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ASTRAL PROJECTION MADE EASY

E.J. GOLD

Gateways Books Nevada City, California

ASTRAL PROJECTION MADE EASY

Copyright © 2010 E.J. Gold, All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the copyright holders, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, internet publication, or broadcast.

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Dedicated to Astral Pioneers: Edward C. Peach (Ophiel) Paul Twitchell Dane Rudhyar and Aristarchus of Samos

Dr. Claude Needham at an Astral Travel workshop.

Introduction Something that has been missing from the Astral Projection literature for quite some time now is a simple step-by-step method that allows anyone to place themselves firmly on the path to these higher realms and the development of their own higher bodies. Astral Projection Made Easy by E.J. Gold fills that gap in the literature — and fills it very well. The power of this book by E.J. Gold is found in the simplest of elements. One of these powerful, yet simple, elements is the way he sets the record straight on the relationship between the Organic Body, the Etheric Body and the Astral Body. Efforts to project from the organic into the Astral are bound to meet with failure for the beginner for the simple reason that the Astral is not the next plane. Projection is accomplished from one plane to the next highest. Jumping, or by-passing a plane is not how it works. Or, as they say: “You can't get there from here.” However, the moment one redirects efforts to

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project into the Etheric, suddenly everything becomes a million times easier. Admittedly, anyone steeped in occult lore will be intimately familiar with this concept, which points to the second aspect of this book that gives it so much power. E.J. Gold is willing and able to bring the teaching to the student. Bringing the teaching to the student involves knowing the path from beginning to end and having the willingness to shapeshift one's teaching method to fit the audience. There are many very enlightened individuals that have either found themselves in their current enlightened state by what's called “the giant leap” — or, they may have just forgotten what it was like along the path. Whichever the case, they don't seem to be able to talk in a way that someone early in the path can relate to. Perhaps it is by the nature of his own path to enlightenment, or perhaps it is by virtue of working with tens of thousands of students over the past fifty years. Whichever, he has the ability to make solid contact with students and give them exactly what they need to make the next step. This book is not a travelogue. This book is

Astral projectors at the center.

not a parade of ideas in print to impress or amaze the reader. This book is a step-by-step course that will lead from the beginning to success. That does not happen by accident. That is the result of a great deal of work and inspiration. As mentioned above, the power of this book is found in many of its simpler elements. One such element is the notion that Etheric Projection is not the projection of the Organic Body into the Etheric plane. Rather, it is the transfer of one's consciousness from the Organic Body into the Etheric. The Organic Body is resident to the physical world. That is where it originated, that is where it operates. In the same respect the Etheric Body is resident to the Etheric plane. That is its natural domain. Efforts to bring the organic from the physical into the Etheric are doomed to failure. However, the moment one realizes that all the method calls for is the transfer of the consciousness from the Organic to the Etheric, then the impossible becomes eminently probable. The consciousness is not bound to the physical. The consciousness comes from a much higher realm. So transfer of our

Astral Projection Workshop dinner.

consciousness from the Organic Body to the Etheric Body should be most accessible. This leads us to the next so-called simple element that I find so impressive with E.J. Gold's Astral Projection Made Easy. That element is a simple acknowledgment that this is not make-believe and that the rules of common sense apply. How is it that application of the rules of common sense have any relevance in this circumstance? Well, if you have had the unfortunate experience of having a leg or arm put in a cast because of injury, then you will know from personal experience what it is like to suddenly find yourself trying to use a body that is weak from non-use. In order to allow the body to mend a break in the bone a doctor will immobilize the limb so that the ends of the bone stay in alignment. This is good for the bone. But it is bad for the muscle surrounding the bone. From disuse, the muscles become weak — they can even atrophy. Hence, after the bone has mended and the cast is removed, the limb will be weak. There is a simple remedy for this — exercise. Often doctors will prescribe physical therapy for patients with

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a newly removed cast in order to help them revitalize their newly healed limb and gain strength so that they may function properly. It is total common sense that if you don't use the muscles in your arm, the arm will become weak. It is also total common sense that if you try to use you arm while it is in this weakened condition, you will experience dramatically reduced functionality. If you treat the Etheric Body as an ordinary kind of thing and allow yourself to apply common sense to the situation, then you will quickly realize that, of course, when you first succeed in projecting into the Etheric Body it will be weak and you will have dramatically reduced functionality. As you work with the exercises in this book you will realize that each exercise is both a method of enabling your transition into the Etheric Body and a method of rehabilitation to strengthen and enliven the Etheric Body. It is this kind of simple, down-to-earth, well-conceived, holistic approach to Astral Projection that so impresses me with this book's true potential to help make Astral Projection truly easy. — Dr. Claude Needham

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E.J. Gold with training staff, Reno, Nevada.

Author’s Preface In this manual, you have the basic instructions for the easiest method of projection you'll ever come across. If you've tried projecting and failed, this book is definitely for you. Within its pages, you will find all the tools you need to get started on this exciting endeavor. One point that might be of interest is the question of why it is that some folks don't see their Organic Body when first projecting. Actually, they do, but there are three main reasons why they blank it out, make it go invisible. The first reason is that the Etheric is so heavily tied to the Organic Body that it cannot go far from it, which is why when we project with the Etheric Body, we don't try to move further than a few dozen yards from the Organic Body. The second reason we might not see the Organic Body with the Etheric Body's vision is that the Etheric Body is not tuned to the Or-

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Advanced beginner outdoor mission — Reno, Nevada.

ganic – its vision is not accustomed to seeing organic bodies in its slightly higher visual spectrum, and visible light is alien to it, especially when it's first visioning things on its own, under its own power. It has always depended on the vision of the Organic Body for its visual information. Thirdly, when we separate from the Organic Body under shock, such as an accident, general anaesthesia or being hit by lightning, we can easily see the Organic Body, but that's because we are not in the Etheric Body when separated by shock — we go directly into the Astral Body, and that body is quite capable of seeing the Organic Body, usually from above. If you can see the Organic Body easily during Etheric Projection, the chances are that you are already slightly in the Astral Body, which is great! It means you'll have an easy time all the way up the Ladder! Don't worry if you cannot "see" the Organic Body with your new Etheric Vision. As you ascend up the Ladder, your vision will improve

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Outdoor Astral run — Reno, Nevada.

rapidly, and you'll be able to see all sorts of things, and even through things such as walls and other visual obstacles. Once you're in the Astral and above, you can even visit other planets, star systems and galaxies and even other universes, where you will discover other civilizations, some of them far advanced from our own! You'll soon discover that we are very much NOT alone, and you'll have help from your guides in the Higher Dimensions! You have a Great Adventure ahead of you. Enjoy it. Peace be with you!

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5-up Astral Projection headband.

The root of all esoteric sciences, no matter what the outer form looks like or pretends to be, is to transcend the Physical Body, and by the Physical Body I mean the emotions, the thoughts, the sensations, beliefs, attitudes, strivings, yearnings, desires, seductions that go along with the Physical Body. The esoteric sciences take you on a series of expeditions, where you learn to move from one body out into the next higher body. You're not going to start out at the very top. You are at the top, but you're not going to start out there. Your consciousness is not actually rooted at the top. You're going to be taking a series of steps, called the Ladder of Consciousness, one rung at a time.

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Astral Projection Workshop.

There are no exceptions to the rule: you go up one rung at a time. The Physical Body is something that we assume that we really know everything about — we know what's going on with the thing, we know about our life, we know about our environment, we know how to breathe, we know how to move, we know how to walk, how to talk, how to think, we have complete control over our emotions . . . I'm waiting for my laugh. You've got to start somewhere, and where you should start is where you are, rather than where you hope to go. I'm going to introduce to you a science of out-of-body travel, outof-body experience, using a simple, proven, time-tested method which is absolutely my own. I invented it, developed it all by myself with no help from anybody else, and if you believe that, I've got some land on the Colorado River, $99 down, $99 a month — because, of course, I didn't invent it. Nobody invented it. Everybody who uses these methods got them from somebody. It goes all the way back to Ugg.

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Astral Projection Workshop.

Ugg is this guy that used to work down in the Lasceaux Caves. He used to draw bison on the walls. He said, “I'll draw bison on the walls of the cave — you guys go hunting.” One rainy day when nobody went hunting, he said, “Hey, I got a great idea. Want to travel out of body? Try this.” And it worked for him. Then he passed that along to Gogg, who passed that along to Mugg, who passed it along to Gwork. After Gwork, the method apparently got lost a while and was rediscovered by Gnorg. Sometime around the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, Ethric the Flatulent published the Target Method in a little scroll.

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Out-of-Body experience at an Afterlife Adventure.

If you examine the underlying principles of the esoteric schools you would discover that at the root of it all is out-of-body Soul Travel as a Being. That's the root of it. I don't care what it looks like on the outside. Underneath it all is out-of-body travel — but those out-of-body experiences aren't really out of body. What they are is out of Physical Body. It's a homocentric reality for human beings, and human beings are convinced that the Physical Body is all there is, and I can prove this because all you've got to do is watch Satellite or Cable and on every channel will be an infomercial about some machine that's designed to make your body really attractive, give you a six-pack tummy.

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Astral walkabout, workshop at the center.

When you're out of your Physical Body, you can bet your bottom dollar that you're in another, slightly higher, body. The next nearest body to the Organic Body, which is commonly called the Physical Body, is the Etheric Body. The Etheric Body is actually so close that if you adjust your eyes properly you can actually see what is called the Aura. That's actually the Etheric Body. There are ways of seeing the Etheric Body easily and clearly, using tinted lenses and other devices such as a Quantum Spider Beta-Blocker. The Etheric Body is a little bit larger than and slightly offset from, the Physical Body.

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Etheric selectivity, workshop.

The Etheric Body is as solid as the Physical Body, but it exists on a different frequency, a different Plane or Dimension within a distance of 1/100,000,000 of a micron. It's just as real and just as solid and just as tangible as the Physical Body in its own frequency. In the same way that, for instance, you can be tuned to 1410 on your radio dial. All the other stations are coming in at you due to what is called “sensitivity”, but you're not hearing them because you're specifically tuned to 1410 and you are actively blanking out all other frequencies. This is called, in radio terminology, “selectivity”.

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Is it real? Is it a dream?

When you tune to 1450, it's real to you, and 1410 is a dream. You're more or less permanently and habitually tuned and fixated to 1410 on your dial — that's the Physical Body, and this fixation is a result of many years of training and strict cultural reinforcement. Just a few kilocycles away is the Etheric Body. It's not that far, yet the ability to tune yourself away even slightly from the Organic Body seems very hard for most people. In this course, you will quickly and easily learn to re-tune yourself to a nearby higher body called the Etheric Body, using this simple Target Method.

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Online gaming workshop.

The essence of all esoteric schools is to provide for you a ladder of consciousness, on which you learn to dissociate yourself somewhat from the Physical Body and run it from a higher plane, a higher level of existence. When you've accomplished this, the lower Organic Body becomes what's called an Avatar. The reason that I encourage you to play online games with us is because it teaches you a different level of communication that you don't ordinarily develop in life. Our online Bardo Safari gaming teaches you how to actually operate a body from a higher level, and that's a very important skill.

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Nobody’s going to change your life for you.

If you always do the same thing you've always done, you'll always get the same result. If you never change, you'll be on the same path. Now the changes aren't going to come from outside you. First of all, the very first act of waking up is to realize that change is not going to ever come from outside. No one is going to do it for you. Actually, nobody's going to change your life for you. If someone tells you that they’re going to wave their hands and your life will somehow change with no inner effort on your part, they’re selling something. Your life is not limited to the body you're in right now. Part of your waking up process is to realize that you have a far longer life than just one Physical Body's lifetime, but your long life is not going to change from outside.

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Why bloody invent it?

You have to take all the steps yourself, but you're not alone – you have help and support in your journey up the ladder. The first action step is to transform yourself from couch potato to voyager. After two years of Research and Development toward producing an astral projection device, I had all but given up. What I wanted was essentially a "Bic Pen" of Astral Travel, which meant to me that it worked first time, every time, without fail. Then the "Big Duh" hit me. Why bloody invent it, when I could simply go to a Parallel World where I had already made one of the things, where it already commonly existed, study it, copy the formulaic structure and electronic circuitry, and make it here in HomeWorld. And that's exactly what I did.

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E.J. wearing Astral projection headband.

Using the Prometheus Effect, I traveled into a Parallel World where Beta-Blockers are part of daily life, and I had already made Astral Projection Beta-Blocker Devices. I located, studied and brought back with me an exact duplicate of the device I had made and used in that universe. What I brought back is called the Astral Projection Headband. It's a simple device, something on the order of a Zippo lighter, in the sense that it has very few "moving parts". The disks on the headband are Beta-Blocker quantum crystal radio high-energy apparati, mounted in series across a headband at precise distances from one another, and they are virtually foolproof, self-repairing and never need battery power or recharging.

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Headband with five quantum radio disks.

The Astral Projection Headband allows full memory of the voyage. It's not like dreaming, it's Direct Soul Projection, so you're wide awake throughout the Out-of-Body Experience. My first experiments were in the direction of "First Time Every Time". There is no doubt. The Headband works First Time Every Time without fail. The device uses five carefully mounted and spaced FrequencyMatched Beta-Blocker Devices which are detachable when cleaning the high-quality headband. You simply place the headband around your head as you would any headband, above the ears and across the forehead.

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E.J. with trainers Se and Ju.

The Astral Projection Headband can be one, three or five quantum disks. I have the economy model, the super economy model and the profound poverty model. The High-Quality Astral Projection Headband with five Highest Quality Beta-Blocker devices is priced at $225.00. I have also made an Economy Astral Projection Headband with three standard Beta-Blocker devices, one at the Pineal Gland (Third Eye) and one at each temple, at only $65 to make it available to those who cannot afford the $225 model. Then there's a Profound Poverty Model which is one disk at the pineal point, and that's $35.00. I’d make a “loaner” except these things tend to attune themselves to their owner, making them useless for the next user.

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E.J., lower right, demos headband.

One of the things about the Astral headband is that as you're wearing it, you can be actually walking around with one of these things on and it will slightly take you out of phase with the body so that you're kind of between the Etheric and the Physical Body. You're neither one place nor the other. You're actually just vibrating between the two bodies, which will give you a kind of a trippy effect. That's why I say don't drive with one of these things on. Don't operate heavy machinery or try to drive with one of these things on.

