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- Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!anon
- From: an4729@anon.penet.fi
- Subject: Re: Was I close??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.155445.18640@fuug.fi>
- Sender: anon@fuug.fi (The Anon Administrator)
- Organization: Anonymous contact service
- X-Anonymously-To: alt.out-of-body
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:40:25 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In <Pine.3.03.9301081140.C17330-c100000@cs.uwp.edu> cs.uwp.edu!itzenhui wrote:
- >Original-Sender: Steve Itzenhuiser <cs.uwp.edu!itzenhui>
- >On Thu, 7 Jan 1993 OOBE-Relay@gnosys.svle.ma.us wrote:
- >> Original-Sender: u912078@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Erland Vest|)
- [...]
- >>
- >> Hi all,
- >>
- >> Last night, I decided to have a go at some relaxation tecnics. I have before
- >> tried to go oob, without much luck, mainly because I was trying too hard, I
- >> think.
- [...]
- >>
- >> What happened was this: I lie down, and begin to relax. I close my eyes, and
- >> start taking deep breaths. I focus on my breathing, and begin to feel relaxed.
- >> After some time, I start to feel this tingling all over my body, as if some-
- >> body pricked me with tiny needles, except that it doesn't really hurt. After a
- >> while with this, it starts coming in waves, bigger and bigger. OK, I think,
- >> this is fun. Suddenly my muscles start acting like I was having cramps, and
- >> the whole world start turning, like in four(?) dimensions. Then it felt like
- >> my body sort of exploded, an expansion so instant, that I didn't feel it
- >> coming. Then I got this floating feeling, like something was trying to lift
- >> me of the bed, but the instant that I started floating, something bigger came
- >> around kicking me right back on the bed. I snapped out of it, and couldn't
- >> move. I think it took around five minutes before I was able to move. Kind of
- >> scary if you want to hear my opinion.
- [...]
- >
- >That tingling you feel, as I know it, is the energy that flows through
- >everything--if you follow. Your astral body is pure energy, or as close to
- >pure energy as we've come thus far. You can control that energy just by
- [...]
-
- Yeah, yeah, yeah...
-
- I've got a better idea of what happened... the same thing *I* did when I
- first tried this type of baloney: hyperventilation. You don't have to
- breath so *deeply* to relax, y'know. Even SLOW, deep breaths will be too
- much for your system if you breath too deeply. Remember: RELAX.
- The idea is *not* to find out how far your lungs can stretch.
-
- I figured out what was really happenning when my dad taught me how to hold
- my breath (perl-diver style) and I took it a step too far.
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