Is OBE simple? (Ballabene's Astral Pages)

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Does a simple OBE method exist?

"English translation fine-tuned for Americans and a few British"
by: William Hohmann
( whohmann@cyberramp.net )

Reading my sites about OBE's you are perhaps astonished to see a list of several methods. Why is that? Why not one method, which can be done by everyone in a simple way? Well, after having had my first OBE's, I thought it could be as simple as, let's say: "lay down on the floor, relax and wait until you feel your body floating and continue doing nothing until the situation changes and you find yourself at an other place". Yes, that's all, I did not do anything more than the above, and I had no difficulties in reproducing my OBE's for about a year. Of course, it did not work at every attempt - ... there had been noise pulling me out of introspection while in a relaxed state, or there was an itching, which I could not stop, or other irritations.

Well, everything seemed fantastic, but from one moment to the other this well-proven method did not work. No one knows why. Of course, there had been spontaneous astral travels in the meantime, very exciting to me indeed, but this was something different and could not be started by will.

Performing my meditations in the early morning (half past four o'clock, at which time I was undisturbed and used to concentrating on energy circling), I recognized that my feet started to float, as if they were danging in salt water. It took some month's and I succeeded in widening this feeling to other parts of the body, until I was able by rocking to leave my body. This was quite a different starting point for OBE's as I had experienced before; - it was done in a totally different way -- there was a different feeling and as I had recognized later there were different side effects (called IBE's, which in no way had I experienced before).

Other methods of inducing OBE's had been discovered by me by chance and the palette of methods and experiences increased. My knowledge about all that, which was related with OBE phenomena increased as well and differentiated.

After 10 or 15 years of OBE experiences (about one or two per week), I stopped my OBE's. This was a mistake - I thought OBE's, would distract me from meditation and spiritual destination, because they were so exciting and fantastic to me. Years later I tried to start again my OBE's, but all the proved methods did not work. It took some time until I found another way - OBE's by means of false awakening.

Well, performing OBE's is not as easy for me as some people think - as I have experienced this field, it may not be compared with learning methods like skiing, swimming or how to ride a bicycle. Therefore, if I get a letter in which I am asked to tell "the method" for performing OBE's, I am used to giving advice to try different methods, until their own way is found. Commonly, no further letter is sent and the OBE aspirants try to get their information from another source.

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