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According to Robert Bruce (and mostly in accordance with my own experiences) there are three core skills to master before someone can hope to successfully practice astral projection: Deep Physical Relaxation, Taming the Mind, and The Trance State. Deep Physical Relaxation The first big hurdle faced by projectors is deep physical relaxation. This essential skill needs to be thoroughly learned. I cannot stress it strongly enough; of the thousands of projectors I have dealt with over the years, in person and on the internet, one skill area stands way out in front as causing the majority of problems – deep physical relaxation – or rather, the lack of it. Everyone seems to rush through learning the most important of all core skills, to get on with the seemingly more interesting stuff. ~ Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics In my experience, this is a major factor in success during an attempt to project. One of the most common questions I get is “So what do you do? Are you telling me you just go through your normal day and lay down and project?” My answer to this is yes, but there is the catch: I have to be able to release everything I’ve done that day, work, school, homework, television, internet, feeding the cats/fish…everything must be released from my mind before I lay down to project. To those who are interested in the techniques I use to achieve this, I find that a glass of herbal tea (green or sassafras) helps, and then I’ll kneel down and use a visualizing technique I learned by reading Summoning Spirits by Konstantinos. I imagine that I’m sitting on the edge of a cliff over looking a rushing river. One by one I imagine each thing that happened that day as a symbol. A camera for work (I’m a model), and a textbook for school, etc. Once I have found a symbol for each activity, I imagine that I’m dropping that symbol down into the river, where it is rushed away…out of sight, out of mind, as they say. Being able to forget all of what happened during the day is crucial to successful projection. Even after all these years, if I’m not physically relaxed, forget it. Taming the Mind The surface mind is always active while you are awake. If can be likened to a huge message and reminder pad. Its function is to keep you aware of everything that is going on around you. It chatters away constantly, reminding you of everything, constantly stating and restating the obvious; playfully making witty comments about everything while making sure you know exactly what is happening in the world around you at all times. This ‘inner dialogue’ is part of the reason why many people can concentrate better while listening to music. Music occupies the surface mind and slows internal dialogue, thus allowing deeper levers of thinking and concentration… … while music can help silence internal dialogue with regard to mental training it is best considered an artificial prop. I do not advise it be used unless absolutely necessary. To deeply relax the mind and attain the trance state, where you can work with deeper and more powerful level of the mind, it is necessary to silence the constant chattering of internal dialogue. Surface thoughts also create inner tensions that reflect the physical body as physical tension, making projection more difficult. ~ Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics. For me, this is even more challenging than just relaxing, as I tend to unwillingly have a random thought midway through the meditation process before projection. I’ll be getting ready to lay down, and think, ‘Did I feed my toadfish today?’ And then I have to get rid of that concern before moving forward. The Trance State A trance is a very simple and natural state of being, the state entered when the physical body goes to sleep while the mind stays awake. Very simply, the frequency of the brain waves changes in response to the changed level of mental activity. The less mental activity, the deeper the level of trance. Normal levels of consciousness cause a lot of bioelectrical activity, which is associated with the awake activity of the surface mind, called the beta level. When the trance state is entered, this activity is significantly reduced, causing many peculiar physical and mental sensations. Changes in brain-wave activity are measurable with and electroencephalograph, or EEG, machine. ~ Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics. Essentially what Robert Bruce is saying is that the trance state is most easily achievable by meditation. Once a practitioner has mastered the art of combining all three core skills in a meditative state, it is only one basic step away from being able to attempt the first stages of astral projection. Meditation comes more easily for some than others, I’ve noticed. It seems that the best time to practice meditation is when one is in a public, crowded area. Practice blocking out any and all noise…the sounds of people talking, heels clicking on tiles, dogs barking, whatever the case may be, try to drown all this out. In my opinion, using music should be avoided, as it will only be harder to master meditation when the time comes that you need to have total silence to hope for success. The process for training myself to project took me only six months, but for an average person it wouldn’t be uncommon for them to try for up to seven years before either giving up or becoming proficient in the art. Steps cannot be skipped or taken lightly when one is attempting to learn to project. If there are any reading this who are interested to learn the techniques, I would strongly recommend picking up Astral Dynamics for use in training. Robert Bruce knows what he’s talking about, and in my opinion, he’s the best in the business for learning what to do. To move away from the daily lecture, I’ve made another big decision in my life. I have decided that I want to focus on developing my clairvoyant abilities in hopes that I may learn to access my astral sight in my daily life. So far I believe my training has been going well…I experimented with scrying last night and found establishing the link between the physical and the astral wasn’t that hard. And with that step, I hope to have that proficiency within the time span between now and the end of 2007. Sephiroth is, as usual, dubious about this endeavor. He’s concerned enough that I’m writing this down on the blurty, as following that attack he’s become rather paranoid. I know he’s only concerned for my safety, but seriously, I do believe I can take care of myself. He was against me going public with this, because he fears by writing down my beliefs like this I’ll only attract more negative attention. For my sake, I hope he’s wrong. Post a comment in response: |
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