Reddit reviews Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel

read this one, it helped me tons.

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Beyond-Body-Out-Body/dp/0062513710/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525805331&sr=8-1&keywords=william+out+of+body

Congrats and welcome to the club...or maybe almost to the club (though it sounds like you were possibly close). :)

There are tons of books out there on the subject of Out of Body Experience / Astral Projection. You will find that authors generally fall into one of three categories: -1- traditionalists (with occult explanations for OBEs); -2- realists (believe OBEs are entirely internal experiences, lucid dreams, or some other natural phenomena / hallucination); -3 - mystics (believe the realms explored are real or diverging realities / planes of existence).

I've read and amassed a small library on this subject because it became very important to me when I started regularly having OBEs. Through my reading and personal experiences, I definitely recommend starting with two of the better known authors in the mystical camp: Robert Monroe (who has already been mentioned), followed by William Buhlman. The books you want are Journeys out of Body and Adventures Beyond the Body. These books will do a good job of covering many great OBE techniques, as well as provide inspiration and motivation. They're good reads too... :)

Some may recommend books by Robert Bruce, but I would advise against his stuff (at least in the beginning)...his energy work is an interesting approach...however, if your goal is to gain OBE / AP quickly, there are better methods.

I am currently working my way through Explorations in Consciousness by Frederick Aardema. This book is very very good. I would go so far to say that it is possibly my favorite book on the subject. The author does such a great job of pulling together information on the subject from all sides...it is (mostly) a non-mystical take on OBEs, but completely objective and inclusive of all possibilities.

Anyway, the topic of OBEs is something that is very personal and you should formulate your own conclusions. Give it time though and remain open. Read as much as you can on the subject. I think you'll find though that once you have a full-fledged OBE, you will figure out what you believe rather quickly. For me, I simply "knew" it was real. Hard to put in words, really beyond this knowing.

The experience could be a test from him to see how you do with fear but either way you'll have many chances to over come fear. Fear is a core teaching tool and is everywhere you look in your waking life and altered states of consciousness.

>I forgot to mention that when I called Thoth, I asked him to teach me to Astral project.

The great thing about OBEs is you'll most likely be given the test of Fear right when you hit sleep paralysis which is the key state of consciousness to astrally project. Its a great way to overcome Fear and once you know how to induce sleep paralysis on yourself the trick is to project Love at the Fear which will instantly transform it. Love is the highest vibration and can transform lower ones such as Fear/Anger/Hate.

This is a book I highly recommend and allowed me to a successful OBE halfway through. https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Beyond-Body-Out-Body/dp/0062513710/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=AZZTDQAT6T3GRS8QB6FM

In the coming days i'll make a post on how to do an OBE/astral project, its what I started to do at a very young age but fear always kept me from successfully doing it until I was much older.

5)https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Beyond-Body-Out-Body/dp/0062513710/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1486765938&sr=8-9&keywords=robert+monroe

>Again, it is not their historicity that is important - you said yourself that doctrine isn't any more true because it is older and I agreed.

Well, let's distinguish age from accuracy. By "historicity," I mean the degree of verifiable reliability of a text. Something can be old but still be reliable. However, the gospels do not appear to be a reliable record. Only an old one.

>The "proof" you seek will most likely never come to you if you are approaching it from this angle. This is not something you "think about" for a while and then "get". It is something you live, and then experience. I mean this in a very practical sense.

I look at it like this. Claims of miraculous events are made about a man. He walks on water, raises the dead, casts out evil spirits, converts water to wine, multiplies fish and bread enough to feed a small army. He's purported to have said that he's the son of God. And not in the colloquial way they used back then, that we were all "sons of God" or "children of God." And not even in the way that the regional kings used. He's purported to have said that he's the direct issue of the creator of the universe. Half man, half deity, and no one comes to his dad but through him.

If this person was standing in front of me right now, saying these things, I'd back away slowly and keep my hand on my wallet. If other people were saying these things for decades, in an oral tradition where facts get mixed up and the storytellers embellish, and it's getting translated from Aramaic to ancient Greek in the process, I think I'd have even less reason to believe their claims. I don't think it's a bad angle to say, "I'm not so sure about that" until shown otherwise. What I live and experience never crosses over into a realm where such claims become compelling.

And I do actively explore the possibility of the supernatural. I just don't do it from a theistic perspective. While theistic perspectives of this phenomenon do exist, they are decidedly outnumbered by non-theistic experiences of people who have no particular implulse towards challenging or doubting the claims of any religion. Of course, I readily admit that their claims are just as potentially suspect as those of a theist. But these are claims that I can actually test.

Just keep trying and practicing and eventually you'll end up either having lucid dreams you can control, or intentionally astral projecting. either one leads you to the same realm/space.

I recommend getting in tune with meditation, and also working with the chakra system this well help you work through those vibrations and help get your mind in a more better state in order to achieve such experiences.

as far as encounters with other beings go, I can't really comment on that it's up to you to honestly decide if you felt it was just your mind or a actual encounter, but you're on the right track for sure, just keep documenting dreams and recording results and exploring eventually things will come about.

If I may ill recommend the following book.

http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Beyond-Body-Out---Body/dp/0062513710/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457883512&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=astral+travel+journeys+beyond+the+body

This book will change the way in which you experience the astral, my dreams haven't been the same sense I read this and applied the techniques along with using dream supplements. If you want wicked dreams try the supplement called alpha brain if you have the money to spare, even if you don't want the no brain fog effects the dream states it can induce is quite intense. ... In one dream I got sucked into the clouds, levitating and spinning around as a storm and a god like voice commanded and was talking to me. it asked what I wanted to know.. long story short i got sucked into the cloud whirling around all while some godly voice was spitting odd knowledge to me... gibberish sub concious mumbo jumbo? maybe. but the thing is, supplements + knowing what your doing or dream herbs in general + knowing what your doing can lead to crazy experiences, so much fun so if that's your cup of tea definitely try that out. If alpha brain is to much for you you may try out a cheaper dream herb thats safe as well.

Im no master astral traveler but the astral realm is loads of fun, even more fun on supplements lol. be safe, have fun, record results.

One book is this and the other is this. Both by Robert Munroe.