Out Of Body
Experiences
There are numerous reports
indicating that people world-wide are having lucid experiences
outside their physical bodies. In fact, we all disconnect
from our physical body. This is a natural phenomenon that
occurs nightly during sleep, though most people do not realize
that it is happening. For example, have you ever felt like
you were falling while sleeping and awakened with a jerk-awake
sensation? Have you found yourself unable to move while you
were falling asleep or waking up? Have you ever "awakened"
to find yourself floating above your body? Or, have you ever
felt yourself awake outside of your physical body?
If you answered yes to any
of these questions, you are quite normal! These are some of
the sensations that can occur in the initial phase of Out-of-Body-Experiences
(OBE), which is also known as astral projection.
There are two factors required
to experience being out of the body. The first one is lucidity,
which is maintaining the ability to be aware of what is going
on, maintaining the same capacities that we utilize in our
daily waking state, such as interpretation and analysis; making
decisions; and having the same degree, or an even greater
degree of control over what we do. The second factor deals
with our ability to recall the experience upon awakening from
sleep.
The out-of-body-experience
is a completely different phenomenon from either an ordinary
dream or a lucid dream, because the OBE is not an imaginary
event. The out-of-body-experience is a real situation experienced
in another dimension, or plane. Ordinary dreams take place,
mainly, without our questioning the absurdities and incoherences
from what we know in everyday life. In a lucid dream one begins
to recognize that one is dreaming and often has some degree
of control over the elements of the dream, even though it
is still a dream. We could say that lucid dreams are on the
path towards developing the type of lucidity and awareness
needed to maintain control in the OBE.
In conscious out of body experiences
(astral projection) one can meet a friend, who is also out
of the body, and both can remember the same event. It is also
possible to visit and talk to people who have passed on. It
is viable to visit places and people at will, etc. Sometimes,
during an OBE, it is even possible for an individual to confirm,
or check, his or her experience. For example, a person could
have the body sleeping, yet simultaneously be out of the body
watching an incident occurring at a certain time and place.
Then, the next day, this same person happens to turn on the
TV and a report of the exact same incident comes over the
news, matching the time and location where he or she witnessed
it.
The mastering of one’s
energetic processes is the key to conscious astral projection.
Each person moves through life with their own unique pattern
of energy that constitutes their connection with the physical
body ¾ this energy pattern is our Vital Energy, also
known as Bioenergy, chi, or prana.
Our vital-energetic system
is naturally sustained through the basic mechanisms of replenishment.
However, there are techniques that human beings can learn
so as to control their own energetic field at will, thereby
improving the quality of energy, balance, and the quantity
of energy they absorb.
Although it is possible to
sense and control vital energy, most people do not consider
(or are not aware of) the vital-energetic processes that go
on around them, which affect the numerous interactions that
occur daily. Often, a person may come into contact with another
who lacks energetic balance, and doesn’t realize it,
yet may suddenly feel drained of energy, exhibiting fatigue,
apathy, sleepiness, irritability, etc. without apparent reason.
Through the existence or development of a balanced energetic
field, a person can build up their self-defense against such
energy drains, as well as take advantage of the positive uses
of vital energies in their everyday life. The study of the
OBE and vital energy are blossoming at a consistent pace.
Anyone can learn how to have conscious OBE’s or to increase
their occurrence, as well how to master vital energies.
Developing one’s vital-energetic
control will lead a person to go from having spontaneous (unintentional)
OBE’s to producing the experience at will. Developed
OBEers will gradually begin to make use of the one-third of
life usually lost during sleep. Thus, they will be able to
enhance their own life and the lives of others by bringing
information and knowledge from expanded perceptions outside
the body to their everyday waking life.
In order to clarify these
phenomena, scientific research has and is being done. Hand-in-hand
with the research on out-of-body-experiences is the research
of near-death-experiences (NDE). The NDE, nowadays a very
well-known phenomenon, is also an out-of-body-experience,
yet one that has been forced through some type of trauma or
accident.
The type of OBE in near-death-experiences
often produces a change in the life of the individual. Some
of the positive results that may arise in this experience
are:
- lose fear of death, and
increased value given to life
- increase extrasensory perceptions
- acquire of information about previous lives
- expand the understanding of life
- discover one’s personal "mission" or purpose
in life.
Through use of the OBE (either spontaneous or provoked at
will) the individual can realize these same benefits and many
others. The OBE is being heavily studied due to its potential.
Through access to other planes of existence and understanding
acquired through the experience, one can replace unsubstantiated
beliefs with direct personal experience. The OBE allows the
understanding of the human consciousness and human interrelationship
with the invisible, yet real, dimensions of existence that
surround us and affect our lives at every moment. So, it is
essential to elucidate whoever is open to this phenomenon,
so that they can be benefited by the experience.
Out of body experiencesl...
Are they possible? Definitely!
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