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Etheric Body demo, Astral workshop.

It's going to vibrate you into a space between two dimensions. You're going to get slightly offset from your standard physical reality. The more disks you wear, the wilder the effect is going to be. The Orbital, which has eight of the crystal quantum radio energetic disks around your head, are going to set you free to the point where you'll be fully inside your Etheric Body. The more disks you wear up to a total of eight on a headband, the more toward the Etheric Body it's going to drive you easily and automatically. The whole point of the Astral headband is that it makes the out-ofbody experience totally effortless with none of the grunting struggle to get out-of-body.

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Operating from a higher body isn’t easy.

Is it safe? No. I never said Astral Projection was safe. It isn't in itself going to harm you, but you certainly may not function the way you normally function, and so you might find yourself a little bit on the spaced-out side. I plan to show you how to actually learn the very basics of Astral Projection – projecting yourself, but it's not an activity that is suited to ordinary tasks such as driving a car. There are a lot of tasks that are suitable, but most of those “Astral tasks” involve simple actions, such as chopping wood and carrying water.

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No matter where you go, there you are.

Now, I want to just clarify that you're not actually leaving the Physical Body, because no matter where you go, there you are. You're still in the Physical Body, but you're also in another body, the Etheric Body. You're in two bodies at once basically. And the affect is a clairvoyant affect rather than a physical affect. You'll be looking for a physical affect and it won't be there. As you work in your very earliest attempts, it will seem to you as if you're picturing things, seeing things in your mind's eye, which is often called “clairvoyance”, but actually you'll also be there. It's just that you're not used to the sensations of the Etheric Body, so at first it might be hard to feel the change, but you'll soon master it and be more aware of the subtle difference.

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The Etheric Body has its own set of senses.

The Etheric Body has its own set of senses — smells, sights, sensations, emotions – same as the Physical Body. They exist in a slightly different frequency, different vibration, different wavelength. Eventually, as you get more practice, you'll start realizing that the Etheric Body is essentially the same as the Physical Body. It's got its own thoughts, its own reality, its own existence, its own lifespan track, its own emotions, its own impressions. It sees, feels, touches, thinks the same as the Physical Body does. All those attributes are present in the Etheric Body, but they're slightly different.

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Dr. Needham and Ellen Tisdale.

It has its own thoughts, but those thoughts are not the thoughts of the Physical Body. It has its own emotions, but those emotions are not the emotions of the Physical Body. They're called higher thoughts, higher emotions. They're not that much higher, but they're a little higher, and that little bit higher is going to be new to you. You'll have different emotions — emotions you haven't had before maybe. When you transcend the physical even accidentally, you do have higher emotions. Maybe you're listening to a beautiful violin concerto and you're transported into some higher emotional state that you just don't have normally, and you experience an emotion you're not familiar with. When you have a higher aesthetic experience, it generally is that you are transcending the Physical and going into the Etheric Body temporarily, often accidentally. Through shock you also can be transported into the Etheric Body, or even the Astral Body.

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Astral workshop participants.

There's a different time sense in each of these bodies. There are seven potential bodies into which you can be transported, in the same sense that you move into a house. But when you first move into a house, isn't everything a mess? There are boxes everywhere, nothing is labeled right, the movers left stuff all jumbled up. That's the way it is when you first move into the Etheric Body.

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Astral workshop group discussion.

Then when you move into the Astral Body, the same problem is going to develop. Nothing is in the right place, the cupboards are empty, you've got to go find your dishes, fill up the fridge, there's no toilet paper, there's no kleenex around that you can find anywhere, there's no paper towels, no cleaning solutions — you cannot find anything where it ought to be to save your life. You can't find the Ajax and good luck finding a counter sponge. Always elusive when you first move into the Etheric and Astral is the counter sponge that you really want so badly. You now must find the Astral equivalent of Safeway. Get a sponge, bring it back somehow to your new home.

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Everything is slightly different.

You'll have many adjustments to make. Those adjustments can actually have consequences in the physical as well. In addition to which, you'll have a slightly different body shape — the Etheric Body shape is not the same as the Physical Body shape. You'll move differently, feel differently, everything will be slightly different. The Etheric Body tends to be very much slimmer; it passes through walls easily, which can be very disturbing unless you are used to it.

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Jaunting is part of Astral travel.

The Astral Body is only one step up from the Etheric Body, and in that slightly higher form, you will have “jaunting” effects, where you are in one location one moment, and then suddenly, without actually traveling to it, you're in another location, very much like the quantum effect of multiple locations of subatomic particles. That can be very disturbing and disorienting at first, but eventually you'll grow to endure voluntary bilocation and possibly even enjoy the “doppelganger effect”. The “bilocation effect” is directly related to phenomena observed in photons, electrons, hadrons and leptons, and which is also observable in neural activities of the brain and nervous system. It is this effect which makes Astral travel possible.

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Operating a lower body from the higher.

Learning how to operate your Physical Body from your Etheric and Astral bodies is like operating an Avatar or videogame character with your keyboard and mouse from your desktop. Actually there is a corresponding there because it’s the direct equivalent of a keyboard and mouse operating system from the Etheric Body to the Physical. Learning to maintain your interest while you're dissociated from the Organic Body is another aspect that you deal with because you'll start developing extreme disinterest in the things that are going on in the Physical Body, and that's not healthy. It’s so easy to just “let it all hang loose” — “turn on, tune in, drop out” is what my friend Dr. Tim Leary told people back in the day. But that’s not the idea here. The Organic Body is an important transformational tool.

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Keep an active interest in the lower bodies.

You need to actually operate your Physical Body from a higher body — the highest you can attain while still on the Earth Plane, and moreover, you need to direct it and experience its life and the resultant impacts of its planetary reality with some degree of high interest and attention, even if your identification with it has been cut, once you do achieve the Etheric Body because that is the groundwork for further ascent up the ladder. You're going to keep that anchor until you have accomplished all seven moves up the ladder. If you don't do that, you find yourself back at square one again. You need to actually keep your Physical Body active and functional during your training period. That's something that's not generally understood and can, if ignored, lead to total disaster and eventual failure.

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The Organic is at the root of your quest.

In many, many esoteric schools they're all sitting around, “Yeah, well, I'm out of my body,” but there's this huge black swarm of flies all around them. “Yeah, but it doesn't matter. It's all cool.” No, they’ve got it all wrong — it isn't all cool. You need to maintain that Physical Body anchor in order to develop your full ladder of consciousness. The concept of freedom is totally misunderstood. Freedom has nothing to do with escape. You can be in prison, and still be free. You can be nailed to a cross, and still be free.

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Etheric projection workshop demo.

Etheric projection is so easy to learn. It can seem elusive just because it is so easy to learn. It's like the alphabet. You learn the alphabet and say, “No big deal, I can now master language and math and science and history and geography and geology and botany and biology, and so on and so on and so on.” The alphabet is relatively easy but it's the very first step out from couch potato. The Etheric Body is relatively easy to attain and from which to control the Organic Body, but don't let that mislead you. It's not all easy. It actually requires a great deal of practice and a great deal of restraint on your end to not want to jump ahead. If you jump too far, you'll run up against some heavy obstacles before you're ready for them, and become discouraged.

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Advanced Astral training class.

I'm going to give you important data now which will help you to understand how you're going to accomplish this Etheric projection. And it is a really, really simple method. This is such an easy technique that you'll say to yourself, “Why hasn't anyone made this public? “Why isn't this generally known?” The answer is because generally nobody really wants to know anything about travel outside the Organic Body. Very few people do, because all your life you receive training, programming and powerful reinforcement to remain trapped in the Organic Body. I'll explain why later.

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Advanced Astral training space.

When you start waking up from organic conditioning, the first thing you want to do is to master the out-of-body experience, but it's so easy, so simple, that the average esoteric school does not want you to get hold of this technique, because with this technique you're free of economic ties, and they want to hold onto you, keep you dependent. My job is to get you the hell out of here and into the higher planes, totally self-reliant. That's my job.

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Any comfortable chair will do.

So in the Target Method, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to select a specific route along which to travel. This is just the beginning stage, your first tottering, faltering steps outside the Organic Body. Don't forget this is only the first method. There are seven different methods that we're going to employ in all — this is Method One. Select a specific route for your Etheric projection. If you're at home, and ideally, you want to practice this at home, start out at a recliner chair if you happen to have one. A bed can induce sleep, and we want to remain fully awake. Any comfortable chair will do.

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Study the space carefully.

Start out at a place where you're actually going to begin your projection. Maybe for the first time you're going to really, really look around and orient yourself by looking at everything that's in that space. Look around and orient yourself. Look at all the different things that you have in your home space. Just take it all in, make a study of your home environment. You're going to look at every single item in there and just mentally note that the teddy bear is over there, clock is over there, TV set is over there, the other TV set upon which the working one sits is underneath that. Actively study everything, including the covers and pillows on the bed, posters on the wall, lamp or lamps, all the items that you've placed within that room.

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Walk through your planned route.

Then you locate the exit that you're planning to use on your first little Etheric walk. Really look at that doorway, and notice whether the door has a nipple between it and the next room. You know what I mean by a nipple? A little miniature hallway or something like that. Like even if it's not very deep, or if it just goes right into the next room. There's a door and then there's a room on the other side of that, a short or long hallway, maybe. What you're going to do is get up out of your chair and you're going to walk to the door and look back at where you were just sitting. Look back at the door again. Now look at the next box in your route. That box can be either another room or a hallway.

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One “box” or room after another.

Then you're going to walk through that space, whatever that box is, to the next box or room. Now one of the reasons that I really strongly recommend that you take up classes in bluelining is so you understand how boxes work in the Void, because everything ultimately is made of boxes and polygons. So in one box there's a door and on the other side of that door is another box. On the other side of that door is another box which we call “outdoors”. Then across the compound there's another box which we call the “hallway”. Then there's another box which we call “a room”, another box which we call a “dining room”, and so forth, and so on. Box, box, box, box, box — you'll be walking through a series of boxes.

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Outdoor route, advanced training camp.

You're going to decide upon an exact route you're going to take, and that route should have at least six different rooms in it. That can include outdoors, a garage, a closet, a living room, a bedroom, a dining room, kitchen, bathroom, whatever it might be. You're going to plan out a route with six definite stops in it, plus your starting point. That's seven in all. Your starting point is number zero. You have six additional stopping points.

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Many “reading” artifacts line this advanced route.

You're going to walk that route three times with the Organic Body to establish it as precisely as possible. Note specific details along the route of every place you intend to pass through, every point along that route. Make mental notes to yourself, “there's a white couch over here, there's a maple table over there, there's a lamp on the table, over here there's a fireplace. The fireplace is painted kind of a grayish white, and on top of the fireplace there are three objects. Those objects are: a little sculpture over here, a candle, and a mantle clock.” You're just going to make notations about what's along that route. You should walk exactly the same way all three times, not varying the route by more than an inch or two in any direction. Precision is very important here.

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Planning the route — beginner’s class.

Then you're going to assign six definite points along that route. Those points are going to be extremely important to you. Let's review the plan: 1. Select a specific route 2. Go over the route three times noticing specific details along the route. 3. Assign six points along the route using projection targets

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Projection targets are visible in Astral light spectrum.

Projection Targets are one of the contributions I made to this particular science. I developed these Astral targets and this system of Astral travel back in 1949, but I've made some new color targets for the present system of Etheric projection, which are very effective. There's Target #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and #6. Now that is just the beginning. It gets much more complex later, but this is just the first step out. My targets have colors, forms, shapes and symbols and power mantras. I use a strange type of writing which you may recognize. Back in 1949, I could not use color printing — it was impossibly expensive and horrifically inexact. My “Little Wonder” printing press was more like a rotary inkstamp, so it couldn’t do the job.

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Advanced Astral training camp.

The preparation for your projection is where all the work takes place. I can give you lots of examples where this is absolutely true in every walk of life, every endeavor, everything that you do, and any craft and any art work, anything at all. It's in the preparation. Let's take something which you regard as very simple. Let's say you're going to go out on a trail and take a hike. Ninety percent of what you're going to do is the preparation for that rather than the thing itself, including getting yourself in shape, working out so you can actually take 50 miles a day if you need to, because there are times when something happens and you need to hike out real fast — maybe carrying someone who's been injured.

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AP instructors attend advanced training.

So you need endurance. You also need to know exactly what you're likely to run into. When you give a performance, it's not the performance itself that's really the effort. It's the weeks or months that go into the rehearsals that make the performance happen. Combat is nothing compared to basic training. Basic training should be ten times harder than combat. So, really, it's in the preparation. A carpenter knows what I'm talking about because it's measured twice, cut once. It's all in the preparation, having a plan, having laid it out properly, and if necessary, lay it out first on paper.

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Targets are the most vital part of training.

If you're a seamstress, you know what I'm talking about because it's not just about sewing. You don't just grab some fabric and start sewing it. It's all in the preparation. The actual projection is a snap compared to the amount of work you're going to put into it beforehand. You're going to lay the foundation, then you build your house. You don't build a house from the roof down. When I was in a Remote Readers' Agency, we were able to draw installations and give locations of a variety of targets. I can't discuss what those targets were, but we had targets that we were required to locate. We located them and we saw them in clairvoyant vision. Were we actually there? Yes, we were. We were in both places at once, Quantum Bilocation.

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Remote reader’s course.

When I see something at a distance, I am also there looking at it, even though I may have a feeling of remoteness, that feeling is not true. I'm actually at the target location. When you begin seeing the Etheric vision, you'll actually be looking with your Etheric eyes, your Etheric vision, at that target from that location that you're looking from. You're in the Physical Body, and you're in the Etheric Body both at the same time. So don't be fooled by that feeling of distance. The feeling of distance, remoteness, will eventually go away.

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Remote reader’s advanced course

There are a lot of expectations and preconceptions that can mislead you into thinking that you're failing when you're actually succeeding. At first, you might not “see” your Organic Body at the starting point. This failure to see organics from the Etheric Body can be a result of visual rejection caused by years of continual organic conditioning — it will soon pass and your Etheric vision will become clear. You'll be in two places at once, and as this happens more frequently over a period of time, with more practice, you'll get the definite sensation of being in two places at once, but at this stage, you’ll probably still feel more at home in your Physical Body because you're so conditioned to it — yet you'll be able to accurately report something at a distance of 2000 miles. How can you possibly report accurately on a distant, previously unknown target if you're not in that location also?

