Requirements for the Premises

If the organizer is not aiming to teach phase states to a mass audience or use the same premises for other purposes and seminars, there is no need to sign a full-time lease for a venue, let alone buy one. It’s much easier to rent a conference room by the hour or by the day. Doing so is many times cheaper and simpler. It also reduces financial risks. This is the path most instructors take.

Requirements regarding the premises are mainly determined by the session format and group size. Meanwhile, there are several general points that one had better adhere to most of the time:

– the premises should be in the center of town

– the premises should have a flip-chart or a whiteboard

– the premises should be enclosed and insulated from outside noise

These are the minimum premises-related requirements. Premises that meet these requirements are sufficient for holding lessons. However, people spending not only their time but also their money will expect conditions to be as comfortable as possible. A pleasant and pretty setting will smooth over many an imperfection in one’s delivery. And conversely, the impression made by an ideally led training session with a high rate of success will be pretty much tarnished by a dirty and dingy room in a place that takes forever to get to.

The seminar instructor or organizer should never forget that learning out-of-body travel and lucid dreaming is a form of entertainment for many of the participants, some of whom might expect a kind of show. And this show should take place on a suitable stage. It’s best to find a room that fits the theme and sets the right mood – one with decorations that bring thoughts of spirituality and self-development to mind. For many people, just one such piece of décor will be enough to fully immerse them in the subject matter of the training session.

As regards the capacity of the room, aim for at least 15 to 25 square feet per person. That means that you will need at least 150 square feet for a group of ten people, and at least 750 square feet for a group of fifty. Sometimes it’s difficult to predict the actual number of participants because more people might show up than planned. Using 15 to 25 square feet per person as a rule of thumb, you will be able to accommodate substantially more people than you had planned on, though it will be a tight fit.

One-on-one consultations and lessons require the least floorspace of all. There are no minimum requirements at all here, seeing as two people can meet wherever they want: at a cafe, at a park, at a conference room for regular seminars, at an apartment, etc. However, it makes sense to have an office ready for such meetings so that you can practice techniques, have a bit of privacy, and show an air of authority.

Some believe that personal-development and spiritual practices (with which the practice of out-of-body travel & lucid dreaming are partially and yet inevitably intertwined) can forgo external material trappings. If your work is tied in with altruism in the sense that you’re providing free-of-charge instruction, then it makes a lot of sense to economize on the venue. If this is the case, you might meet on the lawn of a public park, in the woods, at private apartments, at summer houses, etc. What’s most important is that the attendees be in agreement on this point.

If your goal is to hold immersion lessons, i.e. practice the techniques as much as possible or even make attempts to enter out-of-body experience, the requirements for the premises might include the ability to accommodate all of the participants while lying down, keep out as much noise and sunlight as possible, a sound system, comfortable mats, and blankets. Country houses and retreat centers are good for such events, though they might be quite expensive.

Large-scale events are the hardest to find a venue for. Even large cities have few conference halls for 100 or 500 people, let alone over 1,000. Such halls are booked well in advance, and the greatest difficulty in organizing such an event may be the large rental payment, which will almost certainly have to be paid up front. Far more requirements must be considered for large conference halls than for smaller venues: a well-lit stage, a sound system, an overhead projector, etc.

Keeping in touch with your audience after they participate in your event is no less important. Many don’t understand this and immediately forget about their students as soon as they walk out the door. This is wrong no matter how you look at it. First, many people could use the help. Second, those people might take part in other projects of yours. Third, they will be advertising you to their friends and family – assuming they are completely satisfied in the first place. That’s why you should devote the end of any training session to letting people know how they can get in touch with you, what other services you can offer them, and where they can mingle and learn more. The aforementioned information should also be repeated in fliers, text messages, and mass mailings.

I woke up in the middle of the night and immediately realized that I was in the right state (lack of separation). While lying in bed, I began to imagine that I was palpating and scrutinizing the wallpaper pattern, and after a few seconds I realized that I was not only imagining it, but was actually doing it (lack of deepening). Two points on one of my old plans of action had been to look at myself in the mirror and see how the light-switch works. I went through them. I saw quite a strange reflection in the mirror – there I was, but it didn’t look realistic. Instead, it looked like a stained-glass portrait in one of those old churches or mosaics. The reflection consisted of many colored pieces and changed like a kaleidoscope when I moved. I then went to the light switch (the room was in semi-darkness) flipped it, and noted how the lamp hesitated for a few seconds before emitting a dim light. However, it didn’t become any brighter in the room. I then decided to leave my room (short plan of action), but I woke up (lack of maintaining, lack of secondary separation from the body).

Saturday, 5pm The goal of this module is to provide a detailed description of methods for obtaining information using out-of-body experience state. This is the phenomenon’s most exciting field of application and one that practically everyone finds interesting. Covering this topic on day two will allow you to further motivate the students to make attempts on yet another night.

