Projection of the Astral Body

Although others in the family had studied along occult lines to some extent, I knew practically nothing concerning the higher life. To be sure, I had heard that we live after death, much as we do now ; but that was the sum- total of my knowledge on the subject, and even that was not a matter of thought with me. I accompanied her, as did my very small brother, and the occurrence which I shall now relate took place there.

We retired at an early hour that evening, incidentally rooming in a house where lodged half a dozen widely known mediums. At length I realized that I was slowly awakening, yet I could not seem to drift back into slumber nor further arouse. In this bewilder- ing stupor I knew within me that I existed somewhere, somehow, in a powerless, silent, dark and feelingless condition. Still I was conscious — a very unpleasant contemplation of being! My memory would not tell me. The stupe- faction which one experiences when first arousing from the influence of an anaesthetic is similar.

I thought that I was awakening from natural sleep, in a natural manner, yet I could not proceed. There was but one thought dominating my mind. Gradually — it seemed an aeon of time, but in reality it was but a short interval — I became more conscious of the fact that I was lying somewhere. These few half-clear thoughts brought relative thoughts, and shortly I seemed to know that I was reclining upon a bed, but still bewildered as to my exact location. I tried to move, to deter- mine my whereabouts, only to find that I was powerless — as if I adhered to that on which I rested.

Adhered — that is the exact sensation. If conscious at the beginning of exteriorization, one feels fairly glued down, stuck fast, in an immovable position. A peculiar fact about this phenomenon is that one can be con- scious, yet unable to move. Astral catalepsy will be discussed later on in more detail. Suffice it to say here that astral catalepsy can be present either with or without the functioning of the senses, and with or without consciousness ; for astral catalepsy is direct subconscious control.

Eventually the feeling of adhesion relaxed, but was replaced by another sensation equally unpleasant — that of floating. Occurring at the same time, my entire rigid body — I thought it was my physical, but it was my astral — commenced vibrating at a great rate of speed, in an up-and-down direction, and I could feel a tremendous pressure being exerted in the back of my head, in the medulla oblongata region. This pressure was very impressive, and came in regular spurts, the force of which seemed to pulsate my whole body.

All this was to me like some queer nightmare, in total darkness — for of course I knew not what was taking place. Amid this pande- monium of bizarre sensations — floating, vibratory, zigzagging and head-pulling — I began to hear somewhat familiar and seemingly far- distant sounds. The sense of hearing was beginning to function. I tried to move, but still could not — as if I were in the grip of some cryptic and super-powerful directing force. No sooner had the sense of hearing come into being than that of sight followed.

When able to see, I was more than astonished! No words could possibly explain my wonderment. I was floating in the very air, rigidly horizontal, a few feet above the bed. The room, my exact location, was now comprehended. Things seemed hazy at first, but were becoming clearer. I knew well where I was, yet could not account for my strange behaviour. Slowly, still zigzagging with the strong pressure in the back of my head, I was moving toward the ceiling, all the while horizontal and powerless.

It was too unnatural for me to understand, yet too real to deny — for, being conscious, being able to see, I could not question my sanity. Involuntarily, at about six feet above the bed, as if the movement had been conducted by an invisible force present in the very air, I was uprighted from the horizontal position to the per- pendicular, and placed standing upon the floor of the room. There I stood for what seemed to me about two minutes, still powerless to move of my own accord, and staring stright ahead. I was still astrally cataleptic. Then the controlling force relaxed. I felt free, noticing only the tension in the back of my head.

I took a step, when the pressure increased for an interval and threw my body out at an acute angle, I managed to turn around. There were two of me! I was beginning to believe myself insane. It was difficult to convince myself that this was real, but consciousness would not allow me to doubt what I saw.

My two identical bodies were joined by means of an elastic-like cable, one end of which was fastened to the medulla oblongata region of the astral counterpart, while the other end centred between the eyes of the physical counterpart. This cable Extended across the space of probably six feet which separated us. All this time I was having difficulty in keeping my balance — swaying first to one side, then to the other. Ignorant of the true significance of my condition, my first thought, on seeing this spectacle, was that I had died during sleep.

I did not know at that time that death comes only with the severing of the elastic-like cable. I made my way, struggling under the magnetic pull of the cord, to where the consanguineous earthly beings lay asleep in another room, hoping to awaken them and let them know of this awful plight. I attempted to open the door, but found myself passing through it.

