The Significance Of Other People's Experiences

The ability to analyze the experiences of others can be a great supplement to personal training. This allows a practitioner to review and think through situations that have not yet been personally encountered. The more a practitioner analyses the experiences of other practitioners, fewer mistakes will be made during individual practice.

Reading the experiences contained in this section will shed much light on proper phase practice. The actions that these practitioners took to achieve results will be subconsciously retained by the reader's memory. Later, these actions may reproduce similar circumstances in the phase, affording valuable opportunities to respond using proper actions.

At the beginning stages of practice, many practitioners lack in real descriptions of phase experiences while technique-related knowledge abounds. Techniques can be conceptualized in many different ways, while descriptions of their application are much more demonstrative. Thus, many practitioners have no idea about how genuine practice transpires.

The experiences described in this section are useful - even from a psychological point of view. Even if a person believes that the phase phenomenon exists, it may be construed as extremely difficult or personally impossible. After learning about other people's experiences, a person will realize that these practitioners have been able to enter the phase without any complicated or incomprehensible techniques. The reader will understand that the key is to take right actions at the right moment, trying to master the phase with calmness and confidence.

While reviewing and analyzing other people's experiences in this section, the reader should remember that these experiences are based on personal beliefs about the phenomenon, which is why occult terminology and notions may be encountered. However, such aspects of the descriptions are not important. Focus should be given to technique-related actions described in the accounts. The reader should also take into account that some nuances (like experiential realism) are not always clear in the text and that it is not always possible to determine why certain events occurred in the phase experiences described here.

All of the following descriptions belong to real people who either related the accounts orally, wrote them down during classes at the School of Out-of-Body Travel, submitted them via email, or posted them on the forum at www.aing.ru. Though the total number of recorded, verifiable phase descriptions exceeds one thousand, only several cases that are illustrative and useful for developing analysis have been selected. Primarily, these are descriptions of the practitioners' initial phase experiences, which are most relevant to new practitioners.

The large number of mistakes made by almost every practitioner, regardless of their level of experience, should not be taken too seriously while reading the comments. Actually, it is a rare occasion that the phase is experienced without any technique-related errors. Everybody makes mistakes.

Experiments are listed in ascending order of quality and number of properly performed actions. Accounts have been published with the permission of the authors.