Hey guys,

All of us are aware of the sort of impact remote viewing potentially has. I mean, we can actually use it to find objects or people, to foresee the future or even to heal yourself!

But have you ever considered using remote viewing for time traveling?

Yes, you read that right. Time traveling. Well, take a look at this guy's account on how you can easily travel the universe just by remote viewing

Go Anywhere, See Everything Without Leaving The Comforts of Your Home With Remote Viewing

Is there life on other planets? Why not go and see for yourself. And that goes for anywhere else you'd like to travel, whether on Earth, the moon, the sun , quasars, pulsars, black holes, and so forth, including the Akashic Records. The whole Universe is available for you to visit and enjoy. And yes, you can even Remote View other people. Please note that all of this is not limited to space, Remote Viewing also includes travelling in time. You can easily go into the past and future. Visiting past lives in trance is one type, future lives is another. Regression to cause, commonly used in hypnotherapy, is also Remote Viewing; here the client revisits events in this life to resolve trauma. Another standard technique in hypnotherapy is progression, where clients go into the future to experience having already attained their goals. And all of these are simply types of Remote Viewing.

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How To Have An Astral Projection And Travel To Another World?

I often get questions about Astral Projection and Astral Travel. Using Remote Viewing - many people report having out of body experiences. Readers often want to know a simple way to have an Astral Projection, without needing to practice Remote Viewing for months. I was doing some research and came across a video with some instructions on how to have an Astral Projection. I tried this method before going to sleep last night, and I did experience some sensation. I'm going to follow it up the next few nights and see if it is as simple as what some sources claim.

For now, enjoy the video below which explains Astral Projection and Astral Travel simply. I've included some suggested instructions on how to have these experiences below the video.

Michael

Find an object which you can focus on. A crystal ball, or doll, or something familiar - try to avoid anything burning or flickering such as a candle.

Place the object within your view and lie down in your bed. Just stare at the object as you doze off. The first few times may be frustrating. You may just fall asleep and that's it. But after a few tries, this worked for me.

Keep staring at the object. As your eyelids become heavy, keep staring. Eventually your eyes will close, but you will still be able to see the object. You will still be staring at the object. Sit up or stand up, and don't be surprised to see your physical body sleeping peacefully in your bed!

Let me know what you experienced!

What does your life hold beyond 2012?

Hi There,

I found an interesting video that I want to share with you. Revealing with actual video footage that a man traveled in time to view himself in the future.

But before I show you the video, I want you to ask yourself:

What can I Remote View in 2012 and beyond? What does your life hold in 3 years, 10 years, 20 years, or even 50 years? Where will you be? Have you looked into the future.

As more and more people become enlightened with Remote Viewing, it's time to begin using our skills to look into our futures and what's in store for us.

Ok, now the video. Watch the Youtube video below, it's very fascinating. He took a phone video of his experience of meeting himself in the future.

Let me know what you think and believe in the comments!

Michael

From the files of psychicinvestigator.com...

Artist & psychic Ingo is reported to be able to astrally project himself, that is, an out-of-body experience.

Interesting reading - does it get you thinking?

Projectors claim that during an astral voyage, communication with other projectors or spirits is possible. Sometimes the projector reported being attached to his/her physical body by a silver cord analogous to the umbilical cord. Pets have been said to react in a frightened manner when encountering a projector, and some people claim to have seen an astrally projecting person's spirit as a colored beam or shot of light darting around the room.

In addition to anecdotal evidence, laboratory experiments have shown that a sleeping person can be aware that they are dreaming (often referred to as lucid dreaming), and some of these subjects claim to have had out-of-body experiences. Modern science generally interprets this as a purely physiological occurrence within the human body, explained by subconscious ideas that have been inflated by an imaginative retelling. Astral projectors find their firsthand experiences compelling enough to validate the dualism of body and spirit, and believe they have visited another world.

Robert Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute, published several accounts of his experiences of astral projection, including Far Journeys (ISBN 0385231822). Monroe developed a method he calls Hemisync to induce mental states that are favorable for projection. Hemisync is a synchronization of the brainwaves of both of the brains' hemispheres or lobes. This is said to work by altering brain waves using sounds, together with meditative instruction, listened to on headphones. The process based on a concept referred to as binaural beats.

