At this point in your practice, you should be gaining competency at deep relaxation, going deeper into Theta trance, and staying conscious, as well as energizing your astral body.
Now comes the OBE exit technique.
First let’s take a moment to think about how the “mechanics” of an astral projection work in more detail.
If we use the “Russian Doll” theory, then the astral body is, for all intents and purposes, waiting inside your physical body for you to energize it and take it out for a spin.
To trigger an OBE, you need to generate an energy copy of your self - your astral double - and EJECT this out of your physical body.
In order to do this you need to create the right conditions in order for the generation of your astral double to occur. And when you do this and trigger the process, it’ll happen automatically. This is the astral projection reflex.
exit techniques on a combination of Tactile Imaging and Imagination. This led to one of my most effective OBE exit methods: the “Rope Technique”. This involves IMAGINING and FEELING yourself climbing a rope, or a ladder, to trigger the astral projection reflex.
The use of tactile or “touch” simulation has a stronger effect on the projection mechanism than visualization alone.
It does not matter if you cannot help but visualize things when you do energy work and OBE methods, so long as you ALSO feel them with your tactile senses.
Visualization IS pure Imagination. There is no real difference. When you imagine something, or have a fantasy, you don’t actually see anything visually, but it is like you almost can, down to the finest details.
If you do actually see visuals, then this is a mind’s eye vision ability, which is related to clairvoyance. But for this work, all that is required is normal Imagination, which everyone can do PERFECTLY.
As far back as people have astral projected, they always used visual techniques. They would visualize (imagine) themselves separating and floating out of body, or flying away, etcetera.
Body Awareness Tactile-Imaging based techniques, like climbing a rope or a ladder out of body, are easier to do and are more successful.
Climbing or pulling yourself out of body, or ‘feeling’ yourself viscerally rolling out of bed makes a lot of sense. This engages your normal intuitive ‘feelings’ and motor skills that are instinctively related to physical movement.
EXERCISE: Climbing Out of Body - The “Rope Technique”
- In a seated posture, after deep physical
relaxation, and going into a Theta level trance, and doing some preparatory energy work
- You might like to do the chakra stimulation exercise at this point, from the Energy Work chapter further into this book
- Become aware of your hands and arms. Raise and rub and squeeze your imaginary “hands” together. Feel this action with your body awareness, your tactile sense of touch
- Imagine a thick, strong rope hanging down from above you, within easy reach of your “hands” - Feel your “hands” taking hold of the rope. Feel
and explore the texture of this rope with your imagination and tactile senses
- Reach out and climb hand over hand up the rope. Reach as far as your arm would normally, and pull the rope back to your chest. As one hand is
reaching out, the other is pulling you up the rope - Repeat, over and over, climbing the rope at a
natural speed
- No matter what you physically weigh, you have unlimited strength. Continue climbing
- Keep your body relaxed, and keep your mind clear of “thought words”
Using a chair or sitting up in bed is, you will find, generally more successful for OBE than using a position normally used for sleep. This provides a little Slight
Discomfort to help keep you conscious. I suggest you experiment and discover this for yourself.
You are programmed to begin falling asleep once you get into your bed. Using another room for OBE practice is therefore optimal. Try the couch or a spare room.
BE PREPARED to trigger a full astral projection exit whenever you TRY this technique. And be ready to go through with it, come what may. If you try to stop an exit, it can cause a host of problems.
Trying to stop an OBE exit can prolong the exit stage and exaggerate OBE exit symptoms (rapid heart rate, vibrations, and falling sensation) to uncomfortable levels.
If you have a bad experience, aborting an OBE exit, this can cause a psychological ‘flinch’ reflex to occur during subsequent OBE exit attempts. This can make OBE more difficult than it needs to be.
The best way to overcome this is to make sure it never happens. So be prepared to go through with the OBE exit. Once you get out of body, you can immediately dive back into your body if you wish.
As you surely noticed, we’re doing everything we can to gain a strong awareness of the tactile sense of the rope. This helps to construct a richer experience. The more “real” it is for you, the faster you will trigger the astral projection reflex.
Practice the ROPE method now. Close your eyes, take a few relaxing breaths, and try it. You will feel a strange pressure in your torso as you do this.