Be Warned!!!July 17, 2008 10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Hi everybody, I figured I'd weigh in on this book. In other reviews I had stated I was raised Catholic but had more or less given up on Christianity and other religions as a source of knowledge about the next world. I decided to go looking for myself. Being a big fan of the movie Flatliners, I was wondering if this OBE thing could be accomplished with out actually stopping your heart. A little internet research led me to this book and one other which I will also review. The book really is an amazing read. He gives great tips on how to accomplish the experience and what to expect. Like other reviewers I found myself lucid dreaming and being able to sway and partially get in and out of my body within a few weeks. But it literally took me over a year to overcome the fear factor and actually leave my body. I titled my review, "Be Warned". Why? Because the author was right, one you force the experience you can't stop it. I would say in the last ten years I have had hundreds if not more OBE's. I went looking for answers, I didn't find any. OBE's are NOT NDE's (Near Death Experiences) There is no white tunnel waiting for you to enter. There is no garden of tranquility waiting for you. Nor were there any flames or demons. What did I see? It's difficult to put into words exactly.......... The author claims to have experienced some very incredible things, and who am I to say he's lying. Everyone I've told has told me, you were asleep or imagining it. There really isn't anything I could do to convince them otherwise, I was as awake during the actual experience as I am during my real waking state. What did I see? LOL, my bedroom and the downstairs of my house. I tried an experiment by moving a lamp while out of body. As soon as I reentered, I saw the lamp had NOT been moved. This leads me to believe when you are out of body; you are seeing the spiritual side of the real world, a mirror image if you will. I haven't had any contact with any otherworldly beings, positive or negative. Whatever celestial secrets are out there, the angels and demons are keeping their celestial mouths shut. Like I said, I started this looking for answers and found none. The experience itself is VERY difficult to control. You vision is either clear as can be or extremely distorted and unfocused. I don't remember if it's the author of this book who says to "demand clear vision" while out of body and it will happen. I tried that, DIDN'T WORK!!!!. I did look down at my arm while out of body and what I saw was beautiful. It was like an outline of an arm with millions of little blue lights inside of it. I also have looked at my bed on numerous occasions and the only thing I have ever seen was a blank bed with the indentations of a body laying on it. I've never had any scary encounters but my experiences are really never that long, if you so much as think of your body, ZAP your right back in it. I've never been in any kind of fear of possession, I've seen the "silver cord" that is mentioned in the book and it's very real. Nothing can take your body without your permission I don't care what the fundamentalist's say. Your soul has a claim on your body, period. I've never had an experience that has lasted long enough for me to actually venture out of the house so I can't comment further on that. I guess I can't wait for some comments from people. Have any of your experiences been the same as mine? I started doing this looking for answers, religion and the occult gave me none. OBE's gave me none. If you're bound and determined to do this, then it's at your own risk. Like I said, once you force the experience, you CANNOT stop it from happening again. It doesn't seem to happen at night when I go to sleep, but if I lay down to take a nap in the afternoon forget it. I'm in and out constantly. There is however a school of thought that says a part of us leaves every time we go to sleep. I'm inclined to believe that, maybe I'm just not recalling the experiences during my nighttime slumber. Again folks, be careful, if you aren't mentally ready for this then don't do it. If you're bound and determined to do it, then it's at your own risk. Whether or not you find any answers to your questions will depend on.............don't ask me, it seems the universe is content to withhold any otherworldly information from me, oh well. Take care. B
great bookJuly 13, 2008 4 out of 5 found this review helpful
this was my first book on OBE's. i have a special attachment to this book because it was the first book to "get me out". i focused mainly on the beginning and the end of this book because there was information about dimensions in the middle that i didnt get the first time through but im planning on reading it again. when i got to the end of the book i actually fell asleep reading it one night and did have my first OBE so i must say that the things in this book readlly did sink in haha. like i said, im going to give myself some time to explore and learn then i will read this book again and see how much more sense that middle section makes to me.
Intriguing and HelpfulJuly 3, 2008 6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I wasn't entirely interested in astral projection until I happened by this book. The author's accounts of his OBE journeys had my mind racing with all the possibilities available to me. The main draw for me wasn't so much the techniques that were listed (although this book had good techniques for acheiving an OBE, there are books out there that deal more specifically with this topic) but rather the author's own experiences during his own projections. It made me want to hunker down and learn how to project so I could begin to experience all the wonderful things described.
The book is a failure.May 21, 2008 0 out of 20 found this review helpful
There is something seriously wrong about the book, it is not "out of body" it is day dreaming, author confuse day dreaming to out of body. Pass this one. Trust me.
Adventures Beyond the Body WorksMay 12, 2008 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you're interested in OBEs and astral projection, then Adventures Beyond the Body is the book to get. Adventures Beyond the Body is a comprehensive blueprint for achieving out of body experiences and exploring the astral plane of our existence. Even if you don't believe in an 'astral plane' and believe that all of this is just lucid dreaming, that's beside the point. The point is that the techniques and methods offered in William Buhlman's Adventures Beyond the Body WORKS.
I've been reading this book for the past two weeks, and in that time frame I've had two experiences. I haven't achieved an out of body state yet, but two different nights I have felt the weirdest feeling I've ever felt trying the techniques offered in this book. The first time was stronger than the second, but both times I felt as if my consciousness was shifting...as if it was about to float out of my body. I got scared and my heart started pounding. If you're not ready for the experience, it can be pretty frightening.
