To get the most from teaching out-of-body travel and lucid dreaming, you’ll need to try to differentiate your teaching formats as much as possible. This allows you to bring in more attendees, which means better financial results. While holding seminars, you shouldn’t forget about one-on-one lessons, creating your own teaching materials, and distance learning.

Moreover, it makes no sense at all to stick to your hometown, especially if there are not that many people in it. Expand your horizons as much as possible. Be sure to include nearby cities and towns within your geographical reach. Consider each of your country’s metropolitan areas with more than a million people as a potential market. Other countries are not only potential retreat seminar venues: you can also work with people and organizations abroad who are interested in holding seminars in their towns.

To get the most out of teaching out-of-body travel and lucid dreaming, you might introduce a stage-based system. For example, large one-time lectures for novices can be considered stage one. Three-day seminars meant for obtaining initial and intermediate-level experiences can be stage two. Meanwhile, a third stage may be created for more advanced practitioners that features a more sophisticated version of the three-day seminar, immersion sessions, and regular lessons.

A good piece of advice for expanding your audience is to keep good statistics on how people found out about your services. Whenever you get a new student, ask him how, where, and from whom he found out about you. Write down his answer so that you can later tally the results and determine the most effective source of referrals and invest more effort in it. Keeping such statistics might also reveal that some sources of referrals are coming up short: they ought to be bringing results, but for some reason are not.

It should be understood that entering out-of-body experience state is nothing difficult as long as the methods are performed correctly. How to do so has been well known for a long time, and it’s really quite easy. If it doesn’t work, it’s always because of some mistake. The most important thing is that the instructor understand this and bring his students to do the same. This is the most correct approach to the phenomenon, and one that allows students to become ever more proficient at it. Students should enjoy such a sense of ease throughout their entire course of study. It will give them confidence in their actions, and confidence is one of the key requirements for the already-easy indirect method, for example.

According to modern science, out-of-body travel, lucid dreaming, and a whole slew of similar phenomena in which one is fully conscious but does not perceive the physical body are forms of one and the same dissociative phenomenon, which has been dubbed the “phase” or “phase state” in this book for the purposes of bringing all of its sub-phenomena together under a single umbrella term. Accordingly, its practitioners are referred to herein as phasers and to phase has been adopted as the verb form in English. To put it briefly, the physiology of the phenomenon is characterized by activation of the frontal areas of the brain during REM sleep. Meanwhile, people perceive what seems to be a separation from their physical body and input from their five senses that is substantially more vivid than that of everyday reality. They can walk, see, hear, touch, and even eat, feel pain, pleasure, and much more.

This phenomenon has hundreds of practical applications, including not only obtaining information, self-healing, artistic development, and traveling, but also meeting with the deceased, rehabilitation for the disabled, an alternative to computer games, fulfilling desires, and much, much more.

According to some estimates, about 80% of the population has encountered this phenomenon in its full-fledged form at least once in their lives. Meanwhile, nearly everyone has experienced it in its shallower variations. Our knowledge of this unusual state becomes more complete with each passing year, and allows any person to not only control the state, but also to enjoy it practically every day. In many mystical and religious movements, this practice is the highest stage of development and the end goal itself. For example, in many Eastern traditions this practice allows one to achieve the end goal – stopping the cycle of reincarnation through controlled dying, which is possible only by mastering techniques for entering out-of-body experience state.

Upon waking up in the middle of the night (lack of separation), I began trying out techniques, and the second one with rotation worked. I imagined that I was rotating, and at some point realized that I had rolled out of my body. As this was happening to me for the first time, it seemed kind of unconvincing to me (unwarranted inference), and I immediately returned to my body and rolled out again (unwarranted action). I repeated this procedure 5 times. After finally realizing that I had rolled out, I stood up. The darkness made it seem like I was looking at everything in the room through a cloud (lack of deepening). In front of me was the silhouette of a young man who seemed to be aggressively disposed towards me. He tried to attack me. For some reason, I extended my hand out to him as if I wanted to shake hands and mentally proposed that we make peace, to which he readily agreed and shook my hand (unwarranted action). Having resolved to fly around my home, I went around him and headed for the window (lack of a plan of action; dangerous activity). Once I got up to the window, I didn’t see anything in it except for a starry sky (possible loss of activeness). Meanwhile, the sky was both above and below the horizon. That’s when I felt that I was going to fizzle out (lack of maintaining) and I awoke in my bed (lack of secondary separation from the body).

The organizer of the seminar can either teach it himself or hire an instructor. The seminar teacher should follow the instructions in this book to the letter so that the audience gets real results, and right after the first lesson at that. It’s preferable that the teacher has at least some personal experience so that he might better impart the seminar material. The more experience he has, the easier it will be for him to explain things and the lower the odds that he will say something incorrect.