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OBE And Daytime Effects In Relation To Inner Development

The first (very often) spontaneous OBEs are impressing experiences, verifying from a practical point of view the existence of a soul. It provides the feeling to be independent from the physical body and to be still existing without and outside the physical body. Mostly these overwhelming life experiences lead to a non-materialistic and spiritual orientated dedication of life. Very often these people start to meditate or at least tend to more idealistic behaviour. In consequence the quality of subtle forces is changing by the time and with this change or inner evolution some accompanying daytime effects are observed such as special body sensations (vibrations, hot spots, pressure etc), empathy, sensibility and others more as far as to paranormal and poltergeist side effects (the latter only relates to mediumistic people).
To enable a better orientation I first start with a so called theoretical scheme, which serves to group a many-fold phenomena into three main groups, which at the same time give a clearer understanding for the source and quality of the side effects and as well the sequence of inner development.
The stages and the symptoms of inner development have been observed by myself and have been reported to me verbally and by means of correspondence by many peoples. The following brought stages are responsible for different OBE results and different daytime side-effects. Commonly in the esoteric field this stages are declared as a spiritual evolution and are described in the frame of basic chakra theories.
Let us start with the explanation at the basis of chakra development. In this case the activated chakras are:
The chakras of the abdomen, called Svaddhisthana Chakra and Manipura Chakra in Indian Yoga tradition, respectively the Spleen Chakra as preferred in theosophy and occultism and spiritism. These chakras are made responsible for mediumistic and poltergeist phenomena.

The Anahata Chakra, referred to higher developed kinds of emotions, mainly unselfish love (resp. cosmic love) and religious feelings.

The Ajna Chakra (between the eye brows), preferred by Indian dogmatic Yogis and the front chakra (in the midst of the forehead) as preferred by western esoteric ideologies.

In the same way development may be classified at the basis of body, emotion and intellect dominated behaviour:
The classification of the steps of development can be done without relating to chakra theories as well. In this form of explanation the focus of consciousness is based on bodily orientation, on emotional feeling and on the intellect. Below in the image you find these three qualities set to traditional esoteric body locations. You may say that the source of all is located in the brain, but the brain is structured and may be these structures are in some way associated with these body regions. Now let me show an image of these three quality associated body parts:

Forehead, dominated by the colors white/blue, center of imagination (visual techniques)
Breast, yellow/orange, center of love

Abdomen, red, producing mediumistic effects, source of etheric OBEs

Now after the approximate orientation let us come to details, starting from the lowest center.

Abdomen, Spleen Chakra - Etheric OBEs
Characteristic associating phenomena, if this region has been vivified:
Full awake state:
Feeling of inner power, emotional, some times emotional unbalanced
State of relaxation, tiredness and meditation:
Voices can be heard, unexplained cracking of wood, poltergeist phenomena, vibrations, sounds. I want to remark that these effects are not a consequence of OBEing. In contrary, these cracking, voices and poltergeist phenomena are a sign of mediumistic disposition and the OBEs (the first OBEs are mostly spontaneous) are a consequence of the mediumistic disposition as well. Further spontaneous independent movements of feet (mostly floating), arms (mostly short abrupt movements) and head (seldom spontaneously) of the subtle body - at the border to the IBE state.
IBE and OBE states (etheric OBE):
Voices, feeling of being touched, visions of ghosts - this relates only for people with mediumistic disposition and is experienced in the IBE state (not in the OBE state). Etheric OBEs are characterized by the awareness of leaving the body. The excursion is started from the room where the physical is. Further etheric OBE experiences are silver cord experiences, blackness, double consciousness (consciousness of the physical body and of the subtle body).

Breast, Anahata Chakra - Astral Projection
Characteristic associating phenomena, if this region has been vivified:
Full awake state:
Compassion, idealism, intuition (intuitive knowledge of optimal acting), empathy (to feel the emotions and character orientation of others)
State of relaxation and meditation:
Love, bright saturated colors are seen spontaneously. Voices, cracking of wood etc. are less and less observed and vanish by the time.
OBE states (astral projection):
Encounters with deceased, with spiritual guides. However, especially at the beginning, the excursions do not only lead into high astral planes, but as well into hell regions or desolated astral planes (this often is regarded as a process of learning).

Head Chakras - Astral Projection
(Front Chakra, Ajna Chakra, Crown Chakra)
Characteristic associating phenomena, if this region has been vivified:
Full awake state:
Intellectual stimulation up to restless thoughts - counteraction: thought control (Mauna, Zen meditation). Feeling of will power. Blue and white light spots are seen spontaneously at any daytime occasion. When these centers are too much activated a bothering feeling of pressure at the forehead or the top of the head is observed; counteraction: meditative and magical methods for "grounding", energy circling, balancing and harmonizing by meditation on the Anahata Chakra.
State of relaxation and meditation:
White and bright blue lights. Images, visions of landscapes. Telepathic abilities, clairvoyant
OBE states (astral projection):
The astral projections very often are excursions to mental planes. A mental plane very often is dominated by subjective constructions. You may regard this in following way: if a person is not as far developed and still dominated by an individual and ego directed mind, the inner universe is not collective but a veiling shell of personal intentions. This is the source of a chaotic multiple of experiences of subjective character and leads to confusion for everyone who wants to find understanding and rules for the other dimensions. You may consider the mental plane as a self made universe, which veiles the individual with a thought cocoon. For better understanding - in theosophy a mental plane is a collective mental plane with only few subjective layers, thus considered as a plane of communication for high developed souls.