William Buhlman Wrote the Following

 

Buhlman, W. L. (1996). Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel (pp. 34-35). New York: HarperCollins.

For PROMOTIONAL purposes and preemptive defense, here are a couple of my most favorite quotes from Buhlman’s book which are germane to the topic at hand.  Whenever I’m taking ridicule and heat from the Materialists and Atheists online, I love to drop these quotes and this book on them:

Twenty years ago, I firmly believed that the physical world, which we see and experience, was the only reality. I believed what my eyes told me — life possessed no hidden mysteries, only countless forms of matter living and dying. The facts were clear; there was no evidence or proof of nonphysical worlds or our continued existence after death. I questioned the intelligence of anyone softheaded enough to accept the illogical concepts of heaven, God, and immortality. In my mind these were fairy tales created to comfort the weak and manipulate the masses. For me, life was simple to understand: the world consisted of solid matter and form, and the concepts of life after death and heaven were feeble human attempts to create hope where none existed.

I possessed the arrogant knowledge of a man who judges the world with his physical senses alone. I supported my conclusions with the overwhelming observations provided by science and technology. After all, if something mysterious was there, science would certainly be aware of it.

My firm convictions of reality and life continued until June of 1972. During a conversation with a neighbor, our discussion turned to the possibilities of life after death and the existence of heaven. I proceeded to present my agnostic viewpoints with vigor. To my surprise my neighbor didn’t contest my conclusions; instead, he related an experience that he had had several weeks before. One evening just after drifting to sleep, he was shocked to discover himself floating above his body. Completely awake and aware, he became frightened and instantly fell back into his physical body. Excited, he told me it wasn’t a dream or his imagination, but a fully conscious experience.

Intrigued by his experience, I decided to investigate this strange phenomenon for myself. After several days of research, I discovered numerous references to out-of-body experiences throughout history. With some searching I found a book on the topic that actually described how out-of-body experiences are induced. The entire subject seemed extremely weird, and I considered the book the result of an overly active imagination.

Out of curiosity, I decided to try one of the out-of-body techniques before sleep. After repeated daily attempts, I began to feel a little ridiculous. In three weeks the only thing I experienced out of the norm was an increase in my dream recall. I became more and more convinced that this entire subject was nothing more than an intense or vivid dream stimulated by the so-called out-of-body techniques.

Then, one night about eleven o’clock I drifted to sleep during my out-of-body technique and began dreaming that I was sitting at a round table with several people. They all seemed to be asking me questions related to my self-development and state of consciousness. At that moment in the dream I began to feel extremely dizzy, and a strange numbness, like from Novocain, began to spread throughout my body. Unable to keep my head up, I passed out, hitting my head on the table. Instantly I was awake, fully conscious, lying in bed facing the wall. I could hear an unusual buzzing sound and felt somehow different. Extending my arm, I reached for the wall in front of me. I stared in amazement as my hand actually entered the wall; I could feel the vibrational energy of it as if I was touching its very molecular structure. Only then did the overwhelming reality hit me, My God, I’m not in my body.

Excited, my only thought was, It’s real. My God, it’s real! Lying in bed, I stared at my hand in disbelief. When I tried clenching my fist, I could feel the pressure of my grip; my hand felt completely solid, but the physical wall in front of me looked and felt like a dense, vaporous material with form.

Determined to stand, I began to move effortlessly to the foot of my bed, my mind racing with the reality of it all. Standing, I quickly touched my arms and legs, checking to see if I was solid, and to my surprise I was completely solid, completely real. But around me, the familiar physical objects in my room no longer appeared completely real or solid; instead, they now looked like three-dimensional mirages. Glancing down, I noticed a large lump in my bed. Amazed, I could see that it was the sleeping form of my physical body silently facing the wall.

As I focused my vision on the opposite side of the room, the wall seemed to fade slowly from view. In front of me I could see a wide, green field extending far beyond my room. Looking around, I noticed a figure silently watching me from about ten yards away. It was a tall man with dark hair, a beard, and a purple robe. Startled by his presence, I became frightened and instantly “snapped back” into my physical body. With a jolt I was in my body, and a strange feeling of numbness and tingling faded as I opened my eyes. Excited, I sat up, my mind exploding with the realization of what had just occurred. I knew it was absolutely real, not a dream or my imagination. My entire ego awareness had been present.

