So you’re reading this because you’re interested in OOBE – Out of Body Experience. You want to have an OOBE, but either it doesn’t happen at all or it occurs very rarely. You want to explore reality, travel beyond the body, reach extraordinary places and investigate extraordinary things. You want to reclaim something you subconsciously feel is a natural ability – your extrasensory perception and the power to move your mind to different fascinating places.

You may know Robert A. Monroe’s trilogy: Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, and Ultimate Journey. Perhaps other books from the OOBE repertoire as well. Yet the results aren’t satisfying yet.

I have good news for you.

OOBE – while it is a fascinating and unique experience – is not the only way to experience distant perception and to explore physical as well as non-material reality through your non-material insight.

Why Classical OOBE Is So Demanding

Classical OOBE has the disadvantage of requiring an optimal energetic state and physical rest. In the pace of our fast-moving lives, being fully rested and well-slept is often a challenge. If we are not sufficiently rested and recovered through good sleep, we usually lose consciousness during OOBE attempts and fall asleep instead of experiencing a journey outside the body – or even if we do have the journey, our mind may not retain the memory of it.

If we are also not in optimal psychological condition, our attempts can more readily stir up our fears – so OOBE is also not suitable for people who feel uncertain and have anxieties. In such a situation it is better not to expose oneself to confrontation with one’s fears in the astral space by leaving one’s comfortable physical body. OOBE is good for people who know well what they are doing, or who at least have a light, optimistic mind free from fear-laden concerns about an unknown reality.

OOBE also requires considerable astral energy, which is connected to our sense of rest and state in the physical world. If we are frequently tired for any reason, the chances of OOBE also diminish. And finally, OOBE requires complete silence and calm. If someone nearby is moving around and making noise, OOBE is out of the question – the body simply needs to be able to fully relax and fall into a comfortable sleep so that consciousness in the astral body can separate from it.

Practicing OOBE myself and experiencing it from time to time, I struggled with similar problems – not being fully satisfied with the frequency with which I managed to achieve the OOBE state, and consequently with the slow pace at which it allowed exploring the broader reality.

A Path to Easier OOBE – Remote Viewing

That is why, having searched for other methods and having explored practically all of them, I chose the practice of Remote Viewing – enabling far greater frequency and quality of experiences, and far more quickly.

Remote Viewing is a technique originally developed and refined for the needs of American intelligence during the Cold War. The question was whether extrasensory perception could be controlled and used to reliably gather information by moving the perception of the human mind outside the material body over distance. Remote Viewing was born from the effort to determine how effectively distant perception could be mastered and how useful it could be for intelligence gathering.

When information about Remote Viewing was partially declassified after the Cold War ended, those who had worked on the protocols for optimally mastering these abilities could finally share part of their knowledge with the world. This gave us access to that knowledge today, and a new generation of researchers was able to further refine and adapt these techniques for civilian use.

We now know how to most effectively activate in a person the abilities of distant perception across many levels of reality – enabling acquisition of information about things present in our physical world but distant in space and even time, as well as things originating from non-material levels, that is, the spiritual or non-physical worlds.

Remote Viewing is performed in a state of normal wakefulness, through appropriate practices of focused attention and adherence to Remote Viewing principles. Importantly, this state does not require as much energy as OOBE practice. Remote Viewing insight can be activated and used even when we are tired or under-slept. Since we retain normal awareness of our physical body and contact with physical reality, we are also not thrown into the deep water of an unfamiliar reality. At any moment we can break our focus on the perception target – and we can control the course of our experience far more easily than in OOBE.

Remote Viewing is also easier to master and control, and does not require ideal quiet conditions. After appropriate training, insight sessions can be conducted even in noise and with other people moving around nearby. Better conditions only improve results.

That is precisely why I especially recommend learning Remote Viewing to those who are curious about the possibility of experiencing non-material realities and the freedom of exploring without the constraints of the physical body. Remote Viewing can itself provide everything that was expected from OOBE – and for those who feel the need, it can also be a good, more conscious foundation for OOBE practice at a later stage. Remote Viewing can supply many important and fascinating insights and pieces of information, while allowing one to experience the wonderful natural ability of the human mind and to visit many fascinating places.

Jakub Qba Niegowski – Extrasensory Awareness Development Specialist

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