William Buhlman and out-of-body experiences

 

William Buhlman

AUTHOR OF:

HIGHER SELF NOW! 

ADVENTURES IN THE AFTERLIFE

ADVENTURES BEYOND THE BODY

THE SECRET OF THE SOUL

The author's forty years of extensive personal out-of-body explorations give him a unique and thought provoking insight into this subject. His first book, Adventures beyond the Body chronicles his personal journey of self-discovery through out-of-body travel, and provides the reader with the preparation and techniques that can be used for their own adventure.

He has conducted an international out-of-body experience survey that includes over 16,000 participants from forty-two countries. The provocative results of this survey are presented in his book, The Secret of the Soul. This cutting edge book explores the unique opportunities for personal growth and profound spiritual awakenings that are reported during out-of-body experiences.

His third book is titled Adventures in the Afterlife. William was inspired to explore the afterlife a result of his confrontation with mortality following a cancer diagnosis in 2011. His lucid dreams and out of body experiences during his treatment and recovery provided mind bending visions that were so illuminating that he felt compelled to journal his experience. Insights that are provided in this book will assist the reader to navigate the many thought responsive environments in the afterlife.

William's book, Higher Self Now!, reflects on the actions we can take today to enhance our transition from a physical environment to the non physical world. With his wife, Susan, William wrote this book with the deep desire to help inform readers about the continuing reality of our existence and all that it implies. As a lifelong explorer through self-induced out-of-body experiences and meditation, he has written Part One of this book, which explores our opportunities for spiritual awakening, the multidimensional continuum of consciousness and the journey of soul that continues through our life, death and beyond. As a hospice volunteer and a certified end-of-life doula, Susan has written Part Two, which examines the transition we call death, suggesting a new paradigm for assisting our loved ones—and ourselves—in making the transition experience an effective launch pad for a profound spiritual journey.

Over the past two decades William has developed an effective system to experience safe, self initiated out-of-body adventures. He conducts an in-depth 4 week online workshop titled, Adventures beyond the Body, Mastering the Out-of-Body Experience. This unique workshop provides the steps, intention and techniques designed for controlled out-of-body exploration. Each participant will experience a comprehensive array of proven OBE methods including the target technique, inner motion, visualization, chakra and energy body activation. In addition, hypnotic, shamanic and early morning methods will be practiced.

As a certified hypnotherapist, William incorporates various methods in his workshops to explore the profound nature of out-of-body experiences and the benefits of accelerated personal development. Through lectures, workshops and his books the author teaches the preparation and techniques of astral projection and spiritual exploration.

The author brings a refreshing look to how we can use out-of-body experiences to explore our spiritual identity and enhance our intellectual and physical lives. William is best known for his ability to teach people how to have profound spiritual adventures through the use of out-of-body experiences. In addition, he has developed an extensive series of audio and video programs that are designed to expand awareness and assist in the exploration of consciousness. William has appeared on numerous television and radio shows worldwide. William's books are currently available in ten languages.

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A Series of Short Articles giving a Sceptical Slant on Out-of-Body Experiences and Auras Part 2 / Source Psychology Today

Out-of-Body Experiences: Far Beyond the Body

Part 2: How an OBE became a mystical experience.

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Leaving my body had been easy, or so it seemed when I had a completely unexpected out-of-body experience (OBE) as a 19-year-old student.

In my previous post. I described the first hour or so of this extraordinary experience, up to the point when I tried to return to my body for the second time. It was on this attempt that everything changed again.

 

I found the room I wanted quite easily, and I could still see my friends Vicki and Kevin, but when I looked at my own body I was shocked. It was strangely colored, with a jagged edge around the neck where the head had been. Intrigued, I found myself landing on the edge like a fly, before slipping inside, exploring what seemed to be an empty shell, zooming up and down the legs and into the feet.

I was so noisy in my excitement that Vicki told me to shut up, whereupon I told her to take ‘that body’ away. I’d lost any sense that this weird body was really mine.

Even so, I wanted to get back to normal. So I tried to get bigger, to fill up that empty shell and regain control. But this attempt spectacularly failed. Instead of growing to the right size I grew and grew, and kept on growing. I expanded out through the room and my friends, through the building and the streets, through the underground places of Oxford, all of England, and ultimately the earth.

Afterward, I wrote that I “had the wonderful experience of being able to look at the earth from being all round it”, an ability I can only vaguely imagine now. Then I kept on expanding until there was nowhere further to go—expanding ever faster but going nowhere. I was all, and nothing else existed.

As so many mystics say, describing such experiences is hard; they are ‘ineffable’. But I can try, knowing that I cannot do my memories full justice. Being everything was more like being everywhere and nowhere as an unknowable spaciousness in which everything happens, but nothing happens.

If that sounds odd, I can say that neither time nor space had their ordinary meanings anymore. It was as though everything were just as it should be and complete, and yet still ever changing. I had the sense of knowing things or being taught things which I cannot recount. I had a sense of rightness and peace: nothing to be done; nowhere to go.

By now Kevin was worried and started asking questions. What was I doing? Could I see anything else? What came next? They seemed silly questions. After all, this was ‘it’. Yet somehow, they changed everything.

As I struggled to find any kind of answer, it seemed as though I was swimming up through white mist or cloud to gain the slightest glimpse of another world. Through this veil, there seemed to be a great wide open plain and from all around the sense of some kind of infinite awareness. And that was that.

