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results.The new ROPE method overcomes the general misdirection of mental resources and thechronic waste of mental energy caused by the usual lengthy procedures needed forprojection. ROPE shortens the time needed to cause a projection and optimizes the use ofavailable energy.One of the most important ingredients for a successful projection is to be properlymotivated. Without this motivation you will not have enough mental energy to succeedand will either fall asleep or forget the projection afterwards. It is, therefore, important tokeep preparation time as short as possible so it is not such a daunting and mentallyexhausting task. One thing a new projector has in abundance is enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is pure mentalenergy. ROPE, plus the understanding of HOW it works, harnesses and makes better useof this energy resource and vastly improves the success rate.Getting The Feel Of RopePin a length of ribbon, string or rope to the ceiling above you. Have it hanging withinarms reach so you can easily reach up and touch it. Reach out and touch it frequently,until you are used to where it is in your mind. This ribbon is only a tactile aide. Bybeing able to reach out and touch the ribbon, you used to the spatial coordinates of wherethe invisible, imaginary ROPE is. This grows both in your mind and hence as a thoughtform, making it easier to imagine yourself reaching out and climbing the ROPE with yourimaginary HANDS.Note: You do NOT have to actually visualize, or see, the ROPE at any time, justknow where it is supposed to be. This method uses NO visualization at all.Reaching out and pulling on this invisible, imaginary ROPE with your imaginaryHANDS shifts the bodily awareness induced point of consciousness, out of the body,with a strong natural action that puts direct pressure on one point of the astral body.Active ChakraOne important point, if you happen to have more activity in your Brow Chakra, ratherthan in your Heart Chakra, which is sometimes the case. Move the position of yourimaginary ROPE so your arms would be at a 45-degree angle above your head. If youuse the visual aide, ribbon, move this so it is hanging down over your head, rather thanover your chest. Changing the angle of the ROPE shifts the point of pressure you areexerting on your astral body to the most active chakra area and gives better results.In any case, position the angle of the ROPE at the most natural, and easy to imagineattitude for you. It is important that the angle and position of the imaginary ROPE feelsnatural. Experiment with this angle until it feels right for you.ARE YOU READY TO PROJECT?All the exercises in the previous parts of this series ARE necessary training forprojection. They are, however, not all needed, in themselves, for the projection process.If you do all the relaxation, mental calming, mental falling, chakra opening and energyraising exercises during the actual projection, you can use up your supply of mental energy. This can cause mental exhaustion and you may find yourself short of energy andwillpower for the all-important exit.All the exercises should be done separately from the projection itself. They
are in trance. Then stop the ROPE climbing and do the energywork before continuing with the projection, i.e., using the ROPE at step 3* willhelp force your body into the trance state.How To Use ROPEThis is a complete projection method in itself, if you have good powers of concentration.I suggest beginners concentrate solely on this method until they have more experience.This projection method will give you a normal Astral projection. The duration of thisprojection, in real time, will depend on the level of chakra development and energy flowyou have attained.1.Do the relaxation exercise thoroughly, until you are completely settled. This shouldonly take a few minutes, dont overdo it.2.Reach out with your imaginary HANDS and pull yourself, hand over hand, up thestrong, invisible, imaginary ROPE hanging above you. Try and imagine the feel of astrong, thick, coarse rope in your HANDS.Dont try and visualize this ROPE! I want you to imagine you are reaching out andclimbing this ROPE in the pitch dark, so you cant see it at all, you just know where itis and can imagine the feel of it. Visualization wastes valuable mental energy that canbe better put to use exerting direct pressure on your astral body.You will feel a slight dizzy sensation inside you as you do this, specifically in yourupper torso. This is caused by exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body. The dizzy sensation comes from the astral body loosening. This feeling of vertigo willintensify the more you pull on the