thanks all for the help and advice! i've been practicing and i believe i am able to reach that so called "trance state" through meditation; however, its hard for me to transition into an OBE. a recent upper respiratory infection has haulted my practice. just can't help but cough
Xanth, i've tried phasing and what's cool is that i am able to "notice" colors, patterns, and even a faint rainbow while closing my eyes. i actually started noticing that i can see many rainbows off of car headlights, streetlights, etc. so perhaps this is an example of becoming more aware? and when you use this method, what direction are you looking at with your eyes when theyre cloesd. i tend to focus on the middle area i guess you could say, as if looking straight, but when i relax my eyes they tend to look up a bit so i'm not sure if i should be relaxing my eyes or staring straight. not sure if it even matters so please clarify. finally, i don't quite understand the concept of a 180* phase shift so it'd be cool if you could help explain that a bit.
Wow, I missed this completely too! >_<
The Colours and Patterns you're seeing is indicative of Focus 12.
When I'm noticing, I just stare out into the blackness, straight ahead. I've, once again, changed up my current method... I'll have to repost it again. LoL Before, I used to slowly move my gaze upwards as I was relaxing, I did this in an effort to keep my physical eyes closed easier... but I found lately that I don't have to do that anymore. hehe
As for the 180 degree thing... Frank said it best:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_the_astral_faq/what_is_phasing_and_how_can_i_do_it-t17413.0.html;msg150488#msg150488The term “phasing” was originally coined from an idea presented by the author Robert Monroe who spent much of his physical lifetime researching obe phenomena. His early work, detailed in his first book Journeys Out of the Body, followed very traditional lines of study. Such that strong parallels can be drawn between his experiences detailed in that book, and the work of the traditional mystics.
However, his later books Far Journeys and Ultimate Journey, published many years later, reveal how his work had progressed to the development and formation of a completely different model of consciousness. His early “locale” concept had been totally replaced by a series of mental Focus Levels. These levels were labelled by using an escalating series of arbitrary numbers. Each level was identified from the mental impressions presented that Monroe categorised and labelled, so that others could follow in his work and duplicate his experiences.
At some point in his experience, Monroe was able to determine the profound truth, that there is no separation within consciousness. Whereas in his early work it felt to him he was “leaving” and “separating” from his physical body in the more traditional sense. His later experiences led him to conclude that he was not “leaving” his body at all. But what he was doing, in his words, was changing the phase relationship between himself and his surroundings. It was from this discovery that the term “Phasing” came into being.
Monroe was an electronics engineer by profession, and it so happens that I too graduated in electronics, so I understand where he was coming from when he talks about phase relationships. You can have two voltages present on the very same wire (you can have many numbers but for this example we’ll have just two). To all intents and purposes, those two voltages are mixed, but at the same time they are separated. What separates these two voltages is the phase-angle relationship between them.
Monroe used this phase-angle relationship idea as an analogy to describe the relationship between the physical or objective layer of consciousness, and the non-physical or subjective layer of consciousness. Each respective area of consciousness occupies the same area in “space” and to all intents, they are mixed but at the same time they are separated. So Monroe figured there was a 180-degree Phase Relationship between the two areas of reality. To him, projection became a case of "switching phase" between the physical and the non-physical.
Phasing, therefore, entails initiating a 180-degree phase shift between the physical and the non-physical realms of reality. The way this is done is rather different from the traditional ways of initiating an “out of body” experience. In fact, Phasing does not incorporate any kind of out of body feelings at all. The normal bodily vehicle can remain and all that changes is a person’s environment.
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