What does going out of body mean? Let me explain it in simple terms because it’s actually a simple process. You have a body and you have a brain. Your body is your wrapper for the real you that is your energy body. You brain is a perfect tool to make your body run but your brain is not you either. You are an eternal sovereign being that is having a life experience on earth.
The real you is an energy body. Your energy body uses your physical body in this lifetime on earth because earth resides in a dense energy field and a physical body is ideal for the planet.
Your physical body needs food and rest but your energy body does not need those things. When you go to sleep at night your energy body does not just hang around and wait for you to wake up. It leaves your physical body in rest and it explores and learns. You go out of your body just about every time you sleep. Sometimes you wake up with a strong dream on your mind. Many times those are only dreams but sometimes they are not. Sometimes your energy body has things it wants to put into your subconscious and those can feel like dreams.
Your energy body is an all knowing, eternal and sovereign being. It knows all there is to know and all there ever will be. When you come into a life on earth and take on a physical body you have a kind of amnesia. You don’t remember who you really are. You have to wind your way along your life path and try to wake up and learn, so that you can climb the spiral in growth.
So, going out of body is not such a strange thing considering you do it almost every night with no memory of it. One can learn to leave their body to rest while they explore, and remember, the full experience when they get back. This takes training but like all abilities it can be done with committed daily practice. There is a lot of material on the Internet should you want to give conscious OB a try.
I started having spontaneous out of body experiences, that I can remember, when I was four years old.
My father was a lifetime military man and we moved every few years from the time I was born. When I was four years old, we moved to Staten Island, NY. We lived in military housing and all of the houses were the same. The day I remember my first out of body experience was a cool fall day in Staten Island, soon after we had moved there.
I was outside on the sidewalk riding my tricycle around the curve of our street. Suddenly, I was at the beach! I don’t remember anything in between.
The beach was cold and very windy. There were heaps of trash consisting of everything from ropes and nets, bottles, and loads of stinking trash. I remember the smell of all the trash and the smell of dead fish. It was dreary and depressing and even at four years old I felt such sadness that we would allow this mess on our earth. I had no idea that the heaps of trash, that had washed in from the Atlantic Ocean, were from people tossing their trash from ships and vessels, from corporations polluting the ocean and all forms of human neglect to the planet. This neglect to our planet continues today but in much worse forms. How sad that we would pollute the very place we are born, live and die.
I couldn’t have been at the beach long but I remember every detail of the complete disrespect for the earth I had witnessed that day.
A few months later my grandmother came to visit us in New York. We would be going to Germany next and she wanted to see us before we went overseas for 3-4 years. My mom and dad decided to take her to the beach. I told them it was dirty and full of trash and that we should make a new plan with grandma instead of the beach. However, the beach was close to our house and mom and dad had never seen it either.
We drove to the beach and parked and got out to an ugly, windy and very cold day. The beach was indeed covered from one end to the other with heaps of stinking trash. Mom looked around and then her blue eyes shot in my direction. She was wondering how I, a four year old, would have known that the beach would be covered in trash. We got out and walked a short ways but the wind and cold were too much for us all. Mom kept her eyes on me as I navigated through the areas where it was most clear. I have no doubt she was wondering how I knew how to easily navigate those heaps of trash, on my first visit, at four years old.
She never asked me so I never told her.
There were other times throughout my life where I had missing time. I always wanted to attribute it to an ET abduction back then but I know that I was having out of body experiences. Some OBE’s I could remember and some I could not but I never remembered the details of the method itself (the mechanics), only the experiences until I was around 18 years old.
I was lying on the couch in my apartment because I was very tired that afternoon. I had stayed up late the night before and then worked all day. I got relaxed then suddenly I couldn’t move. I felt like I was paralyzed. I could see around me but everything looked blurred. I tried to move my arms but they might have weighed a thousand pounds. I couldn’t move anything, yet I could see! I kind of turned my sight and saw myself lying on that couch! I was so surprised to see my body that the emotion of it sent me right back into my body. I knew right away what I had experienced but it had never happened in this way. I had always just had spontaneous OBE’s where I remembered them after they were over. This time I saw my body laying on that couch and it was quite a surprise!
This was something I played with and tried to control for many years after that. I’ve had many exciting and even some scary adventures going out of body. I had much to learn though.
Finally, I decided to learn how to control my out of body experiences so I enrolled at The Monroe Institute in Virginia, USA. This institute was founded by Robert Monroe to teach people that they could go out of body consciously and remember the experience. TMI teaches how to control the experience from an altered state using a specially designed sound called Hemi-Sync.
I took The Gateway Voyage and then returned to the institute and took, Out Of Body Advanced with William Buhlman. I learned so much at TMI but the real learning began with myself. I knew what to do so I had to learn to apply it. I found ways that worked for me and learned so much over the years since going to TMI.
