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Out-Of-Body: Treatise On Projection

                             Treatise On Projection

                                     (C) Copyright 2-July-1994.

                              Robert Bruce ([e-mail]) writes:

This version has been completely rewritten and updated, with thought to all the questions and comments received since its first
posting. I have tried, by applying my experience as a projector and mystic, to solve some of the basic problems people are
having with projection. This has become an interactive work thanks to all the constructive feedback and experimentation it has
inspired on the Internet.

There are certain aspects of the astral dimension and the projection process that are very complicated. Much of it is
misunderstood and it can all be very confusing at times. This series of articles attempts to shed a little light on the subject, and
hopefully, explain what its all about. The theories and conclusions in this Treatise are largely drawn from my own projection
experience. It is the goal of this Treatise to develop greater understanding and new, simpler and more effective techniques for
projection. The ideas, theories and techniques discussed here are constantly under development and are subject to modification
and change as new discoveries and insights come to light.

Part 1: General

   1.What is the Astral Dimension?
   2.Dreams
   3.Thought Forms
   4.Astral Vision
   5.Creative Visualization Power
   6.The Alice In Wonderland Effect
   7.Melting Hands
   8.Created Thought Form Objects
   9.How does Projection Happen?
  10.The OOBE
  11.The Astral Projection
  12.The Lucid Dream
  13.Astral Projection Or Lucid Dream?

Part 2: Starting Out

   1.Starting Out
   2.Etheric Matter
   3.Ectoplasm
   4.Interdimensional Manifestation
   5.Energy Flow
   6.Chakras Use
   7.Higher Levels And Their Buffer Zones
   8.Higher Level Projection
   9.The Astral Dimension
  10.Virtual Reality Projection
  11.The Akashic Records
  12.The Mental Dimension
  13.Buddhic Dimension
  14.Atmic Dimension
  15.Death

Part 3: Projection Training

   1.Calming The Mind
   2.Relaxation
   3.Contemplation
   4.Breath Awareness Meditation
   5.Surface Thoughts
   6.Concentration
   7.Concentration Exercise [1]
   8.Concentration Exercise [1]
   9.Concentration Exercise [3]
  10.The Trance State
  11.How To Enter A Trance
  12.Deep Trance
  13.Energy Body Expansion
  14.Trance Familiarity
  15.Tactile Imaging

Part 4: Basic Energy Work

   1.The Major Chakras
   2.What Are Chakras?
   3.Raising
   4.Chakra Stimulation
   5.Stop And Check
   6.Chakra Sensations
   7.Closing The Chakras
   8.Psychic Abilities
   9.Practise
  10.Long Does It All Take?

Part 5: Astral Rope

   1.Putting The Pressure On
   2.Getting The Feel Of Rope
   3.Active Chakra
   4.Are You Ready To Project?
   5.When To Do The Exercises
   6.Your Projection Sequence
   7.Full Sequence
   8.How To Use ROPE
   9.A ROPE Variation
  10.The Mechanics OF How ROPE Works
  11.How Long Does It All Take
  12.My First ROPE Projection
  13.Remembering It All
  14.Stuck ?

Part 6: More On Rope

   1.SIMPLE USE OF ROPE
   2.LUCID DREAM BACKUP
   3.Lucid Dreaming
   4.Reality Checking
   5.L.D. Trigger
   6.Changing Your Reality Location
   7.THE ASTRAL FORM IN MOTION
   8.Astral Momentum
   9.How To Move
  10.Learning To Fly
  11.Speed
  12.Instantaneous Travel
  13.Long Distance Travel
  14.Orbiting the Earth
  15.How Far Can You Go?
  16.FUTURE WIND
  17.Symbolic Visions
  18.Future Wind Example
  19.Hindsight
  20.MIRRORS
  21.A Better Goodbye



Part 1: General

What is the Astral Dimension?

The astral is the closest dimension to the physical. It overlays and permeates the world like a huge mind net, catching and
holding all thought. Its contents are created by the collective consciousness of the world mind. It contains all the thoughts,
memories, fantasies, and dreams of every living thing in the world. In it, the laws of sympathetic attraction, or like attracts like,
causes this ocean of mind stuff to strata and settle into layers or pools. These pools of thought are more commonly called astral
planes, astral worlds, astral sub planes or astral realms.

