room. Leave the letters open, with all pages clearly in view, to makereading easier.---------- Robert Bruce -------------rsb@tower.com.au ----------Your comments, experiences and requests for help and advice aremost welcome. If corresponding via email, however, please keepyour text to a minimum and please dont send great chunks of mywork back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.-----------------http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ ---------------- TREATISE ON OOBE & ASTRAL PROJECTIONPart 7.4 of Volume 2ByRobert BruceCopyright 1994-1999This part expands on some material given in volume #1 but not covered in volume #2; aswell as giving new subject matter. Please note that the entire Treatise on OBE articleswill shortly be replaced by a single online book, greatly revised and updated; hopefullyby Christmas of 99. And for those interested, my latest book, Astral Dynamics, has justbeen released and is now available. See the end of this file for more information, linksand details. RB.OOBE & Duality:If you read the enormous number of case histories available on out of body and neardeath experiences; you will find many accounts hinting at perceptions of duality whichindicate symptoms of the mind split effect at work. It is fairly common, during anOOBE, to be aware of the physical body while also being aware of existing in theprojected double, or less commonly, vice-versa. This effect appears to indicate theexistence of telepathic and bio-energetic links between the physical body and its remoteprojected double (possibly via the silver cord). This link appears to serve the purpose ofproviding the projected double with the necessary energies it requires whilst operatingout of body, while also maintaining an unbreakable connection with its physical body.This connection also allows the physical body to be, in many ways, monitored (or sensed)so that no harm can come to it during an OOBE.During an OOBE, at the moment the projected double is generated and projected fromthe physical body, the projectors mind effectively splits into two identical parts (mirrorimages) each containing a complete copy of thinking mind and memory. One copyalways remains firmly locked inside the physical body (original hard copy) while amirror image is reflected into and maintained in the exterior projected double.The splitting of consciousness into two (or more) separate but identical copies happensduring sleep or any kind of OOBE. I call this effect The Mind Split Effect:Mental/Visual Feedback:If a mentally awake physical mind happens to observe (with real time or astral sight) itsprojected double at close range during a projection, a strong visual and telepathicconnection can form between them. This can be a very disturbing experience and I dontrecommend this be tried for more than a few seconds at a time. The awake physical mind(whilst a projection is in progress) must see and be seen by its projected double for thistype of connection to occur. Vision, seeing each other at the same time, appearsnecessary for this type of connection to occur. Once this happens, each side of the mindsplit, physical and projected, connect and begin to see out of each others eyes at the same time. Each becomes aware of each others vision and perspective as well as that oftheir own.Once the visual side of this connection occurs,