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The ASTRAL PROJECTION WORKBOOK Published in 1990 by SterlingPublishingCo., Inc. 387 ParkAvenueSouth NewYork,NewYork10016 Copyright © J. H. Brennan1989 All RightsReserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recording or otherwise,without the prior permission of SterlingPublishingCo., Inc. ISBN0-8069-7306-4 Firstpublished in the U.K. in 1989 by TheAquarianPress Thiseditionpublished by arrangementwith the ThorsonsPublishingGroup,Wellingborough,England Thiseditionavailable in the UnitedStates,Canada and the PhilippineIslandsonly. Printed in the U.S.A. Library of CongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Brennan, J. H. Theastralprojectionworkbook : how to achieveout-of-body experiences / J. H. Brennan. p. cm. ISBN0-8069-7306-4 1. Astralprojection. 2. Astralprojection—Problems,exercises, etc. I. Title. BF1389.A7B74 1989 133.9—dc2O 89-29668 CI? 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Introduction The Two Types ofProjection 7 PARTONE:ETHERICPROJECTION 1. TheLivingGhosts 11 2. WhatHappensWhenYouLeaveYourBody 17 3. The SilverCord 23 4. Dangers of Projection 29 5. WhatHelpsYouLeaveYourBody 37 6. How to Make a Witch’sCradle 45 7. ScientificProjection 50 8. Preparing to Project 56 9. TheBody of Light 62 PARTTWO:ASTRALPLANEPROJECTION 1. Descriptions of an Otherworid 69 2. A Model of the AstralPlane 74 3. Imaginationand its Influence 79 4. IntroducingYourAstralBody 84 5. LucidDreams 90 6. AstralDoorways 98 7. TheAstral I Ching 106 8. Working the QabalisticTree 113 9. GuidedTours 120 PARTTHREE:PROJECTION IN PRACTICE 1. Techniques of Projection 127 2. TheUltimateProjection 134 Appendix:QuestionsandAnswers 139 Index 157 Introduction ‘AstralProjection’ is one of thosetermswhich,thoughwidelyused in esoteric circles,actuallymeansdifferentthings to differentpeople. To some it suggests steppingout of yourphysicalbody to makeyourway in theworldlike a ghost, passingthroughwallsanddoorswhileyouare(generally)invisible to thosestill locked into solidflesh. To others, it is the projection of consciousness into anotherworldaltogether, the fabledAstralPlane,where the normallaws of physics no longer apply and all sorts of interestingweirdness may be experienced. Althoughcarrying the same label and far too often confused in occult literature,thesetwoexperiences are quitedistinct. I havemanagedboth — the latter far moreoftenthan the former — andtheyseem to me actually to involve differentmechanisms.Certainlythe techniquesused to stimulatethemarequite different. In thisworkbook, I wifidealwithbothforms of astralprojection. But to avoid the old confusion, I propose to call the former(whereyouwander the familiar world like a ghost)ethericprojection or projection of the phantom. The latter experience(where you enter a totallydifferentworld) I wifi call AstralPlane projection. You should be aware that skill in one form of projection is no guarantee of expertise in the other.There are ethericprojectors to whomthe AstralPlane is as mysteriousandalien as the far side of the moon.Andthere are AstralPlane projectorsutterlyunable to separate the phantom in the physicalworld. One benefit of this is thatyouneedonlypractisethetype of projectionthatinterests you - there is no pressure on you to do both. Thefirstsection of theAstralProjectionWorkbookdealswith the projection of the phantom. It wifiintroduceyou to the concept of subtlebodies,showyou howthesebodiesseparate on death (andpartlyseparateduringsleep) then teachyou howtheymay be consciouslyseparated by almostanyonewithout going to the trouble of dyingfirst. ThesecondsectiondealswithAstralPlaneprojection. It discusses the Astral Planeitself, its natureandlocation,thenshowshowyoumayenter it by means of varioustechniques,includingthespeciallyconstructedastraldoorwayswhich were the subject of the veryfirstbook I everpublished. 7 TheAstralProjectionWorkbook Finally,havingtried to clear up some of the confusionthatexistsconcerning the two types of projection, I feel obliged to add to it by mentioningthat an ethericprojectioncansometimesinadvertentlycauseyou to slipontotheAstral Plane. By the timeyouhavefinishedthisworkbook, youwillhopefullyknow why. 8 PartOne ETHERICPROJECTION 9 1. TheLivingGhosts In 1845, a LivonianlanguageexpertnamedMademoiselleEmilieSagee was sacked from yet anotherteaching post. No one questioned her abilities, or it was thatshe herstudents. whocouldoften qualifications skill; just upset . see two of her. The secondMlleSageemight be standingnear the firstbeside theblackboard, or eatingthe sameschooldinner.Sometimesthe secondfigure would sit quietly in a corner,watching the first at work.Sometimes it would leaveher to get on withthelessonwhile it strolledthroughtheschoolgrounds. Thiswas