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and will not interfere.Note: If saliva builds up in your mouth at any time, before, during or while you are APyou can swallow, move your tongue etcIt wont affect it at all. If you have to move your body slightly, to ease it, do it in asleepy, stretchy way, without breaking relaxation. If you have to cough, coughgently. If you are coughing and sneezing, as with a cold - forget it - and get somesleep. One other sensation you may feel is the (cobwebs) a tickling sensation on theface, this is normal. In the early stage you may scratch them if you wish. In the latterstage, after the heaviness starts, ignore them, they will soon stop. It is caused bychakra energy and the subtle bodies loosening.THE EXITWhen your chosen time comes, form a STRONG intention to AP, sit in your chair,stretch and get comfortable. Do the relaxation exercises and energy raising until you feelthe heavy condition as you enter a light trance. Switch to breath awareness and keepyour consciousness shifted out in front. Stay aware of your physical body being behindyou and keep checking for tension.A humming will start inside and around you. It will increase to a much deeper vibration,depending on the chakra activity. With heavy chakra involvement this can be a trulyawesome feeling and is very frightening - if you dont know what is happening. Yourheart will FEEL like it is speeding up to an impossible rate. This is NOT your heart butthe heart chakra! Ignore it.This feels like: Place your hand on your chest, with your fingertips resting in the centerof it over your heart. Tap your fingers on your chest, in time with your heart. Increasethis rate slowly, until you are tapping as fast as your fingers can. This is how a chakrafeels when it is fully activated; it varies from a gentle pulsing, like a muscular twitchunder the skin, to a deep robust thrumming, like a muscle gone mad.Ignore the thrumming and vibrations and stay frosty. Adopt a ho-hum attitude to all ofthis and you will be out in a jiffy. The vibes and thrumming may feel as though they areincreasing to an unbearable pitch - but you must ignore them. With subsequentprojections, it will be less noticeable, as the dormant chakras stabilize.The thrumming and vibes reach a crescendo as the AP reflex cuts in. You buzzzzforward out of your body, feeling a slight falling sensation in the pit of your stomach.The deep vibes are replaced by a quiet purring inside your chest. You are now floating,or hovering, a few feet in front of, or above, your physical body. Stop all exercises concentrate- and stay frosty. This is great! Youll think, YES.... I did it! You are now consciously projecting yourastral body, and hey, it DOES feel great!The first time out, limit it to a few minutes - please trust me on this - it is important.Move around the room - slowly. You havent really got legs, and DONT look for them.The law of gravity doesnt apply any more, so be careful. Just move around the room
abit, dont think about how - just do it!You may feel a purring deep in your chest as you move, from your heart chakra. This islike a little motor, it speeds up as you move and slows to a gentle (putt putting) when youstop. This is your power pack, your energy; the strength of it will depend on the amountof chakra involvement and how close you are to your body.Keep control of your mind - stay frosty - and dont get over excited during the AP.Dont imagine at all, or expect anything that was not there when you left your body. Thisis essential to keep from falling into the ALICE effect.Now move back to your body with the intention of re-entering. You are new to the astralform and if you go charging off there is a 99% chance you will lose control, fall into theAlice effect, and remember nothing. Learn to crawl before you fly? You can go furthera field in later APs but it is important you limit the first one to this.Re-entry is simple. Move into your body, any old how, and it will straighten itself out.The re-entry reflex will take over - and snap - youre back. GET UP straight away,keeping in mind what you have done and WRITE IT DOWN.The astral mind is like the RAM in a computer, the physical mind is like a hard disk andthe paper is like a floppy. Switch off the power in a computer without saving to hard diskand all data in high mem is gone - poof - just like that! When you write it down it makesa wrinkle in your hard disk mind. You just need a few key words - not a full essay - youcan fill in the details later. Start a journal of your APS.A typical ProjectionI sit in my chair, comfortable and warm. I am going to AP, come hell or high water. IWILL do it! I do the relaxation thoroughly, as I know it is the REAL secret to AP. Iraise energy with my mental hands to activate my chakras. They start to thrum nicely. Iconcentrate more on my heart chakra, pulling more and more power to it through theothers, until it throbs with a deep primal rhythm. The heavy feeling comes over me as Ienter trance. I feel like a corpse, a dead weight. My face tickles all over with cobwebsensation, but I ignore it. I shift my point of focus to the ME in front. I AM in front, butI am also aware of my body behind me. The vibes start from deep within my body, Iconcentrate on breathing but keep my focus out in front. The vibes increase to a hugedroning, powerhouse generator intensity, but I ignore it. My spine thrills as adrenalincourses through me, but I ignore it. I focus on breathing and where I am going. My heartchakra feels like its going to blow a gasket, but ha, I know its not my heart, so I ignoreit. The droning changes into a deep buzzing and I am suddenly lifting free,
