Hi everyone. So I have been working on OBE for a few weeks and had some very "close call's" as far as getting out and experiencing OBE. I picked up a copy of Robert Bruce's "Astral Dynamics" (the revised edition) and in reading, my few experiences made sense. The "real time sight" I had experienced being a low-power OBE that my consciousness flipped back and forth between, etc.
What I don't get though, is that so far in his book he talks about duality of consciousness where the projected body and the physical body are both the same consciousness operating independently of one another. This explanation says that you can experience the vibrations et al of an exit but still lay there believing you had a failed exit, when in reality your "real time" or "astral double" is trucking along without you realizing it. Furthermore, the only way that you realize it wasn't a failed attempt is when the memories from that double are successfully "downloaded" on re-entry.
My question is, and forgive me if this is a dumb one, but is an OBE just the "memory" of what happened? So I would "remember" the experience just as I remember getting in my car and going to work in the morning? If there is truly this "duality of consciousness" are you ever able to transfer the "you" that is attempting the OBE to being the "you" that is doing the OBE? I guess that is what he calls transferring the center of consciousness... I had "thought" that a successful OBE was actually having the experience, not just having the memory of it when you come out of it... It sounds kind of liker that movie "Total Recall" with Arnold where they "implant" memories of an experience but "you" weren't *really* there.. Thanks in advance!
What I don't get though, is that so far in his book he talks about duality of consciousness where the projected body and the physical body are both the same consciousness operating independently of one another. This explanation says that you can experience the vibrations et al of an exit but still lay there believing you had a failed exit, when in reality your "real time" or "astral double" is trucking along without you realizing it. Furthermore, the only way that you realize it wasn't a failed attempt is when the memories from that double are successfully "downloaded" on re-entry.
My question is, and forgive me if this is a dumb one, but is an OBE just the "memory" of what happened? So I would "remember" the experience just as I remember getting in my car and going to work in the morning? If there is truly this "duality of consciousness" are you ever able to transfer the "you" that is attempting the OBE to being the "you" that is doing the OBE? I guess that is what he calls transferring the center of consciousness... I had "thought" that a successful OBE was actually having the experience, not just having the memory of it when you come out of it... It sounds kind of liker that movie "Total Recall" with Arnold where they "implant" memories of an experience but "you" weren't *really* there.. Thanks in advance!