Hi recoverer,
this snapping back into my physical body in my experiences happens when I feel I go with another body. This happens mostly when I am experimenting at the sleep/dream border. The advantage of this kind of journeying is for me a more vivid, bodily, real feeling. But the payoff is this sudden snapping back, feels like a sort of shock, and often the experience is cut then. I'm a newbie to this method.
With the other method, the TMI/Moen method (so I call it) I am more or less aware of my body and fully awake-minded, there is no sudden snapping back, just gentle phasing of the focus of awareness. In this state I'm just a viewpoint, if I want a body, I need to imaginate one, it's like an agent or image then.
Spooky

I've never met anybody who can actually control the return to the body..or I should say the sensation of coming back into C1 area. I think I did read where Monroe "forced" himself to stay out longer; I think it was Monroe.
once I was expecting to just return from a retrieval, but a guide said I could stay out a little longer. I know there were guides there, but I couldn't see them after the retrieval and I just wandered around in this ethereal place, looked like the house where the retrieval had taken place, then morphed into a future house I would move into. finally, some guides said to come into this other room; and like recoverer, they fed me, but it wasn't exactly food! lol. 

I don't consider your process to be a stumbling block..but I do have one method you might try during your waking state, your daily thoughts...is to imagine what it would be like to be in the spiritual areas as, well, maybe a spirit, or a curl. what do they do all day? seems like silly question, but I used to wonder these things. also to imagine what it's like to not have to breath air, not have to use the bathroom, not have to eat...you know what I'm getting at...to be alive but not have a physical body which requires care and attention for it's survival. that sort of thing is just exercising curiosity...but it tends to take you into a dream landscape where you can get the answers about it. love, alysia

I've been wondering about something similar. What's it like to be the lead/overall consciousness of a disk? Not that I want to take charge (not that such a thing is possible). I'm just curious about how vast and comprehensive such an awareness is.

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I don't consider your process to be a stumbling block..but I do have one method you might try during your waking state, your daily thoughts...is to imagine what it would be like to be in the spiritual areas as, well, maybe a spirit, or a curl. what do they do all day? seems like silly question, but I used to wonder these things. also to imagine what it's like to not have to breath air, not have to use the bathroom, not have to eat...you know what I'm getting at...to be alive but not have a physical body which requires care and attention for it's survival. that sort of thing is just exercising curiosity...but it tends to take you into a dream landscape where you can get the answers about it. love, alysia [/quote]

This might be a bit out of topic, but i'll make it quick and apologize : God must be like the disk that holds all the other disks. Like the probe we are to our own disk. How does God look / feel like? Has anyone gotten that far?