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From Out Of Body Experiences Intentions & Imagination
Pt 1)
Imaginations As Autohypnotic Inductions For Out Of Body Experiences
And Inner Journeys
How to start an OBE by imagination:
If you keep your imagination
in full concentration and alertess, nothing will happen. Many
people don't know this and are frustrated by the insuccessful
trials, though they feel to have done everything "in
the right manner". If you want to start OBE, there has
to be an interval, at least a short moment between imagination
sequence and the start of OBE-ing, in which a change of quality
of consciousness occurs. This interpolated phase may be a
short dream or a glide into trance. An image for OBE and an
image for trance induction do not differ. Furthermore the
imagination has to have an affirmative aspect, outlasting
the interpolated phase.
General considerations:
A great variety of induction
methods are used in psychotherapy for hypnosis and autohypnosis.
The most conventional methods, however, often do not fit for
OBE-ing. These methods are based on the hypnotic order "to
go deeper and deeper". It is meant to go into deeper
regions of subconsciousness, to unveil repressions. The prefered
imaginations used for these kinds of inductions are to dive
into the ocean, to go downstairs etc. OBE-ers who had several
astral travellings, however, sometimes associate these orders
with descendence to lower astral regions, which are "hell
regions". With respect to subconsciousness deeper regions
are more chaotic and aggressive. Years ago I experienced following
scenario:
Bal.: "To gain some experience
in hypnotic methods I asked a friend, who is therapist, to
have some sessions with me. Because I was interested to see
how these methods could be used in Yoga, I asked him to guide
me as intensely as possible to cosmic love. We started and
he asked me to lift my right hand as mark for the degree of
love. When love would increase my hand should rise and in
highest state should touch my forehead. Speaking in a calm
and friendly way as in usual conversation, he led me to good
relaxation and spoke to me about love. My hand slowly started
to rise (I felt no tiredness in the arm by holding it upwards).
Then he spoke to me: "Now you go downstairs, deeper and
deeper". He repeated this order for several times. I
did as he had ordered and I went down a stair, which in inner
sight was in faint light and I entered a cloudy grassland.
Again there was the order to go deeper and I went down a further
stair, now gloomy, and I entered a plain in dawn. My hand
slowly sank down. At last I felt to be in a dark plain, with
danger threatening from all sides.There were no herbs, only
stones and nothing to hide. All sides were full of thorny
and sharp things. I tried intensely to feel love but I was
not capable to have only a minimum shine of love and my hand
sank down on the knee. The session was a great flop."
Triggering etheric OBE´s,
general aspects:
Out of body experiences in
the kind of "stepping out of the body" are induced
by activating the motoric center of cortex, as I suppose.
From this part of brain alertness spreads to the other centers
(visual and semantic areas) creating lucidity. (In astral
travelling the visual area seems to be the starting point.)
a) Body feeling as necessary
for OBE´s in the kind of "stepping out of the body"
( Alfred Ballabene 1)) is gained by awareness on vibrations,
by imagination of body movements, and by space feeling. For
OBE-ing in the sense of "stepping out of the body"
imaginations of activ body motions will do best.
b) Body feeling in OBE´s
in the kind of "floating out of the body" (Alfred
Ballabene 1) is generated by body awareness when relaxing.
OBE-ing in the sense of "floating out of the body"
may be triggered by imagining your body being moved in a passive
way, like being carried away. If you are not able to fall
in trance, it may work nevertheless in form of an inner order
which will be actualized in sleep or at the border of sleep.
Triggering astral travelling,
general aspects:
Astral travelling is induced
when visual sense dominates. This requirement is fulfilled
in dreams as well. Therefore, when an OBE is started out of
a dream, it will always be an astral travelling and never
an etheric OBE. An additional inductive impulse is caused
by religious and spiritual emotions. For astral
Practical aspects:
The first times when you use
an autohypnotic system, record the text (examples see later)
sedatively and persuasively on a tape. After several sessions
you can start trance without using a tape. To be less disturbed
by noise from outside and to support autohypnotic process,
calm music will do very well. Furthermore rhythms of the drum
and monotone rattling may improve trance.
