A couple of days ago, I had the opportunity to practice exteriorizing astral substance, using Denning & Phillips’ method, described as ‘The Watcher’. Essentially, the idea is to stimulate chakra activity, then sense astral substance leaving your solar plexus to materialize into some neutral shape (e.g., a sphere) in front of you. Then, impress upon it a goal and a set time of return. At the time of return, reintegrate the astral substance, and allow the new impressions to come to mind as a type of free association. I do this exercise from time to time to gain experience interacting with the world at a number of different levels of reality and consciousness…
I visited the Tor House on the California Central Coast for the first time a few days ago, and I thought it would be interesting to send the watcher there beforehand to test the accuracy of its impressions. The Tor house was built by poet Robinson Jeffers in the early part of the 20th century using the stones he found on the beach, the stones he carried from the beach, the stones he masoned fittingly himself; it also includes “Hawk Tower”, and is a fascinating place; I think I want a tower too! Some very useful information is given at this website about the house and the poet…
[Creative commons photo credit at flikr: Tor House ]
Anyway, the night before I sent the watcher to the Tor House, and upon re-integration, I did see some things that I didn’t expect to see, but did confirm during my visit–especially the plethora of woodworking. However, I do think that I need quite a bit more practice at this technique, because my perception from the Watcher’s experience were not clear enough to record in enough detail to warrant accurate testing.
If anyone has suggestions for different places (or people) I should send the Watcher to observe, I am open to suggestions…