An exhaustive reference, which includes techniques and types of out-of-body experiences and related phenomena, is the 1,200+ page Projectiology by Dr. Waldo Vieira, MD (ISBN 8586019585), which has over 1,907 bibliographic entries from sources in 18 languages on the topic.

This is the transcript of my interview with Major Ed Dames several weeks back - I asked some of the questions that people sent in that they wanted to hear an answer from Ed Dames, so read on - if you submitted a question, you might just find your answer here!

In case you missed it, you can download your copy of the audio recording here.

Michael Jura: Now this question comes from Camilla and Rodger, how could you be sure that what you think you were perceiving at these meetings was actually accurate and true?

Major Ed Dames: We can only be sure the way that anybody else and any other skill can be sure, we have to train, and train and train and train, and after six months of training or more, of targets where the feed back is known.

For instance if I were to remote view your mother’s birthplace, and then you tell me yes, you’re right or no you’re wrong; and we keep doing that until we get it right every single time, that’s the way we can be sure that when we work against unknowns, because that’s what we are training to do, solve for an unknown.

That’s the way that we are sure that we are right, 100% right, that we have been 100% right for six months or more under controlled conditions, and these are blind targets.

The trainee is not told what the target is, they are not told at all, unconscious must do all of the work, no thinking allowed. Only after we do that for months at a time, can we be sure that when we solve our unknown that the unknown is correct.

Michael Jura: I see, now that’s fascinating. So, was there anything you gained from remote viewing these Soviet meetings that was later verified factually to be true?

Major Ed Dames: Oh yes, many things. Two things I can think of off hand, the former Soviet Union was the Salyut Space station; what we derived from our work against these meetings was that the Salyut space station was going to be used as an operating base for exoatmospheric fighter planes.

In other words, the Soviet fighter plans to operate from space stations; they would actually dock and park in the Salyut 7 and they would achieve the high ground that way. And the other thing was a secret logistics tail in Afghanistan that we did not know about. Underground storage for weapons or equipment, things like that.

Michael Jura: That’s fascinating.

Major Ed Dames: But in these days and times, people use remote viewing for medical reasons, to find missing dogs and cats; yes we still use it to track nuclear weapons that might be stolen and things like that, but it has practical day to day uses as well.

Michael Jura: I see. Okay this question comes from Jonathan Davies, and it’s sort of related to what you just mentioned. When you are viewing these meetings in the Soviet Union, is there any way that they could engage a psychic spy who could also be at those meetings and detect when a remote viewer projects his awareness into the meeting?

Major Ed Dames: Actually, that was the case. They did know about us, and what they had was a Soviet extrasensor. The Russian extrasensor team was equivalent to our American sized spy unit.

The Russians did not know how to train this, they never discovered the protocols to do that, but what they did instead was they used very, very gifted natural psychics and trained them against US secret equipment and operations.

They would post one or two of those people at the meetings and if one of those people felt, right or wrong that they were being “pinged” so to speak by us, they would stop every body talking.

Michael Jura: Wow, that’s amazing, it reminds me of a story I read in one of the books by Robert Monroe, when he talked about how he was doing Astral traveling while vacationing in the Caribbean, and it turned out that during one of his travels he came across a CIA agent, and the CIA agent told him sorry, you can’t go any further the president is here; and it turned out that the president of the US, I can’t remember which
president it was at that time-

Major Ed Dames: It was Reagan. Bob came to me at one point in the program in the mid 80s and he was very disturbed, very, very upset because he could not sleep, because he felt that there were 3 Russian people that every time he tried to sleep, were looking at him.

Well, to make a long story short, I took my team and followed that back when back to Robert Munroe’s dream and looked back and it was indeed the Russians. The Russians were looking for the US psychic team, and what they found was Robert Munroe because we were using, my unit was using Bob Munroe’s gateway program to vet and assess recruits for our program.

We were spending so much time down there, with Bob, in his out of body, that the Russians felt that he was the commander!

Michael Jura: Wow.

