Frank Kepple’s phasing model

Posted by Nathaniel Oldman on Mar 27, 2011 in Articles and tutorials, What to do | 3 comments

Frank Kepple, now deceased, was a sceptic regarding Monroe’s work who decided to check the validity of Astral projection on his own. He reproduced Robert Monroe’s  results and revisited his methodology and naming of the non-physical. He was an active poster on a forum dedicated to projecting, where many of his posts, or the information contained in them, have been regroupped into a single page.

He defines his structure of the non-physical, which he calls directly the “Astral”, as a wider model of reality, with four focuses of consciousness. The mind is present in all four of them, but only awake or aware in one of them. Phasing is defined as the ability to tune from one to another.

These focuses are Focus 1 for the perceptible reality, Focus 2 for the subconscious realms of the mind, Focus 3 for “shared” realms of the “Astral” and Focus 4 for the Akasha, although Frank lacked the knowledge to name it properly. He established himself this comparison with Monroe’s model:

For those familiar with Monroe’s system of labels, here is a basic comparison as far as possible:
Monroe’s Focus C1 = my Focus 1Monroe Focus 3, 10, 12, 15 & 21 = my Focus 2Monroe Focus 23, 24, 25, 26 & 27 = my Focus 3 Here the comparison ends, as my Focus 4 has no Monroe counterpart.

He described his phasing technique as follows:

The key to Phasing is to just let the experience flow. You need to allow yourself to become it, as opposed to trying to go to it, or point to it, with some kind of “method”. Just lay back and simply become it. At which point people usually say, “Yeah, but Frank it’s okay for you but when I close my eyes all I see is blackness. “Well, that is all I see at first!”
I think often that people are too hasty to discount these initial stages, and they just go off on some method.
When I close my eyes all I see is blackness. But I think the essential difference between me and many beginners is when they close their eyes they are not really noticing. And that’s another key to it… that of noticing self. I think people become too wrapped up in methods and techniques, and it prevents them from really noticing themselves.
Okay, so as I say, when I close my eyes all I see is blackness, which is normal. I’ll wriggle around a bit to get comfortable, maybe my knee is itching and my hair is tickling my ear or something. So I’ll sort all that out and just concentrate on breathing gently for 5 minutes or so. Now, because I am noticing as opposed to avidly trying to perfect and follow some technique or method, in the traditional sense, my full attention is taken by the simple act of noticing.
People often tell me that they keep trying and they are saying about how they are concentrating upon holding their awareness outside of themselves, and at the same time they are concentrating on “raising energy” and doing everything correctly, and whatever… but nothing is happening. That’s right, because all their attention is fixated elsewhere, whereas all my attention is fixated on noticing.
Noticing what?
Well, nothing at first, there’s not much to see really but blackness. But then, after a short while, I may see that perhaps one part of the blackness is not quite so black. Perhaps there was just a brief flash of something, then maybe a sensation of a movement somewhere else. Maybe I just heard someone call my name. Hmm, that’s interesting, I might think, I wonder where that came from. But I don’t get too curious I just keep noticing. I might see swirling areas of not quite so black as the rest. I might see flashes of this and that. As I am offering myself these images, my attention is steadily becoming more fixated within.
As my attention becomes fixated within, from the act of noticing, at this stage I am not aware of my physical body. Part of my awareness realises that somewhere in the background is a physical body, in bed, etc. but I have phased away from it. Before, the forefront of my awareness was my physical and 180 degrees turned around from that, in the background of my awareness, was the non-physical. But now there has been a “phase shift” i.e. a turning through 180 degrees. Now, my previous foreground (physical) is my background, and my previous background (non-physical) is my foreground.
This is what is meant by “phasing” because you cause a 180-degree Phase Shift between the non-physical and the physical. As I say, Monroe first coined the term as he was an electronics engineer and he was picturing it like it were two voltages, 180 degrees out of phase with each other. Hence he coined the term Phasing. But I guess people generally have difficulties picturing two voltages 180-degrees out of phase with each other. So, instead, imagine a revolving door that is the entrance to a building. Any old building, it doesn’t matter.
You are standing outside the building. So the “outside” is your reality. You are aware of a reality that exists inside the building, but is closed to you by the door. Now, go through and turn the door 180 degrees and stop (oh, in case anyone doesn’t know there are 360 degrees in a circle, so 180 degrees is half a circle). Now, you are inside the building. So the “inside” is your reality. You are aware of a reality that exists outside the building, but it is closed to you by the door. Now again go through and turn the door by 180 degrees, and stop. So now, the “outside” is your reality again.
Each time you go though the door and turn through 180 degrees, there is a 180-degree “phase shift” between your awareness of the outside and your awareness of the inside, in terms of your reality.
Okay, so as my attention becomes fixated within, from the act of noticing, this causes a 180-degree phase shift between my awareness of the physical (outer) and my awareness of the non-physical (inner) sense of reality. So from then on, I continue to notice anything that may come about. I’m not all that curious, I’m not trying to make anything happen, I’m not enacting some kind of method or technique, I’m simply looking within and noticing what is taking place, and the act of doing that is focusing my attention.
As a person focuses their attention within themselves, through the action of noticing, they allow themselves to view “snippets” of other dimensions of reality. This action is translated objectively as the perception of flashes of all manner of this and that, random images that come and go, all kinds of spurious sounds, and so forth. Sometimes these snippets can form what I call ‘astral screens’ where you objectively perceive something similar to a cinema screen effect in front of your non-physical field of vision, complete with moving images and sounds. What is happening is that you are objectively offering yourself snippets of other dimensions of reality. If you then decide to step into these scenes, you will find yourself in that ‘location’, within that particular region of consciousness.

This technique is a bit deceiving as only advanced and mature travelers, or those with an innate ability to project due to a flaw in their electromagnetic balance (which Frank claimed he hadn’t), can successfully use this approach; Kepple himself acknowledged his inability to systematically project, and what the page linked does not mention is that Frank used the Monroe’s Wave Hemi-sync CDs for very long, and actually added very valuable notes for beginners to work with them.

Also, whereas Monroe was reluctant to use the word “Astral”, Frank used it openly, without having checked on its proper use: everything he describes is actually part of the Mental plane, and not the Astral.

However, Frank Kepple’s legacy is of invaluable importance as he confirmed not only Monroe’s work, but the possibility to develop the ability to consciously project. His Phases also provide a valuable insight in the fact that the subconscious part of the mind is the gateway to the wider and shared mental plane, not to mention his empiric discovery of the Akashic plane.