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Date: 2007-04-30 By: Brian Mercer
During my first conscious out-of-body experience, I encountered the woman I would one day marry.
It was the Saturday night before my final semester in college and I was enjoying some personal reading time before being inundated by next week's wave of classes and homework. The book I was perusing was Dreams and the Projection of Consciousness by Jane Roberts, which explores altered states of consciousness, including out-of-body experiences (a phenomenon sometimes abbreviated as "OBE").
As it grew late, I began to get drowsy, then to doze on my back, a posture I would later learn is ideal for remembering your out-of-body projections. The next thing I remember, I was flying back and forth in front of my house, just above street level. It was a bit disorienting, but only for a moment, when I realized I was having an OBE.
I'd read before that, in order to preserve the clarity of your projections, it's best to be a certain distance from your physical body. I wanted to get the most out of my experience, but panicked. Instead of gradually gliding over the neighborhood, I launched myself at a forty-five degree angle into the night sky; a proven technique, I would later learn, for getting into the astral planes. Read full article...
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