Fruit of the Contemplative Life
Fruit of the contemplative life: => OOBE => : Jhanananda December 19, 2011, 04:55:04 AM
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The OOBE is an Out-Of-Body-Experience. It is also known as: astral traveling, rapture and other terms. It is a hyper-real experience of leaving the body and interacting in a non-material reality. You may find the links to the following essays and videos on this subject on interest to you:
The Immaterial Domains and the Milky Way (http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/non-materialdomains.htm)
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJjpCndhbo
The Proto-Contemplative Life, Lucid Dreams and Out-of-Body Travel (http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/protocontemplative.htm)
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJjpCndhbo
Rapture in Buddhism, Manomaya, the "mind-made body." (http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/manomaya.htm) The Buddha’s Discourses on the Astral Body and Out-of-Body (OOB) experiences
Remaining Conscious During the Sleep Cycle (http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/concentration.htm)
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I've had some very lucid dreams, and met some interesting characters. At one time I recall seeing someone wearing a floppy, broad, brown hat standing alongside a wire fence, as if I were out on some country property, and that stuck in my head a bit And I used to see power-lines (like suspended electricity cables) all the time, and would have many drifting dreams, moving along those lines. One time, in an afternoon cat-nap, I woke up in some brilliantly luminous, cloudy space, with two very bright lights coming towards me, but I didn't stay there for long.
One night, in a dream, I recall hearing one of my old meditation teachers saying, 'You've got a visitor!', when I saw two figures, who looked like elongated spheres dotted all over with glowing blue, red, green, and diamond-coloured spheres, coming towards me.
I've heard other people talking about a labyrinth, and in fact I saw this myself one night. It looked like a printed-circuit board, with remnants of a castle in the centre.
All of this was quite vivid, but I am certainly not awake when I go to sleep.
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Interesting lucid dreams, Econetic, I generally consider lucid dreams an OOBE without the lift-off and return.
The dream about a guy in a floppy hat in the wilderness around power lines sounds like me on an archaeological survey. When I am out doors all day I tend to wear a very broad brimmed floppy straw hat, and the surveys are mostly on ranches and national forest land, and often there are power lines over head.
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Yesterday I received a report from someone who is observing and testing Faraday cages. He had a lucid dream on his first night in a shielded and grounded enclosure. So, he suspects that it might stimulate lucid dreaming. He also noted that there is a study that confirms this finding. For more on Faraday cages (http://fruitofthecontemplativelife.org/forum/index.php/topic,697.0.html).