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difficulty developing your visualization ability, I highly recommend this technique as your best alternative. It is one of the most powerful methods available and does not require visualization skills. I believe the effectiveness of this technique has little to do with the time of day. What’s really important is your mental state: after three or four hours of sleep, your body and mind are partially refreshed and completely relaxed. This mindawake body-relaxed state of awareness is the ideal starting point for any technique used in out-of-body exploration. I discovered this technique by accident several years after beginning out-of-body exploration. One night, after sleeping about four hours, I awakened unexpectedly and decided to get up and read. On an impulse I started to write some out-ofbody affirmations. After fifteen minutes of writing, I began to feel extremely tired. Selecting two affirmations, I continued to repeat them to myself as I relaxed on the sofa. I continuously repeated these affirmations as I drifted to sleep: “Now I have a fully conscious out-of-body experience. Now I’m out of my body!” I focused all my energy into each affirmation, exerting every effort to make the affirmations my last conscious thoughts as I drifted to sleep. The following experience occurred at 3:15 A.M., immediately after my physical body dozed off to sleep. ]ournal Entry, March 7, 1984 I feel intense waves of energy flowing through me. A sense of movement begins—extreme, building movement. Instantly, I am at an oceanfront home. All I can hear is pounding surf. Everything in the large house appears white and fuzzy, so I say aloud, “Clarity now!” As I look around, forms come into focus. I am standing in front of a huge oblong table, eighteen feet long. The room is filled with shining people. They seem to radiate light from every pore of their bodies. Seven men and one woman come forward to greet me. As the woman approaches, I can see her smile. When she looks at me, vivid pictures begin to appear within my mind. The meaning of each picture becomes instantly clear. “It’s good to see you again. You have been busy.” I can clearly feel the warmth of her thoughts. The group gathers around the table, and I know it’s time to sit down. As I look around the room, it seems to expand with my vision, I can still hear the waves crashing and I wish to see the ocean. A clear picture appears in my mind, “You will experience the ocean soon enough. Let’s begin.” I respond automatically, “The ocean sounds beautiful today.” Soon another thought appears in my mind, “Yes, the ocean is wonderful. We take it for granted. Our visitors are normally unconscious. We will adapt.” There is a brief pause, then a continuation of thought-energy from the other end of the room: “There is much energy being directed into the dense regions. Those who live in the hard bodies are beginning to respond. There is much to be done. Those who are awakening from their sleep are searching for answers—searching on the outside. No wonder there is so much confusion. We know how tough the physical vehicles can be; we have all been there. The ultimate test is to recognize the truth while surrounded by dense illusions.” Spontaneously I respond with a thought, “There is too much expected and too little guidance provided. Why must it be so hard?” Another picture appears in my mind. I somehow know it’s female. “The school is firm, but fair. Each creates the lessons they need.” I look toward her and my thoughts just seem to flow. “But why so much ignorance and pain?” Another voice enters my mind, “School is painful for some, enlightening for others. Only experience creates wisdom. The end result is always effective.” I respond, “Even so, too little guidance is provided. Five billion people, and all are hoping and praying that what they believe is true. It seems like an ineffective school to me—all these people living in the dark.” Another voice appears, “You don’t see the whole picture, my friend. Time is an illusion. There is no rush. All are immortal. The very act of being is experience, and experience creates wisdom. Time is not the issue.” As I look around the room, the reality of the experience is overpowering. I can feel the table and see the room with absolute clarity. Distracted by the sound of the waves, I begin to feel an intense tugging sensation. I am being pulled back. In seconds I am within my physical body. As I slowly open my eyes, feelings of numbness, tingling, and disorientation quickly fade. Hypnosis Hypnosis is becoming an increasingly popular self-improvement tool. It is regularly used in behavior-modification therapy for such things as weight control, sports improvement, stress release, memory enhancement, and the treatment of fears and phobias. Recently, some powerful new uses for hypnosis have come to light. One of the most publicized and popular is past-life regression. Regressing patients to a previous physical life can help them uncover, experience, and resolve a present problem, fear, or phobia by going to the source of the dilemma. An impressive number of recently published hypnotic regressions have reported obtaining verifiable information from past centuries, including names, dates, places, and events. During several of the past-life regressions I’ve conducted, I have noticed a tendency for some of my clients to experience a brief out-of-body state of awareness, generally during the transition experienced between physical lives. Additional investigation made it clear that hypnosis could be used to induce a controlled out-of-body adventure. With minor modifications, the induction techniques normally used in past-life regression are generally effective in out-of-body exploration. The basic hypnotic induction can remain the same; only the directions after the induction are changed. Hypnosis has provided dramatic benefits for millions of people in the past decade. Now modern hypnosis can be used to initiate a self-controlled, out-of-body experience. Its benefits are especially evident in four major areas. First, hypnosis can effectively induce the ideal mental state for out-of-body exploration (mind alert/body relaxed). Second, it can assist in the control, reduction, and elimination of subconscious and conscious blocks, fears, and limits relating to out-of-body experiences. Third, hypnosis can be used to improve visualization, concentration, and meditative skills. And finally, hypnotic suggestions can be effective in triggering a fully conscious out-of-body experience. For example, the hypnotic suggestions “I become consciously aware during my dreams” and “My dreams trigger a conscious out-of-body experience” can substantially assist the dream-conversion process. Suggestions such as “After I enter sleep, I recognize and experience a fully conscious out-of-body adventure” and “Sleep triggers my out-of-body experiences” can be used to reinforce and enhance an individual’s ability to respond positively to his or her out-of-body techniques. 49