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Remote reader’s course

In our remote reader agency work, we trained with sealed packets. To prevent telepathic signals, nobody in the training area was aware of the packet's contents. Eventually you'll see it, smell it, feel it, sense it, because you'll start developing those extra-organic senses. Actually those senses are already quite present in the Etheric Body, as I said earlier, but you haven't developed a sensitivity to them yet. When you do become tuned in to them, you'll discover that the Etheric Body has its own set of eyes, ears, nose, throat — all the things that can go wrong with the Physical Body in a pollen environment. My art students will commonly excuse themselves by apologizing first, “I'm just experimenting.” And then they'll show their artwork. You turn yourself from loser to winner by taking that word just out of your sentences.

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Reps make merging easy

When you can actually see the Etheric image of each target, you are actually projecting, although you may feel yourself to be still in the Physical Body. When you Will yourself back into the Physical Body, the Etheric voyage will seem equally dreamlike, until the two bodies eventually merge into one after much practice and many repetitions. You're not at all surprised when you're doing a physical workout that you have to do a lot of reps — repetitions — to accomplish something, but you tell somebody you've got to do many reps to really get the merging of the two bodies, that's a little harder for them to accept, but it shouldn't be. We use reps — repetitions — in all sorts of training . . . dance, theater, art, body-building and even intellectual pursuits such as computer skills, chess and spelling bees.

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Etheric projection demo.

It takes repetitions to build up any muscles, and you're building muscles in your Etheric Body. Your Etheric Body must grow strong. By the time you're done doing these exercises every day, your Etheric Body will be very, very strong, and you will be strong enough to take the next step into the Astral world. Eventually you'll start projecting your Etheric Body and somebody will see you and freak out because they think they're seeing a ghost, and in fact, that's exactly what they are seeing is a kind of ghost, your Etheric Body — but you're in control of it, and you can project yourself out, and manifest your Astral form to others, even create telepathic sounds that they hear as your voice, long before you die.

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A safe environment is a must.

Safe conditions are a must for projection. That means no loud noises, no threat level whatever. When you're in your starting position, you shouldn't be hearing the sounds of gunshots going off fifty feet away, or the sounds of a car being stripped. You should try to arrange it so it's as safe an environment as you can possibly find under your particular life-circumstances. A very safe environment is necessary, and it helps to have a guide. I really do recommend that you have someone that you trust sitting with you as you do this, because you're going to use that guide in this technique anyway, a friend, someone that you trust, very, very strongly, who will protect your space as you're practicing projection. This is especially important if you are an institutional inmate, hospice resident, hospital patient or you live in a college dorm.

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Be able to park upsets for the moment.

Emotional stability is a must for projection. That means that if you're in the middle of an upset and you're thinking very seriously about ways to get revenge, or you're thrown into turmoil because bad things are happening in your life, if you're really bummed out, that's not a good time to start the projection process. You should really be in a very stable emotional space when you attempt a projection. If you do have an upset at the moment and you can't do anything about the cause of the upset, if the cause won't go away, at least temporarily suspend your upset. Just let it go for a while and say, “All right. I'm upset about this, but I can't afford to be upset right now.” Learn to park your upset somewhere and come back to it after you're finished. You simply can’t afford the luxury of an emotional storm.

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Let it all go when you project out.

You've got to be able to park your upset, at least for the duration of your exercise, because frankly, if you're in that exercise, there's nothing you can do about that upset anyway. Nothing is going to be constructively or destructively happening relative to that upset, when you're out of body. You're not there, so it isn't happening to you anyway at the moment, so why be upset about something that's happening to the body while you're out of the body temporarily? So park the upset. Simple enough. Lunar phases will profoundly affect your ability to project at first. Personal biorhythm cycles will also affect your ability to project, at least in the beginning.

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Know your biorhythm chart!

If you're a guy, and you think you're free of biorhythmic cycles you've got some surprises in store for you throughout your life, because actually, men go through cycles just like women do; it's just that men are not as aware of it because it's not as organically obvious as a menstrual cycle, but men will have up and down cycles. Everyone has cycles called biorhythms, and those biorhythms actually affect every living creature on Earth – everything from protoplasm all the way to the highest forms of life, like whales and dolphins. If you're not aware of your biorhythms, and you don't know how to chart them out, you're kind of at the mercy of the elements. What happens is that you get to a low biorhythm point and say, “I can't project. I'm trying Etheric projection. I can't do it! I don't know why I can't, but I can't, damn it, I can't! Bah!” And no amount of struggle actually works for you.

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Training at the center.

So get your daybook or calendar out and make a note: “Bad time. Don't try it there.” You'll discover that if you do that month after month, make a little calendar notation, you'll notice a pattern developing where at certain times of the month your biorhythm makes it so you can't seem to do it. You just can't, no matter what. If you keep track, you'll see it's always the same week in the calendar, when you just can't do it. You've got to realize that you're at the low end of your cycle and that it may not work at that time. Later on, you will transcend your cycles. Everyone will. You'll transcend all of your organic cycles. As you work more and more into the Etheric, the Organic Body will affect you less and less, until finally, none of its cycles are going to affect you, and that's just months away.

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Cards play an important part in projection training.

Target Cards are the key to correct projection. Before you attempt to project, get the geometry right, which means, establish the corners of the room in which you start. There are eight basic corners in a square or rectangular room. Everything's a box. You will soon start to look at everything from a blueline point-ofview, seeing each room in your projecting space as a box. Count the corners, top and bottom: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight . . . each corner is an establishing point, and the walls and floor and ceiling are all planar constructs stretched between those points. Then you will establish clearly the exact final target point.

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E.J. and Claude Needham conduct a training.

What you're going to do is now get up from your starting point, you're going to walk to your target final point. You're going to stand there at the starting point, where you’ve placed target zero, and establish “That's my target, that's what I'm going toward, target #6 is the final target on this run. That's my turn-around.” That's actually your u-turn, if you're thinking of it as a race. That's the pylon or flag you're going to orbit on the way home.

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Sit at the starting point.

Sit or stand at the exact place you intend to start. Relax, stay there for a while, give yourself time to acclimatize, to actually establish that as a starting point. Give yourself some time to actually make that be so. Establishing the starting point is so important that I cannot possibly stress it enough. Don’t be impatient to launch off into the Void — that will happen in its own time.

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E.J. gives Astral Body demo — Reno, Nevada.

Get up and walk the exact route exactly as you will be walking it with the Etheric Body, placing each Target Card along the route, and place the Final Target Card at the finish.

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E.J. with targets, Reno, Nevada.

Place target #1 where you want it to be, and make absolutely certain that you can see it when projecting. Target #2 goes where you can clearly see it when you're projecting from the location of target #1. It’s a good idea to study all seven targets, and to memorize the shapes, colors and symbology of each target. Use your targets as “flash cards”, learning to instantly and correctly identify and distinguish each card. You can do this alone or with a friend acting as coach.

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Beginner Astral class, Grass Valley, Ca.

Each card will be in a different place. It's best if they're in a separate room. That will give you better targeting. If you don't have the space for that, then put it in one part of the room, and another one in another part of the room. If you only have one room to work in, you can place all seven of your targets, including target zero, your starting point “home plate” target, in seven different places around the room.

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E.J. and trainees at “Galactic Central”, universal machine, Reno Nevada.

Walk the route back and forth many times, until you have a clear vision of the entire route.

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Astral projection convention.

Start at your starting point, get up, and move in the Organic Body, first to target #1, then target #2, then #3, then #4, then #5, then #6. At target #6, turn around toward target #5. Then walk back to 5, then 4, then 3, then 2, then 1, then back to your starting point You get it? Walk it forward, and then reverse the procedure. You don't just go from #6 back to your starting point. You go through the targets in reverse, through 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and then to your start point, target zero. Make absolutely certain that you understand this procedure before you continue. If there is any confusion about projection, it usually revolves around this issue.

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Astral convention demo.

Walk the route back and forth many times from start to finish and back to the starting point — many times. Repeat this process of walking the projection route many, many times, noticing more and more detail along the route. Do this many times until you're absolutely positive that you couldn't possibly do it one more time. Then do it that one more time. Note how your detailing improves as you go.

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Target cards are carefully placed.

Every single higher body – the Body of Habits, the Causal Body, Body of Light and the Essential Self – each of those can be operated in the same way that you project into the Etheric Body, however, each requires a different procedure. Not all higher bodies work the same. This technique is not going to work exactly the same way when you start working beyond the Etheric. The basic Target Method is great for the Etheric Body, and it still works with the Astral Body, but the Astral Body requires that you actually configure the Target Cards slightly differently in order to make it work, because moving in the Astral Body is more like suddenly jumping from place to place in quantum leaps rather than smoothly transitioning in a walking or gliding mode.

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Astral Body demo.

The Etheric Body walks exactly like the Physical Body. Can it fly? Not exactly – it tends to glide at or just slightly above floor level. I will often walk my Etheric Body and either meet or beat someone who's teleporting. I can actually get there about the same time just walking it, given that I haven't run into a bunch of critters. I usually run around those or through them. The Etheric Body does fine Out There, but you've got to consider the Etheric Body as pretty much just one tiny little step removed from the Organic Body. Once you clearly understand how closely the Organic and Etheric Bodies are knitted and how fine and thin is the fabric of space and time, projection will at once become a lot easier.

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Astral journey — Reno, Nevada.

Actually when you're seeing the Organic Body, you're looking at the Etheric Body also, but your mind has been ruthlessly conditioned to reject that fact, just as you've been thoroughly conditioned to not see invisible playmates, those friends without Organic Bodies.

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Go over the route many times.

The first level is Etheric projection. You're just going to go one tiny step out of the Organic Body with the support of the Organic, but it also draws you back in. The Organic Body anchors you with what is called “the silver cord”. When you first start out, you really don't want to go too far. You just want to get out a little bit. We're just going to go a little bit out of phase with the Organic as we walk with the Etheric Body. At this point, you’re not yet ready to fly across the galaxy. Go over the route many times, noticing specific details along the route.

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Astral demo on stage, Grass Valley, Ca.

Go from your bedroom to the hallway, to the living room, to the dining room, to the kitchen, to the laundry room, back and forth, back and forth. Just walk the route until you really feel what you're going to do. It's different than if you do it unconsciously; you happen to walk through your house all the time, but this is not an unconscious wandering. This is very intentional.

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Turn around points in motion.

Target #6 will be at your turn around point. Then you're going to move backwards from 6 to 5 to 4 to 3 to 2 to 1, and then back to Home Base. When you first start Target Projection, you might not be able to see your own Organic Body, but the Targets are quite visible in the Etheric Spectrum. Don't attempt projection until you have completed all preparatory work and you know your targets well. If you have forgotten which target is which, you should review them again and call them off like flash cards, until you are able to identify all seven of them from zero, or home base target through target #6, correctly without fail.

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Advanced Etheric Body movement.

Don't fudge it. Don't say, “Well, I know that route. I've been over it a thousand times, a million times, I live here, I know this route; I know it like the palm of my hand.” You think you know it very well. Actually, if you looked at it very carefully you'd notice there are some things you never saw before there. Especially do not fudge target recognition. If you skip over this important step, that of instant target recognition, you will miss the whole point of the Target Method.

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E.J. and T. teaching Etheric Body movement.

Take nothing for granted. You're going to move through your space as if it's a brand new experience, as if you've never been there before. So you walk your route, and you walk it back. You really, really take the preparation very, very seriously. Now there's even more for you to do at this point in your projection training, and we're getting to that.

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That “stuck” place can be a “breakthrough” point.

When you see the image of each Target Card in the Etheric Body, you're actually projecting, although it may seem to you that you're viewing it from the Organic Body. You're actually there even if it seems like you're “stuck” in the Organic Body. It's so important to understand that you're in both places at once, although due to powerful social conditioning you may FEEL yourself to be stuck inside the Organic Body. Don’t concern yourself at this point with your impressions of where you actually are. Eventually you’ll come to realize that you are wherever you decide to be, but that’s getting a little ahead of ourselves.

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Etheric Body workout with E.J.

You will eventually will yourself into the Etheric Body and from one location to another, but that's not important right now. Changing location by sheer force of will-power is a much higher level of training. What's important is to build the Etheric muscles first. Eventually you'll be able to “snap” yourself into the Etheric Body, then “snap” yourself into the Organic Body, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. You will actually be able to move yourself from one body to another body, and you'll be able to do that all the way up and down the ladder quite easily.

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Willing yourself into the Etheric Body.

When you actually will yourself into the Etheric Body, the Organic Body will seem distant and dreamlike. When you will yourself back into the Organic Body, the Etheric voyage will seem equally dreamlike, until at some point the two bodies actually merge, after much practice and many repetitions. The relationship between the subtle planes and the Physical Organic world will soon seem to blend. This blending of planes is actually an indication of Mastery.

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Was it just a dream???

When you get back into the Organic, the great cognitions are scrambled. The two worlds have their own separate and distinct sets of realities. When you get back into the Organic Body, you might say “Well, maybe it was all a dream.” You're going to start developing tests, ways to prove to yourself that you really were out-of-body. I have a number of simple tests which we can perform in a personal training environment so you can see that you really were out of your body.

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Advanced Etheric Body workout.

Assume the starting point and leaving the Organic Body in place, walk the route with the Etheric Body, verbally describing details you see and happen to notice along the route as your guide takes notes in your projection journal. What you're going to do is you're going to report what's happening to you and what you're seeing and so forth. If you don't have a guide, use a tape, disk or digital recorder. Make sure to stop at each target point briefly before continuing along the route. Again, this is not the time to wonder about whether it’s the right target or not. That issue should be clarified in the target card memorization phase of your projection training.

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E.J. lecturing at theater demo.

Touch the Target Point, stop there for a moment, really let it sink in, that is a Target Point. Really let that sink in . . . “Yeah, this is a target point.” Assume the starting point and this time, walk it with the Organic Body, noticing any details you missed in your Etheric Body projection description of the route. That's very important. You just gave an Etheric description to your guide, then you're going to get up and walk through it with the Organic Body, and just notice, “Ooh, I left this out, I left that out, I didn't see this, I didn't see that.” All those things that you left out, that you missed in your Etheric report, you're now going to pick up. This is called the Pick-Up Path, where you pick up those things you missed.

