Instructions for Astral Projection

[DeanCollins]

Has anybody done this?

http://www.crystalinks.com/astral.html

The Monroe Technique

Step One:

Relax the body. According to Monroe, "the ability to relax is the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first step itself" to having an OBE. (out of body experience). This includes both physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest a method of attaining this relaxation, although progressive muscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3... until about 50 or 100) are known to work well.

Step Two:

Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnogogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't recommend any method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you start to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken again. With practice you can learn to control the hypnogogic state without using your arm. Another method is to concentrate on an object. When other images start to enter your thoughts, you have entered the hypnogogic state. Passively watch these images. This will also help you maintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition A.

Step Three:

Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. Observe your field of vision through your closed eyelids at the blackness in front of your. After a while you may start to notice light patterns. These are simply neural discharges. They have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, one has entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, one must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which Monroe calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you lose all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a void in which your only source of stimulation will be your own thoughts.

The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal fatigue. To achieve Condition D, Monroe suggests that you practice entering it in the morning just as you are getting up, or after a short nap.

Step Four:

Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the most vague.

Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as if electricity is being shot through the body. Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical body.

For entering into the vibrational state, he offers the following directions:

1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.

2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your eyelids, but do not shut out all light.

3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your head pointed toward magnetic north.

4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly warmer than what might normally be comfortable.

5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.

6. Enter a state of relaxation.

7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all that occurs during the upcoming session that will be beneficial to your well being. Repeat this five times.

8. As your breathe, concentrate on the void in front of you.

9. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change your point of mental reference to six feet.

10. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line parallel to your body axis up above you head. Focus there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring them back into your body.

Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when you have achieved contact with them.

Step Five:

Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them into your head, down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body, and producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce this wave effect, concentrate on the vibrations and mentally push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body. Practice this until you can induce these waves on command. Once you have control of the vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.

Step Six:

Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thoughts might cause you to lose control of the state.

Now having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring the OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body". Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes in contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed. Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it back in to coincidence with the physical one, decrease the vibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie quietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercise will prepare you for full separation.

Step Seven:

Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two methods for this. One method is to lift out of the body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after entering the vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward. Keep this thought in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE will occur naturally at this point.

Another method is the "Rotation Method" or "roll-out" technique. When you have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed. Do not attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into your second body right out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out of the body, but next to it. Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above the body.

[Prosperity]

Why don't you take some drugs? It is alot faster and more effective. Just don't screw with salvia, that stuff is crap/

[SonnyRules]

Once.

I think they called it orange sunshine.

[portisizzle]

Step Four:

Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the most vague.

Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as if electricity is being shot through the body. Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical body.

I consider myself an ordinary person. But I will indicate to you that I experience this "electricity" being shot through my body quite often. In my sleep I will often become aware of a loud and rythmical ringing in my ears. To the point where I will be awake but yet I am still dreaming. The ringing in my ears becomes so significant that I feel the need to wake up to stop it.

And so I do. I will wake up and correct myself to the point where the ringing stops. This article explains this electric as a function of the astral body trying to leave the body. I think that is bull.

But for the benefit of myself and others who might follow this, I will play around with the concepts listed in the Monroe techinque.

But beware, I am reading Carl Sagan Demon Haunted World. Sagan does a good job of dispelling psudoscience. This would qualify as psudoscience, IMO.

For all I know the ringing in my ears is just a dream.....

[Leonard Washington]

and why would you want to do this?

[chomerics]

It "happened" to me one time. I was way way overitred from working 36 hours straight on a boat, and when I got home I crashed. I remenber feeling like I was pulling out of my body and I "hovered". I was completely freaked out, and woke up. As I awoke, it felt as if I was being pulled into my body.

I have always thought is was a specific dream pattern, but there may be more to it. I had spoken with my father, and he had it happen to him as well. . . It was definately strange, but there is probably some explination.

[Bonez3]

I swear from time to time in my sleep I feel like I'm floating when I awake in the semi sleep. But, it's not just floating, I can almost specifically place where I'm at in the room spacially. When I return/awake I feel like that's exactly how far I travelled back to. Weird, but I think it's just because I'm tired, but it's very real. I kinda think there might be something to this.

[portisizzle]

It "happened" to me one time. I was way way overitred from working 36 hours straight on a boat, and when I got home I crashed. I remenber feeling like I was pulling out of my body and I "hovered". I was completely freaked out, and woke up. As I awoke, it felt as if I was being pulled into my body.

I have always thought is was a specific dream pattern, but there may be more to it. I had spoken with my father, and he had it happen to him as well. . . It was definately strange, but there is probably some explination.

