Contents Acknowledgments xiii Foreword xv One: CELESTIAL HORIZONS: THE ART OF LEAVING THE BODY 1 What Is the OBE? 5 New Approaches to Having an OBE 13 Two: SCIENCE AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE 19 So What Is Science? 20 The Extended Mind Theory 23 The Quantum Entanglement Theory 25 Contributing Factors in Psi Success 26 How Remote Viewing and Near-Death Experiences Relate to OBEs 30 Three: SKEPTICS AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE 35 The Skeptical Community 37 Four: YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE: WHICH APPROACH IS BEST FOR YOU? 47 A Program to Suit You 48 Working with Your Personal Profile 56 Five: TRANSFORMING BELIEFS 57 The Problem of Fear 59 Apathy and Motivation 68 Managing Your Time 69 Six: IMMERSIVE APPROACHES TO HAVING AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE 73 My Experiments with Immersive Environments 75 The Ganzfeld Approach 77 When and How to Use Immersion 80 Concerning Hallucinogens 81 Other Forms of Immersion 82 Seven: THE PHYSICAL BODY 87 Diet 88 Physical Exercise 92 Relaxation 94 Sleep 96 Sound 97 Eight: THE EXTENDED MIND 99 What Is the Subtle Body? 100 What Can We Learn from Personal Experience? 102 Cosmic Consciousness 104 The Extended Mind and Enlightenment 108 Nine: LEAVING THE BODY: WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? 111 The Vibrational State 113 Encounters Beyond the Body 115 Ten : ANOTHER REALITY: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL VISUALISATIONS 125 A Tattva Vision 126 Three-Dimensional Tattvas 128 Geometric Patterns and Consciousness 132 Eleven: HEALING AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE 137 Healing Energies 138 My Experiences with Healing Others 140 Practical Vibrational State Healing 142 Twelve: CERULEAN DAWN: PERCEIVING ACROSS TIME 147 Precognition in Action 148 Experiments with Time 150 An Historical Approach to Precognition 151 Seeing into the Past 153 Developing Perception through Time 154 Thirteen: THE NEXT LEVEL: LIFE AFTER DEATH 159 Evidence for an Afterlife 160 Accessing the Transphysical Levels 165 The Summerlands 168 The Out-of-Body Experience and Spiritual Development 170 Epilogue 175 Appendix: TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES 179 How to Use This Section 179 Relaxation Techniques 180 Vibrational State Techniques 186 Home Immersive Approaches 191 Techniques for Intellectual People 193 Techniques for Visual People 195 Techniques for Auditory People 198 Techniques for Physical People 200 Techniques for Working with a Partner 205 Technique for Accessing the Transphysical Levels 208 Glossary 213 Endnotes 225 Bibliography 231 Index 239.