Astral Projection

It's all fun and games until the grim reaper comes for you. At least that's how I felt in my early 20's when I was about 6 years in to exploring the wonderous land of dreams, OBE's and the place inbetween. When I was 15 I managed what I believe to be my first intentional vibrational state as described by Robert Monroe. I had gotten ahold of the early tapes of the Monroe Institutes Hemi-sync 'WAVES' and managed Focus10 - body asleep mind awake and proceeded to hear what I can only describe as a sledge hammer pounding on an iron rail millimeters away from my ear. This startled me to say the least but did not dissuade me. The years that followed I had gotten close to 'getting out' but something was missing. No matter how often i achieved body asleep mind awake I couldn't get OUT - i have lucid or waking reality type memories of half my body stuck. My head was always firmly planted while the rest of me flailed around in some manner.

Fast forward to my early 20's and my dad tells me about this book, 'Astral Dynamics'. I begin reading it and practicing the NEW methods mentioned in the book - the tactile lessons with the paint brush are ground breaking for me. I'm stirring my energy body and energy awareness during waking hours, while I'm work, it's something you can feel under the skin... I start to get intuitive feelings about people and things..what they want. Something is unlocking and I'm only a month into reading this book.

Finally one early evening I wake up from a nap, rise from bed and think 'bummer, no OBE again'. The room, the apartment, the furniture, the magic hour sunset coming in through the blinds is absolutely as rock solid real as anybody has ever experienced. And for some reason I thought, 'hey Robert Bruce said try to push your hand through the wall just to be sure you're not out of body and don't realize it.' So i try it and my hand goes through the wall. Now imagine for a moment, actually get up and go over to the wall and put your hand on it and try to push through.. solid yes? Imagine being absolutely 1000% your are in physical reality and your hand pushes inside the wall. When it happened I was elated beyond words but a nano-second later I thought 'relax, don't over think this.. and don't look over at the bed.' So I immediately walked out of the room into the living room where a dark hooded figure stood. The energy of this thing was immense. I had a fight of flight reaction and chose to fight. Now it didn't do anything, didn't say anything, it just stood there. But it emitted a power that's difficult to describe. I tried with all my might to attack it, hit it, grab it and it didn't take long for my confidence to dwindle to terror as I realized this thing had power over me.

It took everything I could muster to get back to my room, which had turned dark and forboding. I caught a glimpse of my physical body laying there in shadow as I attempted to re-enter - and I did partially. The dark thing entered my room and I could hear it breathing. Why wasn't I waking up? I couldn't fully integrate. I lay on the bed in my body but I was still out of body if that makes sense. The thing got closer, it's form right at the foot of my bed and it leaned in. The raspy breathing of the dark thing more prevalent closer and closer.

The next and final thing is difficult to describe because three things happened damn near simotaneously. I had never experienced terror like this and it shook me to my core, also I realized the dark entity was of my own creation and lastly I snapped awake in my physical body gasping for breath. That emotion, realization and physical re-entry happened at lightspeed - boom boom boom. I literally laughed because as I awoke in my physical I knew I had been snoring and gasping for breath so the raspy breathing I associated to the dark thing was my own breath. I got up and pushed my hand on the wall - solid. Ok i'm awake awake. The weird thing is even though I knew the dark entity was MY manifestation the experience was so terrifying emotionally I refused to attempt any OBE's for two years.

At the end of the day I suppose we all work things out at our own pace and require time. I've since had many other OBE's and amazing experiences. I've read other authors and tried their techniques but none come close to Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics.