William Buhlman Interview & OBEs

William Buhlman is viewed as one of the most experienced in out-of-body (OBE) travellers in America today.  His books and workshops empower people to awaken to their untapped inner power to travel through dreams and pure thought.  You might see him at 'cutting-edge' of consciousness exploration. He is a visionary based at the Monroe Institute.

William Buhlman is the author of the best selling books: Adventures Beyond the Body, The Secret of the Soul and others. He is one of America’s leading experts on the subject of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). William is a certified hypnotherapist and offers workshops and lectures exploring the profound nature of OBEs and the benefits of accelerated personal development.

As it happens, he is going to be our guest on the Dreambuilders Australia Radio Show this Sun Dec 20, at 5h30pm EST (9h30am Melbourne).  He graciously answers some initial questions in this written interview to give visitors here a taste of what is to come on radio (or consult post show archives);

What prompts you to share insight and teach based about your own OBEs? 

I know from personal experience that OBEs provide a profound spiritual experience that is completely life- changing.  In addition, our society lacks accurate information about this topic. Many people are dominated by fear-based beliefs that distort the truth of OBEs. I’m driven to provide valid facts for the millions of people that have spontaneous OBEs and are confused by the nature of the experience.

How do OBEs affect your values and physical life perspective? What do you gain?

OBEs provide new levels of self-knowledge and a far more expansive view of reality. Your entire perspective of yourself and your surrounding are altered because you now know that you are an immortal being. In Adventures beyond the Body, I detail 27 benefits that are experienced during OBEs.

Your books are certainly practical and fascinating. My own experience is developing in part due to your guidance. Readers may choose to view some benefits of astral travel available here.

Please explain why OBEs prompt humans to review outer space as the last unexplored frontier?

After one OBE you realize that the true frontier for human exploration is yourself and not some bunch of rocks in space.

How do OBEs empower people to overcome their own fear?

The very act of experiencing yourself as an immortal being existing completely independent from your physical body removes one of our greatest fears - the fear of death.

Why do time travel and teleportation relate to OBEs? What do they teach you about soul-splitting or split-consciousness?

Many people spontaneously experience their past lives during OBEs and obtain knowledge concerning their extensive past experiences and the many issues that they carry with them from life to life.  Many obtain insights into their personal issues and blocks.

If being fully aware implies being content where you are, how is this reconciled with the insatiable desire to expand and remember OBEs?

Who we are is a non physical being temporarily using a dense body what could be more normal then reuniting with our true self. We have the opportunity to experience our spiritual self during an OBE.

What is on the other side of matter? How about the dark side of the Moon? How do OBEs enable people to answer the unanswerable?

Through personal experience you realize that the universe is multidimensional and the physical world is only the epidermis layer of the complete universe

How do non-physical environments feel? How do you know they are real?

 Only you can determine what is real. I have found that reality is relative to the vibration/density of the observer. You can always test the reality you experience.

What can people learn about OBEs that would help them heal physical disease and shift physical perception?

There are numerous accounts of people being healed during their OBE.

What advice would you offer anyone interested in growing more proficient with OBEs?

Dedicated daily practice of a proven OBE method is key to success. There are no shout cuts.

Please share any meaningful lessons or message to leave visitors leading up to the radio show.

The key to our evolution is expanding our personal spiritual experiences beyond the dense limits of matter. Self empowerment is about experiencing our true self beyond the narrow limits of ego.  Self initiated OBEs provide a powerful method to experience of true spiritual self.

Please join us on the radio show to share your questions in the chat room or phone in live. Consult William Buhlman's website for more information on his books, other tools and upcoming events. If you have any questions you would like William to answer, you can include them in the comments below.

What feels right?

As you choose to reflect on what you think is happening and step outside of that to realize what is really happening, you have unlimited opportunities.  You work through different layers of dreams. 

What if you arrive at a point in your life when your values and priorities change? What if this triggers changes in perception, lifestyle choices, how you manage money and resources? Its a wake-up call. 

What you are feeling now could relate to a kundalini breakthrough, stages of expanding faculties and senses, the opening of the third eye,  spiritual awakening or your response to ongoing energy shifts.

You are invited to step back and experience what is happening more fully without fear or resistance.  The level of conscious awareness within is drawing attention to certain things.  Nothing external creates your experience. Only you give meaning to that.   Love and accept what you feel.

Self-deception is not the same as not the same as self-disclosure.  You figure out which is which.

Enter into multi-dimensional shapes

If you happen to begin dreaming of rotating cubes and other multi-dimensional shapes, you may not yet see how this relates to your life.  You may not yet know why you are creating a reality you are creating.  It may seem like a bad dream. You are beginning to realize that everything arises from sacred geometry.  In dreamworlds, you see multi-dimentionally and decide what is to emerge on a linear time and physical experience.

Numbers and shapes speak a language. Living, breathing entities are more diverse than the mind can comprehend. Dialogue with sacred geometry is ongoing.  As you enter into the thought process of shapes and sounds of silence, you peer through a looking glass into a dream world.  Multi-dimensional shapes connect in a web of energy lines.  The shapes are windows into soul as well as doorways to different levels of awareness and existence in different dimensions.  Connect to the collective memory.

When you think of Earth, you may dream of a sphere in constant motion.  As you realize the human mind only focuses on fragments of reality, you deepen insight into the range and speeds of energy.  Every shape like another doorway to another point of departure into a different kind of existence.  Imagine the dream world existed before your sense of the Earth.

If you are tired of the drama in the external world, turn inward.  Discover from where everything emerges. It happens without effort when you're ready.  Open yourself to feel the nature of your beliefs. Tap into the power of creation.  It arises in every shape.  Every moment, you are gauging how much to allow self to remember.

Why interpret 2012 transpersonally?

As you reach a mental place where you experience conscious expansion, you realize how you perceive and believe is not always helping you.  You give shape and form to solutions.

To interpret 2012 perception transpersonally is a strategy that offers numerous advantages.  Things are not as you imagine. Consider these ideas and how you resonate or not;

1) What is happening within your psyche is also reflected in the external world. This is a mutually-reinforcing, feedback loop.

2) Reducing perception of change to personal experience denies an impersonal process where everyone is involved.

3) Stepping outside linear time reveals the fluidity and impermanence of now and how the next age is already here. 

4) To seek wholeness or soul-alignment is both personal and universal. Certain things are transcended in higher synthesis.

5) How you dream is open-ended, malleable, synchronistic and multi-dimensional. What happens next is yet unscripted.

What to do when you find paradise?

Two people are lost in the desert. They are dying from hunger and thirst. Finally, they come to a high wall. On the other side they can hear the sound of a waterfall and birds singing.

Above, they can see the branches of a lush tree extending over the top of the wall. Its fruit look delicious. They can almost taste it. The multisensual experience of paradise alters them.

One of them manages to climb over the wall and disappears down the other side. The other, instead, returns to the desert to help other lost travelers find their way to the oasis.

What is your own dream of paradise? How does finding it or realizing it affect you? Which qualities stand out in yourself?