The astral dimension is composed of astral matter and is aptly described as mind stuff. It is extremely sensitive to thought and
can be moulded into any shape or form. These creations can be so perfect as to be indistinguishable from reality.

The best way to explain this, mind stuff, is to draw a comparison between astral matter and unexposed, high speed
photographic film. When this film is exposed to light, focused by the cameras lens, a perfect image of reality is instantly burnt
into the film by the chemical reaction of the film to light. When astral matter is exposed to thought, focused by the lens of the
mind, a perfect image of reality is instantly formed out of astral mind stuff by the reaction of astral matter to thought. The
complexity and durability of any creation in the astral dimension depends largely on the strength of the mind doing the creating.

Dreams

This is how the subconscious mind creates dreams: By tuning into the astral dimension during sleep, it can create any scenario it
wishes. This is the subconscious mind's way of solving problems and of communicating with the conscious mind. It creates a
series of complex thought form scenarios and projects them into the mind stuff of the astral dimension, where they become
solid. The conscious mind then lives through and experiences these created scenarios in the dream state. In a way its like a
movie projector (subconscious mind) projecting onto a movie screen (astral dimension).

Thought Forms

Any new object in the real world is assimilated into the astral dimension over a period of time. A thought form representation of
it first grows in the lowest part of the astral, close to the physical dimension, becoming more and more permanent as time goes
on. As with all thought forms, the more attention paid to it the quicker it grows.

The higher up in the astral dimension, or the further away from the physical, the less thought forms, of the physical world, as we
know it, are found. Physical things have to soak in to it for a very long time before they take shape, and are found, in the higher
astral.

Have you ever tried to move around a strange house in the dark? You bump into everything, right. But as you become familiar
with it though, a mental picture of your surroundings forms in your mind, and you can find your way around it better. The longer
you spend in this house the stronger this mental picture becomes. This is similar to how things are assimilated and grown, as
thought forms, in other dimensions.

The generation of thought forms in the astral also works in the reverse. If a physical object has been around for a very long
time, it will have grown a lasting thought form impression in the astral. After the object is destroyed or removed, its thought
form still endures. You may, for example, in the astral, find furniture in your house you don't have, jumbled up with your own.
This is caused by the decaying thought forms of old stuff, belonging to previous tenants etc, still being there, years after the
originals have gone.

Old thought forms do not follow their physical counterpart around when they are moved. New ones begin to grow in the astral
wherever it is while the old ones slowly decay. The longer a thing is in one place, the stronger the thought form will become in
that place. This also applies to buildings, structures and geological features. You may project into a park and find a house,
bridge, stream, hill etc that you know is definitely not there. These may have existed in times past. The higher up in the astral
you go, the older the thought forms are, or the further back in geological time you appear to be.

The rate of growth of a thought form depends largely on the amount of attention paid to it. For example, a famous painting;
loved, viewed and highly thought of by millions, will have a much stronger thought form than that of a common painting that
hangs in someone's bedroom and is only viewed by a few. The number of thought forms you find in the astral also depends on
how close you are to the physical dimension. If you are very close, as in a real time projection or OOBE, very few thought
forms, if any, will be found. In a real time OOBE you are not quite in the astral dimension but are existing as an astral form in
the buffer zone between the astral and the physical dimensions.

Astral Vision

In the physical body we have 220 degrees of vision, i.e. we can only see in front of us, but not behind, above and below at the
same time. In the Astral body we have MORE than 360 degrees of vision and can see on all sides at once. This is Spherical
vision. During projection, habit forces us to focus our attention in one direction only, where we feel the forward part of our
vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right is still there, and seen all at once, but it can not be assimilated by the
brain, all at once. This goes against the brains lifelong habit of frontal vision. Spherical vision is like being one huge multi faceted
eye that can see in all directions, up, down, left, right, front, back, but all at once!

In the astral body you do not have any physical organs, i.e., eyes. You are a non-physical point of consciousness floating in
space. You are also unaffected by gravity and other laws of physics. In this state there are no ups or downs, backs or fronts,
left or rights. It is only lifelong habit that tries to force this perspective on you during projection.

