The organizer should realize that if there is a room that is suitable in terms of capacity and other factors, it’s nearly always possible to make a deal to rent it out – no matter where it is and who the owner is. When looking for a venue, it therefore makes sense to be on the lookout not only for conference rooms up for rent, but also for those supposedly “off the market,” so to speak.

You need to try to think ahead when looking for a room by trying to find long-term partners so that you don’t have to look for a place each time you hold a new seminar, but can instead go right on to making other preparations. It’s better to invest a lot of time in looking for a good fit in terms of quality and value-for-money than to scramble before each seminar to find a marginally suitable place.

You can find places for rent advertised in advertisement books and magazines for relevant industries. It is easy to search for premises online using the following queries: premises rental, conference halls, seminar rooms, training-session rooms, seminar premises, training-session premises, etc.

Special attention should be paid to corporate training companies that have their own conference rooms available and will help to fill them for you. A wide selection of rooms is often a big advantage to working with such companies. Although their conference rooms are often of quite a high standard, they tend to be impersonal, have a “cold” feel about them, and lack the necessary ambiance.

Therefore, the best solutions for venue rentals are to be found at specialized centers for personal development, yoga, meditation, awakening dormant abilities, etc. They will have an ambiance in keeping with the subject matter, a constant stream of new potential students, and a large number of conference rooms that meet the basic requirements. They should be the first places you turn to. Such centers try to keep their rooms rented out non-stop, and so they’ll be happy to fill up their schedule with your sessions. Your working with such a center is likely to have all the ingredients of a long-term business relationship, which will relieve you from having to look for a venue for at least the next few seminars.

If you need a small room for individual lessons, they are usually to be found at personal-development centers, seeing as one-on-one lessons are quite popular in such fields.

Since the actual location of the room doesn’t matter as much, you might also look for one at universities. Auditoriums that would otherwise be empty might be rented out by the hour. Most companies have rooms that are quite varied in terms of capacity and quality. This is especially true of large and medium-sized enterprises. Since such rooms are vacant most hours of the day, you might rent them out. In certain countries, most public libraries and community centers have conference rooms that can be rented out.

When searching for premises for lessons with full immersion, pay attention to countryside retreat centers and guest houses. You might find anything from large complexes to small homes with from 1 to 6 rooms.

For large events for hundreds or even thousands of people, you’ll need to consider community centers, movie theaters, concert halls, and even stadiums.

In no case should you sign the line to rent a conference room without first stepping inside it. The only exception might be if you have organized a seminar in another city and will only arrive just in time to start the lessons. The landlord’s description and photographs will often differ from the actual state of things and might be misleading. You’ll also need to evaluate how easy it is to get to there.

Deepening in out-of-body experience is not a difficult topic to teach, although there are two issues that the instructor should always stay on top of.

First, many students will simply forget about deepening at the beginning. Their OBEs will subsequently be brief, boring, and of poor quality. To solve this problem, sensory amplification should be put on the plan of action for out-of-body experience. With experience, sensory amplification will take place automatically. However, it’s still best to put it on your plan when you’re just starting out. After explaining deepening, you should require that the students use it in actual practice.

The second problem concerns poorly-performed deepening. This results in its ineffectiveness and subsequent practitioner complaints that it’s not working. As a rule, the key to understanding such situations lies in deepening having been performed “for the sake of appearances,” as if it were some kind of external ritual that is to magically conjure a deep phase. Explain that what’s important with sensory amplification is the desire to experience out-of-body experience space more distinctly, as well as the overall desire to use such actions to deepen.

Friday, 6:40pm While people trickle in, the teacher can ask each attendee whether or not he has had any experiences, and if so, what kind.

Friday, 7:10pm At the beginning, it’s necessary to get better acquainted with the attendees, briefly describe the seminar subject and format, and then get the audience pumped up to apply the techniques.

Introduction Say a little something about yourself and your accomplishments, why you decided to be an instructor on the topic, and what role it has had in your life.

