Out of Body Experiences by Robert Peterson

Author:Robert Peterson [Peterson, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612833156
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 17

What the Books Didn’t Tell Me

As I began having more out-of-body experiences I naturally set about doing my own type of scientific experiments. In my travels I encountered some peculiar things that weren’t mentioned in the many OBE

books I had read. Other peculiarities were only touched on by these books, but not explained to my satisfaction. Here are some of my findings:

I. Getting Stuck to the Physical Body.

The first undocumented thing I ran across was the problem of getting “stuck” to my physical body. In several OBEs I found myself seemingly “glued” to my physical body, unable to move away from it. A typical instance was my third OBE:

12/09/79 Sun - OBE #3

…I was partly out of my body. My left arm was free. I waved it back and forth and looked at it to make sure it was really happening, and I wasn’t dreaming. I tried to move more of my limbs, but they wouldn’t budge. I tried to use my free left arm to push the rest of me out, but the rest of me was secure (I couldn’t move my physical or astral legs. They were cataleptic.) I felt that if I put my left astral arm back in its physical counterpart, I would leave the astral state. But [being almost paralyzed] I had no other choices. I waved my left arm again, and looked at it, to once again make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Then I returned it to its physical counterpart. That brought me back to the physical world, and I came to.

After some experimentation I found a few ways to “unstick” myself and pry away from the physical body. A good example is given below.

01/22/83 Sat - OBE #88

…My first problem was…to get away from the physical body that usually claims some sort of hold on my astral counterpart. This time I had no problem: I turned over so that I was face down (my body was face up). Then I pushed myself up until I was on my hands and knees. My hands, knees, and legs were still in coincidence with the physical body. Then I just withdrew my limbs one by one, and climbed off the bed. I was free from the body.

Most OBE books agree that out-of-body “reality” is mostly governed by thoughts, fears and expectations.

In one OBE, I used my fear of falling off the bed to counteract my expectation of being stuck, thus freeing myself.

Despite my limited success I still haven’t found a satisfactory solution to the problem of getting stuck to my body, but I do have a word of consolation: This happened to me more often when I was first learning how to consciously get out of my body. As time went on I had fewer experiences of being stuck.

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II. Getting in the Body Backwards.

This has only happened a few times, but it’s an interesting experience when it happens. The first time this happened I was at my parents’ lake cabin in northern Minnesota.

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