The Malleable Light

I didn’t see very much activity this month in the realm of Astral Projection and I’m not sure why. Once again this is not a surprise, I have only been experimenting with Astral Projection for about 5 months. Things that I suspect contributed to the dry spell include too much work at my day job, a two year old that wakes me up constantly and lack of a good strategy.

I am not sure what I can do about work other than to meditate more and learn to put it out of my mind. I will continue working with my 3 year old daughter and hopefully she will start sleeping in her room all night soon and then lastly I want to focus exclusively on the techniques that I am learning in Astral Dynamics going forward.

I am 140 pages into the book and Robert Bruce seems to have intimate knowledge of the underlying science behind Astral Projection and of the energy bodies and chakras. I will not know for sure if it’s 100% legit until I have more experience with the system, but it seems reasonable and logical at this point.

I am currently in the early stages of MBA and T.I. which Bruce suggests is the foundation for all of the techniques throughout his book. MBA (Mobile Body Awareness) deals with ones ability to focus body awareness on specific parts of the body while T.I. (Tactile Imaging) is the active use of body awareness to directly stimulate and manipulate the substance of the energy body.

I will continue to meditate and try for OBEs however my goal at this point is to learn Bruce’s system inside and out and use it exclusively for awhile and then possibly expand on it in the future. I will continue to post updates of my progress through the Astral Dynamics system.

I am grateful for my successful out of body experiences achieved while using many different techniques learned from literature by Robert Monroe, William Buhlman, Vessen Hopkins, Nicholas Newport and many others. This has proven to me that it’s possible and given me the motivation to become more precise and methodical in my approach.

To everyone reading my blog, thanks for reading and good luck on your journey, whatever that journey may be.

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Last night I went to bed late and didn’t set the intent to leave my body while I was falling asleep at the beginning of my night. I fell asleep around 12:30 AM shortly after my 3 year old daughter climbed into bed with us.

I woke up at 4;30 AM after having a dream that I was living in and owned the house in Tennessee that I grew up in as a child. I don’t understand at the moment why, but several people I work with were living there too. I went and used the restroom and came back to bed and fell asleep.

I woke up again at 6:30 AM and noticed that my arm had been in an awkward position and had waken me up due to poor circulation. I figured that I had enough sleep at this point and set the intent to have an OBE.

I settled into a position and became very still and ran the mantra “I am out of body now” though my head several times until I fell into sleep again. I remember repeating the mantra about 4 times and then found myself walking down an unfamiliar road headed towards my parents house that I had dreamed about and my mind still had recollection of my coworkers and of my previous dream earlier in the night.

While I was walking down the road my awareness was definitely in a dreamlike reactive state at first and then I simply walked into awareness. It’s hard to explain this but as I walked down that road everything around me transitioned into waking awareness and became not only clear in my mind but clear in my vision as well. I was seeing things around me with waking clarity and I could not tell if I was OBE or awake. I felt a familiar fear surge through my body as if I was in waking life suffering from some sort of amnesia.

I continued to walk for a few seconds and then my logical brain clicked into place and I knew I could test this reality by attempting to fly. I jumped up off the ground and then while in the air I focused on wanting to fly. I felt a magnetic like force take hold of me and then a movement upwards started off slow and increased in speed until I literally felt the g-forces on my body as I accelerated upwards. I flew up and past the top of the trees and then my awareness shifted again into a knowing that I was either dreaming or was out of my body.

Seconds after I realized I was not in waking life I found myself in bed and I was spinning and had a slight but almost unnoticable vibration or warmth flowing through my body. I tried to hold onto this and project back out but I eventually woke up.

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Last night I went to bed late after a rough weekend of Oracle outages at work and didn’t expect any out of body experiences. Honestly, I was so tired that I didn’t even want to project.

I went to sleep at about 12:30 AM and fell asleep quick. I noticed as I fell asleep that I was visualizing memory impressions of a forest. I tried to hold my self in a trance while falling asleep but it was in vein, I was just too tired.

I was in a dream and I don’t remember what the dream was about at this point but at some point I exited the dream and I was in bed and I felt myself falling forward. The sensation felt similar to floating on your stomach in water and then doing a flip forward. I noticed what was going on at this point and became lucid and I took control. I stopped the falling forward sensation by just thinking about it and then made myself spin counter clockwise 360 degrees. Once the spin was complete I felt a release and I knew I was free so I simply rolled out to the left and landed on my feet beside my bed in my projected body.