You sure it wasn't the brownies???? :laugh:

[tex]

An acquaintance and I were discussing / debating the natural world verses the existence of a supernatural world. At one point in the discussion he claimed to have done it. Evidently he and his wife were really into this. He said there was no doubt about the event because his wife was able to verify what he saw while out of body. As he told it his job caused him to be away for a few days. While away he claimed to have succeeded in visiting his home via astral projection. This guy was not some out there nut job. He was a down to earth person and was very believable.

[DeanCollins]

It only happened to me once, that I'm aware of. I

was 17 living in Arlington. I was sleeping in one saturday morning and I had, what I thought was, a vivid dream about getting up, going over to my second story window, which was open, climbing out side onto the roof. I began to flap my arms and fly.

At first I was amused, and I have had many dreams about flying (before and sence), but then I saw one of my neighbors and I was scared they'd see me and how could I explain flying. So I flew up higher maybe about 50 feet in the air.

So then I decided to fly down the street a couple of blocks and when I did, I saw my best friend scott

washing his car. He had a red shirt and a jean jacket vest on, with or course blue jeans. So again I thought, if he sees me how could I explain so I flew back to the house and into my room.

And when I went inside I noticed something strange, that I saw myself laying in the bed, which was odd but then I layed back down and it was over and I woke up shortly after that.

After I woke, I remembered

what happened and quickly got dressed and went down the street to see if Scott was still washing his car, and he was waxing it, and he had the clothes I mentioned on.

A year later, I took a class in High School (Woodlawn) on the "unexplained". It was a great class and the teacher had numerous people come in to present different topics of the supernatural variety. Well one of the things we studied was

Astral Projection. That's when I made the conection about my experience.

Years later I saw a very convincing show on TV (more than 15 years ago) about a young woman who had gone blind. she lived in a East coast city like DC and had never been out of her town. Anyway she could leave her body and go anywhere. So they gave her an address of a house in LA to go to.

She goes to sleep for awhile, and wakes up. While she is describing walking thru the front door, of the house in LA, and the inside of the house, they are showing a video of the inside of the house, which she was describing perfectly. And I mean she desribed all 3 floors, all the rooms, the furniture, color of the walls. I was shocked to say the least. The owner of the home stated that she hadn't been there. It looked very legit.

I have never tried to do it, don't have any intentions to in the future, and am not reccomending it. I was just curious to see if anyone on the board had had a similar experience and a couple of you had, and that's what I

presumed. thanks to all who shared in the discussion.

[chomerics]

You sure it wasn't the brownies???? :laugh:

No, but to be honest with you, I have stopped myself feeling like that after I ate them :laugh: It's kind of like the spins, except instead of the room spinning, I am being pulled upward :laugh:

[chomerics]

It only happened to me once, that I'm aware of. I

was 17 living in Arlington. I was sleeping in one saturday morning and I had, what I thought was, a vivid dream about getting up, going over to my second story window, which was open, climbing out side onto the roof. I began to flap my arms and fly.

At first I was amused, and I have had many dreams about flying (before and sence), but then I saw one of my neighbors and I was scared they'd see me and how could I explain flying. So I flew up higher maybe about 50 feet in the air.

So then I decided to fly down the street a couple of blocks and when I did, I saw my best friend scott

washing his car. He had a red shirt and a jean jacket vest on, with or course blue jeans. So again I thought, if he sees me how could I explain so I flew back to the house and into my room.

And when I went inside I noticed something strange, that I saw myself laying in the bed, which was odd but then I layed back down and it was over and I woke up shortly after that.

After I woke, I remembered

what happened and quickly got dressed and went down the street to see if Scott was still washing his car, and he was waxing it, and he had the clothes I mentioned on.

A year later, I took a class in High School (Woodlawn) on the "unexplained". It was a great class and the teacher had numerous people come in to present different topics of the supernatural variety. Well one of the things we studied was

Astral Projection. That's when I made the conection about my experience.

Years later I saw a very convincing show on TV (more than 15 years ago) about a young woman who had gone blind. she lived in a East coast city like DC and had never been out of her town. Anyway she could leave her body and go anywhere. So they gave her an address of a house in LA to go to.

She goes to sleep for awhile, and wakes up. While she is describing walking thru the front door, of the house in LA, and the inside of the house, they are showing a video of the inside of the house, which she was describing perfectly. And I mean she desribed all 3 floors, all the rooms, the furniture, color of the walls. I was shocked to say the least. The owner of the home stated that she hadn't been there. It looked very legit.

I have never tried to do it, don't have any intentions to in the future, and am not reccomending it. I was just curious to see if anyone on the board had had a similar experience and a couple of you had, and that's what I

presumed. thanks to all who shared in the discussion.

Same to you. I have mentioned before that I personally think the brain is capable of sooooo much more then we realize, and we are only just beginning to understand how to use it. Experiences like yours are what I am talking about. I have spoken with a few people who have similar stories as I have, and some have talked about what you do. Who knows though, maybe some way we are subconciously picking up signals from the environment which we can't perceive yet. Strange stuff indeed.