1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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MONROE TECHNIQUES FOR ASTRAL PROJECTION
Note: After having studied many methods of Astral
Projection, I have found that this is the easies to do.
Monroe teaches these techniques in a week, but they can be
easily done in a day, with proper devotion. I feel that this
technique is superior to others because it doe not require
intense visualization, which many people cannot do.
enjoy!
(Taken from Leaving The Body: A Complete Guide to Astral
Projection, D. Scott Rogo, prentice Hall Press)
One of the chief barriers people learning to project face is
fear. Many are afraid that they may die, or be harmed in some
way as a result of their projection. Nothing could be farther
from the truth. The Cantebury Institute, reknowned for its
occult studies, executed an experiment in projection involving
over 2,000 people. None of them were hurt in any way by this,
and now, three years later, none have complained of any newly
arising problems.
Once you are aware that you cannot be harmed by projecting,
you should begin monroe's techniques, step by step.
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 bothe
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 50 or 100) are known
to work well.
Step two:
Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the
hypnagogic 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 Hypnagogic
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 Hypnagogic 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 eyes. Do nothing more
for a while. Simply look through your closed eyelids at the
blackness in front of you. After a while, you may 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 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 is electricity is being shot through the body. /their
cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying
to leave the physical one.
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 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 weel-being. Repeat this five times.
8. Proceed to breath through your helf-open mouth.
9. As you breath, concentrate on the void in front of you.
10. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change
your point of mental reference to six feet.
11. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary
line parallel to your body axis up and above your 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
controling 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 of 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 seperation. The key here is thought
control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving
the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thought 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 into 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 seperation.
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 this 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.
Monroe suggets you begin with the lift-out method, but
argues that both are equally efficacious.
If, after all this, you still can't project, I recommend
purchasing Leaving The Body, by R. Scott Rogo. It only costs
$7.95 and contains another eight or so techniques. Not all
techniques work for everyone, but chances are you'll find one
that works for you in this book.
Good luck!
Thich Van.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
Astral Projection or more simply, seperating your Spirit and
letting it travel without your body is one of the most entertain-
ing OcculT skills you can learn.
Yes, your spirit can be sent forth, out of the body, with full
awareness and return with full memory. You can travel thru time
and space, converse with other non physical entities( spirits,
ghosts, shades), obtain knowledge by non-material means, and
experience higher dimensions. Adventuring into the realms of the
proven real Astral Plane as well as our own Earth Plane.
These text files will explain 2 ways to seperate the Spirit
from the body and enter the Astral Realm. Many people have had
these so-called out of body experiences, contained within this
text is ways to control it and benefit from it.
The first way that will be discussed in the text "ASTRAL
PROJECTION: THE WICCAN WAY", is the way the majority of the
Witches Astral Project (the word WICCAN meaning:of WitchCrafT).
This is probably the best if already a Witch but can be used
quite effectively by all. This method is by far one of the best.
The second method of training the spririt to seperate from the
body involves using a body of light, that is the charging of the
chankras or power centers of the body.....the easiest to develop.
This way is recommended to beginners and novices of the ArT.
BE SURE TO READ **ALL** TEXT ON ASTRAL TRAVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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Astral Travel : The Wiccan MethoD
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Desribed here is how to seperate the Spirit from the body the
Wiccan way (i.e. the way of the WitcheS).
Find a quiet area where you will be free from ANY interruptions.
(This is very important). Lie down on a bed, couch, or whatever is
comfortable. (The light level should be fairly low, almost dark).
Place your arms at your sides, palms upwards (NEVER cross the legs,
always keep them straight). Now make a mental picture of where you
would like to project (note this must be a REAL place!). Make this
mental picture as vivid as possible, think as hard as possible about
this place. Do this for about 1 minute, then concentrate on the center
of your forehead, imagine it buzzing, do this for 1 minute then go
back to concentrating on the place you want to visit. Switch between
Concentrating on the Destination and the Forehead Center each for
1 minute about 5 times.
Now relax, let everything slow down. Start with the feet and feel
them realx so all the tension flows out. Once they have been relaxed
move up to the legs, and so on all the way up the body relaxing
all parts. When you have relaxed every part of your body think about
your breathing. SLOW it down, slower and slower. When you have got it
as slow and deep as you can comfortably manage return to concentrate
on the center of your forehead buzzing.
Your experience from here will take one of two paths:
Path 1: The lift out phenomenon. If your type of Astral Travel is
like that of most people, as you are lying on the bed you will
gradually begin to lift out of your body. Just like a mist
rising from a swimming pool. The spirit will rise up from the
body. In this case the spirit should gently move away from the
body and drift up into the corner of the room. With this sep-
eration begin again to think of your Destination. You spirit
should immidiatley take off. If this does not happen move the
spirit further away from the body (thru the wall, outside the
house), then try again. This requirment for physical seperation
is well known. It seems as though the aka thread which connects
the spirit and the body has elastic-like properties. When it is
short it is very strong, but as you stretch it, it becomes
weaker. Once you have put in about 30 feet of seperation it
seems you can go anywhere.
Path 2: The instant-transition phenomenon. One moment you are lying
comfortably, and the next instant you are somewhere else. To
many people this instant transition is so startling that it
jolts them back into their body.
Rejoining the Spirit and the Body:
Eventually, no matter how much fun your having, you must return. DO NOT
attempt to think yourself back into your body, instead, come to the
door of the room, approach the body slowly, and drift gently back into
it. When you get close to the body you will suddenly snap back in.
Take a few moments to take some deep breaths and to relax...........
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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Astral Projection using the Body of Light
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Preperation for this technique requires only that you find a quiet
place to lie down where your body will not be disturbed. Lie comfort-
ably on your back with your eyes closed and begin to conciously to
direct your breathing process. Use the lower back muscles for deep
diaphragmatic breathing as slowly as you find comfortable. Now send
forth to a convenient distance above you a jet of silver grey mist.
It should form at a distance into a small cloud, and you should define
it until it takes on your own size and general shape. You should
fashion it in the same posture as yourself but facing you.(That is,
it will be floating in the air above you in a horizontal position, look
ing down at you).
Keep clearly in visualization this projection figure and its connect-
ing cord. Then make a single CLEAR resolution(mentally, not aloud) to
transfer yourself to that astral vehicle. Directly you have made this
resolution, imagine yourself, concentrated as it were in your single
point of conciousness, gliding swiftly upwards toward the figure and
entering it at a the point corresponding to your own Centre of Concious-
ness.
Now make a deliberate effort to "turn around" in the figure, so as
to see from its viewpoint(See the room from somewhere near the ceiling-
and see your physical body lying below). Now you can Project to any
sight you wish.
To return to the body presents no difficulty. Your Astral Presence
should lie about 8 feet directly above your physical body, then you
should sink slowly back into your physical body.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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IMPORTANT notes on Astral Travel
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Heaven 'N' Hell or Nexroth
will NOT be responsible for what may happen as you Astrally
project...this is the chance you take, however there is practically
nothing to worry about if the guidelines are followed.
-- When the Spirit seperates from the body you will look down and
actually see your body lying there as if you had died (this may
cause you to snap back into the body...after a few times you will
learn to deal with this and it will diminish).
-- On the Astral you will see the Spirits of Dead People (Discarnate
Spirits), other Astral Travellers (Incarnate Spirits, which means
they have a body to return to), Entities, Shades, Strange Creatures,
(Some tend to be very frightening to the Appearance).
-- NOTHING can hurt you on the Astral ( this means you can do anything
you like....you can actually pass thru objects. A car can pass thru
you and it will harm nothing).
-- The ONLY thing you can actually feel physical contact with is another
Spirit.
-- On the Astral colors and sounds are very VIVID
-- All dreams you may have when you are flying are actually Astral
Projections and you can control them.
-- a thread called an AKA THREAD connects the spirit and the body.
(If this thread should ever become disconnected it means that you
have passed on). When you first seperate the spirit from the body
you will actually see this small white-like thread connecting the
two beings).
-- As you progress in Astral Projection you can actually visit what
are called the Spiritual Realms (this is why the reading of the
suggested books is highly recommended).
-- On the Astral you are able to enter another persons sleeping body
and possess them.
-- Care should be taken that another Spirit does not try to possess you
while you are projecting ( VERY VERY IMPORTANT ). See the file:
PROTECTION CIRCLE OF ASTRAL TRAVEL.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
Conatined within these readings on Astral Travel are the basics
required to develop being able to seperate the spirit from the
body and travel into the Astral Plane of existence! However, to
truly get an learn an understanding of ALL aspects of the Astral
world you are advised to read and learn from these books, which are
ALL available from the Tyrad Catalog (no I'm not pushing Tyrad..
and if you can find them elsewhere, so mote it be!).
*'Astral Travel',Your Guide to the secrets of Out-of-body-Experiences
Author(s): Gavin and Yvonne Frost
*'The Llewellyn Practical Guide to Astral Projection'
Author(s): Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
*'Your Psychic Powers and how to develop them'
Author(s): Hereward Carrington
*'The Miracle of Universal Psychic Power'
Author(s): Al G. Manning
*'The Handbook of Astral Projection'
Author(s): R. Greene
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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Protection Circle for Astral Projections
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It is best to choose ONE area for all your OcculT experiments with
Astral Projection. Find a quiet area, one where you can lay down and
one that is free from alot of electrical disturbances ( that is, make
sure you are not surrounded by alot of electrical wires and appliances
which may distort projection).
When you have found this area, lay down and begin drawing a circle
of white light with the tip of your finger mentally in the space of
about 6 feet around your chosen projection area. At the four Cardinal
Points it is necessary to make a cross or crucifix of white light.
Start at the north by making a cross of white light and then say to
yourself ,"Michael"..pronounced : Mick-aye-ell, then proceed drawing
the circle until you hit the east point to draw the cross then say
to yourself "Gabriel"..pronounced: Gahb-ree-ell, proceed drawing the
white light until the southern point is reached where you will draw
the cross and say "Raphael"..pronounced: Raf-eye-ell, proceed with the
line of light until the westen point is met, draw the cross and say
"Emmanuel", then proceed in closing the circle. When this is done,
visually see the white circle of light with the 4 Cardinal Crosses
glowing with a bright white light above you. Then say to yourself:
"Protect me".
This experiment has only to be done once, but may be used at any time
to assure protection. This protection circle retains the Physic powers
that you build while projecting and thus retains them, making it easier
to project on each succession.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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C A B A L A
This ia a simple discourse on some of the major facets of the Cabala.
It is also spelled as Kabbalah and Qabalah.
O R I G I N S
Kabbalah: From the Hebrew word QBL meaning 'an oral tradition', the
esoteric and mystical division of Judaism. The Kabbalah presents a
symbolic explanation of the origin of the universe, the relationship
of human beings to the Godhead, and an emanationist approach to
creation whereby the Infinite Light (AIN SOPH AUR) manifests
through different SEPHIROTH on the TREE OF LIFE. Although the central
book of the Kabbalah, the ZOHAR, was not written down until around
1280 -- probably by MOSES de LEON -- the Kabbalah has spiritual links
with GNOSTICISM and other early mystical cosmologies.
