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@LfcCharlie4 Yes, I worked with Ramaji and finished my RASA journey some time ago. I didn't know you are going to become a RASA giver. That's awesome

@Michal__ @arlin Thanks for contributing Yes, definitely. I guess you could say there are 3 ways of doing hypnosis: Going to a hypnotist Listening to guided hypnosis (alone at home) Freestyle on your own without external audio. It is recommended that beginners start with guided hypnosis (or hypnotist if affordable).

Yes, they do work while sleeping as well. Here is a study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00387/full By playing 3 Hz delta binaural beats during sleep stage N2, sleep stage N3 could be prolonged noticibly. In case you wanna use them for optimizing sleep, I recommend Jody Hatton (youtube and website). You pay whatever price you want.

LOA is definitely real. But it's more nuanced than most people realize, therefore they don't get significant changes in their lives from it.

If I had seen these posts 1-2 years ago, my path would have been much smoother and I would have saved a lot of time researching and doing redundant or very inefficient practices. So I'm sharing these posts with the hope that my past self reads them and then I'm gonna switch time lines

RASA and reiki are two very different things. As far as I understand, reiki is about energy healing and not about nondual awareness. I don't think it raises the baseline consciousness into non-dual awareness. Perhaps rarely. I've had reiki and I don't think 1000 sessions would have much impact on awakening. So I believe RASA is very different from it but that applies to spiritual transmissions in general. There are many other spiritual transmissions beside RASA. I haven't tried them so I don't know how effective they are, but I guess they work too. Most spiritual traditions attempt to map awakening and divide it into levels or stages. And every guru or teacher could be considered as helping you to get to these stages. Most charge money because they need to live from something. Maybe Ramaji and Ananda market and charge too much. But they are transparent and you can just as well get RASA from another RASA giver, they have taught it to some of their students so more people have access. I believe they charge around half the price. I think other transmissions do tend to be cheaper, if you are sure that they are just as effective you can opt for them. Or just choose other tools for awakening, there are plenty of options. @Display_Name @Tim Ho @The0Self Good stuff. I find such habits helpful for embodiment.

RASA @Psychventure I don't know about "heartfulness transmission" but I guess it's similar. You can find more information about RASA on their website: https://www.rasatransmissioninternational.com/what-is-rasa They channel spiritual energy which gradually removes the illusion of a seperate self and reveals the Self. Ramaji developed a model for awakening with levels of consciousness ( LOCs) from 0 to 1000. The 600s, 700s, 800s, 900s and LOC 1000 are the stages of awakening, as described in Ramaji's book "1000". Using intuition and muscle testing, they calibrate your LOC. Any model of awakening will obviously have many limits and flaws, but can be quite useful to some extend nevertheless. Many mystical traditions have their models, and Ramaji's is quite similar. The biggest issue I have with the LOC model is that it is only one-dimensional, it doesn't take into account what I would call "depth". When you have 2 people with a similiar LOC, their awakening is similar in terms of the stage of awakening (as defined by Ramaji) but can be very different in terms of depth (For example, Rupert Spira, Ramana Maharshi and Babaji are all at LOC 1000, but have very different depths of it). Just like with spiral dynamics, two stage green people are at the same stage, but they can experience stage green at different depth (the average stage green person vs a new age hippy). (Another limit of the 1000 model is that the facets of awakening do tend to happen in a certain order (hence stages), but that is not the case for everyone, particularly if you use psychedelics) So you can go up the LOCs only subtly dipping your toe into each stage or being full blown hit by it Thus someone in the 600s can be more awake than someone in the 800s, depending on how you look at it and how you define awake. Awakening has many facets (watch Leo's video "the many facets of awakening "). Each stage in the LOC model covers some facets. But every facet (or most facets) has infinite depth or degree. When I got to LOC 1000 I was conscious of all the facets, but only subtly. RASA is about getting you to LOC 1000, not about deepening a facet (though some deepening does happen with RASA). That's why the experience of different people at for example LOC 1000 is on the one hand very similar (because of same stage) but can on the other hand also vary quite A LOT in terms of depth. If you get to LOC 1000 through RASA alone, your depth will probably be only subtle, unless you have also done a lot of meditation. All of that explains why being at LOC 1000 can in some sense be considered "done" (because you got all (or most) facets of awakening), but from a different perspective, you are never done, because every facet has infinite depth/degree.

Deep sleep is no more "nothingness" than what you are experiencing right now. There is no difference between something and nothing. No difference between everyday life and deep sleep. The difference exists in the mind only.

