If you don't want to do NEW, you don't have to. Working with energy won't guarantee spontaneous OBEs or any other specific result. The way you phrased the question makes it sound like you have made up your mind about it already. Maybe you would be better off picking a meditation technique of some sort.
NEW is an example of a method for working with energy. It will allow you to increase the quantity and quality of energy available to you. It will also be helpful in slowing down the flow of unwanted thoughts. If you want to increase the length of your astral projection experiences or improve the quality of your experiences then NEW will help. If you want to go beyond the astral planes to the mental planes and beyond, NEW can help. NEW is not the only way of doing these things. It just happens to be easy to learn and easy to teach. It also tends to get results more quickly than most systems.
Even just the parts of NEW that relate to unblocking your secondary pathways (hands & feet, etc) are darn useful. After I did that, but before I started intentionally raising any energy, I had a few nights where I woke up with vibrations. So it's good to get your system "tuned up", even if you don't plan to use it regularly.
Hi everyone........whats the point of NEW? I know for one thing it will give us pyschic abilities. But what else? How does it relate to obe's? If I develop my energy body......will I have spontaneous obe's?? Thanks guys and gals.....adios.
Arie