Another miracle to my already astonished mind! Going from one room to another I tried fervently to arouse the sleeping occupants of the house. I clutched at them, called to them, tried to shake them, but my hands passed through them as though they were but vapours. I started to cry. I wanted them to see me, but they could not even feel my presence. All of my senses seemed normal, save that of touch. An automobile passed by the house ; I could see it and hear it plainly. After a while the clock struck two and, looking, I saw it registering that hour. I began to prowl about the place, filled with the anxiety that morning would come and that then those sleepers would awaken and see me.

It was pulling with a stronger and stronger tug. I began to zigzag again under this force, and found presently that I was being pulled backward toward my physical body. Again I found myself powerless to move. Again I was in the grip of a tremendous, unseen, directing power. I was cataleptic and was resuming the horizontal position, directly over the bed. It was the reverse procedure of that which I had experienced while rising from the bed. Slowly the phantom lowered, vibrating again as it did so, then it dropped suddenly, coinciding with the physical counterpart once more.

At this moment of coincidence, every muscle in the physical jerked, and a penetrating pain, as if I had been split open from head to foot, shot through me. I was physically alive again, filled with awe, as amazed as fearful, and I had been conscious throughout the entire occurrence. Although repetition naturally brings about greater perfection, this is probably one of the most unusual first projections on record, so far as con- sciousness is concerned — eclipsing in its clarity many of the best efforts of adept mediums.

While it is my personal opinion that I naturally possess a hidden power to project the inner being from my body, I also credit the extraordinariness of this first conscious exteriorization to the fact that several remarkable mediums slept in rooms adjacent to the one which I occupied. It is a fact, as most students of the occult understand, that a line of force can be established between persons for the benefit of another person.

I shall touch upon this point later, inasmuch as it concerns this phenomenon. I have purposely omitted many details, in drawing a picture of this first projection, which will be fully covered as we go moire deeply into the study. A long story in itself could be told of astral- plane life, earthly relativity, association of phantoms, etc. So I shall refrain from delving into this depart- ment now, my purpose being to give a more analytic presentation of the phenomenon of astral exteriorization, and how it is produced.

About the first hot-shot that the sceptic, or even delvers into the supernormal, will give the conscious projector, is that he the pro- jector did not leave his physical body at all, and that what he supposed happened was but a dream which was indelibly registered in his memory. There is only one answer to this ridiculous supposi- tion. If a person does not know when he is conscious, then indeed he should be submitted to a sanity test! In your dream you would not know you were not fully con- scious. In a dream a man may not know that he is unconscious ; but when he is conscious he does know positively that he is not dreaming!

Simply because we have a distinct understanding of both present and past, when con- scious. So do not form the idea that conscious astral projection is but a dream reminiscence. Now let us go on. From what has gone before, we now have a fair mental picture of an astral-body projection, wherein conscious- ness participated from the very commencement to the very finis of the process. It is, however, not always that such is the case — this being the exceptional and not the commonly-met-with occurrence.

Consciousness, in fact, may interpose at any time, or at any place, or in any position during the process. It may be interspersed with unconsciousness, or it may never enter into the act at all.

As a rule, when consciousness does intervene, it makes its debut after the body has already separated, and is walking about, totally unaware of the fact up to the time of awakening. The elementary stages — the subconsciously controlled catalepsy, zigzagging and floating — are not pleasant to experience consciously although one soon becomes hardened to them. Nevertheless, these preliminary activities always do take place providing, of course, that the exteriorization occurs with the physical entranced in a lying, or horizontal position when the subject is unconscious.

We have all heard of cata- lepsy. When a person is physically cataleptic, he is in that condition because he is astrally cataleptic. Most of us have seen demonstra- tions in hypnotism, where a subject, under cataleptic rigidity, is suspended, horizontally, by his heels and head, while huge boulders are placed upon the centre of his body and smashed into bits with a sledge-hammer. It is catalepsy of the astral body which produces physical catalepsy. With the phantom once exteriorized and powerless, under cata- lepsy, the subconscious can manoeuvre it as it pleases.

This is an example of the wisdom of the super-intelligence. All of us know how difficult it is to lift a limpid, living body to the upright position, and how easy it is if the body be resistless and stiff. The subcon- scious, it seems, makes use of this law. Even though the astral body be cataleptically controlled, the conscious mind can function, or partially function ; but usually it does not function until the spell is removed. Astral catalepsy reigns from the beginning of exteriorization until it progresses to that point where the phantom is in the vertical or standing position.

