NPE #8 - OBE to the Belief-Gym

July 27, 2011

“OBE to the Belief-Gym” 

I roll out of my body and feel myself traveling a vast distance in space. Instead of trying to control this experience I surrender to the higher aspects of myself to bring me wherever I need to be.

I find myself in this gymnasium where I see an array of people just hanging out, many of which I know. I see family and friends. Everyone looks just how I remember them now. 

I start to talk with everyone and notice that they are slightly different from how I remember them. They tell me this place I am at is in my future. Some people are playing cards on the floor. Others are just hanging out. I joke with my cousin about all of the candy and sweets everywhere. I told Kyle, “This is like a McDermott party with all these sweets.”

At one point I’m talking with my friend Ralph and a few other people. I tell them that I am Andrew visiting from 2011 through what I call lucid dreaming and astral projection. They all cheer and laugh - Seem to attract a lot of attention when I say this. They are very amused and excited by this idea. I felt like I was channeling into the body I was using. My voice actually changed tone when I said this, reminiscent of my favorite ET channel Basher.  

I was walking around this gymnasium talking to everyone. Some people I knew, others I didn’t. I tried to get some sports betting information out of these people by asking who won the Superbowl in 2012. My friend Ralph said the NY Giants and a few other people gave me different answers! Some other people told me it didn’t matter. Eventually Ralph told me it didn’t matter because it was a different type of game or something, and I wasn’t going to get out of it what I wanted. 

I was talking with this one girl who was telling me stuff I didn’t know about myself. She told me I had a daughter, even though in waking reality I am 23, single and with no intention of having a child in the foreseeable future. I had to stop her because I didn’t want to know anything else about myself!

As I was leaving I was saying goodbye to everyone. They told me I should come back and visit them. I told them I haven’t exactly mastered how to revisit places but I will try. I knew I didn’t have much time left in this area. I jokingly slapped this old man’s ass as I was leaving and then we jokingly sparred a bit before we hugged.

I remember seeing this beautiful girl who had a solemn look on her face. For some reason I connected her as with my wife or daughter. I think she was wearing a police officer uniform or something of the sort. I never approached her or said anything to her, but just felt sadness for some reason.

I saw my grandma walking around just before I awakened. 

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Some thoughts: This was a strange experience. Revisiting this experience nearly 8 months later, it was interesting to see that the NY Giants DID win the Superbowl in 2012. This wasn't the first time I got accurate predictions from these experiences - one time I got the score of a NY Ranger's game and the time of a penalty within a few seconds of when it occurred.

I'm not sure what to make of this experience. The packed out gym seemed to be a place of congregation reminiscent of an emergency zone after a natural disaster or something like that. Perhaps this was a place I stored the memories of all the people I have came across in this life, or perhaps I really did project into the future where I live in the non-physical with almost everyone I know from this physical life.

The lady I felt some connection to in another perplexing idea. If I end up marrying or having a daughter who is a police officer some day, this experience will be verified even more for it's authenticity and our ability to get information from the future through conscious, non-physical experiences.

NPE #7 - Bout With The Vampire

December 14, 2009 

The dream started out at my house at home. I walked outside to notice I could hardly see very far in front of me - It was a dark night environment. I walked into the street because I felt I had to get somewhere. All of a sudden I noticed I was surrounded by these creatures in the street. They were these strange demonic creatures reminiscent of something out of a video game.

I had to be careful where I was walking, for these creatures would jump a straight line at me and I could avoid them if I was keen with my dodging. As I made my way through the dark street, I was soon surrounded by what I intuitively knew were Vampires. They did not look like the classic cape and fang vampires. What seemed to be the "boss" Vampire approached me. He was very weird looking, he had a fake pair of eyes which covered his true face - he took his hands and molded his face like play dough, which eventually showed his true eyes. He claimed he hadn't "fed in a year", and I would rejuvenate his body. The Vampires made it known that it was the "metallics" in peoples blood which sustained them.

