This technique is superior to others because it does not require intense visualization,

which many people cannot do. One of the chief barriers people learning to project

face is fear. Many are afraid that they may die, or be harmed in some way as a result

of their projection. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Step one:

Relax the body. the ability to relax is the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first

step itself to having an OBE. This includes both physical and mental relaxation.

Do not suggest a method of attaining this relaxation, although Progressive Muscle

relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3....

until 50 or 100) are known to work well.

Step two:

Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnagogic state.

Once again, do r allmend any method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm up,

while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you start to fall asleep, your arm will

fall, and you will awaken again. With practice, you can learn to control the Hypnagogic state

without using your arm. Another method is to concentrate on an object. When other images

start to enter your thoughts, you have entered the Hypnagogic state.

Passively watch these images. This will also help you maintain this state of near-sleep.

Step three:

Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. observe your field of vision through your

closed eyes. Do nothing more for a while. Simply look through your closed eyelids at the blackness

in front of you. After a while, you may notice light patterns. These are simply neural discharges.

They have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, one Condition B. From here, one

must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation

that you lose all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a void in which

your only source of stimulation will be your own thoughts. The ideal state for leaving your body is

Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition

and is not the effect of normal fatigue. To achieve Condition D, suggest that you practice entering

it in the morning or after a short nap.

Step Four:

Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the

most vague. Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection.

They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as is electricity is being shot through the body.

The cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical one.

For entering into the vibrational state, offer the following directions:

Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.

Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your eyelids, but do not shut out all light.

Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your head pointed toward magnetic north.

Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly warmer than might normally be allfortable.

Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.

Enter a state of relaxation.

Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all that occurs during the

u alling session that will be beneficial to your well-being. Repeat this five times.

Proceed to breath through your half-open mouth.

As you breath, concentrate on the void in front of you.

Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change your point of mental reference to six feet.

Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line parallel to your body axis up and

above your head. Focus there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring them back

into your body. Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when you have

achieved contact with them.

Step five:

Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them

into your head, down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body, and

producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce this wave effect, concentrate

of the vibrations and mentally push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body.

Practice this until you can induce these waves on allmand.

Once you have control of the vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.

Step six:

Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused

on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thought might cause you to lose

control of the state. Now, having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring the OBE by

releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body". suggest that you extend a limb until its

in contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed. Then push it through the object.

Return the limb by placing it back into coincidence with the physical one, decrease the vibrational

rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie quietly until you have fully returned to normal.

This exercise will prepare you for full separation.

Step seven:

Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two methods for this.

One method is to lift out of the body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after

entering this vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward.

Keep this thought in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it.

An OBE will occur naturally at this point.

Another method is the "Rotation method" or "roll-out" technique.

When you have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed.

Do not attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into

your second body right out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out of the body but next to it.

Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above the body.