Exhaustion For me, exhaustion has a very noticable effect on meditation. It feels like exhaustion makes the ego considerably weaker and resistance melts away. My consciousness is immediately more non-dual and I can surrender more deeply. Never waste your working out sessions, always try to meditate or do self inquiry right after it (once your pulse is somewhat back to normal). - Applications: deepen meditation before taking psychedelics (because it makes it easier to surrender) before doing hypnosis. Because increased surrender results in increased receptivity and suggestibility. to deal with negative emotions - Ways to reach exhaustion or a similiar state Weight training or running. Running has the most effects for me. Just running for 2 minutes as quickly as possible already yields nice results. DMT / Shamanic / Wim Hof / Holotropic Breathing Eating a large meal Fasting Being sick Orgasms (not recommended if you do semen preservation) Breathhold Music Dancing Sleep Deprivation

Good that you are reaching out to many people. It's just a matter of time, sooner or later you will find someone who can help. What are your biggest worries/problems? You mentioned these. I added some temporary solutions: -no sleep, no hunger, no thirst. Do you have no more need for them? Or do you no longer feel the need for them (while still needing them)? There are yogis who don't need any water, food or sleep at all. just to keep in mind. But i guess you do need these things but can't sleep (because of your mind?) and forget to eat and drink. Right? Then just artifically remember yourself to eat and drink. Mind issue later. - pain at the back of the head. Get some painkillers. - disconnected from people, lonely, no emotions. Remember, your situation is only temporary. But do try to reconnect with love. Over time it will get easier. - mind stuff, including: thinking you have permanently disconnected from your soul (which you have not), fear of psychosis, overthinking, ego identification, attachments, caught in negative thoughts,.... Believe it or not, but mind stuff is probably the issue number one. A lot of people posted good advice on how to deal with that. You could also get some medications . And just calm down. Give your mind a break. Forget your situation for a while. Go into nature. And very importantly, work out! daily. When you are working out till exhaustion, the mind becomes silent, the ego weakens and you lose resitance. So right after working out, sit down. And let go. Surrender. And then view your situation from that place. Your situation is TEMPORARY. Even if you don't find any expert that can help you, your situation will most likely have improved in a few months, or a year at most. So all the problems are only temporary. Your situation is very tough, but you can cope with it. Make a detailed list with all your problems. Then sit down with your brother or a psychiatrist or who ever you feel comfortable with and search for solutions for every problem. Come up with an action plan. And keep brainstorming and researching. Work on it. Keep working on it. And keep reaching out to experts. Sooner or later your situation will improve.

Some more Thoughts on Dream Recall - How to better remember lucid dreams: During the LD, take notes, describe what's happening and affirm that you will remember it Before going to bed, take any physical object and put it on the floor. Use a different object everytime. Before waking from your LD, try to link your LD to that object. Come up with a quick memorable association. Then upon waking, look at the physical object. If you made the association good enough, it will trigger the dream You can also try to additionally link important scenes of the dream to the physical object. At the end of the LD, visit your mind palace and store the dream there (link and associate the dream to a location in your mind palace) - How to better remember dreams If you can't remember, fake it. Pretend that you got the memories. visualize your reaction of suddenly remembering your dreams. Firmly pretend. Then think about simething else for a few seconds. Then gently bring your mind back to trying to remember your dreams. Keep it very relaxed, so that your subconscious has enough space to bring up the information. btw, the technique also works quite well for remembering anything in general. Train yourself to be conscious during deeper brain waves. While OBEing you have deep brainwaves. If you wake up and the transition from deep to normal brainwaves is to quick and you are not good at remaining fully conscious during that transition, you are more likely to not remember as much. - The Associative Dream Recall Technique I guess Part A (2) should be simplified, particularly if the dreams are not mega long. So you got your Dream-Object (which represents your dream) from Part A (1). Rather than giving every important scene an extra object, just refine your dream object. For example, you dreamt about a cat and you made a cat your Dream-Object. One scene might have been how the cat steels your socks. So perhaps put some socks onto your cat. If it ate your cake, have its mouth covered with whip cream. Etc.... So basically decorate and add to your Dream-Object. That can basically replace Part A (2). Now the Associative technique is quite simple. Just link your dream to any object. And make further alterations on that object according to important dream scenes. I've been applying that the past days and it works.

Well it was to be expected that an ordinary reiki or accupuncture guy won't be able to help you. But you ARE NOT out of options. There are countless people who can help you, you just have to keep searching and not give up. I can recommend these two people: Levanah Bdolak and David McCready. They are both very psychically skilled. I have had online sessions with both of them. Levanah ( https://www.clearsightaura.com/healings/) might be able to know exactly what is going on with you. She might not be able to heal you (though she made many miraculous healings. Sometimes it works and sometimes not.), but she might be able tell you what you need to do. And as I mentioned, I believe she knows a lot of people, she might be able to redirect you to an expert. David McCready teaches astral projection. In case you book a video call, just tell him you are not interested in that but want insights on what is happening to you. He might be able to find out. His video calls are somewhat expensive. If you don't have much money and tell him that and explain your situation, he will probably do it for free. Here you can book a session: http://www.greatsimulator.com/products/details/15/1-2-1-training And you can call him for free 07460447759 ( I think dialing code for england is +44) or write an email. These are the only people I can recommend from direct experience. But there are surely people who can help more. Perhaps other people here in the forum know someone. But do see Levanah. It will be a whole nother level compared to the reiki. I've had normal reiki too. That sounds pretty good, check that out !!!!!!! You have not severed any important spiritual pathways. Otherwise you would be dead within a second. You might have blocked or deactivated some stuff. But this 100% healable. No doubt. There are solutions to every problem. Keep seeking and you will find.