In autohypnotic inductions
for trance (especially for "floating out of the body"
experiences, furthermore for astral travelling and for time
journeys) your body plays a passive part (is carried away)
as opposed to methods for "stepping out", in which
you move your body actively (in imagination).
Examples of different categories
of imaginations:
moving actively in nearby
distance:
Fits for "stepping out
of the body": rocking forth and back ..... stand up and
get out of your body like out of a shell; do it over and over
..... pull yourself out of the body with your hands grasping
a hold ..... walk in the room ..... dance
moving actively in far distance:
Fits for astral projection
and is done in near sleep state: Flying away like a bird.....
drive a car, aeroplane, rocket, boat ..... glide on skates,
skate-board, on skis .... glide in the air ..... moving in
spacious jumps
being elevated:
Fits for "floating out
of the body" and astral travelling: Flying in an aeroplane
or balloon ..... go by a fast train or bus..... being carried
away on a cloud ..... sitting in a ski-lift ..... going upwards
a lift ..... being a leaf and being carried away by the wind
..... be carried by a wave ..... sliding up or down an escalator
passing a border (-zone):
For astral travelling: Passing
fog, a river, mountains, a door ..... look through a window
..... look into a mirrow and pass ..... look into a painting
and get it vivified .... pass "heavens gate" .....
pass a ring of smoke ..... pass a tunnel ..... be pulled into
a whirl ..... a long straight street ..... crossing the sea
..... taking stairs
projecting:
Watch television a movie and
project into the scene (you can watch TV in reality before).
..... zoom into an imaginated or visualized landscape .....
zoom into "nothing" ..... look and project yourself
through a telescope
time travelling:
visit a museum and pass the
rooms, each one representing a passed epoque. ..... look at
the single pictures of a film in backward direction to more
and more past times ..... turn the pages of a book ..... look
at an hour-glass and think about time passing ..... visit
a churchyard
dissolve your body identity:
These are methods for higher
consciousness states and higher planes. Your body is made
of air, of fog or a cloud and dissolving ..... your body is
hollow ..... expanding by far and afterwards your body is
retracting (f.i. Tara meditation).
stimulation of motoric brain
areas:
This method works only with
body awareness: The imaginations include all variations of
body engagement and work because of two reasons: - because
of creating body awareness, which helps to create a "second
body" (double). - because imagination itself is brain-work
and helps to sustain a higher level of alertness in near sleep
(or in sleep/dream) states.
Examples: "Practicing
karate in the mind" and play a sport, jog..." of
Charles Goodin. Further quoted in same article: "she
mentally played the piano" (besides mentally using her
hands she certainly felt rhythmic elements, which are associated
to body movements).
Reply by John Crystal (4-Oct
1995): .."I play my guitar... Works for me!"
"Water Skiing Method
of Projecting" by Matt Holmes 5) 49 different imaginations
were posted in the news group by Charles Goodin 6). I hope
you will find the article in his home page or in a book of
him. Most of his quoted imaginations include elements of body
movement.
Expanding inner awareness:
While taking a breath feel
spirituality, connection with transcendence and love, entering
from above through the top of head, --- while breathing out
direct awareness outwards through the forehead as a kind of
expanding space-sensing.
Boat imagination:
You lie in a boat and watch
the white clouds (look at them as a symbol for thoughts) which
slowly glide in the sky. In the calm swinging of the boat
you enter a peaceful and well balanced state. The remainder
of your thoughts belong to a far away world and have become
unimportant. Thoughts fade away and quietness and peace replace
them.
Tunnel imagination:
Create a detailed image of
a cave, which leads to a tunnel. Then enter and pass the tunnel
until you see a light, signaling the end of the tunnel (see
as well A. Ballabene 1).
Bal.: "To gain new experiences
some of our group had learned shamanistic methods in seminars.
