Last night I had the first real good OOBE-like experience I have
had in a fair amount of time. It started after a fairly restless period. First,
I felt an odd sensation unlike vibrations, but it still put me on guard for the
start of an OOBE.
Then, I felt like my non-physical self was oscillating slowly in
and out of my physical. That stopped, and I thought maybe that brief burst
would be all that would happen. Then, everything hit.
I found myself rolling in slow motion out of my body and slowly
falling to the floor. People ask at times what one does in an OOBE. I usually
have a pre-set goal. For me, this one was completely unexpected so I had no
goal in mind when it started. When I find that I have no goal, I usually just
ask for whatever type of experience would be beneficial for me at this time.
When I had that thought, I immediately took off towards San Francisco.
Not that I thought I wanted to go there for any reason. It was
just the feeling I had that that was my destination. First I flew out on my
own, and then I became aware of what felt like hands grabbing onto mine. The
sensation grew more intense as we went on, almost feeling like I was getting an
energy flow from the being or beings helping me. I say “beings” because at the
point I was nearing my stop; my “arms” were held perpendicular to my body as
whoever had me still held on.
I landed and immediately saw a person approaching me who was
pretty agitated. It seemed he had a gun and was pointing it at my head.
Already, this is more intense than the usual run-of-the-mill OOBE for me. I
felt threatened and began to realize I was not the person who was here in this
experience. It was like I was another person, and was being judged on how I
reacted to this person. Somehow I faced them down long enough for others to get
there to take control of the person with the gun. Now the experience gets more
interesting.
It now began to dawn on the ‘me’ I was not ‘me’ as I am now, and
this person I seemed to be had no memory of me or my current life. I remember
seeing San Francisco and walking around for miles at a time to the point my
feet got sore. And I could feel them as if I was doing that at the time. It was
an immersed-in-the-experience sort of thing. I got a sensation of knowing that
I was a person known as “Father Bo.” I had something to do with counseling
persons at risk, or people who were either causing others problems, or the
people involved with those persons- like family members of convicts, or others
who had problems dealing with society.
At one point I remember asking someone what year it was. They said
it was 1919, and I remember saying ‘that does not seem possible.’ And the voice
was different than my own. It was like I heard this person talking to others,
and knew we were connected in some way, at least in certain instances. I would
hear him talk and know that this was not my voice- but I did not feel apart
from being him either. It was very strange.
Towards the end of this I had grown a bit older, and as an older
man, was having more trouble with my feet. It was like I was finally realizing
that I physically could not do my work anymore. One of the people, who helped
me at this point, was helping me soak my aching feet and massaging my lower
legs. I looked down at my legs, and knew they were mine- I know this is odd. Of
course, they were mine. But this was not like anything I have ever felt in a
dream or an OOBE. It was a clear detail and feeling that I had a connection to
this person. And it was not only my feet that were a problem at this point. I
was stiff and sore on most of my right side. When I lifted my feet out of the
basin they had been soaking in, my legs had a tremor in them. My helper told me
that he did not like the looks of that tremor. I told him that I did not
either, and for some reason, I laughed. Then suddenly, I was back and out of
the experience.