In the Kabbalah, all manifestations are said to have their origin
in the AIN SOPH AUR and the successive emanations of the Godhead reveal
aspects of his divine nature. The system is thus monotheistic in
essence, but allows for the tenfold structure of the sephiroth
upon the tree of life. The emanations as they proceed down from the
Godhead to the manifested world, are:
KETHER (The Crown);CHOKMAH(Wisdom); BINAH(Understanding);CHESED(Mercy)
GEBURAH(Power);TIPHARETH(Beauty & Harmony);NETZACH(Victory);
HOD(Splendor);YESOD(Foundation);MALKUTH(The Kingdom)
Occultists in the HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN use the Kabbalistic
Tree of Life as a matrix or Grid for comparing the Archetypal images of
different mythologies that could be adapted to Ceremonial Magic.
For example, the merciful father (Chesed) has parallels in other
pantheons, namely ODIN (Scandinavia); ZEUS(Greece);JUPITER(Rome);
and RA(Egypt). This system of comparison became known as
MYTHOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCES. It has become common in the occult
tradition to link the ten sephiroth of the Tree of Life with the
22 cards of the MAJOR ARCANA of the TAROT.
D E F I N I T I O N S
QBL: Hebrew word meaning 'from mouth to ear', thereby signifying a
secret oral tradition. It is the meaning of Kabbalah.
Ain Soph Aur: Hebrew expression meaning 'the limitless light'.
Sephiroth: The ten speres or emanations on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life,
a symbol which depicts the divine energy of creation
proceeding like a lighting flash through ten different stages,
culminating in physical manifestation. The sephiroth represent
levels of spiritual reality both in the cosmos and in people
because the Tree, metaphorically, is the 'Body of God', and
people are created in his image. The Tree is sometimes shown
superimposed on the body of ADAM KADMON --the archetypal man.
Tree of Life:The Tree consists of Ten spheres, or sephiroth, through
which according to mystical tradition--the creation of the
world came about. The sephiroth are aligned in three
columns headed by the SUPERNALS (KETHER, CHOKMAH, BINAH)
and together symbolize the process by which the infinite
light (Ain Soph Aur) becomes manifest in the universe.
Beneath the Supernals are the 'Seven days of Creation':
CHESED,GEBURAH,TIPHARETH,NETZACH,HOD,YESOD,MALKUTH.
Taken as a whole, the tree of life is also a symbol of the
archetypal man -- ADAM KADMON, and the sephiroth have a
role resembling that of the CHAKRAS in YOGA. The mystical
path of self knowledge entails the rediscovery of all the
levels of ones being, ranging from Malkuth (physical reality)
to the infinite source. With this in mind, the medieval
Kabbalists divided the Tree of Life into three sections of the
soul: NEPHESCH (the animal soul) corresponding to the
sephiroth YESOD: RUACH (the middle soul), corresponding to the
sephiroth from HOD to CHESED: and NESCHAMAH ( the spiritual
soul) corresponding to the Supernals --especially BINAH.
Practitioners of WESTERN MAGIC, who use the Tree of Life
as a glyph for the unconscious mind, sometimes distinguish
the MAGICAL PATH (which embraces all ten sephiroth) from
the MYSTICAL PATH of the MIDDLE PILLAR, which is an ascent
from MALKUTH through YESOD and TIPHARETH to KETHER on the
central pillar of the Tree.
Zohar: 'The Book of Splendor'--the principal book of the Kabbalah. It is
thought to have been written by Moses de Leon and was first
circulated around 1280-1290, in Guadalajara. It included
commentaries on the TORAH.
Gnosticism: Gnosis is a Greek term for 'knowledge'. The term applies to
(Gnosis) certain religous sects that emerged during the early formative
years of early Christianity, and which belived in
'Hidden Spiritual Knowledge'. The main factor that
differentiated them from Chritianity was their emphasis on
knowledge rather than faith.
The Christian churche fathers considered the Gnostics
Heretical, or Heretics.
Kether:The first Emanation on the Tree of Life. Occultists indentify
Kether as the state of consciousness where creaton merges with
the veils of nonexistance. Kether lies on the MIDDLE PILLAR and
trancends the duality of CHOKMAH (male) and BINAH (female), which
lie immediately below on the Tree. It is therefore symbolized
in mystical tradition by the heavenly ANDROGYNE (male and female
united in one), and represents a state of mystical Transcendence
and union with the Supreme. It is compared to SATORI and NIRVANA.
Chokmah:The second emanation on the Tree of Life, following Kether.
Occultists identify Chokmah with the Great Father, the giver of
the seminal spark of life which is potent only until it enters
the womb of the Great Mother, Binah. From the union of the
Great Father and Great Mother come forth all the images of
creation. Chokmah is associated with such deities as KRONOS,
SATURN, THOTH, ATUM-RA,and PTAH, in other pantheons.
Binah: The third emanation on the Tree of Life. Occultists identify
Binah with the Great Mother in all her forms. She is the womb
of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms
that manifest in the universe as archetypes. She is also the
Supreme female principal in the process of Creation and, via
the process mythological correspondences, is associated with
such deities as The VIRGIN MARY, RHEA, ISIS, and DEMETER.
Chesed: The fourth emanation on the Tree of Life. Occultists
identify Chesed as the ruler (but not Creator) of the manifested
universe; and he is characterised as stable, wise, and
merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, GEBURAH.
Chesed is asscociated with Gods ZEUS (Greek), and JUPITER(Roman).
Geburah:The fifth emanation on the Tree of Life. Geburah is often
associated with MARS, the Roman God of War, and represents
severity and Justice. The destructive forces of the sphere of
Geburah are intended to have a purging, cleansing effect on the
universe. Geburah represents the Creator God, who applies
discipline and presicion in governing the cosmos and removes
unwanted or unnecessary elements after their usefullness has
passed. Geburah is reflected in THE CHARIOTEER in the TAROT.
Tiphareth:The sixth emanation on the Tree of Life.It is the sphere of
beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy(Chesed) and Judgement
(Geburah), higher on the Tree. Occultists identify Tiphareth
as the sphere of spiritual REBIRTH, and ascribe to it the
Solar Deities such as RA,APOLLO, and MITHRA as well as OSIRIS
and JESUS CHRIST. The TAROT card TEMPERANCE identifies the
direct mystical ascent to Tipareth from Malkuth(the physical).
Netzach:The seventh emanation on the Tree of Life. Netzach is regarded as
the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and the emotions -- a very
clear contrast to the sphere of HOD, which represents intellect
and rational thought. Netzach is the sphere of Love, and spiritual
passion and is therefore associated with such deities as
APHRODITE, VENUS, HATHOR, and others that personify these qualities.
Hod:The eighth emanation on the Tree of Life. Hod is associated with the
planet Mercury and represents intellect and rational thought. It also
represents the structuring and measuring capacities of the mind as
opposed to the emotion and intuitional aspects of Netzach. Hod has
no exact parallel in the TAROT, but is closely linked to the card
JUDGEMENT, ascribed to the path between Hod and Malkuth.
Yesod:The ninth emanation on the Tree of Life. Yesod is associated with
the Moon and the element Water. Regarded as a Female sphere, it is
the seat of sexual instinct and corresponds to the Genitals Chakra
on the archetypal man, ADAM KADMON. On the Tree of Life Yesod has
the function of channelling the energies of the higher down to the
earth below(Malkuth). Occultists associate Yesod with the
ASTRAL PLANE, because if the sephiroth above Malkuth are regarded
as a map of the unconscious psyche, Yesod is the most accesible
area of the mind. Because Yesod is the sphere of Fertility and
Lunar imagery, it is identified with Witchcraft and Goddess Worship.
It also the so called 'animal soul' know by kabbalists as
Nephesch.
Malkuth:The tenth emanation of the Tree of Life. Malkuth is associated
with the Goddesses of the Earth especially PERSEPHONE(Greece),
PROSERPINA(Rome), and GEB(Egypt). Malkuth is the domain of the
manifested universe, the immediate enviroment, the plane of
physical reality. As a consequence, all 'inner journeys of
consciousness' begin symbolically in Malkuth; it is particularly
appropriate, for example, that the myth of the rape of PERSEPHONE
confirms her both as queen of the UNDERWORLD and as a Lunar
Goddess. From an occult point of view, the Underworld equates
with the Lower unconscious mind, and the Moon, represented by the
sphere of Yesod, is the first Sephirah reached on the inner
mystic journey up the Tree of Life. Malkuth is closely linked
with the TAROT card THE WORLD.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
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Most people don't realize they've been dreaming until after they've awakened and
the dream has come to an end. Some people, however, are conscious that they're
dreaming. These people -- called LUCID dreamers --
can literally direct the
content of a dream, scientists have discovered, deciding perhaps to talk physics
with Einstein, woo and marry a movie star, or assume the powers of Superman.
For those who have acquired the knack of lucidity, the benefits can be enormous:
Lucid dreaming gives one the chance to experience unique and compelling
adventures rarely surpassed elsewhere in life. These experiences can enhance
self-confidence and promote personal growth and self-
development. By facing
fears and learning to make the best of the worst situation imaginable, lucid
dreamers can overcome nightmares. Because recent scientific studies have
demonstrated a strong connection between dreams and the biological functioning
of the body, lucid dreams might facilitate physical as well as mental health.
And finally, because lucid dreaming allows us to tap the power of the
unconscious, it may also be useful for creative problem solving.
After nearly a decade of piloting these daring nocturnal flights, 2
psychologists --
Stephen LaBerge of Stanford University and author of LUCID
DREAMING [Ballantine], and Jayne Gackenbach of the University of Northern Iowa
--
have begun to develop a series of techniques aimed at helping ordinary
dreamers "turn" lucid and lucid dreamers gain greater control over the woolly
behemoth of night. These special techniques, still under development, have
never before been presented in a public forum. To direct your own nightly
dream-
time show, please attempt exercises one, two, three and four as outlined
below. LaBerge and Gackenback suggest that you do the tasks as often as
possible over a 2-
week period. Some people may succeed in having a lucid dream
the first night they use the techniques; others, the researchers note, may need
to practice for several weeks before getting results.
EXERCISE ONE
A number of techniques facilitate lucid dreaming. One of the simplest is asking
yourself many times during the day whether you are dreaming. Each time you ask
the question, you should look for evidence proving you are not dreaming. The
most reliable test: Read something, look away for a moment, and then read it
again. If it reads the same way twice, it is unlikely that you are dreaming.
After you have proved to yourself that you are not presently dreaming, visualize
yourself doing whatever it is you'd like. Also, tell yourself that you want to
recognize a nighttime dream the next time it occurs. The mechanism at work here
is simple; it's much the same as picking up milk at the grocery store after
reminding yourself to do so an hour before.
At night people usually realize they are dreaming when they experience unusual
or bizarre occurrences. For instance, if you find yourself flying without
visible means of support, you should realize that this happens only in dreams
and that you must therefore be dreaming. If you awaken from a dream in the
middle of the night, it is very helpful to return to the dream immediately, in
your imagination. Now envision yourself recognizing the dream as such. Tell
yourself, "The next time I am dreaming, I want to remember to recognize that I
am dreaming." If your intention is strong and clear enough, you may find
yourself in a lucid dream when you return to sleep.
EXERCISE TWO: DREAM FLYING
Many lucid dreamers report dreams in which they fly unaided, much like Superman.
Some lucid dreamers say that flying is a thrilling means of travel; others,
that it has helped them rev
endless fall. Flying is so important because it's a form of dream
control that's fairly easy to master. It gives the dreamer an exhilarating
sense of freedom. And it's a basic means of travel in the dream world. During
the 2-
week period of your experiment, try to focus on dream flight. If you're
falling, turn that fall into flight: Remember, there's no gravity in dreams.
And if you're simply going from here to there, do it with flight. This simple
activity will cue you in to the fact that you are, after all, in a dream.