Major Ed Dames: That’s why he couldn’t sleep, because the Russians kept pinging him thinking that he was in charge of the program, when in fact, we were using his program to assess  whether or not people would be good for our own program.

Michael Jura: I see, wow. And did the Soviets ever, I mean did you get any death threats from the Soviet or did they ever try to recruit you over to their side--

Major Ed Dames: Oh no- in fact two things; what happened is at one point the operations officer, a civilian Ivan Sokolav who I later met after the cold war was over, my counter part. And that was an interesting meeting. He knew that we knew about them.

His team started to report back to him that the Americans are looking at us, and the Americans know we are looking at them.

Well neither I as the operations and training manager of the American unit; I didn’t tell my commander this, because I knew that if told him he would shut us down and Ivan Sokolav did not tell the Colonel that was in charge of the Russian extrasense program that we knew about them because they would be shut down, and we didn’t want our operations to cease.

Journey beyond imagination

A Dudley lady has released her first novel, a fantasy adventure called Ankhspell.

Pauline Hadley lives in Dudley.

She has spent most of her adult life working as an artist and draughtswoman, writing fiction in her spare time.

She had always planned to write books and illustrate them herself.

Now her first novel has just been released in the Black Country.

Ankhspell is a fantasy adventure story with spiritual overtones written for older children and adults.

It tells the tale of Syke, a 14 year old English girl, and Sol, a young Canadian shaman, both of whom have connections to the ancient Egyptian gods.

The two are plunged into a mystical dimension called 'The Underworld' where they encounter weird aliens, mischievous spirits and bad-tempered trees.

"The story of Ankhspell came after years of studying the Ancient Egyptians, Native Americans and Canadian peoples’ spiritual beliefs," says Pauline.

"I've also always had an interest in the supernatural and paranormal phenomena. Ankhspell combines all of these ideas in a way that I think hasn't been done before."

The novel also explores the ideas that human beings originate from outer-space, as well as astral travel.

"The idea that we - as in human beings - came from outer-space is not a new one," explains Pauline.

"For so many native peoples all over the world it is one of their key beliefs.

"Similarly, the idea of astral travel - that gifted psychics can move their essence and energy to another location whilst in a dream or meditative state - is fascinating. The idea has been explored very seriously by scientists studying remote viewing and telepathy."

For the main characters of Ankhspell though, all of these themes construct an exciting adventure story where nothing is what it seems and death is not the end.

Pauline herself drew all of the colourful pictures that accompany the text, some of which are displayed here.

"I've loved writing Ankhspell and doing all the pictures and really hope that it will be able to stretch the imagination of the reader," smiles Pauline.

"I've aimed it for slightly older children but hopefully adults will love it too.

"Ultimately, despite some of the fantastical themes, the story is meant to show the connections between us all, and the need for us to show respect for the cultures and spiritual beliefs of native people from all over the globe."

At present, Ankhspell is only available from selected bookshops in the Black Country.

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Astral Projection - The process of separating your astral body from your physical body to accomplish travel in the astral.

The act of separating the astral body from the physical body. Also known as Astral Travel.

Astral Projection

An out-of-body experience often occurring during sleep or a meditative state during which the etheric body separates from the physical body and travels over great distances to another location as the result of an altered state of consciousness.

Out-of-body Experience

The out-of-body experience can be a dramatic one. Clinically, this falls into a phenomenon called "dissociative experience or disorder."

Often the experiences that create this feeling are powerfully ecstatic or traumatic. In either case, the feeling is similar to watching oneself in a film. Basically, whatever is going on in the dream is so powerful that the dreamer is separating herself from experiencing it directly. The result is a self watching the self in a moment of life. Dreams of this nature can be very revealing about the self at work in the world (see Medard Boss). Lucid dreaming can also create this feeling. In lucid dreaming, the dreamer is conscious of dreaming and may be watching herself in the dream.

Dreams of this nature may create a feeling that the dreamer has projected herself into another sphere of reality, creating a sense of astral projection. This idea has been popularised by certain paranormal studies on perceptions of reality.