rope.Very Important Note:a)This dizzy feeling and any feelings of pressure or vertigo, etc, caused by yourmental action of pulling on the ROPE MUST be carefully noted by you. Learn theEXACT mental action you are doing to cause this vertigo. You will have to trainyour mental climbing action to cause this feeling. So, the first few times you trythis ROPE method, concentrate on finding the right mental action to do this.Once you learn what it is you are doing to cause this, and can recreate it at will,you are really starting to get somewhere.b)IGNORE ALL SENSATION YOU FEEL DURING PROJECTION or it willdistract you, break your concentration, and ruin your chances for projection.Concentrate on the single act of climbing your ROPE to the TOTAL exclusion ofeverything else. Put everything you have into this one action, but dont tense up,it must be all mental.3.Keep climbing, hand over hand, ever upwards, and you will feel the heavy sensationcome over you. The pressure you are exerting on your astral body will force you intothe trance state. Ignore this when it happens and concentrate on what you are doing.4.Keep climbing and you will feel your chakras open in response to the pressure, dontstop.5.Next you will feel the vibrations start, your whole body will seem to be vibrating andyou will feel paralyzed. Concentrate, single minded, on climbing your rope, dontstop.6.Next you will feel yourself coming free of your body. You will buzz slightly as youpull yourself out of your body. You will exit your body in the direction of yourimaginary ROPE and will be hovering above your body. Youre free at last!Note:a)Do NOT
300 odd chakras inthe body and causes the vibrational state.Separation:Exerting dynamic pressure on the astral body while the energy body is in its expanded,vibrational state forces the astral body to separate from the physical.Note: If you exert enough pressure on the astral body, during the final phase of theprojection sequence, the exit, it will override the projection reflex completely. Thisforces a manual separation of the physical / astral bodies.This means: Instead of involuntarily buzzing out of your body via the projection reflex,at the climax of the projection, and ending standing at the foot of your bed etc, you willexit your body in the direction you are pulling on the ROPE.How Long Does It All TakeThe whole projection process can be done in less than fifteen minutes; I can do it in lessthan five minutes. The speed of the method allows you to use ALL your available energyin one burst.If you dont get out in the first fifteen minutes I doubt if you will during that attempt. IFthis is the case, either get up and have a break and come back to it later, or get somesleep.Using the ROPE method, literally, amazed me with its ease and simplicity the first time Iused it. It shortened my usual projection time (20-30 minutes, from a cold start) toabout 5 minutes, for a normal astral projection. I still, though, use the full sequence whenI do a real time projection.My analysis of the mechanics of this process comes from using the ROPE method myselfand carefully observing what was happening to my body during the separation.My First ROPE ProjectionHere is an account of the first time I tried ROPE, while I was developing it as a viabletheory: I lay down on my bed, I was thinking of my new theory. I had been working out aprojection technique that blind people could do. A technique that did not requireANY optical visualization. I had come up with the idea of using the sense of touch toexert pressure on the astral body, tactile imaging, as this sense is strongly developedin blind people.I lay there for a few minutes, mulling it over in my mind, while I generally relaxedand settled myself, ready for sleep. Then I decided to try it out, to see if it waspractical.Note: I did not do any of the usual relaxation, mental calming or chakra energyexercises. I just wanted to see if I could exert pressure on my astral body with thismethod.I reached out my imaginary hands and began climbing the ROPE, hand over hand. Iimmediately felt a sensation of vertigo in my stomach and upper torso and a dizzyfeeling inside my bones, like a tickling inside my arms and legs. I snapped my mindshut, stopped all thought, and focussed my will on the climbing action. I could feelthe enormous pressure it was exerting on my astral body, my astral head and uppertorso was starting to lift free, trying to go up the ROPE following the line of pressureI was creating.Still pulling, I felt my brain waves drop into the alpha state and the heavy sensationcame over me
