I don't want to sound harsh about Robert Bruce, but it is my impression his approach is a little high and mighty.  Don't know how else to say it.  The thing is, once you make it so there's so many "requirements", you are setting yourself up for failure by the intrinsic nature of how expectation plays a role in our belief system.  I don't agree that it's so difficult to project.  That's like saying it's difficult to dream.  A lot of people say they don't dream, don't dream often, or don't know if they dream or not.  We all know what the truth is.  If you didn't dream, you'd have a psychotic break within a week and your body and health would begin to deteriorate.  I have no doubt that everyone projects all the time, awake or asleep, they just don't normally recall these parts of their experience. 

It seems to me that people like Robert Bruce are putting the focus on the belief "I don't project, I can't project, but I want to learn to, so how can I?"  When in my opinion the focus should be on "This is something I want to explore and experience, I believe I'm already doing it, and I want to become consciously aware of these experiences."  If you changed your attitude to this approach, you'd have a lot more success. 

Please correct me if I'm wrong about RB's opinions on how difficult it is to project unless "requirements are met".  I know that there are many types of projection and OBEs besides just the "classic type".  In my opinion, if there seem to be certain elements that make up how we project in the classic sense of the meaning, then it's only because we're noticing these certain elements.  But to say that you have to control and set them up first or you won't project is really the wrong approach.  Why not just go the simple route...tell yourself you will project and then expect that it will happen??  With enough desire and the right attitude, you can get rid of those blockages. 

The first time I ever heard anyone talk about astral projection I was 15.  He said he had a routine of fasting for no less than 3 days and would cut himself off from outside stimuli during this time in order to mentally and psychologically prepare to disconnect...yadda yadda yadda.  At 15 I was impressed!!  How I wished I could one day be such a disciplined soul.  Well, it took me many years of trying and studying, and then finding out that it doesn't take all that effort after all.  And as far as belief blockages go...just the simple fact that you want something bad enough will take care of those blockages one way or another.  No need to think they are holding you back.  It's good to ask for them to become apparent so that you can work on them, but don't think that it's impossible to get what you want. 

I'm amazed at how much people read into something that is really quite simple in practice, but, to explain how it works is quite complex. Bertand Russell took a major series of volumes to explain why 2 + 2 = 4

Hi Beau: Interesting you should bring this up. When I did TMI guidelines I found out I have a residence on focus 21... it is a Greco/Roman portico... white marble... stone seats on either side a recliner... it overlooks a lovely blue lake against a backdrop of white granite mountains...