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How to have an out of body experience. ph1x.
In this article I am going to explain what astral projection is,
and my personal method of accomplishing it.

NOTE: This method works for me while sober, and on dxm.
      This method may not work everyone, and is just my
      personal way of inducing OOBE.

	You may or may have not heard about people leaving there physical
bodies and projecting thereselves into a higher dimension, known as the
astral plain. Beleive it or not, this strange act of phenomina is
totally real, and many people today practice methods that will eventually
lead them to disociating themselves from there physical bodies. It is
said by some that the whole sensation of leaving your body and exploring
the astral plain is a state of mind. That is definatley not true. I 
myself, and many others have done experimentation. When you get up and
step out of your body you are seeing what is going on in the world just
as you would see it if you were in your physical body. You are just seeing
it from the perspective of a different dimension. The 4th dimension.

	
	3/12/99 - I ingested 500mg of dxm(Dextramethorphan helps induce OOBE)
After the effects started coming on, I lay down in my bed. After about
15 minutes of rythmic breathing, my body was totally relaxed. I lay there
with a clear mind. My body starts viberating after about another 5 minutes.
After feeling like my chest was being crushed by some massive force I got
a tingling sensation and I could see through my eye lids. From there, I 
laid a moment then lifted my arms slowly until I felt them slide out of
my physical body. I satup and staired at my lifeless looking body. And I
realized, my body is not me, it is just a shell for my soul. With that in
mind I decided that I wanted to fly to seattle for no particular reason.

	After patrolling the streets of seattle where I once lived, I felt
an urge to get back to my body but wanted to stop at my ex girlfriends 
house first. I sort of bounced my way up to her house by gliding through
the air. I went into her room, where we previously used to sit and smoke
pot. I saw a figure sitting in the desk chair with its back towards me.
It slowly turned around, and it was rather a grotesque looking boy with a
sort of transparent image. When he smiled, I realized that I had seen him
before at my house in seattle when I woke up one night after a horrifying
dream. I quickly flew back to my body, through blurs of colors and over
trees and buildings. As I laid in my body, I felt like I couldnt get back
in alignment. I started to get sorta freaked out but after a few minutes
of struggling I managed to regain contact with my physical parts.

True story? Of course.

If you would like to try something like this, I am giving you my personal
method in having out of body experiences. Expect this to take some practice
and time. If you are willing to take dxm to help induce an OOBE, then great.
It makes it 10 times easier. 

First lay down, on the floor or on your bed. Your head and feet should
be even. Meaning you shouldnt be laying on a pillow or anything. Next
with your hands at your sides, start out with rythmic breathing. Like so:

Breath in for 2 seconds      The whole time you are doing this rythmic
Breath out for 4 seconds	breathing, you should be letting yourself
Breath in for 2 seconds       get totally relaxed. Don't worry about 
Breath out for 4 seconds      dozing off or entering a sleep state,
Breath in for 2 seconds       because that in itself could help you
Breath out for 4 seconds      leave your body. One of the main theories
Breath in for 3 seconds       behind astral projection is that you are
Breath out for 6 seconds      in a sleeping state while still being 
Breath in for 3 seconds       in a conscious type state of mind.
Breath out for 6 seconds	On one occasion, I felt that I had fallen
Breath in for 3 seconds       asleep. Then I woke up, and stood up out 
Breath out for 6 seconds      of bed. A second later I realized it was
Breath in for 4 seconds       a totally false awakening because I saw my
Breath out for 8 seconds      physical body laying there on my bed limp
Breath in for 4 seconds       and breathing. Another thing, as you are
Breath out for 8 seconds      doing this try to maybe breathe in a way 
Breath in for 4 seconds       that you are breathing in correspondance
Breath out for 8 seconds      to your hearts rythm. For example, you
	                      feel your heart beat, then you breathe in
			      for two seconds, you hear it beat again, then
			      you breathe out for four seconds. Just experiment
			      with it, and find your own technique in getting
		              really relaxed.

Repeat this method until every
muscle in your body is relaxed to its fullest.

After this, try to have a totally clear mind. Think about absolutely 
nothing. Concentrate only on your feet until they start to feel like
they are floating. Move up to your hips and concentrate in the same
manner. By now, you should start feeling powerful viberations throughout
your body, like your being electricuted. You may even feel pain. But
that is one of the things you will have to learn, trust that you will be
ok. Don't back down, it is all a state of mind. After much viberations 
you may be able to see through your eye lids. This means you have 
succeeded. From here, picture yourself rising out of your body. 
And you may just find yourself sitting up and exiting your physical shell.

	You may say "What a huge crock of shit, leaving your body could not 
possibly be so easy." Yes, this method is fairly simple, but it takes much
practice for your average person. It personally took myself several months
to start getting anywhere in the experience after I reached the viberations.
But after you get your first OOBE, there are many more to come. If you
want to experience an OOBE possibly your first try, as I said before..
disociatives, like kentamine, pcp help induce them. But most noteably
dxm (dextramethorphan). Check out http://www.frognet.net/~dxm for the
dxm FAQ, or http://www.alaska.net/~zorak/dxm if you would like the download
an issue of the dxm magazine. 

Conclusion, 
	Hopefully this article gave you a little bit of insight as to what
astral projection is all about. If you would like to furthur your knowledge
in the area, search for "OOBE", "astral projection" etc. On a search engine.
Or go to the library and check out a book on the subject. eg. 
"Leave your body in 21 days". Also http://www.winternet.com/~rsp/obebook.html
is a good book by Robert Peterson on how to have OOBE, and its online
in HTML! I hope you enjoyed the article =)