the sensation of awareness it generatesin different areas of your body.What is happening is this: Part of your mind is shifting into, and HIGHLIGHTING, thearea you are going to touch, in order to guide your hand to the exact spot. Your mindshifts part of its awareness to this spot and acts like a homing beacon for your hand.The ability to shift your awareness into different parts of your body like this is VITAL toenergy work and this projection method.Note: You do not have to actually visualize these HANDS, i.e., see or imagine you cansee them. It is ALL tactile, NOT visual. You just have to be able to pretend to FEELthem doing something, like you are rehearsing some simple action in your mind.I originally developed this technique for blind people. Blind people cannot visualize ATALL, if they have been blind since birth, but they do have a very keen sense of bodilyawareness. The majority of sighted people also have great trouble with visualization ofany kind, and all projection techniques depend heavily on visualization. This being thecase, I developed a projection technique that does NOT depend on visualization to exertpressure on the astral body to separate. It turned out to be so much easier, and moresuccessful, than the other visualization based techniques, that I discarded them in favor ofthis simple tactile method.Note: Blind people are not blind in astral form. The astral body does not have anyorgans as such; it is a point of consciousness only. The astral body you are aware ofwhile projecting is provided courtesy of the subconscious minds creative ability.---------- Robert Bruce -------------rsb@tower.com.au ----------Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice are most welcome. Ifcorresponding via email, however, please keep your text to a minimum and please dontsend great chunks of my work back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration. ----------------http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ ---------------- TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTIONVolume II -v1.1Part 4ByRobert BruceCopyright 2 July 1994BASIC ENERGY WORKThe Major ChakrasThe major chakras are situated at:1. Base chakra (base of spine, between anus and genitals)2. Spleen chakra (slightly below the belly button)3. Solar Plexus chakra (1 hand-span above the belly button)4. Heart chakra (center of the chest)5. Throat chakra (base of throat, above where it joins the chest)6. Brow chakra (exact center of forehead)7. Crown chakra (whole top of head above the hairline)They are best imagined as roughly the size of the palm of your hand, except for the crownchakra, which is much larger.What Are Chakras?Chakras are non-physical organs that transform raw subtle energy into more subtle, anduseable, forms of energy, of a different type. The chakras do not, themselves, containenergy. Raw energy is drawn up from the planet, by the minor chakras in the legs andfeet, and fed into the main chakra system.Subtle energy is, in essence, pure thought energy that permeates and binds the universetogether. This living energy field can be tapped, more deeply, by the application offocused, creative will. It can be drawn into the human body and transformed, by thechakra system, into a more subtle and useable form of energy.The chakras are attached to the spinal cord