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It's rare to find a very good expert in one's location. Online sessions have more or less the same effect, so I recommend you find an expert online. And I do recommend you book a session with Levanah. I believe she knows quite a bit about such stuff. You probably were very spiritually advanced in a past life, were in direct communion with God. And it seems something triggered some past skills. Your energy sytem is very disbalanced, but it will probably balance over time. Particularly if you actively work at it. Just give it time. Do stuff related to the lower chakras. Why haven't you slept the past nights? Has your situation worsened? Do you feel like your body doesn't require sleep? Or is your mind keeping you awake? You are in the process of spiritually awakening. But it's very disbalanced. The ego is fully active. And it's too much for it. Your ego is creating a lot of additional problems to your situation. It doesn't like the current situation. Trust God and surrender your attachments to how your life should be. Thats a big thing to ask. But you have a mature soul, you can manage. If you stop ego worrying and clinging, you give room for the possibility for things to take care of themselves. That will probably help to rebalance your energy system. And do go see some experts. Practice tapping into love. Flooding your body with love. And have patience. Watch that video: You are going through a very intense phase. If you stay strong, surrender and keep going, Love awaits you Is Jesus speaking to you? Is he giving advice? You have very good intuiton, so you should be able to 'hear' (not with your ears) him. Ignore the sceptical mind and trust your heart.

The average acupuncture or reiki guy might not be able to help. As@Carl-Richard said, search for a kundalini expert. I don't know any but I can recommend Levanah Bdolak https://www.clearsightaura.com/healings/ , she is probably one of the best energy healers out there. You can have a skype/zoom session with her. She might no be able to 'heal' your seeious condition but I think she might be able to figure out what is going on and what to do to get back to normal. I believe she also knows a lot of experts, she might be able to direct you to the right one. You are usually the best person to help yourself. Keep trying to use your intuition to get out of that state. Contemplate what go you there? What exactly is your state? How to get out? What are the worst things about it and how could you deal with them? Your energetic system is very disbalanced. Perhaps a energy healer might actually do the job. perhaps do some microcosmic orbit. Particulary try to get energy from the head down the front to the navel region. While keeping the tongue on the roof your mouth. Your energy is stuck at the 6th chakra (region). like perhaps your soul retreated from the rest of your body/system ( Levonah knows a lot about such stuff ). That explains a lot of your syptoms, including the disconnection from people. Try to get yourself back in your body. Do stuff that corresponds to the lower chakras. watch movies, exercise and dance. Try to re-awaken your heart chakra. Focus on your heart chakra region. Bring loving light in there. try to feel love. try to feel love for the things you love about life. Then expand it. fill your whole body with love. And try to see the Self in everyone and everything. It is you, infinite Love. Try to be conscious of that as much as possible, that will reconnect you with your environment and people. Perhaps the following music / videos help. I am inspired / touched most when I visualize how a regular person suddenly wakes up to infinite Love. Ah, and definitely pray to Jesus. Ask him for help.

