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have much difficulty in finding out these things for your-
self because there are still quite a number of documents
going back two or three thousand years or even longer
which have not been discovered by physical Man. But
Man in the astral and Woman in the astral, too can
find these things and can read them. There is a great
advantage because many of these papyri are stuck to-
gether with age, and if you tried to unroll them now in
the physical they might shatter into dust, but in the astral
you can go through them layer by layer without disturb-
ing their physical structure.
If you find that difficult to understand get hold of a
microscope somewhere and look at, let us say, a piece of
rough stone. You can carefully focus your microscope and
you can see different layers of the stone coming into
focus, being quite clear, and then disappear to provide
space for another focus. Anyone with a microscope can
explain that to you.
My wife has just read this and she has made a worth-
while suggestion. She said, Why not tell them that some
people believe that Sherlock Holmes was a living per-
son? Well, that's a good point, a very good point, be-
cause Sherlock Holmes has been accepted as a living
person and people still write to him. I suppose the letters
go to the estate of Conan Doyle, but Sherlock Holmes
was a figment of the imagination of Conan Doyle. We
know there was no such entity as Sherlock Holmes, but
popular, imagination has clothed that imaginary entity
with an existence, in fact in England there is, I believe, a
Club devoted to perpetuating the legend or myth of Sher-
lock Holmes.
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Well, I have mentioned using astral travel to get to see
some of the undiscovered manuscripts, etc. During the
past twenty years I have had an enormous number of
people write and tell me that now they can do astral
travel, they can experience the reality of what I have
been writing about. They tell me that after the first initial
struggle they felt that they had broken free and they
could travel at will anywhere at any time.
Unfortunately a number of people have written to me
calling me a fake, etc., and saying all manner of things,
which I am sure they will regret, because they personally
could not do astral travel. And I can only assume that if a
person has the wrong attitude if a person makes the
wrong approach and has doubts or fears, then it's not
so easy to do astral travel. To me and to thousands and
thousands more there is no problem, or rather, the only
problem is how to tell others how easy it is.
Let's have a look at this astral travel thing again, shall
we. You want to do astral travel; first of all, do you
believe in astral travel? Are you convinced that there is
such a thing as astral travel which you can do given such-
and-such conditions? If your answer is No then go no
further because you will not be able to astral travel un-
less you are thoroughly convinced of its existence. You
have to convince your sub-conscious because to my way
of thinking the sub-conscious and the astral body are
something like a boy holding a helium-filled balloon; as
long as the boy holds on to the balloon it is quite literally
attached to his body, but if the boy can be induced to let
go the string then the balloon will float upwards. The
astral travel condition is like that. So first of all you
must believe that astral travel is possible. Secondly you
must believe that you can do astral travel.
When astral travelling it is quite impossible for any
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entity or anything to cause you harm unless you are
afraid. Now, if you think that is strange just think of this;
if you sit back comfortably in a chair and you think of
some imaginary ailment, and you think of all the pain
and distress that such an ailment could cause, you then
think that you may have it so your heart starts to palpi-
tate and you might feel a bit upset. Then you are sure
you have something wrong with you and your heart races
even more, and soon, because of your heart racing, you
will get a gastric condition, you will feel bilious or some-
thing else. So it's quite possible for you to make yourself
definitely ill if you believe you have some illness which is
perhaps incurable. In the same way, if you try to do
astral travel feeling sure that some bogey is going to
jump out and pull your tail feathers or something, then
you will be afraid to do astral travel and, in that case, it is
a waste of time trying. So a third condition is that you
must have no fear of astral travel. Fear will definitely
prevent you from getting out of the body.
Assuming, though, that you are convinced of the truth
of astral travel, and assuming that you are convinced that
you want to do it, and being certain that you have no
fear, then really there shouldn't be any obstacle unless
you want to astral travel for a bad purpose. For example
and this is true I have had men of a sort write to me
telling me they wanted to astral travel so they could see
girls undressing and so on. I had one man write to me
and tell me that he wanted to astral travel so that he
could be sure his girl was a virgin before he married her!
That, I assure you, is absolutely true, and it is a good way
to make sure you don't astral travel at all.
But assuming that you are able to satisfy the condi-
tions, you believe in astral travel, you believe that you,
given a bit of help, could travel easily, you have no fear
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and you have no intention of using the ability for any-
thing wrong, then you should sit down somewhere
where it's not too light and not too dark, it must be just
neutral. Sit down so that you are completely comfortable,
so comfortable that you are not aware that you are sitting
down or lying down, and there are no sharp edges stick-
ing into you. And then you definitely visualize yourself
getting out of the body. Breathe regularly, make deep
and rhythmic breaths, and then let your eyes ( which are
closed) roll up so that you are, in effect, gazing at a spot
somewhere near your hairline if you are bald you have
to imagine where your hairline would be!
Your eyes, then, should be squinting to a slight extent
so that their focus converges, as I have said, about the
hairline. Just take things easy, there's no point in rushing
things, no point at all, let things go at their own speed.
Then either one of three things will happen. You might
suddenly find that you have made a jerk. If you jerk then
you might come back straight into the body because it
means that you got out of the body and then took fright.
The fright will have sent you right back in again. There is
nothing to be worried about in that: You can, if you like,
sigh with exasperation and start all over again.
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