One of my greatest pleasures in life is writing up an OBE in the morning, this morning, however, I don’t remember any. I do think it is important not to feel frustrated if we try but don’t manage to have an out-of-body experience. Getting frustrated can have a negative effect.

Dreams can be profound too and give us much-needed messages and wisdom. I have a lot of dreams during the night, I love dreaming too, in fact it was my dreaming that got me on the road to astral projection. As I went deeper into my dreams, trying to understand them, so my mindset slowly changed.

One very important lucid dream I had during this period was where I was sitting inside my head with my guide, we were sitting on a rubbish tip. My guide was pointing out all the stuff I needed to throw out in order to clear some space in my head. This reminds me of a quote by William Buhlman:

“During out-of-body exploration we confront many interesting experiences; these include vibrational state fears, thought forms, self made and external energy creations, contact with non-physical inhabitants and countless other issues. However, the single most pervasive issue we experience is our own indoctrinated mindset and state of consciousness. Our perception of reality is distorted by a collection of falsehoods and beliefs and complicated even further by our grossly inaccurate form based self-image. Our ability to effectively explore thought responsive realities is often blocked by our own conscious and subconscious mind.”  William Buhlman, William’s site is astralinfo.org

My lucid dream was telling me in a very clear way that if I wanted to progress I needed to unblock my mind. This is often the reason why our OBE attempts may not be successful. It is a continual process, even before we go to sleep we need to clear our minds of thoughts that may interfere with our intentions to OBE. All those thoughts we have running round in our heads, thoughts about the day passed, the next day, a film on tv  etc. can drive our dreaming mind crazy; we have to shut them down or at least put them on hold. The way I try to put it all on hold is to tell myself I can’t do anything about it all now while in bed trying to sleep. If I have a problem I may well get an answer in a dream but if my mind isn’t clear my dreams may turn out a jumbled mess.

Robert Bruce had a similar experience, he was instructed by a master to take his belief system apart and then rebuild it based on personal experience, common sense and logic. He calls this process the ‘Catch Basket Concept’ and you can read more about this on this site Astral Dynamics. It is so important to look at your beliefs continuously and examine them, there is so much going on in our world at the moment that it is easy to be influenced by the constant hammering we are getting from all angles about what we should believe. To base our beliefs on personal experience, common sense and logic is good advice.

The astral is a very ‘reactive’ environment, and will often reflect our beliefs so we must bear this in mind when we are out there and when examining our experiences, we may also be influenced by the collective human experience. We are all connected by a field of energy, and because of this we can pick up on information from other lives, from other cultures throughout history, every thought, word and deed is recorded and accessible, imagine the wealth of information and experiences, it is truly mind-blowing.

It is inevitable that our beliefs will influence our out-of-body experiences so it is important to be able to recognise this and work with it, always willing to change our beliefs if we feel they are no longer valid for us. I am reminded of part of a quote by Bruce lee.

“Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water…………..Be water, my friend.”

Thank you for reading/listening,

Happy travels!