Astral Projection Techniques
About 14 years ago I aquired a book named Journey’s Out Of The Body by Robert A. Monroe. Mr. Monroe has written 3 books (that I know of) about Astral Projection. Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys and The Ultimate Journey. You can find all 3 books here.
Mr. Monroe writes about his experiences with astral projection in his books and gives actual techniques on how to obtain an Out Of Body Experience or OBE.
An OBE is the experience of leaving or seperating your soul energy from your body and exploring the astral realms. Hence the term “Astral Projection”.
He has had some really amazing (and sometimes frightening) experiences with astral projection. His first experiences were of simple things like the sensation of stretching your etheric arm through the floor and feeling the boards underneath. After he figured out how to break free from his physical self he goes on to experience some really amazing things in the astral planes. Things like The Astral Classroom or “Dream School” as some people call it.
He learned that he could climb the Astral Ladder and move into other dimensions and even be a real time observer of historical events in the past. He even learned to peer into the many alternate futures that exist beyond the now that we are all experiencing at this moment.
Throughout his life he practiced Astral Projection all the way until his death not long ago.
Before he died he founded The Monroe Institute. The Monroe Institute started as a place for Mr. Monroe to teach others that they are more than just their physical self and to teach the techniques he used to obtain OBE’s.
The Institute has become much more than just a small workshop or retreat since it’s inception. There are many programs at The Monroe Institute that help people to better themselves and to expand their knowledge of themselves, the universe and the energies and beings around them.
Just recently I have decided to clean myself out, stop doing drugs and destroying my body in order to obtain the Out Of Body Experiences that I used to practice years ago.
I found some information about Astral Projection Techniques on the web that I will share with you here in just a few more sentences.
Before I share this with you, you should know that Astral Projection requires some knowledge of Chakra exercises and Relaxation techniques. You can find this information on the internet or in just about any witchcraft book as well as with Yoga and Tai Chi.
It also requires a clean and healthy body (inside and out). This is why I have stopped smoking weed and started eating healthy.
Smoking weed, drinking, doing drugs and eating unhealthy foods inhibits your ability to meditate properly which will slow your progress and quite possibly cause you to get discouraged and quit trying.
What are the benefits of Astral Projection?
The ability to leave your body can bring all sorts of benefits. Did you ever wish you could fly? Well you can! You can fly! You can go anywhere you want in the entire universe and you can even jump into other dimensions. You can set your own dream scenarios to help you decide what the best course of action would be in certain situations. You can observe your friends as they participate in their every day lives without ever being seen. You can go back to the past to see what REALLY happened. You can enter into higher planes of existence and consult with beings which are smarter and much more in tune with the universe than you and ask them questions. You can travel into one of the endless alternate futures and see what might happen if you make certain decisions in your life and much much more.
Astral Projection can be a bit scary at first but if you stick with it you will come out of it a better, more confident and more knowledgable person. You will not fear death anymore because you will know exactly where you are going after you die. You will understand why you are here and what purpose your life serves in this universe. You will know who your real friends are as well as who your real enemies are. You will become more aware of what ’s going on around you and you’ll be able to make the right decision much quicker than you normally would. You will gain the ability to guide those around you when they come to you with questions about their personal lives if you so choose.
Astral Projection requires you to have a quiet place to meditate. The room temperature should be comfortable for you. If it is too hot or too cold you could be distracted. Robert Monroe started having his first experiences while napping on his couch which happened to be directly underneath the crown of his roof which was made of copper. This copper crown on his roof just so happened to be the exact same dimesions (but on a smaller scale) as the pyramid at Giza. Which I’m sure helped to initiate the experiences.
There are numerous ways of achieving etheric / astral projection, and there are many books on the subject. Here I will only describe the most common and / or the most useful methods that I have come across. Different people will find different methods more suited to themselves, so it’s simply a case of experimenting until you find the one that works best for you.
One thing that is consistant throughout all the projection techniques, is that the energy you have in your body can effect the ability to project, the length of time spent ‘out of the body’, and the frequency which can be reached.
Frequency is a very important aspect of Astral Projection. Your soul energy or etheric energy vibrates at a much higher rate than your physical body and you will experience (or feel) changes to this vibratory rate while trying to project. You’ll actually feel the vibrations as your etheric energy starts to seperate from your body. Do NOT succumb to the initial fear that instills as you start to feel these vibrations. Fear of the unknown or even the fear of death is the biggest obstacle you may face when trying to have an OBE. If the fear does overcome you don’t get discouraged by it. Just try again and try to overcome the fear.
