An
Introduction to Controlled Out of Body Experiences(Part One)
I got this information from a astral projection page, so when you read this article it has really happened. The reason I'm putting this article on this page is so that christian can hear and read it from the people who are in the Newage Movement.
Beloved, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John
4:1
by James Archer
My qualifications to write this article were gained
experientially. I have had a substantial number
of OOBEs, attended numerous training seminars designed to develop
OOBE and remote viewing
skills, was involved in interviewing more than one thousand
people who claimed to have had
OOBEs, met and been intimately associated with a group of
psychics and telepaths who called
themselves "Pathfinders" (no relation to Monroe's
Pathfinder program, in which several of us
were also involved), and been involved with joint OOBEs with one
or more other people on
numerous occasions.
My involvement with others in the OOBE field began in the early
seventies, as a result of a
telepathic merger with Sandy G. in the San Francisco area. This
event caused such a deep and
fundamental change in my perceptions of the world of physic
potentials, and of the framework of
reality itself that I spent the next five years learning as much
as possible about the phenomenon.
When I first met Sandy G. we were both involved with other
people. During our initial meeting I
found that I could understand minute flickers of expression that
were almost subliminal, yet fairly
shouted their meaning to me.
For example, a slight lip quiver, combined with an almost
imperceptible pointing of the chin and a
slight raising of one eyebrow I clearly understood to mean
"What are you doing with that
woman?" to which my surprised response was "Where did
you learn to communicate like that?".
Her response was "I don't know, where did you learn?".
At which point we simultaneously
realized that neither had spoken, perhaps 2 seconds had elapsed,
and our respective "partners"
were idly chatting in total oblivion.
In the next 5 or 10 seconds, we had a very long conversation that
was completely silent, and
consisted entirely of rapidly changing expressions and facial
movements, most so subtle as to be
unnoticeable to an observer. At the end of it we both burst out
laughing simultaneously, much to
the amazement of the others. In essence, we had agreed that we
were strongly attracted to each
other and would shortly end our respective relationships and
become lovers. The entire episode
lasted perhaps 30 seconds.
If you can imagine having learned a foreign language as a child,
having total amnesia for that
learning, and at some later period of life discovering that you
were fluent in a language you had no
memory of ever having learned, you would have a vague idea of
what we went through.
NVC (non verbal communication) is a specific form of
communication used by telepaths. That
label was used by Robert Monroe, and further defined in his book
"Far Journeys". It was the
recognition of and facility in using NVC that led to Sandy and I
recognizing what the other was,
and led to our link, or mental merger.
NVC is a sequence of quicksilver fast flickers of expression and
body language that convey
"clusters" of thought and ideas quite accurately. In
trying to described the specifics, it is almost
impossible, because the language varies with context and intent.
Just as a few hundred words,
assembled in various sequences and patterns have different
meanings, so does NVC vary
depending on what is being conveyed.
Overall it is an amplifier and validater of telepathic
communication. In the real world, telepaths
use it to augment thought and verify content.
"Conversation" is: Did you (verbal) + mental image
of whatever + slightly raised eyebrow + pause + further imagery
(possibly of future ramifications
of the query and its result + or (verbal) + slight wrinkling of
forehead and look of inquiry mixed
with sympathetic understanding implying "I know you may not
want to do it and may not have
done it yet, and may never do it and if so I understand and we
will still be friends or lovers even if
you don't and won't but obviously I am interested in you doing it
or I wouldn't be asking all these
stupid questions but I really like you so it isn't really
important whether you took the garbage out
or not, but at least have the common decency to tell me whether
you have taken it out or not, or
whether you intend to do so some time in the foreseeable future,
because if you don't I will empty
the garbage myself".
To an observer one person says "did you", pauses for a
heartbeat, says "or?" with a slight rise in
inflection, to which the other snaps "NO!", then
"do it!". And in inane telepathic conversation
(beginner level), they have just convinced everyone who witnessed
the event that they are both
quite mad. Actually, the "conversation" carries several
other levels of meaning, regarding the fact
that they are on the verge of ending their relationship, and the
meanings contained within the use
of the word "or" add a new dimension that carries an
immense amount of commentary. Because
some of the mannerisms and expressions are unique to telepaths,
it is very difficult to confuse
them with ordinary "body language".
