The Path of the Soul

I was reading some posts at the Astral Pulse forum, and came across a thread discussing another technique for OBE, called the Vehram Method. The discussion was quite exciting around it, so I've decided to check it out, bought it and gave it a try. It was only $10, so it won't break my bank if it doesn't work.

The program basically advocates reaching an OBE using 3 main stages. The first stage is to place the body in the proper hypnagogic state. I've started with this two nights ago. Basically the first step involves auto-programming of the body to wake up at given times. Once you awakened during the night and you're still groggy and ready to go back to sleep, it's very easy apparently to get into hypnagogic state, meaning mind awake and body asleep.

Well for me it seems that this step worked quite nicely. Both nights I tried this, I woke up not once, but 2-3 times, lol. I slept very lightly throughout both nights, and funnily enough, I was not sleepy at all during the next day. Maybe it has to do with the fact that you actually program your body to wake up, rather than being woken up suddenly by an external factor, so the body uses its internal alarm clock to put itself in the waking position. When I went to sleep I used strong cues and feelings for this. I put myself in a state of light alert (re-living the feeling that I used to have whenever I had to catch a plane early in the morning, meaning that I had to wake up in the night, usually around 2 am. The fear of missing the plane is a strong motivator indeed!).

I managed to achieve this waking up both nights I tried it. What didn't work so far is step 2, trying to bring my body into hypnagogic state. The more I tried, the more I became wide awake and had trouble getting closer to falling back asleep. Maybe instead of really trying, I will have to simply let myself go back to sleep. But then the problem is to retain the consciousness of the mind, while my body does go back to sleep. Oh troubles...I'll have to sort this one out somehow...

What I really liked about this book is the way it was in detailed explained the process of going into hypnagogic state, of how one should really feel. I've never read anything like this before. Everything else is usually dry, telling the facts, the mechanics of it. Here you could actually feel as you were reading along. You know exactly what you're supposed to feel when you're getting there using the trick the author describes in the book. Now that step 1 is done and I could achieve it twice in a row, I will try out the next step and will report back.

Note: after posting this, I've checked out the thread on Astral Pulse about the system. This sentence caught my eyes:

"Due to an intense desire to practice the system, I am waking up more than 5 times a night now, with no signs of sleep deprivation."

Yes, I think I'm on the right track here...