Suddenly, everything I had ever learned about my existence and the world around me had to be reappraised. I had always seriously doubted that anything beyond the physical world existed. Now my entire viewpoint changed. Now I absolutely knew that other worlds do exist and that people like myself must live there. Most important, I now knew that my physical body was just a temporary vehicle for the real me inside, and that with practice I could separate from it at will.

Excited about my discovery, I grabbed a pen and paper and wrote down exactly what had occurred. A flood of questions filled my mind. Why is the vast majority of the human race unaware of this phenomenon? Why aren’t the various sciences and religions investigating it? Is it possible that this unseen world is the “heaven” referred to in religious texts? Why isn’t our government exploring this apparent parallel energy world? Is it possible that our overwhelming dependence on physical perceptions has led us to overlook an incredible avenue of exploration and discovery?

As the initial shock of my first experience sank in, I realized that my life could never be the same again. The more I pondered the significance of my experience, the more profound I realized it to be. All my agnostic beliefs had been swept away in a single night. I knew that I had to reappraise everything that I had learned since childhood, everything that I had assumed to be true. My comfortable conclusions about science, psychology, religion, and my existence had obviously been based on incomplete information. I felt excited, but also uneasy — my familiar concepts of reality no longer seemed relevant. Increasingly, I felt in a void. On several occasions when I talked to friends about my experience, they found it too bizarre to take seriously. In 1972 the term out-of-body experience had not even been coined; back then, the most common description was astral projection. No one that I knew at the time had even heard of astral projection, and if you told people you had left your body, they immediately thought that you were on drugs or losing your mind. I quickly discovered that I had to keep my experiences to myself or face some degree of disbelief and even ridicule.

After my first out-of-body experience, my mind was overflowing with endless possibilities and questions. Desperate for information and guidance, I spent several weeks in libraries and bookstores searching for whatever knowledge was available on the topic. I quickly found that little was available; only a handful of books had been written on the subject, and some of these were decades old and out of print. By the end of July 1972, I realized that I was on my own.

I decided to focus on the one technique that had worked for me before. This technique involved visualizing a physical location that I knew well as I drifted off to sleep. As before, I pictured my mother’s living room with as much detail as possible. At first it seemed difficult, but after a few weeks I could picture the room’s details with increasing clarity; the furniture, patterns in fabrics, textures, even small imperfections in wood and paint began to be clear in my mind. I realized that the more I pictured myself within the room interacting with the physical objects, the more detailed my visualizations would become. With practice I learned to physically walk around the room and memorize specific items that it contained. I also learned the importance of “feeling” the environment with my mind: the feel of carpet on my feet; the sensation of sitting in a chair, walking, turning on a lamp, or even opening the door. The more detailed and involved I was within my visualization, the more effective were my results. Although it was challenging at first, after a while it became fun to make my visualizations come alive in my mind. At this point I decided to keep a journal to record my out-of-body experiences.

Buhlman, William L., “Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel” (pp. 3-8). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

The Materialists, Darwinists, and Atheists can be extremely stupid, ignorant, inexperienced, uneducated, and dense when it comes to the parts of SCIENCE that they have chosen not to believe in.  I know, because I used to be one of them.

Does the biblical silver cord exist?

The biblical concept of the silver cord is accurate.  According to my observations, it is not actually a cord but a thin, fibrous substance similar in appearance to a spider’s web.  The silver cord appears to function as the connection between the physical body and the first inner energy-body of all life-forms.  Though its complete function is unknown, it’s logical that it may act as an inner energy conduit.  One thing is certain, when the cord is severed, the biological life ends.

Buhlman, W. L. (1996). Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel. New York: HarperCollins.

https://science-2-0.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Silver-Cord.zip

The spirit body is something completely different than the physical body.  And, I have encountered a lot of evidence suggesting that the Psyche or the Intelligence can function separately from the spirit body.  It’s the Human Psyche who has the experiences and makes the memories, NOT the spirit body, and definitely NOT the physical body.  The spirit body and physical body have NO experiences and make NO memories while the Psyche is separated from them.  Our thoughts and memories are contained within the Human Psyche, and not the spirit body and not the physical brain; therefore, our thoughts, memories, and personalities survive the death of our physical brain.