Next the dream cuts to a false awakening. I'm laying in my bed, and I get this distinct telepathic message from my cousin (who at this point I felt was with me at the Vampires) that we need to reenter the dream and do justice, and we need to "Find the fire within." All of a sudden, in a fright, I realize one of the vampires is in my room with me!

We began to struggle and fight on my floor. This part of the dream was so vivid, nearly lucid, that I would later wake up in a sweat and chills. I remember distinctly the texture of his hair, and thinking "this is really happening." The vampire looked almost like the Joker from the newest Batman movie, but had a red face with I think black stripes. I remember the feel of his stringy hair. Eventually I began to overpower the creature, and started to repeatedly punch him in the face. Soon enough it clicked in my head that I must be dreaming! Now lucid, I began to repeat my Mantra and almost instantaneously the creature melted away to the floor. The mantra seemed to have some power in dispelling the creature. Feeling relieved, the dream now began to fade into black... 

I find myself laying in my bed in the trance state - mind awake body asleep. My astral (subtle?) body begins to turn over to face the ceiling (I was laying on my stomach). I begin to picture myself floating out of my body, and I begin to move towards the ceiling. I remember seeing the shadow of my floating body move along the floor. I felt no projection related symptoms. At this point I am completely lucid, in what I believe is a successful projection. I floated down through my floor/wall and then outside to notice my town is slightly different. I see my girlfriend (at the time) walking up the street towards me, and I simply fly past and say Hi and move further towards Main street towards her house. My plan was to see her in her bed, and then force myself awake with hopes of remembering the projection (It helps to impress the memories of non-physical experiences into ones mind right before waking up).

I began to flap my arms with the intent to increase my flying speed. At one point I passed what seemed to be the Chedderchimos house. I made my way around town and had the idea to fly high into the sky for quicker travel and a better view. As I got to the rooftop area of a building, I got this mild fear of heights, and I lost my ability to fly. I grabbed onto a roof ledge, and thought "This is going to hurt" as I let go. I landed on this table and crush it with my feet. A girl was walking around next to the table and I scared the crap out of her when I landed. She reacted just as someone would have in waking reality. My vision began to fade into black as I awakened...

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When I woke up and regained my bearing, I tried to assimilate what I had experienced. These events felt both simultaneously in the distant past and just to have happened. 

I wonder if the hell dimension was objective in any way, or just a metaphor for a state of my mind. Could actual astral vampires exists which feed on the "metallic in the blood" of the living? I hope I don't encounter such beings again, although it is comforting to know I have the means to deal with such creatures. 

If I did project into the real time zone, why did I see my girlfriend among other people? Did I see the astral counterpart to the town I was living in? Did my subconscious elements go into the experience? As I was coming out of my body, why did I experience what seemed to by my projected body's shadow? These experiences always leave me with more questions than answers. I learned early on that not all non-physical experiences are rainbows and butterflies, and we are at times forced to confront some scary stuff.

NPE #6 - Fighting in Cartoon World

October 13, 2011

“OBE to Cartoon World”

I find myself in bed separating from my body. My legs are already out but my upper body is being more difficult. This is a strange exit where I literally feel myself being sucked through and out my legs. I let out an audible gasp of pain as the sensation is not pleasant. I feel myself float and lightly hit the floor. I am in this pleasant blackness. I feels like an endless void - very peaceful. I decide to "let go" and allow the experience to direct itself. Soon I begin to feel an intense rush of motion that lasts for nearly a minute or so. It feels like every atom in my body is undergoing a gradual frequency change, or change in vibrational frequency. I feel like I am traveling a vast distance of space at incredible speeds.

Next visual phenomena enters my field of view. All of a sudden I am staring at a gigantic honey comb of little scenes. I get the intuitive feeling each one of the little circles in the comb structure is a world, a unique reality. I seem to enter one of these worlds. At first all of the people are cartoons as I transition into this world, but then they morph into people as I know them. I felt as if my schema of reality was being superimposed over the objective reality.