Native American cultures view the out-of-body experience as a fuller unity of the soul with nature. As such, it is not surprising that they hold such experiences in high regard. It is in this sense that you can consider the out-of-body experience a brush with great power-in a world of physical limitations you suddenly have the ability to go wherever you wish to go. You have complete control regarding your place in the universe.

Conversely, another possible out-of-body experience involves a complete loss of power: seeing yourself lying on an operating table in a hospital.

With training and experience, remote viewing can become very accurate and almost natural. It is possible to remote view with great accuracy as Joe McMoneagle's story below explains...

From The Vancouver Courier, 07 July 1995

Spying sight unseen

Inexplicably, 'remote viewers' often pinpoint distant details

by Geoff Olson
Contributing writer

Joe McMoneagle wasn't feeling well on a hot July night in 1970. An overseas U.S. military man, he was relaxing in a restaurant in Brassau, Austria. McMoneagle remembers the establishment as being full of loud and happy revellers, the interior thick with cigarette and pipe smoke. It was warmer than usual, but it wasn't until he was offered a rum and coke by one of the revellers that he began to feel ill.

The back of his next grew hot,and as the group gathered to leave, McMoneagle had the distinct impression his surroundings were changing. The voices around him grew unintelligible, and as he reached for the door, his hand moved "in a slow-motion arc toward the handle."

"My last blurred memory," he wrote in his 1993 book Mind Trek, "was the door opening and my body falling through it from its own momentum. I distinctly remember fearing that I would break the glass with my fall and then heard a horribly loud pop and thought it might have been my face striking something as I was falling."

Expecting cobblestones to smack him in the face, McMoneagle caught his balance and found himself standing in the street. He felt light and quite well, but when he turned he discovered a body half in and half out of the gutter by the front door. "The shock of what I saw sent a huge shudder throughout my being. Lying in the street was my body, face up, with eyes and mouth open."

This was one man's introduction to what he would later consider to be psychic experiences. Out-of-body travels and other paranormal events continued to dog McMoneagle after his 1970 near-death experience.

In 1978, he found himself under the study of Prof. Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute. McMoneagle, along with others who had previously demonstrated psychic talents, were tested to see if they could "remote view" distant targets. A target could be a public swimming pool, a hi-tech windmill, a church--anything visually compelling on the California landscape. Two individuals would open sealed instructions with the target, and travel to the site, while back in the lab McMoneagle and other remote viewers would attempt to get psychic impressions of the target seen by the two travelling subjects.

Using double-blind procedures to rule out conscious or subconscious cueing, the experimenters themselves were unaware of the target sites. Only after the return of the travelling subjects were the results examined.

The testing grew more sophisticated, and a standard set of protocols was developed. According to the SRI scientists, McMoneagle and others consistently scored significantly higher than chance.

The military and intelligence interest in the research at SRI was near immediate. Soon both the U.S. Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency had their own remote viewing units, and by the mid-'80's, remote viewers were working on hidden nuclear weapons, drugg trafficking operations, and even the whereabouts of Col. Gaddafi. This was the so-called "Project Stargate."

McMoneagle was assigned to the Headquarters of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) in Arlington, Virginia, where he culminated his career acting as a Special Projects Intelligence Officer with the 902nd Military Intelligence Group.

It was from 1978 to 1984, according to reports, that McMoneagle had several outstanding successes with remote viewing, including the discovery of a new Typhoon class Russian sub--with all details later determined to be correct.

With the discovery of the apparent ability to transcend space and time, remote viewers strayed into distinctly non-military areas. One effort involved remote-viewing Jupiter. Ingo Swann, a New York artist, and one of the most successful of the SRI remote viewers, was tasked with psychically plunging into the upper atmosphere of the planet. Here's Swann's own record of the session:

6:03:25. "There's a planet with stripes."

6:04:13. "I hope it's Jupiter."

"I think it must have an extremely large hydrogen mantle. If a space probe made contact with that, it would be maybe 80,000-120,000 miles out from the planet surface."

6:03. "So, I'm approaching it on the tangent where I can see it's a half-moon, in other words, half-lit/half-dark. If I move around to the lit side, it's distinctly yellow toward the right."

6:06:20. "Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals... they glitter. Maybe the stripes are like bands of crystals; maybe like rings of Saturn, though not far out like that. Very close within the atmosphere... I bet you they'll reflect radio probes."

