I want to talk about visualization today.
Just about all of the early techniques we learn for leaving the physical body consciously,
use something we commonly call "visualization".
Unfortunately, this is a word that often gets misunderstood, and this leads to people thinking
that they can't visualize or they can't meditate, and then trying to modify or combine
techniques in a way that in the end turn out to be not quite as effective.
So, today I want to talk about what is meant by visualization and what is supposed to be
happening when we practice some of these different types of techniques.
And, I also want to broaden the scope a little here, and talk about the progression of visualization
techniques in terms of difficulty, because although we are forced by language to use
words like visualization and imagination these words don't really capture any of the details
that differentiates what happens at the different levels of these techniques.
Let's first talk about why there are different levels or different difficulty levels of techniques.
What we call out of body travel is a really just a byproduct of the increased levels of
lucidity that happen when we loosen the identification between the nonphysical part of us that functions
as the observer, and the various elements of our experience that we call body and mind,
as well as to some extent, the idea about ourselves that we carry with us in the form
of memory.
Because it is ultimately this identification that we are working against, and what we are
trying to do is clear away some of the haze and realize our true nature or realize our
true self, and get a little bit of freedom or space between us and this physical experience,
then what we are doing with out of body travel techniques, is not really different from any
of the other types of practices designed to take us in this same direction.
So, a person that watches their body in a yoga pose, or watches their breath in Vipassana
meditation, or who watches the world with their eyes open in Zazen, or who watches through
the practice of mindfulness as they walk through a park, or any number of other techniques,
is also working to loosen this identification between the observer, and what we call the
"ego" or the assumed identity.
The reason identification is so important, is that it has a lot to do with dictating
the various levels of techniques that we use.
And, we are going to go over some of these categories in just a minute, but the point
I want to make first here, is that if we don't start with basic visualization, then we can
end up making things a lot more difficult for ourselves.
Because if our identity is strongly tied up with the experience of a physical body of
seeing, and hearing, and smelling, and tasting, and touching, through the outward facing physical
senses, then we find that if we just try to power through a separation by trying to stay
alert as we fall asleep, or we just pick a technique at random, then our own system is
likely to work against us.
If we doesn't know some lucidity without the physical body, then when we try to stay
lucid, we also inadvertently seem to support the other experience of physical wakefulness
by holding some of our attention on the physical body.
And, this will make it seem like we are stuck.
We will get a lot of vibrations, or partial separation, or lucid dreams if we are lucky,
or sometimes we won't get anything at all, we just keep ourselves awake for hours and
hours and hours.
So, in the beginning, it is most effective to use a basic visualization technique, and
just let the body fall asleep on its own, and let the separation take place naturally,
and just try to keep our attention focused with a simple method.
Then, as more layers of our experience open up, then we can climb the stairs as it were
and use these new experiences as footholds to our advantage.
So, let's start with basic visualization.
Let's talk about what it is and how to do it.
The first technique I always recommend is always the 4am method and in that we just
visualize a ball of white light about the size of our own closed hand.
In this case, visualizing does not mean that we see a white light with our eyes closed.
As long as our physical body is awake, and our are seeing with our physical eyes, when
we close our eyes, the normal experience is going to be just to see darkness.
With this basic visualization, what we are doing is just imagining.
In fact, the ball of light is actually almost irrelevant.
The purpose is not really to keep the object steady, the purpose is to keep you steady.
When you hold something in your mind, you're simultaneously holding yourself in the position
of the observer.
And, this creates a little bit of space, that slows down the compulsive movement of the
attention, the process that normally just seems to us just like random thoughts arising
out of nowhere.
Also, because the object we are imagining is not associated with the experience of a
physical body, we have an opportunity to allow the body to fall into sleep, while our focus
of attention carries on.
So, with basic visualization, what we are doing is not actually seeing with our eyes
closed, we are just imagining the object, and holding our attention on a fixed point.
And, everyone can do this, it doesn't take any new skills, if you can close your eyes,
and imagine what your friend's face looks like, then you have all the skill you need
hold the imagination of a ball of light for this method.
The second tier of difficulty when it comes to OBE visualization, is what we call tactile
visualization.
I list these as a higher difficulty level, because they are more effective only after
we have had some progress, and we know what the feeling of the etheric body is and can
distinguish it from the physical sense of touch.
Hopefully we get this experience by having at least a partial separation.
And, with tactile visualization, we imagine sensations rather than just a kind of mental
image.
So, this would be those methods like the rope technique, or the hammock method, anything
where we are going to imagine the sensation of movement rather than just imagining an
object.
So, with these kinds of techniques that involve simulated movement, again, we are just using
our imagination.
Preferably, the way to do this is to first act out the movement physically if we can.
So, like with the rope technique for instance, we would want to physically move our arms
in a climbing motion first, and then lay down and try to recreate that sensation of that
movement again as vividly as possible using our imagination.
This also doesn't take any news skill, until the physical body falls asleep, it is just
a kind of imagination that we use to keep ourselves focused and that will hopefully
alert us when we move into the etheric body.
But, again, I find that these kind of techniques are less effective than basic visualization,
unless we have experienced at least a partial separation and we know that the mind awake
transition into a subtler body - we know what it feels like.
The third degree of difficulty or the third tier of difficulty when it comes to OBE visualization
techniques, are ones that involve actual movement.
I say that these are the highest tier, because you can only really use these when your experience
has opened up to the point where you are actually able to hold onto your lucidity past the point
where your physical body falls asleep and you then find yourself in the etheric body.
Also, in the next video I put up we are going to talk about the difference between the etheric
and astral body in case anyone wondering why I talk about astral projection and astral
travel but always talk about the etheric body when we talk in terms of separation.
But, this third level or third type of technique, that uses movement, so techniques like the
rollout method, or the vigil method, although it is true that sometimes these are used just
as an imagined movement to keep the mind focused like we did with the earlier tactile visualization
methods, this third type of technique- these are really meant for people who are experiencing
what we call the "mind awake / body asleep" state, where they are able to hold onto their
lucidity past the point where their physical bodies falls asleep.
And because at that point they will no longer be consciously in control of their physical
body, they will be in a subtler body, then these techniques don't actually use an imagined
movement.
If the separation has already occurred, and yet you still find yourself in the position
of the physical body, then you are actually able to just use movement the same way that
you would physically.
So the rolling out, or the getting up that happens with the vigil method, these are sometimes
described as a visualization or imagined movement, but in practice, they are actually just ordinary
getting up or rolling out.
It is just that they only become effective after the separation has already happened.
So, that is the gradual progression of what is meant by visualization for OBE practice.
The first type again, is just mental focus on a very basic kind of image, to hold your
focus away from the body as it falls asleep.
The second, kind is tactile visualization, where we imagine sensations of movement (sensations
or sensations of movement I should say) – these seem to work best again after we have already
had some experience with the sensations of the etheric body, hopefully from a complete
separation.
And then finally, the third types of technique that involve actual movements, like rolling
out our sitting up, and these are ones that we are going to be able to use after we find
ourselves holding on to lucidity all the way through the physical body falling asleep to
the point where we are taking complete control of the etheric body.
So, that is all I wanted to talk about today.
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