By: Carl Llewellyn
Weschke
The out-of-body experience is at the core of most religious, shamanic
and magical practices. Many of the techniques for inducing the
“OBE” have long been kept secret by priests and magicians for
political and personal power. The ability to project personal
consciousness to places and dimensions beyond the physical body has
provided access to knowledge and information that are, themselves,
god-like.
Many of the techniques for astral projection have lacked personal
control, or else involved discipline — hypnosis, fasting, sensory
deprivation, difficult postures, drugs and Tantra. Others have
involved guided meditation and prayer, or the environment of ceremony
and dramatic ritual controlled by others.
At the same time, many people do experience spontaneous out-of-body
episodes while dreaming, in times of sleep deprivation or in
near-death situations.
Why Project?
The goal of all spiritual and occult practice is to extend awareness
beyond the limitations of the physical domain in order to access
knowledge and expand consciousness. To grow and develop, to continue
to evolve and to access and converse with higher beings is the one
purpose to life that we can know with certainty. To experience
consciousness outside the physical body is, for many, the ultimate
proof of continuity after death of the physical body.
The Brain is the Computer
The computer age has brought new understanding of the brain and its
mechanism as an instrument of mind and spirit. Most of the life
processes are established “programs” that automatically guide the
growth and health of the body, that set cycles of life functions and
that meet the challenges of everyday survival for the individual and
the species.
But, while many of these programs are automatic, we have the ability
to exercise control over some of them and even to write new codes. We
do this all the time as we educate our children, as we function within
new knowledge about health and new understanding of emotional and
mental processes, and as we adapt to ethical and legal guidance for
personal behavior and social interaction.
The brain is not, however, the source of consciousness. It is an
instrument for its expression within our physical incarnation. As an
instrument, it can accept instruction and patterns of induced brain
wave activity that facilitate the out-of-body experience.
The “Next Step”
The combination of book and CD-ROM provides the reader/user with all
the information and practical guidance (including step-by-step
exercises) leading to successful astral projection — allowing our
personal consciousness to use the astral body as a vehicle for
consciousness, just as we normally use the physical body as our
vehicle.
The astral body is one of several sheaths, or vehicles, for the
incarnating soul and is sometimes referred to as the dream body,
emotional body, soul body and even as spirit. In esoteric theory, it
is the next body above the physical and is normally experienced
unconsciously during sleep. Becoming conscious while in the astral
body is the result of extensive training and practice.
In Mastering Astral Projection, we move one step further with the
inclusion of a CD-ROM with a Trance Meditation Program & Brain
Wave Generator. Our understanding of the brain as computer and the new
technology covered enables the user of this product to encapsulate
specialized training and practice in an easy 90-day guide to the
out-of-body experience.
Some people object to this simplification of core esoteric practices,
but it is such simplification of processes that is the very essence of
knowledge and power for the people, upon which our modern world rests.
And, in this instance of merging computer technology with the written
word, we transfer the responsibility for spiritual growth and
development from teacher to student — the very message of the New
Age and the Aquarian influx of dimensional energy.
A Vital Necessity for which the Time is Now
Our World is in crisis. There are challenges to modern civilization,
to the global economy, to our very physical and spiritual survival.
While the challenges come from many directions, our only successful
response depends upon personal growth and expanded consciousness.
Every person must grow, or we may all fail. The mastery of astral
projection provides a powerful technique for such growth and higher
awareness.
We have provided the “Next Step” in applied esoteric technology,
but you have to take that step yourself. Every journey starts with a
single step, and this is a journey to a world without physical
boundary, one of glory and magnificence, of access to knowledge and
experience leading to the next step in human evolution.
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