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It is not unusual for the phantom to stand there for some time before being liberated. Some projectors get only to this point, and never become free — interiorizing again, all the time in a cataleptic condition. When such is the case, the body will always be unstable, swaying to and fro, from side to side, forward and backward. This is really an incompleted projection. A completed projection could not be considered so unless the phantom were liberated from catalepsy.

Under the latter classification unconscious there are two distinct forms of the phenomenon. First, immotive second, somnambulistic! Immo- tive unconscious astral projection is simply unconscious astral cata- lepsy in the perpendicular or standing position. It is a frequent happening for the projector to stand in this manner — as I have shown in the preceding paragraphs. Just as, under the unconscious classification, there are two kinds of phenomena, immotive and motive somnambulistic , there are likewise immotive and motive types of conscious projection.

The only difference between the unconscious motive and immotive types, and the conscious motive and immotive types, is that, in the latter, the subject is awake. Obviously, the immotive type always pre- cedes, and may develop into, the motive. This I have termed astral somnambu- lism. It is the state where the phantom is liberated from catalepsy, but remains unconscious, and is far more common than is generally supposed.

During sleep many mediums travel in the astral body, but never become conscious, while doing so ; consequently they never realize the fact. I stated formerly that when consciousness does intervene, it comes, in most cases, while the subject is either standing cataleptic or is astrally somnambulating.

It has been my most common experience to gain consciousness, and find myself astrally somnam- bulating. In astral somnambulism, just as in physical somnambu- lism, the subconscious mind controls the meandering body. A perfect or imperfect working of the senses, inter- mingled with countless degrees of consciousness, will naturally bring about a registration upon the memory, in exact accordance with the complications.

It is obvious that the nearer normal is the function- ing of the senses, and the nearer normal the state of consciousness, the nearer true will be the recollections.

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Perhaps you have visited an entirely unfamiliar place, and upon viewing it have had faint or conglomerated recollections of having been in that very spot before. Yet you knew you had not been there. It is possible that you could have been there in a state of interrupted, astral somnambulism. The future, contemplating, subconscious mind sometimes projects the astral body to places which the subject, later, visits in the physical. Far more often, however, it is clairvoyant vision, and not projection, that does this. Conscious interruptions, during astral projection, are by no means confined to the somnambulating state, for they can take place while in the unconscious, immotive stage too.

It is easily seen that if the body be somnambulating while the flashes of consciousness are participating, it will be passing through a changing environment, which will tend to bemuddle the registration upon the memory. While, if the body be in the immotive condition, the registration will be more single and specific. Not all that we call dreams are caused by conscious interruptions, although some of them are.

I will point out later the relation of astral projection to dreams. Usually the medium, while awake, instructs his subconscious to send him to the remote place where he wishes to go, so that he may witness the scenes and events which are happening there. On awakening again, he is aware of having been at the desired place, but scarcely ever has any recollection of having made the trip. In such a case, the actual distance covered is not recalled, because the flight is seemingly made with the speed of light, and is always unconscious.

There are records of distant point projectors who have been seen in the astral body — far removed from the physical — by others, mediumistically inclined. No less an authority than William T. Human figures usually appear very small, like those upon a distant stage, but in spite of their diminutive size they are clear, as though they were close by. Sometimes it is possible by this means to hear what is said as well as to see what is done ; but as in the majority of cases this does not happen, we must consider it rather as the manifestation of an additional power than as a necessary corollary of the faculty of sight.

Conse- quently he has the use of his physical powers, while he is examining the distant scene ; for example, his voice usually describes what he sees, even while he is in the act of making the observation. Second, the intermediate speed, in which the subject moves along without effort, faster than the normal speed, but not fast enough to cause loss of perception. The phantom does not seem to pass through the door ; the door seems to pass through the phantom.

Streaks of light scintillations are thrown off by the astral body, and extend backward about two feet, as it moves along at this intermediate speed. Third, is the supernormal travelling velocity — a speed beyond comprehension. It always occurs when the subject is unconscious, and is in play when the phantom is moving back and forth over great distances.