Some people when practicing these techniques will actually give up and then try to go to sleep. Once when this happened to me I tried to go to sleep and right at the moment just before I fell asleep my mind woke up and I found myself hovering over my body near the ceiling. As I became more aware of my surroundings I thought that I was standing in front of a wall with a rough texture. I noticed that the wall was kind of turning in circles in front of me and I thought “well that’s kind of strange. walls don’t spin like this.” so I turned around and I saw my body lying on the bed in what seemed to be a slumber except it was also spinning in circles. I kind of freaked out and looked down at my etheric body’s torso and I noticed that the ceiling fan was whipping right through me. Then I REALLY freaked out and snapped back into my body.
When I got back in I was wide awake but all my muscles were paralyzed and there was this dull green semi-circular light at my feet and it was slowly fading. Once the light had completely faded I regained muscle control, sat up, and contemplated the situation for a few minutes before I walked to the kitchen to get a drink of water.
This experience was so vivid that it will be with me forever.
There was another experience where I rolled out of my body and tried to go flying but I got stuck in the tree across the street. I got caught up in the branches and freaked out and snapped back into my body. But I will elaborate on that at a different time.
Okay here are the methods of having an OBE that I found on the internet. The latter two are techniques that Robert Monroe explains in his books. The rope method is kind of new to me and relatively easy so I will explain this one first.
The Rope Technique :
This technique was developed by Robert Bruce. The speed at which this works is also surprising. What makes this so easy is the fact that this method does not require the ability to visualise .
This projection method will give you an etheric projection. The duration of this projection, in real time, will depend on the level of chakra development and energy flow you have attained.
As with all the techniques described, a deep level of relaxation is required.
Getting the feel of the Rope
Pin a length of ribbon, string or rope to the ceiling above you. Have it hanging within arms 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 aid. By being able to reach out and touch the ribbon, you will get used to the spatial coordinates of where the ROPE is. This grows both in your mind and hence as a thought form, making it easier to imagine yourself reaching out and climbing the ROPE with your etheric HANDS.
Note:
You do NOT have to actually visualize, or see, the ROPE at any time, just know where it is supposed to be. This method uses NO visualization at all. Reaching out and pulling on this invisible, imaginary rope with your ETHERIC hands 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 etheric body.
The Technique
1.Do a relaxation exercise thoroughly, until you are completely settled. This should only take a few minutes, don’t overdo it.
Here is an exercise you can use to attain the relaxation state:
Take three deep breathes. As you inhale count to seven.
As you exhale count to five. Then take a small two or three
second break and repeat. Do this seven times. As you
perform this excersize imagine each major part of your body
going completely limp within your three deep breaths.
Start with the head and then move on to your chest, then
your arms, then your hands, then your stomach, then your
legs and lastly your feet. After the seventh repetition you
should be compeltely relaxed and in a trance like state.
2. Once you are compeltely relaxed imagine yourself reaching out and pulling yourself, hand over hand, up the strong, invisible, imaginary ROPE hanging above you. Try and imagine the feel of a strong, thick, coarse rope in your hands.
Don’t try and visualise this ROPE! I want you to imagine you are reaching out and climbing this ROPE in the pitch dark, so you can’t see it at all, you just know where it is and can imagine the feel of it. Visualisation wastes valuable mental energy that can be better put to use exerting direct pressure on your etheric body.
You will feel a slight dizzy sensation inside you as you do this, specifically in your upper torso. This is caused by exerting dynamic pressure on the etheric body. The dizzy sensation comes from the etheric body loosening. This feeling of vertigo will intensify the more you pull on the rope. Do NOT fear the sensations you are feeling they are completely natural.
Very Important Note: This dizzy feeling and any feelings of pressure or vertigo, etc, caused by your mental action of pulling on the rope MUST be carefully noted by you. Learn the EXACT mental action you are doing to cause this vertigo. You will have to train your mental climbing action to cause this feeling. So, the first few times you try this 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.
Very Important Note: IGNORE *ALL* SENSATION YOU FEEL DURING PROJECTION or it will distract you, break your concentration, and ruin your chances for projection. Concentrate on the single act of climbing your ROPE to the TOTAL exclusion of everything else. Put everything you have into this one action, but don’t tense up, it must be all mental.
3. Keep climbing, hand over hand, ever upwards, and you will feel the heavy sensation come over you. The pressure you are exerting on your etheric body will force you into the 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, don’t stop.
5. Next you will feel the vibrations start, your whole body will seem to be vibrating and you will feel paralysed. Concentrate, single minded, on climbing your rope, don’t stop. Again do not fear the vibrations they are a natural occurence.
6. Next you will feel yourself coming free of your body. You will buzz slightly as you feel yourself coming out of your body. You will exit your body in the direction of your imaginary rope and will be hovering above your body. You’re free at last!
