The phrase ‘Out of Body’ refers to having an experience of floating out of your own body and watching it and the world from a distance. A rare gift and a difficult ability to develop, it is similar in concept to autoscopy, which refers to floating out of body as well as ‘astral projections’ where different astral planes exist and the spirit leaves its own physical body to travel to these higher planes.
The five stages of an out of body experience involve the withdrawal, cataleptic, detachment, free movement and re-entry phases. At first, the body withdraws itself from the external environment not responding to any of its stimuli. This phase is similar to that of sleeping apart from the fact that your mind is focused.
The second comatose stage of any out of body experience involves total paralysis. That is, no kind of movement of body takes place and all body muscles turn rigid. However, other extra sensory perceptions take place and you might experience shivering and tingling sensations primarily and then intense vibrations, loud noises or even sight through closed eyes.
After the body has withdrawn from interacting with the external environment and in the state of sensing various extra sensory perceptions, the crucial time for the actual detachment comes. This is the phase where the actual out of body experience occurs with one’s spirit or the perceptual being leaving the physical body and traveling forward. One feels a floating sensation and the spirit floats out observing the world from outside. It is the most difficult phase of any out of body experience since even the slightest of apprehensions in the mind about not being able to return back into the body acts as an obstruction and does not let one travel forward.
After your aura, spirit, soul or perceptual existence whatever term you wish to call it with, has separated from your physical body, you will still feel a strong pull back which will ultimately cease beyond a certain distance allowing free movement without any restriction. Thus, progression has taken place out of body, where you can view your body from outside while you travel to other astral planes and realms. Your spirit is free and your mind focused and in control.
The last phase of the out of body experience consists of the re-entry of one’s free force. Most of the time the individual’s sudden anxiety regarding return, after he has traveled too far away from the body, results in a sudden pull-in, or sucking in or a sudden awakening from the experience. On the contrary it may also happen that instead of such suddenness, the re-entry is slow and gradual with a feeling of awakening from a deep trance.
Out of body experiences are rare and extremely difficult to induce. But in talking about conducive conditions facilitating such experience, mention may be made of near death experiences and sleep. In the first case, many recorded incidents show that people who have been victims of drowning, motor accidents and the like have felt themselves going out of their body for a brief period of time. Some have even seen the accident to happen from outside. Apart from this, out of body experiences almost all the time is linked with sleep. Either it happens before, after or during sleep as in the case of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when only the body sleeps but the mind is conscious, focused and in control of the dreams. It may be at this time that the person leaves the body and traverses to other astral planes.
If one wants to induce out of body experience himself, a deep trance condition through meditation is one of the best ways to attain it. Channeling all your attention and energy with increased control of your mind with the help of meditation and strong visualization in terms of seeing yourself floating outside the body facilitates OBE. Moreover, one can use technological induction methods like binaural beats, which involves using different sound vibrations in each ear which synchronizes and fuses together in one’s brain to create a mental condition which is conducive to out of body experiences. Whatever the method used, an out of body experience is difficult to achieve and requires a lot of focus, but once attained it is an out of the world experience.
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