亲历出体

✍此段摘自《灵魂永生》第二十章 问答篇

（昨晚，星期二，珍还在客厅上ESP课的时候我就去睡了。差不多是11点30分。当我躺着半睡半醒的时候，我暗示自己早上醒来会记得我的梦并记下来。奇怪的是，我当时并没有提到“灵体投射”。

我睡得很不安稳，醒了好几次，而ESP课还在继续。最后，我模模糊糊听见班上成员的车开离隔壁停车场的声音，然后我才睡着。珍后来说她是在12点45分上床的。

我知道的下一件事就是自己在黑暗的浴室里飞来飞去。我没有身体却一点都不担心。

浴室在我们公寓的中央；客厅在一侧，卧室和我的画室在另一侧。为了不让我们的猫威立在夜里爬上床，我们把它放在客厅里，还关上了通往浴室的门。现在我发现自己就悬在那道门前，无法穿过它。

我没有感到惊惶或恐惧。我灵体的眼睛看得见。右方一扇开着的窄窗透进一丝微光。关着的门在深深的阴影里，但我知道自己就在门前。虽然我的身体还躺在“身后”的卧室里，在珍的旁边，不过我并不担心。最初我不觉得自己是在投射——也就是说，我没想到要命令自己穿过那扇门到客厅去。不过在这种非常舒适的失重状态里，我慢慢明白自己是在出体。我已经完全不记得是怎么离开身体来到浴室的了。

我很少做灵体投射，而这是第一次毫无恐惧的经验。然而我相信，我是被“门无法穿透”这个有意识的常识挡在了门外。在吃了闭门羹之后，我又睡了一会儿。当我再次变得有知觉时，显然是在几分钟之后，我发现自己浮在床上的身体上方。

我恰巧是平躺，两臂放在身旁。我的灵体差不多以同样的姿势，浮在身体上方六寸左右。我的状态非常稳定、舒适：我明白自己很清醒，知道我在做什么，而且十分自由，没有重量。我听见自己在打鼾，不过没怎么注意这事。我知道自己不是在做梦。我甚至还记得读过好几次的内容：当一个人投射时，他知道那是和做梦不一样的状况。现在我可以亲自证实这一点。我非常高兴。

这次我的所见不同。我好像特别注意我的双腿，悬浮在肉身上方的腿。我兴冲冲地摆弄它们，摇上摇下，享受这种美妙的自由与轻快的感觉。我知道我肉体的腿不可能这样自由地运动，虽然它们很健康。我灵体腿的感觉像是橡皮，非常松弛而有弹性——不知怎么，从我面朝下的位置，我看见它们颜色很淡而且膝盖以下是半透明的！

由于我的投射看上去如此稳定，我便觉得它为我创造了一次很好的机会。我再一次没有恐惧，只是信心十足。我想应该做点什么才对。这才是个冒险的好时机。我告诉自己我愿意尝试任何事——到其他某个实相世界去看看、穿门而入客厅、到屋前的街上逛逛……

整个过程中，珍一直躺在我身旁。她后来说当她上床时，我正鼾声如雷。现在，我的注意力开始改变焦点，这才第一次真的听见自己的鼾声。我惊奇于下面的身体那头部发出的巨大声响。这声音就算在我醒时故意发都发不出来。

我好几次十分有意识地、刻意尝试“行动”，离开身体远点儿，却不成功。看来我的努力是白费了；我只是仍然在身体的上方打转。然后我想出了个好主意：我要用鼾声作为动力，送我一飞冲天进入别的实相层面，远远抛开床上的身体。

我开始故意更大声地打鼾——如果可能的话。我要建立一个巨大的“声音动力”，以此推动自己前进，虽然我并不知道这如何运作。奇怪的是，我既享受悬在身体上方的感觉，也很享受自己有能力用肉体发出声音。这暗示了一种双重意识，因为我对两个身体都有知觉。

要么是我听见自己的鼾声真的加重了，要么是我的注意力更集中在这上面。但不论如何，我的主意并不管用。我不知道自己到底会不会成功起飞，因为就在那时珍对我说：“亲爱的，你在打鼾。翻个身吧。”就跟平时对我的鼾声不耐烦时一样。我听得很清楚。我立刻止住鼾声，但没动。我不记得怎么又重回身体了。最后我轻轻推她，费了好大劲才说清楚发生了什么。她觉得我听起来好像仍在出神状态。

我觉得好像可以再投射一次，因此当珍静静地躺在我身旁时，我一再尝试。但我再没成功，虽然围绕着整个插曲的舒适氛围仍真真切切地留连不去。这次投射虽然很小，却显得如此轻松自然，不禁让我奇怪为什么它不经常发生。我一直都知道总有比我所能完成的更多的可能性——超出我当时能力的精彩可能性，如果我能冲破障碍的话。我完全没感到任何恐慌，我也完全没看到或感觉到那个“灵体的脐带”。最后我睡着了。

