This is an explanation of the use of magickal (excuse the word....especially you xanth, i'll explain in a moment) intent specific to OBE and AP exit techniques (phasing included). Let me first clarify my use of the word magick. I know that a lot of people on this forum aren't necessarily into the occult or so-called magickal practice and I understand because I wasn't either until I learned what it really it.
In this sense, Magick is simply the manipulation of emotional memories to move energy thereby effecting one's reality. That's it. Really. You might ask why I still use a word that is almost offense to many people's ears. Well, two birds one stone. I can explain how and why certain tasks are given in OBE/AP methods as well as alert folks to what magickal practice really is. Still I know some just don't like the mystical terminology. Sorry. Bear with me please, it's worth it.
What I'm going to share is partially my own theory, but it is developed from direct experience and from some external sources. It makes sense, I promise.
For starters, thought is a function of mind while emotion is technically a function of body. I don't want to give the impression that these are separate processes though, they are very much intertwined. This will be relevant shortly. Let's start at the beginning though.
We are each born with a unique perception of our reality. Genetically we are a mix of our parents, but if you are like me you believe that there is more to genetics that just physical genes. Throughout the course of one's life, experience influences perception AND the energy system in the body that allows awareness to be focused in the body. (side note: it takes more than the brain to connect the mind to the body, it takes a complex energy system including primary chakras/energy centers as well as a massive system of smaller chakras and connecting flows. This system acts like an antenna. This is a bi-directional antenna that broadcasts stimuli signals to a non-local mind like the antenna at at radio station as well as receives a signal from the non-local mind like the antenna on your car) This energy system is closely connected to one's genes and records energetic shifts such as a kundalini experience or just revelation throughout ones life. This impacts genes as well. So when you're born you come into this life with not only the genetic influence of the sum of your ancestors, but also the unique additions your parents added to that sum total. Now insert into that genetic blueprint (which is already infinitely unique mind you, no one else has EVER nor will EVER have your specific genetic makeup) the "personality" that is made up of your non-local and infinite mind. You start out from the get go with something that has never existed before and you will take it and mold it, adapt it and create a powerful manipulator of reality; the perception of said reality through your mind.
The point here is that you are experiencing reality in a way never done before. This is important because it's what gives you personal power. We talk a lot about energy around here and I think it's more complex of a subject than we can really know. But suffice it to say, there is some kind of spiritual energy, whether you call it chi, the force, or just energy, it's there. The basis of this energy in physical reality is a combination of mind and emotion. The complex part is that there is no "generic prescription" for the movement of this energy, it is entirely subjective relative to each individual.
As you grow up from infancy and experience reality you are constantly and consistently molding your "schemas" about your reality, your mental blueprints. These are created for speed so that you don't have to use your conscious mind to consider every single possibility. If you had to do it that way you'd be immobilized, a useless creature because it would take you millenia just to process something as simple as eating. Part of this process of adaption (model evolution) is to make emotional bookmarks in your energy system. These emotional bookmarks are associated with experiences and their subsequent thoughts. You create these bookmarks for many reasons, one of them being that an emotional response is faster than conscious deduction. For example, if you are in a survival situation, your emotions take control and essentially drop your IQ to that of an ape. You couldn't remember your mother's maiden name, but you know how to react quickly without thinking about it. This is an evolutionary development that has served mammals well. Another use for these emotional bookmarks is for use in the manipulation of our energetic reality.
Consider the popular "new age" trend of attraction. There are tons of Law of Attraction books out there and they usually always involve some kind of visualization exercises. But there is an important part to these visualization exercises that is included to a greater or lesser extent depending on how competent the author really is. That is the inclusion of these emotional bookmarks. (Now, while you may understand what I mean when I say "happy" the truth is that you really have NO IDEA what happy means to me, nor I to you. This is the subjective part. Based on our infinitely unique genetic and personality influences at birth our perception of and adaptation to reality will also be infinitely unique. No two people will ever experience reality in the exact same way, period. This means that our use of words to describe emotional situations is really not appropriate at all because they're not the same. It's convenient, but wrong.) If you've ever read one of these books you know that in addition to visualizing yourself having what you want you also need to "feel" like you would feel if you already had what you want.
This is the key.
Feeling.