Sandy was able to separate from her body as easily as most people
could take off a shirt. That
night I awoke to find her in bed with me. I could rationally
reason out that she was not "really
there", but the sensations were precisely as if she were
physically with me. It was not a dream, or
a fantasy. If anything, the fact that she was OOBE intensified
the perceptions and physical
sensations.
The next morning I asked her bluntly if it had been her, and her
response was to described in
quite graphic detail what had taken place, at what time, in what
sequence, etc. There was little
question as to the "reality" of it, from either of us.
The only problem was that we were both totally
new at it.
That is, neither of us had ever done it before, and our
"meeting" seemed to unlock mental
processes that had been dormant. Neither of us had ever met what
we came to call a "full
telepath" before, and the use of NVC was as much a surprise
to her as to me.
Several weeks later, we were driving to San Francisco and Sandy
put her head on my shoulder. I
thought "I love the way the coarseness of his shirt feels
against my cheek" followed by "wait!
wait!" and we merged. It took a monumental effort to stop
the vehicle, because I had 4 feet, 4
arms, 4 eyes, and saw "my" view of the world
superimposed on "her" view of the world, and
while she was screaming that I had driven her crazy, we were both
racing through each other's
minds, memories, and thoughts.
It took quite awhile to sort out how to move. We ended up
clutching each other and moving our
respective left feet in unison, then right, then left again, all
the while giggling and laughing like
children because for the first time in our lives we were normal.
We knew that however odd it
seemed on the surface and however difficult it was at the moment,
that state was "normal" for us.
We were not "separate". We were "together",
trying to adjust to the very odd sensations of having
2 bodies.
Sandy's "motive" for OOBE was almost entirely sexual.
Oddly, we rarely dreamed together, and
it was usually when she woke in the morning that she separated.
She said that all she had to do
was think kinesthetically of having sex with someone, and she
should be "with" that person, who
would simultaneously experience her presence and more or less
"interact" with her fantasy
OOBE. There was clear knowledge of the interaction on both parts,
and frequent validation of the
events by other parties managed to dispel any doubt as to whether
they were fantasies or OOBE.
I was very much interested in determining if others had had
similar experiences, and if so, exactly
what was taking place. I was familiar enough with psi and
telepathy in the ordinary sense,
although the merger had taken me completely by surprise. From my
perspective, my life up to that
point was irrelevant, and I spent the next several years studying
everything ever written about psi,
OOBE, and related subjects, and attempting to locate others who
had had similar experiences.
After meeting Sandy, I realized that I was not looking for
ordinary people with psi ability, but
rather people with psi ability who were essentially
"hiding" among normal people. Once I knew
what to look for, locating others became fairly easy.
The problem is that for the most part, people with psi ability
(telepaths, for lack of a better term
and because that is what we call ourselves) tend to have social
problems and a great deal of
difficulty in relating to "normal" people. The
exceptions are ones who have learned to use their
abilities productively, and generally are quite successful in
business or whatever area they
specialize in.
We rapidly established a validation criteria for OOBE that
enabled us to distinguish between
OOBE, remote viewing, traveling clairvoyance, dreams, and simple
fantasies and hallucinations.
Our criteria for OOBE was that the "projector" interact
with those at the target location, and that
the interaction be verified, usually by written descriptions of
the content of the OOBE by both
parties. In practice, a number of people became quite adept at
distinguishing when an OOBE was
taking place.
The process of validation was instrumental in developing OOBE
skills and knowledge, in that it
gave us rapid feedback as to the astuteness or our observations
and perceptions. The difficulties
of developing OOBE facility alone are almost insurmountable, and
the feedback provided by joint
OOBEs was the most important in eliminating the self doubts and
lack of confidence that plague
solo efforts at OOBE.
Central to this issue is a phenomenon called "positive
expectation open ended suggestion",
routinely used by Robert Monroe, Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler
and many others to elicit
quite sophisticated hypnotic phenomena. It is often combined with
a temporal double bind as a
post hypnotic suggestion.