这次经历带来了两个问题，我把它们加到第二十章的清单中：一、我的投射非常愉快，但更重要的是它包含了如此多的潜能，以至于我奇怪，为什么西方人对这些能力没有更多的觉察？二、为什么西方人没有培养和利用它们？我希望今晚赛斯会加以评论。）

赛斯：恭喜你。你选了那个时候尝试那个实验，可以说你手中握有一张王牌，万一你被吓着了，你完全清楚鲁柏就要来睡觉了。不过，你已准备好再试一次，并且挑选了一个缓慢而容易的方法，舒适的环境，也让它更容易做些，这样在你真的大冒其险之前，会对那些感觉更熟悉一些。

罗伯特：在珍上床之前，我就试过这个方法吗？

赛斯：没有。你在她来之前就开始尝试，但直到她来睡时你才成功。在身体外对时间的感觉与在体内应该大有不同。你知道获得一次成功的经验后你会自由很多，因此你选择了最好的环境。

你本来确实可以离开公寓。不过，打鼾也算是给鲁柏的一个信号，你知道他会叫醒你，这是打鼾的原始动机。你知道，如果你不喜欢这个实验，它就会被中止。但同时，你又觉得很开心并决定利用那个噪音作为一个推动力，但鲁柏对鼾声的正常反应也随之发生。

你现在应该会发现自己记起了好几次这种经验。

（罗伯特注：当我誊写笔记打好这一节时，是4月25日，星期日。从4月21日起我就一直满怀希望地等着另一次投射，但却落空了。在另外一个情况下我有一次很小的“出体”，其后差不多有两周时间都出现了一系列不完全的投射，或者是包含这种现象的扭曲成分的梦。很奇怪，就像是地震后的余震。）

赛斯：现在来回答你的问题：西方人选择将精力向外聚焦，极大地忽略内心世界。社会与文化，甚至宗教方面都从孩提起就自动抵制了这种经验。“出体”在你们的社会中完全没有任何社会效益，而且对此有许多禁忌。

当然，这是身在该文明中的那些人共同的选择。在达到适中与理解之前也存在某种平衡。有些人选择转世到外在取向的社会，以补偿过去极为内省，对物质操纵极差的人生。你明白吗？人们认识到必须对内在与外在实相世界都要有所了解并加以建设性地利用。

当然，不论你记不记得，在睡眠状态都经常发生投射。当有某种理由要记起它们时，当涉及到某种功绩或明显的成就时，像是在认为运用梦与投射非常有利的社会，你就会记起那些投射。

比如说，如果你正选择经历一种高度重视物理移动的生活，那么你将通过模糊的飞翔梦记忆获得灵感，而带来飞机或火箭的发明。但如果你真正了解意识的确能神游于体外这个事实，那么想发明物体载运工具的动力就不会那么强烈了。

（Last night, Tuesday, I went to bed while Jane was holding ESP class in the living room. It was about 11:30. As I lay dozing I gave myself suggestions that I would recall my dreams in the morning and write them down. Oddly enough, I didn’t mention “astral projection.”

（I slept rather uneasily, waking up several times while class was still in progress. Finally, I was hazily aware of hearing the cars of class members as they pulled out of the parking lot next to the house. Then I slept. Jane said later that she came to bed at 12:45 AM.

（The next thing I knew, I was hovering in the air in our darkened bathroom. I was in a bodiless state without being at all upset.

（The bathroom is in the center of our apartment; the living room is on one side of it, the bedroom and my studio on the other. In order to keep our cat, Willy, off our bed at night, we put him in the living room and close the door on that side of the bathroom. Now I found myself hanging in front of that door, unable to penetrate it.

（I felt no panic, no fear. My astral eyes were functioning.

A weak light came through a narrow open window to my right. The closed door was in deep shadow, but I knew I was before it. Although my body lay sleeping beside Jane in the bedroom “behind" me, I wasn’t concerned about it. I didn’t realize that I was projecting at first — I didn’t have the presence of mind, say, to order myself to burst through the door into the living room. But that I was out of my body, and in this very pleasant weightless state, did slowly make itself known to me. I had no memory of actually leaving my body and moving into the bathroom.

（This was the first time that no element of fear was present in any of my rather infrequent projections. I believe my ordinary conscious ideas that doors can’t be penetrated held me back, though. I fell asleep again briefly after encountering the impasse posed by the closed door. When I became aware again, evidently a few moments later, I found myself floating just above my physical body as it lay in bed.

（It happened that I lay sleeping flat on my back with my arms down at my sides. My astral body was in the same approximate position, perhaps six inches above. My state was remarkably steady and pleasant: I felt awake, aware of what I was up to, and quite free and weightless. I heard myself snoring, without paying much attention to that fact — yet. I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I even remembered reading at various times that when projecting one knows the difference between that state and a dreaming one. This I could now attest to at firsthand. I was very pleased.

（I had a different kind of vision this time. In some fashion I was aware of my legs especially, suspended above my physical ones. I took great pleasure in wiggling them about, shaking them up and down, enjoying the marvelous sense of freedom and lightness they possessed. I knew my physical legs couldn’t move that freely, although they are in good shape. My astral legs felt quite rubbery, so loose and flexible were they — and somehow, from my prone position, I could see that they were light-colored and translucent from the knees down!

