Own Exit Techniques 414 Astral Transference: Mentally Projecting into the Astral 414 Optional: Brain Wave Generator Preset "Week 13: Exit Training" 419 Week 13 Daily Pages 421 Where Do I Go from Here? 440 Afterword 443 Appendix A: Suggested Supplemental Reading List 445 Appendix B: BrainWave Generator Installation Guide and Tips 448 Appendix C: Dream Journal Template and Instructions 451 Appendix D: Projection Position Posture 453 Appendix E: Keys to a Successful OBE by Laetitia M. Kimball 454 Appendix F: My OBE Successes by Brian Mercer 462 Glossary 475 Bibliography 478 Index 479 We want to thank the volunteers who gave of their spare time road testing this program. Your comments and ideas were invaluable in shaping the content and organization of this book. Our sincere appreciation also goes to Tracy Weber of Seattle's Whole Life Yoga for her guidance in ensuring that the breathing techniques featured in this program are both safe and effective. We are also grateful to Adrian Cooper, aspiring projector and web master extraordinaire, for his enthusiasm and technical support; to Ben-Jamin Bruce for his invaluable encouragement and intellectual contribution; to Michael Ross for his OBE literature input; to Laetitia Kimball for kindly allowing us to publish her essay on the OBE; to Richard and Michele Kaplowitz for their loving support and photographic expertise; to Keith Alderslade for being so annoyingly intelligent; to Tommy Pirbos for technical input; to Nancy Mostad for her OBE insights on "just letting go"; and to Sara Mercer for tirelessly reviewing and proofreading version after version of this manuscript. Additional thanks go to all those in the Brain Wave Generator user community whose advice played a role in the development of the presets that complement this program, and to the early users of the web version of this manual and the www.astraldynamics.com forums community for their guidance and suggestions. And to Joanna Willis, Lisa Novak, Wendy Froshay, and all the folks at Llewellyn Worldwide Publications: thank you! Preface Welcome to Mastering Astral Projection! This book is devoted to teaching you how to have a fully conscious astral projection (also called out-of-body experience or OBE). It focuses on practical OBE exit training and advice, rather than on covering everything relating to the history, speculation, and practice of astral travel. My first book, Astral Dynamics: A NEW Approach to OBE (Hampton Roads, 1999) covered not only projection training and OBE exit techniques, but also many related issues, phenomena, and theories associated with astral travel. During the latter stages of writing Astral Dynamics, it was clear that I needed to include a practical training program to help readers apply the information I was giving in a step-by-step and goal-oriented way. Given the eventual size of Astral Dynamics (560 pages), however, such a weighty addition was impractical. A few chapters had already been cut to save space. After Astral Dynamics was published, I received many requests for an OBE training program. One of my readers, American computer programmer, writer, and OBE aficionado Brian Mercer, sent me the bones of such a program. He had developed it for