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anyone can learn to use this type of sight, whether out of the body or in, with practice. Here are a few
examples from my OBE journals:
10/24/81 Sat - OBE #52
...I was off to another excursion. When I got out, I was about one foot above my body. I sat
up. I knew what I must do. I had to get to LD's house somehow. I thought to myself, "I
know there are two possible routes I could take, either the back door or out through my
window." But I heard the back door open and shut. I directed my attention over there, and
my clairvoyant vision opened up. I saw that it was my mom coming in from outside. I also
noticed the clock in the kitchen, but it was too blurry to see the time. I remember that it was
more like second-sight or clairvoyant vision....
05/15/82 Sat - OBE #73
...I looked down at my swaying legs, but all I saw was my bed. I saw no legs. I thought,
"Well, now is the best time to practice clairvoyant vision because I know what to look for
[my legs]." So I half closed my astral eyes, and put them out of focus. I experimented with
my eyes, and finally after about six tries I found how to hold my eyes so that they would get
the clearest clairvoyant sight [of my legs]. I cannot possibly describe any more how I used
my eyes to see that way; it is something that can only be gained through experimenting.
Anyway, I was seeing clairvoyantly, and I clearly saw two identical sets of legs. One set [the
physical] was resting on the bed. The other set [the astral] was swaying up and down, and
the physical bed wasn't affecting it in the least. I feel now that I was actually using
clairvoyant sight or "second sight" because I noticed a difference between it and the usual
astral sight. The astral sight I am used to usually doesn't give me great detail. In this
projection I saw my legs, the pajamas I was wearing, and the exact design on those pajamas.
Ordinarily when I look at my legs astrally I either see them as bare legs, or I see clothing
vaguely. In this [mode of] vision I also noticed many other details. The neatest thing was
being able to see both sets of legs there. Both sets of legs looked semi-transparent, and I
could distinguish color very well.
07/25/82 Sun - OBE #80
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...I looked at my [astral] arms, not astrally, but clairvoyantly, as if trying to see a spirit from
the physical world. My [astral] arms were transparent when I looked at them that way. They
looked like transparent, dark black filmy shadows. I studied them for a while, then blacked
out.
II. Peculiarities of Sight.
Astral travelers have always reported differences between the physical world and the OBE world. For
instance, a door that is closed physically might appear open while out of the body. Why are there
differences? The most common explanation is that we aren't really seeing the physical world: We are
seeing the astral counterpart of the physical world. It is said that the astral world is very plastic and when
left alone, it molds itself to the shape of physical objects. I've also seen some peculiar things while out of
the body:
A. Seeing the physical body.
What is it we're seeing while we're out of the body? If we're seeing only the astral counterpart of physical
objects, it follows that we should not be able to see our own body. After all, we are already using the
astral body. I haven't looked at my physical body much during OBEs, but when I do it usually looks like
a blob of gray. However, it hasn't always appeared as I expect:
04/27/80 - OBE #15
Sometime this morning I found myself conscious out of my body, but very near it. My first
instincts were to get away from it. So when I thought about getting away, I drifted down,
through my bed underneath my body. I could feel the bed as I went through it. I saw my
body through the bed as a body-shaped mass of gray matter. I thought, "No, I don't want to
go down. I want to go up." Then I drifted up above my body to the ceiling. I started to drift
through the ceiling, and I could feel the layers go through my arms and head. It was so
strange!
When I was halfway through the ceiling, I was sensing things with my mind and not using
my astral sense of sight. I thought, "I'm supposed to see what's up here (above my room)."
So I quickly turned my head to look, saw some stuff like a dresser flash by my sight and the
next thing I knew I was back in my body.
01/31/81 Sat - OBE #33
...I could see okay on the astral plane. I was in the high-vibration state, swaying. I was also
about five inches below my physical body. My physical body from the astral plane looked
like a ghost might on the physical plane. It looked to me to be a transparent shell in the
shape of a man, with nothing in the middle....
01-15-84 Sun - OBE #101
...At that time I realized that my eyes were closed and I really wasn't seeing anything at all.
My vision was totally dark. So I opened my astral eyes and turned around to look back at
my body. The room looked normal. I could see everything in it. I looked at my bed and it
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