as I entered trance. I kept pulling and the trance deepened, my bodywas now paralyzed. Still pulling, my chakras opened and the vibrations started. Iwas amazed; I had only been doing this for a couple of minutes! I kept pulling andmy astral body soon buzzed free of the physical.This was completely different from any other projection I had ever done. Theprojection reflex did not seem to have time to cut in and project me out of my body.I had, literally, pulled myself free on my own. I floated above my physical body, stillaware of myself on the bed.I went to go through the wall into the lounge, where there was more light, as it waspretty dark in my room. Suddenly I was in a strange world. Where the hell am I Ithought. There was very dim light and there was a damp fog all around me. Therewas a large building in front of me with an old fashioned thatched roof. To the sideof me was an old rail fence made of massive, rough-hewn timbers. I leaned againstthe fence and thought about it all. I looked past the house and saw the reflection ofwater. There was a lake on the other side of the house.This didnt make any sense to me and I was getting bored, so I tried to move toanother realm in the dream pool. I looked at my hand, this usually works. It waswhite and pale and unreal looking, it began to melt quickly, like white ice under ablowtorch. My fingers were soon stumps and then my hand melted and my armbegan to follow. I tried remaking it. It grew back as I concentrated on visualizingwhat it should look like, but started to melt again as soon as I stopped concentrating.Then it hit me, why this scene was so familiar to me, I was in a picture! I have alarge picture hanging on the wall in my room, in the exact position where I had triedto pass through the wall. This picture has an old house with a thatched roof and a rough-hewn fence around it. There is a lake behind it and it is early dawn, when thesun is just starting to illuminate things. There was no doubt about it, I was in mypicture.Id had enough of this; it was too dim to enjoy the projection, or to do anything. Ifocused on my physical body, which I could still feel. I concentrated on moving mymouth and eyes and this soon brought me back to my physical body. I sat up in bedand thought about it while I recorded the results of my experiment. Settling backdown again I tried climbing the ROPE again. Within a couple of minutes I was backout of my body again. This is great, I thought! I hovered above my body andlooked about the room. There in the gloom was the picture on the wall, the one I hadentered by accident. I went towards it again, just to see if it would happen again. AsI got closer it got bigger and bigger and I seemed to
shrink into it. As I got right upto it, instead of passing through it, I seemed to move into it and there I was again inthis dimly lit, damp world with the old house and the fence. Everything felt realabout it, the fence felt like wood and even the air smelled different, it had a farm like,swampish smell about it.Leaving the picture again and returning to my body, I again wrote everything down inmy notebook. I lay there for most of the night, thinking about what had happened,mulling over the implications of it all, what it all meant....This is how I discovered Virtual Reality Projection or (VRP) this technique is, at themoment, in its infancy and only a rough method for creating a custom made world. Iplan to do some more experiments with it in the near future, though, to get the bugs out ofit.Remembering It AllOne of the biggest problems with any kind of conscious OOBE is remembering it allwhen you wake up.Heres what you can do about this not remembering. As soon as you wake up, sit up inbed and pull those memories back. Sit up and think hard. Put aside a few minutes quiettime each morning to do this. It will train your dream memory. During this quiet time,run key phrases through your mind until you hit on something. Say things like: I lookedat my watch and... I looked at my hands and... I was walking... I was talking to... Iwas just going to... I was over at... I was flying over... I was having a... I was insidea... I was with... These are examples of phrases that can lead you to a fragment ofdream memory you can lock on to. Make up some more phrases to suit yourself.It may feel like there is nothing in your mind to remember, but try hard and put someREAL effort into it. They are there, you just have to reach in and locate them. Once youlock onto a fragment of memory, more can be located and more and more. You will besurprised how much you can remember this way.It is important to write these down as soon as you remember them. Even if you have todo this several times during the night. They may seem vivid and unforgettable at the time but dream, or astral, memories will usually vanish in a few seconds if you dont recordthem. Just write down a few key words and you can fill in the blanks later. Withpractice, this writing down can be dispensed with as your astral recall develops.Stuck?Some people may find they are stuck in part of their body during projection. They maycome free of their body but be stuck at their head or stomach area. If this happens,exerting too much pressure by pulling on the rope may cause some physical pain anddiscomfort. There are two possible reasons for this: If you are stuck in the middle,stomach area, it may be diet related, i.e., a heavy protein or meat meal before projectioncan cause this.Remedy: Eat a light meal, eat plenty but have fish or white
