Mastering Astral Projection: 90-day Guide to Out-of-Body Experience Paperback – November 8, 2004

My First OBE I was on Day 53 of this book....9 September 2013 at 15:21It was about 8:30 pm on June 8th 2012, when I laid down for a session of meditation. I had been meditating for about 9 months at this point. Not as much as I wanted too though. On this night I was well rested and not fatigued.I was laying on my back with my arms at my side. I began my normal routine of trying to “shut down” my thoughts. Focusing on different things, my breathing, the sensation of my toes, the air as it passes over my lips and out my nose. I was having a good session this night. I was pleased with how easily I was able to quiet my mind. It doesn’t always come easy. Actually it usually doesn’t come easy.I decided to play with my “energy aura”. Trying to find the smallest point of “energy” in my body. How small I could imagine it. How infinitely small I could focus that energy. This point was centered in my chest. Decided to go the opposite way too. How large must my energy extend past my body. My heat, my frequency, my brain waves. I juggled these two back and forth. How small, how large. At one point I thought I could fill the entire universe with my energy. And another, like I vanished into nothingness.Sometime in between this “juggling” I started to feel this “vibration”. To this day I wish I had a camera in the room. To me it was like I was a “tuning fork”. Hard to explain. Not sure if the vibration was internal, or something that could have been observed from the outside. All I know is that I WAS vibrating. This really freaked me out. Almost to the point that it was about to break my meditative state. So I went back to focusing on my energy, keeping my mind as blank as possible. The vibration just got more and more intense.Suddenly, I “popped” out of my body. Well, I popped, then hovered just above my body. The vibration stopped immediately. The exhilaration was almost too much. I tried to stay focused, and just take everything in. I started to examine my surrounding and myself.The room was “hazy, ethereal”. My body was not really a body anymore. I was this pale white light. With 5 appendages. Not arms/legs/head really, more of a “starfish” type thing. I had these arms, but they tapered off and never formed any hands. Same thing for my legs. My “head” was just a fuzzy white light as well. With no real features too it.I could feel everything in the room. Anything I focused on, and it felt like I knew the entire makeup and lifespan of the object. I turned my attention back on my “astral self”. I was still hovering just above my body. I started to really analyze my “construction” in this form. That is when I realized something…. I was not of any gender. I wasn’t male or female. I just was. I had no genitalia at all. No penis, no vagina. No nothing.Well, this set my mind racing. “Would I still be attracted to women”. “Would I still want sex with my wife”. “What does this mean?” “I cant believe it, I JUST AM”! Well this line of thought was enough to SLAM me back into my body. It was a sudden and shocking experience to suddenly be thrust back into your body.The realization of years of research proven to me. Everything I thought I had found out after researching was pretty accurate. We are just driving these bodies around. They are not us. We are infinite. We chose to live this life. We chose everything about this life. We lived before this life. We will live after this life. Unlimited choices, unlimited free will. Next time I could come back as the Sun, The moon, an Ant, my mother. Anything that I can imagine! Consciousness is the base of all being. All reality. You are just a fragmented part of the “Universal Consciousness” (ie. “God”)., only fragmented by your body. We chose this body to experience this separateness. It is a unique experience that all beings want to have a few times. Separate from the whole, but only in perception. Still connected to the “source” but our bodies are very limited.June 8, 2012

I've had a couple of OBE's before but never consistently and never with any real knowledge of how to improve beyond just watching really introductory YouTube videos. This is definitely an area where 'more is more' and with this book you have likely more than you'd ever need, to go literally as deep into OBE's as you want. There is more information than I knew even existed about having OBE's and plenty of other resources listed as well. (Early on Robert actually recommends picking up one of these listed books to prevent enthusiasm for OBE's to result in skipping ahead in this book or going too fast, which can cause big problems. I personally loved this mini homework assignment, and it's a great example of some of the practicality here, giving very excited students a great outlet for their enthusiasm).This book is also impeccable because of the work that went into making all of its information NOT overwhelming with help from Brian Mercer. There is such a focus in this book at going at your own pace, doing a little more each day, 'swimming out further', until one day you notice you've arrived at a very different place with your OBE's (and as a result also with your psychic and energy work abilities) without ever noticing you left the shore. That fear of going into something new has been taken away, and what's more the book is with you with tips every step of the way.By including Brian Mercer's experiences you also get tips and ideas from someone who may be dealing with some of the same stumbling blocks you are on a given day. There's this master/student dynamic between Brian and Robert which works beautifully. It adds a whole other dimension to the work.And because I like to save the best for last, it is not only the amount of information, the accessibility of how its laid out, and the included conversations between master/student but also the brilliance of Robert Bruce himself that make this book a 10/10. This is someone who, in my opinion, perfectly balances theory and application. He is very clear about his desire to help you actually experience OBE's, and you know in your gut that he's one of the most experienced people with OBE's on the planet, you know his advice really means something. But despite being such an accomplished expert in this field, he is still close to the earth, humble, and extremely kind. This comes through in his interviews, in his YouTube videos, and in his writing. And that is why this book never comes across as an expert talking down to you, it always feels like two helpful friends taking a fun journey with you together. This book has already helped take me to places I forgot existed, and some I could have never even imagined, and I will always be extremely grateful for the work that went into it.