Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 58 of 100 · Part IV

Part IV · The other half of life

Once you are out

The first moments outside the body are unsteady. Your hands steady you, one act is enough, and you can always come back.

Read to me

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Three simple ways through the door, and the hands to steady you.

Suppose it happens. You rise and float, or a dream suddenly becomes clear. What then?

The first moments are often unstable. Colors flicker, the scene wobbles, and the excitement itself can pull you back into your body. Old dreamers used a simple anchor: your hands. Look at them. Then glance at four other things around you, briefly, without staring. Return to your hands. Each return steadies you.

Move away from your sleeping body. Staying close to it can draw you straight back in.

Then do one thing, not ten. Take one step, look up at the sky, or ask one question. When things begin to slip, go back to your hands and begin again.

Open hands held up in a softly glowing night street.

If getting out is the hard part, there are other simple ways through the door. Intend to roll over, as you would roll out of bed, without moving a muscle. Or let yourself float upward. Or picture a rope above you and pull yourself up it with your hands.

Coming back is never a problem. Think of your body, and you are in it. Nobody has ever failed to return.

Then, before you move, go through it all once in your mind, and write it down.

Try this

  1. Tonight, as you fall asleep, say once, meaning it with your whole body: Tonight I will see my hands.
  2. Then let it go, and sleep.
  3. If you wake inside a dream, look at your hands, glance at four things, and come back to your hands.
  4. Do one simple thing: a step, a look at the sky, or a question.
  5. On waking, do not move. Remember it, and then write it down.

Words on this page

The hands
The first anchor in a dream or outside the body. Looking at them steadies the scene.

In the old words

“I am in my astral body; here I do not have even the slightest doubt about it.”

Dream YogaSamael Aun Weor
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