The rest of us was eager to learn from their group fellows
and therefore we had rented a basement room. We lay down on
floor and first had to get in touch with our animal guide.
While drum was beaten we started our journey. I had chosen
the imagination of a rock- cave to start my journey to underworld.
I passed a long tunnel and after a time, I don´t know
how long it was, I saw a light in front of me, which soon
came closer. It was the end of tunnel and I entered a plain
in full daylight. I had passed about 100 meters, when I saw
a wooden stable, about 50 meters away from the place I stood.
The most fascinating impression, however, was a very beautiful
horse, which turned and looked at me. This horse seemed to
be my animal guide responding to my inner call. I had had
nothing to do with horses by this time, but years later circumstances
led me to start horse-riding, which I have used to do every
Saturday or Sunday for years now. As some kind of late realization
I am going on horse-back with "Igor" a black wallach
and we both go into the beautiful landscape of Carnuntum,
which is known to the people because of a former Roman fortification
situated on the river side of the Danube."
Painting figures in the sand:
Imagine to be at a beach,
standing with bare feet on golden sand. You are alone, surounded
by a beautiful landscape. With a stick or your finger-tip
you draw the number 5 into the sand. Now draw a circle around
the 5 and step into the circle. After a while a wave erases
number and circle. Again you draw a number inside a circle
into the sand. It is the number 4. The number is again erased
by a wave and you go on with further numbers until you have
reached zero in a circle. When this cipher is erased, your
everyday life is erased as well. You are in trance and have
entered a new world. After a while, when returning from your
journey you recall the numbers again and this time in upward
sequence.
The seven halls:
You enter a hall in red light
and pass without having a look aside, fixating the door in
front of your way. Upon arrival at the door you open it and
you enter a green hall. You go on and pass seven halls in
the colours as named here or in the colours of the seven chakras
or in colours of your preference. Red ... green .... blue
.... violet .... orange .... yellow .... white. When you have
opened the last door you enter an unknown world.
Journey to past lifes:
You are sitting at an old
wooden table with an old pergament book in front of you. You
meditatively turn the pages. Candles on the table with their
flickering light cast moving shadows on the room, converting
the scene into a magic world of shadows. An old clock is ticking
tuck...tuck...tuck..Every sound of the clock is like a step
in a more and more ancient time. The room fades away and scenes
made of blurred shadows emerge. By and by the sight clears
and you start to catch a sight of scenes in ancient and lost
times.
Projecting to a "real"
place:
OBE-ing by intensive imagination
of a walk in a well known surrounding is an old technique
passed on from the early times of occultism. Before you start
imaginations go to a place of your choice and note every detail
in your mind. Close your eyes and memorize the details, then
open the eyes and check your memory. In this way improve your
remembrance of details. At home relax and recall the place
in imagination and have a walk there. Take care of perfect
body imagination and go slowly, step by step and look at every
detail of your surrounding. Being in full concentration you
forget about your present situation (of being at home) and
you subsequently start to be in "reality" at the
place of imagination.
Bal.: A member of our group
who had studied physics and who was good in electronics, had
borrowed an amplifier from a medical institute to set up an
EEG-recorder. He wanted to control relaxation of our group
members by registration of brain signals. To have a better
feedback the frequency- range of the recorded brain potential
could be monitored by sound, which became the deeper the lower
the frequency was. We all were eager to test our abilities
for the short time the amplifier could be used. So I lay down
on floor, electrodes on my head and behind the ears, pasted
with salty gel-electrolyte. The apparatus was switched on
and I started to relax. By choice I decided to imagine a walk
in the nearby shoping area. It was a slow walk, every step
was imagined and I had a look to each shop- window I passed.
The surrounding became more and more concrete and awareness
of the room in which I was lying faded away. Suddenly I was
shocked awake by noise and switched on light." The trigger
for frequency range did not work", the physicist said,
who interpreted the deep sound in his way; the experience
was over.
| Authors Details: Alfred Ballabene Email:
Alfred.Ballabene[at]univie.ac.at |
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