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Advanced training Etheric Body workout, Grass Valley, Ca.

Assume the starting point again, leaving the Organic Body at the starting point, traveling the route with the Etheric Body, describing in as much additional detail as possible what you see along the route. You're looking to pick up additional data. Just additional things — things you missed, things you missed, things you missed, trying to pick up every detail along this route. It’s absolutely inevitable that you will have skipped over some details, but with repetitions, you will be amazed at how many details you will pick up and perhaps notice for the first time, along the way.

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Beginner’s class, Grass Valley, Ca.

Assume the starting point and with the Etheric Body travel the route again, but — only after completing the route should you report the details of the route to your guide. This is different. Instead of reporting it as you're traveling in the Etheric Body . . . your guide is taking down the notes the first time . . . “All right, I'm at point #1. Okay, I'm moving toward point #2. Oh, there's a chair there and there's a little kind of a basket weave” and so on and so on, this time you go all the way through the route — you don't make any verbal report until you're back at the starting point fully in the Organic Body — only then do you make your verbal report. You get the difference? In the first journey, you're making a verbal report as you're doing it. In the second journey, you're making it only after you've done it. You're training yourself to be able to give a report after the fact rather than during the journey. This will help you with lucid dreaming as well.

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E.J. at Galactric Central, Reno, Nevada.

Can you do this sitting up? You can project while sitting, standing, lying down — any position works.

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Dinner at a workshop.

The reason I selected six target points instead of five is that five isn't enough, but ten is too many. Six targets is about what you can remember, about what you can work with at first, about what you can deal with in terms of placement and so forth. In the advanced training, we're going to expand that number to a point where you're not going to believe how many Target Points you can hold and remember and successfully “touch”. But let's just start with six. Six is a very comfortable number. Of course, you’ll recall that when you include the starting point, target zero, there are actually seven targets in all.

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Astral training route — Reno, Nevada.

This technique is so foolproof that you cannot fail if you follow all the steps faithfully. Learning subtle-body projection will also help you in many other ways. There are lots of other things this is doing for you. It's not just working for you for Etheric projection. It's also working for you for memory improvement and higher and more intense attention and lots and lots of visualization processes and so on. All kinds of good things are happening here, so it's not just one thing, and you will eventually start using all of those factors in your evolutionary growth.

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Shape-shifting demo, Grass Valley, Ca.

Leave the doors on your path open because you're not going to pass through walls at this stage. No walls, no doors, no windows. You're not going to pass through anything. You're going to walk just as if it's your Organic Body. Treat the Etheric Body just like the Organic Body. Leave the lights on. Have a little night light here and there, whatever is needed. If you can see with your Organic eyes, you'll see with your Etheric eyes too. At some point you'll recognize that your Etheric Body actually can see very well in the infrared range — the colors are a little strange. Eventually you won't have to have lights on, especially in the Astral body —you'll be able to navigate easily by starlight, but for right now leave a couple of lights on for yourself. Of course don't leave your outside doors open.

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Walk around a bit —

Let's just start off with walking around your house and finding these Target Cards. These are the basic instructions for you to get around your house with the Etheric Body. You're setting up a route for yourself to walk to a place and then back from that place to your starting point. Don't concern yourself with space travel at this stage. Just get around your house a little bit first. Let's just start there.

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Astral adventurers — Reno, Nevada.

Why is it so hard to disengage the Etheric Body from the Physical Body? It's bonded through identification and social conditioning, basically to keep you enslaved inside an Organic Body so you can continue to serve the military-industrial social machine. You hang out in the same house every day. Every day you watch the TV and you hang out there and then you wonder why you're stuck in the house, why you're housebound. If you never drive your Etheric Body, actually get out and do something with it, it's naturally going to be stuck — it will inevitably become stuck to that Organic “tar baby” world — it's going to gravitate toward lethargy and entropy and get thoroughly mired in the sticky, tacky muck of the Organic world.

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Astral training at the Neal Street Center.

If you're used to being stuck in an Organic Body, it's going to be kind of a new thing for you to push out into the Etheric traffic lane. You're out there amongst all this Etheric traffic and you don't know what the hell these people are going to do, and because you're not a driver yet, you don't have any experience because you've been in a car where somebody else is driving, so naturally you're not paying attention to all this traffic maneuvering and manipulating in the Etheric plane. Now, suddenly, you're responsible for 3½ tons of solid steel, and crashing it into something could kill somebody, including you. So suddenly, because you're responsible, as a driver, you start noticing things you just didn't bother to notice when you were a passenger.

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Astral trainers at Galactic Central — Reno, Nevada.

In order to get the Etheric Body away from the Organic Body, you're going to have to actually push that thing a little bit. You're going to have to get behind it and shove as if you're shoving a donkey. You've got to have a carrot in the front and a fork behind to make that donkey walk. What happens as you go up the ladder is that the Etheric Body and the Astral Body and the Body of Habits and the Body of Light get activated by you. They don't get activated by circumstances. You actually must intentionally activate them. It is actually in your volitional control whether they're activated or not. Unless you somehow discover and apply this method, you can spend your entire life in the Organic Body and never ever experience anything beyond that.

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Etheric Body outside walk, Reno, Nevada.

When the Etheric Body is under full control, then you'll address the Astral Body and we'll go from there into higher bodies and higher bodies. Why develop Etheric movement? Why learn how to move the Etheric Body around? Let's say that you've been lying in bed all your life, and you never did anything to change that, and then a method was presented to you where you could get up out of bed and walk around. You might well ask the same question: “Why would I want to? I'm perfectly happy lying here in bed. I get meals at mealtime, I can read, I can watch television, whatever it might be, why should I get up and walk around?”

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Astral workshop — Reno, Nevada.

Or, let's say that you have lived in your house and you've never left your house ever in your whole life. You were born there, raised there, and you never left. You did homeschooling; never left your home, never even went outside to your front lawn or to your back lawn or out to the garage. You never left the house. That is essentially your situation. And then it was suggested to you, “Why don't you get up, get out, leave your house, go do something.” Well, your first question is bound to be, “What would I do, and why would I want to go do that?” This complaining question is born out of conditioned laziness and habitual apathy. You have the potential of seven bodies of existence. You cannot achieve the higher bodies without going through the lower bodies first.

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Astral walk run-through — Reno, Nevada.

You can't climb the ladder by starting at the top. So the first tentative, faltering steps out of your organic prison will be accomplished when you are projecting outward in the Etheric Body which is just slightly outside the prison cell of the Organic Body. Using the Etheric Body, you just get to walk around the prison yard — you might be able to work in the laundry, or stamp out license plates. Etheric work is just a little bit outside the Organic. Why would you want to do that? The answer is easy — so you can achieve the higher levels of consciousness and the higher bodies and transcend Organic life.

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Awards and certificates for trainers.

The goal is actually to achieve the higher bodies and actually learn to use the higher bodies, to learn to exist in a higher plane, a higher level of consciousness and a higher level of existence which is far outside the level of existence which is called the Organic World. Without that goal, no matter what you achieve in life, it will all be washed away and quickly forgotten in the never-ending jungle of overgrowth, the moment your Organic life is ended . . . you might as well have never lived at all.

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“Coincidence control” is the key.

When you're operating your higher bodies, you're more able to do the work and you're more able to actually enact the way of service. If you examine my life, you'll discover that an amazing set of circumstances — what looks like a lot of remarkable “coincidences” — have happened to make it possible for me to do what I do. These amount to thousands of absolutely bizarre and highly unlikely “coincidences” that give me skills and access to things so far out of the realm of accidental coincidence as to be totally absurd.

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Reno, or parallel world???

This in itself is a very profound demonstration of how parallel worlds can be stitched together to make a work path. I use my higher bodies for the purpose of making precise intentional transitions, putting myself in the right place at the right time with the right tools with the right people to do the things that need to be done in my work-path. As I said, if you put all those together from 1941 to the present time, you would be astonished, absolutely mind-boggled at what looks like unbelievable levels of “coincidence control”. As you gain more personal experience personally experienced in the Etheric and Astral, you have more of a personal answer to that question of why one would be out there doing that.

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Advanced training for trainers, Reno, Nevada.

Once you start doing Etheric projection, it's like a kid with a bath. “Don't want to get in the bathtub, don't want to get in the tub, don't want to take a bath, don't want to take a bath!” Once they're in the bath, try to get them out! As you start experiencing projection, you're going to love it, and once you start loving it, you won't be able to get enough of it. Then you'll want to do the Astral because that's really going to be a trip! Then you'll say, “Now I'm ready for some higher level stuff. Let me at it!”

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Astral adventure, Reno, Nevada.

Eventually, no matter what shadow-show is in front on the promotional poster in the exoteric form of any esoteric school, ultimately you're faced with the fact that you're going to have to use your Etheric Body, Astral Body, Body of Light, Causal Body, and Body of Habits. You're going to have to use all those bodies in sequence up the ladder in order to achieve a measure of consciousness so you can function, so you can work, so you can actually control your movement through parallel worlds, your pathways, your Life-Stream. Without control of that, you really are just kind of slamming around, hodge-podge willy-nilly, skidding and crashing repeatedly, all over the place. Sooner or later it's time to operate your Organic Body from above and start walking around in the subtle planes beyond the ordinary world.

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Ascension at Reno’s “Galactic Central”.

It's important to understand that your Etheric Body is just like your Organic Body only it's vibrationally different. It actually feels the same to walk around in your Etheric Body. There's a lot of work involved and it's far from self-indulgent, because actually it's very much like learning dance. It's not all choreography. There's a lot to do before you get to choreography. When you start getting out of your Organic Body and start moving around in your Etheric Body, you will start remembering things that happened to you in the Etheric Body perhaps a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — things have happened in your distant past that you may not want to remember, but must someday confront. When you're in your Astral Body, other things will come up. When you start getting to the Body of Light, still other things will come up.

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Past-Life repair workshop, Reno, Nevada.

Your longer and longer memory and longer and longer pathway will trigger memories of things long forgotten, you will start seeing all the things that have gone down in your history as an immortal being, and you're going to have to do some past-life repair at that point, using my simple and easy method of repairing past upsets with higher dimensions. It's going to start becoming urgent by the time you're in your fourth body out, that you do some past-life repair work. Past-life repair and karma-burning are easily mastered, but if you want to be truly free, you must devote some of your training time to the task. It isn’t enough to just sit around and wonder about it and dream of someday actually handling it. It’s an area that needs to be done now, while there’s still time.

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Blockages must be overcome.

You're going to find some obstacles and you're going to get to a certain point with your Body of Light, your Causal Body and your Body of Habits — you're going to start getting to certain points where you say, “I can't get past this. I've got an obstacle here. I've got a block here somewhere.” That block will invariably have something to do with some experience that you had in that body that sent you down to the organic level in the first place, that convinced you to go hide in the Organic Body, because that's actually what you're doing here — you're hiding in the organic right now, because you ran into something that was very frightening, very scary, and without help, you're not going to get past that point, ever. You need to actually get some help to get back to that point where you were, and deal with it. Because if you don't, you're going to go right back to hiding in the Organic Body again, which is your present habit.

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Master’s course, Reno, Nevada.

Past Life Repair is actually the province of higher levels of training which we call the Master's Course. The Master's Course is where you start dealing with powerful events that sent you scurrying to hide in the Organic Body. If you think, even for a moment — just examine it — you'll see that you are hiding from something, that there's something that you can almost remember, but not quite — that got you so scared that here you are, stuck in the Organic Body, and that effect, that fear-object, is terrifying, absolutely terrifying; it really is. However, it's confrontable. You can deal with those fears that drove you down into an endless round of death and rebirth in the Organic World, but you need help in dealing with them.

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Personal trainers — Reno, Nevada.

I know what you ran into that got you so freaking bloody scared that you ran like hell and ducked into an Organic Body to hide from it. And I don't blame you for running away and hiding out in an Organic form, because it is absolutely overwhelmingly terrifying. You will soon get a really good picture of some of the things that scared you in higher bodies, so much so that you went to hide out in an organic form. There's nowhere else to hide. The only place to hide in is an Organic Body. That's the only place that actually offers you a complete shell, a place to hide out in that you can't be seen, can't see, don't have to worry about what scared you — nothing there to worry about, everything's all contained and you're safe under your covers. In an Organic human body you can really turtle up.

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Certificates and awards for trainers.

Rising out of the Organic Body into the higher subtle planes is the most important skill you'll ever learn, but you have to come to it, to actually want it for yourself, to welcome it and to overcome your fears. It takes a while before you're actually ready to hear this, and you've got to know at some point that this is real. It's genuine, and it's something you are going to have to address at some point. You're going to have to get skilled at moving around in your higher bodies. It doesn't happen by zipping off into your seventh body just with a snap of your fingers. You need to go up the ladder one rung at a time and handle each fear as you gain strength and will-power.

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Higher body workout class.

I have released a workout for the Etheric Body. At the moment what's happening is that the Etheric Body tends to be dragged along by the Organic Body and you want to make it the opposite – the Organic Body should be operated from the viewpoint of the Etheric Body. Usually the Etheric Body is a murky orange. The Body of Habits, Causal, Body of Light and the Essential Self, each has its own color. When you see a rainbow aura, you're looking at all the overlays of higher bodies all at once . . . . Don't forget that from a quantum standpoint, they're all happening in the same place at the same time.

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Advanced Astral training class.

You can wear an amulet, a choker, headband, wristbands, anklebands to add energetics to your projections. The language has changed over the years since I wrote the Seven Bodies of Man. You can read it if you like. Most people find it very hard reading. Seven Bodies of Man is basically a compendium of notes I made for myself from talks that I gave at that time. It really wasn't meant to be something that would be easily digested. I didn't edit the manuscript for the benefit of a lay audience, so it's kind of on the esoteric level. I use a number of terms in there that are helpful for me, so that I remember what I had in mind, to present those things.

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Tea break, Astral training.

