can cause you to mark time in your life, instead of living it
to the full.
* What you may have missed, from the symbolism of the above vision
is:
The amount of money may be unusual for that lottery draw. $18
million is an odd amount of money and may be a rare event.
This is what I call a SIGN POST - a date stamp of a future
event. This means that when your local lottery has a prize of
the above amount, something important is going to happen in
your life or in the world around you.
If you know how symbolism works, during the vision you would
have been able to pick up more information about this coming
event. The setting, the symbols, the connections to you, the
action and the sequence of events in it, are all important
aspects of its meaning.
Misunderstanding a vision can ruin your life. Only experience
and the intelligent application of logic can teach you how to
interpret a symbolic vision. Until you have this experience,
it is best to treat any sort of vision with caution.
Some possible reasons for a symbolic vision are:
1. You are being given a warning or guidance by your higher self.
2. You are being given proof there is a future, a destiny, a
meaning, a purpose to your life.
3. The sign post of this vision may mark a good or bad event in
your life.
4. You may actually win the lottery. Personally, I would always
make sure I had a ticket in the draw, just in case, but I would
not depend on it.
Future Wind Example
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I left my body and was moving about my home, getting my sea legs.
Suddenly, a force moved me across the room. I tried to fight it
but it grew stronger until I was blown out of the house and up
into the night sky. A short time later I was brought down again,
outside my home. I was just left standing there in the middle of
the road. In front of me stood a refrigerator. It was just
sitting there in the road with its door open. I examined it and
could tell it was not working. Behind it was a massive red brick
wall, 40 feet high and twice as wide. There are no REAL brick
walls in this street. Then I noticed my wife was standing beside
me. I turned and said hello to her. She just said goodbye, very
coldly, then turned and walked away. Perplexed, I watched her
walk away. Oddly, instead of walking to our home, she walked away
from it and off into the distance.
Being experienced with the symbolism and nature of visions I knew
what this foretold, the end of my marriage. I could not
understand it as we were only recently married and very happy
together.
To decipher a symbolic vision it is necessary to analyse it and
break it down into its parts.
The six significant aspects of this vision are:
1. The sign post... (the date stamp of the event)
* The refrigerator that did not work.
2. The connections... (something, or someone, in the vision that
connects the events to me).
* 1. My wife.
2. It was outside my home.
3. I was there as me.
3. The symbol... (the basic nature of the coming event)
* The large brick wall. This symbolises a barrier or an end
to something. This was the only actual symbol in the
vision, but other parts of it were by nature or action -
symbolic.
4. The symbolic action... (this signifies the meaning of the
vision)
* My wife's cold goodbye.
5. The symbolic modifiers... (these modify the symbol or, in this
case, the symbolic action in the vision).
a) My wife departed in a direction away from our home.
b) She walked away until she disappeared from view.
6. The sequence of events.
a) The broken fridge.
b) The large brick wall.
c) My wife's actions.
OR:
When I saw the broken fridge (sign post) I saw the brick wall
(symbol) and my wife (connection) said goodbye and left (symbolic
action) in a direction away from our home, until she disappeared
(symbolic modifiers)
The timing and sequence of a vision is important to unravelling
its meaning. It is important to break a symbolic vision into its
5 basic parts and to note this in your journal, while it is still
fresh in your mind.
Note: There may be more than one modifier to each part of
a vision.
Hindsight
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A year after I had the above vision, we moved to another town.
The day we moved, we had to borrow a refrigerator from a relative.
Ours had broken down and was in for repairs. The borrowed fridge
did not work either. After our's was repaired, this other fridge
sat on our porch for two and a half years, waiting to be
collected. I remembered the vision clearly, and knew this fridge
was the date stamp of an upcoming event. I also knew what the
event was, but honestly could not see it happening. One day,
though, they came and collected this fridge. A week later my
marriage ended. Suddenly, permanently, and for no foreseeable
reason.
Looking at it in hind sight, it is crystal clear what the vision
meant. It was as simple as it was accurate. Most symbolic visions
are this simple. Be very careful not to read too much into vision
otherwise the true message in the vision will be obscured.
Always break a vision down into its parts.
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Ask of each part:
1. "What is it in itself?"
2. "What does it do?"
3. "What is its simplest, most basic, symbolic meaning?"
Write these answers down and then apply common sense and logic to
them. This will give you insight into the true meaning of the
vision.
MIRRORS
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Mirrors, historically, are magical devices used as doorways to
other worlds. There are also numerous superstitions and old wives
tales concerning their effect on the recently departed. After a
person had died, all mirrors in their home were covered. This was
so they could not see their lack of a reflection and be shocked.
Another reason for this was to prevent them from being
accidentally trapped in a mirror.
There is some logic to this if you look at the mechanics of
projection. Death, in the early stages, is very much like a
powerful real time projection. The biggest difference being the
lack of a living body to return to.
Spirits are normally held close to the physical dimension, in real
time, for a week or so after death. This is until the supply of
etheric matter that binds the spirit to its physical body runs
out.
During this time it is normal for the spirit to wander among
relatives and loved ones, saying goodbye and coming to terms with
their new state of existence. This goodbye process, eases the
psychological trauma of death, and helps prepare the spirit for
the next stage of existence.
What can happen with mirrors, is this: A new spirit can
inadvertently enter a mirror. If this happens, they enter a
mirror world in the same way a projector enters a picture through
VRP. Once in a mirror world they usually do not know where they
are, or how to get out of it, and can be stuck there for the
duration of their real time stay. This will not interfere with
the journey of the soul. It will just cause confusion for a few
days until it enters the next stage of existence. This can though,
make their last days near the physical world very confusing and
interfere in the natural goodbye process.
This, I believe, is where the old superstitions came from.
Therefore, in the light of my understanding of projection and the
death process, I think the covering of mirrors after a death is a
VERY good idea, for the benefit of the deceased. This is best
done for two weeks, to be sure.
A Better Goodbye
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It is possible to communicate with a recently departed spirit
during its real time, post death wandering. This can be done by
leaving a letter, uncovered, for the spirit to read. They can
also hear you, so talking to them is also effective. I think a
good practise would be to have goodbye letters, from all the
people that loved the deceased, stuck to the wall in the spirit's
old room. Leave the letters open, with all pages clearly in view,
to make reading easier.
---------- Robert Bruce ------------- rsb@tower.com.au ----------
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