It is important to understand spherical vision, if you are to operate competently in the astral. This is especially so when you
project, in real time, close to the physical dimension. Spherical vision will often cause you to think you are in a mirror image
dimension, or a reversed copy of reality. This means your house, for example, will appear to be reversed, back to front. This is
caused by you losing your original natural viewpoint during projection.

At some point during the projection you have become disoriented and taken a different viewpoint from normal, i.e., you have
rotated or turned upside down or inside without thinking. This reverses your natural left right, up down viewpoint. This tricks
the subconscious mind into reversing the place you are in so your conscious mind can function properly.

As you don't have a physical body in the astral, if you want to look behind yourself you don't have to turn around, or move at
all. You just change your viewpoint to the rear. This, when done without moving, causes the mirror image effect, in a way its
like looking in a mirror to see behind.

The diagram below illustrates this reversal of viewpoint without turning, note left and right do not change:


                    Right     |         Right
                              |
       (A)   <<<<<<<<<--------|-------->>>>>>>>>>   (B)
                              |
                    Left      |         Left

i.e. If viewpoint (A) becomes viewpoint (B) without turning, then Left and Right are not reversed. This causes the subconscious
mind to use its creative power to correct the view by reversing it, or parts of it. This is easier and causes fewer problems for the
conscious mind than if it had to try and accept a reversal of left and right.

A similar effect can be had by lying down and looking above your head, or standing on your head and trying to pick the left and
right sides of things. This causes a slight confusion in your sense of left and right, i.e., you have to consciously calculate which is
left and right from your reversed position. This slight confusion is all that is needed to trick the subconscious mind into creating
something easier to accept.

Your brain is unable to assimilate this reversal and thus gives you a new perspective according to what it feels is left and right at
the time. Once you consciously notice this anomaly it is too late to reverse it. The brain cannot accept a conscious change of
left and right.

If you understand spherical vision though, and happen to get reversed sometime during a projection, it is no longer a problem.
You can take it into account and function normally, rather than thinking you are wasting your time in some strange mirror
dimension, i.e., if you had plans to do something in the astral you still can. All you have to do is, take your left right coordinates
from the building or structure around you, and ignore your own sense of left and right completely.

Everything you see while you are in the astral dimension is directly perceived by the mind. It is a simple matter for the
subconscious mind to twist or reverse, all, or even part of, your conscious perception of reality during a projection.

Note: This reversal of viewpoint can happen many times during any one real time projection.

Creative Visualization Power

The subconscious mind has VASTLY greater powers of visualization than the conscious mind. It is like comparing a super
computer to an childs calculator. In the astral dimension, during any conscious projection or lucid dream, where the conscious
mind is aware, this difference can cause great confusion. The subconscious mind simmers beneath the surface during any
projection. All that creative power is just bursting to get out, to create, and it will do just that any chance it gets. This difference
in creative power, combined with the lifelong habit of normal frontal vision, is the cause of the "Alice In Wonderland Effect."
Let me explain....

Take these together:

   1.  The incredible creative power of the subconscious mind.
   2.  The weak creative powers of the conscious mind.
   3.  The sensitivity of astral matter to thought.
   4.  Spherical vision.
   5.  Left, right sense reversals.

And you have a recipe for total confusion.

The Alice In Wonderland Effect

You project your astral body and look around your room. Everything appears normal, but suddenly, you notice the door is on
the wrong wall? While looking around, you have seen this door with your rear vision, confusing your natural left, right, brain
perspective. The brain can't assimilate this because your frontal perspective, and the position of the furniture, pictures, windows
etc, are normal; but the view behind you is reversed. This tricks the subconscious mind into creating a door where it thinks it
should be. When you look at this door, it appears real, even though you know it is in the wrong place. Once it has been
created, it will not be uncreated, as that would be unacceptable to your conscious mind. i.e. solid doors don't normally have a
habit of vanishing before your eyes.

