me. Something started to make a lot of noise in the distance... (Sol) ....Last time, having been struck by sleep paralysis together with an awful fear, I rolled out of bed... Fear and darkness upon awakening or falling asleep... These are all completely typical things for the practice of outof-body travel. Novices report experiencing them in a third of all cases! Meanwhile, they rarely expect an encounter with God afterwards, which is why he usually doesn’t appear to them. This gets right to the essence of the phenomenon. During a spontaneous and uncontrolled out-of-body experience, you get exactly what you fear or expect at the moment. This will be demonstrated again and again below. Meanwhile, in the bible excerpts above, the reason why the protagonists met the Lord is completely clear and understandable - if they but only think of God, they cannot but meet him. It was completely normal for them to have seen God. And here’s what’s most important - this all may seem to be empty talk or senseless theory, but hear me out: not only biblical characters have had encounters with God. How many similar stories are there in other sources? Tons. And they all contain the same telltale characteristics - lying down, falling asleep, waking up, and so on. Moreover, one can meet God each and every time one engages in the practice of leaving the body. The procedure is simple: use techniques to go outof-body, and then use techniques to find the objects that you are looking for. That’s all there is to it... Back in my youth when I was first getting into out-of-body travel, I met God several times out of sheer curiosity. I’ve met scores of practitioners who have done the same. You can even try it yourself. But who or what is being encountered? Is it really God? That’s for you to decide. Some practitioners would say that it is a simulation generated by the subconscious mind, which controls everything during the out-of-body experience. Others