From: dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon)
Subject: TLR speaks (again) Part II
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:11:22 GMT

Greetings and Peace :-)-

	Well, if you like to know, it turns out that Dr. Rampa prefers 
sparkling wine after all. And his favourite brand? Puilly Fusse--1925,
of course, kind of reminded him of the good ol' days...

	Now back to the auditorium for a continuation of the story.

	"Let us try it again with somewhat different wording. Actually,
this astral travel affair is easy, there is nothing to it so long as you
allow yourself to believe that you can do it. Under no circumstances,
under no conditions should you feel fear, for this is not a place for fear,
in astral travel you are journeying to freedom. It is only when back in
the body that you need to feel imprisoned, encased in clay, weighted down
by a heavy body which does not respond very well to spiritual commands. No,
there is no place for fear in astral travel, fear is quite alien to it.

	"We are going to repeat astral travel directions under slightly
different wording. You are lying flat on your back on a bed. You have made
sure that every part of you is comfortable, there are no projections
sticking into nerves, your legs are not even crossed, because if they were,
at the point where they cross you might have a numbness after just because
you will have interfered with the circulation in the blood. Rest calmly,
contendtedly, there are no disturbing influences, nor are you worried. Think
only of getting your astral body out of your physical body.

	"Relax and relax yet more. Imagine a ghostly shape corresponding 
roughly to your physical body, gently disengaging from the flesh body and
floating upwards like a puffball on a light summer's breeze. Let it rise up,
keep your eyes closed otherwise, for the first two or three times, you may
be so startled that you will twitch, and that twitch may be violent enough
to "reel in" the astral to its normal place within the body.

	"People frequently jerk in a peculiar manner just when they are
falling asleep. All too often it is so violent that it brings one back to
full wakefulness. This jerk is caused by a too rough separation of the 
astral body and the physical body, for, as we have already stated, nearly
everyone does astral travelling by night even if so many people do not
consciously remember their journeyings. But back to our astral body again.

	"Think of your astral body gradually, easily separating from the
physical body, and drifting upwards to about three, or perhaps four feet
above the physical. There it rests above you swaying gently. You may have
experienced a sensation of swaying just when you are falling asleep; that
was the astral swaying. As we have said, the body is floating above you,
possibly swaying a little, and connected to you by the Silver Cord which
goes from your umbilicus to the umbilicus of the astral body (Fig. 8).

	"Do not look too closely because we have already warned you that if
you become startled and twitch you will bring your body back and have to 
start all over again on some other occasion. Suppose you heed our warning,
and do not twitch, then your astral body will remain floating above for some
moments, take no action at all, hardly think, breathe shallowly for this is
your first time out, remember, your first time CONSCIOUSLY out, and you have
to be careful.

	"If you are not afraid, if you do not twitch, the astral body will 
slowly float off, it will just drift away to the end or the side of the bed
where quite gently, without any shock whatsoever, it will gradually sink so
that the feet touch, or almost touch the floor. Then, the process of making
"a soft landing" over, your astral will be able to look at your physical and
relay back what it sees.

	"You will have a quite discomforting sensation of looking at your own
physical body and we point out now that it is often a humiliating experience.
Many of us have a completely erroneous idea of what we look like. Do you
remember when you first heard your voice? Have you heard your voice on a tape
recorder? For the first time you may have frankly disbelieved that it was your
voice, you may have thought that someone was playing a trick on you, or that
the recorder was faulty.

	"The first time one hears one's voice, one disbelieves it, one becomes
appalled and mortified. But wait until you see your body for the first time!
You will stand there in your astral body with your consciousness quite fully
transferred to your astral body, and you will look down upon that reclining
physical body. You will be horrified; you will not like the shape of the body
nor the complexion, you will be shocked at the lines on the face and by the
features, and if you advance a little further and look into your mind you will
see certain little quirks and phobias which may even cause you to jump back
into the body out of sheer fright! But supposing you surmount this first
frightening meeting with yourself, what then? You must decide where you are
going, what you want to do, what you want to see. The easiest system is to
visit some person with whom you are well aquainted, perhaps a close relative
who lives in a neighbouring city. First it should always be a person that you
frequently visit because you have to visualise the person in considerable
detail, you have to visualise where he or she lives and precisely how to get
there. Remember this is new to you--new to you doing it consciously, that is--
and you want to follow the exact route which you would follow if you were
going in the flesh.

	"Leave your room, move to the street (in the astral, of course, but
do not worry, people cannot see you), traverse the path which you would 
normally take keeping fixed before you the image of the person whom you want
to visit and how to get there. Then, very speedily, far more quickly than the
fastest car could take you, you will be at your friend's or relative's house.

	"With practice you will be able to go anywhere, seas, oceans and
mountains will be no bar, no obstacle, to your path. The lands of the world and
the cities of the world will be yours to visit.

	"Some people think `Oh! Supposing I go and I cannot get back. What then?`
The answer is--you cannot get lost. It is quite impossible to get lost, it is
quite impossible to harm yourself or to find that your body has been taken over.
If anyone comes near to your body while you are astral travelling the body
relays a warning and you are "reeled in" with the speed of thought. No harm
can come to you, the only harm is fear. So do not fear, but experiment, and 
with experiment will come a realisation of all your hopes, all your ambitions
in the realms of astral travel."

	Well, thought the spectre. Guess this is a good time for a short break,
the back is aching so after perching on a straight back chair for some time,
and perhaps time to do a "chore" or two--yes, even spectres got chores to do.

	So, perhaps tonight, the spectre shall wrap up the third installment,
a short one, on this "LESSON NINE". Stay tuned, and DON'T touch the button!

The star gazer ***
CC

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