It would be utterly impossible to move across a vast area at such speed and realise the distance, for the conscious mind is too slow in its thinking, and before it could formulate one single thought the objective would already be reached. What I have just said concerning the three speeds at which the projected astral body moves is true also of permanently separated astral beings the dead. It has been the contention of some that every transit of the projected astral body always takes place with super-speed. This is true only when the phantom is moving toward a very distant place. On other occasions the intermediate travelling speed may be used ; and still at other times the free phantom behaves in a manner befitting its physically-alive self, with all its own peculiarities of stride, swing and carriage.

It may take place when the subject is in practically any state of unconsciousness. In times of sickness — especially that sort of sickness which is staid or sedative — astral projection can and often does take place. It is a fact that the more weakened, languid and enervated the physical becomes, the more easily the astral member detaches itself from it ; for at such times less material resistance is brought to bear against the inner workings which prompt the separation.

Undoubt- edly, at the time of death, many people are already erect in the astral body before the final breath of the physical body is taken — although they may not be conscious of the fact. It is my firm belief that physical debility is an incentive to most kinds of mediumship, for the less material co-ordination a person has, the less material will be the influences to overcome by the sub- conscious resources.

In making this statement I am aware that it is contrary to the ideas of many prominent authorities. Popular opinion seems to have it that perfect material co-ordina- tion health is an essential requisite to the production of the phenomenon of astral projection ; but I hope to discredit this belief by quoting experiences, and pointing out specific reasons for believing that the contrary is.

If I do disagree with others as to what produces, assists, and influences projection of the astral body, I do so because of my own experience with this phase. I shall, however, return to this " morbidity " question later. Exteriorization may be induced by hypnotism and mesmerism. If you wish to try a simple formula for instantaneous astral projection, allow some friend, or preferably some enemy, to strike you over the head with a base-ball bat — a percussive blow!

This is about the most simple method ; but since you might not be conscious, while exteriorized, it might perhaps be best to follow some of the formula: To speak seriously, however, it is true that a vigorous blow or jolt will often cause a speedy and ephemeral separation — whether the victim be aware of it or not. He had hitched his team, one wintry day, and gone into the country after a load of firewood. On his return, he was sitting atop the loaded sleigh. A light snow was falling. Without warning, a hunter who happened to be near the road discharged his gun at a rabbit. The horses jumped, jerking the sleigh and throwing the driver to the ground head-first.

He saw the snow falling all about, saw the steam rising from the horses, saw the hunter running toward him. All this was very exact ; but his great bemuddlement was that there were two of him, for he believed at the time that he was observing all that occurred from another physical body. As the hunter came near, things seemed to grow dim. The next conscious impression he had was of finding himself upon the ground, with the hunter trying to revive him. Many people have undergone more or less similar experiences, but, being ignorant of just what took place, have dis- carded it as some unexplainable or peculiar caper of the physical self.

The duration of such an instantaneous projection depends upon the severity of the concussion causing it. If the blow or shock be violent, a longer interval of unconsciousness results than if it is less vigorous. It may easily be seen that the more prolonged the uncon- sciousness the longer-lived could be the exteriorization.

Ephemeral coma could only allow ephemeral projection, and many times the duration of exteriorization is but a fraction of a second. The glow seen is an aura, and is visible for an instant as the two bodies dis- coincide. This same glow, in greater expanse, can be seen for a longer time, when the projection is conscious, i. The astral phantom is so much our very Self that we do not realize how bound up in it we are ; we do not seem to comprehend that we are using it Ibis very moment. It is our life, this astral body, and when it permanently severs from the physical body, that physical is of no account.

Without the astral body your physical anatomy would be but a crude mass of insensible material, lying inert in the power of gravity. This phantom becomes accustomed to the habits it has formed by being coincident with, or merged into, the physical, and made to conform to the laws applying to the physical. Many are they who marvel at the thought that astral separation can be accomplished — yet I dare say almost everyone has already had this very thing occur to himself in some mild form, whether he knows it or not I And the extensive form of projection is but a con- tinuance of the lesser.

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The following are two axioms appropriate to this simple type of astral detachment: A sudden force unexpectedly exerted against the body, while it is moving in a given direction, will not instantly interrupt the astral, and the latter will continue for an instant to move in the given direction, bringing itself momentarily out of coincidence.

A material body, moving in a given direction, if suddenly and unexpectedly colliding with the inert body, will cause the physical member to move slightly out of coincidence in the given direction. The astral, an instant later, moves ahead into the physical. It must be remembered that this is but a short-lived and short- distance separation, and takes place with lightning speed — almost too swift for the subject experiencing it to become unconscious, although he does feel a spurt of bewilderment as it occurs.