I feel a slightfalling, buzzing sensation. I buzz out and am standing before myself in a couple ofseconds. Damn but this feels good! I move around the room, searching - hunting. Thelittle motor in my heart purrs louder as I move, keeping pace with my movement. ---------- 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 I - v1.1Part 4ByRobert BruceCopyright 12 May 1994. All rights reserved.SPLITTINGThe splitting of your consciousness, into two separate, but identical minds, happens everytime you go to sleep or have any kind of out of body projection. This splitting happensfor a very good reason:If you read the case histories in books on astral projection, lucid dreaming, OOBEs andnear death experience; you will find many accounts illustrating the splitting effect. It iscommon, during an out of body experience, to be aware of your physical body while alsobeing aware you are existing in a separate, finer body. This is due to a telepathic linkbetween your two bodies. In the case of astral projection this link serves the purpose ofmonitoring the physical body, so no harm comes to it.When you project, your astral double leaves the physical body and the mind splits. Onepart is centered in the astral body and the other in the etheric body, which must stay withthe physical. When the astral form is generated, it has a mirror image of your mind. It isYOU, in every respect, like a tape recording of a tape recording; both identical, bothYOU!Often, during sleep, the mirrored minds mix in a kind of telepathic dream sharing. Thephysical, etheric minds are also capable of having dreams. This dream mixing results ina kind of dream memory schizophrenia, caused by having more than one point ofconsciousness. For those of you unfamiliar with schizophrenia, sufferers of it can havemore than one set of thoughts in their mind at the same time.DUALITYIf the astral and the etheric bodies, when they are both fully aware, concentrate on eachother at close range during a projection; a two-way telepathic link is formed. This isvery disturbing and I dont recommend you try it too often. The physical/etheric YOUand the astral YOU will see each other clearly, and at the same time. You will be lookingout of each others eyes at the same time, aware of both sets of vision simultaneously. On top of this, making it even more confusing, you are also aware of each othersthoughts, as well as your own, simultaneously. This is telepathic feed back, like holdingtwo mirrors facing each other to give you a glimpse of infinity, a reflection of a reflectionof a reflection etc.This uncomfortable and confusing state can be avoided by not looking too closely at eachother and not thinking of each other when you are projecting.This, in a way, goes a long way to explaining why dreams are sometimes so confused andchaotic. The mind splits
for a VERY good reason and the two parts are meant to functionseparately.I have experienced this phenomena many times during projection. I studied it because Iwas curious of the way I could feel my physical body when in close proximity to it. Ialso kept getting confusing memories of doing two things at once while projecting. i.e.Being aware of events and noises, in the house and in the street, as well asremembering the projection. This duality has been reported by other projectors, butnever properly explained or understood.Here is an account of the first time I experienced duality and telepathic feedback:I had been meditating in my chair by the fire and returned to normal awareness as the rainstarted drumming on the roof. The wind was getting up and it was shaking the windows.I looked at the clock; it was three in the morning. This was not unusual, sometimes Imeditate all night. I felt well rested and full of energy. I thought to myself, Ive neverprojected in the rain before, I wonder what its like?Closing my eyes once again, I soon projected out of my body.Moving through the wall, I went out into the rain. What a gloriously wet feeling it was.I could feel the rain passing through me. The smell of rain and wetness was everywhere;it seemed to fill me with energy. I floated up to the roof, sat on the chimney and lookedout over the town. I watched the rain dancing on the roofs and streets, swirling downgutters and gurgling into drains. It seemed to have a friendly voice and rhythm all itsown, it said, drink me, splash me, gurgle me, slosh me. It was funny at the time.Sitting on the roof, I noticed I could feel my body below me in the chair. This had oftenintrigued me, how I could feel my physical body when I was near it but not when I wasfurther away. Sliding back through the roof, I decided to study my it more closely.Suddenly, I could see myself floating through the wall as well as seeing myself sitting inthe chair. It was ME, sitting in the chair looking at myself floating through the wall, butalso ME floating in front of the chair ten feet away watching myself sitting in the chair.This was not only confusing; it made me feel quite ill.I had two sets of vision, two sets of thoughts, all the same and all joined together, it wasfascinating. It also made sense. Just because my astral was separated from my physical,why should the physical have to stop thinking?The astral ME moved around the room, observing my body in the chair while it waswatching me. I could still see the astral ME, even when I was behind the physical me. Icould feel myself in the chair, trying to follow my astral body around the room. It took a real effort, as if I had no energy to move. I felt as if I were huge and was moving againstenormous pressure. I was moving my viewpoint but I wasnt physically moving at all.My awareness was existing in both my