I find myself at a ball park of some sort – some type of sporting event. It reminds me of baseball but it is not baseball. I notice all of the inhabitants are spitting something out of their mouth – they remind me of drunken sports fans chewing tobacco.

At one point I begin to brawl with the inhabitants. I am able to move faster than they are. I literally feel like Neo in the matrix. I fight individually maybe ten of them. It is a lot of fun – almost thrilling. I am able to jump several feet in the air, and perform any type of fighting maneuver I can imagine.

Eventually the fighting subsides. It is not like fighting on our planet. It felt natural, socially acceptable and even fun. I think it is a game to these people. I don’t think anyone was getting hurt. At the time, in my mind, this seemed like the thing to do.

Lastly I am in this room with a girl who I know is “my sister.” I ask her to tell me the date. She seems confused. I probe her further asking if it is October and she says, “What are you talking about October?” The idea of a date and time seems to be lost to these people. 

Some thoughts: This was quite an interesting experience for me. I wonder if I can return to the "honeycomb" structure and use it as a gateway to countless other worlds. "Letting go" has been my method of choice in my more recent experiences. It seems there is an aspect of yourself that can show us experiences that are so alien to the conscious mind, so far from the conscious paradigm. While I was at the honeycomb I felt a surge of fear which then directed me to the fighting world... perhaps the fear tuned my vibrational frequency into that of the fighting world, and I then gravitated towards that reality.

NPE #5 - Meeting with Gramps

This was one of those dreams which leaves you with a peculiar feeling upon waking.

February 5, 2010

“Grandpa” [Edited for brevity]

The dream starts out on a beautiful picturesque beach. The waves were breaking far off shore, and I thought that it was the perfect condition for body boarding. The water was warm with teal hue. As I turned to the side, I was startled for a moment. There was this huge ridge. It had many waterfalls and was almost entirely blue with water; I had thought it was a tsunami for a moment! K and N were there, and said they thought it was a tidal wave at first too. These cliffs extended 200 to 300 feet into the sky. The waterfalls were huge and unearthly. We decided to swim out into the water towards these falls.

I managed to get ahead of everyone else, and was at what I perceived to be my land lord’s house on top of the cliffs. I saw him inside his house getting ready to leave. I waited outside for my friends to catch up, and we all seemed to congregate outside at the same time. I’m relieved that I don’t have to make too much small talk with him alone. We went inside and began to talk. I think he mentioned a few things about the heating in our house. I asked Kip if the waterfalls hurt on the bottom, and he said they might. [Edit]

All of a sudden the house theme changed to my house from home on Long Island. My Grandpa John was sitting on the couch in my den (at this time he was very ill). As I’m walking out the door, I decided to say good bye to him. The thought of death entered my mind. He is nearly 90 years old, and his wife (my Grandma, MiMi) has been very sick the past month - things aren’t looking too good. As I walked over to talk to him, I bumped into a pair of legs extending out from the couch. I suppose I simply didn’t see the other person sitting on the couch. 

It was my other Grandpa on my Dad's side, who I called Gramps. I leaned over to give him a kiss and thought in my head “you died last year, this can’t be real, I’m dreaming!” Just like that I’m lucid talking with what appears to be my dead grandfather! I’m in an extremely lucid state of mind, and all of a sudden the dream starts to go black....I knew I was waking up, but I fight the awakening.

I feel around the dream room using my sense of touch to reenter the dream. As my vision returns, I notice my two brothers and father are now in the room as well. They and my living grandfather are more like spectators. They have become motionless, almost inanimate. I focus on Gramps and begin to rapid fire some questions at him, knowing my time is limited. I knew he would understand.

I asked him if the death process was hard (that is navigating the astral right after physical death), and he said it was, and is a difficult process for most newly deceased.