Again, at such a time, one may feel as if he were about to rise into the air, or may feel a breath-taking sensation in the pit of the stomach. In either case, the collision must be unexpected, sudden, and forceful enough to interrupt the normal momentum of the moving mass. When the automobile stops quickly, throwing the occupants vigorously and unexpectedly forward, it is the ephemeral dishar- mony of the two bodies astral and physical which causes the breath-taking sensation.

I had been sleeping, and was still quite drowsy.

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There were fifteen steps, and I had trodden up and down them hundreds of times, having lived in the house all my life. Just why I do not know, but, as I reached the bottom step I tried to take one step more many of us have done this , and the impetus jarred me vigorously. A breath-taking sensation shot through the pit of my stomach, and even before the physical dropped to the floor, I found myself projected from it, in a perfectly conscious state.

I both saw the physical mechanism fall to the floor and also felt it fall, while standing several feet from it. Let me analyze this, and see what actually happened, for by doing so we shall discover the fundamental law of astral projection. We can walk by conscious effort, but we usually walk unconsciously — under sub- conscious Will. It is when the body is under subconscious motiva- tion, and an unexpected barrier intercepts the physical, that the astral body keeps on moving in the given direction for a moment. If propulsion were conscious, this would not happen.

In descend- ing the stairs, had I been stepping consciously, the mis-step would have been avoided. But the descent was unconscious, under the control of the subconscious Will, and when the barrier floor interrupted the physical, the subconscious Will was still under the inclination to descend, and actually moved the astral body out of coincidence.

This same principle applies to separation brought about by a moving force colliding with an inert body. The inert body stands under subconscious Will. When the colliding force meets the physical, the subconscious Will is under the inclination to remain in its given position until the conscious moves it.

Thus, the phan- tom stands while the material is thrown out of coincidence. By analyzing the cause of instantaneous or insignificant separa- tion, the following conclusions become self-evident: The body coinciding bodies can move unconsciously. The body can move unconsciously when the conscious mind is functioning. The body can move unconsciously when the conscious mind is not functioning somnambulism. When the body moves unconsciously, it is the subconscious Will which moves it.

Which brings us to the bed-rock rule of astral projection: How can the subconscious Will be voluntarily incited to motivate, while the physical is incapacitated, or extremely passive? And it is not an effect which can be brought about by a mere thought or half-hearted trial, although there are positive, certain methods which can accom- plish this.

All my early exteriorizations were accidental, unintentional. At first, I believed that somehow I possessed some unnatural power, which others lacked ; but, by making a lengthy study of the manifestations as they occurred, and noting with care all the peculiarities encountered, I eventually was able to determine the causes which brought about the seeming miracle. Putting these causes into being, with astral projection in mind, I succeeded in producing the phenomenon at will— long before I ever read one word on the subject from the books of others. At present I shall not delve deeply into these causes, but will discuss them later on, as I wish, first, to give some more general information concerning the subject.

We can see how determined the subconscious Will becomes, once it is stimulated into activity 1 When you start walking, you would walk and walk and walk, were it not for your conscious mind stopping you. And, when you are standing, you would stand and stand and stand, did not your conscious mind start you moving. Now, how does suppressed desire possess the subconscious Will to motivate the body? While conscious, you desire something. You do not appease that desire.

You would appease it — but there is some obstacle in your way. So you go on desiring, desiring, desiring — all the while tensing the subconscious Will. The stress grows so great that you are at war with yourself. You can feel the subconscious trying to accomplish that which you want. It would do so instantly, could it but get the best of your conscious mind.

Now, if the sleeping subject were physically incapacitated, the astral body would be projected. Simply that the physical body is not in an active enough condition to respond, the instant the subconscious Will begins to move. As a rule, during sleep, the body is not in the same active condition which it is while awake. The heart is beating more slowly, and the whole mechanism is below the level which it attains when normally awake.

If the subject is morbid, the physical mechanism will not respond at once, which points more convincingly to the contention made — that, the weaker the subject, the more easily can the separation take place — providing the sickness be of a sedative nature. In The Psychology of Dreams, Walsh says: The heart and respiratory rates become slower, less forcible ; there is a fall in blood pressure ; a warmth of the skin ; an increased production of sweat.

