Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience (Video Transcript)
12.11.2011
Hi, Jeremy Crow here.
Just wanted to do another quick video. This one I want to do on astral projection and the out-of-body experience.
So there's a lot of superstitions surrounding the out-of-body experience and I just want to kind of clear that up a bit. Essentially what an astral projection experience is or what people call "Out of Body" is more like a lucid dream. In another video I talked about the three states of consciousness. How waking experience is generated by the same function of the brain that generates the dreaming experience. It's just that in the dream you're using internal data whereas in waking experience your experiences generated based off of sensory data.
Well, astral projection is simply consciously shifting your awareness from an experience based off of your senses to an experience based off of your internal data. You have to generate enough internal experience that it will overpower the senses' information. So usually this involves a lot of relaxation, so that will dim the information coming in from the senses, but you have to replace it with something.
You have to visualize... and I don't like that word because it's so focused on the sense of sight, but you have to engage as many of the senses as possible and imagine what it's like to walk around or otherwise experience, like an environment. You're going to want to walk around, look around, take a look at all the different things going on around, touch things. Experience what it feels like to... on your body, feel how the clothes feel hanging off of your body. Feel the weight of your body causing the floor to push up on your feet. Taste something. Smell something, you know? Knock on something and listen to the sound it makes. You know, all those kinds of things. And just do it as if you're experiencing it yourself.
Don't do it as if you're watching a movie, like a bird's eye view or something like that. You have to do it as if you're seeing things from your eyes, smelling it through your nose, touching it with your hands. All that sort of thing. And if you can do it convincingly enough and try not to strain, like don't... you've got to do it while in a relaxed manner. At some point your conscious point of your center will shift into this imagined body and at that point you're essentially in a lucid dream.
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