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- MONROE TECHNIQUES FOR ASTRAL PROJECTION
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-
- Note: After having studied many methods of Astral
- Projection, I have found that this is the easiest to do.
- Monroe teaches these techniques in a week, but they can be
- easily done in a day, with proper devotion. I feel that this
- technique is superior to others because it doe not require
- intense visualization, which many people cannot do.
- enjoy!
-
-
- (Taken from Leaving The Body: A Complete Guide to Astral
- Projection, D. Scott Rogo, prentice Hall Press)
-
- One of the chief barriers people learning to project face is
- fear. Many are afraid that they may die, or be harmed in some
- way as a result of their projection. Nothing could be farther
- from the truth. The Cantebury Institute, reknowned for its
- occult studies, executed an experiment in projection involving
- over 2,000 people. None of them were hurt in any way by this,
- and now, three years later, none have complained of any newly
- arising problems.
-
- Once you are aware that you cannot be harmed by projecting,
- you should begin monroe's techniques, step by step.
-
- Step one:
- Relax the body. According to Monroe, "the ability to relax
- is the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first step itself"
- to having an OBE. (out of body experience) This includes bothe
- physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest a
- method of attaining this relaxation, although Progressive
- Muscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises
- (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3.... until 50 or 100) are known
- to work well.
-
- Step two:
- Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the
- hypnagogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't recommend any
- method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm
- up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you
- start to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken
- again. With practice, you can learn to control the Hypnagogic
- state without using your arm. Another method is to
- concentrate on an object. When other images start to enter
- your thoughts, you have entered the Hypnagogic state.
- Passively watch these images. This will also help you
- maintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition
- A.
-
- Step three:
- Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. observe your
- field of vision through your closed eyes. Do nothing more
- for a while. Simply look through your closed eyelids at the
- blackness in front of you. After a while, you may notice
- light patterns. These are simply neural discharges. They
- have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, one
- has entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, one
- must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which Monroe
- calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you lose
- all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are
- almost in a void in which your only source of stimulation will
- be your own thoughts.
- The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D.
- This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a
- rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal
- fatigue. To achieve Condition D, Monroe suggests that you
- practice entering it in the morning or after a short nap.
-
- Step Four:
- Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important
- part of the technique, and also the most vague.
- Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset
- of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or
- as is electricity is being shot through the body. /their
- cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying
- to leave the physical one.
- For entering into the vibrational state, he offers the
- following directions:
-
- 1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching
- your skin.
- 2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your
- eyelids, but do not shut out all light.
- 3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your
- head pointed toward magnetic north.
- 4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are
- slightly warmer than might normally be comfortable.
- 5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when,
- there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.
- 6. Enter a state of relaxation
- 7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember
- all that occurs during the upcoming session that will be
- beneficial to your weel-being. Repeat this five times.
- 8. Proceed to breath through your helf-open mouth.
- 9. As you breath, concentrate on the void in front of you.
- 10. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change
- your point of mental reference to six feet.
- 11. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary
- line parallel to your body axis up and above your head. Focus
- there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and
- bring them back into your body.
-
- Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you
- will know when you have achieved contact with them.
-
- Step five:
- Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice
- controling them by mentally pushing them into your head, down
- to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body,
- and producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce
- this wave effect, concentrate of the vibrations and mentally
- push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body.
- Practice this until you can induce these waves on command.
- Once you have control of the vibrational state, you are
- ready to leave the body.
-
- Step six:
- Begin with a partial seperation. The key here is thought
- control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving
- the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thought might cause you
- to lose control of the state.
- Now, having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring
- the OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body".
- Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes in
- contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed.
- Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it
- back into coincidence with the physical one, decrease the
- vibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie
- quietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercise
- will prepare you for full seperation.
-
- Step seven:
- Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two
- methods for this. One method is to lift out of the body. To
- do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after
- entering this vibrational state. Think about how nice it
- would be to float upward. Keep this thought in mind at all
- costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE will
- occur naturally at this point.
- Another method is the "Rotation method" or "roll-out"
- technique. When you have achieved the vibrational state, try
- to roll over as if you were turning over in bed. /do not
- attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from
- the top and virtually roll over into your second body right
- out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out of
- the body but next to it. Think of floating upward, and you
- should find yourself floating above the body.
- Monroe suggets you begin with the lift-out method, but
- argues that both are equally efficacious.
-
- If, after all this, you still can't project, I recommend
- purchasing Leaving The Body, by R. Scott Rogo. It only costs
- $7.95 and contains another eight or so techniques. Not all
- techniques work for everyone, but chances are you'll find one
- that works for you in this book.
- Good luck!
- Thich Van.
-