gave earlier in this series. The biggest difficulty with this is it requires youto imagine yourself in a different position from the one you are in.For example, if you are lying down, you are (horizontal) and you will be trying toimagine you are standing at the foot of the bed, which is (vertical). This is one reasonprojection is easier to do from a chair. In a chair you are (vertical) and are visualizingyourself standing in front (vertical). Sitting and standing are both (vertical) Positions. Close your eyes now, and try to imagine yourself lying on the floor, and youwill see what I mean.This is not the only difficulty. Any visualization that requires you to imagine yourself ata different place from where you actually are is unnatural and hence extremely difficult.This, I believe, is the cause of most failures. A great deal of energy is wasted on this,energy, which can be better used on the projection itself.Visualization is a big hurdle for people when they are learning to project. Many havetrouble with it because they think they have to actually SEE what they are visualizing,you DONT. People who can visualize things clearly DONT actually see anything. Ifthey do, it is no longer a visualization but a clairvoyant vision.Visualization is simply the ability to construct a representation of what something wouldlook, or feel like, in your minds eye. It is better termed fantasizing, an imaginaryperception of reality. Many people who say they cant visualize at all, are still able tocreate elaborate fantasies.To overcome this problem I have developed a simple extension of the mental handstechnique that will do the same thing. If you managed the mental hands in the relaxationexercise OK, you will have no problems with this.MENTAL HANDS PROJECTIONUse a thumbtack to attach a length of ribbon to the ceiling over your bed or chair. Haveit hanging over your chest, with the end within arms reach. IF you are using a chair, haveit a foot or so in front of you and within arms reach. NOTE: This is a visual aide only.Before you attempt your next projection, get used to reaching out and holding the ribbon.Remember where it is and what it feels like. You are going to use this ribbon to pullyourself out of your body.Start your projection the same as outlined in Part 3. When you enter the trance state,instead of imagining you are out in front of yourself, use your mental hands to pullyourself hand over hand out of your body. Reach up with your mental hands and imagineyou are climbing the cord. Feel yourself coming loose from your physical body everytime you hand over hand up the cord. Make sure you dont tense any muscles while youare doing this. Put everything you have in the way of will power into doing this.While you are using the mental hands to pull yourself out you can also dispense with thebreath awareness. Climbing the ribbon with your mental hands will fully occupy yourmind, making any other mental exercise redundant. This will let you put every ounce ofmental energy you have into the
one activity, projection, instead of wasting it on acomplicated visualization exercise.While you are climbing the ribbon imagine you are coming loose from the physical body.Imagine you can feel yourself rising a little with each new handhold. Feel yourselffloating free. You will feel a slight giddy feeling in the pit of your stomach, or solarplexus, as pressure is put on the astral body. 2. Paralysis after an apparently successful projection:This happens when, after everything appears to goes well, you feel all the sensations,heaviness, heart chakra thrumming, vibrations etc, but nothing seems to happen. You liethere, unable to move, feeling very light, and with a floating sensation. This is a form ofwaking paralysis.What has happened is, you have activated the projection reflex, and the etheric body hasexpanded but only partially freed the astral body. This is like waking sleep projection.To overcome this when it happens, increase the effort in climbing the ribbon with yourmental hands, apply all the will power you have to this. This should put enough pressureon the astral body to complete the projection. If this fails, there is a strong possibility youhave already projected and are centered in your physical or etheric body.If you think this is the case, and you cant break out of it, use it. Observe all you can,experiment, feel, see what you can see through your eyelids, and try looking behindyourself. Another thing you can try is to convert it into a lucid dream. Try focusing on afantasy, or a place you would like to go. Build it in your mind so you can tune into it.Not enough is known about the above condition of waking paralysis. If you discover away to do something about it, or with it, please email me. I will include these findings ina future rewrite to help others with it.3. Fear:Many people have written to me describing their feelings of fear during projection. Thisis a kind of natural barrier to some people that must be overcome. Some call it TheDweller on the Threshold. It is a manifestation of your own inner fears, very much likea childs unreasoned fear of the dark; a fear of the unknown.Many people feel there is something evil waiting for them, or a nasty spirit trying to stopthem projecting. This must be faced with courage! Look upon it as a test, an exam thatmust be passed before you can project freely. Once you do project, and face it, you willfind it is only a hollow threat that will crumple into nothing.I have projected hundreds of times in my life, and in my astral form, have never beenattacked. I did, however, have strong feelings of fear to conquer when I first taughtmyself to project consciously.There is also this to consider: You are invulnerable in your astral form and your bodyhas excellent defenses to protect you during a projection. Your expanded etheric willreact instantly at the slightest intrusion or unfriendly touch. It can pull you back in asecond, no matter how far away you are.Ways to help overcome fear are: Project during the day. Leave plenty of lights on in
