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If you haven't already read them, all three books by Robert Monroe are definitely a "must read".

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Well, "It" by Stephen King contains some great OBEs, however it isn't exactly a short story [8D] Otherwise, the only one coming to my mind is also Jack London's "Star Rover".

While I tend to agree that Astral Dynamics is the most valuable book for becoming an astral projector, I would not recommend to read it as the very first OBE book. In my opinion it is a bit too advanced for this (Mind Split, etc). The best book for beginners I think is "Out of body experiences" by Robert Peterson - it is not too complex, gives a neat overview about most actions and feelings related to the phenomenon and also contains some nice exercises to start with (even if they are not a complete training program like Robert Bruce has put together in his book). Also quite good are "Adventures beyond the body" by William Buhlman, "Journeys out of the body" by Robert Monroe (I think nobody interested in OBEs should miss Monroe) and, a bit aged and dry-written, but still good, "The projection of the astral body" by Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington. You should read them all [8D] But for beginning, I think first Peterson's book for starting and then Astral Dynamics for serious training should do.

> And most people don't have the WILL to consciously OBE/AP. Most of you gave up meditating after 30 minutes of twiddling thumbs, right? Maybe it lasted a week, and you didn't OBE, so you gave up. Be honest everyone . . . how many of you have kept up your OBE practices faithfully for . . . say . . . even one year?

I have. I first read about the subject I think in 1997 (well, I did a lot of years before too but then I was a child and it frightened me as much as it fascinated me, and I prayed this would never happen to me . Then I started with some exercises, and it was like you said, a few weeks or so without success and then I got off of it.

I don't know how I got on again, but I think it was at the beginning of 2000 (maybe I wanted to use the big date change to change something in my life too , and I didn't leave off until the very moment I'm writing this. For almost a year there was nothing, at the end of 2000 I had a first encounter with the vibrational state (one day I simply awoke while my physical body was still asleep), at the beginning of 2001 I was having my first spontaneous conscious OBE. Well, I now have been practicing regularly for over 3 1/2 years, and still can't do it at will, however I use to have spontaneous projections about once a month or so (but they are always short and limited to the immediate surroundings of my physical body).

In this time I have read books by Monroe, Muldoon, Peterson and Buhlman, however I just discovered Robert Bruce a few weeks ago (the reason for this was that there is no German edition of Astral Dynamics - I have no problem with reading English books, but I simply didn't look for them, don't know why), and I set strong hopes in this book, since it really contains a "new approach" in comparison to all other OBE-related material, as stated on the front page []

BTW, since you addressed new people in this forum - I'm one of them, and I'm glad I've finally landed here since there seem to be a lot of friendly people if compared to other forums []

BWGEN is "Brain wave generator", a software for creating binaural beat sounds (such as Robert Monroe's Hemi Sync).