meat instead of red meatand avoid fats, oils, nuts and cheese.If you are stuck at the head, or some other part, this is a sign of an inactive chakra,possibly caused by an energy blockage. Remedy: Concentrate on opening this stuck chakra during the energy exercises. Ifthis happens during your projection sequence, stop everything and open that chakra, youwill be in trance so it will be easier. Once you have done some work on it, try pulling onthe ROPE again.---------- 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 ASTRAL PROJECTIONVolume II - v1.1Part 6ByRobert BruceCopyright 24 August 1994More On ROPEROPE is a very effective projection technique, but it still has to be learned to be effective.I would like to elaborate on a couple of points about the technique, inspired by thefeedback I have received so far.1.There is NO visualization required - AT ALL - in the ROPE technique. It is ALLtactile imaging. This means you do NOT have to picture yourself doing it.That is, to climb ROPE, the correct mental action is to REHEARSE the climbingaction in your mind.This mental rehearsal - IS - the ROPE technique *2.You need to mentally grit your teeth and strain with the action, i.e., you have to putmaximum mental effort into it, as if you were really climbing a ROPE, but withoutallowing your muscles to take part in it - this is ALL mental. Your body must not beallowed to respond. You also need to feel you are very strong, full of energy andcould climb like this all night.3.You will find that a certain way of holding the focus of your mind, while you climb,will exert more pressure on your astral body than another. It is VERY important younote what this is and learn how to apply it. This will tune your climbing action for themaximum effect. When you hit on the right mental focus for the action, you will feela corresponding dizzy/falling sensation in your Solar Plexus.4.To use ROPE successfully, it is extremely important to make a firm decision to DOIT. This commitment is VERY important to success. A DO OR DIE effort isneeded. This focuses all your mental energy into a single point, for a single purpose toexit your body.5.Many people have emailed me with ROPE success stories. In every case - they havebeen practicing ROPE when they suddenly decided to give it a go - TO REALLY DOIT! This commitment to succeed means the difference between actually getting out OOBE- and experiencing various levels of ROPE induced relaxation, trance,paralysis, chakra activity etc. I cannot stress enough the importance of thiscommitment to the success of ROPE induced OOBE. 6. While using ROPE, completely IGNORE ALL PHYSICAL SENSATION AND ANYNOISES YOU HEAR. If you react to a sensation, in any way, you will lose the focus ofyour mental energy and dilute your effort considerably.All the energy/chakra work and other
exercises in Parts 3 and 4, are designed to stimulatethe flow of energy in your body and increase concentration, will power and mentalcontrol. By increasing the energy flow during a projection and controlling your mindbetter, your duration in real time is increased. It is also easier to exit.You CAN skip all the exercises entirely and just concentrate on learning ROPE.Everyone has different levels of skill, natural ability and energy flow. Some people needlots of training in order to OOBE, others do not. Some people will prefer to learn ROPEby DOING it, rather than training for it. If your goal is just to have a conscious OOBE,of any kind, the simple use of ROPE, below, is your best option.SIMPLE USE OF ROPESome people have the impression ROPE is too complicated. This was possibly becauseby the detailed explanation I gave about the mechanics of ROPE in Part 5, i.e., HOW itworks.ROPE is THE simplest projection technique to date. All that is needed to use ROPE inits simplest form, are these two steps:1.Go to bed, or sit in your chair, relax and settle yourself down, as you normally woulddo before going to sleep.2.Start climbing the ROPE.This is all there is to the simple use of ROPE *As there are no time consuming exercises or complicated relaxation exercises