First voluntary projection out of the body
My first voluntary, and to a large extend, controlled, projection out of the body happened about 15 years after my initial attempt, which basically consisted in not moving for an extended period of time.
The gap between the initial attempt and this one was filled with extensive soul searching, meditation, and in depth practice in the field of Hermetics, and although I still had a natural interest in the astral and mental planes, my commitment for other priorities didn’t leave time for any experimentation. It was only when the next mandatory step in my own path towards perfecting myself required visiting subtle planes that I endeavored and undertook phasing out of my body.
This time the experience was greatly enhanced by the fact that I knew exactly what needed to be done, and a night from a Saturday to a Sunday, I finally took the decision to proceed. I set my alarm clock to 5 AM and prepared to go to bed. I prepared my mental body with 60 repetitions of a specific dual kabalistic formula that helps in dissociation of the mental body from the flesh, proceeded to relax deeply and fell asleep as early as I could. I always do a set of suggestions before falling asleep as part of my personal emotional and mental hygiene, but I can’t remember having it done specifically that night: in those days I was training with extreme intensity as a bodybuilder and Friday would be my legs day, which was so taxing on the organism that it would let me recovering most of the Saturday, sleeping on and off during the whole day. It is my impression that I was so tired that I just fell asleep after my set of kabalistic preparation.
At 5 in the morning, I was waken up by the alarm clock. I always struggle not to get back to sleep, so out of sheer will I put myself on my back, closed my eyes and started again the “real” set of kabbalist formulas. For a moment I drifted back into sleep, just to regain consciousness again, as with each repetition of my formula, I could feel the mental body go. When I finished the cycle, feeling that my awareness could be lost to sleep again, I decided to pull into the dissociation vibrations without further delay, and in a few seconds, less than 10, I was effectively out of my body.
From that moment on, movements responded to will; I decided to float to the nearby window, and pushed my head through the closed curtains. I saw the sun starting to rise by the horizon. I moved back, and decided it was enough, and time to return to my body: I didn’t have any clear purpose for this first experience and I preferred sleeping. I floated backwards to my body, but instead of incorporating into it, I just went through it and found myself under my bed. I remember finding that quite amusing at the time, a bit ironic actually.
I then resourced to think loudly in my head my intention to integrate back to my physical body, and next thing I knew is that I was back and asleep.
The experience itself responded at what I had expected from it, and besides the fact that my will seemed considerably diminished during it, the out of body experiment was under my complete control and awareness.