What I've done in this presentation is I've re-made my chart of the seven bodies in what I feel is a more understandable format for our times. So we have Organic, Etheric, Astral, Body of Light, Causal Body, Body of Habits and the Essential Self or Essence. In Spanish, German, Korean, Russian and French, I came as close as I could possibly manage on my own. What I had in mind was to simplify the language in the higher body posters so that it's very accessible, so I used a naming system which is 150 years old, and is by now a more or less commonly accepted set of higher body classifications. Basically my list of higher bodies fits in well with a number of different existing classifications and so that's where I went with it, to make it as understandable and as agreeable as I possibly could. I don't want somebody saying, “Well, why do you call it this? How come why don't you call it that? We always called it such-and-such.”

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Lunch break is a good time for questions.

I did a “Survey Says” type treatment of the list, and that's what it is basically. What I have in mind is to take that poster and put it up in a training area so people can see the relationship between the different bodies. That's all it's for; it's not there to do anything, it's not there to sell anything, it's not there to promote anything. It's there to just orient people so that they can get a visual of the Ladder “Well, one might remind oneself, I'm working on the Etheric Body now. It's just one above the Organic.” That's the whole intent and purpose of that particular poster, outlining and “stacking” the relative levels of each of the subtle bodies in a “ladder” configuration, and I’m making that full-color poster available to all Certified Brane-Power Trainers.

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Zen basics with Dr. Needham.

The way the targets work is that they contain very specific colors and very specific images, symbologies and mantric power writing. They're designed to be quite visible and easily differentiated when viewed by Etheric eyes. A series of essential oils relate to each level, that actually will be associated with each set of targets. Each of the bodies has its own targeting mechanisms. So when you're working in the Etheric, there are sounds, aromas and frequencies associated with each set of targets. Every target has a set of tuning devices built-in. Each one of my targets has been time-tested since I first made them in 1949, and a very large number of students has had top-level success with them.

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Trainers conference — Reno, Nevada.

As you get into the Astral you start color-shifting so your vision is now in the Etheric spectrum — it's more toward the infrared; in the Astral and higher, it's more on the other side of the spectrum toward the ultraviolet. Then when you get into the Body of Light, it's way up in frequency, so by the time you're in the Causal Body and the Body of Habits, you're actually looking in frequencies in the 107 megahertz range. By the time we're at the Body of Habits, you're looking at ultrahigh frequencies. The waves are shorter, but the photon itself gets longer — the photon gets stretched, has a bigger presence. Photons can stretch out literally many, many, many millions, and even billions of light years, and things at or above the speed of light tend to compress. Basically we're going to go to light speed. But we must start out slow and simple.

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Some Organics are not visible in the Astral.

Our targets are tuned to specific radio frequencies and the disks on the headbands, wristbands, anklebands and armbands are all tuned to these same specific radio frequencies. So if you're working, for instance, in the Astral, you'll have Astral-tuned disks on your headband. Now, the main thing to understand about the way we're going to be working is that you're going to be practicing in the Organic. You never build a house from the top down. Where you start is at the Organic. So we'll be working here first. In doing that, what we're going to do is we're going to start practicing in the Organic. Then we're going to transfer — call it projection if you like — but we're actually going to transfer our concentrated attention, our self-attention to the Etheric, which is so close to the Organic as to be almost the same thing. It isn't exactly, but it's close. It's what I used to call the Emotional Body. The Astral is what I used to call the Mental Body. But they are all really close to the Organic.

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Advanced Astral Workshop, Reno Nevada.

Once you get into the Etheric Body you start moving around and working in that. Right now you'll be driving the Etheric from the Organic, but at some point you're actually going to be driving the Organic from the Etheric. The Etheric will be more natural to you to work in, walk around in, to operate from. Then we transfer our attention to the Astral. That will become your new operating level from which you'll drive the Etheric and Organic. Each step up is going to be your driving mechanism, route, plane or Operating Level. Right now your Operating Level is just below Organic, because the Organic rules you at this time.

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Astral recon mission, Reno, Nevada.

The biological drives, fulfillment drives and personal agendas typically are on or below the Organic level. As you climb into the Etheric, your goals will change, your thoughts will change, your attitudes will change, your mode of operating will change and your attitude certainly is going to change. When you get into the Astral, different things become more important to you. The organic things are not so important anymore. Pretty soon when you get up into the Body of Habits, the Organic Body agendas are of no importance whatever. In fact, you have to deliberately satisfy some of the organic requirements in order to make sure your organic form still continues to survive in spite of your utter disinterest in the world of the Organic Body, in spite of the things you're learning in order to operate on the level of the Body of Habits.

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Advanced training class.

In the Essential Self level, all the lower interests and pursuits of all the lower bodies are going to be a weight to you. They'll be kind of dragging you around. You'll be carrying this sort of saggy, murky anchor like a millstone around your neck. All this lower level heavy-body organic muck is dragging slightly behind you as you're moving around. And at some point you'll say, “You know, I don't really need this.” Eventually, when you master the ladder, you'll be quite transcendent on the issues of the lower planes of existence, all of which seemed so important when the Organic Body was the only one you had. You'll continue to maintain all the lower bodies until eventually you will drop the Organic, at the natural end of your organic life, the Etheric, the Astral, then eventually drop the Body of Light, the Causal, then the Body of Habits until you're fully the Essential Self with no lower bodies dragging you down. And at that point, it all starts over again, on the next level. Please understand that if you force-eject from a body, it sends you back to “start”. Escape is not the plan — it's Mastery of the Ladder that is the goal.

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Einstein to quantum walk, Reno, Nevada.

When you are confronting the next octave of existence where the Essential Self is actually the lowest plane in that condition, you'll have something like the Etheric at the top of the octave and you'll be in something like the Organic relative to that. It's a different level, so it isn't Organic and it isn't Etheric, but you have similar levels to climb. You do this a total of three times before you reach something that is so inexpressible and so alien to this particular mentality that you really wouldn't be able to conceive it until you get there where virtually all of these universal Einsteinian and Quantum physics that you know are totally disrupted. There's nothing else out there that is exactly like the physics under which you live today. The laws of the universe in most higher planes are totally different.

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Trainers meet before a “Reno Run”.

A question that someone inevitably asks at this stage is, is there a way to go directly beyond every parallel universe — what is called the Direct Path, to achieve immediately the source beyond every veil and plane of existence, beyond any possible beyond. Is that possible? The answer to that is that you can actually get a glimpse of the target, but you can't stay there. That is the fallacy of working with someone who touches you and you're immediately transported to that plane of existence. It doesn't last long. You can see where you're not, but you really are not going to be able to stay there without working on the things that scared you into hiding in the Organic form. If you want to get there without working for it, you can use the magic touch to get there for a moment or two, but if you want to stay there, then you're going to have to work through all the lower bodies. There's no way to “cheat” your way through it.

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Bardo Safari class at the training center.

Get into a Bardo Safari with us and you will understand what it is to be a Level One. You can't suddenly jump from Level One to Level Ninety-Nine instantaneously without paying the price. As a Level Ninety-Nine player who's never gone through the intermediate levels, you're going to be a crap player, because you won't have had those intermediate steps. The intermediate areas are those higher body building gymnasiums where you learn to expand, to push beyond your present limits, to overcome your deepest, most secret, darkest fears and where you build the muscles to handle what is to come.

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Glenn & Lee Perry go over charts with E.J. (left).

American Airlines have their executives work in the baggage department and as ticket clerks and maintenance crew because when you give orders, you must understand what it feels like to take those orders. So yes, you can achieve absolute complete total mastery for about a second or two, and then you're right back where you started from because you really do need to do those intermediate levels because when you hit ninety-nine instantaneously, you're frankly not worthy of that. You don't belong there. You might want to be there, but you don't really belong there. You don't have an honest sense of belonging there, but if you've worked your way up, then you'd know that at each step there's a learning process, there's a learning curve that happens to you. And part of learning is actually experiencing pain and suffering, not just your own but also that of others. There's a lot to learn and it isn't instantaneous.

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Astral gaming team at the blackjack table, Reno, Nevada.

When you're a little bitty baby, the only thing you can think about is me. What's in it for me? What do I get out of this? Where's my food: Where's my comfort? Where's my diaper change? Where's my nappy? Where's my binky, my little pacifier? Eventually you are brought to the sandbox and in the sandbox, with your little friends, you learn the next level of evolution which is not ME, but WE. Actually you're on your way to we through a process of learning how to give and take, how to share, how to consider others, to be considerate of others, to see their weaknesses and allow them to have those weaknesses, to give up something that you want for the sake of someone else.

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It’s all about expanding the sense of “self”.

So you go to the level of WE. Then you go to the level – and people have this hugely reversed – of THEE — which is YOUR good before MY good. What can I do to help YOU? What can I do for YOU, putting my own needs aside? So that's the level of THEE. Then you go to the level of “C”. The level of “C” squared means the level of light, light in infinite extension, where all of us exist as a single thing, where we are, not just bonded to each other, we exist as a fully aware unified field of higher consciousness.

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Trainer Tamara Murray with E.J., Reno, Nevada.

I see in YOU that which is in all of us. It's the ultimate in respect, the highest form of realization, and when you can see that, you hold that individual in respect no matter how they behave, no matter what they do to you, to others, no matter what they do, you bow to the jewel in the lotus in that individual, regardless of how mean, stingy, nasty, or foul they might be at their current level of evolution. You still bow in respect to what they actually are — light in infinite extension. It is on the highest plane that existence, form, energy and matter have their root. It is here that what we call “reality” exists merely as a mathematically-based spatial simulation, outside which time is an illusion of space. At this level, it’s all one big event.

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Group work is essential all the way up.

So you have four steps of evolution that take place on the ladder — these seven levels of operating beingness from the Organic to the Essential. When you work in the Bardo Safaris and you start out as Level One, typically you will start out alone for the first five or six levels, maybe ten levels. Then you'll begin to work with the group. You'll have to work with a training group in order to go much further. So then you'll be Level ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, now you begin to do tombs together, and now you really must learn to cooperate and coordinate and communicate clearly and act with responsible compassion and skill in order to be able to stay together as a pack so that everyone benefits from the totality of experience points that are being shared in the area of effort, the small “agro-circle” of confrontation.

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Big screen demo of Blueline level.

Then at Level twenty through Level twenty-four, you're in Cows together with your comrades where you must not only stay with the pack, but be careful not to get killed because you can't use someone else's teleport to get back to the area of combat where you got killed. If you do manage to get yourself killed in the secret Cow level, you hang everybody else up. They have to wait for you to catch up, to find your way back to the “pack of green” again — so it's your responsibility to not get killed in Cows. Then you go through Arreat Summit, and when you do, it's your responsibility to not get killed there also. It's your responsibility to not get killed because you'll hang up the entire crew if you get killed. It's also your responsibility not to panic and put up a Town Portal in your frenzy or panic, because the Town Portal in Summit puts everything back to start again.

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Hell-runners, training center.

Then you're going to be co-responsible in Baal Runs. There you must learn how to cooperate in order to devour territory and to get to your goal and to accomplish your purpose there. This necessity to work responsibly and to communicate well and to use your special skills for the common good goes on and on and on and on and on through Normal. Then through Nightmare level which is another level of difficulty, you will find the demands even more strenuous and through the Hell level of difficulty, it's even harder to do all of these things. Ultimately it’s a question of good communication, caring, consideration for others, all the important skills you should have learned back in the sandbox in kindergarten.

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“Gorby the Pyro” at the slots, Reno, Nevada.

Eventually you graduate to Team Fortress, and there you learn the ultimate methodology for cooperation and communication. You learn more about cooperation and communication in Team Fortress than you will ever learn anywhere else . . . ever! There's nowhere else to learn those skills — there's nothing like Team Fortress, not even actual combat is like Team Fortress. Throughout all of that you'll learn the mystery of life and death. You learn about how death and rebirth and death and rebirth and death and rebirth in endless cycles actually serve you, help you in the learning process and provide you with the means for transcendence into the higher levels of the Ladder. Yesterday in Team Fortress somebody was saying to me, “Gorby, you die a lot.” I answered back, “Yes, death is actually part of my strategy.” Any pro gamer would understand this.

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“Off the wheel” from outside is an illusion.

So I really strongly advise you to rethink your strategy of cheating your way directly to the top without paying the price of experiencing the learning curve, because when you go to the top you're building your house from the top down. That's never a good idea, and at some point, your impatience will cost you more than you think. You're guaranteed that once you get there all you can be is a tourist. You're not going to do anything there. You will be just as lost as ever and you'll have all of those unresolved issues still to be resolved. You've got to eventually resolve all those lower level issues. Yes, you're totally free, you're off the wheel, you're a Buddha. Congratulations. But you've got all that unresolved crap dragging you down, and sooner or later you still have to handle all of that because it's going to hurt and itch and tickle, and you're going to have to scratch it and when you start scratching it, wham! — there you are, back in the Organic, on the road again!

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“Instant” attainment is the dark door to fail.

It's a very misleading idea that you can take some sort of mysterious instant-coffee path that will lead to absolute ultimate autocracy, to ultimate God-hood instantaneously without having passed through the crucible of compassion and understanding that is between the Organic and the Essential Self. There's a lot of learning there, a lot of letting go. There's also a lot of resolution there, resolving issues all the way up the line. If there weren't issues, you would not presently be hiding out in the Organic. You'd be in the Essential Self looking up at the next level, but when you get to the Essential Self by cheating, still having all those unresolved issues, you're NOT prepared to go any further. You can't go higher. You'll have to eventually turn back and start over again. And it actually takes longer. Once you give up, you've got the habit to quit.

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E.J. on stage before Astral travel convention.

Somebody comes along and says, “We'd like to sign you for a major professional soccer team, and we want you to be our lead player.” “Well, I've never played soccer,” you reply. “It doesn't matter,” they say. “It makes no difference. Just go in there and be our star player.” You join a yoga community and they instantly make you a Swami, the head of the yoga community, but you have no clue whatever about yoga. You have never done yoga in your life and they make you a Swami and you take over a yoga community and you run it, having never done it. You don't even know the terminology, you don't know the theory or the practice. You don't even know which yogas are which. That's the equivalent of asking to be instantaneously transported to a level of total mastery without having done any of the work to get there.