Swann cites this as evidence he remote-viewed Jupiter's ring--an astronomical feature of the planet only discovered by probe in 1979. The time of the remote viewing session was 1973. Critics have pointed out there are no mountain ranges on Jupiter, as Swann asserted in his session, but the artist points out they ignore his succesful "hit" with Jupiter's ring, and Jupiter's high infrared reading, among other observations.

Other remote viewers took to targeting what appeared to be UFOs. Both McMoneagle and Swann claim to have had some success with this, apparently picking up on bizarre, structured craft entering earth's atmosphere. McMoneagle was once given, without his knowledge, the "Cydonia region" of Mars as a target. Pencil in hand, he sketched the images from his unconscious. He had impressions of an advanced civilization that suffered a catastrophe millions of years ago, and later discovered his drawings and landmark descriptions matched the geological features targeted by co-ordinate for the Martian surface.

(Courtney Brown, a Ph.D. political science professor, recently went through remote viewing protocols with the intent of examining the more far-out stuff alluded to by other psychic voyagers. He now runs a remote viewing center, the FarSite Institute, and his book on what he considers to be psychically retrieved information on UFOs and aliens, Cosmic Voyage, marks the newest phase of remote viewing: an expensive inner arcade game. However, critics sympathetic to remote viewing charge Brown's book is a record of bad science, with loose procedures unlike those used at SRI.)

Eventually it was the more bizarre aspects of the remote-viewing programs that led the intelligence agencies to wash their hands of them--at least officially.

The years following Oliver North and Iranscam guaranteed the official scrutiny of any other small-scale "hip-pocket" operations that might prove to be embarrassing for American intelligence agencies. Remote viewing itself, consequently, was viewed dimly. Project Stargate was unfavorably reviewed, and civilian administrators shredded 20 years' worth of documents. Resources to the program dwindled, morale plummeted, and the Defense Intelligence Agency no longer wanted any involvement with politically questionable spooky stuff.

The program limped on with support from Congress, and remote viewers were called upon in intelligence operations during the Gulf War. In 1995, the remnants of the program were transferred to the agency that initially supported it--the CIA, who shut it down. Still smarting from the Ames spy case, and feeling vulnerable to congressional and public criticism, the agency decided to take the ESP out of espionage, or so the story goes.

The question is: if remote viewing had proven utility for U.S. intelligence, has it truly been discarded? Or, did it attain too high a public profile at SRI and other locales, necessitating a new, "black" program somewhere in the highly compartmentalized world of intelligence?

"It isn't the remote viewing that's dangerous," McMoneagle now says, "it's the information and what people might do with it." The remote viewers themselves came away with an irretrievably altered view of themselves and their place in the universe. For many, relationships with family and friends suffered, as they moved into realms of human experience beyond sharing. According to one remote viewer, who was tasked with remote viewing the Lockerbie jet disaster, the greatest risk was "a God complex."

McMoneagle, for his part, didn't want to return to his body during his near death experience: "In comparison, this physical reality we live in is most primitive. There are many people who share our world but have no respect for it.

"I wanted to remain in the Light and become part of it because it felt as if all knowing and feeling were contained there. It was like swimming in nothing but pure and unconditional love... I argued to stay, but lost the argument. There is probably a reason for it, but I haven't a clue as to what it might be."

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I've pulled up a whole section on Astral Projection FAQs on Paranormality.com, from the book by Richard Craze - A Beginners Guide to Astral Projection by Hodder & Stoughton. Without further ado....

In Brief - What is Astral Projection?

Astral Projection is a conscious attempt to experience being outside of one’s physical human body, while being both alive and preferably awake at the time. It is an attempt to have a controlled OOBE or (out of body experience).

It is not linked in any way to ritualistic magic and does not rely on any particular religious or belief system.

There are techniques for achieving an OOBE. As yet I haven’t heard of it being at all dangerous. However attempting to leave one’s physical body under the influence of medication or hallucinogenic drugs is seriously not recommended!

What happens when people Astral Project?

