The Rope Technique.
This is one of the most common methods we hear about for achieving a conscious experience
outside the physical body.
Today, I want to talk about how to make this method as effective as possible, and I want
to do that by talking a little about the principles that govern these kind of experiences, before
we jump into the specific steps that we need to follow with this method.
Understanding the theory of out-of-body travel, boils down to having a clear picture of the
way our own experience of consciousness is happening.
And, the most important place to start with this, is with our ordinary waking experience,
because if we go into the study of out of body travel with any mistaken assumptions
about what our current condition is, or how the methods we are trying to employing are
supposed to move us forward, then it is very likely that we are going fall into taking
what seem to be some insignificant shortcuts, that will in the end drastically reduce our
chances for success.
There is one specific misunderstanding about our waking experience that I want to talk
about here before we get into this technique.
And, that is the mistaken idea that we are already self aware, or that we are lucid by
our own nature while we are in the ordinary waking state.
This is something that seems like it would be a pretty safe assumption, but unfortunately
it is not true.
And this turns out to be a major factor later on, because it impacts the way we think about
what a technique is and the general direction that we normally approach this kind of practice
from.
When we first look at the way we experience the world, it seems like we are alert and
aware by our own nature during the day when our physical body is awake, and that for some
reason, this clarity or lucidity just kind of slips through our fingers when our physical
body falls asleep.
But, this is not actually true.
We are not really more alert during the day than we are at night.
We are not really self-aware or aware by our own nature.
Our physical body is playing a very important role in propping up our attention during the
day, and this is why we have so much trouble with lucidity when it falls asleep.
The physical body is keeping us tethered down to the present moment through the pull of
five physical senses.
The pull of these senses on our attention is what keeps us grounded, and we are so used
to having this support, that it is easy to fall under the illusion that we could keep
our attention under control without it.
Or that this kind of mental stability and focus are something natural to us.
But, unfortunately, this is not true.
During the day our attention is already wandering all over the place.
It doesn't just start to do that when we fall asleep.
We have a constant stream of mental imagery that is essentially flashing scenes to us
all throughout the day and demanding our attention.
These thoughts or scenes of past and future or sometimes alternate presents, form a constant
flow of everything from what we are going to have for lunch this afternoon, to how cool
it would be if we won the lottery tomorrow, to a flashback of past of something funny
our best friend told us when we were ten years old and all kinds of random stuff in between.
And unfortunately, the important part here, is that we are not maintaining control of
this process.
We are not intentionally piloting our way through this experience and picking up the
sort of mental experiences that we want to have and then setting them down when we are
finished with them.
Our attention is being pulled on compulsively toward these different mental scenes.
And actually the only thing that keeps our attention from being completely caught up
and absorbed in these scenes, is the constant pull of the physical body.
We can never completely shut out the sensory information that we get from the five senses,
and so this keep pulling us back and grounding us in this experience that we interpret as
being centered in a physical body and surrounded by a physical world.
And, the subtle aspects of this process don't change when we fall asleep at night.
We are just experiencing one less layer.
The mind is still getting pulled on by this random stream of imagery, but at some point,
when the physical body stops pulling back on it and drops into sleep, we are allowed
to drift completely into these scenes and become totally immersed in them and move through
them compulsively, in what is essentially the same experience that we already had during
the day.
The only difference now, is that we don't have any solid footing from which to dispute
the reality of these projected mental scenes.
So, what I am getting at, is that the process of dreaming, that seems to start battling
us for control when our physical body falls asleep, is not something new that happens
to us at night.
It is already happening to us during the day.
And, what this means is that an OBE method is not just a simple bridge with which we
go from one lucid state to another.
It is the mechanism that supports our mental stability in the absence of a physical body.
It is kind of like a life support system for our awareness, it is not just some inconsequential
mental game that we play until we pop out into one of these naturally lucid subtle states.
And every part of the techniques as we practice them form a vital part of achieving this desired
outcome.
So, lets talk about how to set up the rope technique.
The most important aspect that I want to stress when I talk about these early techniques,
is the role that our physical body plays.
The five senses is what keeps us alert during the day, and that is not something that we
should be quick to just cast aside when we go to practice.
The most helpful thing we can do for ourselves, is to make sure that our body is set up so
that it so that it still pulls very slightly on our awareness while we are practicing.
And, the way to do this, is to first let our body sleep for a few hours, and then wake
up a little bit early before we normally would so that we are still tired enough to go to
sleep.
And then we get ourselves out of bed, and get into a position that will let us fall
back to sleep, but that is slightly less comfortable than the way we normally sleep.
A reclining chair is the best way to do this.
And, we practice our exit technique in this condition as we fall back into a light sleep.
I would say that this is at least 80% of what drives success with these early methods is
this body preparation.
After we are in position, and we are ready to practice the technique itself, which is
a form of tactile visualization.
So, instead of just visualizing an a scene like we have in some of our previous methods,
we are going to also imagine the sensations that go along with interacting with this scene.
And, the way we do this with the rope technique, is as you are laying there waiting for your
body to fall back asleep, we imagine a rope, or a rope ladder hanging down from the ceiling
above us you, and we feel our hands reach up and take control of this rope with as much
detail as we can muster.
And we slowly climb hand over hand up this rope , feeling it in our hands, and also feeling
the subtle pull toward the celling that this is going to generate in our body.
And, we continue climbing up the rope as our body falls asleep.
And, that's it.
What you're going to notice though, the first time you are successful with this technique,
is that all of these methods, the rope method, the roll out method, the vigil method, the
body of light method, the hammock method, the magnet method, all of these, that come
after the 4am method, take advantage of a state that you might not have ever experienced
before, or even realized is possible.
It's what most people are calling the mind awake body asleep state.
And, it is what happens if you lucid past the point where your physical body falls asleep.
If you don't let yourself slide right into a dream, there is a brief window here, where
you are in your subtle physical body that we call the etheric body.
And that is why we do all of these physical movements like climbing a rope, or sitting
up, or rolling out of our body and things like that.
The etheric body still behaves very much like the physical body, and you will notice when
this method finally works, that at the point where your physical body falls asleep, you
stop merely imagining the movement of climbing, and the actual sensation of your arms is going
to be there.
You might even see the silvery white etheric arms in front of you.
And, this is why it is so important that we focus on body positioning in the beginning.
Because setting your body up so that it slowly falls into a light sleep is what helps you
to have a slightly longer window here as our body gradually drops to sleep.
So, instead of just instantly turning off and going into a deep sleep, we get a little
bit more of a support for our awareness as this process happens.
So, that is all I have for you today.
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