the house. Project with a friend. (joint projection) Pray to whatever deity you believe in for protection. 4. Remembering it all:If your projection seems to happen OK but you only remember laying on the bed andfalling asleep after it. The problem could be in remembering the astral experience.Heres what you can do about not remembering. As soon as you awake, sit up and pullthose memories back. Sit up and think hard. Put aside a few minutes quiet time eachmorning and do this. It will train you to remember your projections and dreams.During this quiet time, run key phrases through your mind until you hit on something.Say things like: I was walking... I was talking to... I was just going to... I was over at...I was flying over... I was having a... I was inside a... These are examples of phrasesthat can lead to a fragment of memory you can lock on to. Make up some more phrasesfor yourself.It may not feel like there is anything in your mind to remember, but try hard and putsome real effort into it. They are there, you just have to reach in and locate them. Onceyou lock onto a fragment of memory, more can be located and more still. You will besurprised how much you can remember this way.It is important to write these down as you remember them. They may seem vivid andunforgettable but they will vanish in a few minutes if you dont record them. Just a fewkey words will do.One other aid to remembering is to give you post-hypnotic suggestions before youproject, or go to bed. This can take the form of an affirmation. Say something like Iwill remember everything I do tonight. Say it over and over until you get sick of sayingit.Lastly, it helps if you have a mission goal for each projection, something you especiallywant to do. Combine this with the affirmation and program yourself to do it. Forexample, say: I will go to the beach and remember... I will go to the beach andremember...Lastly, remember to keep the first few projections ultra short. This is an absolute must!It is more important to have a 30 Sec projection you can remember that an all nighter youforget.---------- 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* don't send great chunks of mywork back to me. Thanks in advance for your consideration.----------------- http://www.tower.com.au/~rsb/ ---------------- TREATISE ON ASTRAL PROJECTIONVolume II - v1.1Part 1ByRobert BruceCopyright 2 July 1994This version has been completely rewritten and updated, with thought to all the questionsand comments received since its first posting. I have tried, by applying my experienceas a projector and mystic; to solve some of the basic problems people are having withprojection. This has become an interactive work thanks to all the constructive feedbackand experimentation it has inspired on the Internet.There are certain aspects of the astral dimension and the projection process that are verycomplicated. Much of it is misunderstood and it can all be very confusing at
around a strange house in the dark? You bump intoeverything, right. But as you become familiar with it though, a mental picture of yoursurroundings forms in your mind, and you can find your way around it better. The longeryou spend in this house the stronger this mental picture becomes. This is similar to howthings are assimilated and grown, as thought forms, in other dimensions.The generation of thought forms in the astral also works in the reverse. If a physicalobject has been around for a very long time, it will have grown a lasting thought formimpression in the astral. After the object is destroyed or removed, its thought form stillendures. You may, for example, in the astral, find furniture in your house you dont have,jumbled up with your own. This is caused by the decaying thought forms of old stuff,belonging to previous tenants etc, still being there, years after the originals have gone.Old thought forms do not follow their physical counterpart around when they are moved.New ones begin to grow in the astral wherever it is while the old ones slowly decay. Thelonger a thing is in one place, the stronger the thought form will become in that place.This also applies to buildings, structures and geological features. You may project into apark and find a house, bridge, stream; hill etc that you know is definitely not there. Thesemay have existed in times past. The higher up in the astral you go, the older the thoughtforms are, or the further back in geological time you appear to be. The rate of growth of a thought form depends largely on the amount of attention paid toit. For example, a famous painting; loved, viewed and highly thought of by millions, willhave a much stronger thought form than that of a common painting that hangs insomeones bedroom and is only viewed by a few. The number of thought forms you findin the astral also depends on how close you are to the physical dimension. If you are veryclose, as in a real time projection or OOBE, very few thought forms, if any, will befound. In a real time OOBE you are not quite in the astral dimension but are existing asan astral form in the buffer zone between the astral and the physical dimensions.Astral VisionIn the physical body we have 220 degrees of vision, i.e. we can only see in front of us,but not behind, above and below at the same time. In the Astral body we have MOREthan 360 degrees of vision and can see on all sides at once. This is Spherical vision.During projection, habit forces us to focus our attention in one direction only, where wefeel the forward part of our vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right isstill there, and seen all at once, but it cannot be assimilated by the brain, all at once. Thisgoes against the brains lifelong habit of frontal vision. Spherical vision is like being onehuge multi faceted eye that can see in all directions, up, down, left, right, front, back, butall at once!In the astral