The Associative Dream Recall Technique Having a dream journal is most important for dream recall. But I don't really keep one. I find it too boring and it always feels like wasting time. Therefore I never had good dream recall. But dream recall is important, therefore I came up with something better. I believe it is far more powerful than writing down your dreams. It will also take less time and be a lot more fun. Part A is done upon waking up and Part B is done later in the day. - Part A (1) 1. Go through your dreams and associate each dream with a fitting object. Let's call these objects "Dream-Objects" Now, just thinking about the object will trigger some memories of the dream. Thus you can access your dreams later on. - Part A (2) Requirements: Scene-Objects. You imagine 10 random objects and make them your permanent Scene-Objects. For exanple: chair, toilet paper, dwarf, light saber,... You give each of them a number from 1-10. Now memorize them in the right order. Sub-Scene-Objects: The same. But 5 are enough. Don't take one that is already a Scene-Object. Trigger for a Sub-Scene. That could be another object like a pink pig. Or a certain smell, or sound. Continuation of the Technique: 2. Identify 10 key scenes in the dream. (0, 5, or 10 scenes. Otherwise you won't be able to remember how many scenes you identified for that dream) 3. Associate each scene with one of your 10 Scene-Objects in the right oder. Insert the Scene-Object into the dream. Combine it with the dream scene. Have it interact with it. The Scene-Object might for example be a toothbrush, and the dream scene might be you fighting a bear. Now you could change the memory such that you use the toothbrush to fight the bear. From now on, thinking about that Scene-Object (in combination with the Dream-Object) should immediately trigger the memory of that scene. So you will have access to all 10 scenes of that dream in the right order. Having the 10 scenes should be enough to reconstruct what happened between the scenes, thus you can reconstruct the whole dream in detail. 4. In case there is a scene which is very important, you can additionally add your 5 Sub-Scene-Objects to that scene. You identify 5 important parts of that scene and associate them with the Sub-Scene-Objects. In order to remember that you added Sub-Scene-Objects to a scene, you additionally add your Sub-Scene Trigger to the scene. Have it interact with the Scene-Object and scene. Now write your Dream-Objects and Scene-Objects (and Sub-Scene-Objects) into your Dream Journal. - Part A (3) (optional) Requirements: Mind Palace: You can take any real or imaginary place as a mind palace. Peal places are better. The better you know that place the better. Best is your house. Also fine are the houses of friends and family. If you run out of places, you can also take public places like school, church, hospital, park, streets,.. Continuation of the technique: 5. On every day, combine all your Dream-Objects of your dreams from that day into one story. So if you have 4 dreams, you have 4 Dream-Objects and create a short hilarious story with them. 6. Memorize the story and associate it with a fitting object ( = Story-Object). 7. Take one of your mind palaces. For example your house. Each room represents one month of the year. (use a different house for each year). Identify up to 31 locations in each room, and memorize their order. So perhaps starting left from the door and going once around the room. It's also easier if you always use 7 locations on each side. Today is October the 30th. So mentally go into the room which represents October. And go to the 30th location. Add your Story-Object here. Have it interact with the 30th location. 31 locations in each room is quite a lot. If you have enough mind palaces you could use one mind palace for each month. Or you jusy don't store every day in the mind palace, only days with significant dreams. Thus 10 locations each room will be enough There is also an alternative to memorizing the order of the locations in each room: associate objects to the numbers 1-30 and memorize them in the right order. For example use fantasy figures like Harry Potter, Mario, Yoshi,... So if Yoshi is number 30, you take the next best location in your room and link that location with yoshi and with your Story-Object (from day 30). Animate it. have them interact. But, I actually think that Part A (3) is needless/redundant. The magic lies in Part A (1),(2). I think you might just as well write your Dream-Objects and Scene-Objects into your Dream Journal. - Part B Part B is about using your Trigger Objects to recall your dreams later on the same day and some days later. You should take evey evening (or any time during the day) 2-15 minutes to: Use the Trigger Objects from today morning and recall the dreams (don't look up the Trigger Objects in your dream journal) Use some Trigger Objects from the past and recall the correlating dreams (you can use your drean journal to remember these Trigger Objects) Perhaps use every Trigger Object: later, on the same day that you created it and had the dream Two days later One week later Once a month from now on Taking 20-100 seconds for each dream should be enough. It is important that you are able to recall your dreams not just once when you write them down a few seconds or minutes after having had them, but also to recall them later that day and a few days later again. Writing your dreams down and then forgetting about them is signalling that they are not that important and once written down they are fine to be forgotten. But if you are able to effortlessly recall your dreams days, weeks and even months later, you are telling your subconsciousness that dreams and dream recall is very important. - Additional Information: It is important that you make the associations/links outlandish, hilarious, strange. Thus it will be easy for you to remember it Also animate it if possible. create short hilarious interactions. Put your focus on the right direction. It is not important that you for example remember your Scene-Object when you have the scene. You need to remember the scenr when you have the Scene-Object. So make sure you make the association in that direction I came up with the Associative Dream Recall Technique today (tonight, when I didn't manage to fall back asleep due to my crazy sleep schedule:D ), so I haven't field-tested it yet. But I used a similar but simpler version for school. Once you trained your creative muscles, you should be able to come up with good associations almost instantly or within a few seconds. So, with practcie you should be able to do the whole procedure quite quickly. A year ago I had a time when I took dream journaling seriously. I wrote down my dreams every day for around 30 minutes. I believe I would have achieved far better dream call with less time investment if I had used Part A (1),(2) and Part B of the Associative Technique. - Advantages of the Associative Technique compared to Dream Journaling more powerful saves time more fun and entertaining you practice your creative muscles and do some serious brain work outs. You remember many old dreams without having to look at your dream journal - Advantages of a Dream Journal saving the data on paper is more reliable a dream journal is better suited to identify your dream signs a dream journal is better for a very detailed description Therfore, I would still write down dreams to some extend. Perhaps spending 2 minutes each day of writing down a short dream in great great detail. And very important dreams should be written down as well. Spending 5 minutes less writing down your dreams and using that time for doing the Associative Technique instead, will probably make a very significant difference in your dream recall. Start with Part A (1) and Part B. If you enjoy it, add Part A (2).

