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Would love to get in contact with anyone else who is going, also anyone who has completed the course to hear their opinions about it!

Hello everyone....I am very new in my exploration's of OBE's, I haven't yet had one although I'm keenly attempting to educate myself. I am very open-minded but consider myself to retain a healthy skepticism, basically I just want to know the truth of things. I was disappointed to read about the lack of success in experimental situations with verifying information brought back from OBE's...I would have thought that that is such a crucial factor, if one can do something as simple as read some text or listen to a conversation during an OBE, and then verify this information upon returning to the physical, then there would be absolute proof. And this would be proof that could bring all but the most hardened skeptics round to believing in the truth of OBE's.

So basically I am wondering if anyone has any tales of information they have experienced when out of body, which they have been able to verify upon their return. I know this is the first thing I will be attempting when I finally succeed in busting on out. The biggest question for me (and for many people I am sure)....there is too much anecdotal information to disbelieve in OBE's completely, but are they something that only exist in our minds or is it really something outside of us? The former means that they are an amazing anomaly and a significant insight into the power of our minds, the latter means that my life and belief systems change completely as does anyone's who will open their mind to it.

Here is an account of what I felt the other night...

Listened to the out-of-body Idose. Became very relaxed fairly quickly, started to feel quite strange, feeling like something could be happening. After probably about 15-20 mins, in a state of deep relaxation, tensed all my muscles to see if it would trigger anything. Immediately felt very intense sensations, felt like something was really about to happen. Heart started pounding rapidly, although in light of what Robert Bruce said, wondered if this really was my physical heart or my heart "centre" or "chakra". Before I knew of Bruce's theories, I had felt this rapid heartbeat before and aborted, thinking that it was my physical heart. Heartbeat became very fast and powerful, also my eyelids started to twitch quite intensely, as if receiving electrical impulses, never felt this before. I didn't want to move but the sensations were unusual and frightening, and I really wanted to know if that was my actual heartbeat or not. So I broke out of it, put my hand on my chest and felt my heartbeat, checked pulses on both wrists and all confirmed that it was my physical heartbeat. Something happened to raise my heart rate and intensity of beat massively and it got me quite concerned. Am going to avoid the muscle tensing thing, think it was more that than the Idose, although that probably augmented things.

Can anyone offer any assistance here, particularly to let me know if either my heart was going to explode or my eyes pop out?! I presume you can't do yourself any damage, but the way my heart rate was affected was kind of frightening.