Astral Odyssey: Exploring OutOfBody Experiences - Softcover

Eby, Carol

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9780877288602: Astral Odyssey: Exploring OutOfBody Experiences

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ISBN 10: 0877288607 ISBN 13: 9780877288602

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1996

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Astral travelwhat is it and how does it fit in our lives? Eby explains the differences and similarities between astral projection, outofbody experiences (OBEs), ordinary dreams, creative inspiration, mental projection, and clairvoyance. With OBEs defined and placed in the context of consciousness continuum, these various states of awareness can provide entryways to alternate realities. Astral Odyssey guides us through the pathways of consciousness that lead to the invisible worlds around us, giving stepbystep procedures on how to do actual, voluntary, conscious astral projection. But Eby does more than just teach astral travelshe provides instructions for attaining all the necessary states of consciousness, tells how each may be used to derive valuable benefits in daily life, such as improved psychological balance, solutions to problems, increased creativity, and enhanced powers of extrasensory perception. Included are neverbeforepublished examples of OBEs and an OBE diary that describes, in vivid detail, the sights, sounds, sensations, and thoughts associated with actual visits to the astral plane. We discover that astral travel allows a new perspective of both the universe and the role that human experience plays in it. With this firsthand knowledge of the existence of nonphysical worlds and their entities, physical life can become more meaningful, creative, and joyful!

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About the Author:

Carol Eby is a selftaught astral projector. She received a B.S. in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Biology from Black Hills State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of South Dakota. She enjoys life in the west, good times with family, friends, and her cat, Sylvester, and learning and writing about otherworlds.

From Preface: Astral Odyssey: Exploring Out-of-Body Experiences is the first book ever written using its unique comprehensive approach to capture the entire essence of an extraordinary voyage into the vast, uncharted areas of the invisible worlds, where hidden treasures abound from beginning to end. Astral Odyssey is a voyage upon which anyone can embark!

What is the astral world?
Where is it?
What is it like?
Who are its occupants? Are they hostile or friendly?
Why is it important to go there?
How did this author, when living a relatively secluded life in a cabin in the woods, learn astral projection?
How does the astral body fly?
Is it possible to project into the future on the astral plane?
How can a person develop the continuity of consciousness necessary to function in the invisible worlds?

There is scientific evidence that perception and existence beyond the limits of the physical body are possible. Astral Odyssey is a quest for answers about the true nature of reality. Astral Odyssey is a magical journey through alternative states of consciousness of which little is known, in search of a true, complete self.

Although the destination of this strange adventure is an arbitrary location outside the physical body, and the vehicle used to transport awareness to the astral world is the astral body, the various realms encountered along the route comprise much of the fundamental purpose of the voyage. The invisible domains explored as Astral Odyssey progresses include a diverse assortment of dream worlds, the mysterious pathways of the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states, and the intriguing enigma of the astral plane. All of these mysterious realms are essential experiences to the development of the continuity of consciousness necessary to reach the ultimate goal of interaction with the higher self and a deeper understanding of self in relation to reality.

Departing from physical reality, Astral Odyssey delves into dream worlds, explaining what they are, how to function in them, and how to use them to awaken consciousness to normally inconspicuous emotional difficulties, problem solutions, creative powers, and extrasensory perception.

Astral Odyssey then explores the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states, precarious links bridging the gap between physical reality and the invisible worlds, and discovers a complex network of connections to a multiformity of obscure dimensions. Passageways are found to creative inspiration, mental projection, transition state ESP, dual consciousness, lucid dreams, and out-of-body experiences (OBEs).

Astral Odyssey continues with an expedition to the astral world, presented with detailed, vivid descriptions of sights, sounds, impressions, feelings, and situations, often strange, sometimes humorous, and occasionally frightening. This fantastic realm is resplendent with a wealth of wondrous experiences as well as inexplicable peculiarities.

Astral Odyssey is much more than an expository work taken from years of meticulous notes on dimensions beyond the physical world-it is a handbook of complete instructions, sound advice, practical applications, and well-documented scientific evidence.

For readers who wish to experience the invisible worlds first hand, Astral Odyssey offers explicit instructions on how to reach these ephemeral regions, with discussions of potential real or imagined dangers and obstacles and how to avoid them. It is a guidebook for astral travelers, written by an experienced wayfarer of nonphysical reality, explaining in clear, easily understood language, exactly how to master the various states of consciousness that lead to self-induced, fully conscious out-of-body experiences.

To emphasize the explicit instructions provided, Astral Odyssey demonstrates, with mental routes, the placement of the invisible worlds in relation to each other and the physical world. The pathways from physical waking consciousness, through the hypnagogic state, and into alternative states of awareness are clearly delineated through the use of the hypothetical models of the dream continuum, the OBE continuum, the four levels of awareness (conscious, subconscious, unconscious, and superconscious), and the higher self.

Besides offering step-by-step instructions, and providing guidelines to follow, Astral Odyssey shows how invaluable information may be obtained from the invisible worlds and used in the physical world to make life richer, more harmonious, more aesthetic and intellectual, and more meaningful. Claims are supported on an academic level by carefully researched and documented scientific studies. The search into alternative realities reveals a self that is much more than a highly evolved biological form that has developed a brain large enough to question its place in the universe. By focusing on the total self, Astral Odyssey is instrumental in releasing the unbelievable potentials that lie within the reach of each person who dares to take the first step over the brink of the material world and into the chasms of nonphysical reality.

Through the discovery of some of the multidimensional facets of the relationship between human existence and the universe, Astral Odyssey leads to an appreciation of the true significance of life and our role as creative, rational, emotional, spiritual beings.

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