Dream Recall - Benefis in oder to remember your dreams better, you need more consciousness in your dreams. So doing things that improve dream recall results in being more conscious during dreams, which increases the likelihood for DILDs If you forget your dreams, you basically tell your subconscious that this other world (dreams, astral projections,...) is not important. By working on dream recall you make it clear that it is important. Thus your subconscious will 'help' more to get you OBEs You probably have quite some lucid dreams every now and then, but don't know it because you have 0 recall of it. Dream recall is necessary if you want to remember your OBE adventures Even if you never get lucid, remembering your dreama still has value. Remember a dream. Now remember something you did 2 weeks ago. Is the memory that different? Lucid or not lucid, you have around 2 hours of asventures and deep inner learning every night. And you through away the memories. Find dream signs / commonalities - How to improve Dream Recall Associative technique (I will write about that in a future post) Dream journal. with a pen Recall your dreams during the day (15 seconds here and there can already be significant) Try to recall dreams from a few days ago use hypnosis Don't move upon waking. Relive your dreams Strong intention during the day and particularly just before sleep Affirmations, Mantras Before bed, visualize how you will wake up and remember many dreams when in a long lucid dream. recall all of the dream (within the dream) before you wake up. And store/save it. Light sleep probably also imporves recall, because you are more conscious (which also means increased likelihood for DILDs). For light sleep: lights on (but I don't recommend that because of Melatonin. but it does work), sleep sitting or in an inclined position, musik while sleeping, alarm clocks every few minutes, techniques for micro sleep,... wake up from REM preferably wake up without an alarm Sleep long and have much REM. Recall what you did yesterday supplements like vitamin B6 If you dont get lucid, I would recommend you rather spend time building more crucial skills like trance and conscious falling asleep. At least if you are mainly interested in WILD. Buf if you are interested in DILDs then dream recall is crucial.

