From: dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon)
Subject: TLR speaks (again) Part I
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:45:05 GMT


Greetings and Peace :-)-

	Well, folks, after digging through a pile of dirt thirty inches
high and braving through several nights, I've finally got it. Yes, yes,
for all TLR fans out there waiting for this posting, it IS finally here...

	I love the book to much to have it zapped though, so I have
painstakingly etched out the words of the old man, letter by cumbersome letter
:).

	First, some preliminaries, for those who are ready to jump on me
on copyright issues etc., this is an announcement that the following 
extract constitutes less than 10% of the book, whatever that means :)
Any error of ommission or commission in the transcript below is entirely mine.

	Secondly, for those who requested it, I tried looking for ISBN 
number, but strange to say, there is none. My copy is a really ancient 
antique in yellowed pages etc that says "A Corgi Book 552 07144 7"

	Now, for the show itself...

	The spectre of the star gazer is, as usual, perched high in the
air on his favourite seat, providing ever witty commentaries on what is to
come...

	Tonight, the old man, TLR himself, will address a group of highly
accomplished zazen monks, as evidenced by the popular round of applause..

	And here now, ladies and gentlemen, once again, the immortal words
of His Holiness, Dr. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, from the book "You-Forever":

	(cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl cl ) --> advanced zazen monks showing
their appreaciation by one hand clapping :).

	"LESSON NINE"

	"In the last lesson we dealt in the concluding stages with thought.
We said "thought is where you want it to be." That is a formula which really
can assist us to get out of the body, to do astral travelling. Let us repeat it.

	"Thought is where you want it to be. Outside of you, if you want it so.
Let us have a little practice. Here again, you will need to be where you are
quite alone, where there are no distractions. You must be alone, you must
be relaxed, and we suggest that for ease you lie down, preferably upon a bed.
Make sure that no one can intrude and ruin your experiment. When you are
settled, breathing slowly, thinking of this experiment, concentrate on a point
six feet in front of you, close your eyes, concentrate, WILL yourself to think
that you--the real you, the astral you--watches your body from some six feet
away. Think! Practice! Make yourself concentrate. Then, with practice, you will
suddenly experience a slight, almost electric shock, and you will see your body
lying with eyes closed some six feet away.

	"At first it will be quite an effort to achieve this result. You may
feel as if you are inside a big rubber balloon, pushing, pushing. You push and
push and strain, and nothing seems to happen. It almost seems to happen. Then
at last, suddenly, you burst through, and there is a slight snapping sensation
almost as, in fact, puncturing a child's toy balloon. Do not be alarmed, do
not give way to fright, because if you remain free from fright you will go on
and on, and not have any trouble whatever in the future, but if you are
afraid you will bounce back into the physical body and will then have to
start all over again at some other date. If you bounce back into your body there
is no point in trying anything more that day for you will rarely succeed. You
will need sleep--rest--first.

	"Let us go further, let us imagine that you have got out of your body
with this simple easy method, let us imagine that you are standing there
looking at your physical component and wondering what to do next. Do not bother
to look at your physical body for the moment, you will see it again quite
often! Instead try this:-

	"Let yourself float about the room like a lazily drifting soap bubble,
for you do not even weigh as much as a soap bubble now! You cannot fall, you
cannot hurt yourself. Let your physical body rest at ease. You will, of course,
have dealt with that before freeing your astral from this fleshly sheath. You
will have made sure that your flesh-body was quite at ease. Unless you took this
precaution you may find when you return to it that you have a stiff arm or a
cricked neck. Be certain that there are no rough edges that would press into a
nerve, for if, for example, you have left your physical body so that an arm is
extended over the edge of the mattress there may be some pressure upon a nerve
that will cause you "pins and needles" later. Once again, then, make sure that
your body is absolutely at ease before making any attempt to leave it for the
astral body.

	"Now let yourself drift, let yourself float about the room, idly move
round as if you were a soap bubble drifting on vagrant air currents. Explore the
ceilings and the places where you could not normally see. Become accustomed to
this elementary astral travel because until you are accustomed to idling about
in a room you cannot safely venture outside."

	At this point in time the spectre notes that Dr. Rampa looks a bit
tired, he needs some refreshment, perhaps a bowl of tsampa, Tibetan style
will serve nicely, and also perhaps he needs a drink...

	So Dr. Rampa and the spectre will be taking a short break here, while
the monks go meditate on his words of instructions...

The star gazer ***
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