I asked him what is the best thing I could do to further my spiritual evolution. He told me “I wasn’t going to hear what I wanted to hear.” 

Then I told him that he has to show me my shadow self, alluding to a dream I had a couple days earlier about an “evil force” controlling me from within. He got excited and said “I never said anything about the shadow; I never said anything about the shadow.”

Before I could ask another question, I felt myself waking up. The dream went black. I woke up wishing I could have had just a few more minutes!

Some thoughts: This dream left me with an intuitive feeling that I did connect, in some way, to an aspect of my passed Grandfather. Perhaps the beautiful beach is a belief-territory in consciousness space where Gramps currently inhabits. 

This dream had some interesting symbolism, such as climbing the waterfall cliffs to my land lords house. Beaches are also common dream metaphors symbolizing a connecting point between two realities. If I could go back, I would have asked different questions. I was on a bit of a Jung kick at the time. The way he did answer my questions is telling, though... 

I have had a few more of these dreams involving Gramps over the past couple years, but have yet to again encounter him while lucid.

NPE #4 - 01/18/10 - "Butterfly Appears"

“Butterfly Appears”

The dream started in a Court room. N is a lawyer, and I am sitting at his side, like an assistant. M and A are sitting in the row behind us and I am chatting with them. I can’t recall what the case and trial was about. I get up to go to the bathroom. The bathroom is located in what seems to be an airport. There are urinals right outside of the terminals. I notice K is jogging by and I say Hi to him, but he just ignored me. I yell his name again as he runs away, but he doesn’t seem to hear me. I wonder if I am invisible.

Next, I run into N and he seems disturbed with something I do when I talk on the phone with a few other friends. I tell him I am just trying to please them, but can’t recall exactly what it was about. I remind him that he has a job to do in the courtroom and he agrees. After talking with N and seeing K, it clicks in my head that I must be dreaming.

I become lucid and decide to try and break out of the airport. I attempt to smash one of the huge glass windows but can’t seem to break through the glass. As soon as I smash the window it simultaneously restructures itself. It looks very cool, albeit frustrating. I see an airport worker opening a door about 60 yards away and I quickly fly over and out the door.

As I get outside, I’m astounded by the beauty and warmth of the sun – It feels so vividly real! I attempt to fly high and quickly into the sky, but I am still being weighed down like in other lucid dreams. I notice an old pickup truck and I attempt to launch myself off of the hood, like a spring board, but I once again drift to the ground.

I decide to walk and I notice a nice area that has all these trees and flowers – It’s a real nice nature seen. I decide I will wait by the trees until my “spirit guide” appears. I say aloud, “I want to see my spirit guide,” curious to see what develops. All of a sudden, an array of white butterflies come out of the trees. I notice a big white spotted one land on the tree, and a smaller once lands on my finger. I am astounded by what my intent has produced. Within a few moments I awaken surging with energy and excitement.

Some thoughts: In many of my earlier NPEs, and even at times to this day, my belief systems can limit my experience. A perfect example of this is how I was weighed down to the ground when I tried to fly into the air. There is no gravity in consciousness space. With clear intent, one can fly effortlessly around. In this dream, I let my physical reality conditioning, that of gravity, shape my experience. How often do other types of belief systems shape our experience in waking reality as well?

This was the first dream I was able to "summon" a "spirit guide." This was very interesting to me because butterflies are the last thing I was consciously expecting. I had been having dreams about bears for years before hand, and probably would have expected something like a bear or in the least a bearded man in a robe. If there is indeed some type of objective element to CS, I wonder if what I experienced was literal or symbolic in nature. Symbolically, the butterfly is attributed to the idea of metamorphosis, of transformation. From a literal perspective, it is interesting to think the beings we share physical reality with become our allies in the non-physical as well. Maybe the answer is somewhere in between.