The stomach, intes- tines, kidneys, liver and other organs are active, though at a lessened pace. Since the amount of work required by the physical structures is much less than when awake, these parts are enabled to rest. Since repair exceeds waste, the various structures are sufficiently recuperated after a due amount of sleep. While he sleeps, the subconscious Will becomes possessed to move the body — usually through sup- pressed desire.

The sleeper rises from his bed and walks about in coincidence, because his physical body is not inactive enough not incapacitated to be behind time, when the subconscious Will started the movement ; whereas, if he had been unusually passive, the astral body would have moved out of the physical, and he would have been in a state of astral somnambulism.

What is the composition of the conscious mind? Where does it exist? Where is the conscious mind, when it is not conscious? We know 7 not even the bounds, the nature or the locality of the conscious mind. Still, we know we are using the mind, and that it apparently becomes unconscious.

Yet, where is it, during unconsciousness?

That is the great question! It seems almost as ridiculous to believe that the conscious mind can instantly evaporate into nothing, as coma intervenes, as to believe that it is in existence during the interval of coma, without our being aware of the fact! And, on the other hand, if it be still in existence, throughout the oblivious period, how can we account for the fact that we are not conscious at the place where consciousness exists? And where does consciousness exist? The more one probes into this riddle the more probing will become necessary.

To dwell upon it for a moment should convince even the most hopeless egotist that he does not know himself very well after all. That the mind is, is self-evident ; but what becomes of it during coma remains unfathomable! Some contend that it is the senses, and not the conscious mind, which makes the exit ; that without sense-functioning there would be no consciousness. But can the nature of the senses be defined any more than the conscious mind can be defined?

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What are the senses? How do they work? Where is sensibility, during unconsciousness? Attempting to solve one mystery by substituting another only results in having more mysteries to solve. Others are of the opinion that, when coma intervenes, the con- scious mind is exteriorized in the astral body — therefore one is unconscious. But how is it that the subject is not always aware of being exteriorized in the astral body, at every intervention of oblivion, if this were true?

How is it that we ever sleep? I f we could but determine what opens and closes the door of con- sciousness, then we could also determine why some astral projec- tions result in consciousness, and some do not. And, further, we might discover a means by which the unconsciously projected phantom could always be made conscious, instead of the present hit-and-miss experiences. Of the hypnagogic state, Walsh says: We must pass through a similar stage before we awaken.

Usually the hypnagogic state lasts but a few seconds, but it may be prolonged for as much as fifteen minutes. It is apt to be longer when passing from the sleeping to the waking state, than the reverse. This is occasioned by the general relaxation of the muscular system, which occurs at this time. Should a person be much dis- turbed, while in the hypnagogic state, the normal transition from waking to sleeping, or the reverse, may be markedly disordered. This form of paralysis, called " noctual paralysis " by some writers the present writer contends that it is astral catalepsy , may occur after a natural awaking.

Fatigue, nervousness, general ill-health may provoke it. The etheric body is in catalepsy, inclined to move slightly out of the physical. Why does fatigue, nervousness, general ill-health provoke this so-called paralysis? Because there is a deficiency of neuric energy centred in the bodies. In fact, that is exactly what nervousness is — inability to hold the energy within the bounds of the physical. Energy is cosmic, omnipresent ; it can flow into and out of the etheric counterpart, which is a veritable condenser of that energy.

Now, I have found that when the etheric body moves slightly out of coincidence, it becomes more of a magnet to the universal energy than when in coincidence. This occurrence takes place with millions of people every night ; yet it is only when consciousness is still in play that they ever 1 For a detailed study of Hypnagogic Phenomena, see thearticle by F.

As a rule, in normal persons, consciousness is lost before this phenomenon begins. It is not difficult to understand that, if consciousness is desired throughout a complete projection, the hypnagogic state is the ideal place for the egression to begin. Catalepsy with consciousness is more apt to occur in passing from sleeping to waking than the reverse. Trial will prove convincingly that, if consciousness begins to function a little too strongly, after the subconscious has effected a slight separation, on entering sleep, the phantom is more apt to coincide again than it would be in a similar condition when waking from sleep.

