There are a lot of OBEs methods out there and I've tried a lot of them. But one of the things that I have noticed as I've tried different things is what the technique/method is really trying to do. Here's what I mean...
The RB Rope Technique is an "indirect" method of shifting your attention outside of your body. It's also a way to achieve a single-minded focus. That's why RB does the awareness body stuff, it's so engaging to the mind that single-minded focus becomes easier.
Robert Peterson spends a lot of time talking about "Swaying the Astral Body". Essentially he's having us loosen our energy body, but I also think that what's happening in energy body loosening is kind of like a full body energy circuit. (Not the one where you store energy in your abdomen, but rather when you just go feet to head, feet to head) I think it's basically doing energy work.
I have cried the praise of Robert Peterson's Q-Mind (my nomenclature, not his; he calls it the quiescent state of mind). The method most often recommended by him is to focus on the ringing sound in your years. This is not an exit method, but a way to still the mind. Again, this helps to create the perfect condition in your mind, that of single-minded focus. He then recommends a method of visualizing a cube in front of your head that moves toward and away from you and ultimately generates a type of gravitational pull that pulls you when it come toward you and pushes you away when it moves away from you. These two processes are combined in RB's Rope Method. Single-Minded focus and focus of attention outside the body.
Does it make sense? What have you all discovered about the mechanics behind all of these techniques we use? For the longest time I thought that I was actually pulling my astral body out. Now I think that I was just using the point-shift method in a novel and creative way. Share the underlying mechanisms behind the techniques you know. How do we REALLY achieve OBEs?
Dear personalreality,
I believe subtle energy mechanics such as projecting out of the body are so illusive that they can never be sufficiently taught in human language and as I said before - that these authors were just exercising good will above all. They should use what works for them but everyone else must take it on, on their own.
peace
I agree Tiny.
I prefer phasing which doesn't require and body-loosening. You don't have to "go" anywhere, so you don't have to "get out". It's more like mental gymnastics.
Frank even had a theory that bodily exits are done because we relate to having a body - it makes more sense, so it's more "real", but not necessary.
I've always been more interested in the "WHY" we have OBE's than the how. :)
I can answer that. :-D
Think of the time that we are here in the 3rd density as one long projection. It may last 35 years or it may last 50 years. Our energy bodies (mind) exists in higher density levels and spiritual planes. When we come into these bodies we temporarily 'descend' into this reality.
We are able to astral project because our minds are not from this place. They are from a level much higher and that's why we are all able to Astral Project.