How do you make dream flight happen at all? We suggest that before you retire
for bed, you simply repeat these words: "Tonight I fly!" Then, while still
awake, imagine that journey. If you find yourself flying, it will be a clear
sign that you are in a dream. In any case, when you realize you're dreaming,
remember that you want to fly. When you actually feel yourself flying, say,
"This is a dream." Make sure you start modestly, by simply floating above the
surface of your dream ground. As you gain confidence both in the notion that
you are dreaming and in your ability to control that experience, you might
experiment with flying a bit more. Run, taking big leaps, and then stay aloft
for a few seconds, so that you resemble an astronaut walking on the moon. Try
sustained floating and then flying at low altitudes.
As your confidence increases, so will your flying skills. While asleep, work on
increasing your altitude, maneuverability, and speed. As with speed sports, you
should perfect height and maneuverability before speed. Of course, you couldn't
really hurt yourself --
it's only a dream. But you COULD get scared. After you
have become proficient in dream flying, remember to ask yourself these
questions: "How high can I fly? Can I view the earth from outer space? Can I
travel so fast that I lose awareness of my surroundings and experience the
sensation of pure speed?" Throughout your efforts in dream flight, remember
that you're in a dream. With this in mind, your fear will be held at bay, and
your control over the dream will be greatly enhanced.
EXERCISE THREE: DREAM SPINNING
Even if you're a frequent lucid dreamer, you may not be able to stop yourself
from waking up in mid-
dream. And even if your dreams do reach a satisfying end,
you may not be able to focus them exactly as you please. During our years of
research, however, we have found that spinning your dream body can sustain the
period of sleep and give you greater dream control. In fact, many subjects at
Stanford University have used the spinning technique as an effective means of
staying in a lucid dream. The task outlined below will help you use spinning as
a means of staying asleep, and, more exciting, as a means of traveling to
whatever dream world you desire.
As with dream flying, the dream spinning task starts before you go to bed.
Before retiring, decide on a person, time, and place you would like to visit in
your lucid dream. The target person and place can be either real or imaginary,
past, present or future. Write down and memorize your target person and place,
then visualize yourself visiting your target and firmly resolve to do so in a
dream that night. When following this procedure, it's possible that you might
find yourself visiting your target in a non-lucid dream; you will be aware that
this has happened, of course, only after you awaken. Nevertheless, you should
strive for lucidity by following the techniques outlined in exercise one. Then
proceed to your goal.
To do so, repeat the phrase describing your target in your dream, and spin your
whole dream body in a standing position with your arms outstretched. You can
pirouette or spin like a top, as long as you vividly feel your body in motion.
The same spinning technique will help when, in the middle of a lucid dream, you
feel the dream imagery beginning to fade. To avoid waking up, spin as you
repeat your target phrase again and again. With practice, you'll return to your
target person, time and place. When spinning, try to notice whether you are
moving in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.
EXERCISE FOUR: CREATIVE DREAMING
Up until now we have had little control over the occurrence of creative dreams.
But with lucid dreaming it may be possible to intentionally access the
creativity of the dream state. You can help determine the feasibility of this
idea by attempting to solve a problem in a lucid dream. Before bed, decide on a
problem you would like to solve. Frame your problem in the form of a question.
For example, "What is the topic of my next book?" "How can I become less shy?"
If you have an illness, you might consider the problem, "How can I regain my
health?"
Once you have selected a problem question, write it down and memorize it. When
doing the lucid-
dreaming introduction exercises, remember your question and see
yourself looking for the answer in your next lucid dream. Then, when in a lucid
dream, ask the question and seek the solution. You might be most successful at
problem solving if you try a direct approach. For instance, if your problem is
health, try to heal yourself in your dream. Then reflect on how your dream
solution relates to the waking problem. It may help to question other dream
characters, especially if they represent people who you think might know the
answer. You can even combine this task with the dream spinning and flying
tasks, visiting an expert on your problem. You can also just explore your dream
world with your question in mind, looking for any clues that might suggest an
answer.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
Astral projection (OOBE, out of the body experience)
is a popular area of occult literature; for traveling to see
other worlds and places while the physical body sleeps or is
entranced is an exciting notion. Astral projection is not
dangerous. It is as safe as sleeping. Most dreams are probably
unconscious astral projections, anyway. Although there has
been quite a bit written on the subject, astral projection
is difficult for many people. The main difficulty is the
tendency to forget dream consciousness upon awakening.
Accordingly, the successful practice of astral projection
requires work.
Modern psychology discounts the idea of actual OOBE
(that the spirit temporarily vacates the physical body).
However, the idea is very ancient. The Tibetans have an
entire system of yoga (dream yoga) based upon astral
projection. And here we have an important assumption: you are
involved in an OOBE (at least to a degree) whenever you
dream. What sets it apart from a full OOBE is your hazy
consciousness during the experience and poor recall
afterwards. Many people forget most of their dreams
completely. Learning astral projection requires a kind of
inner mental clarity and alertness.
Dreams are a door to the subconscious which can be
used for psychological and spiritual insight, and sometimes
for precognition. Dream content is influenced by external
sounds and sensations. For example, a loud external noise
(such as a train) will likely appear in your dream (if it
doesn't wake you up!). Dreams are also influenced by events
of the previous day, by your moods, and by suggestion.
Everyone normally dreams 4 or 5 times a night (about every 2
hours). The longest dreams occur in the morning. Everyone
dreams. You are more likely to remember the details of your
dream when you first wake up. By keeping a dream diary you
will improve dream recall. Have writing equipment or a tape
recorder at your bedside for this purpose; also a light
which isn't too bright. Suggest to yourself several times
before you go to sleep, "I will awaken with the knowledge of
a dream." Then when you do awaken, move quietly (sometimes
just turning over drives the idea away). Remember first,
then write the dream down, and then add as many details as
possible. The next day check for objective facts and expand
if you can (by remembering 'what happened before that'). Once
you start remembering your dreams in this way, it will
become easier to do so. (If you are unsuccessful at this,
and *really* want to remember your dreams, you could
arrange for someone to sit by your bedside all night long
with a dim light on. Then when he sees your eyes moving back
and forth -- rapid eye movements, a sign you are dreaming --
he can wake you and ask for a dream report.)
FORMS OF ASTRAL PROJECTION
Astral projection may be subdivided into three basic
types: mental projection, astral projection (proper) and
etheric projection. And your OOBE may shift between them.
Mental projection is really simple clairvoyance ('remote
viewing'), and 'traveling in your mind'. Imagination plays
a key role. The experience of mental projection is not
particularly vivid, and you will more likely be an observer
than a participant. Nevertheless, mental projection is an
important 'way in' to astral projection proper.
During mental projection and astral projection you
are able to travel through solid objects, but are not able
to act directly upon them or to move them (if they are in
the physical world). This is not true during etheric
projection. Whether it is simply subconscious expectation,
or whether it is a true etheric projection which in theory
means that part of your physical body has been relocated
with your projection (the etheric or vital part) may be
difficult to determine. Etheric projections generally travel
at or very near the physical world. There are even cases
reported (very, very rare ones) in which the entire physical
body is transferred to another location (teleportation), or
cases in which the physical body exists and acts in two
separate places at once (bilocation)!
But our primary interest is astral projection
proper, and mental projection to a lesser extent. Astral and
mental projection are not confined to the physical world.
Travel in the mental and astral realms is feasible, and
often preferred. Nor are astral and mental projection
restricted to the realm of the earth (you could even go to
the moon and planets).
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The electrical activity of the brain has been
observed and classified with EEG (electroencephalograph)
equipment; signals picked up from the scalp by electrodes,
then filtered and amplified, drive a graph recorder. Brain
activity has been found to produce specific ranges for
certain basic states of consciousness, as indicated in 'hz'
(hertz, or cycles/vibrations per second):
delta -- 0.2 to 3.5 hz (deep sleep, trance state),
theta -- 3.5 to 7.5 hz (day dreaming, memory),
alpha -- 7.5 to 13 hz (tranquility, heightened
awareness, meditation),
beta -- 13 to 28 hz (tension, 'normal'
consciousness).
As you can see, some form of physical relaxation is implied
in the alpha, theta, and delta consciousness. These states
are in fact reached through deep breathing, hypnosis, and
other relaxation techniques. OOBE occurs during these
states, and delta is probably the most important for it.
The problem is really, as we have said, one of maintaining
mental awareness and alertness while experienceing these
altered states. Experimental subjects hooked to an EEG do
not show a discrete change from drowsy to sleep; it is very
gradual.
At the threshold between sleep and waking
consciousness is a drowsy condition known as the hypnogogic
state. OOBE seems to occur during this state, or a
variant of it. By careful control of the hypnogogic state
(not going beyond it) it is possible to enter OOBE directly.
BASIC TECHNIQUES
Most methods of astral projection are methods of
conditioning. Some form of trance or altered consciousness
is always involved. No one ever projects consciously while
fully awake (some may think that they do). Although there
are many techniques used to produce an astral projection,
they boil down to nine of them. They all sort of overlap.
1) Diet -- Certain dietary practices may aid in OOBE,
especially at first. These include fasting, vegitarianism,
and in general the eating of 'light' foods as discussed in a
a previous lesson. Carrots and raw eggs are thought to be
especially beneficial, but all nuts are to be avoided.
Over-eating should be avoided. And no food should be eaten
just before an OOBE attempt. If you intend to practice
during sleep, for example, allow 2 to 4 hours of no food or
drink (except water) before bedtime. In general, we see here
the same kind of dietary restrictions advocated for
kundalini yoga.
2) Progressive muscular relaxation -- This is one
of the basic methods used in hypnosis and self-hypnosis.
Physical relaxation can assist one in attaining the
requisite trance state. These techniques involve beginning
at the toes and tensing, then relaxing the muscles,
progressively up the entire body.
3) Yoga and breath -- Yoga, mantra, and breathing
exercises similarly aim at physical relaxation. The practice
of kundalini yoga is particularly relevant, since it is
concerned with altered consciousness. In fact the arousal
of kundalini requires a similar state of consciousness to
OOBE.
4) Visualization -- This involves a type of extended
clairvoyance or picturing of remote surroundings. If you can
experience the feeling of being there, so much the better.
Although this technique is essentially mental projection, it
is possible to deepen mental projection into astral
projection through (you guessed it!) visualization. Crowley
taught a similar technique: a) visualize a closed door on a
blank wall, b) imagine a meditation symbol on
the door, c) visualize the door opening and yourself
entering through it. And J.H. Brennan describes similar
techniques wherein the door is shaped and colored like a
tattva, or alternately, a chosen tarot card is visualized
and the student visualizes entering into it.
5) Guided imagery -- In many respects similar to
visualization. Except in this case, there is a guide (or
perhaps a voice on tape) directing you by means of
descriptions. As with visualization, mental rather than
astral projection is most likely.
6) Body of Light -- The old Golden Dawn technique.
Imagine a duplicate (mirror image) of yourself in front of
you. Then transfer your consciousness and sensation to the
duplicate ('body of light').
7) Strong willing -- Sort of like creative
visualization experienced in the present. That is you
express your strong desire to project through your willpower
while you visualize yourself doing it.
8) The Monroe techniques -- These are a series of
steps developed by Robert Monroe: a) relax the body,
b) enter the hypnogogic state, c) deepen the state,
d) develope the senstation of 'vibration', e) separate from
the body. The Monroe Institute has developed some cassete
tapes which are claimed to help in this.
