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Episode 14 – Robert Bruce – PPSD (Part 2)

A conversation with Robert Bruce

This is the final episode in the two part series we did with Robert Bruce, regarding his work on Practical Psychic Self Defense. We get into the nitty gritty of various psychic attacks, demonic possession and…

Published
February 13, 2015
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1:00:17
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This is the final episode in the two part series we did with Robert Bruce, regarding his work on Practical Psychic Self Defense. We get into the nitty gritty of various psychic attacks, demonic possession and all things paranormal. We also got into some guest questions near the end on some astral phenomena.

Episode source imageRobert Bruce (born 1955) is an English-born mystic author living in Australia. Bruce is best known for his studies of out of body experience, which Episode source imagefirst became public in the early 1990s through his activity in the alt.out-of-body Internet news group. Over time, he collected and peer-tested his findings in an evolving set of articles, A Treatise on Astral Projection,[1] which he later expanded upon substantially to form his first book, Astral Dynamics, which has sold over 50, 000 copies as of 2008.[2]

In 2008, Robert Bruce was listed as one of the world’s foremost OBE experts by EnlightenNext magazine.[3]

Energy Body Development

Whilst prototyping a visualisation-free method of out of body experience for blind people, Bruce discovered a form of mental focus on parts of the body called tactile imaging,[4] which is based on the sense of touch. This method was released in the mid-1990s in Bruce’s tutorial New Energy Ways, or NEW for short. Robert claims that these sensations are caused by pre-movement neuron charging and discharging, and that this also stimulates the human energy body. This finding is in accordance with the claims of Eckhart Tolle and the Taoist teachings of Mantak Chia.[5]

Bruce largely avoids traditional Eastern terms for aspects of the human energy body, considering them a significant barrier to Western understanding and acceptance.[6] Bruce believes that many Eastern ‘visualisation’ practices were not designed to be visual at all, with this interpretation being received by the West solely due to translation issues.[7] By this reasoning, Western visualisations are largely misguided and ineffectual, whereas through explicitly working directly with visceral sensations, NEW is not. This direct nature gives NEW several of the qualities of a biofeedback system, most notably instant gauging of stimulative success. This additional intuitiveness over visualisation is claimed to allow noticeable results in a matter of minutes.[7] Tolle taught a method of focusing on physical body awareness as a way of connecting with The Now, that is similar to Bruce’s Tactile Imaging methods, but Tolle does not offer a system of energy work per se.[citation needed]

Through exploratory manipulation of energy with NEW, Bruce has mapped out energy centres on the human body beyond the familiar spinal chakras. In his terminology, Taoist dantians are termed “energy storage centers”, and Vedic chakras are examples of “energy centers”

Astral Projection

The Mind Split Effect

A key concept in Bruce’s theory of projection is the Mind Split Effect.[8] In contrast to the traditional view that projection leaves the physical body empty of consciousness, Bruce’s interpretation is that physical consciousness remains in-situ, but is subject to a duplication process. According to this theory, after duplication the multiple versions of a projector’s consciousness operate largely independently, building up separate but simultaneous memory traces that compete when they recombine (cf. Schroedinger’s cat), confusing later recollections

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  1. Some traditions explain spiritual interference through ‘like attracts like,’ claiming a person must contain something similar to the entity involved. I reject that as a universal maxim. It can become a cruel way to blame people for what frightens or harms them, and it does not reliably describe ordinary life or spiritual experience.
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  2. Imagine a belief system as a triangular filter placed over the mind. Every intuition, creative idea, or piece of information must pass through that shape, while truth may arrive in forms that do not fit. Rigid beliefs deform experience before awareness can examine it, which is why changing the filter can change the world a person perceives.
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  3. Any account of a greater reality should be grounded in personal experience while remaining honest about interpretation. I have extensive experiences in the subjects I study, but experience does not make my model identical to reality. It provides material from which a working theory can be built and tested against further experience.
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  4. A lucid dream can reproduce the familiar house so convincingly that the dreamer initially assumes they are awake. I distinguish that mental projection from what I call conscious astral projection. Whatever explanation one accepts, wake-induced lucid dreaming is often easier to learn and offers a powerful way to explore how the mind constructs reality.
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  5. People report inconsistent astral experiences, which I interpret through differences in chakra function. That is a working theory, not a demonstrated mechanism. Variability could also arise from memory, expectation, culture, sleep state, and imagination, so any explanatory model should remain open to competing accounts.
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Robert Bruce

This is the final episode in the two part series we did with Robert Bruce, regarding his work on Practical Psychic Self Defense. We get into the nitty gritty of various psychic attacks, demonic possession and all things paranormal. We also got into some guest questions near the end on some astral phenomena.

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