In Robert Monroe's case, a positive expectation set was created
... "the frequency following
response of hemispherical synchronization will lead to
OOBE". A series of audio "pulses" at
varying frequencies was declared to cause a
"synchronization" between the otherwise divided
hemispheres of the brain.
Lying in a deeply relaxed state in a darkened room, listening to
strange sounds through stereo
headphones, in a group of people who were firmly convinced they
were about to have an OOBE
and go cavorting around on the astral planes, it was not unusual
for several people to describe
"spontaneous OOBEs".
Perceptual distortions indistinguishable from OOBE were rather
easily created, through unspecific
suggestions given in light trance or using analogical marking in
non-trance states, or during
self-hypnotic sessions.
One of the easiest phenomena for the unconscious to create is
that of "exteriorization", which in
an average person is usually assumed to be an OOBE, and when
"uncontrollable" it is usually a
symptom of schizophrenia.
During the early to mid seventies, we interviewed over a thousand
people who claimed to have
had one or more OOBEs. Most sincerely believed they had
"separated" from their bodies and
gave detailed descriptions of their experiences.
The largest group was comprises primarily of people who had had
"spontaneous OOBEs" after
ingesting stimulants, from caffeine to benzedrine, and gone for
prolonged periods without sleep.
By basic cross-referencing of the descriptions given by subjects
in sleep deprivation experiments,
and subjects in various studies of the effects of "disguised
hypnosis", it became clear that
whatever phenomena they were describing was similar or identical
in all cases. Specifically, the
vast majority of people who thought they had an OOBE had in fact
experienced a mild
hallucination, and little more.
Dr. Milan Ryzl, the Czech who developed the very powerful
psychokineticist Stepanek, marketed
an audio "training program" that was quite popular and
used the same basic techniques that Jean
Houston published in book form as Mind Games. The generic formula
was to build a positive
expectation set (something wonderful is going to happen), make it
open ended and cement it with
a double bind or a series of double binds, temporally ambiguous
(you may find yourself growing
smaller and smaller ... or you may find yourself slowly expanding
and floating upward like a
helium filled balloon ... and this may happen quite rapidly ...
or it may be more slowly ... and it
may even be several days before this wonderful feeling of ...).
Of the more than one thousand people we interviewed, fewer than
20 had actually had OOBEs
that could not be dismissed as sensory anomalies, mild
hallucinations, perceptual distortions
resulting from sleeplessness, the result of ambiguous hypnotic
suggestions, or remote viewing. (In
retrospect, I regret we did not explore remote viewing more
fully. We had some adept subjects,
but our primary interest was in another area.)
Of the subjects we located who had actually had OOBEs, the term
most often used in answer to
the question "What is the one word that most accurately
described how you felt during the
experience?" was "normal". Not fearful,
apprehensive, curious, excited, or elated. Normal. As if
OOBE were their normal state, and their everyday waking state
were the aberration.
It must be stressed that the study was private, not governmental,
and the subjects were under no
obligation to participate, nor were they rewarded. Their
motivation was to learn about and be
trained in a field that interested them, at no charge. It was
felt that offering the training without
cost would alleviate the problem common to other groups, of
subjects feeling obligated to
"produce an effect" to justify the expense of the
training.
Another point that must be stressed is that I am a telepath, and
accustomed to interacting with
others who have psi ability. The subjects we were able to locate
would probably not have
responded to a more conventional type of investigation.
Several conclusions generated from that study:
OOBE exists, but is restricted to a very small percentage of the
population at large.
OOBE is intimately related to psi faculties in general and we
were unable to locate even
one subject who was able to function in a OOBE state who lacked
other psi abilities.
Personal perceptions are the absolute worst indication of OOBE.
The "OOBE experience" was interpreted through a frame
of personal biases and beliefs
that corrupted the data and rendered it almost useless for
investigative purposes.
The exteriorization of the I-consciousness is quite common as a
hallucination, and even
more so as the result of direct of indirect suggestions, and,
lacking external validation and
verification, were virtually indistinguishable from OOBE.
-- Jim Archer