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Experiencing yourself outside of your body is one of the most impressive experiences on the Hermetic path. Even the most sublime spiritual insights remain mere theory until you perceive your own spiritual condition first-hand in this manner. To facilitate separation from the body, neophytes in the ancient temple schools were placed in a trance during their initiation. Magic and Mysticism of the Third Millennium has developed a new technique for this purpose - one which enables even non-initiates to leave their bodies. Systematic spiritual research has shown that 'wakefulness' rather than trance is the primary precondition for leaving your body without losing consciousness. Just as space flight to other planets will begin on the moon, so the best launch pad for mental travel can be found on the intermediate plane in dreams. You can detach yourself from your body more easily when it's asleep. And consciousness takes the helm again as soon as you 'wake up' within a dream, i.e. realise that you're dreaming. Yet 'out-of-body' doesn't necessarily mean entering another world. Ideas - both your own and those of other people, living and deceased - can manifest in this intermediate realm. This explains the many contradictory and often nonsensical reports and fantasies concerning the 'afterlife'. On this subject, too, the book you now hold provides a guide to orienting yourself in this state of consciousness. -Lucid dreams as a launch pad for mental travelling-Wakefulness in everyday life and wakefulness in dreams-Learning to wake up in your dreams-Flying dreams as a jump-start-The secret of the flying carpet-The dream realm as a site for encounters with the dead-The idea "I am!" as a mediator of consciousnessThe portal to the spiritual realm is opened by wakefulness, not by trance.
About the author
Born in 1939 in Vienna (Austria), Stejnar has been engaged in magic and mysticism since his early youth. Through numerous publications and media appearances he became well known at home and abroad. Next to running his own jewellery store he directed for twenty years the "Institute for scientific destiny research" and is founder of Gnostic Hermeticism, which carries the old Traditions forward into the third millenary. He is particularly concerned with Freemasonry and Astrology, as this is where he found the interface that links the world of the spirit with the world of matter, and thus the world of esotericism with the world of science. Stejnar is reckoned to be the successor of famous magician Franz Bardon, and he is mentioned in the preface of the new edition of George R.S. Mead's work on Gnosis "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten" next to great minds such as C.G.Jung, Mozart, Hegel, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka and next to adepts such as Jakob Böhme, Papus, Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley to be the last of the major gnostics.