In other words, most projections will be more successful — con- sciously— if they begin in the hypnagogic state, when coming out of sleep. He wishes to become physically active again, and struggles within himself to be free. This is nothing short of a conscious suggestion to the subconscious Will, and that Will soon responds. If this discomposure could be eliminated, and the subject would keep emotionally calm, the suggestion of becoming physically active would not be given to the subconscious control. Then, if the subject would think of rising up, up, up, toward the ceiling, and suggest that he float in the very air above him, the subconscious Will would continue the exteriorizing process, and a completely conscious and extensive projection would result.

At such a time, the physical body is greatly incapacitated. The subconscious Will already has the astral entity in its power. It is merely a matter of what suggestion is given to that Will which determines whether the phantom will continue to move out, or will move back into coincidence again. It is exactly the same as walking. Once you are in motion, the subconscious Will is in control, but the moment you give a conscious suggestion that you will stop, you stop.

When you are consciously in astral catalepsy, if you then suggest that you wish to become physically active again, that is what will result. It is the very law. It is the same law we use every day of our lives when we walk about, directing the power that does the walking by conscious suggestion. At different degrees of separation, different sensations are produced.

If, still an instant later, floating ; next, trembling, zigzagging, etc. It is the action, or place of progression of the phantom which determines what the first conscious thought will be. And this very first thought is of vital importance! It is then that one must remain calm and suggest uprising. Most conscious projections are ruined at the outset merely because the action of the phantom brings about an unpleasant sensation, which in turn causes emotion. The following rule may well be applied to this phenomenon: Thus the first thought will influence the immediately succeeding or relative thoughts, and if the activity is of a nature to cause emo- tion, the desire to become physically normal will at once follow, and be a suggestion to the subconscious Will to that effect.

Conscious projection is more liable to take place just as the first conscious thought makes its appearance, before the phantom moves into the air, or after it is extensively projected and is upright, either immotive or somnambulating. The stages between are more pro- motive of unpleasant emotion. Ippolito rated it it was amazing Apr 30, John Deltuvia rated it really liked it Jan 26, Jack Lydon rated it really liked it Nov 22, Tynan rated it it was amazing Feb 16, Kevin rated it liked it Oct 04, Stephen Cronin rated it liked it Dec 31, Matt Upchuck rated it it was amazing Jan 25, D Finch rated it it was amazing Oct 24, Frank Harrigan rated it it was amazing Sep 22, Amunhotep El Bey rated it it was ok Dec 23, Alina rated it it was amazing Aug 19, Sandeep Ravivanshi rated it it was amazing Apr 21, Tellatale rated it liked it Dec 09, Alfredo Lopez rated it it was amazing Sep 21, Lahcen halb rated it really liked it Feb 13, Douglas Leslie rated it it was amazing May 22, Ron Langley rated it it was amazing Jan 22, David Maddams rated it liked it Nov 03, Paul Brooks rated it it was amazing Mar 14, Hossein rated it did not like it Feb 25, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Muldoon February 18, — October was an American writer on the subject of Astral projection, a paranormal or occult term which usually refers to a consciously induced out-of-body experience or OBE. He claimed to have his first OBE when he was just 12 years old and often in a state of catalepsy. The experiences continued into his adult life. In he contacted Hereward Carringt Sylvan J. In he contacted Hereward Carrington after reading a book Carrington had written on astral projection, in the letter he states "What puzzles me most is that you make the remark that M.

Lancelin has told practically all that is known on the subject.

Why, Mr Carrington, I have never read Lancelin's work, but if you have given the gist of it in your book, then I can write a book on the things that Lancelin does not know! This resulted in a partnership and work on The Projection of the Astral Body, which was published in And to try to settle the disputes were waves of parapsychologists to study the claims.

As a result of all this chaos, there was scant information circulated about out-of-body experience, but it was mostly unreliable. For example, some people claimed OBEs were more likely when you were healthy while others said they were more likely when you were sick. And because the subject was non-physical by its very nature, it was nearly impossible to separate facts from rumor, superstition or outright fiction.

Most of the information was lore passed down from ages past. Muldoon was a boy of twelve when he had his first OBE. You might say he was born with a natural ability, which gave him the opportunity to study it his whole life. Like a scientist, he wasn't content to take somebody's word on it. He induced hundreds of OBEs and learned about them from his own first-hand experience. He also studied what others wrote about the topic. Lancelin and his experiences.

Bordering on outrage, Muldoon wrote a letter to Carrington telling him he Muldoon " I have been wondering whether M. Lancelin is in fact a conscious projector.