it is in. This feels something like having an emotional lump in the base ofyour throat.Crown Chakra: When fully active it feels like a thousand soft, warm fingers gentlymassaging the inside of the top of your head, above the hairline, and extending down inthe center of the forehead, to include the brow chakra, which is part of it. This sensationis the reason the Buddhists call it The Thousand Petalled Lotus.Note: You may feel a stronger sensation in some chakras and little or none in others.Concentrate on the lowest ones with the least sensation. This will help balance theenergy flow in the chakra system.If you are unbalanced, during projection the inactive chakras can cause failure, i.e., youmay get your body partly loose but find you are stuck to your body at the site of theinactive chakra. If this happens, concentrate on stimulating the inactive chakra prior toprojection.Psychic AbilitiesAfter beginning chakra work, you may find psychic abilities start to grow in you. This isa natural offshoot of stimulating the chakras. In my next series, on more advanced energywork, I will show how to develop and use some of these abilities and how to raise theKundalini.PracticeSome relaxation, breath awareness, concentration and mental hands exercises should,ideally, be carried out daily. They can be done anywhere and anytime you have a fewminutes to spare. HOW LONG DOES IT ALL TAKE?Many people have asked me How long does it take to learn projection? My answer is:Because everybody has different levels of natural ability and skill, it will take as long asit takes. I have had letters from people, who have been trying various other methods forseveral years, but with no results; get out the very first time they tried this technique.Other people, with NO relaxation or concentration skills at all, are looking at severalmonths training before they will get out.---------- 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 5byRobert BruceCopyright(C) 2 July 1994 ASTRAL ROPEA key ingredient to the new projection techniques is an invisible, imaginary ROPEhanging from your ceiling. This ROPE will be used to exert dynamic pressure at a singlepoint on your astral body to force its separation from the physical.The ROPE technique is similar, but more direct and hence more effective than other morepassive and indirect methods, such as reaching out and pulling vibrations into you, orvisualizing yourself in front of yourself. The idea of pulling vibrations into you isvaguely illogical, if you understand the mechanics of projection.The vibrations are an effect and NOT a cause of projection. When enough pressure isexerted on the astral body to loosen it sufficiently, the energy body expands and energyflows through the chakra system to be stored in the energy body. This flow of energythrough the hundreds of chakras and their connecting web, or meridians, CAUSES thesevibrations. This normally happens, unnoticed, during sleep.PUTTING THE PRESSURE