Say I want a new car. Instead of just saying, "I want a new car" I would visualize myself driving my new car. Then I would take it a step further to make my visualization of driving that car as real as possible which means including emotional bookmarks or memories. Now I may not have a specific emotional memory of driving that new car, but with my evolved human brain I can apply an existing emotional bookmark to an abstract situation, thereby creating this new situation. What I have effectively done here is created this version of me with the car I want in the "astral substance" (whatever you might think the astral is made of). The astral or non-physical is the source of our "non-physical" aspects, ie the mind. So when we think and put out intent we are creating waves in the astral substance that have a frequency unique to our specific perception. It's like our personal signature. It's how reality knows how to make sense of all the waves moving through it. I like to think of it like a bathtub full of consciousness. When I move around in it (through emotional memories and intent/thought) I cause ripples. These ripples are unique in size and shape because of my size and shape (ie unique perceptual energy). If you moved around in the bathtub, your ripples would reflect your perception. We are all always moving around in the bathtub and sending out waves through consciousness. This impacts all of reality all the time. But because we have these infinitely unique perceptions our waves have our fingerprints on them and therefore have an energetic connection to us. This causes our view of reality to change which we perceive as reality moving for us. We're doing this all the time, it's how we create our reality, though we are often not aware of it. When someone undertakes a magickal practice for example, they are focusing their personal power to make a specific movement in consciousness to illicit a specific result. We are doing something very similar when we are attempting a projection.
Relative to AP/OBE, learning to master this process is the key to finding success in your technique. What does it really mean though? Essentially, you need to learn to bring these emotional bookmarks into your exit technique. Note, these emotional bookmarks are the PHYSIOLOGICAL side of the thought/emotion system. Which means, you feel it in your body and the bookmark was created based on stimuli from your physical (and non-physical) senses. This is why your phasing rundown needs to be captivating to your senses. Some may make a distinction between visually based exit techniques (like phasing) and tactile based exit techniques (like the rope method). This is partially true in my opinion. Both are avenues of achieving the same effect, the retrieval of these emotional bookmarks.
I may continue writing on this later, but for now, what you need to take away is that when you are doing your exit technique, remember that your emotional memories combined with your intent/thought are what will help you successfully project. This means that whatever your practice, make it as real as you can. Use your memory of situations that are similar. Find what you feel emotionally (senses and "feeling") in that situation and then adapt it into this abstract situation that you're visualizing for your exit. If you're climbing a rope, remember the feeling of climbing the rope, the physical sensation, the internal sensations, how you feel about it and adapt it to this abstract experience of climbing a non-existent rope. If you're doing a phasing rundown, make it as involved as possible. Don't just feel the textures or hear the sounds, what would you be feeling inside, what would be your 'emotional' reaction if you were actually doing what you're doing in this rundown? When you include these emotional bookmarks you are moving reality thereby making what you're doing REAL.
In this sense, Magick is simply the manipulation of emotional memories to move energy thereby effecting one's reality. That's it. Really. You might ask why I still use a word that is almost offense to many people's ears. Well, two birds one stone. I can explain how and why certain tasks are given in OBE/AP methods as well as alert folks to what magickal practice really is. Still I know some just don't like the mystical terminology. Sorry. Bear with me please, it's worth it.
What I'm going to share is partially my own theory, but it is developed from direct experience and from some external sources. It makes sense, I promise.
For starters, thought is a function of mind while emotion is technically a function of body. I don't want to give the impression that these are separate processes though, they are very much intertwined. This will be relevant shortly. Let's start at the beginning though.
We are each born with a unique perception of our reality. Genetically we are a mix of our parents, but if you are like me you believe that there is more to genetics that just physical genes. Throughout the course of one's life, experience influences perception AND the energy system in the body that allows awareness to be focused in the body. (side note: it takes more than the brain to connect the mind to the body, it takes a complex energy system including primary chakras/energy centers as well as a massive system of smaller chakras and connecting flows. This system acts like an antenna. This is a bi-directional antenna that broadcasts stimuli signals to a non-local mind like the antenna at at radio station as well as receives a signal from the non-local mind like the antenna on your car) This energy system is closely connected to one's genes and records energetic shifts such as a kundalini experience or just revelation throughout ones life. This impacts genes as well. So when you're born you come into this life with not only the genetic influence of the sum of your ancestors, but also the unique additions your parents added to that sum total. Now insert into that genetic blueprint (which is already infinitely unique mind you, no one else has EVER nor will EVER have your specific genetic makeup) the "personality" that is made up of your non-local and infinite mind. You start out from the get go with something that has never existed before and you will take it and mold it, adapt it and create a powerful manipulator of reality; the perception of said reality through your mind.
The point here is that you are experiencing reality in a way never done before. This is important because it's what gives you personal power. We talk a lot about energy around here and I think it's more complex of a subject than we can really know. But suffice it to say, there is some kind of spiritual energy, whether you call it chi, the force, or just energy, it's there. The basis of this energy in physical reality is a combination of mind and emotion. The complex part is that there is no "generic prescription" for the movement of this energy, it is entirely subjective relative to each individual.