Topic: out-of-body experience State Phenomenon Start off with how the phenomenon is a normal occurrence. To illustrate this, ask the audience to, "Raise your hand if you’ve ever had an out-of-body experience." Also ask them to raise their hands if they’ve experienced becoming conscious while dreaming. Then, do the same for sleep paralysis and false awakenings. A least a third of the attendees will raise their hands, which goes to prove how widespread these kinds of things are. After this survey, tell people that what you’ll be talking about is how to control the one and only phenomenon behind all those you just asked about, i.e. out-of-body experience or phase state (the instructor may choose his own terminology), which is an umbrella term for all phenomena in which people do not have sensory awareness of their physical bodies but meanwhile remain conscious. Meanwhile, the phantom sensations people experience can be even more vivid than those of the physical body: you can see, walk, touch things, and feel pain or any other sensation. Try to give an example from your own experiences or read aloud a passage from the chapter in the book out-of-body experience containing practitioner accounts. Pick a passage that illustrates the intensity and unusualness of sensations in out-of-body experience state.

Seminar Outcomes Explain that the aim of the seminar is for the majority of the group to become able to enter out-of-body experience state within two days, and for all participants to understand how to do so.

Seminar Format Let the attendees know what you’ll be doing on each day. Day 1: The most-simple indirect method, which is employed upon awakening and allows one to obtain an experience within several attempts as soon as day two. Day 2: Joint analysis of attempts and tallying results; additional background on techniques; deepening and maintaining the state; and applying the phenomenon to obtain information. Day 3: Joint analysis of attempts and tallying results; additional background on techniques; direct techniques which are employed without preceding sleep; and applying the phenomenon to influence physiology (self-healing). Students will get real practical experience in the comfort of home between lessons. The lessons only provide training on theoretical concepts, as well as limited practical exercises.

Light a Fire under People to Try the Techniques Let the attendees know that this is the most out-of-the-ordinary phenomenon that they’ll ever master. It’s almost the only ability among a number of "paranormal" ones that is actually attainable in practice. There are a large number of real-life applications for it. Before listing them, ask each member of the audience to choose the application he’s most interested in so that he can try to carry it out as soon as he enters out-of-body experience (i.e. as soon as he leaves his body):

– Briefly obtaining information (by asking objects for it)

– Briefly influencing one’s physiology (by taking a pill in out-of-body experience)

– Traveling across the Earth, the Universe, and time

– Meeting with relatives, the deceased, and celebrities

– Creative development

– Fulfilling desires

– Rehabilitation for the disabled

– An alternative to video games

Don’t forget to reiterate that people should pick something that they personally find interesting for their plans of action in out-of-body experience. This will be their second task. The students’ first task is to find a mirror and look into it as soon as they fall into phase. This is mandatory for everyone. Meanwhile, everyone chooses his own second task.

Day 1:

Module No. 1: Introduction: General theory and motivation

Module No. 2: The indirect method (theoretical background)

– Break

Module No. 2: The indirect method (practice and simulation)

– Break

Module No. 10: Practical application (obtaining information)

– Meal break

– Sleep and indirect attempts to enter out-of-body experience

Module No. 11: Analysis

Module No. 6: Deepening the state

Module No. 7: Maintaining the state

Module No. 5: Non-autonomous methods

Day 2:

Module No. 11: Analysis

– Break

Module No. 8: Primary skills

Module No. 3 The direct method (theoretical background)

– Break

Module No. 3 The direct method (practice and simulation)

Module No. 10: Practical application (self-healing)

– Meal break

– Sleep and indirect attempts to enter out-of-body experience

Module No. 11: Analysis

Module No. 9: Translocation and finding objects

Module No. 4: Becoming conscious while dreaming

Since participating as a branch of the School of Out-of-Body Travel serves as a kind of seal of quality in its own right and does not involve dues or any other financial obligations, several strict requirements are put forward:

– the instructor should be able to deliberately enter out-of-body experience at least twice a week (spontaneous experiences and becoming conscious while dreaming do not count)

– the instructor should remain neutral regarding theories on the nature of out-of-body experience when teaching

– the instructor should follow the instructions developed by the School when teaching

– conformity of terminology

If a person meets these requirements and can prove it, then nothing will stop him from opening his own branch of the School. Applications to open a branch office are to be sent to obe4u@remspace.net.