I understand that the Monroe Institute uses binaural beats to get people "out of body"

I myself have been using various binaural beat meditation cds for a long time now and in all these years have never managed to get out of body in the way described by Monroe, Bruce and others.

Very rarely I have had a lucid dream, and one time on my own without binarual beats I managed to have an experience of rolling out of my body into the living room via the astral body, although not very lucid

At this point I am still somewhat agnostic about the afterlife and out of body experiences, I hear all these people claiming they are very real yet I havent been able to get there myself so I am somewhat reserved about whether or not they are actually real or just due to vivid imagination

The only thing keeping me going in my meditations and spiritual striving is the open mindedness that what people like Bruce and Robert Monroe are claiming could actually be real...... In all honesty I really hope it is- The freedom for exploration would be immense and very rewarding I can imagine

Besides using binaural beats and visualisation what else helps with gaining a lucid "life like" out of body experience?