When I shared this dream on Robert Moss' dream forum, Robert was keen to point out that often dream "airports" and other transportation hubs are symbolic of actual non-physical places where we "come and go" from different realities. Similarly, dream beaches often symbolize the membrane between one reality and the next. Overall, this dream was very inspiring for me. I vividly remember waking up and running into my brother's room to share my experience.

Recommended Links and Forums

Here are a few resources I have found helpful in my own journey. You will find like-minded folks who can be very helpful, especially for people just beginning to practice having these experiences. I've found it is hard to talk to the average person about this type of stuff, it is simply too far removed from the paradigm they operate within.

List of forums:
www.astralpulse.com
www.my-big-toe.com/forums/
www.astraldynamics.com.au

Other notable websites:
www.multidimensionalman.com
www.realitysandwich.com
www.divinecosmos.com
www.bashar.org
www.astralinfo.org
www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html
www.dreaminglucid.com
www.ourultimatereality.com
www.karen659.blogspot.com
www.thegatewayexperience.com
www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com

I have many more websites I may add in the future. For now I decided to stick to those that are immediately relevant to the topic of exploring the non-physical.

NPE #2, #3 - 12/04/11

I decided I would not be recording these experiences in any particular order. With that said, here is two I had last night.

“Momentum”

I find myself in 3D blackness where I begin to see a scene. I am talking with someone, a lady, but cannot remember the details of our conversation. I consciously enter the scene which is this big room with bookshelves. The books are about half the size relative to normal books, and they all seem very interesting, dealing with subjects such as metaphysics and mysticism. I browse through the books as I marvel at my lucidity. I pick one out and expect the cover, and see a publication date of 1920. I was looking for an ISBN number to verify the book in waking reality, but was unable to locate one.

Next I begin to hear this loud thumping. In the dream I had the intuition that I was to confront the manifestation of my fear. The loud thumping was occurring behind a bend in the wall, and I began to walk closer towards it. I thought I was to see a demon or something equally sinister. As I turned the corner, I saw what was creating the thumping – it was a large punching bag swinging in the air, back and forth. It was mere momentum. I stood perplexed wondering how I was to stop it? 

Some thoughts: I'm reminded of the Buddhist idea of karma, the idea that all of our perceived "problems" and fears are the remnants of inertia, an impersonal force. If I was to get through my own fear, I had to stop the momentum I had created since birth. In the dream I thought about jumping into the punching bag to stop it. Do we all have to dive headfirst into our fear, take a few painful blows, to move through it?

“The Young Fool of 109”

I find myself concious in this hallway of a school building. I talk with this one person who I felt like I knew somehow. I was confused at first and asked the person, who looked to be in their twenties, if this was physical or non-physical reality. He told me this was non-physical reality. I asked him what I could learn here and he said there were different things you could learn in each reality. This may not have been his exact wording, but that was the just of it. I was explaining to him that I had no memory of how I got here, and my last memory was being 23 years old. I asked him how old he was and he just chuckled and said, “I’m a young fool of 109.” 

Some thoughts: Do such afterlife schools exist where we go to continue the lessons of life? Many of my experience deal with being in strange schools and institutions. Perhaps these are set up in the non-physical for consciousness to continue to grow and expand. I've always gotten the feeling that Earth was something like a school, a place where we learn some hard lessons.

A Few Fellow Explorers

There have been explorers of consciousness space whose repeated journeys have been recorded in books. I would recommend the following authors for their sheer experience in consciousness space. Although they may not all follow the same paradigm or technique, they all have developed an advanced ability at inducing these non-physical experiences. What I have found interesting is the similarities in their experiences, although so out-of-this-world the experiences may be. These authors can give you a glimpse of the larger reality, but it can only be known through your own experience. It is great to know that intelligent minds have rationally and earnestly approached this subject - you are indeed in good company! In no particular order I recommend the following authors:


William Buhlman (Adventures Beyond the Body, Secret of the Soul)

Biography

William Buhlman is America's leading expert on out-of-body experiences. The author's four decades of extensive personal out-of-body explorations give him a unique and thought provoking insight into this subject. His first book, Adventures beyond the Body chronicles his personal spiritual journey of self-discovery through out-of-body travel, and provides the reader with the preparation and techniques that can be used for their own adventure.