all toomuchforthedirectors of theSchoolforYoungLadiesnearRiga. In the face of parentalcomplaints,theysuggestedMileSagéeshouldpackher as 18 otherSchoolBoardshad donebeforethem. bags. already MileSagéemighthavehadbetterluckteaching in Africa,where the Azande Tribebelievethateveryone has twosouls, one of which - the mbisimo - leaves the bodyduringsleep. Or in Burma,where the second soul is likened to a butterfly. Or among the Bacairis of SouthAmerica,whotalk(like the Azartde) of a shadowwhichtravelsout of thebodywhenwefallasleep. In fact,whenyou get rightdown to research, it is quitesurprising to find Mile Sagée’stalent caused any consternation at all. A survey has shown that no fewer than 57 cultureshold a firmbelief in some sort of secondbody - and the list does not pretend to be definitive. One of my earliestpublishedshortstories was calledHouseHaunting and describedhow a youngcouplediscoveredthehome of theirdreamsonly to find it was on the market at a suspiciouslylowprice.Whentheyquizzedthe estate agent, he reluctantlyadmittedthereasonwasbecause the housewashaunted, but added,‘Don’tworry,Madam - you’re the ghost.’ Thestorydrew on a factualcase; andonethat is particularlyinstructive. The woman (on whom the fictionalwifewasbased) hadbeenobsessedabout her dreamhouse for manyyears,creatingandrecreating it in hermind,imagining herselfwalkingthrough its corridorsandrooms.When,withherhusbandand the haplessestateagent, she discovered the houseactuallyexisted, she was able to describe the interior to the estateagentbeforeentering. Her description wasaccurate in everydetailexceptone: shespokeabout a greendoorwhichdid notactuallyexist.Theagentwas,however,able to confirmthatsuch a doorhad existed, buthadbeenbricked up a fewyearsearlier. 11 TheAstralProjectionWorkbook As a noviceauthor, I withheldseveral of the morebizarredetailsfrom my fictionalaccount. I was convinced they woulddestroy the credibility of the story. In thosedays I wasnotawarehowwidespreadthissort of phenomenon actuallywas. Back in 1886, threefoundingfathers of the Society for PsychicalResearch, Gurney, Myers and Podmore,published a comprehensive tome entitled Phantasms of the Livingwhichdetailed350 cases. In 1951,SylvanMuldoonand HerewardCarringtonaddedanother 100 in theirPhenomena of AstralProjec tion.Threeyearslater,HornellHartwasexamining288cases in theJournal of the American Society for PsychicalResearch.Anotherpsychicalresearcher, Robert Crockall,entered the lists in 1961 and between then and 1978 published no fewerthanninebooks of casehistories. ThescientistCeliaGreenappealed for information on the subject in the late 1960s, and had 360 repliesfrompeople with personalexperience. John Poynton added 122 more in 1978. And doubtless by the time this book is published, even morematerial wifi have becomeavailable. Typical of the sort of caseinvestigated is an incidentwhichoccurred in 1863 when an AmericanmanufacturernamedWilmot was on board the City of Limerickwhenthe ship hit a mid-Atlanticstorm.Duringthe night, he dreamed his wifevisited him in her nightdress and kissedhim. Although he had said nothing of the dream, his cabin-mateteasedhimthe followingmorningabout his midnightvisitfrom a lady.When he arrivedhome in Bridgeport,Connecti cut, his wife at onceaskedhim if he hadreceived a visitfromher in the night. Shehad, she said,beenworried by reports of shipwrecksanddecided to try to find out if he was safe. Consequently she visualizedherselfflying over the ocean,findingthe shipandgoing to hiscabin. A man in theupperberthlooked straight at her, but she wentahead and kissed her husbandanyway.(Steve Richardsmakes the intriguingsuggestion, in his Traveller’sGuide to the Astral Plane, thatshehadplanned to do morethankisshim, butwasrestrained by the presence of an audience.)Whenpressed, she was able accurately to describe the ship, the cabinand the manwhohadshared it with Mr Wilmot. Although this is the sort of evidentialcase-studywhichfinds its way into the textbooks, it is very clear that a great many people have out-of-body experiences of a less spectacular type — the sort of thing they might find personallyimpressive, but whichwould have nothing in it to convince an outsider. Severalyearsago, forexample, I was in bedpreparingforsleepwhen I found myselfstanding at a crossroadsabout half a mile from my home. I glanced around in someconfusion,thenreturned to mybodywith a substantialjerk. I amquitesatisfiedtheexperiencewasneither a dreamnor a hallucination, but it is, of course,quiteuseless as evidence. In this instance, minor as it was, I had at least the advantage of some theoreticalknowledge of ethericprojection.Othersare notalways so lucky. On oneoccasion I wasvisited by an 18-year-oldwomanratherdesperatelyseeking advice on the treatment of epilepsy.