When you turn to where the door really should be, you will, usually, find the door there as normal. Now you may have two, or
more, doors where there should only be one. If you go through the real door, you will find the rest of the house as it should be,
hopefully. But, if you go through a false door, the mind knows its false and won't accept it opening to a normal part of your
house that it knows can't possibly be there. So, if you open this door you will find something else. It is usually a corridor or
passage, you don't have, leading off into other parts of the house you don't have either.

From then on, if you go through this door, you are in Wonderland, where everything is possible, just not very plausible. What
you are doing, in effect, is entering the astral dimension via uncontrolled creation, through this door you don't have, but now do.
Once the subconscious mind starts creating like this it continues to do so at a geometric rate. It has to, for the conscious mind
to assimilate the abnormal situation it is in. At some stage, in this creative maelstrom, the subconscious mind loses it completely
and starts tuning in to other parts of the astral. At this point of the projection, all semblance of reality is lost and you fade into
the astral dimension proper.

There are many ways this "Alice" effect can happen during a projection, the above example is just one variation. It has been
noted by many projectors that at sometime during a projection they seem to lose control of it. Objects appear, disappear, and
generally everything gets a little strange. This is caused, basically, by the subconscious mind's vast creative ability being
triggered. It starts making and unmaking things, and tuning into other areas of the astral and generally making everything difficult
for the poor projector.

To avoid the above problem: Concentrate on what you are doing while you are projecting and don't let your mind wander. The
vision reversal problem can be minimized if you concentrate on your forward vision during projection, i.e., focus in one
direction at a time. When you turn, follow the room around with your vision and don't allow it to flit from one view to another.
The astral is not a good place to relax if you have serious plans.

The vast creative power of the subconscious can, however, be utilized. It is an extremely valuable tool if you know how to use
it. I will outline ways to do this, in the third part of this series, under the heading: "Virtual Reality Projection" where I will outline
how to custom create your own personal astral realm.

Melting Hands

When you project the astral body close to the physical world you do not have a body as such. But, the mind cannot accept this
and so provides a thought form one made out of etheric matter. If you try and look at your body, say your hands, you will find
they start to melt very quickly. They look pale and odd, and in a couple of seconds your fingers start to melt away like ice
under a blow torch. They shorten into pale stumps, then the rest of your hand and arm starts to melt away too. This melting
effect only seems to happen when you deliberately try and observe a body part or consciously create something.

Deliberately observing an astral body part like this, uses the conscious mind, which, having poor creative powers, can't hold
complex shapes together for very long and it is this that causes the melting effect. If you happen to notice parts of your body, in
passing, during projection this melting effect will not be seen.

Created Thought Form Objects

You can use your conscious mind to create objects while projecting. The duration of these, thought form, created objects
depends on the strength of your creative visualization ability. It also depends on how much time and effort you put in to a
creation.

This same melting phenomena happens with any conscious creation done in the astral dimension. If you create for example, a
sword, it will appear in your hand just as you imagine it, briefly, and then melt away just like the hand did. If you concentrate on
it you can hold it in shape, but as soon as your concentration wavers so does the creation. This is similar to any other
visualization you do in the real world. It is difficult, and you have to concentrate to hold the visualization in your minds eye.
Once your concentration wavers, so does the visualized image. This illustrates the vast difference between the creative powers
of the conscious and the subconscious mind.

To make a lasting thought form object you have to trick the subconscious mind into creating it for you. I will deal with this
subject, in greater depth, later in the series.

How does Projection Happen?

During sleep, the energy body, also known as the etheric body or vitality sheath, is put on charge. It expands and opens in
order to accumulate and store energy. The energy body can, normally, only do this in its expanded state during sleep. Once
expanded, the chakras trickle power, in the form of etheric matter, into the energy body. During this recharging process the
astral body separates and tunes into the astral dimension where it can create and experience dreams.

If this separation is done consciously, or if you become aware after it, you can take some control over it. It then becomes an
OOBE, astral projection or lucid dream.

The main differences between an OOBE, astral projection and a lucid dream are:

The OOBE

The OOBE (out of body experience) is a real time projection close to the physical world. This often occurs as part of a near
death experience. This is where a person is knocked out of their body as a result of some kind of severe trauma, i.e. car
accident, surgery, heart attack, child birth etc. OOBE'ers are aware of things happening in the real world, in real time; such as
conversations and events centred around, or near to, their physical body. In many cases, these events and conversations are
accurately reported by the person after they have returned to their body.

