WHAT IS REALITY?
In Explorations in Consciousness, Frederick Aardema, a clinical researcher, provides a profound, in-depth account of the out-of-body experience, during which the explorer of consciousness is able to transcend the boundaries of time and space.
In his quest for knowledge, the author seamlessly weaves in his own travels into different fields of consciousness. These include experiences in the personal field, where he is confronted with the constructs of his own psyche, as well as visitations to collective fields of consciousness that appear to have an independent existence beyond the eye of the beholder.
Highly original and groundbreaking, Explorations in Consciousness presents a model of reality in which nothing can ever be taken for granted. It proposes that consciousness is embedded within a wider field of possibilities that become real depending on our interaction with the world around us.
Regardless of what you believe about the out-of-body state, this book will challenge and excite you to become an explorer of consciousness. It provides you with all the tools you need for your own journey.
SPOTLIGHT
Is the OBE a lucid dream or an illusion created by the brain? It might be exactly the other way around.
Materialistic accounts provide a more sobering account of the OBE than those proposed by mystical and popular contemporary approaches. For example, one of the more well-known scientific theories proposed by the neurophysiologist Stephen LaBerge claims that the OBE is a lucid dream. In other words, you are not really out of body during the experience. Rather, everything you perceive during an OBE is no more than a dream environment-a replica recreated from your memory and your own expectations...
The quick-switch method of transportation through the void was initially defined by Robert Monroe. While his early experiences were strongly characterized by geographic metaphors, they took a different turn when he discovered a new mode of transportation.
Initially, he described this method as stretching his awareness like an elastic band to his intended destination, letting go, and then being catapulted toward it. Over time, however, this process began to increasingly resemble a change in attention, and he came to use the phasing metaphor to describe his experiences.
Using the quick-switch or phasing mode of transportation is as close as any projector can come to experiencing travel in consciousness in a nonsymbolic, direct manner.
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About EIC
Welcome to Explorations in Consciousness! This site is aimed at facilitating the exploration of consciousness, and the realization of its full potential through out of body experiences, astral projection, lucid dreams and other altered states of consciousness.
It is dedicated to the community of inquisitive explorers looking for information and interaction with others to enhance their own experience in an atmosphere free from any one specific doctrine or value based philosophy.
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