Robert Monroe - Journeys out of the body, Practical Guidebook

WHEN USING APPLICATIONS

• Attempting an applied use of the phase without reaching a good depth. Deepening must always be performed before applications are attempted.

• Being so involved in phase applications that “maintaining”

techniques are forgotten.

• Forgetting to consider how to breathe when traveling through Outer Space or underwater, which may lead to asphyxiation.

• Concentrating on a certain object while traveling through time instead of concentrating on time travel, which should be the focus since it is the point of performing the applications.

• Forgetting techniques for “maintaining” when animate objects are encountered when these techniques must always be kept in mind.

• An inability to overcome fear during contact with deceased people. This fear must be overcome once and it will never resurface again.

• Limiting desires while practicing the phase. There is no limit to desire within the phase.

• Limiting the performance of certain actions, although there are no customary norms of behavior in the phase, unless the practitioner decides upon specific limits.

• While looking for information in the phase, attempting to obtain knowledge which clearly exceeds the scope of the subconscious mind.

• Applying the technique of obtaining information from animate objects without knowing how to communicate with them.

• Forgetting to check the ability of an object to convey valid knowledge. The probability of bad information is much higher if it is not verified.

• Failing to verify information in the phase before using it in reality.

• Forgetting to verify serious information obtained in the phase in reality before using it. Verification absolutely must be performed to avoid using bad information in reality.

• A single attempt to influence the physiology through the phase. In the majority of cases, results are gained through repeated effort.

• An attempt to cure some disease only using the phase, whereas it is compulsory to seek medical advice.

• Initially believing that the phase is the exit of the soul from the body, while this is easily refuted in practice.

• Concentrating only on unproven applications, despite all the evidence out there that this is most likely a waste of time.

Exercises for Chapter 10

Questions

1. What are the three basic applications of the phase?

2. Are proven practical phase applications accessible to any practitioner?

3. While in the phase, is it possible to actually travel through Africa?

4. Is it possible to walk on the moon in the phase?

5. Is it possible, while in the phase, to appear at the time of the Earth’s creation?

6. In the phase, is it possible to appear in the magical world behind the looking glass?

7. Which relatives can be met in the phase?

8. Is it possible to meet and talk to your favorite actor in the phase?

9. Where can one realize any cherished dream?

10. Can a practitioner appear in the computer game Doom ?

11. Can a musician use the phase for creative purposes?

12. Does the practicing the phase influence a person’s imagination?

13. What most probably governs the phase space?

14. What kind of information is obtainable in the phase?

15. While in the phase, is it possible to find out where the lost key to an apartment is located?

16. What kind of people can discover where treasure is hidden in the phase?

17. Should any information obtained in the phase be construed as accurate?

18. Should information obtained in the phase be verified after waking up, even if it’s already verified in the phase?

19. Should obtaining information occur before deepening has been performed?

20. To obtain information while using the animate objects technique, who should be talked to if the goal is it to find out the thoughts of a boss at work?

21. How might information from an animate object be obtained?

22. Can an inscription on a wall be used as an inanimate source of information?

23. Is it possible to use the episode technique to learn where one has lost the key to one’s apartment?

24. Should a doctor be consulted before trying to cure a disease through phase practice?

25. Are results from influencing physiology in the phase always 100% guaranteed?

26. What phase techniques might be used to influence the bodies of other people?

27. Is it possible to obtain information that can be used to influence the body and its functions?

28. Is it possible to take a well-known painkiller in the phase and feel its effects on exit?

29. Is it possible to use autosuggestion in the phase?

30. Can athletes use the phase to develop their skills?

31. Is it realistic to expect to the soul will exit the body while practicing the phase?

32. Is it possible to enter a parallel universe through the phase?

33. Should a practitioner hope to develop super-abilities in the phase?

Tasks

1. Visit the Pyramids of Giza in the phase. Meet your favorite singer and travel to your dream house.

2. While in the phase, find a wise person who is an authority on matters of the phase and learn from them what entrance techniques will best suit your practice.

3. Try to perceive heat throughout the entire body by translocation to a sauna or through auto-suggestion.

4. Learn to move objects by simply staring at them in the phase, and appreciate the extent to which this skill is reflected in reality.

Part III

Auxiliary Information

Chapter 11 – Useful Tips

A PRAGMATIC APPROACH

The only sure way to get practice without unnecessarily wasting time is to have a pragmatic and rational approach to the nature and possibilities of the phase phenomenon.

The majority of available information regarding dissociative phenomena is inaccurate. This becomes obvious during initial entries into the phase. This is why practice should begin from the perspective of a clean slate, using a logical bearing in thinking: everything not confirmed by personal experience should be taken with a grain of salt. This means only personal experience should be taken seriously, not the experience of acquaintances, authors, teachers, blogs, or forums.

To err is human; thus, it is also human to pass on errors. As a result, many paradoxical old wives’ tales concerning the phase phenomenon have become accepted a priori .

Not everything written in esoteric literature should be thrown out.

Some things may possibly be drawn from it. After reading such literature, a practitioner should not assume that the new knowledge is a universal truth.

For a house to stand firm, it needs a solid foundation. The only way to build a good foundation phase practice is to approach the phenomenon in a down-to-earth manner, from a scientific perspective, discounting any purported supernatural phenomena.

Once a solid foundation has been established, everyone has the right to build their own truth on it.

INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS

If a practitioner is only interested in having phase experiences, then the simple treatment of this guidebook and other materials may suffice. However, if a practitioner wants to achieve the best results, ample focus must be given to individual thought and formation of opinion based on personal analysis.

Until all questions are answered through a search for answers in various sources of information, no real progress should be expected.

Many things cannot be described or explained. The resolution of many issues will always remain up to individual judgment and understanding. Finding all of the answers is impossible. Moreover, trying to possess all of the answers is a serious inhibitor to real progress because the practitioner would have to digress into dubious literature and conversation aside from real, formative practice.