The Key for OBEs The key is to be able to remain conscious while the body falls asleep. Then you experience the Void. No sensations. From there you can very easiliy induce OBEs. Or 'deepen' the Void for very deep non-dual states. How to get there: - A: Trance Work That's what this thread has been about. Deepening your trance till you get to the Void. The stages might be: relaxation body feels heavy body feels like sinking down the body might feel strange, funny and tingly unsure where exactly some of your limbs are body fading away full paralysis. You can't move your body, even if you tried full force No sensations, or barely no sensations of your body. Sounds from the physical world completely or almost shut down. Completely black, no funny lights in front of your closed eyes. Your physical body is now fully asleep and in theta brainwaves. But it can be very different for everyone. If you do an exit technique, the vibrations usually appear at 8.. They usually appear once you are at least at 7. When you listen to theta binaural beats, you will get some theta brainwaves, but the majority will probably be in alpha. The goal of trance is to get the majority of your brainwaves into theta (or deeper). That means your body must fall asleep. So when you sit or better lie down for trance work, know that the goal is that your body falls asleep. So the best time to practice is when you are tired. Choose the degree of your tiredness so that you are just at the sweetspot, not tired enough that you completely fall asleep (your mind included), but tired enough that your body can fall asleep. Good times might be just before bed, after waking up, or in the afternoon. But the best is to do a WBTB. Perhaps after 6 hours of sleep. The Timing depends on how easiliy you fall back asleep. At this time it is most easy. You are in REM, hormones are right, ect.. Most powerful moment (yet very short moment) would be immediately upon waking up (without moving). This could be considered a DEILD. I recommend using brainwave entrainment and hypnosis. Either guided hypnosis or doing it in your head yourself. What I wrote in the first post about the time required to reach the Esdaile State was very unrealistic. I oriented my assumption on Marco Lorenz's words that you reach the Esdaile State after around 21 times of listening to his Esdaile state hypnosis (in german). I multiplied that by around 5, but that is still way too little. First you learn how to enter the theta-brainwave Void. Then you have REM or light sleep. Then you learn how to enter the delta-brainwave Void (deep sleep). And then you can think about entering epsilon brainwaves. I don't know at what point you are in the Esdaile State. Or at what point you could have a heart surgery without narcotics. There is too little information out there. But I still think going to a skilled hypnotist might be a big shortcut. But I don't know. But judging by the videos I posted, it does seem very promising. So if you know a nearby hypnotist who can get his clients into the Esdaile State, definitely consider it. Once you are very good at getting to the Void, you should be able to get there within a few minutes, at any time (or at least when you are at least a bit tired), or even in less than a minute. - B: Conscious falling asleep That's the most straightforward. But I stupidly didn't realize that. Just try to stay conscious while your body falls asleep. I tried that when I first heard about WILD and astral projection, but quickly decided that this isn't for me because I saw no way how I should accomplish that. I tried a few times, got nowhere close and gave up. But I don't think it's as difficult as I thought. You just gotta keep practicing. Eventually you will get there. You also don't need to be a very good meditator (though it surely helps enourmosly), normal people manage it too (after much practice). You are just not used to staying conscious while your body falls asleep, so it just takes some practice. In order to keep your mind awake you can focus it on: sensations chakras visualizations mantras like " mind awake (/aware), body asleep" counting deepening your trance awareness of awareness ... If you monophasically sleep for 8 hours, you have one try each day. If you start setting alarms every ten minutes, after for example 3 hours of initial sleep (thus you have your deep sleep), for the remaining 5 hours, you would theoretically have 30 tries each day. In one day as much training as otherwise in one month. But practically, you won't manage to approach the awake/asleep threshold 30 times, every 10 minutes. You will often be too awake. But such a schedule would still yield FAR more progress than 8 hours of monophasic sleep. At least do a few WBTBs. If you set so many alarm clocks, you could consider using an alarm clock (app) which turns itself off after a given amount of time (for example 20 seconds). Thus you won't wake up if you are in deep sleep. But it comes at the cost of missing some alarms. But the big advantage is that you can try to DEILD every time. I wrote more about DEILD here: (If you are interested in DEILDs, you should read the book "The Phase". Read about the indirect method. Though, DEILDs become most effective once you don't need any visualizations but can use your trance anchors instead) The previously mentioned stages up to the Void also apply for conscious falling asleep. You might also consider getting a sleep tracking device. It can be very valuable to know whether you are asleep or awake, to know your sleep cycles, to know what impact these alarm clocks have,... I ordered the Fitbit charge 4. It seems to have a very good cost-benefit ratio. It costs around $150. This guy compared its accuracy to an EEG: It is obviously not totally reliable. And particularly when you do trance work, I'm afraid it could confuse a semi-deep trance (where your body is still awake) with light sleep. I started practicing conscious falling asleep around 3 days ago. - C: Micro Sleep If you practice conscious falling asleep, you will experience dipping in and out of sleep. It can be beneficial to deliberately practice to get good at micro sleep, because every time you dip back out of sleep, your body is more relaxed and closer to sleep. Examples how to practice: holding a hand up. Upon falling asleep, it will fall down and hopefully wake you up Like Thomas Eddison, hold a metal ball, which will fall onto the floor, waking you up. Intention to wake up quickly after having fallen asleep setting many alarm clocks to make sure you wake up. Thus teaching your body When I listen to guided hypnosis and am very tired, I sometimes automatically dip in and out of sleep (undeliberately). Practicing micro sleep is not necessarily required. I don't really deliberately practice it. - D: Lucid Dream Induced You (can) experience the theta Void from a lucid dream when: you wake up from it the dream completely changes you deliberately dissolve the dream Deliberately dissolving the dream content till nothing is left - except for the theta Void - is practiced in dream yoga. The benefit of doing these practcies is that you are hitting it from the other side. Trance, conscious falling asleep and micro sleep is like pulling yourself up when doing pull ups. Dissolving a lucid dream or trying to prolong the tiny transitional theta Void state between the end of a lucid dream and waking up, can be considered slowly letting yourself down (when doing pull ups). Like reverse engineering the process. And having lucid dreams makes the journey more enjoyable. To effectively practice dissolving a dream scene, you should be a somewhat advanced lucid dreamer. but to practice prolonging the theta void when waking up, you can be a total beginner. As long as the dream ends lucidly, you have a chance to practice (but tbh, it probably won't do much for your progress if you are a beginner). There are plenty of techniques to have lucid dreams. For example the above-mentioned DEILD. Most common lucid dreams are DILDs. Here I listed different tools for DILDs. - More about the Void It is definitely not necessary to reach the Void in order to induce OBEs the WILD way. There are people who can induce OBEs (with the WILD technique) with only having a small degree of sleep paralysis. Without deep trance. Unless you are very talented, this ususally means that it takes 40-100+ minutes of lying still. And doesn't have a high success rate, even if you have a lot experience. And being in REM is almost obligatory. For most people, all the exit techniques only become most effective once you are in full sleep paralysis. Even better is being in the Void. It also works if you are otherwise in a suituable state, like immediately upon waking up from a dream (and then doing DEILD). Full sleep paralysis could be considered enough, but I nevertheless recommend you have the Void as your goal. To be able to reliably enter the Void in less than 5 minutes, at any time during the day (with your trance skills. Your trance anchors). From there all doors are open. You can induce OBEs or do hardcore self-inquiry. Eventually you will also be able to be conscious during the whole night. Either enjoying OBEs or blissing out in delta Void during dreamless sleep. No more time wasted sleeping. Your spiritual progress curve goes through the roof. If you are interested in awakening, this thread might be interesting as well: I have been mentioning "theta" and "delta" Void. That's because the Void has different 'degrees'. If you lucid dream, you have theta brainwaves, so you have access to what I call the theta Void. The next step is being conscious during dreamless sleep. This Void is more void. But it's still not completely void, for example, many say having houghts is still possible. Here you have delta brainwaves. I guess that's as far as most buddhist sleep yogis ever get. But the next step would be having epsilon brainwaves. Hardcore yogis do that. There are not much resources about the Void and conscious sleep. It is mentioned (along with dream and sleep yoga) in books like: Dream Yoga by Andrew Holecek, The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep by Tenzin Wangyal, Dreaming Yourself Awake by B. Alan Wallace. On the internet, your best bets are probably forums. For example that thread: https://www.dreamviews.com/beyond-dreaming/142072-exploring-delta-sleep.html That website might also have something useful: http://www.swamij.com/yoga-nidra.htm (btw, when I use the word "Void", I use it for practical sake the way astral projectors define it) - Conclusion The important practices are trance work and conscious falling asleep. They complement each other nicely. I strongly recommend doing both. Practicing both at the same time is most effective. But you should also spend time focusing solely on conscious falling asleep. That's very important.

