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- From: sfl@muttley.ucsd.edu (Susan Fichera)
- Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body
- Subject: Signposts to oobe
- Date: 24 Nov 1992 01:45:55 GMT
- Organization: Department of Music, UC San Diego
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- Greetings!
-
- As a person who has managed to have an oobe-type experience on more
- than one occasion, I am in the process of compiling a list of "signals"
- or indicative phenomena which let me know I am on my way "out". It is
- easy to dismiss these signals in the beginning, passing them off as
- various forms of physiological noise. I've found that every oobe-type
- experience is accompanied by these happenings, which now serve to alert
- me and make me conscious of what is about to occur, hence the lucidity.
-
- [As an aside, I'd like to comment on the use of the phrase "out-of-body".
- Is there anyone reading this newsgroup that still thinks there is an
- actual movement out of the physical body of something that can be detected?
- "Out-of-body" is a misnomer. I would describe the process more as a shift
- of attention. It's as if you are in your living room, with eyes glued
- to the TV screen, and suddenly you turn your head and look out the window.
- At that moment, you remember there's another world out there. That's what
- oobe is like.]
-
- Anyway, back to the signals. Here are the things that happen to me, in more
- or less this order though some variation is possible. I start to contemplate,
- then I hear a high-pitched sound in my left ear. After awhile, the darkness
- of my visual screen starts to show some colors, swirling like watery
- paint. I may notice a point of blue or white light, very small, as if far
- away in the distance. If I focus my attention in a relaxed manner on
- either the light or the sound, my visual screen will begin to segment.
- By this, I mean, I will start to see a repeating geometric pattern,
- a checkerboard of some kind. This usually means I'm pretty close. If I can
- watch this pattern, continuing to breathe calmly and chanting HU or some
- other word that has meaning to me, the visual image will start to look
- as if I am moving very fast into space, or that space is moving very
- fast into me. This is accompanied by a very distinctive auditory
- pattern. I hear a loud buzz that crosses inside my head, from one side
- to the other, as if in an X. The buzzing continues faster and faster
- until the 2 sides meet in the middle of my head and form a circle.
- When the buzzing forms the circle and begins to spin, my Third Eye
- opens at that point. The buzzing can be so strong that I feel it in
- my teeth. Once the Third Eye opens, I'm travelling. The experience
- can be brief, or go on for sometime. I have described some of my
- experiences in other posts, will not repeat them now. When the experience
- comes to an end, I will again hear that distinctive buzzing pattern,
- but in the opposite sequence. The buzz will go slower and slower, ending
- with a lazy buzz from side to side in the X pattern.
-
- I may become aware of the buzzing at various times during the
- experience, as well. I have not yet correlated whether this is
- accompanied by a change of "location", but it always serve to make
- me lucid in the moment.
-
- I believe the key elements to success in oobe is regularity of practice,
- and an attitude of love.
-
- Good Luck,
- Susan
-