I didn’t have any sight this time so I immediately started asking for clarity and awareness and as I did I noticed I was no longer in my room and that I was in a forest. I could see the outline of pine trees coming into view off in the distance through darkness. This didn’t last long and I woke up seconds later and I was in my bed. I really wish that one of these days I would remember returning to my body .

There wasn’t anything else to write about and this was a very short experience, I just want to make sure that every experience is recorded so that I can look for clues, trends or patterns or whatever.

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Last night I read some more of Astral Dynamics and then it was lights out at 12:30 AM. I focused on breath while falling asleep and repeated the mantra “I am now out of body now” for several minutes and then fell asleep quick.

I slept sound through the night and woke up at 4:30 AM ready to try a meditation / mantra mix technique. I went and used the restroom in preparation and then came back to bed and became very still and turned my focus to breath. When I would breathe in I would think “I am out of body” and as I exhaled I would think “Now..”. Any time that my thought would wonder away from the breath or mantra I would pull my awareness back to it. I continued with this process until I fell back to sleep, which was about 10 minutes later.

I woke up at 7:00 AM and repeated the same steps as above. This time I recall my awareness slipping away for a moment and I was over a sink washing my hands and then suddenly I was yanked back out of this awareness and into my physical body and the vibrations were present and fading. They quickly disappeared and I started the process over at about 7:30 AM.

I stayed focused for another 5 – 10 minutes and all of the sudden I found myself in the elevator leading up to my office at work. I was floating in the top back right hand corner of the elevator looking down at 3 women who were going up. I heard a snap and I released from the corner and floated out though the elevator doors and down into the lobby on the first floor. I lost awareness at this point and found myself back in bed with the vibratiosn fading. They completely faded away and I once again started the process over again at about 8:00 AM.

I focused on breath and the same mantra again for about an hour solid and finially a surge of energy entered my head and the vibrations spread into my body. I felt as though I was expanding this time and that my body was getting bigger. I tried to deepen the trance but I ended up waking up. It was a few minutes after 9 at this point and I was too wide awake to try again.

It seems that I may have had several out of body experiences this morning but it’s difficult to really tell. Again, I feel like there are some gaps in my memory and that any success that I may have had I was not able to retain the memory of it. For example, what else happened between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM and between 7:30 Am and 8:00 AM? I can only account for a few minutes.

I have had some great success with the meditation / mantra mix in the past. I will continue to use this technique and read Astral Dynamics and I’ll see where it leads me to next. Hopefully there are some pointers regarding memory retention in the chapters to come.

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I have been dry in the area of Astral Projection over the last 9 days. This is not surprising to me when I stop and consider that I have only been practicing for the last four months of my entire life (that I can remember) which is just a fart in the wind in comparison to others.

Along my journey I have had a dozen consciously induced out of body experiences and I have also read over a thousand pages on the subject between Robert Monroe’s entire collection, William Buhlman’s Adventures Beyond the Body, Matt Jones’ Lucidology videos and Vessen Hopkins’ Vehram System. These were very good resources and I highly recommend that people read and study them all. There is however one book that I have been wanting to read more than all other books and it’s called Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. I was saving the best for last.

I picked up the book last week from my friends over at Whole Life Books here in Austin. I’ve read the first 4 chapters which is about 80 pages into the 600 page book and I must admit that it’s very good.

When reading Monroe’s books he would always talk and re-entry and about the bodies that he would see hovering next to his body that mirrored his own. Monroe never really went into much detail about this but in this book it is thoroughly explained within the first 100 pages and I am sure this is just skimming the suface of what’s in the book.

He also explains a concept called “Mind-Split”. Which literally means that your consciousness exists and is fully functional in two or more different bodies at once. He also touches on a subject that I posted in one of my previous blog entries about remembering OBEs. He states that most people have successful OBEs but think they are failing at it because they don’t remember that it ever happened. I guess this would be a partial failure still, but knowing this and overcoming it is worth the price that I paid for the book alone.

I will continue reading this beast of a book over the next few weeks and put this new information into play and see if I can shorten the gap between OBEs. Make sure to check back soon as I should have some pretty cool experiences to write about and possibly some great advice.

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