Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques

275 Pages·2012·1.14 MB·English

by  Graham Nicholls

Photo by Triin Tõniste About the Author Graham Nicholls (London, England) has had hundreds of out-of-body experiences
and is a world-recognized expert on the subject. An experienced speaker on many areas of spirituality, art, and psychical
research, he has presented his ideas at prestigious institutions such as The Science Museum of London, The London
College of Spirituality, and Cambridge University. He has also been featured on the BBC and in The Times, The
Independent, and the Telegraph, as well as in many magazines and websites.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 CELESTIAL HORIZONS: THE ART OF LEAVING THE BODY
2 SCIENCE AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE
3 SKEPTICS AND THE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE 4
YOUR PERSONAL PROFILE: WHICH APPROACH IS BEST
FOR YOU?
5 TRANSFORMING BELIEFS 6 IMMERSIVE APPROACHES
TO HAVING AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE 7 THE
PHYSICAL BODY 8 THE EXTENDED MIND 9 LEAVING THE
BODY: WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
10 ANOTHER REALITY: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL
VISUALISATIONS 11 HEALING AND THE OUT-OF-BODY
EXPERIENCE 12 CERULEAN DAWN: PERCEIVING ACROSS
TIME 13 THE NEXT LEVEL: LIFE AFTER DEATH EPILOGUE
APPENDIX TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES GLOSSARY
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
I
would especially like to thank my mother and father for their unending
support, as well as the rest of my family and the friends who inspired and
supported me during the writing process, including: Merlyn Roberts, Eucalyptus
Thompson, Cecil McGrane, Matthew Dennis, Lawrence Brightman, Kadri
Allikmäe, and Triin Tõniste.
I would also like to say a special thank you to Herbie Brennan for his very
kind foreword to this book, and Philip Paul, Tom Campbell, Dr. Peter Fenwick,
and Dr. Jeffery Long for their interviews, comments, and endorsements. I would
also like to acknowledge the Society for Psychical Research, the Monroe
Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the International Association for
Near Death Studies for resources and research that have helped greatly with the
writing of this book. Thanks also to Alex Tsakiris for his important work moving
the proponent/skeptic debate forward through the Skeptiko podcast and the Open
Source Science project. I would also like to acknowledge Rupert Sheldrake,
Brian Josephson, and Dean Radin, whose work has influenced many of the ideas
that I have drawn upon.
Finally, I would like to thank Susan Mears, my agent for this book, who
suggested putting the proposal forward and helped make this book a reality;
Carrie Obry for championing this book at Llewellyn; Adam Schaab for taking
over as editor and seeing it through to publication; and Lee Lewis, for her
excellent copyediting.
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Foreword
S
ome research polls suggest that as many as one person in every four can
expect to find themselves outside their physical body and wandering the
world like a ghost at some point in their life … without the inconvenience of
dying in order to do so. The experience is sometimes thrilling, sometimes
frightening, frequently fascinating, and almost always unexpected. For the vast
majority, it is also unrepeatable.
And therein lies a major problem with what might be considered a potentially
important phenomenon. Scientific investigators dislike unrepeatable evidence,
which, by definition, does not lend itself to careful examination or laboratory
experiment. As a result, the evidence itself is often ignored or dismissed as
anecdotal. In the process, something of huge value may well be lost.
Enter Graham Nicholls. When Graham first discovered the out-of-body
experience (OOBE or OBE) as a boy, he was not content to treat it as a bolt from
the blue, likely never to be repeated in his lifetime. Instead, he studied, observed,
and practiced until he could leave his body at will. This gave him, over the
course of literally hundreds of OBEs, an opportunity to examine the
phenomenon at depths unavailable to those who experience it only once,
spontaneously.
In the process, he discovered there was more to the experience than met the
eye. While, for many, an OBE involves no more than stepping out of the body
and traveling the world in ghostly form, an OBE can also open doorways onto
what appear to be different levels of reality, some of which are seemingly
equivalent to the astral planes of esoteric tradition. It can also lead to changes in
perception that produce a new and different understanding of the universe and
can even generate the realization of unity reported by mystics down the ages.
Interestingly, several of Graham’s experiences were confirmed by the results of