I’ll upload some more details (and photos) of my Icelandic trip within the next few days.

Below are some simple OBE/Astral Projection techniques… let me know if you need any clarification or have any questions – just use the ‘leave a comment’ feature at the bottom of this post and I’ll reply as soon as I can.

Enjoy…

1. Set the intention to have an out-of-body experience – read a chapter of a book on the subject before bedtime; this serves as a powerful intention that says “this is what I want to experience”, or repeat affirmations while falling asleep “tonight I will have a conscious OBE”

2. Interupt your normal sleeping pattern – set your alarm to wake you up at 4am then read about OBEs for 30-60 minutes before lying back down and focusing your thoughts away from your physical body (in the first-person, visualise yourself walking around your home and observing objects or imagine being at your favourite holiday destination)

3. Practice deep meditation with the goal of learning how to totally relax your physical body to the point to where it falls to sleep (limbs become heavy and difficult to move), while your mind remains awake and active (in this body asleep/mind awake state, you can then focus your thoughts away from your physical body as per tip two and then incorporate affirmations into the routine “now I am out-of-body” or “now I shift my conscious awareness to my energy body”

4. Practice what lucid dreamers call ’state testing’ throughout your normal waking day by saying “am I awake, dreaming or out-of-body right now” then check your state of reality by doing something simple, like looking at your hands and using your thoughts to try to change them in some way… do this 10 to 20 times daily and eventually you will naturally start doing this during your night time experiences too, and when you try to change your hands in some way during these moments – they will change and you will then become “aware”, and that’s when things will get interesting, whether you become aware during a lucid dream or an OBE

5. Keep a journal – write everything down, dreams including fragments of dreams, visions while meditating, out-of-body experiences, because journaling about your experiences acts as a powerful intention, with writing down your experiences you’re saying “I desire to have more experiences”

OBE: 11, December 2009

Woke up at 3am then went down stairs to do my usual preparations prior to doing an OBE session.

After eliminating distractions (bladder, hunger and thirst), I read a book on the subject of Higher-Self till around 4.15am then settled into my OBE session.

My focus for this OBE session was meeting Higher-Self, hence setting the intention by first reading a book on the subject.

In stead of using my usual OBE techniques, I used a more advanced method called ‘phase shifting’, a technique employed by Robert Monroe to help him avoid the “inner rings” (first few nonphysical dimensions) and navigate to the “outer rings” (higher dimensions, which is said to be where more enlightened beings reside as well as where Higher-Self is parked, just outside of time and space).

I wanted to use this technique because I thought… if I want to go straight to my conscious source then I might as well try using the right “tool” for the job, especially as all the more experienced out-of-body explorers such as Monroe, William Buhlman, and even Frank Kepple, were getting some good action with phase shifting (btw, if you’ve never heard of Frank Kepple then mosey on over to The Frank Kepple Resource, what an amazing guy!).

Right, after getting myself deeply relaxed by doing some breath work and using some hemi-sync (The Gateway Experience, CD #18), I set about the goal of meeting Higher-Self by using the phase shifting technique coupled with the following affirmations…

Now I shift my awareness to my conscious source…
Now I shift my awareness to my conscious source…
Now I shift my awareness to my conscious source…

After about five minutes of this affirmation, I switched to…

Higher-Self Now!
Higher-Self Now!
Higher-Self Now!

And after about five minutes of using this affirmation, I kept my focus on meeting Higher-Self as I allowed a slight dip in consciousness…

Then, just as I seemed to be dipping too much, I CLEARLY “heard” my name being called, a telepathic “voice” to help me regain just enough conscious awareness to continue my journey without loosing consciousness, or the classic ‘mind split’ affect as labelled by Robert Bruce, the author of ‘Astral Dynamics’.

Now, with elevated conscious awareness, I continued to focus on meeting Higher-Self, and again, I allowed my consciousness to ebb ever so…

Then, a rush of energy and quick flash of light, and before me stood a woman… so beautiful I thought as she and the light started to fade away.

I then must have allowed my consciousness to dip too much as I found myself waking up shortly after from an EXTREMELY vivid “dream”, which had strong elements of unconscious OBE activity!

The experience follows…

Dream/Unconscious OBE:

I found myself standing in a big hall full of people, and I had a strong thought in my mind that I must hurry along and get to the second instalment of a new series of seminars I’m running, called, The Higher-Self Briefings… but, a nagging “voice” in my head was saying… “it’s not your seminars, Todd, but another type of briefing”…

However, I ignored the message and walked around the hall looking for the manager as I wanted to enquire whether I could hold the seminar here, right now, as I knew “they” were on their way, so it was urgent that I organised the venue immediately!