9) Dream control -- This is one of the most
important techniques. It involves becoming aware that you
are dreaming. There are several ways to do this. Oliver Fox
says to look for descrepancies in the dream to realize you
are dreaming. One occult student I know of visualized a
white horse which he could ride wherever he wished to go.
After a time, when the horse appeared in his dreams it was
his cue that he was actually dreaming/projecting. Don Juan
tells Castaneda to look at his hands while he is dreaming.
And even the tarot and Cabala may also be used as dream
signals. Another method is to tell yourself each night as
you go to sleep, "I can fly"; then when you do, you will
know you are dreaming. Once you know you are dreaming you
can control your dream/OOBE and go anywhere you want.
Repetitive activities will also likely influence your
dreams. For example, if you are on an automobile trip and
spend most of the day driving, you will probably dream about
driving. You can condition yourself to be aware you are
dreaming by doing a repetitive activity many times (walking
across the room or a particular magick ritual, for
example). Then when you dream about it, you will know you
are dreaming.
Although all these techniques may appear
straightforward, they all require effort. Astral projection
is generally learned.
The astral world is the "ghostland" into which one
passes after death. It is sometimes possible to visit with
the dead, or you might be called upon to reassure and assist
those who have just passed over (died) or those who are
consciously projecting for the first time. Many spirits,
elementals and ghosts exist in the astral world. The
magician should feel comfortable there. Tibetan belief is
that through proficiency in OOBE, you no longer need
reincarnate after death. The astral world is extremely
changeable and subject to your thoughts. Your will can
control your movements in the astral world, and if you seem
to be going somewhere non-volitionally ('astral current') it
is probably your true will causing it anyway. You might also
experience heightened magical ability while in the astral realm.
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
Although there are hundreds of kinds of divination,
the principle ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the
I Ching, and direct psychic means (especially clairvoyance).
True divination is more than a mechanical system, for it
implies true psychic interpretation (receiving). Some form of
divination is often used in magick ritual to communicate with
the entity invoked.
Since divination operates through the mind, it is
affected and biased by the mind. Our attitudes and fears may
alter it. Sometimes results are very detailed, and accurate
-- but not always. Often the future is plastic and changeable
anyway, and the use of magick may alter the result. Thus
divination shows tendencies only, which may be helpful, but
must not rule us.
DEVELOPING CLAIRVOYANCE
It is possible to improve your natural ability with
clairvoyance through practice. A good start might be to look
around you, then close your eyes and try to picture your
surroundings. This is also good exercise for visualization. And
visualization is an essential talent in magick. Open your eyes
again and check your accuracy. Then close your eyes and try it
again. When you use your physical eyes, look at everything
like a child seeing it for the first time. Let the vividness
of color and form burn into you, until everything takes on a
veritable glow. Try to capture that glow when you close your
eyes now and picture your surroundings. It's just a simple
step to extend what you see with your eyes closed into what
you remember seeing in the next room, or what you *imagine*
seeing in the next building, the next city, even the other
side of the world. Don't expect perfect results, especially at
first. Just try to be even partly right. Another exercise is
to picture a clock face, and thereby tell the time
clairvoyantly.
THE AURA
Under the right conditions, it is possible to
clairvoyantly observe a colored light around other people.
This is known as the 'aura'. Sometimes the aura is seen as
multi-colored emanations around the person, built up of
various differently colored layers and zones. Although many
occult dabblers claim to be able to see the aura easily and
under many varied conditions, I seriously doubt that they do.
There are optical illusions and qualities of sight which can
sometimes trick one into thinking he sees what he does not
see. In this area, the quality of sight known as after image
is especially pertinent. Do this: stare at any solidly colored
bright object for a few moments. Very intense red, green, or
blue are especially good for this. Now look away at a white
surface and you will see a phantom image of the object in its
complementary color (a red object will show green, a blue one
orange, etc.). If the bright object is in front of a light
surface, you may observe a fringe of complementary color
around the object after a few moments. This is all very
normal, and is used by some magical groups as an aid to
visualization sometimes called 'flashing colors'. Some silly
people will stare at other people in the same way. And when
they see the after image of the person's clothing, they think
they are seeing his aura. What is more, various meanings have
been attributed to the colors of the aura. A psychic who can
see the aura is supposed to be able to determine that persons
emotional state. Thus psychic frauds can have a marvelous
time with auras. One deluded psychic taught a class I
attended in which he performed instant psychoanalysis on the
basis of the supposed aura. It was obvious that he was
actually observing after images from the students clothes!
This brings us to the chart of aura colors on the next
page. It is a general guide, based mostly on Theosophical
material. Various groups may attribute different meanings to
the colors. The colors we show on the chart are emotional in
nature; useful if you plan to create an artificial elemental
or do healing. Surrounding yourself with a particular color
will tend to produce the specific psychological effect
described in the chart. That quality of color is useful in
magick ritual.
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COLORS OF THE AURA
BLACK malice
dark gray depression
pale gray fear
BROWN materialism
muddy gray selfishness
or
dull rust
RED energy
bright red anger and force
dirty red passion and sensuality
dull red selfish love
rose unselfish love
ORANGE pride
orange cloud irritability
bright orange noble indignation
YELLOW intellect
yellow-green low intellect
earthy yellow selfish thought
lemmon high intellect
bright gold logical thinking
brt. red-yel. spiritual thought
GREEN empathy
gray-green deceit, jealously
greenish-brown jealousy
emerald green unselfish resourcefulness
foliage green sympathy & empathy
brt. apple-grn strong vitality
brt. turquoise deep sympathy & compassion
BLUE devotion (religious feeling)
gray-blue fetishism
light blue noble spiritual devotion
dark blue religious feeling
brt. lilac-blu lofty religious idealism
VIOLET spiritual psychic & spiritual
faculty
WHITE purity/protection
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THOUGHTFORMS AND SPIRITS
Whenever we concentrate our thoughts, we draw psychic
energy together. This is called a thoughtform. Usually the
energy dissipates as soon as we break the concentration, but
it is possible to purposely concentrate energy in this way,
producing very strong thoughtforms. Such thoughtforms are
vortexes or centers of psychic energy. They can exist as
entities by themselves, at least for a while. They are
basically inanimate, non-thinking forces. Talking to one is
about as logical as talking to a chair. In this way,
thoughtforms are similar to elementals, ghosts, and spirits.
All of these psychic entities consist of a psychic energy
vortex which could be described as a localized field or as a
discontinuity of the physical world.
Psychic entities respond to certain electrostatic and
magnetic fields, and to other energy vortexes. That is why
they respond to magick ritual. Someday, we may accomplish the
same thing with electronic machines. Psychic entities are
sometimes able to affect our thought processes.
Thoughtforms, elementals, and ghosts are usually not
very smart. If they display any intelligence at all, it is
limited. They are the morons of the spirit world. Their
behavior is usually automatic, repetitive, robot-like (just
like some people). We see that artificial elementals
are little more than astral robots. Spirits and deities are
more intelligent and volitional.
DIRECTED ATTENTION
Your mind follows your attention. Wherever you direct
your attention, there will your thoughts go too. By directing
attention to a specific place or purpose you *focus* mental
energy upon it.
For example: you're having lunch in a cafeteria
crowded with people. It is a large place, and everyone there
is talking at once, so that the room is a constant jumble of
noise. You happen to notice a man accross the room; he
reminds you of someone. All at once he drops his fork and you
hear it hit the table. But would you have noticed the sound
of his fork if you had not been looking? No. Only by focusing
your attention there were you able to pick out that
individual event and associated sound.
It is a dark night. You are walking and the only
light you have is from the flashlight you hold in your hand.
As you move the flashlight around, the beam of light from it
directs your attention first one way then another. Now, the
mind is something like that flashlight in the dark. And by
directed attention, you point the mind to one place or
another. As with that flashlight beam, you see where the mind
is pointed; nothing more. The rest is 'noise'. And so we
could define mental noise as anything not focused upon. In
another way, noise could be considered as negative emotions,
attitudes, and thoughts which make it more difficult to
direct the attention.
Your emotions follow your thoughts quite easily. Your
emotions are not YOU, but are rather reactions prompted by
your model and ego -- like a performance or an act, while
the real you watches. In a similar way, directing your
attention toward a specific emotion will cause you to
experience that emotion.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1) What is the aura?
2) What is a thoughtform?
3) How can you develope clairvoyance?
BOOK LIST
Annie Bessant and Charles Leadbeater, Thought Forms.
W.E. Butler, How to Develop Clairvoyance.
J.H. Brennan, Astral Doorways.
Piero Ferrucci, What We May Be.
Kilner, The Human Aura.
Swami Panchadasi, The Human Aura.
A.E. Powell, The Etheric Double.
Harold Sherman, How
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** MAGICK 4 -- ELEMENTS AND FORCES **
The Ancients divided the world into four basic
principles or *elements* -- earth, water, fire, and air.
That viewpoint has mostly changed with advances of science,
but the four elements are still accepted in magick, for they
are more closely linked with the emotions than modern
explanations of the world. Many occultists think of the magical
elements as forces, or as *qualities* of energy; especially
within the astral world. Each element has a symbol and color.
(Common symbols are -- fire: a triangle pointing up; air:
a triangle pointing up and with a horizontal line through the
middle of it; water: a triangle pointing down; earth: a
triangle pointing down and with a horizontal line through the
middle of it.) Colors of the elements are -- earth: brown and
green; water: blue; fire: red; air: yellow...The Eastern
tattvic system uses different symbols and colors. The elements
are often used in magick ritual.
Magick sees relationships between things. These
relationships are called 'correspondences'. Although magical
correspondences are not literally equal to one another, you can
think of them that way (such as gold equals sun). Tables of
these relationships, called 'Correspondence Tables', are
available (an important one is Crowley's '777'). Thus one thing
or symbol can be used to suggest another. This is important in
magick, for the magician may surround himself with as many
appropriate correspondences as he can to vividly affect the
senses; thus making his magical contact with the inner planes
more lucid.
The magical elements have correspondences with the
tarrot cards as the four suits. The four quarters (directions
of the universe as used in magick ritual) and the Archangels
also correspond with these same elements --
Element Suit Quarter Archangel
======= ==== ======= =========
earth pentacles north Uriel
water cups west Gabriel
fire wands south Michael
air swords east Raphael
ELEMENTALS
The magical elements are said to be peopled by spirits
and mythological entities called elementals or nature spirits.
These are grouped into four main categories --
Elementals are usually only visible to those with
clairvoyant sight and are more likely to be seen at night in
the mountains or country away from cities -- especially if you
are tired or sleepy. Although elementals exist naturally, it is
also possible to create one which will exist for a limited time
-- no elemental has immortality. A created elemental is called
an 'artificial elemental'.
To the Ancients, elementals were the physical
explanation of the universe. However, some contemporary
occultists see them only as symbols for forces and otherwise
not 'real' at all. Another word sometimes used for elemental is
'familiar' (usually in medieval witchcraft); the term is
ambiguous, as it might merely be an ordinary household pet such
as a dog or cat.
YIN YANG
Chinese philosophy and acupuncture talk of yin yang.
This is the idea of polarity, or opposite pairs, as shown --
YIN YANG
=== ====
water fire
contraction expansion
cold hot
feminine masculine
moon sun
negative positive
passive active
ebb flow
wane wax
The list could go on. In Chinese literature it is quite long.
Some occultists suggest everything can be similarly arranged
into related opposite pairs.