They have what is commonly referred to as an OOBE or out of body experience where a ‘part’ of them, be it the soul or consciousness, rises up from their physical body and either travels on the physical plane or on the astral plane.

What is the astral plane?

A topic of debate: The astral plane however can be likened to the Akasha, namely a place where all the thoughts, memories, fantasies and dreams of everyone in the world exist. The astral plane is thought to be a fantastic place to travel in, with many different travellers, entities and levels to it. It is said to operate at a much higher frequency than the physical plane we inhabit.

It is thought that the etheric body, spirit or mind can travel on the astral plane, which is said to appear more solid than the physical plane we all inhabit, this is because in order to travel it, the etheric body has to be existing and operating at the same higher frequency. According to some the astral plane is far more mutable than the physical and can be changed and altered simply by the power of thought.

Can people learn to Astral Project at will?

Yes there are techniques that can be learned but what degree of success is achieved depends solely upon the individual.

Why would anyone want to have an Astral Projection?

· Some people find it reassuring. If it is possible for your consciousness to exist outside of your body, then it is also possible that your consciousness may be able to survive physical death.

· Some people like to use the technique for spiritual reasons, maybe wanting to be at one with the universe or for some religious reason.

· Some people like to try it, simply to prove that it can’t be done – a negative approach.

· Some people like to use it for their own ends. They use it as a tool for clairvoyance to leave their bodies and go and seek out information or even spy. The CIA set up experiments to see if people could leave their bodies to glean information from the enemy. The CIA did it because they were convinced that the Russians were doing it. There term for this kind of Astral Projection is called Remote Viewing. After mixed success and possibly a lack of funding the project was eventually abandoned. We don’t know how the Russians fared.

· Some people want to try it just because they can try it and they just want to see what it feels like.

Who first discovered Astral Projection?

· The ancient Egyptians were possibly one of the first cultures to record beliefs about the soul. Hieroglyphics in tombs recorded hundreds of prayers that were to be said over the body of the deceased to guide the spirit on its way. They believed that the soul ba was housed in a spirit body the Ka an exact replica of the physical body. This on death gave way to the sahu the true spirit body that would house the ba forever.

In life the Ka and sahu were one of the same but the ka slowly diminished until only the sahu housed the ba. However the Egyptians also believed that the Ka could leave the body during life and drew pictures of people sleeping with their Kas or souls floating above them. This is very similar to the modern day descriptions of NDE’s (Near Death Experiences). Here the soul leaves the body at the point of death only to return again if the person is resuscitated.

· The Tibetans believe in the bardo body, which can leave the physical body while still alive and can also pass through physical matter because it is made of psychic material. The bardo body can be directed wherever by will.

· Ancient Greeks believed in a ‘double body’, which housed the soul. Plato believed that the soul was freed on death but could also leave the body during life and when it did it perceived the physical world as dimly lit.

· “Dean Sheils, in research published in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research in 1978 ‘A Cross-cultural Study of Beliefs in Out of Body Experiences’, compared the believe systems of over 60 different cultures and found that fifty four of them had some concept of astral projection or astral travel and that half of them had also believed that it is possible for this to happen consciously and while alive.

Almost half claimed that certain members of their cultures could do this at will. Only three cultures seemed to have no concepts or beliefs about this subject. Those that did seemed to accept it as a normal and natural part of human existence.” Source: (A Beginners Guide to Astral Projection by Richard Craze - Hodder & Stoughton 1999 - ISBN: 0340 737557

What does modern science make of it?

A man called Raymond A. Moody PhD. M.D. is often thought as the father of NDEs and has written a very popular book ‘Life after Life’ on the subject. According to Richard Craze in his book ‘A Beginners Guide to Astral Projection’ over the last 45 years there has been a more scientific approach taken.

The first major study was done in 1951 was by someone called Muldoon and Carrington. They collected and collated over 100 cases of OOBEs. They found that their research did indicate a ‘double’ that could live consciously outside the physical body and that could also survive the death of the individual. Richard Crookhall has also written many books on astral projection, and he states a number of recurrent themes.

What are these recurrent themes?

· Some form of double.

· A white light or illumination.

· Ability to travel at will.

· Inability to move or use physical objects.

