Astral Projection Techniques For Beginners

This is the one astral projection course that helped me truly have my first AP. The set of 6 CDs have been put together by none other than William Buhlman, one of the major teachers in astral projection. I got interested in AP years ago by reading his book Adventures Beyond The Body. Awesome book as well, highly recommended.

How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience by William Buhlman


Btw, there is an even better course on astral projection, however that might be out of the budget of many people. I will discuss it briefly towards the end of this article.

When I first started learning astral projection, I've read everything I could on the subject, I've soaked up information like a sponge, I visited all the astral projection and OBE forums, I've watched countless videos, bought a lot of products (books and video courses) and I by the end I could have written a disertation on the topic.

But still, I didn't have a real out of body experience, with all my intellectual knowledge about it.

And one thing I've learned over time is that there is a lot of misinformation, there are a lot of myths around the subject, and some of these wrong informations were what kept me from having a real OBE.

So here are some of the major myths about astral projection techniques for beginners that I came across. Some you might already know, and others you might find curious, while there are some that you might not even agree with. That's ok. Just be aware that there is lots of stuff out there, and not everything works as expected.

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The rope technique is one that most people try when learning to astral project. It is actually quite a good technique and many folks have great results with it. Sadly this is not the technique that brought my first out of body experience, but then again, we are not all the same, and what works for one, might not work for the other person.

Being a very popular technique, here it is described below.

The rope technique for astral projection is actually quite easy. Once you get your body asleep (completely relaxed, as in not feeling it anymore), start visualizing a rope that you grab and start climbing it. The visualization of the movement of climbing can bring about a real astral projection. Here bring yourself to the point where you begin to feel vibrations, and then you exit your body.

Note: there are two main ways for astral projection: astral in the nearby physical environment (your own room, you see your environment and your body, and projection directly in the astral plane - here you are going directly into the astral, you're completely out of your environment).

The rope technique brings you out of your body into the real time zone, not into the astral directly.

This technique has been started by Robert Bruce in his Astral Dynamics book. If you don't have it yet, I strongly recommend you get it. It's a mountain of a book teaching you astral projection from beginning to advanced techniques, some which might just be the right for you!

This is another great technique that pulls you out of your body in the real time zone.

There are two versions to this technique. The roll-out and the lifting technique. In the lifting technique, you visualize yourself lifting out from your body, while in the roll out technique, you imagine yourself rolling to the left or right when the vibrations come. Two main reasons why this might not work for everybody are because 1 - you are not relaxed enough, and 2 - because you might be afraid that you physically roll out of the bed.

One way to easily achieve the roll-out of the physical body is by gently rocking yourself from side to side. Eventually you break free from your phisical body and end up in the ether - but still in the physical real time (you actually see your body lying in the bed or couch near you).

I'm not quite sure who thought of this technique first, but it is included in most astral projection techniques for beginners books out there.

This is a very interesting technique, one that was coined by Robert Monroe, maybe the most popular astral projecting teacher all around.

Basically while with the previous techniques when you leave your body you land somewhere in the room, when you phase out of your body, you go to another realm altogether. So you won't be seeing your body at all, or your home, or your neighborhood. You'll be in another dimension directly.

It is said that the real time projection is actually an interruption before phasing. That if you don't try to get out of your body by the various astral projection techniques mentioned before, if you simply let yourself go (without falling asleep), you eventually end up in the astral directly.

Many people find phasing much easier than trying to get out of their body in the real life time.

Robert Monroe has written a set of 3 books on his experiences with astral projection and phasing, and his teaching on the subject. He is really known as the father of astral projection. His books are not only recommended, but necessary on the bookshelf of any serious astral projection learner.

To really learn phasing, you need to get his books. There are many websites talking about phasing, but none teach it as well as the person discovering this technique in the first place.

One of the favorite astral projection techniques for beginners is using Binaural Beats.

There is a lot of talk about binaural beats and there are many Binaural Beats to be found online (paid and free). Not everything lends itself equally to astral projection though. It all depends on what frequencies are the beats at and what wave lengths they induce in the listener.

For example there are binaural beats that simply help you get into an Alpha state of meditation and relaxation. Or there are binaural beats that help with letting go of headaches and stress. And there are also binaural beats for brainwave entrainment suitable for giving you a much needed sleep (especially when you are suffering from sleep problems.)

Here are some of the real binaural beats that help with astral projection.

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If you really want to get good at astral projection beyond beginner level, and you are interested in the actual astral voyage - i.e. getting to an astral plane rather than simply hanging around your body in the real time, there is no better course out there than the Gateway Experience Waves by Robert Monroe Institute.

Yes, this is the institute founded by the very Robert Monroe (I talked about him a bit earlier on in this article) who started the whole phasing technique for astral projection.

I have this course, so I don't endorse it simply because it's there. I've tried it and it's awesome. It's great! Granted, it costs more than pretty much everything else out there, but what you get out of it is really worth it. It is the entire Astral Projection course (and if you go to their Gateway real courses, you spend a couple of thousand dollars at least).

Highly recommended!

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