Fruit of the Contemplative Life
Fruit of the contemplative life: => OOBE => : Alexander January 02, 2022, 06:06:30 AM
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https://youtu.be/tNFo2Xu2lFM
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Thank you, Alexander, for posting an interesting 45 min dialog on OOBEs. Just a note to those who click the link that the recording is pretty amateur with a fair amount of distracting background noise.
While I appreciate discourses from other teachers posted here that support our central premise of charisms are the superior fruit of leading a contemplative life; nonetheless, most of the content I've seen on OOBEs misses the central conflict we see represented in the suttas regarding Siddhartha Gautama's 2 early teachers, Alara Calama and Udaka Ramaputa, which is none of these OOBE people seem to understand the value of developing the jhanas, which necessitate stilling the mind, thus their take on the OOBE is way too cognitive.
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I have known of him for some time, but this is the first I am reading his book 'Astral Dynamics.' I am going through it slowly, only reading a small amount each night after work. He does remind me very much of Jeff... precise, humble, practical. He prefers the OOBE language as opposed to the Buddhist. He examines the 'vibrations' a lot. I am impressed with his exercises on energy work... they have done an impressive job stimulating charismatic phenomena. He examines the role of recall/memory between the physical/nonphysical very well also.
Here is a copy of his book if anyone is interested as well... if the spirit moves me I will write a short article on it later for the collection... just as I did for Robert Monroe's book and Frank Kepple's book.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Thj7mQHwPss2svUO6-WZE9-SsxtoqrRc/view?usp=sharing
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Alexander, I will look forward to reading your essay review on Robert Bruce's work. I hope you get to it some day.