What is Phasing?

[James S]

Hi Nightwolf,

Rather than going over it again here, I've grabbed a bit of text from an old post by Frank, who used to be a member of this forum, and was probably the most skilled and knowledgeable person we had with regards to Astral Projection. It's probably one of the best desciptions you'll find.

In a nutshell: Phasing is a term which describes a process where you allow your physical body to fall asleep as normal, but as it does so you retain the realisation of Self. People who do this find they go through various stages in common. What Monroe did was to identify each of these successive stages with an arbitrary series of numbers.

Of course, Monroe was by no means the first person to attach labels to the various non-physical states of consciousness. Mystics have done this throughout the ages. But the big difference with Monroe was he explained his work using more modern-day terminology. Plus, he approached the whole topic from a more scientific viewpoint as opposed to a mystical one.

Monroe first began trying to identify the various states he was experiencing as "locales" which he wrote about in his first book, Journeys Out of the Body. But as he expanded his knowledge he developed a more wider-ranging view and mapped the various stages, as I say, with an arbitrary series of numbers.

For a person first setting out down the Phasing route, the most important numbers are 3, 10 & 12. Perhaps the "10" state is the trickiest and everything seems to flow from "12" onwards.

The Gateway CD's marketed by the Monroe Institute claim to be able to take you through all the various Focus levels. My opinion has always been that the CD's go off on a commercial tangent, and are darned expensive to buy. But, like I say, that's just my opinion. If you are reading this and have money to burn then don't let my comments put you off buying them.

For someone on a limited budget, however, wanting to dip a toe in the Gateway water, after researching the various "Waves" (as they call them) of the CD set, my advice would be purchase Wave-1 only. Reason being, once you familiarise yourself with this CD it can become a very useful mental primer that helps to kick-start the natural process. (Well, that's how it turned out with me and I see no reason why it cannot do the same for others.)

You must please also bear in mind that the CD's in themselves do not instil the various mental focus states. Nor did Monroe invent these states of consciousness from using a technology he termed Hemispherical Synchronisation. The mental focus states occur quite naturally. All Monroe basically did was attach labels to them and describe what he experienced.

He also did quite a lot of research into the brainwave patterns people experienced while in these states. What he then tried to do was reproduce these brainwaves by using various patterns of sounds fed to each ear; and that's where the whole Hemispherical Syncronisation idea stemmed from.

But the technology is by no means perfect. While I'm sure there are a number of people who only need to look at a HemiSync packet and off they float, most people not born with any particular talent for this kind of thing (myself included) will still need to put in quite a bit of effort in order to get results.

Yours,
Frank

Here is a link that Frank posted with examples of phasing.
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2489

Hope this helps. []

Regards,
James.

[Nightwolf]

So basically its an OOBE but just with a different terminology.  Is that correct? [|)]

[Nick]

No, actually with an OBE one projects an etheric double into the real time zone (see Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce). With astral phasing, one phases into the astral realms proper.

Try reading over these threads for some worthwhile information:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5685

and

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2315

There are some excellent threads in our Welcome to Permanent Astral Topics forum regarding the area you inquire about.

[FreeFaller]

I am writing a book where a kid named Kent wakes up in another worls. The world he wakes up in has 2 planes. An uper plane, and a lower plane, the lower plane looks like our worls were as the second or higher plane looks totally different. In the book I use the phrase "...the group phased from the second plane to the first...." I use 'phase' as in teleporting from one plane to the next. is this the wrong terminology? if so pleae correct me.

[Nightwolf]

I've heard Phasing in many threads... could anyone please explain what it is ... I have also heard in the API place something like if you wish to get to API you can OOBE or phase... or something like that.

Any help is greatly appresiated [|)]