SIMPLE MAGICK
Here is a simple magical technique you may wish to
try. It is a variation of affirmation, which was discussed
in an earlier lesson...To help to you achieve your goal
(magical or otherwise), find a word or short phase which sums
up what it is that you want to accomplish. Write the word (or
phrase) down 10 times each day until you achieve success.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1) List the four elements.
2) What is an elemental?
3) What are correspondences?
BOOK LIST
William Britten, Art Magic (long out of print, but in some
libraries).
Pete Carrol, Liber Null.
Wing-Tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy.
Manly Hall, Unseen Forces.
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** MAGICK 3 -- THE FOUR WORLDS **
The ancients described man as mind, body, and soul.
Psychologists of the twentieth century added the
subconscious to that deffinition. This produces a four-fold
classification. The universe is also divided into four
corresponding parts ('worlds'), as shown below:
WORLD BODY QUALITY
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spiritual world spiritual body (soul or kia) intuition
mental world mental body (conscious mind) rational
thought
astral world astral body (subconscious) emotions
physical world physical body physical senses
The astral body (subconscious) is the intermediary
for intuition, magical and psychic phenomena, and is the
'psychic link' to the physical world. Most occult and
magical phenomena originate in the invisible, non-sensate,
non-physical realm (ie. without physical senses). Each of
the four worlds interacts with the other worlds. Psychic
energy flows from the spiritual to mental to astral to
physical. The physical world is a projection (manifestation,
reflection, or shadow) of the higher worlds. Our center of
consciousness is generally within these higher worlds.
"We are", to quote the rock music group the Police, "spirits
in the material world".
There are many similar terms used by other occult
groups. For example, 'astral light' is another name for
astral world, although it may sometimes also refer to the
entire non-physical realm, as may 'inner planes' or 'the
invisible world'. Planes are essentially the same as worlds.
Vehicles or sheaths are the same as bodies. Some groups
include an etheric or vital body between physical and
astral: it is mostly 'physical' with a little of the
lower 'astral' besides. And sometimes astral and mental
are each divided into two parts (upper and lower). The
'causal body' is the upper 'mental'.
MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM
We have been describing 'traditonal' occult
philosophy here, and certainly an important part of the
tradition is the idea (and terms) microcosm and macrocosm.
The greater universe, known as the *macrocosm*, includes
everything that exists. It corresponds with the *microcosm*,
or tiny universe, ie. man -- who is thought of as a
miniature replica of the macrocosm (whole universe).
This basic magical relationship is demonstrated in the
Bible (Genesis 1.27), where God is the macrocosm; and in
the writing of Trismegistus ("As above so below"). Since
man is in the image of God (universe) it follows that God
is in the image of man (in other words, man and the
God/universe match each other). The magician, as a microcosm
is thus connected with the macrocosm. There is an intimate
relationship of energies between you and everything else.
The universe is reflected within us and we are projected
into the universe. This is an important theory behind magick
and astrology.
MAGICK WHITE AND BLACK
'Personal magick' is that magick used to affect the
self; often involving affirmation, self-suggestion, and
self-hypnosis. 'Active magick' is outer directed magick (as
in PK) used to affect someone or thing, or to bring about
an event. 'Passive magick' is to be affected (as in ESP)
by an outside non-physical cause. Everyone possesses some
magical (and psychic) potential. Some are especially
gifted. Usually people are better at one kind of magick
(ie. active or passive) than they are at the other kind;
only rarely does an individual excell at both. Traning
and practice will, of course, improve ability somewhat.
Although the forces of magick are neutral, various
systems may take on the qualities of good and evil. There
is so-called white magick or good magick, black magick or
evil magick, and gray magick between them. When many people
refer to white magick they mean magick for unselfish
purposes, also healing and mental influence with specific
permission. By black magick they refer to magick for
self-interest and healing *without* specific permission.
Using magick to forcefully control another's will is, in a
sense, black magick too. There are also some people on the
occult fringe who claim to be, possibly even think they are,
'Satanists', devil worshipers, or black magicians. These
people are most likely charlatans, hoaxters, dablers, or
merely misinformed. They may be attracted by the 'art' of
black magick, or even by the 'glamor' of doing something
against the 'rules'. But a real black magician is very
dangerous. Because he has dedicated his life to evil. We
usually think of 'white magick' as having *unselfish
intent*, and (in the extreme case) of 'black magick' as
being actual Satan worship, human or animal sacrifice,
dangerous unconventional magical practices, and other
bizarre stuff as makes a nightmare. It is all a matter of
degree. Most mild self-interest magick (one of the most
common kinds) would be called 'gray'. Better terms may be
*constructive magick* as being beneficial; and *aversive
magick* as magick intended to work against the natural
order, and to tear down. There is also the *high magick* of
spiritual alchemy (ie. spiritual growth), also known as 'the
Great Work'; and conversely there is 'low magick' which is
concerned with materiality.
Any magick act is likely to produce side effects
regardless of whether or not the desired result is achieved.
Such side effects are no problem for constructive magick,
since they are benificial as well. However, aversive magick
can produce aversive side effects which may even harm the
magician -- aversive magick is dangerous!
MAGICK IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS
What we have been calling 'magick' is actually a
continuous process. Since your subconscious never rests,
your environment is continually being shifted into line with
your model. This is true whether you study magick or not.
For most people, these effects are usually very subtle, and
they are probably not aware of them. However, as you work
with the occult, the flow of psychic energy and your
awareness of it increases. Your true will is more likely
to be strongly expressed. Your luck may be affected (either
in a positive or a negative way). Remember, our lives tend
to follow what we want down deep. That is why a positive
outlook is so very beneficial to us.
THE MAGICAL DIARY
Sometimes it is helpful to keep a diary of your
magical experiments and research. Such a diary should include
the date, perhaps even some astrological data (or anything
else you think may have a relationship to what you are doing).
This is also a good time to begin recording your dreams --
at least the important ones -- in a dream diary. Your dreams
can tell you a great deal about yourself, and may sometimes
reveal premonitions. Dreams are personal. Don't fall for the
commercial 'dream book' gimmick.
AFFIRMATIONS
The mind is always open to suggestion -- especially the
subconscious. Most of the time we censor any suggestions
according to the model; but one way to break through the censor
is with repetition. An affirmation does this exactly. By
suggestion, we mean any statement which is capable of affecting
your model. Usually suggestion is in the form of a positive
statement (such as the hypnotist's patter -- " You are
becomming sleepy"). An affirmation is the same kind of thing --
a positive suggestion, which you repeat (affirm) to yourself
aloud or silently (for example, "I remember my dreams"). If
there is some quality you wish to change or develope within
yourself, an affirmation is ideal. Repeat it several times
every day at several different times throughout the day,
expecially when you go to bed. Affirmations are subtle and may
require a few months to work. Use them for changes, not
miracles.
SIMPLE BANISHING TECHNIQUE
Visualization is another important method we use to
influence the subconscious. A good example of this is the
simple banishing technique which follows. Banishing is used in
magick to 'clear the air' of negative 'vibes' and
interference...
Visualize a strong white light flowing out the top of
your head, flowing down around you and covering you. At the
same time imagine you are throwing away any 'problem' vibes.
Maintain the visualization for a half a minute or longer.
Good way to help you handle your emotions, and to control
worry or anger.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1) What is a microcosm?
2) List the four worlds. Explain.
3) What is an affirmation? Give an example.
BOOK LIST
Geoffry Hodson, Theosophy Answers Some Problems of Life.
Marc Edmund Jones, Key Truths of Occult Philosophy.
Marion Weinstein, Positive Magic.
Nelson & Ann White, The Wizard's Apprentice.
Beatrice Bruteau, The Psychic Grid.
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This information is taken directly from the book Journeys Out of
the Body by Robert A. Monroe.
Throughout this writing, I have made many references to
one evident fact: the only possible way for an individual to
appreciate the reality of this Second Body and existence within
it is to experience it himself.
Obviously, if this were an easy task, it would now be
commonplace. I suspect that only an innate curiosity will enable
people to overcome the obstacles in the path of this achievement.
Although there are many cases of existence experienced apart from
the physical body, they have for the most part - at least in the
Western world - been of a spontaneous, one time nature, occurring
during moments of stress or physical disability.
We are speaking of something entirely different, which
can be objectively investigated. The experimenter will want to
proceed in a manner that will produce consistent results, perhaps
not every time, but often enough to validate the evidence to his
own satisfaction. I believe that anyone can experience existence
in a Second Body if the desire is great enough. Whether or not
anyone should is beyond the scope of my judgment.
Evidence has led me to believe that most, if not all,
human beings leave their physical bodies in varying degrees
during sleep. Subsequent reading has proved that this idea is
thousands of years old in man's history. If it is a valid
premise, then the condition itself is not unnatural. On the
other hand, conscious, willful practice of separation from the
physical is contrary to the pattern, it would seem, in view of
the limited data available.
Harmful physical effects from such activity are
undetermined. I have not detected (nor have any physicians) any
physiological changes, good or bad, that can be attributed
directly to the out-of-the-body experience.
There have been many psychological changes that I
recognize, and probably many more that I have not been aware of.
However, even my friends in the psychiatric profession have not
claimed that these have been detrimental. My gradual revision of
basic concepts and believes is apparent in a number of ways
throughout this writing. If these psychological and personality
changes are truly harmful, there is not much that can be done
about it now.
A note of caution is in order here for those who are
interested in experimenting, for once opened, the doorway to this
experience cannot be closed. More exactly, it is a copy of "you
can't live with it and you can't live without it." The activity
and resultant awareness are quite incompatible with the science,
religion, and mores of the society in which we live. History is
strewn with martyrs whose only crime was non-conformity. If your
interest and research become commonly known, you run the risk of
being labeled a freak, phony, or worse, and of being ostracized.
In spite of this, something extremely vital would be missing if
you did not continue to explore and investigate. In the
unaccountable "low" periods when you cannot produce this activity
no matter how carefully you try, you realize this deeply. You
have a strong sense of being left out of things, of the shutting
out of a source of great meaning to living.
Here, then, is the best written description I can give of
the technique of developing the non-physical experience.
THE FEAR BARRIER
There is one great obstacle to the investigation of the
Second Body and the environment in which it operates. Perhaps it
is the only major barrier. It seems to be present in all
people, without exception. It may be hidden by layers of
inhibition and conditioning, but when these are stripped away,
the obstacle remains. This is the barrier of blind, unreasoning
fear. Given only small impetus, it turns to panic, and then to
terror. If you consciously pass the fear barrier, you will have
passed a milestone in your investigation.
I am reasonably sure that this barrier is passed
unconsciously by many of us each night. When that part of us
beyond our consciousness takes over, it is not inhibited by fear,
although it seems to be influenced by the thought and action of
the conscious mind. It seems to be accustomed to operating
beyond the fear barrier, and understands better the rules of
existence in this other world. When the conscious mind shuts
down for the night, this Super Mind (soul?) takes over.
The investigative process relative to the Second Body and
its environment appears to be a melding or blending of the
conscious with this Super Mind. If this is accomplished, the
fear barrier is overcome.
The fear barrier is many-faceted. The most fearless of
us think it does not exist, until, much to our own surprise, we
encounter it within ourselves. First and foremost, there is the
death fear. Because separation from the physical body is much
like what is expected at death, early reactions to the experience
are automatic. You think, "Get back in the physical, quickly!
You are dying! Life is there, in the physical; get back in!"
These reactions appear in spite of any intellectual or
emotional training. Only after repeating the process eighteen to
twenty times did I finally gather enough courage (and curiosity)
to stay out more than a few seconds and observe objectively. The
death fear was either sublimated or assuaged by familiarity.
