Hmmm, interesting. I've read the book twice and didn't remember this so looked on page 212 and read the whole description where he explains it better. I've never tried this and don't know anyone who has but I feel I understand what he's talking about. You've been OBE Vicky. Have you ever tried this?

Love, Mairlyn

Hi people,
tried this method RAM told in his first book about twenty ears ago, and later sometimes and it had quite some effect. There was a kind of electric energizing building up but couldn't separate from the physical body. This thing with the angle-pressure, where you should move the focus point farther away, that's interesting. I reread it today and realized I did it different than described, I moved the focus point "infinitely" far away (angle would be zero then) and bet it then above my head in the body axis.
However, Monroes description isn't well (sorry RAM maybe it's the German translation). For example, if I got it right so far, the angle of 30 degrees would mean the focus point would be only about 0.65 ft (20cm) away from the face (when the distance would be 2m/6.5ft the angle would be about 4 degrees). So, I don't know if I really got what he meant.





Spooky

I like your drawing Spooky. Are you a draftsman?

Love, Mairlyn

Ok, so the things I said about the shell are hypothetical, but overall it might help someone who is having trouble getting out, even tho they feel the initial vibration. Perhaps if they just experiment with adjusting the length of their focus point just a little bit, nearer, then farther, to find that perfect place when it activates >>something,<< .  Perhaps that's all they need, rather than changing big patterns of behaviour.
bets

Greetings,
You're right, I can't, it's just the idea that only slight variations in the eyes might be all that's needed to send you out.
....But if it were   31.4... degrees, wouldn't that also be an extra stamp of approval from the Universe that yes, we are working with the very basic structure of how things are meant to be ?    I wouldn't have mentioned it except that your ^ over your = gave me the idea. 
Loved your whole diagram, spooky! I've never seen a clearer explanation of this method.
bets

This is an interesting topic.

I know that Monroe late said that his explanation was simpler than the event itself (Book #2, I think).
I also believe that he mentioned the body was in a north-south alignment during OBEs, which he felt aided in OBE due to the magnetic north.

My personal experience in this area --- LOVE THAT VISUAL ---- is that the movement initially sets up a feeling in the second body, which is then pulled upward and away from the body during the secondary phase of the explanation.

I think vibrations are not always common -- I feel swaying, pulsing and something akin to bathing in champagne bubbles.   

My dearest Bets

The loosening of the nonphysical is the funnest part for me -- like swooshing fine wine in circles before savoring the experience. The champagne bubbles are something altogether new. I was not fond of the "vibrations"  which, for me felt like an extreme case of sugar shock! LOL. As I became more accustomed to them, I realized that I could feel them pretty much anyway I chose and one evening, when they started, I simply pictured them as champagne bubbles floating me up and out.

There are many discussions on the various centers. Sad to say, I don't exit from any particular point that I am aware of. I just sort of step out. Even the vibrations are somewhat foreign to me, though I have experienced it. The buzzing, the pop, the clicking, all in my past, too. It is rather hard to explain, but I simple "do" which is more general than I really want to be. I don't associate any form of "effort" which seems to precipitate force. Once you think of it as a kind of force (getting out, so to speak), then it becomes an "effort" to get out. I simply remind myself that I will step out when I am ready...and thus, step out. I have also learned to project my consciousness to other locations while still bound physically. This is a new one..so I'm uncertain as to its potential. I am fully aware of myself in my body, but also aware of a second state which plays out in real-time (so to speak, as time is a costruct created by man).

As to mobility in nonphysical terms, I can experience myself in the "real time" -- walk around the house, take a "snapshot" and verify. I can shift to more non-linear time, which offers me more "now" moments and can experience the past and present and future. My current exploits in my mobility of consciousness has opened up a new door, with which I am somewhat astounded: auras. I have begun seeing auras -- the pink, and only recently a blue. I am not attempting to develop this yet, but I am also aware of those fields around me. My friend (some call them higher selves,  guides or such) told me that I needed to practice more. I expected to be able to see the auras from a peripheral standpoint or IMP them, as Bruce might say, but I see them in my direct line of vision just like any other object. My friend tells me that this is completely normal for what I am suppose to experience. So be it. The only "side effect" to this seems to be my "seeing" various entities in my home from time to time. They are not threatening, just curious. I'm informed that they are my helpers of various types if I need them. They arrive at odd moments and shimmer in and out of my awareness. I awoke one evening and, seeing an entity standing before my bed, walk through him to get to the restroom. I belief I uttered the words "not now" very politiely. I was so exhausted that I simply could not see myself sitting there trying to have any sort of communication.

There is much more to all this for me, but I don't wish to write dissertations on these experiences, which become very complex to explain, though seem very simple when experienced.