Adventures beyond the Body
About This Book
William Buhlman's Adventures beyond the Body is the most comprehensive and practically grounded modern guide to out-of-body experience available in any language — combining Buhlman's own extensive personal record of OBE exploration with his systematic research into OBE reports from thousands of practitioners who participated in his surveys, and presenting the result as both a compelling account of what is encountered in the non-physical dimensions and a practical manual for achieving reliable out-of-body access. Buhlman brings to this work the dual credentials of someone who has logged thousands of hours of personal OBE practice over three decades and a researcher who has organised the largest systematic survey of out-of-body experiences conducted to date.
The book's structure moves from personal testimony through theoretical framework to practical technique — beginning with Buhlman's own early experiences and their gradual development into reliable, consistent practice, proceeding through his theoretical understanding of the structure of the non-physical dimensions (which he presents as a series of energy environments of progressively decreasing density), and culminating in detailed practical guidance for anyone seeking to develop the ability to leave the physical body consciously and explore the non-physical dimensions with awareness and purpose. The appendix on OBE survey findings is particularly valuable: the systematic comparison of what thousands of practitioners independently reported provides a form of evidence for the reality and consistency of the out-of-body experience that single-person accounts alone cannot match.
What You'll Learn
• Follow Buhlman's personal development as an OBE practitioner: from his first spontaneous experiences through the gradual development of reliable induction techniques, the progressive exploration of different non-physical environments, and the deepening of his understanding of what the OBE reveals about the nature of consciousness
• Understand the multi-dimensional model Buhlman develops from his research: the different energy environments (from the dense 'real-time zone' close to the physical through progressively subtler dimensions), their characteristic qualities, and what he understands about the relationship between these dimensions and the various planes described in other traditions
• Learn Buhlman's induction techniques: the affirmation method, the target technique, the repetitive motion technique, and the demand method — with specific guidance for each and assessment of which tends to work best for which types of practitioners
• Grasp the research dimension: what Buhlman's surveys of thousands of OBE practitioners revealed about the consistent features of out-of-body experience across independent reporters, how these consistent features compare with what other researchers have documented, and what the statistical pattern of OBE reports suggests about the nature of the phenomenon
• Appreciate the spiritual implications Buhlman draws: how the personal experience of existing as awareness independent of the physical body transforms one's understanding of identity, death, and the nature of consciousness — producing, as he demonstrates through survey data, the same reliable increase in spiritual perspective and decrease in fear of death that near-death experiences produce
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