OBE's

[NOWIAM]

Here is a FREE on-line book about OBE’s.

Astral Dynamics - The Book

Astral Dynamics - Website


Here are some links to scientific OBE related institutions.

The Monroe Institute

The Institute of Noetic Sciences

The Lucidity Institute

International Academy of Consciousness

Parapsychological Association


Here’s are some audio and video files on OBE’s.

Tom Campbell (files at bottom of page)

Albert Taylor

William Buhlman


OBE's via Spiritual Paths

Gnosticism

Matrix V - Quest of the Spirit

Yoga Nidra

[Altered Species]

Thank god for this topic. I hope someone can help me out here or has some explanation for what i experienced. I had a very weird dream 2 nights ago and I think it may have been some sort of OBE that went WRONG. I have never had an OBE before, but 2 nights ago I was having this dream and even though I can't remeber the details that led up to this point, I was in this room and i said "I'm out of here." Well, all the sudden in my dream I start to levitate and I had actually reached the ceiling and I was bending my head and neck forward to not hit the top of my head. It was nothing fast like I was going to hurt the top of my head, it was real slow and i felt like I was controlling it to some extent. Here is the scary part, as I reached the top of the ceiling it was like something inside me, not my physical body wanted to continue upward, then all of the sudden I feel this tremendous painful vibration in the area from my stomach to the top part of my groin, it felt like an electrical shock. Well then I woke up, I mean I was wide awake.

Now, I think this was some sort of an attempt of an OBE because my mom has had these and had told me some time ago about them and mentioned some cord that actually attaches you to your physical body, and I think that may have been the reason for the pain in my midsection during this dream for what ever reason. I really don't know and this was probably 15 years ago, and at the time i didn't really buy what she was saying.

Just a couple of side notes, i have had previous dreams just recently in the past 3 to 4 years of being able to levitate and kind of control it. I have never had dreams of flying though like it seems many people have had. Most importantly, and what really scared me is that this is the first dream EVER where I have ever felt physical pain in a dream. This has really been on my mind and I can't get this dream out of my head.

I'm just wondering if anyone knows anything about this cord my mom described that actually keeps you attached to your physical body. I'm not sure if she said this cord attaches you to your physical body or not. It's was a long time ago and i can't remember exactly what she said.

[NOWIAM]

Hi "Altered Species"

Your experience about floating to the ceiling reminds me very much of Robert Monroe's first experience. He's one of the modern pioneers in this field. I highly recommend you read his trilogy (Ultimate Journey, Far Spaces, and my favorite, Journey's Out of the Body).

The “cord” you’re speaking of is commonly referred to as the "Silver Cord". It is said to always be there but not always observed. It is usually attached to a person’s midsection or forehead and is theorized to keep a live circuit or connection between ones astral body and their physical body. When a person dies it’s said that the cord separates. But I know of no known instance where the cord is broken or separated while one is active in an OBE. You can do a Google on it and find out more about it.

If you download the FREE Astral Dynamics book mentioned in my previous post the author speaks about the silver cord on pages 27, 84, 52-53, 397-403 and 544.

BTW: Was it an actual “pain” you felt or just an uncomfortable or unknown experience like a jolt? It's a common occurrence to be jolted back into the body and sometimes the shock of it causes a person to jolt physically tensing up their muscles. This can sometimes cause a bit of temporary uncomfortableness or pain.

[Altered Species]

Originally Posted by NOWIAM

BTW: Was it an actual “pain” you felt or just an uncomfortable or unknown experience like a jolt? It's a common occurrence to be jolted back into the body and sometimes the shock of it causes a person to jolt physically tensing up their muscles. This can sometimes cause a bit of temporary uncomfortableness or pain.

Thanks for the info on the "Silver Cord."! I'll be sure to check it out. I wouldn't describe what I felt as a direct pain but rather a pain caused by the result of an increasing tremendous vibration in my midsection. The only way I can describe it is imagine if you were to use one of them massage machines that vibrates a certain area of the body and then imagine it had a dial on it where you could increase that vibration by a thousand. It wasn't a sudden jolt but rather a vibration that started out as something bearable that increased to the point of painful discomfort in about 3 to 4 seconds that eventually caused me to wake up imeaditely. When i woke up I was well aware of what just happened. It wasn't like one of those dreams that wake you up where you have to think about what just happened.

I have no way to validate this besides by assumption but I got a feeling that I tried to take this experience too far and that caused the painful vibration. It's like when I reached the top of the ceiling in the dream that was as far as i was supposed to go but i tried pushing it beyond this point.

[Shakesbeer]

You gotta remember, your "astral" or "etheric" body does not feel "pain" unless you want to. So if you're already getting the "vibes" as I call them, just allow your mind to know you're not in trouble or anything and ride it like wave. I believe the silver cord is metaphoric or on some plane we absolutely do not see it. I know I've never felt or been "tethered" by a silver cord in my travels. Either way, all you have to do is think it, and you're back in your body one way or another.

[Ant0ni081]

Originally Posted by NOWIAM

Here is a FREE on-line book about OBE’s.

Astral Dynamics - The Book

Astral Dynamics - Website

This is the First book i bought and practiced with a few years back now. Robert Bruce's instruction for mind and body preparation is easy to understand for first timers. Clear and practical information giving the reader a good basis to work on.

After having lucid dreams and meditating frequently for many years prior, a read through the Astral Dynamics book linked many of the experiences i had had in the past with astral projection.
What was to come to me in the years after practicing Robert Bruce's techniques was the most magical experiences i have yet had the pleasure of experiencing first hand for myself.

If you can spend a few weeks indulging in the body relaxation techniques and energy centre stimulation (all outlined and guided through in the book) you will be rewarded with amazement as nature takes its course and you drift free of your physical body and fully concious to the experience unfolding before you.

A magical time it is when you take that first desired leap into the air with the clear intention that you will float and then to discover that you are indeed bobbing up and down 3ft in the air. Flying whilst out of body and fully aware of who you are, where you are, what your doing was the slap in the face i needed to realize i actually could leave the limited physical body. Safe in bed it would remain while my focus was dancing on the roof tops of the houses down my street. And i've always felt that these out of body experiences feel more real and fill me with more life and energy that i rarely come close to in the physical waking state.

For those people that need their own first hand experience as proof that something is real to them, i would recommend you take a serious look at the idea of astral travel or lucid dream work.

Nothing drives it home more than experiencing a fully concious OBE that you have induced yourself from the physical waking state your in now.

setting out to have a OBE ---> meditating and body relaxation ----> the focus of subtle body energies ----->projection techniques ----> after these things comes the magic its at this point i first had voices speak (internal and external).

Things can get a bit bumpy and believe me it wasn't as easy for me the first few times. The closest i can link it to would be a film you see of men sitting in a space shuttle cockpit on take off to the moon.
(might sound cheesy i know) but if you can close your eyes for a second and imagion the intense violent shaking of the cabin at takeoff and the rumbling of all that power coming from deep within the shuttle launching you up and out into the unknown. The sensation that your hearts beating like a jackhammer and will soon burst free from your chest (over stimulated energy centre).
If any of you have had these early, and frankly quite scary, sensations you'll know what i mean. But lucky these can mostly be avoided WITH PREPARATION.

Read and take it slow. You WILL be rewarded with anything you can imagion. Whilst astral projecting or lucid dreaming, your closer to being that living god, you are the creator. Anything your mind can muster will be. Bad as well as good. Focus on the positive and bath in light, you cant go wrong.



Takecare all