Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:08:33 CET
From: <K3016E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body
Subject:    Theoretical Discussion: Part One

                                          LINZ, 1993-01-12

Hello friends|

  I'm interested in OOBE's for about one year and some months. I wasn't
very successfull since then, but I never give up and I know I'll get out
of my body in the future and I won't get back the next seconds (like in the
past). I read some books:

(1) Robert Allen Monroe: "Journeys Out Of The Body" (1971, renewed 1977)
    This book was translated in many languages and is one of the classics.
I think this is the best book to start studing OOBE's.

(2) James H. Brennan: "The Astral Projection Workbook" (1989)
    This book gives an interesting theoretical background on OOBE's splitted
    up in two kinds of experiences, so called "Ether Projections" and
    so called "Astral Projections". He also wrote "Astral Doorways" (1971).

(3) Sylvan J. Muldoon/Hereward Carrington: "The Projection Of The Astral
    Body" (first edition 1929|||)
    The classics on OOBE's. This is an interesting book but you won't
read anything about "Astral World". They also wrote: "The Phenomenon
    Of Astral Projections" (about 1950) and "The Case Of Astral Projection"
    (1936)

(4) And again Robert Allen Monroe: "Far Journeys" (1985)
    A book, that takes you in worlds which cannot described with words
    beyond space and time.
    Now he is writing his next book "Ultimative Journey".

There are three starting points for OOBE's:

1) DREAMS:
   a) Lucid Dreams: Mr. Brennan will tell you the most interesting
      techniques (2).
      If you know in a dream that you're dreaming you can go wherever
      you wish.
   b) "Dream Guiding": This method was invented by Muldoon (3).
      It bases on the old theory that there is a connection between
      some special kind of dreams (if you are flying, falling, driving a
      car, using a lift, ...) and OOBE's.

Personal Note: I found out a correlation between these dreams and
      the stiffness of my fingers immediately after awakening. (I wasn't
      able to write or it was very hard to write clear letters.)
      Please, tell me your experiences. I'm curious.I want to see if
      my theory is right.

      You create such a dream (classical: moving upward in a lift)
      and then visualize this dream while falling asleep and in the right
      moment get in the dream. When you leave the lift your counsciousness
      becomes fully awake and you are out of your body now.You've
      imagined this dreams many time befor.

2) You releax your body and mind while lying down and "forget" to feel
   your body - and then it should be easy to leave the pysical body with
   special tricks.
   You'll find many versious of this technique (1),(2).

3) SLEEP:(read Muldoon for details (3))

   You use a need (sex doesn't work|) you have or you do something so
   often that you can't live without doing it. Then you suggest your self
   to awaken at a certain place you'll go to sadisfact your need.
      You ly down and releax and fall a sleep. Sometime in the night the
   secound body will leave the physical to satisfy the need. On the
   certain place you'll became fully awake and notice that you are out of
   the body there.
(this happens maybe in a dream but I think this isn't necessary).

   I give you an example:
   One night in summer 1992 after a dream I suddenly became aware that
   I'm fully awake. I felt being turned around - left, then right, then
   left, ... and I heard and felt my heart beat somewhere in my neck.
   - I didn't open my eyes and that was a great mistake.
   All the time it was dark. Then I became frightened and returned
   to my physical body and awaked.

(to be continued)                       Josef P}hringer