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OOBE decisions were left up to that part of me, as they had been, I would remain just as I was. I was too much in control—this left-brain “I.” What would happen if I turned this decision-making process over to my total self (soul?), who was purportedly conversant with such activities. Believing this, I then put it into practice. The following night, I went to sleep, went through two sleep cycles (about three hours), woke up, and remembered the decision. I detached from the physical and floated free. I said in my conscious mind that the decision to do is to be made by my entire self. After waiting for what seemed only a few seconds, there was a tremendous surge, a movement, an energy in that familiar spatial blackness, and there began for me an entire new era in my out-of-body activities. Since that night, my nonphysical experiences have been almost totally due to this procedure. The results have been of a nature so far removed from anything my conscious mind could conceive of that a new problem arose. Although my physical here-now consciousness is always a participant, better than 90 percent of such events seemed to me impossible to translate into the time-space medium. It is as if one were to try to describe music, such as a symphony orchestra with choir, and do it in words without the use of such technical descriptions as notation, instruments, intervals, tonalities, and so on. One can use such words as “nice,” “compelling,” “frightening,” “awe-inspiring,” “warm,” “loving,” “beautiful”—and be nowhere remotely near the actual description. You do the best you can. Which, I suppose, is what will happen as the attempt is made. I’m sure reporting Niagara Falls barrel-cruising was easier. My here-now activities posed another problem. None of the exercises and techniques I had been designing and providing for others would work for me. Psychologist friends have offered many reasons why they are ineffective in my case. The simplest one is that I just cannot get my left brain out of the way. I have been so deeply involved in the production process that my critical and analytical