Out of Body Experiences

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I had my first OBE (out of body experience) when I was about 8 years old. I was in my bedroom asleep and when I woke up – I was floating on my ceiling – like a helium balloon – staring at the texture on the ceiling from six inches away. I turned to look down at myself still in my bed and suddenly started spinning and dropped back into my body.

I thought it was some sort of weird dream and did not bother telling anyone about it.

Move forward about twenty years. I spent my mid to late twenties interested in metaphysics, meditation, etc. I read about astral projection and determined to learn how to do this and control this. It took me two year of on/off practicing and then one night it happened.

I meditated and did some preparation exercises and then went to sleep (more about how to later). My consciousness then woke up while my physical body remained asleep. I could feel surges of electric like waves running through my body and I literally rocked out of my body and fell onto the floor tiles next to my bed. It was quite a shock and I remember crouching on all fours trying to control my breathing and remain clam. I slipped back into the body pretty quickly due to fear of the unknown I suspect.

These sessions continued until I could control myself out of body and learn to walk/see/jump/fly etc. The problem was I did not have a plan or really think about what I was doing so the OBE’s did not progress me at all – I was attracted the circus like nature of the event rather than using the experience to progress my self.

For whatever reason(s) I stopped doing OBE’s around 29/30 year of age and then lost the ability for a number of years.

I am now interested in this experience as one tool for further exploring the nature of self and consciousness. It has taken a little while but I am just starting to experience lucid dreams and OBEs again. This time they seem more natural and last night I just slipped out of body with hardly any effort at all.

I also met ‘others’ for the first time. One person seems to be lost and frightened and tried to cling to me. I assume this person had died but did not know it. I could not help him and had to leave by literally flying through the wall and away. I also sensed/saw some sort of deity/advanced being. I was a little concerned over this and the concern pushed my back in body. Interestingly, I was able to slip back out within a minute or so. It used to me that once back in body I would fully wake and not be able to get out again. Last night I left my body three times.

Is this dreaming and imagined. I am not sure. I know that whatever is happening I am fully conscious and it is my consciousness that is controlling the event. I perceive this to be real for me and therefore it must be real. It is certainly a positive experience – felling yourself as yourself out of your body. I think it helps me to have a clearer understanding of who I am and who I am not. I know now that : -

• I am not my body
• I am not my emotions
• I am not my mind
• I am the self
• The self is all there is

Enough for now !