Could someone please give me more details as to the differences between a classic OBE and the phasing that the Monroe Institute and Bruce Moen talk about?

Is phasing easier to achieve and more flexible? Are there disadvantages to phasing when compared to OBE's or is it superior in every way?

"Phasing" basically just means to shift one's awareness from one consciousness area to another (Monroe invented this term). Insofar a classic OBE is as well a phasing process. But to shift your awareness from the physical to the nonphysical doesn't require having a classic OBE (separation symptoms, having a different, flexible body, no sensations of the physical body). It's possible to focus on another consciousness area while one still is aware of the physical. This is, it seems, much easier for most people than to achieve an OBE. However, in my experience, the amount of doubt, at least for the beginner, is higher in non-OBE-phasing, because it's very much like one imagines something, or having a daydream, while an OBE is a hammer of an experience. You have read Kepple, and his approach was to first imagine a scene, walking a path up to a locale which symbolized the nonphysical (non private, but public, so to say) reality, and he did it with such intensity that finally, when he made the last step, he wasn't conscious of his physical body anymore, so that he finally had an OBE, though not in the "classic" way as Robert A. Monroe described it in his first book.

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