There are a few odd things that can happen during the exit out of body, and just afterwards. This ebook would be incomplete without at least some discussion of this potential weirdness. These events are largely
comprised of tests of courage and self-control and awareness of what is happening, provided courtesy of your own higher self and the collective consciousness.
When you are close to the exit and have all the symptoms and you KNOW it’s happening, someone you know will bang on your door LOUDLY and demand that you attend to some emergency immediately. You’ll think “Damn, what timing!” and fight to stop the OBE exit, only to find your house quiet and no one there when you go to the door to attend to the so-called emergency. This is a TEST of self-control and ‘awareness’ of what is happening.
Think about this… the odds of someone trying to wake you at the EXACT moment of a conscious OBE exit are ASTRONOMICAL! I have had this happen to me dozens of times and it is ALWAYS a hallucination.
It is the same with the thousands of people I have coached over the years. Not once has there ever been any substance to OBE exit type hallucinations.
In time and with experience you will learn to ignore such things. This is a part of the learning curve that leads
like this – who does – but if you look back upon it later you will see the WISDOM.
You are EXPECTED to KNOW that such events are hallucinations designed to distract or scare you. Also keep in mind that the weird and scary stuff forms VERY
STRONG memories, which are needed to form RECALLABLE memories after OBE.
Another version of this type of astral weirdness during an OBE exit, is where a pet animal jumps on your bed and tries to get your attention. Or, a person may enter your room and start tickling you and trying to awaken you. Again the odds of this being real at the time of a conscious OBE exit are astronomical.
Another occasional weirdness during the lead up to an OBE exit, is feeling hands pulling at your feet, as if trying to pull you out of your body. These are generally misinterpreted as either some kind of attack, or some kind of help to get out of body. But they are just another test of courage, self-control, and conscious awareness.
Ignore EVERYTHING during an OBE exit, once it actually starts to happen. Anything that happens at that time is a hallucination test, of courage and self-control and awareness of what is happening, which is a conscious OBE exit.
If this worries you, when you get out of body a few seconds later, you can go and check the so-called
emergency in your astral body, and dive back into your physical body immediately, if it is real – which it won’t be.
You may hear astral voices clearly around you, of one or more people talking to you, or about you, sometimes by name. These voices will be intimidating and
undermining what you are doing by saying things like “Look at him, he’s playing with his Chakras again, the poor fool…doesn’t he know what will happen next! He’s dog meat. He’s history! He won’t survive this!”
This is a test of courage and self-control and AWARENESS of what is happening. These things are REQUIRED to consciously astral travel. Don’t wimp out!
This also applies to ASTRAL NOISES, which can be VERY REAL and VERY LOUD. You may hear a lawnmower or chainsaw start up in your room, dragging chains, a train going by close to your head, or a loud party starts up around you. You may hear ghost-like moaning and wailing. These are ALL hallucination tests of courage and self-control and awareness.
The following events are less common, and probably less than ten percent of regular astral projectors will experience these events at some time. Having such ASTRAL TESTS is a very good sign for one’s potential for spiritual development.
Once you get out of body into Real Time, you may find a few chimpanzee-like beings leering and clutching at you. This is all they will ever do. The correct way to
proceed here is to tell them that you do not believe in them, order them to leave, and then turn and continue your OBE.
Once out of body, you may find a dark male figure on the far side of the room, in skintight black with glowing- red eyes – commonly called “The Dweller on the
Threshold”. This figure will breathe heavily and make threatening noises and gestures, but this is all it will ever do. Stay calm. This is another test of courage, and, again, tell it you do not believe in it and ORDER it to leave, and then continue your OBE.
There are many variations of the above tests, but what you need to keep in mind here is that NOTHING CAN HURT YOU during OBE. But if you succumb to fear, then your OBE will end and the fear will continue to grow and make future OBEs much more difficult.
Courage is not the ability to feel NO FEAR. Courage is the ability to CONTROL FEAR and continue to function. This is all you have to do to PROVE YOURSELF and overcome these tests.
These tests will usually continue to appear until you face them and overcome them, and then they will stop. Ignore EVERYTHING during the exit out of body. You can dive back into your body any time you like!
During an OBE, keep your mind firmly OFF your physical body and the room it is in. If you think even briefly about your body you will start to shift back there, sometimes instantly. So keep your mind on what you are doing, and only think of your body when you want to end an OBE.
There is a tension between your physical and astral bodies that is strongest within 20 feet. (6 meters) This eases and makes things much easier if you move beyond that distance immediately after you complete the OBE exit.
A basic understanding of these things is very helpful to successfully astral projecting consciously. And this is just the beginning, as if you keep astral projecting, more Tests and Initiations will appear…on this journey of life and learning and evolution that never ends.