Note: The OOBE is slightly different from astral projection or lucid dreaming because of its real time, objective aspect. This is
caused by the astral body containing a large amount of etheric matter, which holds it close to the physical world.

There are two main causes of real time OOBE:

      A person's body is near death, or thinks it is, which causes a large amount of etheric matter to be channelled into the
     astral body in preparation for the death process.
      The person has active chakras which are doing a similar thing i.e. channelling etheric matter into the astral body. Having
     active chakras can be a natural ability, or it can be developed by training.

Note: You can project consciously, and have a real time OOBE if enough etheric matter is generated by the chakras. In an
OOBE, reality is perceived as objective (real) and time is normal (real time).

Technically, when you project into the physical world in real time as in an OOBE, it is really into the boundary area of the
buffer zone, between the physical and astral dimensions. If the astral body contains enough etheric matter it can exist only
slightly out of phase from reality. This means the projection is in real time and so close to the physical dimension as to be
indistinguishable from it.

Note: I have checked this many times, by projecting, in real time, during the day and scouting my local area for road works,
accidents, incidents etc, then verifying the accuracy of my findings afterwards.

There are strong natural barriers to conscious, real time projection, the OOBE, in the physical world. The amount of etheric
matter generated and channelled to the astral body, is one of them. It limits the duration of any real time projection to the
degree of chakra development and control.

The Astral Projection

This is where the astral body is projected into the astral dimension, where things are quite different from the real world. Time is
distorted and extended, i.e., an hour in the astral can be like a few minutes in the physical dimension, depending on what part of
the astral you are in. Reality is fluid and changeable.

The Lucid Dream

This is where a person becomes fully aware that they are dreaming during a dream. They either take some kind of conscious
control over the course of events, or they convert the experience into an astral projection. Lucid dreaming is more similar to an
astral projection than to an OOBE, as time and reality are distorted.

Astral Projection Or Lucid Dream?

Many astral projectors black out before making a conscious exit from their body and return to awareness in the astral
dimension. You become aware after the actual separation from the physical body and are usually already in the astral
dimension. If you miss the conscious exit from your body you are technically having a lucid dream, not an astral projection as
you have become aware after separation.

All three types of projection are closely related, i.e., they all involve the astral body separating from the physical and
experiencing a reality separate from the physical body.



Part 2: Starting Out

After the physical body has fallen asleep, the astral body always projects into the physical world. Once the energy body has
expanded, the astral body floats free and hovers just above the physical body, but within the expanded energy body's field of
influence. Within this field, known as cord activity range, the astral body is held close to the physical world as it is within a field
of etheric matter.

During a conscious astral projection it may appear as if you are projecting straight into an astral plane. But there is always an
intermediary phase at the beginning, when you are existing as an astral form close to the physical dimension. This, real time part
of any projection, may be missed if you black out at the moment of projection. The area around the body, within cord activity
range, is flooded with etheric matter and within this field the astral body is held in real time close to the physical dimension.

Etheric Matter

Etheric matter is the actual life force substance generated by all living things by simply being alive. It is a substance in-between
physical matter and astral matter, part physical and part astral. This etheric matter has actual weight. It is a very refined
substance in between matter and energy and is similar to its coarser cousin, ectoplasm.

There have been scientific studies done on this phenomena. Dying people in hospitals have had their beds placed on delicate
scales shortly before death and hooked up to EEG and ECG monitors. In all cases, at the exact moment of death, a sudden
weight loss of approximately one quarter of an ounce is observed. This is caused by a large amount of etheric matter being
transferred into the astral body at the moment of physical death. This is similar to the sudden transfer of etheric matter into the
astral body during a near death experience where the body believes it is dying. This sudden, massive transfer of etheric matter
is the start of the death process.

Ectoplasm

Ectoplasm has been studied in a similar fashion. Materialization mediums have been placed on delicate scales and then asked to
produce ectoplasm onto another set of fine scales. These mediums were observed to lose weight at exactly the same rate as the
weighed ectoplasm gained weight. When the medium reabsorbed the ectoplasm this weight transfer was reversed. Ectoplasm is
produced by the chakras. It converts part of the physical mass of the mediums body into another substance, ectoplasm.