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Big slot win for Tamara — Reno, Nevada

I want to remind you that when you are doing Etheric projection you're not getting out of your body — you're getting into another body, in which you're already existing, but passively and with oblivious ignorance. All you're doing is centering yourself in that body. You're already there. You're not going anywhere that you're not already existing. Obstacles: If I have you right in front of me, you have my full attention. I can put my full attention on you and I can see when you're going to get in trouble, what's happening, and I can ask you what's going on and help you overcome that obstacle. There's only one way to give personal attention – personally. You can't give personal attention any other way than personally. One on one is one on one. You can't do it otherwise.

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The coach goes with the trainee.

The kind of training that I envision here is that the coach is going to go right with the trainee. If you're going to go from here and go over to that target and tag the target, I want to be right with you when you do that. I'm going to put that energy out and go right with you. Step for step, I'll match every step you take. In a flute class, I show you the notes and say, “All right, let's do it,” and I do it right with you. I don't just tell you what to do. And in a guitar class, I hit the E chord on my guitar at the same time that you hit E chord on your guitar. You can stay with somebody and have your attention on them better by being with them rather than by sitting there and giving them instructions.

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Beacon work supports Astral training.

The Beacon is going to come in real handy as we start working with these exercises and different levels. The Beacon's going to be very useful. Especially a Super Beacon when you get into advanced levels where you want a bit of tourmaline protection and a little boost. Single target work is a baby walk. You don't start a baby out by walking across a city park. You get the baby to just walk one step. That's exactly what you're going to do with this is “baby walks”, and you will be toddling at first. You'll be kind of rocky, toddling to your very first target. One step, whoops, okay, try again. One step, whoops, try again, fell on your diaper. It's just exactly like that.

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Trainers’ suite, Reno, Nevada.

For hospice work you have somebody who is bed-bound and you teach them how to move around in their Etheric Body. Pretty soon you get them into their Astral Body. By the time you get them in the Astral Body they'll be able to visit the Eiffel Tower. They can attend Washington luncheons, visit the British museum, vacation free in Thailand. Think of this as a kind of gymnastic training for the Etheric Body, Etheric gymnastics. We're going to actually put the Etheric Body through a program of Etheric gymnastics, so it's going to actually start exercising and developing its Etheric muscles. Eventually, you'll find yourself in the Etheric Body quite naturally and normally and very confidently moving around with it just as you do now with the Organic Body. At that point, you won't be operating from the Organic, you'll be in the Etheric Body all the time, running things from there.

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Reno photographed in Astral light spectrum.

It's an easy step from there to the Astral. The Astral is as close to the Etheric as the Etheric is to the Organic. Each of these higher bodies on the Ladder is just a little step, just one step more, one step more, one step more until finally you're sitting way up there in this very nonorganic self. You've been there all along, but you're raising your consciousness to the point where it's actually in that higher body all the time, and you’re running all the other bodies from that higher body. Now when you are able to operate from a higher body, switching tracks from one parallel world to another parallel world is a total breeze. You're in total control of which lifestream you're in, whereas, when you're at the bottom of all that, you're in no control whatever — you're just sitting with all this stuff going on above you, jamming you down into the ground.

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Causal Body workshop.

By the time you're in the Causal Body, you're actually causing, you're actually making things happen for yourself — not for around you — just for you. If you want things to be different you've got to go to a parallel world where it's naturally different. You can't make it different here. You can make it different by going to where it is different, the way you want it to be. Knowing exactly how you want it to be, what you want to have happen, is part of what you can do to change your life when you start developing these higher senses. You'll have different needs, different attentions, different requirements, different agendas.

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Dr. Needham with advanced students.

Your agendas will change radically as you yourself operate from higher and higher bodies. All that's in store for you. And it's not long before that happens. You're talking about a matter of days, weeks, months, not long before all this starts to take effect. So that's it. It's very simple. It's really a simple thing. Within a matter of a very short time you'll actually be doing this and doing it quite easily, quite readily, until you actually are mostly in and eventually always in the Etheric Body. And you'll be running everything from the Etheric Body from that point on. The Organic Body at that point is below you; so I warn you now, you will have to actually make yourself concerned of things that are happening to the Organic Body. You've got to actually make yourself care, because the Organic Body is important as a learning tool — you should be taking care of it, because it's going to get you through the Ladder. So don't let it go to hell. It'll go all to pot on you if you let it.

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Marvette records a training talk.

You'll start transcending the Organic. You can feel that transcendence happening already after only a couple of minutes working with this transcending procedure. Eventually when you start working with the Astral and you get up into the Causal and into the Body of Habits, the Organic Body and its problems are going to be so far below you that it seems hardly worth dealing with. You'll soon see how your relationship with the Organic Body can be maintained without getting too identified with it — without necessarily having to be dragged down by it. You don't want to get messed up by it, but you do have to maintain some relationship with the Organic Body.

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Quest for target objects — Reno, Nevada.

The culture thoroughly conditions you to be in the Organic Body and your imprisonment in the Organic is ruthlessly reinforced at every turn by everything from fashion to daytime television. You grew up in a culture that really teaches you to jam yourself hard into that body so you can serve the military industrial machine. You're going to have a lot easier time projecting if you're wearing a power headband. You can project without any headband, but if you use the power headband, the easier it's going to be. As you get further and further up the line, the easier you're going to find it. If you start trying to pound away at the Astral and you don't have a power headband, it's going to be a little harder for you.

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Astral training — Reno, Nevada.

It gets progressively harder to project as you go higher. One example of that is if you're playing in Diablo, is it harder in Hell than it is in Normal? You have three levels of difficulty, which is Normal, Nightmare and Hell. Is it harder in Nightmare than it is in Normal? Of course it is. That's what's meant by level of difficulty. Is it harder in Hell than it is in Nightmare? Yes, yes, much harder. Well, by the time you get there, you know, you already are enured to that. You're stronger. So the farther up you go, the stronger you will be and therefore, from here it'll be impossible, but from where you will be at the time, it will be the same as you're doing right now. Each step will be comparatively easy when you're standing just below where you're going to go.

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Checking in early to avoid the rush — Reno, Nevada.

It's going to be a lot easier than you think it's going to be to do this, at least in the beginning, especially if you’re using a combination of the headband, the targets and the Method. If you need help, if you find that you're really stuck in the Organic Body, I'm available to help. I can do the training with you, talk you through it, walk you through it, and I can help you over some of the obstacles that you might come across. So that's available. That's where a trainer comes in. You can have a personal trainer or you can work out on your own. Either way. Eventually you won’t believe how fast you came up the Ladder with this super-easy method. Where people get confused I think, is when folks say out-of-body, you're out of only one body, the Organic.

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Shape-shifting workshop. .

Most people have a Hollywood movie or network TV series idea of what intentional, self-directed and self-initiated Astral Projection is all about — it’s strictly “Explorers”, “Peter Pan” or “I Dream of Jeannie” and it’s wrong, dead wrong. They’re expecting to float and to fly, and that’s not what happens at first, except by accident. A floating experience is different. Samadhi Tank gives the out-ofbody floating effect. If you want the floating experience, you want the Samadhi tank. I refer to out-of-body without even thinking what that means to most folks, and I guess that's probably not a good idea. They mean floating and I mean out-of-body. Bodyless floatation is not actually the goal of an out-of-body experience.

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Go to Thailand without spending a cent.

How would you like to go be able to go to Thailand without spending a single cent? Well, you can. How would you like to be able to eat in a restaurant in Thailand? For that you'll have to take a plane. You can stay in a hotel, but you won't be able to take a bath in the hotel. You can visit the famous restaurants of the world, but you can't actually eat the food when you're projecting. Paris, London, Moscow, Laos, Cambodia, Bali, Hawaii and Brazil are all easily within your reach through Astral Travel. If you want to actually manifest there and enjoy a good meal or get a suntan, you’ll need to go past the simple starting projection lessons.

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You can see, but can’t eat food.

When you are Etheric projecting, you can actually smell the food, but wouldn't be able to eat it. In projection techniques you can't eat, won't want to sleep, and you wouldn't be able to anyway. You can't sleep, can't eat, can’t take a bath. The downside is that you can’t show off your new Rolex, or your micro-thong swimsuit or win a hand at Baccarat and take home the winnings. The upside to all this is that you can’t get hurt, are never hungry, don’t have to find a rest-room and never have to fish out a tip. You won’t need to deal with lost luggage, exorbitant hotel rates, airport security, passports, cab fare, tour guides or long lines at the entrance to a nightclub.

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Headbands come in a variety of colors.

The headbands can be white, black, blue, gray, red, but the disks are always the same for each class. There are black and white disks the Etheric model, which are handmade, and because they are handmade, they do vary. I put a different frequency of radio in and change the color of the disks so that you can instantly tell which frequency you're working with. You could take the lower level disks off, keep the same headband and put a different frequency set of disks on there — these are attached with velcro so you can wash the headband, and re-attach or change the disks. That means you don't have to get two headbands. You can use the same headband with different disks. The reason for different disks is that some of the higher bodies into which you will project will take a different set of disks, but you'll be working with the black and white set for some time.

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E.J. models the “Pro” headband.

I use an 8-up headband. I want to get these projection headbands to you as quickly and as cheaply as I can. There's a lot of labor in these headbands, at least two to three hours of my personal time, which I don't mind putting in, to get this great result. A 5-up headband is the basic working tool. It gives you a couple of occipitals, a couple of templars and one pineal. The 8-up has two occipitals and at the back, a crown, so you have crown, occipital, templar, frontals and a pineal. Eight around is stronger than five, but it's got one disadvantage and that is that you're not going to be able to lie down with it, but the 8-up is not intended as a recliner tool. I don't want you to attempt projection while lying down in a bed unless you're a medical patient, because, your biggest enemy is going to be snoring off to sleep, but in a Lazy-Boy type recliner, you'll have a much better chance.

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Higher body posters available for trainers.

I wish I could save you some money on the headband, but it's bloody time-consuming and expensive to produce and I keep the price as close to the cost of manufacture as I possibly can so everybody can afford it. They are very, very labor-intense and require skills in electronics, high-temperature enamelware and garment-making. The target cards are printed in full color on heavy card stock and then they are heavily laminated. I don't do that. We have a machine here, but it doesn't do the job. I have this done outside, and it's a really good job of lamination and a good job of printing. There are color 11” x 14” charts of the higher bodies — one in English, one in German, one in French, one in Russian, one in Korean, and one in Spanish available. You can have all of them if you want to.

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Astral walk-through — Reno, Nevada.

Then there's the manual, the book. The book is priced as low as possible, based upon the cost of printing and distribution. We have a very solid good distributor, who gets us out to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders Books and many other book outlets both online and brick and mortar, so we're very happy with them, but discounting and wholesale markets impose certain pricing requirements, and we must, of course, meet those requirements so retailers can sell the book at an attractive price. The whole kit will provide you with enough work for quite some time and that's where we're at for the moment.

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Essential oils are bonded into backing.

The headband is a higher-body energy booster which makes it easier for the psychic-sensitive to do the method. Without the booster, the method is still very effective. With the headband and other boosters the Target Method becomes totally powerful. The Target Cards are also power targets in the sense that they use a number of different psychic agents, one of which is the writing that's around it — it's a form of power that is applied to this particular ageold technology. The symbols actually have a power in themselves. The colors are also very, very critical, very specific, and have a “magic” all their own, like crystals and gemstones, which I also use in very advanced training levels. In addition to that, even though you can't smell it, I have an essential oil bonded into the paper, a different one for each of these things that's in the paper itself so that you have an aromatic, which is anointed on each target, and that is also very, very important.

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Quantum “healer” wristband.

I have also made crystal quantum wristbands that give you a lot of psychic support, but the longer ones also provide wrist-support. So if you're doing a lot of keyboard work or if you're doing healing actions or things like that, this is a useful tool. I'm using very, very good high-quality Nike headbands and sweatbands. If you buy them wholesale, you have to take all the colors; they give you an assortment of colors in a carton. Frankly, you don't save that much money buying them wholesale. Those wristbands, armbands, anklebands and headbands are handmade by me personally. At the moment I'm doing the crafting, because it's still in early development and I want to make sure it gets done right.

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Head, wrist, arm and anklebands.

Astral Bands are not transferable and should not be used by more than one individual. The reason is because residual energies start implanting themselves into these disks and so the disk actually becomes yours, really yours. The band starts to mold itself psychically to your particular set of vibrations, your particular energetic fingerprint — your “Astral fingerprint”. Also, I want to point out — although you shouldn't care about this — making these disks is actually dangerous. I have been burned, severely burned, from the scorching hot melted enamel. The hot enamel gets into your skin and then it doesn't let go. You can't get it off and it just burns deeply into the hand or arm, and sometimes the neck or face, because you need to get really close to it with magnifying goggles to get it made exactly right and to set the electronic components precisely into the scalding hot enamel.

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A week-long production run of quantum disks.

An enamel injury is a second degree instantaneous burn, and the hot, sticky enamel, at hundreds of degrees, just grabs on and doesn't let go. You can't get it out of there. It implants itself in your skin and just burns and burrows down into it. I've had burns on the face, hands and arms, all as a result of working with this stuff. It's not explosive, but it's terribly unsafe. But you must have enamel involved in this process because the melted enamel is part of the Reichian layering used in these quantum disks and it also holds the electronics and at the same time protects them from harm. You can use a single or triple, but I want you to get the best results, so I would like you to use the five-up headband.

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“Dropping your drama” at theater workshop space.

I really believe that projection is a great access point to the larger multiverse which includes many universes, and I think a lot of people will be interested because ultimately the real goal is the out-of-body experience and the transference of consciousness up the Ladder of Higher Bodies. That is actually the goal of all esoteric schools, whether they admit it or not, and many of them won't cop to it. They'll tell you all kinds of bait to get people involved, and then eventually it's revealed. The Ladder of Consciousness is the thing that you really are expected to travel. Taking that ladder up, you're going to also be experiencing awareness and awakening and attention levels and higher levels of emotion and dropping your personal Organic mental-emotional drama and gaining True Will.

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Astral training — Reno, Nevada.

