| What is astral projection? | | | | institute still runs classes to develop altered |
| 1- "An out-of-body experience (OBE) is the feeling of | | | | consciousness and to experience OBEs/astral travel. |
| departing from ones body and observing both one's | | | | He subjected himself to different experiments until he |
| self and the world from outside one's body" | | | | discovered what he called Hemi-Sync *, a process to |
| 2- "In astral projection the conscious mind leaves the | | | | induce astral travel or help enhance consciousness. |
| physical body and moves into the astral body." | | | | According to his own account, while experimenting |
| There have been thousands of documented scientific | | | | with sleep-learning in 1958, Monroe experienced an |
| experiments confirming that astral travel is real. | | | | unusual phenomenon, which he described as |
| Susan Blackmore, the former parapsychologist was | | | | sensations of paralysis and vibration accompanied by |
| quoted for many years in paranormal studies and | | | | a bright light that appeared to be shining on him from a |
| worked continuously to verify this phenomena. She | | | | shallow angle. Monroe goes on to say that this |
| had a paranormal experience after several hours on | | | | occurred another nine times over the next six weeks, |
| the Ouija board while stoned on marijuana that sent | | | | culminating in his first out-of-body experience. I have |
| her on the path of discovery of consciousness beyond | | | | read his three books where he describes the |
| the physical body. She was in a period of her life when | | | | increasingly complex accounts of his out of body |
| she deprived herself of sleep--as she herself says; | | | | travels and I was impressed. He was able to move |
| probably because she was a dedicated student and | | | | back to a prior "self" in at the moment of dying and |
| researcher. Any of those factors alone could have | | | | helping "him" realize he was dead. In another OBE he |
| helped in attaining an experience. | | | | talks to another person and we later learn that that |
| Her experience: Blackmore floated out of her room in | | | | person was his future self helping his current |
| Oxford, hovered over New York and went back in to | | | | personality! Impressive. My view of this phenomena |
| her room. She says she became very small and | | | | has been greatly enhanced by his three books: |
| entered into one of her toes and finally become so big | | | | Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys and The |
| as the universe. | | | | Ultimate Journey, which I have read over three times. |
| She becomes a lecturer a well known expert and one | | | | * In 1975, Monroe registered a patent for an |
| day she quits, she no longer believes in the paranormal. | | | | audio-visual device designed to stimulate brain |
| I suppose t his is a fluid situation and I am interjecting | | | | functions until the left and right hemispheres became |
| here that we are not always the same person, form | | | | synchronized. Monroe held that this state, dubbed |
| day to day, from year to year. As she said: "Another | | | | Hemi-Sync (hemispherical synchronization), could be |
| "psychic" turns up. I must devise more experiments, | | | | used to promote mental well being or to trigger an |
| take these claims seriously. They fail - again. A man | | | | altered state of consciousness. Monroe's concept was |
| explains to me how alien abductors implanted | | | | based on an earlier hypothesis known as binaural |
| something in his mouth. Tests show it's just a filling, but | | | | beats and has since been expanded on a commercial |
| it might have been". | | | | basis by the self help industry. (wikipedia) |
| So now she a skeptic or was when she wrote what | | | | On his astral travels Monroe learned about different |
| she wrote in her home age. | | | | "locales" where he could find himself during an OBE. |
| What some the scientists say about self proclaimed | | | | First of the locales was a representation of the |
| alien abductees: | | | | physical world. On one specific occasion he managed |
| ... they have a tendency to believe in fantasies and | | | | to go out and visit a friend, Dr. Bradshaw, who was ill. |
| suffer disturbing experiences in their sleep | | | | He could later describe the clothes he and his wife |
| ... "abductees" also believe in their experiences so | | | | were wearing on that day, but not only that, he had |
| deeply that they display real stress symptoms similar | | | | found the couple outside the home, which he did not |
| to those of traumatized battlefield veterans | | | | expect since the doctor, to his knowledge, was ill in |
| ... they have episodes of apparent sleep paralysis | | | | bed. He called them later and he learned that he had |
| accompanied by hallucinations | | | | decided to come out at that precise moment to get |
| ... they had pre-existing new-age beliefs | | | | fresh air, thinking it would help him get better. So much |
| ... they have psycho-physiologic emotional reactions | | | | for the hallucination theory. On a similar note, individual |
| It is thought there more than five million Americans | | | | experiences by other people corroborate that. |
| who believe they have been abducted by | | | | Serious and dedicated scientists have looked into this |
| extraterrestrials | | | | phenomena, astral travel and sleep paralysis |
| People seek therapy because they wake up | | | | (associated with it), with great enthusiasm and open |
| paralyzed and rigid (sleep paralysis, a close component | | | | eyes. We are discovering a new country, different |
| of astral travel). They wake up and see strange | | | | worlds within worlds or consciousness within |
| beings around them (entities found in the astral | | | | consciousness. People experiment, meditate, use |
| plane-aliens?) or find themselves floating or vibrating | | | | different techniques like Hemi-Sinc, beverages and |
| violently, or engulfed in a bright light ( found in near | | | | music; some get to experience OBEs and some don't. |
| death experiences). Some people have even gone so | | | | We are all different and have different capabilities. The |
| far as to say their astral experiences are connected | | | | many "locales" may represent concurrent worlds within |
| with alien encounters. | | | | the physical world, beyond what we can actually see |
| Does it appear to be the description of an abduction? | | | | with our physical eyes. Many different kinds of "life" |
| Is there a connection? | | | | can inhabit these worlds or dimensions. |
| In view of the following and other information from | | | | Some people believe we humans are multidimensional |
| different experiencers, I ask myself the question: are | | | | beings and that we are not aware of the capabilities |
| they extraterrestrials or are they "us" in the future"? | | | | to live in these many other worlds, although we do it |
| This idea is alive in texts and communications from | | | | unconsciously. Is the next evolution of the human race |
| some that claim to be receiving information from | | | | to consciously travel these dimensional worlds |
| extraterrestrials. Can we travel to the future in this | | | | consciously? I believe that the answer is yes and the |
| way? Are the aliens coming from "a future"? | | | | proof is in the being able to experience these altered |
| On the other hand, there are people like Robert A. | | | | states naturally as we evolve into higher beings. |
| Monroe (October 30, 1915 - March 17, 1995) whose | | | | |