I recommend everyone read this book ("The Phase"). It's the best practical book I've read on OBEs so far. Everyone defines these differently. For me, the difference is the brainwaves. During astral projection you have theta and/or delta, during soul travel you have epsilon. Some people say OBEing with epsilon brainwaves is a completely different experience. Thanks!

Brainwave Training during every-day Activities I recommend listening to binaural beats (and other entrainment technologies) during the day as well. Just be exposed to it as much as possible. Listen to it while reading, cooking, eating, learning, working out,... If you use isochronic tones, then you don't even need headphones (though I guess binaural beats might be a bit more effective). The unexplainable store has some good isochronic tones. Listen to low frequencies most of the time. But some gamma is also good. Gamma is also important for lucid dreaming. While lucid dreaming, you have both low braiwnaves (theta) and high brainwaves (gamma, at around 40 Hz). And some activities - like working out- might be nice for gamma. But it would also be nice if you manage to get some theta waves (even) while working out. "Gamma Bursts" from iawake is nice. Listening to binaural beats while for example reading is obviously less effective than listening to them while meditating. So it obviously doesn't replace your trance routine. But I believe it is very beneficial to do it additionally. Even if it has only 20% of the effectivity of binaurals during meditation, you will still get far if you do it for a good time each day. It doesn't require extra time, it's just optimizing your current way of living. This is particularly benficial for training to have lower baseline brainwaves. Probably by far the best practice you could do for that.

Lots of valuable resources are here: Thanks @Yog

Totally obsessed indeed My go-to resource is dreamviews.com. Books are valuable, but by far the most nuggets I got from dreamviews (when it comes to LDs, for APs I recommend books). And I probably only went through less than 1% of the posts. A lot of nuggets still lying hidden there. There are also the best Guides. A must-read resource for oneironauts.

