Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience by Graham Nicholls

Author:Graham Nicholls
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: out-of-body, out-of-body experience, astral projection, OBE, psychology, parapsychology, hypnosis, breathwork, breathing, virtual reality, reality, quantum science, science, nutrition, healing, understanding, self-understanding
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2012-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

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leaving the body: what can

you expect?

I have described some experiences I’ve had when my consciousness, or self, was beyond my body, but what can you expect to experience when leaving your body? To answer that question, let’s look at what we know of the nature of the experience itself rather than drawing upon myths, traditions, or superstitions.

Whether or not the mind is local to the brain, as discussed in Chapter 2 and Chapter 8 the OBE undoubtedly owes much of its nature and characteristics to our emotions, memories, and senses—essentially the elements that make up our personal interpretation of the world around us. When we have an OBE, these key elements of ourselves appear to be projected to a distant location, in some form. How we then interact with that location is dependent upon these elements, by which I mean the particular set of emotions and awareness that makes up our individual personality or consciousness.

It seems highly likely to me that the subtle differences in OBEs from one person to the next are dependent upon the way in which our particular personality interprets the world. In everyday situations, such as going to work or spending time with family, the impact of our consciousness is less obvious, but in an OBE, the way that our consciousness is focused and balanced defines how we experience every detail. There is, of course, common ground; virtually all of us have emotional bonds, loving relationships, and people with whom we feel deeply linked. This shared human experience forms the most powerful psychic links and has been shown time and time again to be an important factor in psychic experiences. For example, there are many documented accounts of someone suddenly becoming aware of a loved one in danger, sometimes even before the event has taken place. These experiences are so common that nearly everyone has heard at least one example. In psi research, too, people with a strong emotional link have shown that they can successfully connect with each other’s thoughts or impressions, and they can do so far easier than strangers or those who know each other only in passing.

In my early OBEs, I would virtually always find myself in my bedroom, just a couple of meters from my body. In my present-day experiences, however, I generally find myself at a location many miles from my home. I believe this is due to the change in my understanding of the experience and also how I emotionally relate to the world. In other words, the framework of my emotional make-up and my consciousness has changed over time and thus my experiences have also changed. In my teenage years, my perception of the world was very much supported by my family life. I have always been very close to my mother and father and even had a strong bond to the flat in which I grew up. It is no surprise, then, that this same psychological framework defined where I would find myself once out of my body.

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