Jim Willis - The Quantum Akashic Field: A Guide to Out-of-Body Experiences for the Astral Traveler

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The Quantum Akashic Field

The Quantum Akashic Field is open for exploration to all who develop a systematic strategy of meditation and creative imagination. By sharing his own out-of-body experiences, recorded through the years in his personal journals, Jim Willis serves as our guide into that world of mystery and revelation.

GEORGE NOORY, host of Coast to Coast AM

Jim Willis, through a combination of modern science and very personal experience, manages to produce a veritable DIY guide for anyone interested in out-of-body experience (OBE). This book should cause the steadfast nonbeliever to admit that there is at least a scientifically based possibility that the OBE phenomenon is plausible and provides validation as well as explanations and encouragement for those who have experience with OBEs. If ever there was a successful explanation for the inexplicable, this book is it.

GERRY BAILEY, computer scientist, systems engineer, and OBE practitioner

Willis weaves together science, metaphysics, and cultural references in a thoughtful exploration of the out-of-body experience. Using his fascinating and highly symbolic personal experiences, he gently but logically guides us to see that OBEs are a natural part of our spiritual development. This book is a great summary of the basics, with inspiring personal examples, encouragement, and practical guidance that is both useful for the beginner and a valuable refresher for those looking to enhance their experience.

WILLIAM BUHLMAN, author of Adventures Beyond the Body

Another brilliant book by Jim Willis. How he manages to make complex concepts so easily accessible, I dont know. Read it at your own risk!

ELYN AVIVA, PhD, MDiv, author of The Question: A Magical Fable

Combining cutting-edge theories, mysticism, and personal narratives, Jim Willis provides a fascinating overview of the out-of-body experience. Willis seamlessly makes connections between such diverse topics as perception, consciousness, philosophy, shamanism, and quantum physics, which challenges readers to look beyond their present assumptions about who and what they really are.

PAUL J. LESLIE, psychotherapist, author, educator, author of The Art of Creating a Magical Session

This is a very dangerous book. With his ability to tell a good story, Jim Willis can draw you right out of your body and into the astral planes. So, if you choose to read it, dont say you havent been warned.

GARY WHITE, PhD, professor emeritus at Iowa State University and coauthor of the Powerful Places guidebook series

Accessing the fabled Akashic records has always been a curiosity of mine, and in his book The Quantum Akashic Field Jim provides a fun and easy-to-understand guide for exploring this sacred domain.

CLIFF DUNNING, host and producer of Earth Ancients podcast

Jim Willis has written a wonder-filled, magical book. Thoroughly acquainted with the theoretical principles of the new physics and how they relate to the problem of consciousness, he offers sage practical advice on how to achieve a conscious out-of-body experience and navigate the challenging terrain of non-ordinary states of consciousness.... Marinated in the narrow, intellectualistic rationalism of our mainstream Western culture and an equally narrow and dogmatic fundamentalist form of Christianity, Willis shares how he managed to free himself from these mental prisons and experience ever-wider, more expansive and inclusive states of awareness.

JOSEPH M. FELSER, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at Kingsborough Community College, author of The Way Back to Paradise and The Myth of the Great Ending, and former board member of the Monroe Institute

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

An entry from my dream journal and an account of my visit to the English town of Fenny Compton which are used in this book were briefly quoted in Supernatural Gods: Spiritual Mysteries, Psychic Experiences and Scientific Truths, published by Visible Ink Press in 2017. I rewrote them to fit this current context and acknowledged their previous use within the text, but I want to reiterate that they are here used by permission. Thanks to Roger Janecke and the good folks at VIP!

Barbara Willis, my wife of 16 years and my partner during the course of thousands more over the course of many lives, reads, comments on, and edits everything I write. She was the one who coined the term perception realm. When we moved to this special place in South Carolina, little did we know that she was coming home. Rock on, Barb!

Jan Willis, my daughter, tech support, PR consultant and Faery aficionado par excellence, serves as my editor and commentator alongside Barb. The only downside to the trio is that I can sometimes be out-voted. To make things worse, theyre usually right. Thanks, Jan!

Annie Wilder, my literary agent, has proved to be an invaluable resource when it comes to shepherding a book from an idea to a published product. Annie, youre a jewel!

Our generation is blessed with some great thinkers and doers. Ervin Lazlo, Deepak Chopra, Dean Radin, William Buhlman, Fred Alan Wolf, Michael Harner, Hank Wessleman, Sandra Ingerman, and many more whose work is listed in the Bibliography have all contributed, and continue to contribute, to our understanding of whats really going on in the wild and wonderful cosmos we inhabit. May their kind continue to lead us into a hopeful future.

Gerry Bailey became a long-distance friend after he wrote to tell me that he appreciated my book, Ancient Gods. Since then he has shared some of his life story with me. I soon found him to be a kindred soul, but one who was born with natural OBE talents that Ive needed to work to develop. Because he grew up in the generation that preceded mine, our culture forced him to make difficult choices that steered him away from his natural abilities. But his encouragement has been invaluable. He read both Supernatural Gods and this book before the editors even had a chance to work on them. Thanks Gerry. Youve become a treasured friend!

INTRODUCTION

The Master Game involves the quest for spiritual awakening, enlightenment, and liberation. The goal is to discover ones own true nature and to know from direct, empirical experience that this nature is both sacred and immortal.
Hank Wesselman in Visionseeker

What If?

What if someone were to tell you that your five senses of touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste, important senses that have evolved to help you relate to and interact with the world around you, also serve as filters that cut you off from a true experience of the totality of reality? What if that person were to further explain that the scientific method, that marvelous, systematic, investigative technique that relentlessly explores, tracks down, measures, and describes the world around us, is insufficient to fully explain the nature of the cosmic ocean in which we live and move and have our very being? And what if you were to learn that almost everything you have been taught about reality is an illusion?

Would you accept it? Would you believe it? Would it change your life?

Most people would probably respond with an emphatic, No! Im doing just fine, thank you!

But the fact that you chose to even begin reading this book proves you are probably not like most people.