I was exhausted. All I could do was to try, weakly, to get back to my body again. At first, it seemed easy, but when I opened my eyes I seemed to shoot out to where I was looking. Then I had to try again, fail, and try again. I kept telling myself, ‘Wherever you go you have to take the body with you.’ Or, ‘You can only be in one place at a time’. Then gradually, after about three-quarters of an hour, I was almost back and carefully stood up.

The room, my friends, and my own body still looked strange. I could still see the whitish stuff I had been made of, now more or less coincident with my body but not keeping quite still. Round my friends was a similar pale glow, like a living, body-shaped aura. And further out I could feel, but not see, yet another body. Was this the occultists’ aura that psychics could see, and ordinary people could not? Had my third eye been opened?

When I finally got back to my own room, Kevin said it was too dangerous to go to sleep in case my astral body went flying again and couldn’t return. So he kept me awake all night. Eventually I did sleep, and as far as I know, my astral body did nothing of the kind. But I felt very weird indeed. As I cycled around Oxford, I seemed to be watching myself from one side and almost fell off my bike. For a few days, I could still see the ‘auras’, but these soon disappeared.

So what had happened? Like the OBE that had preceded it, this experience echoes classic descriptions. Mystics and meditators throughout the ages have described these same strange features—becoming nothing but a point of awareness, becoming tiny or vast, being wrapped in light, losing any ordinary senses of time or space, and, above all, merging with everything and losing self.

William James, often called the father of psychology, explored many such experiences in his classic 1902 book The Varieties of Religious Experience. A year earlier, Maurice Bucke had described being wrapped around by a flame-coloured cloud and entering joyful and wonderful states that he termed ‘Cosmic Consciousness’.

In my new book, Seeing Myself, I describe this in more detail and in the next few posts I will delve into some of the theories I considered and where they led me—from astral projection and the etheric aura, to drugs, hallucinations, and the potential of the human brain.

References

Bucke, R.M. (1901) Cosmic consciousness. Philadephia: Innes & Sons and New York: Penguin (1991).

Fontana, D. (2007) Mystical experience. In The Blackwell companion to consciousness, ed. M. Velmans and S. Schneider, 163–172. Oxford: Blackwell.

James, W. 1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience: A study in human nature, London, Longman

Stace, W.T. (1960) The teachings of the mystics. New York: The New American Library.

Underhill, E. (1920) The essentials of mysticism. London: Dent & Sons.

Waldo Vieira

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Waldo Vieira (born 12 April 1932) is a Brazilian dentist and physician who first proposed the theories of projectiology and conscientiology two closely related nascent sciences which posit that human consciousness is a non-physical phenomenon. That is, Vieira argues that consciousness has an existence independent from the body, basing his claims on various accounts of out-of-body experiences and other psychical phenomena. He has written over twenty books on vital energy, parapsychical and personal development, and out-of-body experiences, including accounts of personal experiences.

Contents  [hide]  1 Biography 2 Recent work 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Waldo Vieira was born on 12 April 1932, in Monte Carmelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a physician and a dentist. He also holds a post-graduate degree in plastic surgery, earned in Tokyo, Japan. Vieira claims to have begun experiencing out-of-body experiences at the age of 9, and for the past 40 years he has explored the idea of consciousness as something other than the body.

Waldo Vieira.

Having written four 1000+ page treatises, a series of books and hundreds of articles, Vieira is among the most prolific authors on the subject. However, his work has been described as reflecting "the author's strong personal beliefs", which cause "many [of his] statements [to] seem strident, even dogmatic." Still, it has also been argued that his work has some value "as a phenomenological treatise with applications to the consensual world that necessitate verification or refutation by other researchers."^[1]

He was the founder and president of the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscienciology (IIPC), and is also a long standing member of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York, USA, the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in London, England, the Brazilian Association of Parapsychology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others.

He has also assembled one of the largest libraries in the world on the subject of Consciousness, which includes works ranging from parapsychology to eastern mysticism. It is open to the public in CEAEC, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

[edit] Recent work

Waldo Vieira currently lives in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where he has founded the CEAEC - in Portuguese, Center of Higher Studies of the Consciousness - where he resides and works daily on the Encyclopedia of Conscienciology, to be completed in the year 2011. It is estimated to have 2000 terms related to the studies of consciousness.

The terms of the Encyclopedia are debated daily in the "Tertúlias" - a series of discussions led by Vieira and open to the public for free. These discussions are broadcast daily through the internet, from 12:30 PM to 14:30 PM (GMT -3), and can be viewed through the website Tertúlias da Conscienciologia.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Review of Projectiology: A Panorama of Experiences of the Consciousness Outside the Human Body". The Journal of Parapsychology. Spring 2004. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_1_68/ai_n13699206. Retrieved September 16, 2008.

[edit] External links

• International Academy of Consciousness
• International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology
• CEAEC - Center for Higher Studies of Conscientiology
• Journal of Parapsychology review of Projectiology: A Panorama of Experiences of the Consciousness Outside the Human Body
• Description of treatise Projectiology by publisher
• Realms of Consciousness (1999) Documentary featuring Dr. Waldo Vieira
• Trailer of "Out-of-Body Experience: Glimpse of Immortality" (2000) Docudrama featuring Dr. Waldo Vieira
• "Waldo Vieira" at Conscienciopedia

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