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those week-old perished party balloons that still have a bit of air in them but the surface
feels clammy and no longer firm, the walls of the dream come collapsing down on you
and you can actually feel a membrane just like that and it becomes hard to move, the
reality is viscous. This I think is an oobe landscape as well, and the type I find more
exciting. A much better transitional state than going through the crackling pinging
popping sound, though it too does have a freaky aspect. As for those who insist in a
blasé fashion that the oobe-scape is “just like physical reality”, they must be confusing
it with waking up and going for a piss in the middle of the night.
JOEL
[Ed’s note—After I wrote the above about never seeing mentions in print of this strange
pinging sound associated with oobe, a passage was pointed out to me in Ophiel’s Art
and Practice of Astral Projection:
As you make your first entrance into these inner planes via this dream method a lot
of very funny things happen, the reasons for which I will explain later. The actual changebirth-over-into-the-Etheric
is often accompanied by the darndest collection of noises
that you ever heard!!!! Bangs. Thumps, Bumps, Rattles, Cracks, Voices calling out
names, including your own, and even loud explosions. The queerest kind of noises that
you ever heard in your whole life!!! Even when you have been warned about this, and
told to expect it and what to expect, these noises are going to scare you and maybe scare
you good. The noises may come each time you go over during your first projections.
Ophiel doesn’t distinguish, as I have done, between oobe and astral travel. Ophiel is a
pseudonym of Edward Peach.]
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