Interdimensional Manifestation

Any non-physical or disincarnate entity, including the astral body, in order to function, in real time, close to the physical
dimension; must contain etheric matter. Without etheric matter, nonphysical entities fade back into their dimension of origin.
Etheric matter can only be obtained from living inhabitants of the physical world.

Energy Flow

The famed "Silver Cord" does more than just tie the two bodies together. It is a true umbilical cord, transmitting information and
energy between the physical and subtle bodies. It is seen by some projectors and not seen by others. Sometimes it is seen
emanating from the navel, sometimes from the forehead. The area the cord is seen emanating from may depend on chakra
activity. Whichever chakra is the strongest, most active, could have control of energy flow to the subtle bodies. There is also
the belief system of the projector to consider and the creative power of the subconscious mind. The cord will usually appear to
be wherever you believe it will be, courtesy of the subconscious.

Once the astral body enters the astral dimension it must have a good supply of astral energy from the chakras in order to
interact strongly with that dimension. Clear astral memory depends greatly on the amount of energy available. As the astral
dimension is the natural domain of the astral body, it will not fade out of it due to a lack of energy. As in the real world, if a
person hasn't eaten or slept for a few days they don't dissolve into another dimension. They just get weak and listless and don't
interact strongly with the physical world.

What it boils down to is this: The astral mind must have enough energy to give it strong, vivid memories. These astral memories
must be strong enough to make a good sized wrinkle in the physical brain, so the physical mind can recall them when it wakes
up.

e.g. If you haven't slept for a few days you will be tired, listless and your interaction with reality will be weak and vague. If you
see a movie in this tired state you will retain little memory of it. Afterwards, you may only remember fragments of it and your
memory of it will be a vague blur. If, however, you see a movie when you are well rested, fresh and full of energy, it is different.
You take in everything about the movie and enjoy it. Your memory of it will be crystal clear.

This is similar to what happens after a low powered astral journey. The astral body lacks energy and so does not have clear
enough impressions of its journey. This causes it to fail making its memories the dominant ones when it returns return to the
physical body. As I stated earlier, there must be strong, vivid memories if a wrinkle is to be made in the physical brain and the
experience remembered.

Chakras Use

Fully developing the chakras and learning how to control them can take many years, depending on natural ability. This will not,
however, stop you using them in a very basic way; to enhance your OOBE's and lucid dreams, at a very early stage in your
development. Raising energy and stimulating the chakras is extremely simple to do. This raised energy will automatically flow
into your astral body, prior to and during projection.

By learning to raise energy and control the flow of power through the chakras, the nature of your dreams, lucid dreams and
OOBE's will change. They will become vivid and unforgettable experiences. This, in a way, gives you a second life, full of rich
experiences you can enjoy, learn and grow from.

Higher Levels And Their Buffer Zones

The commonly accepted names for the seven known levels of existence, from lowest to highest, are: Physical, Astral, Mental,
Buddhic, Atmic, Anupadaka and Adi. These higher planes are similar in structure to the astral dimension but at a much higher
level of consciousness and are completely separate from it. In between the different levels are intermediary areas or buffer
zones, sometimes called lower sub planes.

A good analogy for the different dimensions and their buffer zones is the Earth's atmosphere: If the air in the Earth's atmosphere
was the astral dimension, the stratosphere would be the buffer zone and the vacuum of space would be the mental dimension.
You can fly in the Earth's atmosphere in a normal air plane/astral body. A very powerful jet plane is needed to take you into the
stratosphere, but you need a space ship/mental body, to travel through space. This explains why a different subtle body is
needed to travel into these different levels of existence.

The astral body can enter the buffer zones, or sub planes, of the dimensions above and below the astral dimension, if it contains
the correct type of energy. i.e. To exist in the buffer zone between the physical/astral levels (in real time) the astral body must
contain etheric energy. To exist in the buffer zone between the astral/mental levels it must contain mental energy.

Higher Level Projection





into its natural dimension.