During the last ten years he has conducted an international out-of-body experience survey that includes over 18,000 participants from forty-two countries. The provocative results of this survey are presented in his book, The Secret of the Soul. This cutting edge book explores the unique opportunities for personal growth and profound spiritual awakenings that are experienced during out-of-body travel.


Over the past two decades William has developed a proven, effective system to experience safe, self initiated out-of-body adventures. He conducts an in-depth six day workshop with the Monroe Institute titled, Out-of-Body Exploration Intensive. This unique workshop provides the steps, intention and techniques designed for controlled out-of-body exploration. Each participant will experience a comprehensive array of proven OBE methods including the target technique, inner motion, visualization, chakra and energy body activation. In addition, hypnotic, shamanic and early morning methods will be practiced. Information about the author's workshops is available at www.astralinfo.org.


As a certified hypnotherapist, William incorporates various methods in his workshops to explore the profound nature of out-of-body experiences and the benefits of accelerated personal development. Through lectures, workshops and his books the author teaches the preparation and techniques of astral projection and spiritual exploration.


The author brings a refreshing look to how we can use out-of-body experiences to explore our spiritual identity and enhance our intellectual and physical lives. William is best known for his ability to teach people how to have profound spiritual adventures through the use of out-of-body experiences. In addition, he has developed an extensive series of audio and video programs that are designed to expand awareness and assist in the exploration of consciousness. William has appeared on numerous television and radio shows worldwide.

Robert Moss (Dreamgates, Conscious Dreaming, Dreamer's Book of the Dead)

Biography


Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His eight books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreamgates and Active Dreaming: Journeying beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom.


Moss describes himself as "a dream teacher, on a path for which there has been no career track in our culture." He identifies the great watershed in his adult life as a sequence of visionary events that unfolded in 1987-1988, after he decided to leave the world of big cities and the fast-track life of a popular novelist (already the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Moscow Rules) and put down roots on a farm in the upper Hudson Valley of New York. Moss started dreaming in a language he did not know that proved to be an archaic form of the Mohawk language. Helped by native speakers to interpret his dreams, Moss came to believe that they had put him in touch with an ancient healer - a woman of power - and that they were calling him to a different life.


Out of these experiences he wrote a series of historical novels (The Firekeeper, Fire Along the Sky, The Interpreter) and developed the practice he calls Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of contemporary dreamwork and shamanic methods of journeying and healing. A central premise of Moss's approach is that dreaming isn't just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind.He introduced his method to an international audience as an invited presenter at the conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams at the University of Leiden in 1994.


Core techniques of Active Dreaming include:


The "lightning dreamwork" process, designed to facilitate quick dream-sharing that results in helpful action; the use of the "if it were my dream" protocol encourages the understanding that the dreamer is always the final authority on his or her dream
Dream reentry: the practice of making a conscious journey back inside a dream in order to clarify information, dialogue with a dream character, or move beyond nightmare terrors into healing and resolution
Tracking and group dreaming: conscious dream travel on an agreed itinerary by two or more partners, often supported by shamanic drumming
Navigating by synchronicity: reading coincidence and "symbolic pop-ups" in ordinary life as "everyday oracles".


Thomas Campbell (My Big TOE)

Biography


Tom Campbell began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe's laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running.


Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness. During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems.


My Big TOE represents a model of existence and reality that is based directly on Campbell's scientific research and first hand experience. It represents the results and conclusions of thirty years of careful scientific exploration of the boundaries and contents of reality from both the physical and metaphysical viewpoints. There is no belief system, dogma, creed, or unusual assumptions at the root of My Big TOE.