Note: Do *NOT* allow yourself to break concentration when the vibrations start. They are a natural effect caused by energy coursing through all the hundreds of major and minor chakras in your body. If you do find yourself being distracted by this, spend more time doing concentration exercises until you overcome this problem.
The Lift / Roll Out Technique :
This technique is outlines in Journey’s Out Of The Body by Robert Monroe.
This is probably the most popular projection technique around. This will also give an etheric projection. This projection method will give you an etheric projection. The duration of this projection, in real time, will depend on the level of chakra development and energy flow you have attained.
As with all the techniques described, a deep level of relaxation is required. Use the relaxation techniqe above to attain this state. Once you have reached a very deep level of relaxation (trance state), you must then use your powers of visualisation. Simply imagine yourself floating upwards out of your body. Tell yourself all the time how nice it is to do this, how pleasant, how great it would be to be floating out of the body. Continue to image this floating feeling.
It often helps to to imagine an aid or accessory to this floating process. For instance, you may imagine hundreds of small birds all flying up and pulling their own little pieces of string which are all attached to your non-physical body. All the time they are pulling you gently out of the physical body. You can use any adaptation to this – what ever helps you imagine that you are floating up.
As you imagine this you will feel the vibrations beginning – ignore them totally. Simply continue to imagine yourself floating upwards.
After a relatively short while you will feel yourself come free of the physical body. This is often quite a sudden sensation as the non-physical body breaks free of the physical body. The only analogy I can think of as to describe this feeling would be how a ‘glob’ in a lava lamp would feel like – it’s been trying to go up for a while and the pressure has been gradually getting greater, and then suddenly it breaks away and floats gently up and away.
You will then find yourself outside your physical body.
A common variation on this technique is the roll out method.
This is very similar, except that instead of imagining that you are floating upward, imagine that you are rolling sideways out of your body. Feel yourself gently rocking from side to side. Very slowly at first, but gradually building the momentum until eventually you will reach that critical point where you will actually break free from, and actually roll out of, your physical body.
The Anchor Technique :
This is another popular technique, which produces an etheric projection.
The basis of this method is to focus on an anchor point outside of the physical body. There are two basic variations to this technique – the fixed anchor, and the moving anchor.
As with all the techniques described, a deep level of relaxation is required.
Once you have reached a very deep level of relaxation (trance state), you must then use your powers of visualisation .
The Fixed Anchor
Although not mentioned as frequently as the moving anchor technique, I find this the easier if the two methods.
After reaching the trance state, focus on a point outside of the physical body (e.g. at the end of the bed). You can either simply focus on a point in space, or you can (and I find this much easier) imagine an object at that point (it usually helps if it is a familiar object).
Once you can clearly see the focus point in your minds eye, ‘feel’ how solid it is. Try pushing it around with your mind, try pulling it, or moving it. The focus point should be totally solid and entirely ‘fixed’ where it is. No amount of mental manipulation should be able to move it.
Once the focus point is totally fixed, imagine reaching out with your arms and grabbing hold of the focus point (object). Remember, this WILL NOT MOVE. Now, try pulling the object towards you, gently at first, and then harder and harder. Gradually as you pull you will feel yourself moving towards the focus point (instead of vice versa). Finally you will find yourself at the focus point outside your physical body – Presto, you’ve done it.
The Moving Anchor
After reaching the trance state, imagine an object about 6 feet in front of your eyes (assuming that you are lying down). Once again, make this a familiar object. Now, feel this object pulling at you (like a magnet). Once you can see the object clearly in your minds eye, and feel the pull of the object on you, begin to move the object slowly towards you. Just a small amount at first (perhaps 6″ to a foot), as the object moves towards you feel the pull getting stronger. Now move it back again (the pull gets weaker as you do). Now repeat the process 5 or 6 times moving the object closer each time and feeling the pull becoming stronger and stronger as the object comes closer.
Once you are comfortable with the movement of the object, begin the process again, only this time the movement of the object should be a fluid motion, and as the object moves to and fro it should be like a wave. You should also feel this wave on yourself as the pull gets stronger and weaker and stronger again. Finally, as the object virtually reaches you, the strength of the pulling force, combined with the wave like motion will simply pull you right out of your physical body.
Interested in learning more?
There is an E-Book called “School Of Out-Of-Body Travel – A Practical Guidebook” that you can download here that goes into depth about the Astral Projection phenomenon. It explains the physics and the brain states obtained while projecting and explains even more techniques you can use to obtain and Out Of Body Experience.
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After you try these techniques come back and post your experiences here.
