Muadib wrote on Apr 23rd, 2007 at 9:00pm:I searched the forum but could not find any results. I am curious if these are a useful tool to go OBE?
I've only had a couple of OBE's, and they were spontaneous. But i've used Hemi-Sync and consider it a good and valuable tool to tune into various different consciousness states, as well as just generally learning and facilitating that all important whole brain state. I would recommend Hemi-Sync, but not necessarily just for trying to have an OBE.
There is much more than OBE's. Take Bruce for example as he has written in his books, like others and me, he for a long time wanted to go OBE, but didn't have much success except for a couple of times. But later on, after dropping some nonconstructive and limiting beliefs and ideas about the nature of consciousness and exploring it, a richness of experience opened up to him.
In the early days of TMI and the Gateway program, if people went there solely to go OBE, Bob Monroe would sometimes advise them to take a refund of their money and to leave.
I've come to believe that sometimes people are actually too fast vibrating to go OBE in the classic sense. This (classic OBE) is connected to our etheric "body" and range of vibratory energy, and its a relatively slow vibrating state of being, just an "octave" above the physical.
When you function primarily from your higher chakras, like the Heart, Throat, and some occasionally even above that, then believe me, you could try your whole life to have an OBE in the classic sense that Bob earlier wrote of, but have little consistent success. Meaning some automatically phase into much faster vibrating levels of their being than the etheric which is the energy level you must primarily concentrate your consciousness in to have that more concrete feeling of being out of body. See, in a sense, you're still very much connected to physical energies then, and isn't that rather limiting? I'm not saying that its "worse" to go OBE, but it can be more limiting if you are more universally oriented.
Bob himself, in his early days was pretty much limited to etheric type OBE's, but later on learned how to phase into those more expanded states, and so the experience of the realness of physicality was left behind more and more. Not surprisingly, when Bob first started out, he was a much more materially minded though basically kind person. As he became more spiritual, loving, and aware, he phased into faster vibrating levels of his own being more and more.
BUT, if your desire to explore the nonphysical is strong enough, then you may have a lot of success doing it the Bruce Moen way, which is more via your faster vibrating emotional-mental and mental energies (and occasionally mental-spiritual energies in Bruce's example).
Sometimes you may first phase into your etheric energies eg classic OBE, but then at some point phase into the faster vibrating levels of being, which is what my Fiance has experienced a couple times. Meaning she would get that sense of actual physical separation from her body, and of being in a 2nd body, but then it would morph into a more mental and subtle feeling type experience without the experience of outside space and physicality.
btw, congrats on your experiences. And great books too (refering to your tag here).