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right [side] of my field of vision. Anyway, this vision faded, and I again saw the blurry first
vision. Then I felt a tremendous electrical shock hit my system, as if I stuck my finger in a
light socket and received a full 110-volt electrical shock. This shock hit every cell of my
body and I was slammed back to my body. My heart was beating wildly, beyond control, as
if the shock was physical....
Through practice, it is possible to learn to control out-of-body vision. I recommend you experiment with
the different types of sight to see what works best for you. I recommend using a form of sight that can be
expressed in physical terms when you return to your body and want to record the experience.
III. Objectivity of Sight
Many books on out-of-body experiences claim that OBEs are completely controlled by our thoughts,
beliefs, expectations and wishes. But if this is true, how "real" is it? Where does it fit in with our
experience of the "real" or "objective" world? If you leave your body and travel to Jupiter, and believe
the planet is blue instead of orange, will you see a blue Jupiter or an orange one? In either case, are you
really seeing the "real" planet, or one which was created in your mind? This is a very perplexing question
that deserves more attention.
There are many people who have reported OBEs in which they saw things that really did happen. The
most common of these are the descriptions by patients undergoing surgery, who claim to have witnessed
the whole procedure from outside their body. Some have reported details of the procedure that they could
not have possibly known, such as where the doctors put gall stones that were removed. Some patients
have accurately repeated conversations that went on during the surgery. Skeptics may dismiss such cases
by theorizing that some subconscious part of the patient still had cognitive abilities during the operation,
and assuming that somehow the patient accessed this subconscious memory when they awoke. This
theory cannot explain the less common cases where OBE subjects have reported what was happening in a
different room. These seem to suggest that the subject could actually see some part of physical reality.
There are also many cases where people saw things during an OBE that didn't correspond to the physical
world. For instance, take the following OBE:
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I brought myself down into the proper mental state, very easily, and I got out of my body
using an older technique: I waited for a certain feeling in the pit of my stomach, moved my
consciousness down to my abdomen, then lifted myself straight up at that place, and out of
the body. It all happened very quickly and it seemed ridiculously easy at the time.
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I was in midair floating about two feet above my physical body. I turned to my left (South),
and raised myself into a standing position. I looked at the North wall, and briefly considered
whether to walk through it. I decided against it.
I took a few steps toward the back of the bedroom, to the West. I felt a bit giddy and off
balance. Then I took a few steps East, toward the bedroom door again. I felt unsure of my
footing, and I assumed it was because I was too close to my physical body. I decided that I
had to get farther away from my body, and the safest way to do that was to crawl on my
hands and knees.
I got down on my hands and knees, and crawled toward the bedroom door, crawled through
the bedroom door, and out into the living room. I crawled about six feet more until I was in
the middle of the living room, and then stood up again, and walked over toward the kitchen.
I looked into the kitchen, and it looked different. At the time I was standing partially
through the microwave oven stand, but I didn't notice it, nor any of the other nearby objects
in the room. I looked toward the countertop right of the sink, and there was no countertop! It
appeared as if someone had cut out the countertop at the sink, all the way back to the wall,
and the wall looked somewhat dirty. It looked as if whoever cut the countertop out did a
very sloppy job. I scanned the area up and down, and finally I said to myself, "It's an
illusion; I know the kitchen isn't like this, but that's not important."
I walked back into the living room, stopped by JH's computer, and suddenly I became very
excited. I said aloud (or so it seemed), "This is great! I'm completely lucid! This is entirely
real!" I examined my own consciousness, and it was very clear, bright, lucid, and normal in
every respect....
Why are there discrepancies between the physical and nonphysical worlds? Some people claim that astral
matter is easily malleable, and imitates physical objects, but not completely. Others claim it's because
some OBEs occur in the "astral plane" which is influenced by our beliefs and expectations. Or perhaps
the people who find themselves in a thought-influenced, subjective OBE state are really having Lucid
Dreams.
Another theory is that some people have a kind of "clairvoyance" which allows them to see the physical
world during an OBE, much like a clairvoyant can see spirits while in the body. Again, more research is
needed to answer these questions.
EXERCISE 18
Rocking Chair Visualization
This is a variation of the previous exercise.
Before you attempt the exercise, sit in a rocking chair, close your eyes and rock. Memorize the feeling of
rocking with your eyes closed. This is how you should feel when you are doing the exercise.
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You can do this either laying down or sitting. First, close your eyes and relax. As vividly as you can,
imagine that you're sitting in a rocking-chair, rocking gently forward and backward. Take your time
doing this. In this exercise, it's not important to visualize at all. As a matter of fact, you can completely
ignore any visual images that come to mind. In previous exercises, I wanted you to vividly pretend you
were seeing images, like the yoyo exercise in chapter 9. This time, I want you to vividly imagine the
feeling of rocking back and forth. Keep at it until it seems as if your consciousness is really rocking.
Once again, this is more than just a silly exercise. I've used this imaginary feeling of rocking to leave my
body. Actually, I used a slight variation, which went as follows: Some good movie-theaters have seats
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