Thread: Is doing OBE dangerous?

I recomend that if you are skilled enough to believe you can honestly obtain true OBE that you put it off for a few years while you master states of awareness and meditative skills. I know that when I was in my late teens (20+ years back) I felt the need to stop OBE until I mastered a few other paranormal things. I felt that when I reached OBE that small petty entities would focus on me, and it scared me. I decided that developing myself until I felt confident and powerful was a good idea. I never got a feeling that anything terrible would happen, just that I was playing with very serious 'magic' and not really being advanced enough to understand what the creepy little things were or wanted.
On the other hand, now that I am much wiser and so on, I have no fear that harm could befall me from OBE. It is not an activity that holds much of my interest now. I think if an undeveloped person got into true OBE the only real bad things that could happen are first as Mark says 'detachment from reality' kind of a mild psycosis that impares your ability to focus and stay grounded, this is temporary. Second, if you attract the attention of entities you do not understand or have the ability to deal with, it results in a general creepy feeling, like mild paranoia.

Sivason,

That agrees with my experience. The first time was creepy, with all the things I could see and hear, plus I was scared I couldn't get back in my body. The next time or two I focused on trying to understand the physical nature of the experience, then after that I lost interest. In varying degrees I'm still aware of the creepy stuff, but I just overlay it on my conventional sleeping or waking experience, without projecting the full-on astral out-of-body scene. As far as I can tell, the out-of-body aspect is mostly a side effect of the mental state that enables other aspects of the experience.

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