Experiencing yourself outside of your body is one of the most impressive experiences on the
Hermetic path. Even the most sublime spiritual insights remain mere theory until you perceive
your own spiritual condition first-hand in this manner. To facilitate separation from the body
neophytes in the ancient temple schools were placed in a trance during their initiation. Magic
and Mysticism of the Third Millennium has developed a new technique for this purpose - one
which enables even non-initiates to leave their bodies. Systematic spiritual research has shown
that 'wakefulness' rather than trance is the primary precondition for leaving your body without
losing consciousness. Just as space flight to other planets will begin on the moon so the best
launch pad for mental travel can be found on the intermediate plane in dreams. You can detach
yourself from your body more easily when it's asleep. And consciousness takes the helm again as
soon as you 'wake up' within a dream i.e. realise that you're dreaming. Yet 'out-of-body'
doesn't necessarily mean entering another world. Ideas - both your own and those of other
people living and deceased - can manifest in this intermediate realm. This explains the many
contradictory and often nonsensical reports and fantasies concerning the 'afterlife'. On this
subject too the book you now hold provides a guide to orienting yourself in this state of
consciousness. . Lucid dreams as a launch pad for mental travelling . Wakefulness in everyday
life and wakefulness in dreams . Learning to wake up in your dreams . Flying dreams as a
jump-start . The secret of the flying carpet . The dream realm as a site for encounters with
the dead . The idea I am! as a mediator of consciousness The portal to the spiritual realm is
opened by wakefulness not by trance.
