Hammocks: Ideal Launching Pads for your OBE's

Hammocks create an ideal environment for the Out of Body experience, also known as Astral Projection, because they allow the body to relax so completely. In a comfortable hammock, especially the Mayan style hammock, the muscles in your body have no pressure points on them, and therefore can totally release all tension. This in turns frees you up consciously to focus completely on mind visualizations rather than on a tired, uncomfortable, and tense physical body. Complete muscle and body relaxation is one of the cornerstones or foundations of every prominent technique for successfully going out of the physical body into the astral or light body for an out of body adventure. Historically, the Mayan culture in Central America, which is credited with the original hammock design still being woven today, used their hammocks to assist them on their vision quests. Often accompanied with sacred (hallucinogenic) herbs, these cerebral adventurers would lie down in their hammock and eventually launch to other dimensions to discover their true self. Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan, the shamanistic master from Mexico, had his students initiated in hammocks in much the same way. In the book, The Eagles Gift, in the section on "The Art of Dreaming", Castaneda provides details on a woman initiate being tested in a hammock.