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Preface Welcome to Mastering Astral Projection! This book is devoted to teaching you how to have a fully conscious astral projection (also called out-of-body experience or OBE). It focuses on practical OBE exit training and advice, rather than on covering everything relating to the history, speculation, and practice of astral travel. My first book, Astral Dynamics: A NEW Approach to OBE (Hampton Roads, 1999) covered not only projection training and OBE exit techniques, but also many related issues, phenomena, and theories associated with astral travel. During the latter stages of writing Astral Dynamics, it was clear that I needed to include a practical training program to help readers apply the information I was giving in a step-by-step and goal-oriented way. Given the eventual size of Astral Dynamics (560 pages), however, such a weighty addition was impractical. A few chapters had already been cut to save space. After Astral Dynamics was published, I received many requests for an OBE training program. One of my readers, American computer programmer, writer, and OBE aficionado Brian Mercer, sent me the bones of such a program. He had developed it for his personal use, and offered me a copy out of courtesy. After studying Brian’s ninety-day program, I uploaded it to my website and made it available to the public online. It quickly became popular and resulted in a lot of constructive feedback. I passed the feedback along to Brian, plus my own ideas for improvements, and he revised and fine-tuned it accordingly. It soon became obvious that we were building the foundations of a valuable OBE training manual. Brian and I soon became good friends. Following my instincts, I invited Brian to coauthor a book with me, the book you are now holding. In the months that followed we discussed the theme and content of this book at great length. We recognized that an old hand like me and a keen novice like Brian teaming up as OBE teachers would create a winning combination of knowledge, experience, and priceless enthusiasm. I am not really a fair test subject for any kind of OBE training program, as I have way too much firsthand experience. Brian, however, was a well-read novice with little actual OBE