As you grow up from infancy and experience reality you are constantly and consistently molding your "schemas" about your reality, your mental blueprints. These are created for speed so that you don't have to use your conscious mind to consider every single possibility. If you had to do it that way you'd be immobilized, a useless creature because it would take you millenia just to process something as simple as eating. Part of this process of adaption (model evolution) is to make emotional bookmarks in your energy system. These emotional bookmarks are associated with experiences and their subsequent thoughts. You create these bookmarks for many reasons, one of them being that an emotional response is faster than conscious deduction. For example, if you are in a survival situation, your emotions take control and essentially drop your IQ to that of an ape. You couldn't remember your mother's maiden name, but you know how to react quickly without thinking about it. This is an evolutionary development that has served mammals well. Another use for these emotional bookmarks is for use in the manipulation of our energetic reality.
Consider the popular "new age" trend of attraction. There are tons of Law of Attraction books out there and they usually always involve some kind of visualization exercises. But there is an important part to these visualization exercises that is included to a greater or lesser extent depending on how competent the author really is. That is the inclusion of these emotional bookmarks. (Now, while you may understand what I mean when I say "happy" the truth is that you really have NO IDEA what happy means to me, nor I to you. This is the subjective part. Based on our infinitely unique genetic and personality influences at birth our perception of and adaptation to reality will also be infinitely unique. No two people will ever experience reality in the exact same way, period. This means that our use of words to describe emotional situations is really not appropriate at all because they're not the same. It's convenient, but wrong.) If you've ever read one of these books you know that in addition to visualizing yourself having what you want you also need to "feel" like you would feel if you already had what you want.
This is the key.
Feeling.
Say I want a new car. Instead of just saying, "I want a new car" I would visualize myself driving my new car. Then I would take it a step further to make my visualization of driving that car as real as possible which means including emotional bookmarks or memories. Now I may not have a specific emotional memory of driving that new car, but with my evolved human brain I can apply an existing emotional bookmark to an abstract situation, thereby creating this new situation. What I have effectively done here is created this version of me with the car I want in the "astral substance" (whatever you might think the astral is made of). The astral or non-physical is the source of our "non-physical" aspects, ie the mind. So when we think and put out intent we are creating waves in the astral substance that have a frequency unique to our specific perception. It's like our personal signature. It's how reality knows how to make sense of all the waves moving through it. I like to think of it like a bathtub full of consciousness. When I move around in it (through emotional memories and intent/thought) I cause ripples. These ripples are unique in size and shape because of my size and shape (ie unique perceptual energy). If you moved around in the bathtub, your ripples would reflect your perception. We are all always moving around in the bathtub and sending out waves through consciousness. This impacts all of reality all the time. But because we have these infinitely unique perceptions our waves have our fingerprints on them and therefore have an energetic connection to us. This causes our view of reality to change which we perceive as reality moving for us. We're doing this all the time, it's how we create our reality, though we are often not aware of it. When someone undertakes a magickal practice for example, they are focusing their personal power to make a specific movement in consciousness to illicit a specific result. We are doing something very similar when we are attempting a projection.
Relative to AP/OBE, learning to master this process is the key to finding success in your technique. What does it really mean though? Essentially, you need to learn to bring these emotional bookmarks into your exit technique. Note, these emotional bookmarks are the PHYSIOLOGICAL side of the thought/emotion system. Which means, you feel it in your body and the bookmark was created based on stimuli from your physical (and non-physical) senses. This is why your phasing rundown needs to be captivating to your senses. Some may make a distinction between visually based exit techniques (like phasing) and tactile based exit techniques (like the rope method). This is partially true in my opinion. Both are avenues of achieving the same effect, the retrieval of these emotional bookmarks.
I may continue writing on this later, but for now, what you need to take away is that when you are doing your exit technique, remember that your emotional memories combined with your intent/thought are what will help you successfully project. This means that whatever your practice, make it as real as you can. Use your memory of situations that are similar. Find what you feel emotionally (senses and "feeling") in that situation and then adapt it into this abstract situation that you're visualizing for your exit. If you're climbing a rope, remember the feeling of climbing the rope, the physical sensation, the internal sensations, how you feel about it and adapt it to this abstract experience of climbing a non-existent rope. If you're doing a phasing rundown, make it as involved as possible. Don't just feel the textures or hear the sounds, what would you be feeling inside, what would be your 'emotional' reaction if you were actually doing what you're doing in this rundown? When you include these emotional bookmarks you are moving reality thereby making what you're doing REAL.