Bruce Moen (Voyages into the Unknown, Exploring the Afterlife Series)

The author says, "I'm just an ordinary human being whose curiousity about human existence beyond death led me to extraordinary experience. . . . If there is any difference between you and me it is only that my curiousity has already led me to exlore and know what lies beyond death in the Afterlife."
This fascinating volume recounts the story of some of his voyages past the edge of life, using techniques learned at The Monroe Institute. Moen describes for the reader how to access this knowledge for themselves and to learn what the Afterlife really is.

Robert Monroe (Journey's Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journey) 

Biography


Robert Monroe (October 30, 1915–March 17, 1995) was a New York radio broadcasting executive who became known for his research into altered consciousness. His 1971 book Journeys Out of the Body is credited with popularizing the term "out-of-body experience".

Monroe achieved world-wide recognition as an explorer of human consciousness. His research, beginning in the 1950s, produced evidence that specific sound patterns have identifiable, beneficial effects on our capabilities. For example, certain combinations of frequencies appeared to enhance alertness; others to induce sleep; and still others to evoke expanded states of consciousness.

Assisted by specialists in psychology, medicine, biochemistry, psychiatry, electrical engineering, physics, and education, Robert Monroe developed Hemi-Sync, a patented audio technology that is claimed to facilitate enhanced performance.

He is also notable as one of the founders of the Jefferson Cable Corporation, the first cable company to cover central Virginia.

For more info visit www.monroeinstitute.org. 

Robert Bruce (Astral Dynamics)

Biography 


Robert Bruce is a published metaphysicist and a true spiritual pioneer of our times. Author of five ground-breaking books, with three in Second editions, his life is spent exploring the dynamics of all things paranormal and spiritual, and testing the boundaries of The Greater Spiritual Reality. This exploration particularly involves the human energy body and its Chakras, which form the foundations of both physical and spiritual existence.


The depth and scope of Robert's experiential knowledge is quite remarkable. Robert's other areas of expertise include Astral Projection (often called OBE or Out-of-Body-Experience), Kundalini and its phenomena, Clairvoyance (mind's
eye vision), Spiritual and Psychic Development, Metaphysics, and Psychic Self-Defense. Robert is a may who lives in The Greater Spiritual Reality and asks others to join him there.


Robert lectures internationally and currently resides in sunny Australia. You can find him on the web at AstralDynamics.com and his community site and forum at www.AstralDynamics.com.au.When not writing or lecturing, you'll find Robert diving enchanted reefs and exploring the wild places of the Australian outback.


Robert Waggoner (Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self)

Biography


Robert Waggoner is President-Elect of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and a graduate of Drake University with a degree in psychology. He is also the coeditor of the online journal, The Lucid Dream Exchange dreaminglucid.com. He is a frequent speaker at national and international dream conferences.


Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self is the account of an extraordinarily talented lucid dreamer who goes beyond the boundaries of both psychology and religion. In the process, he stumbles upon the Inner Self.


While lucid (consciously aware) in the dream state and able to act and interact with dream figures, objects, and settings, dream expert Robert Waggoner experienced something transformative and unexpected. He was able to interact consciously with the dream observer-the apparent Inner Self-within the dream. At first this seemed shocking, even impossible, since psychology normally alludes to such theoretical inner aspects as the Subliminal Self, the Center, the Internal Self-Helper in vague and theoretical ways. Waggoner came to realize, however, that aware interaction with the Inner Self was not only possible, but actual and highly inspiring. He concluded that while aware in the dream state, one has both a psychological tool and a platform from which to understand dreaming and the larger picture of man's psyche as well. Waggoner proposes 5 stages of lucid dreaming and guides readers through them, offering advice for those who have never experienced the lucid dream state and suggestions for how experienced lucid dreamers can advance to a new level.


Lucid Dreaming offers exciting insights and vivid illustrations that will intrigue not only avid dreamworkers but anyone who is interested in consciousness, identity, and the definition of reality.


