| There is a long and storied relationship between using | | | | books on using a psychomanteum, or elaborate mirror |
| a mirror and astral projection for the purposes of | | | | gazing room for visiting relatives in other astral or |
| inducing an OBE. Much of the folklore surrounding the | | | | heavenly planes. While this may seem far out to |
| symbolic nature of the crystal ball, and mirror gazing to | | | | you..lots of very distinguished people from all walks of |
| visit the dead can be traced back to our earliest | | | | life claim to have used rooms like this, or even simply |
| ancestors. Today, many people believe that simply by | | | | the mirrors in their own homes to have similarly healing |
| staring into a mirror for a protracted period of time will | | | | extraordinary experiences. |
| shake lose our " etheric double" or the higher self, | | | | I personally have used mirror gazing, in combination |
| enabling this part of ourselves to leave the confines of | | | | with sound technology, to have a series of very |
| the physical shell. | | | | profound astral projection experiences. For me, the |
| While a lot of this type of lore can be found in | | | | mirror serves as an easy way to dis identify with my |
| paranormal writings throughout written history, you will | | | | physical self, as the longer you stare at your reflection, |
| find more people experimenting with this sort of thing | | | | the less you recognize it as the "real" you. It's quite |
| today, than you probably expect. Raymond Moody, | | | | amazing stuff, but you certainly need to try it on your |
| the author of many popular books on the NDE | | | | own, rather than listen, or read about other peoples |
| phenomena ( near death experience) including the | | | | experiences. It will be, quite eye opening if you give it a |
| seminal "Life after Life" has written several recent | | | | try, that much I guarantee! |