Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36322 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 278 pages

Amazon.com Review
Out of Body Experiences could be summed up in Robert Peterson's own words: it's "what the books didn't tell me." Many people have tried to have out of body experiences (OBEs) and are discouraged when things don't go exactly as the books suggest they should. Peterson assures readers that anyone can have an OBE, and relates the difficulties and discoveries in his personal quest for them. His anecdotal, reassuring approach makes the whole experience seem much more accessible than do other books on the subject, which tend to read like textbooks. Peterson also addresses odd and potentially startling aspects of the OBE that the more technical books neglect to mention. Out of Body Experiences is a casual, friendly approach to astral travel that should be the first book anyone attempting an OBE reads, and should be high on the reading list of anyone who has tried unsuccessfully to leave his body.

Customer Reviews

Be warned......again.
Hello, this is basically the same review I wrote for "Adventures Beyond The Body. It's basically the same book just written by two different people. This book will also help you to acheive an OBE. This book is also an excellent read, but obviously this authors OBE experiences are different from the other author.
This is where I am with the OBE issue....

I figured I'd weigh in on this book.
In other reviews I had stated I was raised Catholic but had more or less given up on Christianity and other religions as a source of knowledge about the next world.
I decided to go looking for myself. Being a big fan of the movie Flatliners, I was wondering if this OBE thing could be accomplished with out actually stopping your heart.
A little internet research led me to this book and one other which I will also review.
The book really is an amazing read.
He gives great tips on how to accomplish the experience and what to expect.
Like other reviewers I found myself lucid dreaming and being able to sway and partially get in and out of my body within a few weeks. But it literally took me over a year to overcome the fear factor and actually leave my body.
I titled my review, "Be Warned".
Why?
Because the author was right, one you force the experience you can't stop it.
I would say in the last ten years I have had hundreds if not more OBE's.
I went looking for answers, I didn't find any.
OBE's are NOT NDE's (Near Death Experiences)
There is no white tunnel waiting for you to enter.
There is no garden of tranquility waiting for you.
Nor were there any flames or demons.
What did I see?
It's difficult to put into words exactly..........
The author claims to have experienced some very incredible things, and who am I to say he's lying.
Everyone I've told has told me, you were asleep or imagining it.
There really isn't anything I could do to convince them otherwise, I was as awake during the actual experience as I am during my real waking state.
What did I see?
LOL, my bedroom and the downstairs of my house. I tried an experiment by moving a lamp while out of body.
As soon as I reentered, I saw the lamp had NOT been moved.
This leads me to believe when you are out of body; you are seeing the spiritual side of the real world, a mirror image if you will.
I haven't had any contact with any otherworldly beings, positive or negative. Whatever celestial secrets are out there, the angels and demons are keeping their celestial mouths shut.
Like I said, I started this looking for answers and found none. The experience itself is VERY difficult to control. You vision is either clear as can be or extremely distorted and unfocused. I don't remember if it's the author of this book who says to "demand clear vision" while out of body and it will happen. I tried that, DIDN'T WORK!!!!.
I did look down at my arm while out of body and what I saw was beautiful. It was like an outline of an arm with millions of little blue lights inside of it. I also have looked at my bed on numerous occasions and the only thing I have ever seen was a blank bed with the indentations of a body laying on it.
I've never had any scary encounters but my experiences are really never that long, if you so much as think of your body, ZAP your right back in it. I've never been in any kind of fear of possession, I've seen the "silver cord" that is mentioned in the book and it's very real. Nothing can take your body without your permission I don't care what the fundamentalist's say. Your soul has a claim on your body, period.
I've never had an experience that has lasted long enough for me to actually venture out of the house so I can't comment further on that.
I guess I can't wait for some comments from people. Have any of your experiences been the same as mine?
I started doing this looking for answers, religion and the occult gave me none.
OBE's gave me none.
If you're bound and determined to do this, then it's at your own risk.
Like I said, once you force the experience, you CANNOT stop it from happening again.
It doesn't seem to happen at night when I go to sleep, but if I lay down to take a nap in the afternoon forget it.
I'm in and out constantly. There is however a school of thought that says a part of us leaves every time we go to sleep. I'm inclined to believe that, maybe I'm just not recalling the experiences during my nighttime slumber.
Again folks, be careful, if you aren't mentally ready for this then don't do it.
If you're bound and determined to do it, then it's at your own risk.
Whether or not you find any answers to your questions will depend on.............don't ask me, it seems the universe is content to withhold any otherworldly information from me, oh well.
Take care.
B

excellent
this book is well written and puts alot of fears to rest. i find that your expectations highly affect what you experience and this book keeps you in a good frame of mind. this was the first book to get my friend "OUT" and she cherishes this book. i have a special attachment to another book because it was the first to get me "out", even though this robert peterson book is a better, more well rounded book. i highly reccommend this book, actually i just let a few people borrow it, they love it.

Hey! My book is FREE!!
Wow! Its very cool that Bob Peterson and Charles Tart have written a book together. I feel a kinship with Bob even though I have never met him and never read his books, because both my and his books on OBE were out in cyberspace at about the same time. Charles Tart is, of course, a legend.

Anyway, if you want to learn about this stuff and not pay for it, read my book DO_OBE. If you google it you can find a copy.