Once in a while someone is going to be so fixated on the Organic Body and so heavily programmed, so crystalized, that they will not be able to reach the target. Do I have remedy for such an individual? I have not merely one remedy, I have many powerful remedies for individuals who are so stuck in the body that they can't get out. I have for them a set of methods to get them unstuck. We had one mild example in the group workshop where someone got hung up and I demonstrated how to move that obstruction out of the way. Etheric Projection is very, very simple, and I have many other methods of getting somebody unstuck. She wasn't actually totally stuck. She had a little obstacle. She got out of body, and then she got scared, and she backed up into her Organic Body. Blockages are very easy to handle.

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Handling blockages on an Astral Walk — Reno, Nevada.

Totally stuck in the Organic Body is a different issue entirely. That's an issue that needs to be handled the way that you would basically handle anything like that, which is with a psychic crowbar. It's essentially a powerful shamanic technique to actually pry somebody out of the body they're stuck in. It's a long and difficult process to get somebody unstuck from the body, if they are stuck in it that heavily. Fortunately, only one out of ten thousand is going to be totally stuck in the body.

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Personal coaching is available.

Most folks will be able to move out of the Organic Body quite easily, and with the help of the headband, it's even easier because you don't have to do anything to cause that slippage, because the Quantum headband gets you vibrating slightly out of phase with the Organic Body quite automatically. You simply move away from it but, as I said, if you're so stuck that you can't get out, we can handle that with personal coaching. I enjoy personal coaching. It gives me great satisfaction to see someone who was quite convinced that they would never get out-ofbody, be able to easily slip out-of-body again and again and learn to navigate. It’s even more rewarding when they tell me that they’ve tried other methods for years with no success. I hope my method saves others many years of fruitless effort.

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Targets “buzz” to help you find them.

Use the Target Method exactly as outlined and you won't go wrong. The only things you actually need for this Target Method to blast you out of the body easily is the headband, the targets, and of course the instruction manual, then it's going to be just a matter of the targets up in the right places, putting the headband on and operating from target to target to target to target and back to home base. It really is just that simple. It was intended to be simple. It's not intended to be a very big, very complicated thing. It's meant to be very, very simple, something that you can do without a lot of fancy equipment and without a lot of expensive training, or pricey workshops. If you will follow my instructions to the letter, and use the tools I have provided, you will not be disappointed.

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E.J. with perfumer and advanced trainer Kelly Rivera.

In a dreamwalk you are actually walking in a dream. You're in the dream state, which is the Delta brainwave state of the Organic brain and nervous system. In projection, you're full on, full blast, whatever your consciousness level happens to be – Beta, Alpha, Theta, whatever it is. You can be in full Beta and still do projection. I want you to understand that. It is a very active process rather than a passive process such as dreamwalking. I didn't mention this earlier, but one of the things that I do is I fumigate the target, I fumigate it, anoint it, charge it up and then it goes in for a lamination process. By the time the lamination is on there, the target card is fully charged. So that's why it takes a while to get the targets is because I'm putting all that energy and time into it to prepare the targets. They're not just printed and sent out. They are actually fumigated, anointed and charged and sealed and then put together in a package and sent to you.

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Weekend workshop — Reno, Nevada.

In the case of the disks, the enamel goes over that oil anointing. So you don't smell it, but it's there. Everyone gets personal coaching from me in the Astral Projection Workshops. I give personal one-on-one coaching, so it's well worthwhile if you can make it. I would normally charge $2,500 for that coaching and you can get the same training for the price of the weekend workshop, about $275 - $350. Every single individual who comes is going to get personal low-cost coaching from me. About the charts — Essence equals Essential Self. I didn't want to write out Essential Self on a chart, so I said Essence. It also translates better into German, French and Spanish. Essential self – there isn't any translation typically. You have to make up something. I also did the same with Etheric. It just translates better as Ether. There are some words that exist in English that don't exist in other languages, and there are things in other languages that don't exist in English, so I did the best I could to make it as international as I could possibly make it, without losing the basic sense of it.

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Were you out-of-body?

That you didn't happen to notice whether or not you were out-ofbody doesn't mean you weren't out-of-body. Most of the out-of-body training confusions stem from attention problems where you are not familiar with the self-observation necessary to determine that you are actually in fact out-of-body. Self-observing and self-study help you to determine what is a normal state, because only if you know what the normal state is, the baseline, can you then differentiate it from paranormal. A paranormal state is a state that is other than normal, beside normal. If you don't know what your starting point is, how can you possibly know where you are relative to that? Establishing a starting point, a baseline of normality, is a scientific technique.

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View from training suite — Reno, Nevada.

You have to start out by figuring out where you're at, just noticing where you happen to be. It's going to be the same challenge that confronted folks during the Bardo Afterlife Adventure runs up in Reno. You’re looking for anomalies in order to determine the authenticity of your experience. Anomaly means something that shouldn't be there but is. The older folks who used to drive around with CBs in their cars or vans or trucks would know what this process is. You have to null the CB unit to zero before you can actually detect a signal. You have to find a place where radio traffic chatter doesn't happen, then you work upwards from there with the little squelch knob until you isolate the signal you want.

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E.J. as “Gorby” on a mapping mission — Reno, Nevada.

In science, in testing procedures, particularly in things like sampling, you have to have a known fail — not fail in the sense that something went wrong, fail in the sense that if you are adding a couple drops of phenolphthalein in order to detect whether solutions are acidic or not, you add it to a solution that you know is not acidic so that you can see the color change or lack of change for a negative result, not a bad thing. If you want to know if something's hot or cold, you have to touch something that you know is hot or something that you know is cold. Your body actually has its own nulling. There are perceptual experiments you can try by touching somebody with an ice cube while in the presence of the aroma of seared meat and the sound of sizzling steak. They're going to feel heat, not cold, because the body has adjusted itself through the aromatic to expect heat, not cold.

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Trainers Tamara and Susan map out Astral route with “Uncle” Claude.

In the process of self-observation, you establish a baseline of normality, whatever that is. Normal just means normal for you. It doesn't mean normal in the absolute sense, because there are no such things as normality for everyone. What's normal for you? How do you normally feel? How do you normally think? How do you normally taste things? How do you normally smell stuff? How do you normally hear things? What's your normal sense of perceptions, your normal senses, your normal sense of balance? If you go into a doctor and the doctor says, “What's happening?” “I've got this pain.” Well, I've got this pain means I have something happening now that is more painful than I usually have, because for some people “I have this pain” means, “Okay, today I have a level ten. Last week it was all level eights and sevens.” Other people have very little pain typically. So for them having a pain might be that they have a two or three on the pain scale, or one, as opposed to zero.

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Claude with trainers — Reno, Nevada.

Claude's cousin had a bone disease. To give you an idea what her pain level was like, she broke her leg and didn't know about it for over a week before somebody said, “Wait a minute. Your leg is bent.” That can be a real shock to find out that somebody's inner world is so different that their experience is radically different than your own. It’s a trainer’s job to be constantly aware of the trainee’s state, condition and subjective experience. In advanced “Chaos Training”, this is even more difficult to maintain, because so many wild things are happening all at once in the pandemonium of the advanced training spaces, such as a casino or other difficult, disorienting and confusion-oriented environments.

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Start at “home base”.

In our first small Etheric excursions, you’re going to start at the “home plate” and walk ten feet over to some other point. From here to there, and then back again. And then you do the same thing with your Etheric Body, but perhaps you don't know that you actually did it. You’re unsure of your experience. What's going on there? Does that mean that you failed to walk with the Etheric Body, or does it mean that you can't see, you can't touch, you can't feel? If you're deaf, dumb and blind in everything other than the Organic, you just won’t know for sure until you gain some perceptions in the Etheric Body. Your attention level may be so low that you don't know what you normally feel and sense and think and touch and smell and hear, so totally out of touch with yourself, that if you walk ten feet and back, you don't know you did it with the Etheric Body until your higher perceptions and subtle sight have developed a little.

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Trainers meet with Dr. Claude Needham.

You might have a picture of how it's all going to be before you start out, so when it doesn't match that picture of what you've presumed it's going to be, you fail. I should be able to . . . I should do that . . . I should look like this . . . I should . . . You've got all of these imaginary “I should” things set up that you say, “Okay, it didn't match this, didn't meet that, didn't do this.” All right, so you have a belief system built up about what's it going to be like rather than looking at what actually happens. This preconception can cause confusion. Don’t worry — the confusion, disorientation and uncertainity, if it happens at all, won’t last long. The subtle body perceptions tend to develop rather rapidly.

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Start of “Reno Run”.

In order to be 100% effective with everyone who tries my method, it has to be that basic, really that basic. It helps immensely if there's no preconceived notion what projection is going to be like. I guess the biggest obstacle to most people is going to be that they imagine what it's going to be like to Astral Project, and then when they do it, it doesn't meet their imaginary concept. That's what was being talked about earlier. Because it doesn't meet their imaginary belief about what it's going to be, they assume they failed. However, there are certain objective tests that you can carry out to determine whether you have projected or not, whether it looks to you like you did or didn't makes no difference, because what will happen is your subtle-body perceptions will probably be weak and wavy at the beginning.

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Breaking the heavy conditioning to keep you in-body.

From your very birth or before, there's so much reinforcement to keep you in your Organic Body, to keep your consciousness rooted to the Organic Body, to keep you totally enslaved to the Organic Body and the consensus reality that it's a miracle you can get out of the Organic Body at all after that much conditioning, not only from your parents and your schools, your teachers and your fellow students and your neighbors and your relatives and your friends all telling you “Stay in that Organic Body, be in that Organic Body, that's the only reality, everything else is imaginary, that's the only reality.” You're also on top of that getting bombarded by television, radio, albums, newspapers, books, the internet – it's all about the Organic Body. You're considered sick or crazy or delusional if you think there's anything besides the body. If you want to get out of your body, those stuck in the consensus reality consider you psychotic, sick, weird, a witch, a warlock, wizard and a freak.

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Trainers confer during a Reno run.

All of that reinforcement is plowed into you, and you're sitting there in the Organic Body and if you cave in, give in to that kind of social programming, then that's all there'll ever be for you. The fact that other folks can get out-of-body should encourage you to the point where you realize if you are not getting out, it's not a question of whether it's possible or not, but a question of how your conditioning can be overcome. The only way to get to that is to start as in gold dredging, gold mining in general – you have to take off the overburden. Do you even know your feet are on the floor right now? Are you aware of that? Do you know where you're sitting relative to the walls? How many people are in the room? What's happening with your hands? Do you know if your hands are touching?

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Reno outdoor “blind target” mission.

What is the ambient temperature of the air around you? How do your hands feel right now? How do they feel right this minute? Do you have any sensations in your hands? Do you have any sensations in your knees? Do you have any sensations in your ears? Do you have any sensation in your scalp? There are remedies for those who are stuck by social programming in the Organic Body. There's a lot of programming that makes you stick there, and there's a good reason for it. The people who stuck you in your body are highly motivated to do that.

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Trainers’ suite — Reno, Nevada.

There's a very profound reason why they would want you stuck inside your body and they'll do virtually anything, no matter how brutal, to keep you there, and you are going to have to spend some serious time and energy to pry yourself loose from all of that conditioning in order to be able to be free enough to move to the subtle bodies. Mostly it’s about fear. People are born with fear and controlled by fear all their lives. One thing about which you can have absolute certainty is that once you have been consciously out-of-body, you won’t ever again be afraid of what can happen to you in a body. That freedom from Organic fear is a very liberating thing.

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Workshops offer big savings for trainees.

Personal coaching really makes a big difference. If you don't succeed at home, you need to get with me in a workshop situation. Most folks will not be able to afford to take personal training. I know that. But you can get to a workshop and it will then cost you a small fraction of what it would cost to take personal training. You can save by taking it as a group in a workshop situation. With personal training, the chances of your success are improved by thousands of percent. But you certainly can try it at home. If you don't succeed, email me and I will arrange some personal coaching. I'll find some way to make that happen for you. You can take the Trainer’s Course at the same time and then when you’re a certified trainer, you can teach Astral Projection in your hometown, or go on the road with a training tour.

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E.J.’s drawing class, Grass Valley, Ca.

1. Draw what you saw — learn to rough draft scenes and subjects of astral projection. I have issued several books on the subject of drawing. My basic drawing books are designed with the Astral voyager in mind. You will quickly learn how to sketch anything from memory, using a simple graphite pencil and a special “ez-draw” pad. My art instruction books are so easy to work with that even if you can’t draw a circle or a stick figure, you’ll soon be able to draw like a pro. You are prompted in a very gentle step-by-step process from the very simple up to the very complex. You will have several types of subjects for the drawings you put into your Astral Journal — they will be:

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Three “hardcore” cadre advanced course trainers in an outdoor mission — Reno, Nevada.

Landscapes — these will be outdoor scenes, some of which will be very ordinary. Trees, houses, telephone poles and fences. Other landscapes may be quite different, in the sense that they are not of this world. As your travels progress into higher and higher dimensions and into parallel worlds and alternate dimensions, you may find that they visually describe extremely different laws of physics and reality. You will have so many scenes that you’ll want to record and there is no easier way to notate your experience than with a sketch. With my simple drawing method, you can quickly and easily sketch out what you saw when you were Astral voyaging. I’m working on an Astral smartphone that you can carry with you on an Astral voyage, but until then, a sketchpad will have to do.

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“Floating” scene indoors is a still-life.

Interiors — also called "Still Life", these are visual descriptions of the interiors of houses, buildings of various kinds, perhaps just a small area of an interior such as a kitchen table and chairs with objects on the table, a vase of flowers or a mousehole in a wall with an electrical socket. Anything that is drawn inside a structure would classify as a Still Life. Interiors are in some ways easier to draw, keeping in mind that you don’t need to record all the details — just the important key items that will help you later to jog your memory of the experience. These drawings can be drawn on standard sketchpad and then scanned, reduced and printed out for your Astral journal or scrapbook. I like to record my journeys in a scrapbook, and I teach scrapbooking in my Astral travel workshops so you can use the same easy scrapbook method.

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Laura’s radiant in her Astral hatband.

Portraits — A portrait deals with only the face, neck and possibly the top of the chest and shoulders, which is then called a "bust". Sometimes a face is all you need to generate on paper to notate a subtle-plane event.

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Could you sketch this scene???

Figure — A figure drawing includes most of the body or the whole body. Whether the figure is clothed or not, it is called a figure study. If it is clothed, it is generally referred to as a draped figure. If nude, it is called a figure study. The figures you draw from your Higher Body excursions may well be far outside the general biological farmhouse we call human. Figures, if kept simple, are easier to draw than you might think. Again, this is certainly one subject that I cover in my projection workshops.

