From: mathew11@zoominternet.net   
      
   Part 5   
   Robert Bruce   
      
       *   
         Putting The Pressure On   
       *   
         Getting The Feel Of Rope   
       *   
         Active Chakra   
       *   
         Are You Ready To Project?   
       *   
         When To Do The Exercises   
       *   
         Your Projection Sequence   
       *   
         Full Sequence   
       *   
         How To Use ROPE   
       *   
         A ROPE Variation   
       *   
         The Mechanics Of How ROPE Works   
       *   
         How Long Does It All Take?   
       *   
         My First ROPE Projection   
       *   
         Remembering It All   
       *   
         Stuck?   
      
   Astral Rope   
      
   A key ingredient to the new projection techniques is an invisible,   
   imaginary ROPE hanging from your ceiling. This ROPE will be used to exert   
   dynamic pressure at a single point on your astral body to force its   
   separation from the physical.   
      
   The ROPE technique is similar, but more direct and hence more effective   
   than other more passive and indirect methods, such as reaching out and   
   pulling vibrations into you, or visualizing yourself in front of yourself.   
   The idea of pulling vibrations into you is vaguely illogical, if you   
   understand the mechanics of projection.   
      
   The vibrations are an effect and NOT a cause of projection. When enough   
   pressure is exerted on the astral body to loosen it sufficiently, the   
   energy body expands and energy flows through the chakra system to be stored   
   in the energy body. This flow of energy through the hundreds of chakras and   
   their connecting web, or meridians, CAUSES these vibrations. This normally   
   happens, unnoticed, during sleep.   
      
   Putting The Pressure On   
      
   The more passive, indirect methods of projection do exert some pressure on   
   the astral body to separate, but over a wide area. They still shift the   
   point of consciousness out of the body, albeit obtusely. Any mental action   
   that exteriorizes the point of consciousness will exert some pressure on   
   the astral body.   
      
   The action of pulling yourself hand over hand up a rope is a strong, one   
   pointed, natural action that is easy to imagine yourself doing. The ROPE   
   technique concentrates ALL your mental resources into one strong, DYNAMIC   
   action which exerts a high level of pressure directly on a single point of   
   the astral body.   
      
   There are many other, more subtle, ways that exert pressure on the astral   
   body as well. Many of these are unsuspected for what they are. Most   
   meditation exercises, for example, exert PASSIVE pressure on the astral   
   body. You may imagine you are going down in a lift, falling, climbing down   
   a ladder, or just floating downwards. Whatever the technique, it is   
   designed to reduce brain activity. Any self induced, inward falling   
   sensation places passive pressure on the astral body, which will cause   
   brain activity to lower and bring on the trance state where a deeper level   
   of the mind is revealed.   
      
   The action of inward falling obtusely shifts the consciousness out of the   
   body, exerting passive pressure on the astral body over a wide area, but in   
   the reverse to that needed for projection, i.e., general downwards   
   pressure. This, in a way, is like trying to get your astral body to FALL   
   out of your physical body on its own, i.e., your point of consciousness   
   tries to FALL, downwards, out of the physical body.   
      
   What most people do to project is to either exert forward, passive pressure   
   on the astral body, by visualizing themselves floating out of themselves,   
   and HOPE, they can make it happen, i.e., trigger the projection reflex. Or,   
   they try a more direct method, such as visualizing themselves out of their   
   body, which is very, very, difficult. Lets face it, 99% of people can't   
   visualize for peanuts and the act of mentally visualizing yourself OUT of   
   your body, AND shifting your consciousness INTO this visualization is   
   almost impossible for most people. The other popular method is to try to   
   pull vibrations into you. This method is slightly more effective than most   
   as it exerts some pressure at a single point, but it is still an indirect   
   mental action and, therefore, obtuse.   
      
   All the above, and the general lack of information about the mechanics of   
   projection, i.e., HOW it happens, accounts for the extremely high failure   
   rate amongst people learning to project.   
      
   Holding passive pressure, over a wide area, on the astral body, for long   
   enough, WILL activate the projection reflex, eventually. But this can take   
   a long time and can be mentally exhausting. I have developed, through   
   recent research, a better, faster and more dynamic method of projection   
   that is very effective. I call this technique simply ROPE. It is not that   
   using an imaginary rope for projection is such a new idea, it's not, but   
   the understanding of the mechanics of it and the application of this   
   knowledge to ROPE is.   
      
   If you fully understand how a thing works, you can use that thing more   
   efficiently and, therefore, get better results.   
      
   The new ROPE method overcomes the general misdirection of mental resources   
   and the chronic waste of mental energy caused by the usual lengthy   
   procedures needed for projection. ROPE shortens the time needed to cause a   
   projection and optimizes the use of available energy.   
      
   One of the most important ingredients for a successful projection is to be   
   properly motivated. Without this motivation you will not have enough mental   
   energy to succeed and will either fall asleep or forget the projection   
   afterwards. It is, therefore, important to keep preparation time as short   
   as possible so it is not such a daunting and mentally exhausting task.   
      
   One thing a new projector has in abundance is enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is   
   pure mental energy. ROPE, plus the understanding of HOW it works, harnesses   
   and makes better use of this energy resource and vastly improves the   
   success rate.   
      
   Getting The Feel Of Rope   
      
   Pin a length of ribbon, string or rope to the ceiling above you. Have it   
   hanging within arms reach so you can easily reach up and touch it. Reach   
   out and touch it frequently, until you are used to where it is in your   
   mind. This ribbon is only a tactile aide. By being able to reach out and   
   touch the ribbon, you used to the spatial coordinates of where the   
   invisible, imaginary ROPE is. This grows both in your mind and hence as a   
   thought form, making it easier to imagine yourself reaching out and   
   climbing the ROPE with your imaginary HANDS.   
      
   Note: You do NOT have to actually visualize, or see, the ROPE at any time,   
   just know where it is supposed to be. This method uses NO visualization at   
   all.   
      
   Reaching out and pulling on this invisible, imaginary ROPE with your   
   imaginary HANDS shifts the bodily awareness induced point of consciousness,   
   out of the body, with a strong natural action that puts direct pressure on   
   one point of the astral body.   
      
   Active Chakra   
      
   One important point, if you happen to have more activity in your Brow   
   Chakra, rather than in your Heart Chakra, which is sometimes the case. Move   
      
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