Others who have tried the technique have stopped after the first
or second experience, unable to suppress this first aspect of the
barrier.
The second aspect of the fear barrier is also linked with
the death fear: will I be able to return to the physical or to
get back "in." With no guidelines or specific instructions, this
remained a prime fear of mine for several years, until I found a
simple answer that made it work every time. Mine was a matter of
rationalization. I had been "out" several hundred times, and the
evidence showed that I was able to return safely one way or
another. Therefore, the probability was that I would return
safely the next time also.
The third basic fear was fear of the unknown. The rules
and dangers of our physical environment can be determined to a
reasonable degree. We have spent our lifetime building up
reflexes to cope with them. Now, suddenly, here is another,
completely different set of rules, another world of entirely
different possibilities, populated by beings who seem to know all
of them. You have no rule book, no road map, no book of
etiquette, no applicable courses in physics and chemistry, no
incontrovertible authority you can turn to for advice and
answers. Many a missionary has been killed in a remote land
under just such conditions!
I must confess that this third fear still crops up, and
with justification. The unknown is still to a great degree
unknown. Such penetration as I have made has brought forth
pitifully few unalterable and consistent rules. I can say only
that, to date, I have survived these expeditions. There is so
much that I do not comprehend or understand, and more that is
beyond my ability to do so.
Another fear is the consequent effects on the physical
body as well as on the conscious mind of participation and
experimentation in this form of activity. This too is very real,
as our history, at least to my knowledge, does not seem to
contain accurate reporting of this area. We have studies on
paranoia, schizophrenia, phobias, epilepsy, alcoholism, sleeping
sickness, acne, virus diseases, etc., but no assembled body of
objective data on the pathology of the Second Body.
I do not know how to circumvent the fear barrier, except
by cautious initial steps that create familiarity bit by bit as
you proceed. I hope this writing in its entirety will provide
the psychological "step" over the barrier. It may help to
recognize conditions and patterns that are familiar in that at
least one person has had similar experiences and survived.
The following are the necessary procedural developments.
1. RELAXATION
The ability to relax is the first prerequisite, perhaps
even the first step itself. It is deliberately generated, and is
both physical and metal. Included with the condition of
relaxation must be the relief from any sense of time urgency.
You cannot be in a hurry. No pending appointments or anticipated
calls for your services or attention must clutter up your
thoughts. Impatience of any sort can effectively stifle your
prospects for success.
There are many techniques available for obtaining this
kind of relaxation, and a number of good books cover the subject.
Simply select the method that works best for you. There are
three general methods that seem to work, two of which are
applicable in these exercises.
Auto- or self-hypnosis. Most self-study books offer this
method in different versions. Again, it is a matter of which is
most effective for you individually. The most efficient and
speediest way is to learn self-hypnosis through the training of
an experienced hypnotist. He can set up posthypnotic suggestion
that will bring immediate results. However, select a tutor with
care. Responsible practitioners are rare, and neophytes
numerous. Forms of meditation can be converted to effective
relaxation.
Borderland sleep state. This is perhaps the easiest and
most natural method and usually ensures relaxation of both body
and mind simultaneously. The difficulty here lies in the
maintenance of that delicate "edge" between sleep and complete
wakefulness. All too often, you simply fall asleep and that ends
the experiment for the moment.
By practice, conscious awareness can be taken up to this
borderland state, into it, and through it, to your destination.
There is no way to achieve it that I know of that than practice.
The technique is as follows: lie down, preferably when you are
tired and sleepy. As you become relaxed and start to drift off
to sleep, hold your mental attention on something, anything, with
your eyes closed. Once you can hold the borderland state
indefinitely without falling asleep, you have passed the first
stage. It is, however, a normal pattern to fall asleep many
times in the process of this consciousness deepening. You will
not be able to help yourself, but do not let this discourage you.
It is not an overnight process. You will know you are
successful when you become bored and expect something more to
happen!
If attempts to remain at the borderland state make you
nervous, this too is a normal reaction. The conscious mind seems
to resent sharing the authority it has during wakefulness. If
this occurs, break the relaxation, get up and walk around,
exercise, and lie down again. If this does not relieve the
nervousness, go to sleep and try another time. You are just not
in the mood.
When your "fixative," the picture thought you have been
holding, slips away and you find yourself thinking of something
else, you are close to completion of condition A.
Once you have achieved Condition A - the ability to hold
calmly in the borderland state indefinitely with your mind on an
exclusive thought - you are ready for the next step. Condition B
is similar, but with the concentration eliminated. Do not think
of anything, but remain poised between wakefulness and sleep.
Simply look through your closed eyes at the blackness ahead of
you. Do nothing more. After a number of these exercises, you
may hallucinate "mind pictures," or light patterns. These seem
to have no great significance, and may merely be forms of neural
discharge. I can remember, for example, attempting to achieve
this state after watching a football game on TV for several
hours. All I saw were mind pictures of football players
tackling, running, passing, etc. It took at least a half hour
for the pattern to fade away. These mind pictures are apparently
related to your visual concentration in the preceding eight or
ten hours. The more intense the concentration, the longer it
seems to take to eliminate the impressions.
You have accomplished Condition B when you are able to
lie indefinitely after the impressions have faded away, with no
nervousness, and seeing nothing but blackness.
Condition C is a systematic deepening of consciousness
while in the B state. This is approached by carefully letting go
of your rigid hold on the borderland sleep edge and drifting
deeper little by little during each exercise. You will learn to
establish degrees of this deepening of consciousness by "going
down" to a given level and returning at will. You will recognize
these degrees by the shutting down of various sensory mechanism
inputs. The sense of touch apparently goes first. You seem to
have no feeling in any part of your body. Smell and taste soon
follow. The auditory signals are next, and the last to fade out
is vision. (Sometimes the last two are reversed; I suspect that
the reason for vision being last is that exercises calls for the
use of the visual network, even in blackness.)
Condition D is the achievement of C when one is fully
rested and refreshed, rather than tired and sleepy, at the
beginning of the exercise. This is quite important, and not
nearly as easy to achieve as it is to write about. To enter the
relaxation state full of energy and wakefulness is great
insurance for maintaining conscious control. The best approach
to take in the early attempts at the Condition D exercise is to
start it immediately after you wake up from a nap or a night's
sleep. Start the exercise before you move around in bed
physically, while your body is still relaxed from sleep and your
mind is fully alert. Don't take too many liquids before
sleeping, and you won't have the immediate need to empty your
bladder upon awakening.
Induction by drugs. None of the relaxation-producing
drugs that are readily available seem to help. Barbiturates
force a loss of conscious control and only bring a confused state
in deeper consciousness. The same is true, to a lesser degree,
of tranquilizers. Relaxation is obtained, but at the cost of
perception. Alcohol in any form brings similar effects. More
exotic compounds such as the alkaloids and hallucinogens may be
more productive. I have more had enough experience or contact
with these to offer an opinion or even an educated guess. It
would seem that far-reaching research is indicated for these.
2. STATE OF VIBRATION
The generation of this effect is the most critical of
all. The subjective sensory impression it creates is described
elsewhere. Once it is achieved, you will certainly not have to
be told you've been successful, and you will have passed another
major hurdle.
All that can be given are clues. At the present level of
knowledge, it is not known why these things work. It is much
like turning a switch to obtain light without having any idea of
what the switch does, where the electricity comes from, or why
and how it acts upon a bulb enclosing tungsten filaments.
At the least, all of the material contained herein has
been established as empirically as possible. Aside from the
principal human laboratory -- this writer -- several other
individuals have tried the pattern. Suffice it to say that they
have obtained positive results.
Aids to the vibrational state. Lie down, in whatever
position is most conducive to your state of relaxation, but with
your body along a north-south axis, with yard to magnetic north.
Loosen any clothes you may be wearing. Keep covered so that you
feel just slightly warmer than is generally comfortable to you.
Remove any jewelry or metal objects close to or touching your
skin. Be sure that your arms, legs, and neck will relax in a
position that will not impede circulation. Darken the room
enough to ensure that no light can be seen through your eyelids.
Do not use a completely blacked-out room, as you will then have
no visual point of reference.
Absolute requisites. Ensure without question that you
will not be disturbed in any way, either by direct physical
intervention, a phone ringing, or other interrupting noises. Do
not set a time limit or a deadline. The time you spend in the
experiment is not more valuable spent elsewhere and you should
have nothing impending that might cut short this activity.
Achieve the state of relaxation. Do this by whatever
method you have found workable in your own individual case. Work
to Condition D or its equivalent, and hold at the deepest level
of relaxation possible without weakening your consciousness.
When you have taken as much time as you need to be sure you have
obtained this, mentally repeat, "I will consciously perceive and
remember all that I encounter during this relaxation period. I
will recall in detail when I am completely awake only those
matters that will be beneficial to my physical and mental well
being." Say this mentally five times. Then being breathing
through your half-opened mouth.
Establish the vibration waves. As you continue breathing
through your half-opened mouth, concentrate on the blackness in
front of your closed eyes. Look first into the blackness at a
spot a foot away from your forehead. Now move your point of
concentration to three feet away, and then six feet. Hold for a
while until the point is firmly established. From there, turn
the point 90 degrees upward, on a line parallel to the body axis
and reaching out above the head. Reach for the vibrations at
that spot. When you find them, mentally pull them back into your
head.
This simple description must pose many questions. Reach
out with what? Pull what back into your head? Let us try
another method of explanation. Begin a mental concentration, as
if two lines were extending from the outer sides of your closed
eyes. Think of them as converging at a point a foot away from
your forehead. Visualize a resistance or pressure when these two
lines meet, as if two charged electric wires were joined, or
poles of a magnet forced together. Now extend this juncture
about three feet, or the length of your arm outstretched. Due to
the angular difference, the pressure pattern is altered. A
compression of the space (forces?) between the converging lines
must result, and the pressure must therefore increase to maintain
the convergence. After the three-foot length has been
established and held, extend the intersection point out to six
feet away from your head, or 30 degrees. (So that you can
properly visualize the exact angle that represents 30 degrees, it
may help to mark off a 30 degree angle by protractor on paper and
memorize how it looks.)
Once you have learned to establish and maintain the 30
degree angle outward (or roughly six feet away), bend the point
of intersection 90 degrees (or in an "L") upward in the direction
of your head but parallel to the axis of your body. You "reach"
with this point of intersection. Stretch or reach with this
point more and more, until you obtain a reaction. Again, you
will know when you obtain it. It is as if a surging, hissing,
rhythmically pulsating wave of fiery sparks comes roaring into
your head. From there it seems to sweep throughout your body,
making it rigid and immovable.
Once you have learned the process, or the concept, it
will not be necessary to go through the entire routine. You need
only to think of the vibrations while in a relaxed state, and
they come into being. A conditioned reflex has been established,
or a neuron path that can be followed again and again. Again, it
is not a technique that can be achieved the first time it is
tried. The probability of success increases with each successive
effort. The more often you attempt it, the more likely you are
to have positive results. However, once you have succeeded, it
is not always repeatable at will. There are still many variables
that interfere which have yet to be isolated and identified. But
it does "work" often enough to be subject to continued study.
3. CONTROL OF VIBRATIONS
When you have obtained the vibrational state, there are
definite guidelines to follow. The utilization of this condition
under conscious control is the goal you are seeking. To
accomplish this, there are careful procedures to observe. The
should, of course, be followed in sequence, in the order
presented.
