ONThe more passive, indirect methods of projection do exert some pressure on the astralbody to separate, but over a wide area. They still shift the point of consciousness out ofthe body, albeit obtusely. Any mental action that exteriorizes the point of consciousnesswill exert some pressure on the astral body.The action of pulling yourself hand over hand up a rope is a strong, one pointed, naturalaction that is easy to imagine yourself doing. The ROPE technique concentrates ALLyour mental resources into one strong, DYNAMIC action, which exerts a high level ofpressure directly on a single point of the astral body. There are many other, more subtle, ways that exert pressure on the astral body as well.Many of these are unsuspected for what they are. Most meditation exercises, forexample, exert PASSIVE pressure on the astral body. You may imagine you are goingdown in a lift, falling, climbing down a ladder, or just floating downwards. Whatever thetechnique, it is designed to reduce brain activity. Any self induced, inward fallingsensation places passive pressure on the astral body, which will cause brain activity tolower and bring on the trance state where a deeper level of the mind is revealed.The action of inward falling obtusely shifts the consciousness out of the body, exertingpassive pressure on the astral body over a wide area, but in the reverse to that needed forprojection, i.e., general downwards pressure. This, in a way, is like trying to get yourastral body to FALL out of your physical body on its own, i.e., your point ofconsciousness tries to FALL, downwards, out of the physical body.What most people do to project is to either exert forward, passive pressure on the astralbody, by visualizing themselves floating out of themselves, and HOPE, they can make ithappen, i.e., trigger the projection reflex. Or, they try a more direct method, such asvisualizing themselves out of their body, which is very, very, difficult. Lets face it, 99%of people cant visualize for peanuts and the act of mentally visualizing yourself OUT ofyour body, AND shifting your consciousness INTO this visualization is almostimpossible for most people. The other popular method is to try to pull vibrations intoyou. This method is slightly more effective than most as it exerts some pressure at asingle point, but it is still an indirect mental action and, therefore, obtuse.All the above, and the general lack of information about the mechanics of projection, i.e.,HOW it happens, accounts for the extremely high failure rate amongst people learning toproject.Holding passive pressure, over a wide area, on the astral body, for long enough, WILLactivate the projection reflex, eventually. But this can take a long time and can bementally exhausting. I have developed, through recent research, a better, faster and moredynamic method of projection that is very effective. I call this technique simply ROPE.It is not that using an imaginary rope for projection is such a new idea, its not, but theunderstanding of the mechanics of it and the application of this knowledge to ROPE is.If you fully understand how a thing works, you can use that thing more efficiently and,therefore, get better