involved,the simple use of ROPE has many advantages. It allows you to focus all your mentalresources on it. In many cases this is all that is needed to give you your first consciousOOBE.Because the simple use of ROPE is less complex, you will find yourself attemptingprojection more often, even when you are tiredOne of the best times to try - and cannot be bothered with anything complicated. Theincreased frequency of your projection attempts gives you more practice with ROPEand hence the technique will be mastered sooner. LUCID DREAM BACKUPI have had a great many reports of vivid dreams and heightened lucid dream activity(L.D.) from people doing the energy/chakra training exercises. This is happening far toofrequently for it to be coincidence.The energy/chakra work increases the level of energy flowing into the energy body andheightens awareness and memory of the dream and OOBE state. It is a shame to wasteall this energy on uncontrolled dreams, so I suggest L.D. be used as a secondary goal.This will give you OOBE experience earlier, in the form of L.D., and help keep yourinterest high until you learn how to do the conscious exit.Lucid DreamingTo become Lucid in dream you need to program yourself with a trigger to make yourealize when you are dreaming, in order to take control over it, i.e., become lucid. Thebest way of doing this is by getting into the habit of doing frequent reality checks duringyour daily life.Reality CheckingA reality check is when you stop what you are doing and check the reality level of yoursituation. This is simple to do. Every time you do a reality check. Ask yourself:1.Is this normal situation, is there anything strange about it?2.Can I fly? Try floating up in the air.3.Try closing your eyes. This is a dead giveaway, as you cannot close
your eyes inastral form.Note: This reality checking must become habitual to be effective.When you do a reality check during a dream, you will realize you are dreaming and cantake control of it. It is then important to affirm to yourself you are going to remembereverything. Tell yourself over and over, I will remember this when I wake up.L.D. TriggerThe key to success with reality checks is to have a good trigger for it. This should besomething you would normally do many times a day. This can be any kind of habitualaction, but here are a few ideas: 1. Time: Every time you look at your watch, does a reality check. An electronic watch isa good aid. Set the timer to beep hourly. When it beeps, do a reality check. A wrist watch, beeping hourly, is the most effective *2. Hands: Every time you notice your hands, do a reality check.3. Smoking: If you smoke, every time you have a cigarette, do a reality check. You willusually find yourself reaching for a cigarette during the course of a dream, if you are ahabitual smoker.Note: It takes time to make your trigger habitual, usually a few weeks. It alsohelps to do a few affirmations before you go to sleep, e.g., I will remember tolook at my watchWhen you become aware in a dream, L.D., you should already be in a communal dreampool. If you want to try changing this to a real time projection, try and become aware ofyour physical body. If you can sense it, you may be able to return to a time location nearit. This is difficult, though, and may end the experience completely, i.e., force a return tothe waking state.I suggest you enjoy the L.D. for what it is. Communal dream pools are very colorfulplaces and usually lots of fun. You will see all kinds of weird and wonderful things thereand have all kinds of adventures.Note: To improve your memory of the L.D. dont forget to remind yourselfconstantly during the L.D., to remember it all.Changing Your Reality LocationIf you dont like the dream pool you are in, or are in a real time OOBE and want to entera dream pool, here are a couple of ways to do it:1. Look closely at your hands and watch them melt. (This is worth doing just to see themelting hands phenomenon).2. Spin around until you become disoriented.3. Visualize a place you would like to be. (Instantaneous travel). This will usually moveyou to a dream pool similar to your visualized target destination.4. Fly straight up, as fast as you can. If this fails to shiftyour reality location, at least you will experience space flight.5. Fly away fast, close to the surface, until you find a place youlike. The blurring of speed will cause a reality shift.6. Walk into a mirror, picture or painting. This is the same asVRP (virtual reality projection).These techniques all trick the subconscious, through disorientation, into moving you toanother reality location. THE ASTRAL FORM IN MOTIONMany people have motion problems in their first few projections. Simply getting across aroom in the