There is no evidence to indicate that this vibrational
state has a deleterious effect on either the mind or the physical
body. Here, then, are some procedures that can be applied
systematically. They are a distillate of literally hundreds
trial-and-error experiments.
Acclimatization and accommodation. This is a way of
saying that you should let yourself get accustomed to the feel of
this unusual condition. All fear and panic must be eliminated
when you feel waves like an electric shock without pain
permeating your body. The best method seems to be to do nothing
when they occur. Lie quietly and objectively analyze them until
they fade away of their own accord. This usually takes place in
about five minutes. After several such experiences, you will
realize you are not being electrocuted. Try to avoid panicky
struggling to break the paralytic condition. You can break it by
sitting up with great force of will, but you will be disappointed
with yourself for doing so. After all, this was what you were
trying to achieve.
Manipulation and moderation. Once you have eliminated
the fear reactions, you are ready for controls steps. First,
mentally "direct" the vibrations into a ring, or force them all
into your head. Then mentally push them down along your body to
your toes, then back up to your head. Start them sweeping in a
wave over your body rhythmically, from head to toes and then back
again. After you have given the wave momentum, let it proceed of
its own accord until it fades away. It should take about ten
seconds - five down, five back - for the wave to make the
complete circuit, from head to toes and back. Practice this
until the vibration wave begins instantly upon mental command,
and moves steadily until fade-out.
By this time, you will have noticed the "roughness" of
the vibrations at times, as if your body is being severely shaken
right down to the molecular or atomic level. This may be
somewhat uncomfortable, and you will feel a desire to "smooth"
them out. This is accomplished by "pulsing" them mentally to
increase their frequency. Their original vibratory rate seems to
be on the order of some twenty-seven cycles per second (this is
the rate of the vibration itself, not the head-to-toe frequency).
The pattern responds to this pulsing command very subtly and
slowly at first. Your first indication of success is when the
vibrations no longer seem rough and shaking. You are well on
your way to control when they produce a steady, solid effect.
It is essential that you learn and apply this speed-up
process. The faster vibration effect is the form that permits
disassociation from the physical. Once you have set the momentum
of the speed-up, the acceleration seems to take place
automatically. Eventually, you may sense the vibrations only as
they begin. They will increase their frequency - like a motor
starting up - until the frequency is so high that you are unable
to perceive it. At this phase, the sensory effect is one of body
warmth, slightly tingling, but not excessively so.
Consistent achievement of this stage is the sign that you
are ready for the first physical disassociation experiments.
Another word of warning is in order here. Beyond this point, I
believe you cannot turn back. Ultimately, you will be committed
to the reality of this other existence. How this will affect
your personality, your daily life, your future, and your
philosophies rests entirely with you as an individual. For once
you have been "opened" to this other reality, you cannot
completely shut it out again, try as you might. The pressure of
material affairs may sublimate it for a time, but it will return.
You cannot always stay on guard against its reopening. As you
start to sleep or awaken, when you merely relax, the vibrational
surge may come without call. You can shut it off, of course, but
eventually you become too tired to bother - and your are off on
another excursion. You sense that you are fighting against
yourself.
And who wants to fight one's self - at the price of a
good night's sleep.
From the book 'Journeys out of the Body'
by Robert Monroe
1. Monroe Techniques for Astral Projection
2. Astral Projection: An Introduction
3. Astral Projection: The Wiccan Method
4. Using the Body of Light
5. Important Notes on Astral Projection
6. Suggested Reading on Astral Projection
7. The Protection Circle for Projecting
8. The Cabala
9. Astral Projection using Dream Control
10. Magick and Astral Projection
11. Magick: Spirits and Thoughtforms
12. Magick: Elementals and Forces
13. Magick: The Four Worlds
14. Journeys Out of the Body Part I
15. Journeys Out of the Body Part II
The following was taken directly from the book Journeys Out of
the Body, by Robert A. Monroe.
THE SEPARATION PROCESS
After you have achieved the state of vibration and some control
of your stage of relaxation, one additional factor must be
considered. It is probable that you have already obtained it,
since it is ordinarily a product of the previous exercises.
However, it should be emphasized.
This factor is thought control. In the state of
vibration, you are apparently subject to every thought, both
willful and involuntary, that crosses your mind. Thus you must
be as close to "no thought" or "single thought" (concentration)
as possible. If one stray idea passes through your mind, you
respond instantly, and sometimes in an undesirable manner. I
suspect that one is never completely free of such misdirection.
At least I have not been, which may account for the many
inexplicable trips to places and people I do not know. They seem
to be triggered by thoughts or ideas I didn't realize I had,
below the conscious level. The only approach is to do the best
you can.
With this in mind, the first practices of disassociating
the Second from the physical body should be limited in time and
action. What follows is designed basically as a familiarization
and orientation technique which should permit an approach to
disassociation without fear or concern.
Release of extremities. This serves to acquaint you with
the sensation of the Second Body without full commitment. After
relaxation and creation of the vibration state, work with either
your right or left hand and arm, one at a time. This is
important, as it will be your first affirmation of the reality of
the Second. With one hand, reach for any object - floor, wall,
door, or whatever - that you remember as being beyond the reach
of your physical arm. Reach for that object. Make the reaching
process neither upward nor downward, but out in the direction
your arm is pointing. Reach as if you were stretching your arm,
not raising or lowering it. A variation is simply to reach out
with the hand and arm in the same manner with no special object
in mind. Often this method is better, as you then have no
preconceived idea of what you will "feel."
When you reach out in this fashion and feel nothing, push
your hand a little farther. Keep pushing gently, as if
stretching you arm, until your hand encounters some material
object. If the vibration pattern is in effect, it will work, and
your hand will eventually feel or touch something. When it does,
examine with your sense of touch the physical details of the
object. Feel for any cracks, grooves, or unusual details which
you will later be able to identify. At this point, nothing will
seem unusual. Your sensory mechanisms will tell you that you are
touching the object with your physical hand.
Here, then, is your first test. After acquainting
yourself with the object with your outstretched hand, straighten
out your hand and push against the object with your fingertips.
You will encounter resistance at first. Push a little harder,
and gently overcome the resistance you feel. At this point, your
hand will seem to go right through the object. Keep pushing
until your hand is completely through the object and meets some
other physical object. Identify the second object by touch.
Then carefully withdraw your hand, back through the first object,
and slowly back to normal, so that it feels as if it is where it
"belongs."
With this, decrease the vibrations. The best way to do
this is slowly to attempt to move the physical body. Think of
the physical body, and open your physical eyes. Bring back your
physical senses, deliberately.
Once the vibrations have faded away completely, lie still
for a few minutes for full and complete return. Then get up and
make a notation of the object which you "felt," locating it
relative to the position of your hand and arm when you were lying
down. Note the details of both the first and second objects
which you felt. Having done this, compare your description with
the actual first object. Make special note of small details
which you could not have seen from a distance. Physically feel
the object to compare it with what you felt under the vibrations.
Examine the second object in the same manner. You may
not have been consciously aware of its presence or position prior
to the experiment. This too is important. Test the line of
direction from the place where your physical hand lay, through
the first object and up to the second. Is it a straight line?
Check your results. Was the first object you touched
physically located at a distance it would have been absolutely
impossible to reach without physical movement? Did the details
of the object - especially the minute details - coincide with the
notes you have made? Make the same comparison for the second
object.
If your answers are affirmative, you have had your first
success. If the facts do not check out, try again another day.
Almost without qualification, if you have produced the
vibrational state, you can perform this exercise.
You can also practice the following quite easily. After
producing the vibrational state, lying on your back, arms either
at your sides or on your chest, gently lift your arms without
looking at them and touch your fingers together. Do this quite
casually, abstractly, and remember the sensory results. Once you
have clasped your hands above your chest, look at them first with
your closed eyes. If you have moved easily enough, you will see
both physical and non-physical arms. Your physical arms will be
at rest at your side or upon your chest. The sensory impressions
will be with the non-physical arms and hands above your physical
body. You should test this phenomenon as many times as you wish,
however you desire. Prove to yourself that you are moving not
your physical arms, but something else. Do it by whatever means
are necessary to give you full assurance of this reality.
It is important always to return your non-physical arms
to full conjunction with their physical counterparts before
"shutting off" the vibration state. Although there may be no
severe aftereffect if this is not done, I think it best not to
find out in the early stages.
Disassociation technique. The simplest method to use in
separating from the physical is the "lift-out" procedure. The
intent here it not to travel to far-off places, but to get
acquainted with the sensation in your own room, with familiar
surroundings. The reason for this is that the first true
experience will then be examined and explored with identifiable
points of reference.
In order to assist in this orientation, it is better that
these first complete disassociation exercises be conducted during
daylight. Test for yourself your needs in regard to the amount
of light in the room. Avoid using an electric light if possible.
To establish the condition, achieve the vibrational
state, and maintain complete control of your thought processes.
You are going to stay only in the confines of your familiar room.
Think of getting lighter, of floating upward, of how nice it
would be to float upward. Be sure to think how nice it would be,
as the subjective associated thought is most important. You want
to do this because it is something you will respond to
emotionally; you react even before the act, in anticipation. If
you continue to hold only these thoughts, you will disassociate
and float gently upward from your physical. You may not achieve
it the first time, or the second. But quite surely, if you have
achieved the preceding exercises, you will achieve it.
A second method is the "rotation" technique, which has
been mentioned elsewhere. Under the same prescribed conditions,
slowly try to turn over, just as if you were turning over in bed
to be more comfortable. Make no attempt to help yourself rotate
with either arms or legs. Start turning by twisting the top of
your body, your head and shoulders, first. By all means move
slowly, exerting gently but firm pressure. If you do not, you
may become loose and actually spin like a log rolling in water
before you can alter the pressure. Such action is disconcerting
only because you may lose all orientation and be forced to find
your way back carefully in rotation juncture.
The ease with which you begin to turn, with no friction
or sense of weight, will inform you that you have begun to
succeed in disassociating. As this happens, turn slowly until
you feel that you have moved 180 degrees (i.e., face to face with
your physical body). It is uncanny how you will recognize this
position. this 180 degrees about face is merely two 90 degree
turns, and without orientation, it is easy to sense.
Once you are in the 180 degree position, stop the
rotation by merely thinking of doing so. Without hesitation,
think of floating upward, backing up away from the physical body.
Again, if you have reached the vibrational state successfully,
this method will surely bring results.
Of the two separation techniques, the first should be
tried before the second. Then, after both have been examined and
tested, the one that seems easiest to you should be utilized.
Local experiments and familiarization. Once you have
succeeded in the separation process, it is most important for
your own objective continuity that you remain in complete
control. The only possible way to do this seems to be by staying
close to the physical in the early stages. Whatever you may feel
emotionally, keep in close proximity to the physical. This
admonition is made not because of any known danger, but so that
you will maintain a step-by-step familiarity and thus perceive
for yourself exactly what is taking place. Wild, uncontrolled
trips at this stage may well produce uncomfortable situations and
conditions that will force you to relearn much of what you have
already achieved. The process of mental acclamation will be
different from any you have ever consciously experienced. The
gradual adaptation will greatly enhance your peace of mind and
confidence.
At this point, the principal exercise is to return. Keep
your separation distance no more than three feet away, hovering
over the physical. Do not make any attempt at this time to move
laterally or farther "up." How do you know how far aware you
are? Again, this is something you sense. Your vision now is
zero. You have conditioned yourself not to open your eyes, and
let them remain closed for the moment. Stay close to the
physical. The mental concept of this will keep you in proper
range.
