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I prefer the Black, but pretty cool, eh?

All I can do is be as reportorial and objective as one can be in a basically subjective experience. Perhaps my premises will be valid to you as you read them.

-Robert Monroe
Journeys out of the Body Pg.101

 

I first encountered Astral Projection in 1994 when a friend left a couple of books at my apartment. I had never heard of it before but was captured as soon as I started to read. When I was young I sometimes would see my body from about 6 feet above my bed. Sometimes I could see an image of myself above me even though I was in bed with my eyes closed. It was along time ago but this book suddenly gave me an answer to something I always wondered about. For days I read these two books, one was Journeys Out of The Body by Robert Monroe the other I think was Leaving Your Body in Thirty Days, by Scott Rago. Robert Monroe immediately caught my interest because he seemed like an ordinary guy not a new age preacher or occultist( nothing against occults, one of my best friends is a wiccan). Robert just explained it as he knew it, straightforward and impartial. After about a month of practice I came close several times but never had what I would consider an OOBE. My dream control and lucidity improved incredibly. I was able to remember and control my dreams more often. For a long time I was having 4 lucid dreams a week. I have gradually recognized that they now come in intervals and know not to force them when the time is not right. Usually I will have 5 during one week of the month. I have'nt consciously attempted a OOBE in over a year and I am hoping a New's Years resolution will help:( I still read books on the subject, I convince myself I'm in the study stage not the practice stage. I think I'm up to 15-17 books.

I was raised a catholic but consider myself undecided on my faith. I agree with the morals the church taught me but am weary of the institution of catholicism. I have trouble believing Jesus wants us to live under all the rules of the church. If he died on the cross for me, I thank him from the bottom of my heart and I think he would want us to live life the way we want to. I do believe in some all-powerful God/Force  but fables of Jesus on earth have been rewritten too many times for me to trust it completely. I also do not consider myself to be a cultist. I do believe there is intelligent life out there but the belief they are hiding behind comets is alittle kooky. My interest in OOBE is strictly for personal and spiritual reasons and has nothing to do with rituals or satanism. It is an exploration of oneself and is as natural as yoga or meditation. 

It is funny how we believe that electrons circle the nucleus of an atom even though we can't see them with the naked eye, but won't believe about a second spiritual body. The point is that there is more to reality than are senses can pick up. Just because we can't detect them doesn't discredit their validity.

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Entries from my Dream Journal

**The following entries are some of the LUCID dreams I've had. These were not ordinary dreams. I had almost complete control over their outcome and was fully aware I was dreaming at the time they happened.

"Meeting Myself" 1995

This is one of my most lucid dreams ever. Shortly after I started practicing OOBE I had this very lucid dream. This dream is still fresh in mind after almost two years. Even before my OOBE practices I have had an unusal ability to fly at will in my dreams and this night was no exception. I was flying about 10-15' off the ground in a condominium complex that my cousin lived in a year before. There were lots of kids playing in the street and it was a sunny day. I noticed my car in one of the driveways. This makes no sense, but I thought that if this was my house I could go find my body and maybe have an OOBE. I flew up to the second story window and looked inside. I was utterly amazed to see myself in the room walking around. This other me didn't seem to see me in the window. I looked around the room and saw my furniture, clothes and my pictures on the wall. I called out to this other me so I could talk to him. But he seemed to ignore me. It looked like this other me had just taken a shower (his hair was wet) he was finishing getting dressed and getting ready to leave. I called again and this time he responded by saying, "Leave me alone!!". This really caught me by suprise! I was actually talking with myself and I had a serious attitude prob.!! He grabbed a backpack and left the room. I then flew down to the ground by the front door and waited for him. When the other me came out the door I tried to get in front of him and explain that I only wanted to ask him some questions. He was very rude and got in the car and sped off. I was very confused why I was so mean to myself.? I then flew down the street and around a house in frustration. There was a short period where I blacked out and then I was flying about 10' in the air over the grounds of my old high school. I briefly said hello to a lady walking her dog and then kept flying in the direction of my house. Note: When I came to at the end I was about three miles to the east and flying in the opposite direction.

"Putting arm through solid matter" Feb. 19,1997 about 8:00am

It is extremely rare for me to have dreams where I am in my own apartment, but last night I had one. I casually walked up to a door and went to close it when my arm went right through it. At first I didn’t think anything of it, I really thought I was awake. But one step later it clicked what just happened. I went back to the door and slowly put my hand to the door to push it and sure enough it went right through. I immediately got very excited. Maybe this was an OOBE! I walked over to the wall and put my right arm through the wall (about ¾ of my forearm). This was great I could actually do it more than once. I tried a second time on the wall and this time I was surprised when the wall stopped my arm. In fact I remember putting a 8" hole in the wall, it didn’t completely break through the wall only the drywall on my side was broke, it was more of a large divet. I tried a third time and my arm went right through the area I just partially broke. This was confusing, it worked 3 times then didn’t and then worked again.!? After my second success on the wall I stopped to carefully look at my arm to see what it looked like. I expected it to be hazy, semi-transparent kinda ghostly, but it looked very solid to me. Actually my arm looked grainy or pixilated. This all happened in-between my snooze alarm (7-min.) Have found no dents in my walls.

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