Have an out-of-body experience

I checked out Astral Projection and the Nature of Reality: Exploring the Out-of-Body State by John Magnus from the library the other day. Hope this helps.

This is the technique I use to have an out-of-body experience. I don’t really trust the OBE meditations or techniques that involve “visualizations” or “dreams” for some reason… I mean I’ve tried them, but they’re just not the same… This should take about an hour and a half at the most, 20 minutes is the fastest I’ve managed so far.

1.) Lay down flat (or some find it easier to go out of body sitting up or lying on their side… like all meditations, just find what works for you) and completely relax your body. Some relax by tensing up and releasing sections of their body: feet, followed by lower legs, followed by torso and fingers, all the way up to the brow. Let the weight of whatever you’re sitting on, simply support your body.
2.) Wait until your mind is completely blank. Even thinking about not thinking will be a thought.
3.) Ease your awareness outwards… not with visualization, but by the feeling of the air touching your face, or listening out to the void you experience.
4.) Hold the balance of your awareness beyond yourself, your body totally relaxed, for as long and effortlessly as you can.
5.) Wait. Do not wait for anything in particular, just be... the essential state I’ve found I need to be in to have this experience is one that is perfectly selfless, humble, even defeated—completely effortless, and putting no effort into anything can actually be pretty hard. Not that you stop your respiration, just that you don’t try at it. Relax, just let everything happen…

If you got the right balance, holding it even as you drop out of consciousness for a minute, then you should feel “vibrations”. Actually, it felt like an earthquake to me. Everything may become terrifyingly noisy and bright, but it’s important that you maintain the balance you established in the steps above. If you have, you’ll suddenly be able to see the room around you, even if your physical eyes were closed… you’ll see at a point of perspective that you didn’t fall asleep in… you might see yourself, slumbering under you.

When that happens, congrats! New Agers say you can walk through walls and spy on people now, free as a ghost, and meet guiding spiritual beings, experience past events, even explore other dimensions… but I just do it for the buzz. :-P

I was really bored today and decided to find something to do. I looked for things to do when extremely bored, and found have an out of body experience. So after a few minutes of searching I found a guide. I did the guide until I reached condition C. I felt the vibration in my head, and it felt wonderful and terrible all at the same time. I know now this is something that will last me a lifetime. Please give me any tips, I want to discover this astral world.

does anyone know a way that i can teach myself how to have out of the body experiences?

so, there i was. all relaxed in my chair at home, thinking about meditation. i figure i might try it. i got all relaxed and let my mind wonder aimlessly. next thing i know, im looking down at myself. “i just fell asleep and now im dreaming.” i said to myself. i wanted to know if this was real or not, so i picked up a beer bottle and threw it at the wall. a moment later i “woke” up and got out of my chair and noticed the glass on the floor.

I was at a festival in Australia and some hippies who had befriended my husband and I offered me some DMT. (look it up – http://erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/dmt.shtml) At that time in my life I was not really adverse to drugs and have never been one to shy away from new experiences, so I accepted.
They told me that it was an extremely personal experience and no two people ‘see’ the same thing. So, I tried it and nothing happened, apparently I ‘wasn’t ready’and to be honest i was quite scared. Half an hour of relaxing and laughing and general chilling, i tried again. This time the experience is not one words can do justice for, absolutely amazing. I know people will say “oh you were just tripping” but for 15 minutes i was in another world. My late sister ‘appeared’ and sang to me and i felt my husbands re-assuring hand before he had even touched me.
I later researched this drug and it is believed to be produced by the pineal gland twice in a lifetime, during birth and during death, it is speculated to be the chemical responsible for ‘OBE’s’ during death or near death experiences.
I know some people will frown upon my past drug use but this was something different, this was a life changing experience and has boosted my potential for achieving my life goals by eradicating some of the fear associated with death, dying and pain.
X Lu

Some links about the relationship between DMT and the Pineal gland – http://www.google.com/search?q=pineal+gland+dmt

P.S. This is not meant to advertise or glorify drugs in any way. I do not condone drug use, especially in young people.

all of them involuntary.

I have some kind of strange connection..with something.
I don’t know what or how. I have an extremely in-tune instinct, and pick up on people very quick.

I’m 14 years old, and so far in my lifetime I’ve probably had around 15 OBE. They come without any procedure for me. For example, I was at a BBQ/party about a month ago. Everyone was loud and there was loud music playing, we were all having fun, then without remembrance of how or when it started, I was in this trance. (No I did not have any alcohol or drugs of any kind) I felt like I was asleep, and this was a dream, or like I was watching everything 20 miles away. I didn’t float around like some say, but I defiantly saw myself sitting at the table in the other side of the room. It felt like everywhere I walked I was hovering 2in. above the ground, My hearing was clogged, I felt really light, and I was utterly confused. This lasted till the end of the party, when I got in the car. It was the longest OBE I’d ever had. Probably 20mins.

I have lucid dreams from time to time. I never get to have any fun in them though, because I’m so freaked out that I fight my way out of the paralysis immediately. Most times I fall right back into it again, which is extremely irritating.

I just hate the feeling of not being able to move. I keep telling myself, “The next time it happens, roll with it” but I never do.

It was so long ago I can’t even remember how old I was. Mid teens. I woke up about a foot away from the ceiling. I was initially confused but then what was happening struck me and I was overjoyed, I’d read about astral projection and had always wanted to experience it but these things only happen to other people or in books right?
So, the problem was that I was paralyzed, I couldn’t move, I was horizontal, a foot away from the ceiling so my view, although clear was restricted. After a couple of minutes I was becoming bored! I figured my body should be below me so I tried to turn to see it, nope, not a thing. So I tried to move my eyeballs, no, I was frozen solid. Not even my eyeballs! So I strained (best word I can think of to describe an essentially thought driven process). And BANG, back in the body, jerked up out of bed, quite a shock. Tried to get back out, never managed it since. Talk about a bitter-sweet experience.
Couple of points, and I invite anyone to get back to me on this, I would like to exchange notes and believe it wasn’t just me, 1. when I came back into my body, I jerked upright in bed breathing heavily, I realised that I hadn’t been breathing whilst out of the body, which is kind of obvious when you think about it but it really struck me at the time. Quite an experience, not having to breath, after all, we’re always doing it.
2. I had a thought whilst writing this, is it possible that I havn’t consciously projected again because of the possible trauma of snapping so forcible back into the body whilst in the middle of a projection?
Anyway, that was it. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.