I based my Ultimate Model of Reality or Psyche Ontology on the following observational and experiential account.

Journal Entry, October 2, 1982

I hear the buzzing, engine-like sounds and will myself out-of-body. [He left his physical body behind.] I step to the bedroom door and automatically request “Clarity now!” My vision improves and I step through the door, into the living room. Still feeling a little out of sync, I verbally repeat my request with more emphasis, “Clarity now!” I feel my awareness and vision snap into place.

My thoughts are clear and I make a verbal demand, “I need to see the form I’m in now!” Instantly I feel an intense sensation of being drawn within myself. I’m suddenly different, weightless as though I’m floating in space. As I look forward I see a sparkling, bluish white form. For some reason, I seem to know that I’m looking at my nonphysical body from a different perspective. I stare in amazement at this form before me that shines and flows with energy and light. It looks like an energy mold created from a million tiny points of light; it radiates a bluish glow but appears to have a defined outer structure. The body of light before me is naked and is identical to my physical form. Even though my body looks firm, there is a noticeable energy motion and radiation present. I can see what appears to be an ocean of blue stars throughout my body. It’s difficult to describe because the stars are stable, yet moving at the same time; the light and energy of my [spirit] body appear to change and flow almost like the waves of an ocean.

As I stare at the body of light, it hits me that I must be in another body. Yet I can’t perceive any form or substance; I’m like a viewpoint in space without shape or form of any kind. [He, his immaterial viewpoint in space, is pure psyche or intelligence or consciousness.]  As I reflect upon my new state of being, I feel a sensation of rapid motion and I’m instantly back within my physical body.

Lying still and reviewing my experience, I’m struck by an inescapable conclusion: I must possess multiple energy-bodies. The form I just experienced was noticeably lighter (less dense) than even my second nonphysical body. I realize that the traditional view of our possessing two bodies — a physical body and a spiritual body — is far too simplistic; we are much more complex than this. Just as there are multiple nonphysical energy dimensions within the universe, each of us must consist of multiple energy-bodies or vehicles of expression.

Now I seriously wonder just how many nonphysical bodies or forms this involves. I suspect that there must be one within each dimension of the universe and that all of these are interrelated and connected, just as the physical body is connected to its first nonphysical (spiritual) body.

Buhlman, William L. (1996). Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel (pp. 34-35). New York: HarperCollins. (HarperCollins permits quotes from their books in Critical Reviews and Promotional Reviews.  I definitely promote this book any chance I get).

I used to be a Materialist, Naturalist, Nihilist, and Atheist.  William Buhlman treats out-of-body experiences as if they were science experiments.  He experiments with them, and he has turned it into a science.  I’m a scientist; so, his approach the supernatural had a direct impact on me.  William Buhlman turned the supernatural into a science.

At the end of 2015, William Buhlman was the first one to get through to me and truly convince me that Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs), Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), and Shared-Death Experiences (SDEs) are REAL and that the claims of Materialism and Naturalism are FALSE.  After that, there was no looking back.

I simply KNEW that Materialism, Naturalism, and Darwinism are FALSE because I finally KNEW why they are false.  I’ve been using various different Scientific Methods and Scientific Observations to FALSIFY Materialism, Naturalism, Darwinism, Nihilism, and Atheism ever since then.  I KNEW it was possible to falsify these false philosophies with observational evidence, so I proceeded to do so any chance I got.  Materialism, Naturalism, and their derivatives have been falsified trillions of times in thousands of different ways.  Good enough.

Materialism, Naturalism, and Darwinism are falsifiable, falsified, and false; and, that’s all I really needed to know to get me started.  Since then, I have used negating the consequent combined with the Scientific Method to falsify Materialism, Naturalism, Darwinism, Atheism, and the Theory of Evolution.  I wish I would have known how to do that forty years ago; but, better late than never, I guess.

 

Source

 

1. Tripping the Light Fantastic: How Prescription Drugs Almost Killed Me

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071RJP9T8

 

References

 

1. The Ultimate Model of Reality: Psyche Is the Ultimate Cause

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071NC9JK6

2. Buhlman, W. L. (1996). Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel. New York: HarperCollins.
3. Rychlak, J. F. (1981). A Philosophy of Science for Personality Theory (2nd ed.). Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company.