Suddenly, logical reasoning switched up a gear, and I started thinking that the next Higher-Self Briefing wasn’t until the 20th of December, so why was I panicking about needing to organise a venue?

I then had the thought that “they” were at the meeting point, Amersham Station? Amersham, I thought, I must get to the station.

I then left the hall and was outdoors when I noticed I had an umbrella in my hand, but it was flapping about in the air, broken… but when I examined it more closely, I could see that the handle was out of its central position and that it had swivelled up one of the spokes, right to the end.  But, under closer inspection, I noticed the umbrella wasn’t broken, but yet was designed that way… at which point logical reasoning kicked in again and made me think, who would design an umbrella to do this (after “waking” up, I realised this must have been a signal to become more consciously aware within the experience, but my damn logical reasoning had switched itself off again!!!).

Walking away from the hall, towards Amersham?, I finally came to what I thought was the village centre, but on arriving, I realised the station was at the other end of the village, so I started walking with more of a rush as I kept thinking how “late” I was and how “they” would all be waiting for me. However, the more I tried to hurry up, the slower I walked… it was as if I had a great burden on my back and I was being slowed down under its weight.

Then, I came across a foot bridge that passed over a small gully, and as I made my way across it, I could see that a segment of the bridge was missing, so in my mind, I started swinging the bridge back and forth, and then with almost no effort, I jumped from the bridge to the other side of the gully. Once on the other side, I spotted what seemed to be a derelict train station in the middle of the woods, and suddenly had a deep feeling that “they” were here… that “they” were waiting for me inside.

As I walked around to the back of the station, I could see 8 young adults dressed in American style cheerleader outfits, one male and the others female… and as I approached them, they started shouting “our hero, our hero, our hero”.  Trying to calm them down, I asked, where are all the others, at which point, I walked into the station and found 10 or so older adults sitting, waiting…

And as soon as I saw the others, my conscious awareness snapped full on, and I had a sudden thought… where are all the others… so few are here… where are all the others?

Then, as I was about to communicate with those sitting down, I felt a rush of energy and motion and then soon found myself “waking up”, back in my physical body.

And as I became more consciously aware within waking physical reality, in my ears I could hear the voice of Laurie Monroe, on the Gateway CD…

“Now give thanks to those who have helped you… express your gratitude for this experience… know that you can always connect with each other… all you need do is think of the ones, those who have helped you, and know that help is always and freely available from this point forward…”

Why do I think Laurie’s words are significant?

Well, for over a year now, I’ve been using a special 3-hour extended version of the track that I cut specifically for my longer OBE sessions, as I didn’t want things like the guided aspects of the CD, such as, Laurie’s voice, and the very powerful signals that are used to bring you out of the strong altered states the CD induces… these signals caused so many of my fully conscious OBEs to prematurely end in the first year of my explorations…

However, I felt inspired over the past week to start using the original CD again… why now… after all these years, when FINALLY, I decide I will make a serious effort to meet with Higher-Self?

The syncrhonicity of it all is so powerful and inspiring!

This experience has already started to stimulate an avalanche of deep thinking in my mind…

So many questions…

I now need to induce some fully-conscious OBEs over the coming days and weeks…

Enjoy…

A few days ago I was in Bristol to facilitate a lucid dreaming workshop, and as I had a little free time, I shot the short video below that goes through a few of my favourite out-of-body/astral projection induction techniques.

I hope you enjoy them… if you need any clarification, post a comment beneath the video where it says ‘leave a comment’ and I’ll answer it as timely as I can.

I originally came across this technique in William Buhlman’s excellent books, ‘Adventures Beyond the Body’ and ‘Secret of the Soul’ a few years ago, but it wasn’t till reading Robert Bruce’s meaty description of this technique in his volumous book – ‘Astral Dynamics’ that I finally decided to try it.

After waking at 5am (got about 6 hours sleep), I did my usual OBE routine… quenched my thirst with a little water, ate a few morsels of Green & Blacks 85% chocolate (Mmm…), read about OBE for an hour (Bruce’s, Astral Dynamics), emptied my bladder, got relaxed on couch listening to a special 3-hour cut version of the Monroe Institutes, ‘Gateway Experience’ CD number 18 then did 30-minutes of focused breathing before achieving a deep trance state. Once in the deep trance state, I utilised Bruce’s ‘bounce loosening’ technique followed by his version of the rope technique.

After a few mental tweaks, and after dipping in and out of consciousness several times, strong vibrations ripped through me… after which, I enjoyed a cluster of 3 wonderful OBEs!

Instead of trying to give justice to describing Bruce’s rope technique, I found this link with the full description along with the bounce loosening info…

Hope this is useful to any OBE/Astral Projection newbies out there.