For the next three or four exercises, do nothing but
practice getting "out" and returning to the physical. To return
under these conditions, merely "think" yourself back into the
physical, and you will return. If you have used the first method
of separation, the reintegration is relatively simple. When you
are back in exact alignment, you will be able to move any portion
of the physical body and reactivate any or all of your physical
senses. Each time you return, open your physical eyes and
physically sit up so that you know you are completely "back
together." This is to ensure orientation, to instill confidence
that you can return at will, and most important, to assure
yourself of continued contact with the material world in which
you now belong. Whatever you believe, this reassurance is most
necessary.
If you have applied the rotation method, move slowly back
toward the physical, again by thinking of it, and when you feel
you have made complete contact, start your rotation back 180
degrees to conjunction with the physical. It seems to make no
difference whether you continue the circle of rotation or reverse
and turn back in a motion opposite to that which helped you
release.
In both techniques, there seems to be a slight,
click-like jerk when you are again in conjunction with the
physical. An exact description of this sensation is quite
difficult, but you will recognize it. Always wait a few moments
before sitting up after you have returned, primarily to avoid any
possible uneasiness. Give yourself some time to readjust to the
physical environment. The physical act of sitting up provides
evidence of continuity in a demonstrable form; you will know
that you can consciously, willfully act in a physical movement
interspersed with experiments in the non-physical environment and
retain conscious awareness throughout the process.
You will have completed the cycle when you are able to
separate, return to the physical, sit up and note the time, go
back to the separation process, and return to the the physical a
second time, all without loss of conscious continuity. The
notation of the clock reading will help in this.
The next step in familiarization is to separate to a
slightly farther distance, applying the same procedures. Any
distance up to ten feet will do. Always keep mental
concentration on a single purpose without stray though patterns,
especially in these extended exercises. After you have become
accustomed to the feeling of being more "apart," mentally tell
yourself that you can see. Do not think of the act of opening
your eyes, as this may well transmit you to the physical and
diminish the vibrational state. Instead, think of seeing, that
you can see - and you will see. There will be no sensation of
eye opening. The blackness will just disappear suddenly. At
first, your seeing may be dim, as if in half-light, indistinct or
myopic. It is not known at present why this is so, but with use,
your vision will become more sharp.
The first sight of your physical body lying below you
should not be unnerving if you have applied the previous
exercises. After you are satisfied that it is "you" lying there,
visually examine the room from the perspective of your position.
Mentally move slightly in one direction or another, slowly and
never violently. Move your arms and legs to reassure yourself of
your mobility. Roll around and cavort in the new element if you
wish, always staying within the prescribed range of the physical.
At this stage, you may be filled with strong desires
which can be almost overwhelming. This is the greatest problem
you may face at the moment. These desires, appearing unannounced
and unexpectedly, are subjective and emotional, and can easily
submerge the deductive reasoning position you have built up so
carefully. The more important clue is to understand that they
must not be labeled evil or wrong. They simply exist, and you
must learn to cope with them. The rule is do not deny the
existence of these desires. Recognize them as a deep, integral
part of you that cannot be "thought" away. Until you do this,
you will be unable to control them.
These desires include freedom (to revel in the release
from physical limitations and gravitational effects), sexual
contact (first with a loved one, then at a strictly sensory
level), religious ecstasy (varying, based upon the intensity of
earlier life conditioning), and others that may originate in
unusual environmental experiences of the individual. The belief
held here is that everyone will have these subjective desires
despite the most stringent discipline and self-analysis. What we
speak of are those elements far below surface consciousness that
comprise your own fundamental character and personality. As has
been explained earlier, these elements emerge because you are no
longer just a conscious, intellectual self. You are, perhaps for
the first time, an entirety. Every part of you will be heard
from and must be considered in any action you take. The trick is
to keep the conscious, reasoning you (the one most cognizant of
the physical world) in a dominant position. It isn't easy.
Therefore, you will run into problems if you attempt a
denial of self. Instead, you must accept these sometimes
surprising drives for what they are - a part of you - and go on
about your business. You cannot eliminate them, but you can set
them aside for the moment. Offer the promise of future
fulfillment, and you will have no resistance. These needs can
understand diversion, as they have been subjected to it for as
long as you have lived!
When you have reasonable dealt with these other parts of
you, and have demonstrated this to your satisfaction five to
seven times in a near-separation condition (in the same room at
close vicinity), you are ready for more distance and specific
voyages. All of the foregoing presumes that you have overcome
most of the fears you have encountered up to this stage. If you
have not, repeat the exercises which produce fear until
familiarity washes it away.
Infallible return signal. As noted, the fear of being
unable to re-enter the physical is a basic deterrent to leaving
the body. In my early experimentation, I encountered this
problem many times. Happily, a solution was found whenever this
difficulty presented itself. After careful analysis of hundreds
of test, an infallible technique was evolved. The only guarantee
that can be given is that it has continued to work for me.
First, if you have difficulty, don't panic. Above all,
keep your rational thought processes dominant. Terror only
aggravates the situation. Internalize this simple formula, and
call upon it: to return to the physical body from wherever you
are, think of your physical body. Mentally begin to move some
part of your physical body. Move a finger or a toe. Physically
take a deep, deliberate breath of air. Reactivate your five
physical senses, or any one of them. Move your jaw. Swallow, or
move your tongue. Any act that must involve physical motion or
use of physical energy will work. If one doesn't immediately
take effect, try another. Without question, some such thought
action will bring you back into the physical. It is merely a
question of which one works best with you.
When this technique is applied, return is virtually
immediate. It is an automatic direction finder and rocket blast
combined. Reintegration seems to be instantaneous when this is
used. However, this immediate-return method eliminates your
power of choice or decision. Once it is put into effect, you
cannot stop it. You will return to the physical without any
opportunity to know what is happening, and how it is taking
place. Thus it should be thought of as an emergency reserve
measure rather than a consistent step in your methodology.
Under ordinary conditions, you should think of or feel
the direction and location of your physical body. Then, with no
urgency and in a calm, willful manner, start to return.
The mechanics of movement. Now that you have set up the
proper controls, including the emergency return signal, you are
ready for the most momentous step of all: to "go" to a distant
point and return. It is definitely not advisable deliberately to
attempt this exercise before you have completed all previous test
and are at ease with them. It is quite possible that you may
have inadvertently gone to a distance point during the early
stages. If this is the case, you can recognize the importance of
following a procedure.
First, set your "aiming point." Remember the rule: you
must "go" to a person, not to a place. It may be possible to
achieve the latter if you have a deep emotional attachment to the
locale, but the experiments to date have shown little success
along this line. This, of course, may be due to the personality
of the writer.
Select the person (living) whom you desire to visit.
Choose someone that you know quite well. Do not inform this
person that you are making the test. This is most important so
as to rule out any suggestion on his or her part. Make this
selection before you enter the vibrational state and before you
start your relaxation process.
Establish relaxation and the vibrational state. Use your
chose method to separate. Move away to near distance, six or
seven feet from the physical. With your vision still in
"blackness," cautiously "think" of the person whom you plan to
visit. Think not only of the name, but of the personality and
character of the person. Do not try to visualize a physical
being, for it is the reflection of the inner person that will
attract you, rather than the physical attributes.
As you think in this pattern, turn yourself around slowly
in a 360 degree rotation. Somewhere in the circuit, you will
"feel" the right direction. It is an intuitive thing, a sureness
that attracts you like a gentle magnet. Even so, you can check
for verification. Go past this point in your turn, and come back
to it. Again, you will sense it very strongly. Stop, facing
this direction. Think that you have vision, and begin to see.
To give yourself motion toward your destination, employ a
total Second Body version of the "stretch," which you practiced
in your first exercise with hand and arm. The easiest method is
to place your non-physical arms over your head, thumbs latched
together like a diver about to plunge into water. With your arms
in this position, think of the person you wish to visit and
stretch your body in that direction. You may move fast or
slowly, depending upon the effort of this stretching action. The
harder you "stretch," the faster you go. At your destination,
you will automatically stop stretching without realizing it.
To return, apply a similar method. Think of your
physical body, reach out and stretch, and you will return prompt.
Usually no more is required than this. There is some speculation
regarding the necessity of keeping your arms in the diver's
position. Originally, it was assumed that this stance would
break a path or ward off any encountered objects with the hands
rather than the head. It does help create the stretching action
better than keeping the arms at the sides.
There you have it. The foregoing may seem ritualistic,
but it is not intended to. It may appear no better than the
magic formula of the Middle Ages. To date, there are no
explanations of why the technique works. Perhaps in the years to
come, interested and curious physicists, chemists, neurologists,
and other scientists will develop workable theories to fit
the action. If enough people undertake to examine it
empirically, perhaps a new science will result.
In the meantime, the boundaries can disappear for you,
too, if you have courage and patience. The only way you can
accept and know this extended reality is to experience it
yourself.
Good Luck!
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85)THEHACKR.ARC 21632 04/30/90 First chapter of the book THE HACKER
962)GODS.DOC 14002 07/03/91 Docs to Gods
1051)POLICY4.ARJ 25077 08/27/91 Fidonet policy for Sysops and members and
1052)CYGNUSCD.ARJ 261944 08/27/91 List of files available from the Cygnus X
1199)PHONE.FUN 11648 12/29/91 Phone Anarchy 1
1206)EXPLOSIV.TXT 640 01/04/92 Compact xplosive. When in the liquid form
1207)POISON.TXT 512 01/04/92 A form of NERVER GAS but verry POTENT! Un
1208)LADMINE.TXT 768 01/04/92 Two recipies in one file.... Fire Bomb (N
1215)9600BD.TXT 4992 01/12/92 Modify your 2400 baud MODEM for 9600 baud
1216)SCANMODS.TXT 2688 01/12/92 Modify your scanner
527)CHEATS.LZH 10183 12/05/90 This is a load of cheats for various game
743)MMURDER.ZIP 5121 03/10/91 Mass-Murderer Trading Cards...
994)USR42BIS.LZH 36864 07/28/91 Give your old HST modem the new V42Bis wi
995)HACK_CIS.ARC 7168 07/28/91 Hack out CIS CompuServe accounts with thi
999)PAYPHONE.TXT 4096 08/03/91 How to rob payphones. It works!
1012)HEROKDOC.LZH 41480 08/10/91 Full docs to Hero's Keep
1029)CTBBSLST.AUG 34099 08/22/91 Latest Connecticut BBS list.
1030)USBBS83.PAK 54784 08/22/91 list of all American BBS's. August'91.
1037)HAYESOP.ARJ 10361 08/22/91 Hayes Sysop Pricing. Similar to USR.
1048)PYTHON.LZH 42627 08/27/91 Text to many of Pythons skits/scenes. Hi
1087)MONEY.DOC 13162 09/12/91 Make $50,000 in less than 6 months!!! All
1097)ZNET9140.ARC 32384 09/22/91 Z-Net Magazine 9/20/91....Great news and
1115)SEXHINT.TXT 94884 10/09/91 Walk through for Spirit of Excalibur
1222)HACKER.ZIP 30133 01/23/92 Is hacking legal?
1223)MONEY.TXT 16008 01/23/92 Make money fast with your computer!
1033)HYPERP.DOC 18907 08/22/91 documentation for HyperP protocol.
1049)TAGDC25F.ZIP 99492 08/27/91 Docs for TAG 2.5, probably the best BBS s
1053)EMUDOCS.ARJ 8555 08/27/91 Documentation for Emulex BBS software, go
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