Stephen LaBerge (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming)

Biography


Stephen LaBerge (born 1947) is a psychophysiologist and a leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming. In 1967 he received his Bachelor's Degree in mathematics. He began researching lucid dreaming for his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology at Stanford University, which he received in 1980. He developed techniques to enable himself and other researchers to enter a lucid dream state at will, most notably the MILD technique (mnemonic induction of lucid dreams), which was necessary for many forms of dream experimentation. In 1987, he founded The Lucidity Institute, an organization that promotes research into lucid dreaming, as well as running courses for the general public on how to achieve a lucid dream.

His technique of signalling to a collaborator monitoring his EEG with agreed-upon eye movements during REM became the first published, scientifically verified signal from a dreamer's mind to the outside world. The first confirmed signal came from Alan Worsley under study in England; however his group did not publish their results until later. Though the technique is simple, it opens broad new avenues of dream research and pushed the field of dream research, or oneirology, beyond its protoscientific and largely discredited psychoanalytic roots, establishing it as a fruitful and respectable discipline.


Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (The Tibetan Yogas of Dreeam and Sleep)

Biography  


Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a lama in the Bon tradition of Tibet, presently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the founder and director of Ligmincha Institute, an organization dedicated to the study and practice of the teachings of the Bon tradition. He was born in Amritsar, India, after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and received training from both Buddhist and Bon teachers, attaining the degree of Geshe, the highest academic degree of traditional Tibetan culture. He has been in the United States since 1991 and has taught widely in Europe and America.


"If we cannot carry our practice into sleep," Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes, "if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."


This book gives detailed instruction for dream yoga, including foundational practices done during the day. In the Tibetan tradition, the ability to dream lucidly is not an end in itself, rather it provides an additional context in which one can engage in advanced and effective practices to achieve liberation.
Dream yoga is followed by sleep yoga, also known as the yoga of clear light. It is a more advanced practice, similar to the most secret Tibetan practices. The goal is to remain awake during deep sleep when the gross conceptual mind and the operation of the senses cease. Most Westerners do not even consider this depth of awareness a possibility, yet it is well known in Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions.


The result of these practices is greater happiness and freedom in both our waking and dreaming states. The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep imparts powerful methods for progressing along the path to liberation.


Michael Raduga (The Matrix is Real - Hack It!)

Now, out-of-body experience is accessible to everyone. It is now known how to easily master it and apply it effectively. It is new way for obtaining information, influencing the physiology, meeting the deceased, visiting any place in the universe etc. This guidebook is the result of ten years of extremely active personal practice and study of the the phase state (lucid dreaming and out-of-body experience), coupled with having successfully taught it to thousands of people. I know all of the problems that are usually run into when getting to know this phenomenon, and have tried to protect future practitioners from them. This guidebook was not created for those who prefer empty reading. It is for those who would like to learn something. It contains no speculations or stories, only dry facts and techniques. Contrary to popular opinion, there is nothing difficult about this phenomenon. The techniques work in literally a couple of attempts. More info and full Free version on www.obe4u.com.

Jurgen Ziewe (Multidimensional Man)

Leading a highly demanding professional life Jurgen Ziewe compensated by practicing intensive meditation to gain balance and spiritual inspiration. He soon discovered there was more to life when he was catapulted out of his body into a parallel universe. For nearly forty years he kept a secret diary detailing his excursions, which reveal a fascinating alternate reality that awaits us once we leave our mortal bodies. The author discovered a multidimensional universe, which he could step into in full waking consciousness. He returned each time with breath-taking accounts of a world which forms not only the natural extension but the foundation of our physical universe. Jurgen Ziewe gives vivid and compelling accounts of meeting his deceased relatives, of interviewing the 'dead', and even of accompanying himself in a previous life. He describes with the zest of a travel journalist some of the mind-bending places he has visited, and recalls the excitement of unearthing the magical powers found there. www.multidimensionalman.com