The Malleable Light

I have not been sticking to my commitment to write a bi-weekly progress report so I will just do a monthly report instead, unless I am seeing a lot of activity and then I will just let the posts speak for themselves. I continuously try to consciously induce the out of body state but as I have stated so many times in the past, being busy in waking life puts a damper on any real progress. I have been meditating every night using a modified Shamatha meditation technique where I am actually laying down rather than sitting up and I have been reading Astral Dynamics and doing energy work.

The meditation is interesting but I think that laying down while meditating is probably not the best idea because I end up drifting off to sleep. I have been experiencing rushing noises right before drifting off that can only be described as the noise you might hear on a radio when the dial is between stations. I posted a video Rushing Noises / Sleep Paralysis Sounds in the video section that somewhat represents what I hear only mine are much shorter in quick bursts that fade in and out.

Astral Dynamics is great and is the best OBE guide available in my opinion. I have finally decided to just read the book rather than stopping when I don’t feel like I and progressing with certain exercises. The book states that one must understand tactile imaging and be able put it into practice to get the most out of the book however if I never read the book because I pause at every hurdle then I know for sure I will not get anything out of the book . I was able to get my hands on a wonderful Astral Dynamics overview Robert Bruce On OBEs thanks to ubikmonroe. I highly recommend this book and even if you don’t buy in to any of this, it’s a trip and worth the read.

That’s all for now. Thanks for dropping in and reading and I wish you the best of luck in your spiritual endeavors.

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I woke up early this morning at 4 AM and per the lucidology videos and for the first time ever I had enough clarity to consciously wake up and keep perfectly still. Nicholas Newport claims that if a person is able to wake up without moving then they should be able to slip right back into sleep, the trance state or an OBE. Before I woke I had been dreaming that I was back in my childhood bedroom that I had shared with my two brothers growing up. In the dream they are both sleeping in the same bed across from me and but they were grown and for some reason were annoying the crap out of me.

I laid in the bed across from them in the dream trying to fall asleep “while already sleeping” and suddenly I woke up. Perhaps it was the fact that I was dreaming of falling asleep that prevented me from moving when I woke, but I made a conscious decision not to move for the sole purpose of attempting an OBE.

I recall laying in my real bed thinking mostly about staying perfectly still and then 5 seconds later the vibrations hit and I found myself in sleep paralysis. Almost instantly I was back in my dream, however I was now lucid and I knew what was going on. Strangely enough, at the same time I was seeing my current bedroom too. I was not flipping back an forth between dream state and waking consciousness, It seems that I was actually thinking in duality between my dreaming consciousness and my expanded ethereal consciousness.

A few seconds later I noticed in my dream state that the bed sheets where not completely coving my back which caused me to feel unprotected and fear set in. My consciousness then shifted to my dream state and I remember being in paralysis trying to break free by swinging my arms back and forth over my chest. My consciousness suddenly shifted back to my ethereal body and my dream body at the same time and I could see my dream arms sitting still while another set of arms were moving back and forth across my chest passing through my dream arms. I think that the moving arms were perhaps my real time double’s arms.

I never woke up but instead the vibrations stopped and I went straight back into the dream and lost real time consciousness. The fear of not being covered up in the dream caused an abrupt end to the experience. It seems to me that I was conscious on 3 different levels during the experience. I was seeing my dream, my real room and my real time arms moving pretty much all at the same time. I think that if I could have continued the experience and kept the fear at bay, my real time body, including the arms that were moving, would have exited and I may or may not have remembered the OBE. Perhaps the strong fear emotion was the reason I remembered any of it. This also suggest that when I woke up, any projected doubles must have been reeled in at that moment.

You can read more about dual consciousness “mind split” by reading Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce.

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This experience was, for me, another little taste of an OBE experience. As per my first experience, I awoke during a lucid dream and sought to convert this into an OBE. The separation plan… sit up in my astral body directly from the lucid dream as this was successful at the last attempt.

This experience differed from the last one as it was much more vague and many of the memories of the dream and the OBE experience were forgotten as I must have fell back to sleep while still out of body.

Rather than going back to my body shortly after the projection (as Robert Bruce suggests in Astral Dynamics and) which happened to me in my first conscious OBE, I possibly followed my original waking intention (should I have another OBE) which was to do some exploring beyond my bedroom. I believe I probably spent too long “out” and forgot how important it is to download the memories in order to have “success”.

What I do remember is:
1) Waking in my dream thereby converting it to a lucid dream
2) The experience of blackness behind my eyelids as I prepared to project.
3) Standing in my bedroom and being out of body and remembering how I got there & some of the “felt” experiences which preceded me in getting to where I was (though I haven’t yet remembered the exit itself) – the first thing I remember is feeling the floor underneath me – last time I was extremely conscious during the exit phase and remembered a lot of the separation experience, which (to me) was possibly the most profound part.
4) I remember telling myself that was out of body (OOB) and am not awake as last time the experience was so real and my consciousness so similar to my waking state I thought I was in fact awake. This time I convinced myself that I was “out”… though typing this I also remember testing reality after this by trying to push my hand through the bedroom closet sliding door.. I remember feeling it hard beneath my fingers and thought that this was odd as I thought I should be able to push my hand through the door – I don’t remember the outcome of any further tests as everything beyond this point is currently forgotten.

This experience is a good sign that I can currently convert lucid dreams into an out of body experience using this method as I’m now 2/2 from my last 2 lucid dreams.

The other thing that probably made this experience different than the other experience is that the previous experience happened after sunrise and I was ready to awaken. Last night the experience happened (at a guess) between 1-3am and I believe I fell back to sleep.

In order to collect full memories of future experiences I should keep the explorations fairly short in order to successfully “download” my memories of the experience. It may also be useful to release expectations about how the experience will proceed as I did have some preconception about how I would feel during the separation phase which may have had some impact on the experience.

Cheers,

Dean

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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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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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Last night’s experience was pretty frustrating. I’ve been reading Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce and working through some of the energy work. Last night I spent time focusing energy in my feet. Basically following this tutorial for the toes and feet:

http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/new-energy-ways/feet-leg-development.html

My feet immediately started tingling, so I figured I already have a good store of energy there but I went through the exercises anyway.

I was tired last night, so I didn’t even intend to try to project. I just went off to sleep around 11 or so. Sometime in the middle of the night I woke up and felt that I could lift out of my body. I willed myself out but I wasn’t able to see or do anything. I assume I tried too early. Next time that happens, I think I’ll just wait a while instead of immediately trying.

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