How is it possible? The most important thing to cover under this topic is that obtaining information from out-of-body experience is possible, regardless of what the explanation for the phenomenon itself is. Mystics and the esoterically-minded point to information fields, the actual physical exit of the soul from the body, and akashic records. Pragmatics see an explanation in the enormous resources of the subconscious mind that we have access to in out-of-body experience.

What kind of information can be obtained? Your task is to teach practical things. With that in mind, it wouldn’t be right for you to tell people that they can find out whatever they want from out-of-body experience, even if that is your personal belief. Nobody has ever proven that this is the case. The roughest estimate of the upper boundary of the amount of information that can be accessed in out-of-body experience is 1,000 times what the waking mind “knows”. This estimate is perhaps far too pessimistic. Meanwhile, the information accessible in out-of-body experience relates to us in one way or another: it relates to us personally, to our friends and family, our job, our hobbies, and our environment, which is exactly the information that will be useful in real life.

How to Obtain the Information There are three primary techniques for obtaining information used by novices:

Animate Objects These include people, animals, and other beings in out-of-body experience who you can simply talk to and obtain information from in that way. It’s preferable that such objects somehow relate to the information you are to obtain.

Inanimate Objects These include books, notes, televisions, radios, computers, signs, captions, symbols, etc. For example, you can look for a book on a given topic while in out-of-body experience and then look through it and read it.

The Episode Technique Here out-of-body experiencer goes to a place associated with the information he needs and simply takes it all in through his eyes. For example, say an out-of-body travelr has lost his real-world car keys. He would concentrate on them in out-of-body experience and be translocated to a place where he could have lost them.

How to Verify Information The whole difficulty here lies in the fact that while the techniques for obtaining information themselves are quite simple, the information obtained is easily distorted by erratic interference from the human mind. It’s therefore necessary to know ways to verify the trustworthiness of information. For example, you can immediately ask a control question when speaking with an object like, "What’s my name?" or, "How much is two times two?" If the object is unable to correctly answer even questions like this, you’ll need to change your approach. After finding out what you came for, you can also ask a follow-up question like, "Why is that the case?" or, "How do you prove it?" Either way, you should verify any information obtained in out-of-body experience in real life before acting on it. There’s no guarantee that it will be accurate, even if the objects have passed every test.

How to Increase Accuracy There are a number of ways to increase the accuracy of information you obtain. First, start off from the simplest things, and then gradually transition to more complicated ones. Second, the information to be obtained should be as specific as possible (e.g. "How can I increase sales at work?") and not general and vague (e.g. "What’s the meaning of life?"). Third, the information should be obtained in a passing manner that is offhanded, detached, indifferent, and deadpan – as if the information were not important.

Examples Give some examples of information obtained in out-of-body experience either from your own experience or the practitioner accounts in the book out-of-body experience. You can also find a number of illustrative examples on our internet forums and websites.

Wrapping Up the Lesson Saturday, 5:45pm If you have the time and desire to do so, you can practice some simulated attempts with the group so that they will better remember the procedure. This should be done in the same way as it was at the end of the Friday session. Also recommend that they practice the techniques more both at home and throughout the day, but never before going to bed. The better the techniques work while practicing, the better they will work upon awakening.

Let the students know that on Sunday you will be requiring not only an entrance into out-of-body experience and completion of their plans of action, but also phase-control techniques like deepening via sensory amplification and secondary separation from the body. Those who have already accomplished the first item on the group plan of action (finding a mirror in out-of-body experience) may go on to task number two, which is simple but mind-expanding experience: eating something in out-of-body experience.

Pay close attention to group morale regarding the prospect of making attempts on yet another night and morning. People usually start to tire and have difficulty concentrating before yet another set of attempts. This often results in the success rate for the second night being substantially lower than that of the first night – sometimes by several fold. To keep that from happening, try to get the students enthusiastically motivated to make more attempts.

I awoke at about eight o’clock in the morning. I quickly decided to use an indirect technique and enter out-of-body experience while I was still half asleep. I tried to levitate with my phantom body, but nothing happened. I tried to roll over, but something didn’t work that time either. I thought, "Well, it’s just not going to work today," (unwarranted inference) but decided to make one last attempt by imagining that I was getting up… and, oh, what a miracle! I started to feel as if I was really lifting my body and lowering my legs (as soon as I lifted myself by about 30 to 40 degrees, my whole body began to vibrate – it was really cool!), and then I realized that I was in out-of-body experience. I couldn’t see. I stood up and immediately began rubbing my hands. My sight came back to me within a few seconds (lack of deepening; lack of a plan of action). As I choked with joy (loss of activeness; unwarranted emotion), I was returned to my own body! (lack of secondary separation from the body)