If you’re interested in learning about OB or want to give it a try I can tell you where to start. Robert Monroe had spontaneous out of body experiences but he knew other people could learn to go OB too. Just like any other ability, even like playing a musical instrument, it takes daily practice and commitment but this is an ability we do almost every night unconsciously so with practice it can be learned.
Explore The Monroe Institute website. There’s much to learn there.
There are a lot of methods on the Internet and you have to try a few to see what works for you. I suggest that you start by reading three incredible books. Robert Monroe not only gives you the basic steps to get started in his books, but he actually maps what’s out there. He managed to wrap his brain around dimensions, other worlds, energy and so much more.
Journey’s Out Of The Body, was Robert Monroe’s first book on his OB travels. He did something in this book that I marvel at. He attempted to describe the un-describable. He began to chart his OB travels.
In, Far Journey’s, Monroe is far more experienced and writes about incredible OB experiences.
Ultimate Journey, was Monroe’s masterpiece in my opinion. In this book, Monroe accurately and calmly describes many exciting OBE’s and a few times when he went too far.
Robert Monroe’s Out of Body books are a phenomenal body of work. These books are compelling and exciting. They are a very good way to start learning about OBE’s
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I have taken classes and studies at The Monroe Institute in Virginia, USA (TMI). I took the, Gateway Voyage and then returned to TMI to study, Out of Body Advanced with William Buhlman. The institute was developed by Robert Monroe to study and teach about our natural ability to leave our physical body. We can explore, and we do this naturally, almost every time we sleep. TMI is a place setup for learning to go out of body consciously. Not while you sleep, but while you’re awake.
I am a level two QHHT hypnotist trained by Dolores Cannon shortly before her death. I used Dolores’ method because I could go straight to our Oversoul which is our connection to this Universe. There is so much to learn there. I could help people under hypnosis by allowing them to see their past lives so that they could better understand their current life. Connecting to the Universe along with another consciousness doing the same thing in the room is a powerful experience. We felt such an electric feeling in the room and in ourselves. Those sessions opened my subconscious and my intuition became even stronger as did the people that had the sessions with me. They experienced a lot of changes in their lives.
I came to know a very special man that was a Buddhist Guru in Texas. He had come from China as a young man and started a Buddhist temple. He had the ability of being very intuitive. When I walked into the room, he first rang a small brass bell to clear the room. Then he quickly began shuffling ordinary playing cards and told me many things about myself. He taught me to find my answers within myself and not to seek them elsewhere. I have been blessed by, The Dali Lama when he made his visit to the temple where I attended. I’m not Buddhist but I felt the need to study their ways at that time in my life. The temple was bright and colorful and filled with people. People made pilgrimages to see the Guru and he gave them his time seven days a week.
I have taken sound healing with Tom Kenyon and studied his work with the Hathors. Kenyon is the best sound healer on the planet. Through sound one can achieve deep states where answers can be found inside of each of us. I had an out of body experience while listening to a world meditation that Tom Kenyon gave through the Hathors. It was a visual lesson. I had been stumbling along trying to understand something and the meditation sent me right into the Universe where I experienced my lesson in full color. What Tom Kenyon gives to the world through the Hathors and his incredible voice is an experience I am honored to have had.
I came to this life already knowing other life existed off this planet. As an adult I had a full blown contact experience. I had a lifetime interest in ET’s but after my contact experience, I knew I needed to get a camera and take images and videos of spacecraft in our day and night skies so others could see what I knew was out there. I used a camera technique and intuitive photography to capture some interesting images and some beautiful craft. I got the knowing to do this kind of photography from my contact experience.
I lived close to a family of Sasquatch for five years that made me welcome. I am honored to know them and even though I no longer live close to them I still feel their connection.
It’s been a lifetime of learning, and I continue to learn every single day.
If asked what was the most important lesson that I have ever learned in my lifetime, it would be this; our bodies are just bodies. Our bodies are not who we really are. Inside of each of us there is an energy body. Our energy bodies are all knowing, eternal beings. Even though we don’t all remember that, it’s true. When our bodies physically die, we don’t even lose consciousness. We simply “blink” to a new reality, one we are very familiar with. What many have forgotten in this lifetime is that as an, All Knowing, Eternal Being, we are Sovereign. I have fully embraced that in myself. I am the sole owner of my body, my mind, and my energy. I am not ruled by the confinements of our physical life on earth. I choose to awaken all of my Sovereign Abilities!
~ Vickie
Definition of Sovereign
Dictionary sov·er·eign/ˈsäv(ə)rən 1. A supreme ruler, especially a monarch. Similar: ruler monarch supreme, ruler crowned, head of state, lord adjective: possessing supreme or ultimate power. In modern democracies the people’s will is in theory sovereign.
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