Robert Bruce - Mastering Astral Projection: 90-Day Guide to Out-Of-Body Experience

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Mastering Astral Projection: 90-Day Guide to Out-of-Body Experience 2004 by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer.

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First e-book edition 2013

E-book ISBN: 9780738717012

First Edition

Seventh Printing, 2010

Book design and editing by Joanna Willis

Cover design by Lisa Novak

Illustrations on pages by Wendy Froshay

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For Professor Barbara S. Raines,

teacher, mentor, friend...

Brian Mercer

For the late Robert Bruce (senior),

father, mate, inventor, dreamer...

Robert Bruce

Contents

: Preliminary Instructions for the Ninety-Day Program

Part 1: PREPARING FOR LIFTOFF

: Flexing Your Astral Muscles

: Manipulating the Energy Body

: Mind Taming

: Primary Centers and Their OBE Connection

: Trance Practice

: Loosening up the Energy Body

Part 2: LIFTOFF

: Anatomy of an OBE

: Overcoming Mental Blocks

: Dreams and the OBE

: Troubleshooting

: Advanced Methods

: After the Exit

: The Basics of OBE Navigation

: Suggested Supplemental Reading List

: BrainWave Generator Installation Guide and Tips

: Dream Journal Template and Instructions

: Projection Position Posture

: Keys to a Successful OBE by Laetitia M. Kimball

: My OBE Successes by Brian Mercer

Acknowledgments

We want to thank the volunteers who gave of their spare time road testing this program. Your comments and ideas were invaluable in shaping the content and organization of this book. Our sincere appreciation also goes to Tracy Weber of Seattles Whole Life Yoga for her guidance in ensuring that the breathing techniques featured in this program are both safe and effective. We are also grateful to Adrian Cooper, aspiring projector and web master extraordinaire, for his enthusiasm and technical support; to Ben-Jamin Bruce for his invaluable encouragement and intellectual contribution; to Michael Ross for his OBE literature input; to Laetitia Kimball for kindly allowing us to publish her essay on the OBE; to Richard and Michele Kaplowitz for their loving support and photographic expertise; to Keith Alderslade for being so annoyingly intelligent; to Tommy Pirbos for technical input; to Nancy Mostad for her OBE insights on just letting go; and to Sara Mercer for tirelessly reviewing and proofreading version after version of this manuscript. Additional thanks go to all those in the BrainWave Generator user community whose advice played a role in the development of the presets that complement this program, and to the early users of the web version of this manual and the www.astraldynamics.com forums community for their guidance and suggestions. And to Joanna Willis, Lisa Novak, Wendy Froshay, and all the folks at Llewellyn Worldwide Publications: thank you!

Preface

Welcome to Mastering Astral Projection! This book is devoted to teaching you how to have a fully conscious astral projection (also called out-of-body experience or OBE ). It focuses on practical OBE exit training and advice, rather than on covering everything relating to the history, speculation, and practice of astral travel.

My first book, Astral Dynamics: A NEW Approach to OBE (Hampton Roads, 1999) covered not only projection training and OBE exit techniques, but also many related issues, phenomena, and theories associated with astral travel. During the latter stages of writing Astral Dynamics, it was clear that I needed to include a practical training program to help readers apply the information I was giving in a step-by-step and goal-oriented way. Given the eventual size of Astral Dynamics (560 pages), however, such a weighty addition was impractical. A few chapters had already been cut to save space.

After Astral Dynamics was published, I received many requests for an OBE training program. One of my readers, American computer programmer, writer, and OBE aficionado Brian Mercer, sent me the bones of such a program. He had developed it for his personal use, and offered me a copy out of courtesy. After studying Brians ninety-day program, I uploaded it to my website and made it available to the public online. It quickly became popular and resulted in a lot of constructive feedback. I passed the feedback along to Brian, plus my own ideas for improvements, and he revised and fine-tuned it accordingly.

It soon became obvious that we were building the foundations of a valuable OBE training manual. Brian and I soon became good friends. Following my instincts, I invited Brian to coauthor a book with me, the book you are now holding.

In the months that followed we discussed the theme and content of this book at great length. We recognized that an old hand like me and a keen novice like Brian teaming up as OBE teachers would create a winning combination of knowledge, experience, and priceless enthusiasm. I am not really a fair test subject for any kind of OBE training program, as I have way too much firsthand experience. Brian, however, was a well-read novice with little actual OBE experience. He was not one of those fortunate few who can easily induce an OBE. At that time Brian had tried for many years, but with only enough success to fire his continuing interest.