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E.J.’s drawing class, Grass Valley, Ca.

Animal — These can be anything from household pets to wild animals, and in many cases of Higher Body travel, they will fall far outside the biological limits of Earthbound fauna. Animal drawing can be difficult, but there are ways of overcoming that. Every sketch and visual aid helps to secure and comprehend what happened in an Astral journey. You won’t often encounter animal forms in higher subtle body planes of existence, but there are some. If you learn to draw horses and cats, you’ll probably be all right.

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Floral drawings with graphite.

Floral — Again, the flora of your Astral travels will not be limited to the flora found on our Earth. Sometimes it might be necessary to capture the image in color, in which case, colored pens, pencils or watercolors could come in handy.

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Abstract charcoal sketching class with E.J.

Abstract — Abstraction is the key to most of the drawings you'll be making of your Astral journeys, because it allows you full freedom to express the visions outside the boundaries of ordinary Earthbound strictures. Abstract doesn't mean a messy cloud of paint or wiggly scribbled lines. It obeys very strict laws of visual dynamics and can well be used to portray very unusual spaces — unusual for Earthbounders, anyway. Abstraction means in this singular case “to make simpler”. Simplification is achieved by the process of “reduction”. I give a rudimentary class in reductionism at workshops, with just enough instruction to get you able to record an abstract space in your Astral journal.

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Some spaces are totally non-Einsteinian.

Non-Objective — usually watercolor or acrylic will help you here, but colored pens and pencils will also be of use to portray the boundless reaches of non-objective space, where color and radiation are the technical building blocks of visual stimuli. There are many unusual and indescribable spaces and events in the higher subtle planes and this will be the mainstay of most of your visual records in the advanced levels. Color theory really helps here. The three dimensions of painting form the critical mass of this simple visual method — light to dark, warm to cool and intense to gray. In my non-objective painting class, given in all my Astral workshops, I show how to make this technique work for you. Many of my students actually make a living selling paintings of their Astral journeys.

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Burning slot tickets, Reno, Nevada.

2. Location by coordinates. Learn how to locate spaces and targets through axial coordinates. You can easily apply the basics of coordinate spacial location just as we did in the Remote Readers Intelligence Agencies of the Cold War period. Merely call off the coordinates of the target as you draw it in hypnagogic automatic writing methodology. I teach this in one-on-one training at the Neal Street Center. What I teach is the same method we used in the Intelligence Services. You will be surprised at how accurate this method can be. It can be used to locate and pinpoint the position of anything on Planet Earth from a lost denture (actual case on record) to a dream house in Thailand (actual case on record). In the event that you are trying to locate a parallel world, the coordinate method also comes in handy. In fact, it can be used to locate a temporal coordinate as well as a spatial one — we use it to pinpoint dates, times and places related to Past Life recaps.

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Burning karma at the slots, Reno, Nevada.

Past Life recaps are very useful when burning past karma, getting free of past life guilt and fears, and freeing oneself from past conditioning and personal superstitions. One method of karma-burning is used in Past Life Repair is experienced in our “Reno runs”, and involves a special, rather innovative use of slot machine tickets and a somewhat complex use of the I-Ching. Burning past karma is the key here, not dwelling on the endless details of past experiences. Merely churning up memories can easily lead to an interminable loop. The way to handle the dragging-down effect is to concentrate on burning off the karma — in a way, it’s surprisingly similar to fat-burning and weight-reduction.

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Precog training, Reno, Nevada.

3. Precognitive functions — Learn how to precog through blackjack, craps, roulette and other randomity-based games. There is no better way to navigate than to already be aware of the road ahead. Precog functions are very handy tools in your personal navigation through life. You can also learn telepathic communication, telekinesis — moving objects without touching them — and teleportation, changing location without moving through space. Time travel, invisibility, telepathy, telekinesis and levitation are other subjects studied at the Neal Street Training Center. They are not subjects that are easily transmitted in book form or by video presentation, or they would have been offered in those forms long ago, although the theory is easily available. The practical methods used to achieve these skills must be transmitted through applied practice transmitted directly one-on-one over a significant period of time.

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Shapeshifter training, Reno, Nevada.

4. Shapeshifter Training — Learn how to shapeshift in other times, spaces and dimensions. This training is difficult, time-consuming and requires an intensity of purpose and a highly directed set of skills. Shapeshifting is directly transmitted through intense and demanding conditions and exercises, and tends to be expensive, over a long period of time with some travel requirements, dietary restrictions and stringent training regulations, similar to that of serious martial arts. Unless you plan to enter the world of the shaman, shapeshifting will be of little use or interest to you, just as the study of “Ventro”, which, unless you plan to invoke conversational spirits, will also be of little interest or use. As you’d expect, Ventro and Shapeshifting are only taught in higher levels of training.

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Fear workshop, Reno, Nevada.

5. Fears — Learn how to handle fear and unexpected drama. This training is only available under personal supervision of highly trained and very skilled coaches using the GODD levels in a controlled environment. There is no way to convey the Fear Training online or in written format. Fear is your single greatest obstacle, and is the driving force behind why you are in the Physical plane, tucked safely away under the cozy warm blanket of the Organic universe. Until you conquer your deepest darkest fears, you will tend to remain in the comfort zone of the human world. The Fear Zone training starts when you enter the worlds of the Causal Body and Body of Habits.

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Split-second decisioning, Reno, Nevada.

6. Decisions — Learn how to make flash decisions at split points and pathway crossroads, decision points and reality forks. Using the GODD training technology and other gaming methods, decision-making and split-point skills can be learned through dedicated application in Bardo Safaris, available online several times per week. Contact me for times and dates. Every time you make a choice between two or more paths, your universe splits into Parallel Worlds. Branches, roots, multiple pathways grow like cracks in mud — by the time you’re out into your late thirties, you’ve left a trail of millions of Parallel Worlds behind you. Why split-second decisions? Because there’s never enough time to make a ponderous, considered choice. Jump!

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E.J. enrobed on Druid sacred ground.

7. Enrobement and symbology are used in Astral Projection and parallel world jaunting excursions. This is a complex study and is not generally available except at advanced workshops four times a year.

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Targeting demo — Reno, Nevada.

8. Wearable Targeting, using articles of clothing for astral programming. These include headbands, wristbands, anklebands, armbands, rings, amulets, and some cloth wearables. Targeting Wearables are available on yoyodyneindustries.com. All wearable targeting fashions are custom-made. I use metallic fabric paints for these items. You can find many examples on tattoo-fashions.com

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Shapeshifting shamen, E.J. & Koyote, Reno, Nevada.

9. Afterlife Adventures — Pandemonium & Chaos in Astral Travel. This can only be attained in special Afterlife Adventure workshops offered four times per year, personally guided, observed and regulated by myself with the able assistance of several professionally trained admin staffers and Astral Guides. You can apply for an Afterlife Adventure if you plan to attend any of my Astral Projection workshops. Anyone who has gone on one of my Afterlife Adventures will tell you there’s nothing else like it — and there isn’t. An Afterlife Adventure is the closest you’ll ever get to the Afterlife while you’re still on Earth.

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E.J. at Reno Afterlife Adventure.

Afterlife Adventures are Astral Travel of the toughest sort, and you are warned, they are intense and demanding and require that you wake up at horribly uncomfortable and unusual hours, work many hours at a stretch without complaint, and maintain a good attitude and sense of humor throughout the grueling and sometimes confusing experience. Afterlife Adventures are typically held in Reno, Nevada, and are part of a special Bardo Training Program, which begins here at the Neal Street Center the day before we embark for Reno. We require that you take the prep training at Neal Street prior to the trip to Reno, which means arriving a bit early. The adventure is an over-nighter and ends with a special “postmortem” breakfast before flying or driving out. You can fly directly into Reno if you have taken the prep training, or arrange a private prep training with one of our coaches.

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Trainers at slots, Reno run.

You must apply well in advance for inclusion in these Afterlife Adventures, which are part of the Astral Travel training program. Once accepted into the Afterlife Adventure Team, you will be able to apply for the next available slot in the program. Many of my Astral trainees will book onto several Reno Runs a year. I try to have them four times every year, as winter snowstorms allow. Plan to give yourself a full day after a Reno Run to recover and reintegrate into the consensus reality.

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Trainees at slots, eight admins at right.

Afterlife Adventure Teams cannot by their nature be overly large and cumbersome. The one-on-one training requires a small team. The amount of "numbers crunching" and admin is so great and so demanding on the admin and coaches, that the total number of participants is now very strictly limited, although groups as large as 120 participants were tried for a number of events. Smaller groups are now required by both our training staff and the casinos and hotels because of the nature of this particular training — the casinos are totally aware of the training aspects and their personnel are advised of our exact procedures and have agreed to comply with them — although other types of workshops, conventions and performance events can be much larger. An Afterlife Adventure requires 8 admins. The casinos will work with us best when we have a maximum of 16 participants.

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E.J. clowns at a karma burn slot machine, Reno, Nevada.

Afterlife Adventures tend to be horrifically intense, extremely demanding and somewhat expensive. You must stay in a group hotel accommodation, are not allowed separate and private accommodations, must eat in specified restaurants as a group, must play at tables as a group and must travel in the Reno area as a group. Discipline is a must, and a very intense and strict timetable is maintained. The run starts at a precise moment, runs rapidly through several specific stages and is so fast-paced that it leaves everyone — except the experienced trainers — quite breathless. Trainers work out every day for these events. It is their job to literally be able to run circles around their trainees.

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By dawn’s early light, Reno run is over.

While group rates tend to reduce the costs, nevertheless, the cost of table play, slot machine play and food makes this somewhat pricey. The reason for the required table and slot play is twofold: firstly, to generate random numbers and sequences which you will try to predict; secondly, to make the casino happy to have us as guests. We tip well, give good action at the tables and conduct ourselves in such a way as to be welcome guests for future Afterlife Adventure Reno Runs. Remember that we are guests in a commercial space. We act responsibly and with good discipline while using the hotel’s facilities for our adventures.

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Claude and Dick numbers-crunching slot tickets.

Costs will vary depending on the time of year. Casino hotels are very seasonal and their prices are determined by demand. The training requires a certain level of gaming play for the generation of numbers to be entered into our Bardo Stats. With the exception of the numbers-generators issued by the slots, you get to keep all your winnings at the tables. The slot tickets are first used to generate numbers for the I-Ching, then the entire group ceremonially burns them at the I-Ching Altar where they are “sent up” as offerings. Claude and Dick will typically spend up to four hours crunching numbers for the “Ching” readings. Each participant has his or her own unique set of I-Ching numbers and a personal “reading” which is gnenrated with those numbers.

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Reno Astral adventure.

We ask a relatively small donation for your participation in the Afterlife Adventure, which just covers the cost of the travel, accommodations, additional insurance coverage for the event, and food and other expenses for the large team of coaches and admin staff which will work with you on your Afterlife Adventure Reno Run. I realize that most of the workshops on the planet demand high tuitions, but I don’t earn my living from this. I make my living from artwork. My Astral Voyage training exists quite apart from my daily survival. I have always kept them separate.

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Outside Astral Adventure, Reno, Nevada.

We use several large suites for our meetings during the Afterlife Adventures, never the restaurants or cafes, although your team will of course be allowed to converse on subjects other than Afterlife Adventures and Bardo experience at mealtimes in a number of different restaurants. Your experience will include a variety of environments – different casinos, hotels, restaurants and outside adventures. In the photo, you see an outdoor mission — four trainers are leading Team A to one location, while four more instructors lead Team B to another. The two teams then meet and proceed together as one team to a third target objective.

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Claude (behind machine at left), Chris, E.J. and Dave, Reno, Nevada.

Your accommodation will be with the hotel, and will be in a fine, comfortable and large suite at group rates, which are special rates for our nonprofit organization. This arrangement, where we pay for and register every guest and every member of our training team, keeps us in good standing with the hotel management staff and makes us welcome guests there every time. Keeping a low profile while traveling with a large team of highlydisciplined fellow voyagers is not an easy task. Hotel management works with us to provide a safe environment for our Afterlife Adventures.

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View from my window, Reno, Nevada.

Our relationship with the hotels and casinos is good and has been good for several decades, and we expect all members of our Afterlife Adventure Teams to conduct themselves in such a way as to ensure our continued welcome there. The hotel staff has been gracious and accommodating to our training needs and is very happy to have us as guests. Our training suites are large enough to accommodate a very big double team. Sometimes our group is so large that we must reserve restaurant tables at off-hours.

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E.J. gives basic blackjack fairplay “prep” training.

You are expected to follow the strict rules of the gaming spaces, set up by the casinos in accordance with the requirements of the Gaming Commission and the laws of the State of Nevada. No one under the age of 21 is permitted to participate in the Afterlife Adventures. No high-stake gaming is permitted in our Afterlife Adventures and of course no card-counting or other cheat will be tolerated and will be reported immediately to the casino if detected. If you are wondering whether you’d qualify for a Reno Run, you can call 530-271-2239 and ask.

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Chaos and pandemonium reign supreme in casinos.

Afterlife Adventures are elegant and highly conscious events, proceeding with panache and elan, in the most difficult of spaces, amidst the total chaos and pandemonium of the casinos at their busiest and most befuddling and distracting time of night. Then comes the second “for real” Night Run.

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E.J. with ancient artifact, Astral time-travel class.

You must learn under these demanding conditions to control your emotions, focus your attention and make good decisions, while picking your way through the labyrinth of confusion and mayhem, looking always for the myriad twists and turns of multiple pathways amongst a plethora of alternate dimensions. The Reno Run is fast-paced and demanding of your time, attention and discipline. A Reno Run is definitely not for the timid. You will learn a lot, but you will have to work hard for it.

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E.J. cloaks up for Reno Astral adventure.

Again, you must demonstrate personal stability and a desire to participate with elegance and style before you can be accepted into this program. You can call for more information about how you can qualify for an Afterlife Adventure.

Contact Information

Dear Reader: For more information regarding Astral projection please contact: Gateways Books P.O. Box 370 Nevada City, CA. 95959-0370 Phone: (800) 869-0658 (530) 271-2239 Fax: (530) 272-0364

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