· Feelings of tranquility and detachment.

· A ‘clear’ consciousness of what is happening.

· A sense of realness.

How is an OOBE most likely to be brought about?

· By a NDE due to illness or exhaustion.

· By an NDE due to accident.

· Deliberately by people trying to leave their physical bodies.

· By the application of drugs such as anesthetics.

· By trauma or shock.

What do the sceptics think?

· It is purely a mental state explained by complex chemical reaction.

· An autoscopic hallucination.

· Cerebral anoxia or lack of oxygen to the brain.

How common is the phenomena?

· Possibly between 5 and 10% of the population, which suggests around 6 million in the U.K or as much as 30 million in the United States.

Have there been reports of people seeing OOBE people while they were ‘out’?

· Yes, which increases the likelihood that OOBE’s are not purely ‘tricks of the mind’.

How many types of OOBE are there?

· Two – voluntary and involuntary, one involves a conscious effort to leave ones body where the ‘double’ is rarely or only faintly seen; and involuntary, say through an accident or trauma where the ‘double’ is usually seen.

What is a typical OOBE?

· A typical OOBE only usually happens once in a lifetime.

· Most often occurs lying down either resting or just before sleeping.

· There is a feeling of floating or soaring, usually upwards.

· It is mostly adult women who experience the phenomenon although if you are a student you are even more likely to do so.

· A typical case suggests some form of connection to the physical body, possibly by way of a silver cord.

· There are few reported cases of leaving the room, but there is a sense of realness and viewing the normal world.

· Feelings of pleasantness, detachment and calmness often accompany an OOBE.

· The person feels that the experience is real and although they feel the ability to go anywhere they rarely wish to do so.

· No ability or desire to change or move physical objects in their vicinity.

Who has OOBEs?

· Many women and more often than not students probably due to their lifestyle and interests. They are more likely to have heard about OOBEs and possibly more keen to try it.

Are OOBEs simply a form of dreaming?

· Definitely not because the sense of reality experienced is far too strong.

· Scientific results show that people undergoing OOBEs are not dreaming and they are not experiencing REM. Briefly, alpha waves decrease indicating a calm state and beta waves increase indicating that the volunteer is awake. There is an increase in heart and respiration rates suggesting the presence of some stimulus or activity.

Are OOBEs like NDEs?

· An NDE or Near Death Experience is really just a different form of OOBE that is brought about when a person is at the point of death or just ‘died’. It is more akin to passing over to the other side, seeing one’s life flash before them and traveling down a dark or light tunnel towards the light, God or whatever you wish to call it.

What is a typical NDE?

· People who are seriously ill hear themselves being declared dead, upon which a series of events are triggered, such as moving quickly down a tunnel and hearing unfamiliar noises.

· They find themselves at the end of the tunnel and can usually see their own bodies being worked on by medical staff.

· They sense that they have a form of ‘body’ somewhat different to the one that they left behind and also become aware of deceased friends and relatives coming to help them cross to the other side.

· They report an entity or being of light that plays their life review and every second that they have lived, but not judgmentally.

· The beings of light are always described as full of love.

· They are often told to return to their bodies and that their time on earth is not yet over. Often there is a reluctance to return.

· On their return they find words difficult to express the magnitude of the experience that they felt.

· There views on life after death, tend to be radically altered and fear of death tends to diminish.

How many types of NDE are there?

· There are two – PNDEs (perceived NDEs, where the person has a suspicion that they are about to die) and UNDEs (unexpected NDEs, where the person is quite shocked to find themselves in a near death situation).

Is the experience the same for both?

· No PNDEs tend to be associated with an accompanied journey with deceased loved ones to another world with another ‘body’ replacing the one left behind. UNDEs are associated more with near fatal falls, electric shocks or drowning to elicit a response. From here the person usually has a flashback of their life accompanied by feelings of happiness or peace. There are not usually reports of a ‘body’ instead feelings of just being that the person becomes pure thought or mind. There is often a sudden return to their physical body.

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Sources: Any excerpts for this FAQ section taken from a book by Richard Craze - A Beginners Guide to Astral Projection by Hodder & Stoughton 1999 - ISBN: 0340 737557