（Since my projection state seemed to be so reliable, I began to think it offered great opportunities. I felt no fear, again, only confidence. I thought that this would be a great time to do something. Now was the time for a fine adventure. I told myself I was willing to try anything — a visit to some other reality, a plunge through the door into the living room, a trip down the street in front of the house....

（All this time Jane lay beside me. She said afterward that I was snoring loudly when she came to bed. My attention now began to change its focus; for the first time I really heard myself. I was amazed at the loudness of the sounds that came from my physical head, just beneath “me.” I couldn’t possibly duplicate them while awake.

（Without success, I made several quite conscious and deliberate attempts to “get going, ” and travel away from my body. My efforts didn’t break the projection spell; I merely remained hovering where I was. Then I had an idea: I would use the sound of my snoring as an impetus to send myself soaring off into other dimensions, leaving my body far behind me on the bed.

（Deliberately I began to snore even louder, if possible. I wanted to build up a massive sound-impetus that I would use as a propellant, although I didn’t know how this was supposed to work. The strange thing is, I enjoyed both the feeling of lying just above my physical body, and my ability to use the latter to produce sound. This implies a dual consciousness here, since I was aware of both bodies.

（Either I heard my snoring actually increase in volume, or I focused upon it even more acutely. My idea wasn’t working, anyhow. I don’t know whether I would have eventually succeeded in taking off, for Jane now said to me: “Honey, you’re snoring. Turn over, ”as she usually does when she gets tired of listening to me. I heard her clearly. I stopped snoring at once, but didn’t move. I don’t remember rejoining my physical body. Finally I nudged her, and with an effort told her something of what had transpired. She thought I sounded as though I was still in a trance.

（I felt as though I might project again, so I kept trying while Jane lay quietly beside me. I had no success, although the very pleasant aura surrounding the whole episode lingered most definitely. The projection, small as it was, had seemed so easy and natural that I wondered why it wasn’t a commonplace. I knew all the while that much more was possible than I was able to accomplish — that just beyond my abilities of the moment lay wonderful possibilities if I could just break that... barrier. I never did feel any alarm, and at no time did I see, or feel, the “astral silver cord.” Finally I slept.

（The experience gave rise to a couple of questions which I added to the list for Chapter Twenty: 1. My own projection was so enjoyable, but more importantly contained so many potentials, that I wonder why Western man isn’t more aware of these abilities. 2. Why doesn’t he cultivate them and put them to use? I hoped Seth would comment tonight.）

Now: Good evening.

（“Good evening, Seth. ”）

And congratulations.

（“Thank you. ’’）

This is to you: You tried the experiment when you did, having an ace in the hole, so to speak, in case you became frightened, knowing full well that Ruburt would be coming to bed. You were ready to try again, however, and picked a slow and easy method, pleasant surroundings, to make it easy for you also, so that you could become familiar with the sensation before you actually did anything too adventurous with it.

（“Did I try this before Jane came to bed? ”）

No. You began your attempts before, but did not succeed until Ruburt came to bed. The time sense outside the body can be quite different than the body’s. You knew that with one successful experience you would be much more free, and so you chose the best of circumstances.

You could have left the apartment indeed. The snoring was also, however, supposed to be a signal to Ruburt. You knew he would awaken you. This was the original motivation for it. If you did not like the experiment, you see. it would have been terminated. In the meantime, however, you were delighted, and decided upon the noise as a propellant, but Ruburt’s usual reaction to the snoring took place.

You should find yourself remembering quite a few such experiences now.

（It is Sunday, April 25, as I type up this session from my notes. Ever since April 21 I have been waiting expectantly, and in vain, for another projection. On a different occasion I had a rather small out-of-body that trailed behind it, for almost two weeks, a series of incomplete projections or dream experiences containing distorted elements of such phenomena. Strangely, an analogy might be the aftershocks following a quake....）

Now in answer to your questions: Western man has chosen to focus his energy outward and largely ignore inner realities. The social and cultural aspects, and even the religious ones, automatically inhibit such experiences from childhood on. There is no social benefit at all connected with projections in your society, and many taboos against it.

This is, of course, chosen by those involved in that civilization. There are also balances that exist before moderation and understanding are reached. Some personalities choose to be reincarnated in exteriorly oriented societies, in compensation for lives that were lived with great concentration inward, and very poor physical manipulation. Man learns, you see, that inner reality and outer reality both must be understood and used constructively.

Projections occur of course in the sleep state constantly, whether or not they are remembered. They are recalled when there is some reason to do so, some merit or obvious achievement involved, as in societies where it is considered highly advantageous to use dreams and projections.

If you are presently experiencing a life in which you have chosen high emphasis upon physical locomotion, for example, then through vague dream memories of flying you can be inspired toward, say, the invention of airplanes or rockets; but if you actually understand the fact that your own consciousness can indeed travel outside of the body, then the impetus toward physical developments in locomotion is not nearly so intense.

《赛斯说✪第189期》

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