(OBEs: Out of Body Experiences include: LDs: Lucid Dreams, APs: Astral Projections and STs: Soul Travels) I bet I've listed some you haven't heard of: Psychedelics: You can materialize and take 5-Me0-DMT in lucid dreams and become enlightened or take sth like N,N DMT and have a fun trip. Meet ups: If you are advanced, you can go into other people's dreams or meet other travelers in dreams, APs and STs It is possible to induce full OBEs in less than 10 seconds. If you are able to go into the hypnotic Esdaile State and anchor it, you can enter it in a few seconds, and if you know what you're doing, you can relatively easiliy induce OBEs from there. For example Marco Lorenz can do that. It is possible to pull someone out of their physical body while they are sleeping. Marco Lorenz and Jonathan Dilas used to this with the participans of their seminars (I believe Jonathan is still doing it). During the night they would pull them out of their physical bodies, then astral travel together, and on the next morning share their experience and notice a huge overlap. You can talk with your guiding spirits, real aliens, deceased people, spirits,... Splitting your consciousness: You can split your consciousness in LDs and APs (and probably STs as well), thus be able to inhabit many independent bodies having independent experiences at once. This allows things like inhabiting a male and female body and then having sex with yourself. And most importantly, it allows you to experience far more in the same time. If you have an OBE for 5 minutes and inhabit 5 bodies, you experience 25 minutes Time Dilation: - In LDs: You can deliberately dilate time in dreams and thus experience for example 1 hour of dream-time in 5 minutes of Earth-time. It is possible but very difficult. - In APs: Time is relative. You can for example project to a place where 1h Earth-time equals 5min or 5h. For example Marco Lorenz once projected to a paralel reality and stayed there for 6 months while only 8 hours passed in Earth-time. (video is in german) Here I wrote in more detail about splitting consciousness and time dilation: OBEs during the whole night. Usually when someone has an OBE it is during the day or when you are in REM sleep. So you usually have alpha or theta brain waves. It is generally believed that you can't have OBEs during SWS (Slow Wave Sleep / deep sleep, when you have delta brain waves, 0.5-4hz). I'm not 100% sure yet but I believe OBEs are also possible during SWS, here are my reasons: I have heard several people say/write that it is possible and that they have done it Tibetan monks are able to stay aware during the whole night, including SWS. They (including the Dalai Lama) are aware of Awareness, thus a nondual state. So if they can be aware of Awareness then it should also be able to project onto a plane with a body. Soul Travles (STs) are said to happen when your brainwaves are in 0-0.5hz, that is even lower than what happens during deep sleep. So it's not only that it seems that OBEs are possible during low brainwaves, but that certain OBEs, STs are only possible with very low brainwaves. That means you should be able to project the whole night, 8 hours each day, that makes 29 200 hours after 10 years. 99.999% of people waste that time. Extra Time: If we combine the last 3 points: Splitting consciousness + time dilation + OBEs during the whole night we get an incredible amount of time which can be used for all sorts of things. Soul Travel: I don't know much about it but it is said to be far more epic than astral travel You can explore our actual physical universe and the past. This for example allows you to check in your direct experience which conspiracy theories are true and which are false. But you would need to be extremely careful, because it is very easy to see something which is not actually there but created or distorted by you. So you would need to be very advanced and do a lot of cross referencing of what other advanced OBEers report. Future. You can view probable future scenarios of earth. And you can see how different timelines of your life would develop depending on what choices you make. So for example you can preview the most likely scenario of what will happen in a week or in 10 years if you now choose job A versus job B. Explore paralell Realities Explore all of Creation. You are God so you should be able to explore all of Creation, be it past present or future. Escape the Matrix: All advanced OBEers I studied say similiar things about that topic. Their investigations made them come to the conclusion that we live in a kinda simulation, a matrix. The Matrix includes many astral planes, so after death, you are still within the Matrix. First you go through a tunnel and a white light, then you meet deceased people and some Guides, then after a while you get an amnesia shot and then are sent back to earth. That's the reincarnation cycle. Aliens created the matrix so that souls can have a certain experience, like being human. (There are obviously many many more Matrixes). All advanved OBE practioners I looked into (John Kreiter, Don Juan, Carlos Castenada, David McCready, Jonathan Dilas, Marco Lorenz,...) agree that this is the case, even scientists and people like Elon Musk believe we live in a simulation. Now, the matrix was actually a good thing because it allows souls to have a particular experience, but many researchers believe (including the OBEers John Kreiter, Don Juan, Carlos Castenada and Jonathan Dilas) that it was hijacked by malevolent aliens a couple of thousand years ago. If you know what they have planned for the upcoming years, it might be worth considering to leave the matrix. There are several possibilites: Don't fall for the Light Trap. Instead of going into the light after death, you search for a hole (which looks black) in the artifically set up grid and escape through it. OBEing allows you to verify for yourself whether this is true and it will probably be easier to escape if you are an OBEer, but it is definitely not necessary You create a double body while still alive and make it more and more solid (through having OBEs with it) till you can transfer your whole consciousness to it and then just leave your physical body behind for good and then try to escape the Matrix. Read John Kreiters books: The magnum opus and the way of the projectionist. Dissociation. Jonathan Dilas talks about that as another option. (you can google-translate his blog: Matrixblogger.de) Become enlightened. Religions tell us that you break the reincarnation cycle by becoming enlightened. It is believed that the soul will continue experiencing, it will upgrade to a different plane. The question is whether this plane is within or outside the matrix. Acashic Records. You will have access to the acashic records, thus to all knowledge become enlightened. Tibetan monks use dream yoga (LDs) to become enlightened Inhabit and control another real body. You can temporarily go inside someone else's body and live in it, as if it were your own. This is definitely possible. This usually happens in form of an agreement. 2 beings temporarily exchange their bodies so that they can explore the world of the other being. For example if an alien from another universe wants to explore earth, it can astral project to earth, but it can do more things with a physical body than with an astral body. If it happens involuntarily then this could be considered demonic possesion (if someone is demonically possessed they usually still have some control though) Download skills. Leo said that when you are super conscious, you would be able to just download skills. I believe you don't even need to be super conscious, it's enough to be an advanced OBEer. Do magick during OBEs which will affect your day-life and physical reality. Healing: By asking your subconscious, or aliens or guiding spirits, you are able to figure out the root cause of a disease and then tackle it (in case it has a psychological root) Have long whole-body orgasms And then we have of course the more well-known benefits: Personal Development: In dreams you are directly in contact with your subconscious. So this is obviously very valuable for any personal development work Fun Practice any skill Practice the Law of Attraction and make it more effective ... I believe OBEs are the key to mastering all of life. And the key to OBEs is deep hypnosis like the Esdaile State. I will soon make a post about that.

No, I haven't really found much resources about that. You will naturally learn it with experience .

@Toadie2018 If you are good at it, you can get into the Esdaile State with your intention alone. Currently, I'm not yet able to get into the Esdaile State. And I'm not sure where I'm at.