Imagination · “Feel It Real”
Stabilizing & Exploring the Expanded State
Once the expanded state arises, keep it clear and stable, raise the quality of one’s awareness and emotion to move and rise through it, and explore with intention while staying surrendered and anchored in deeper consciousness.
In 5 lines: Once out, steady your attention and bring it clear. To move or rise, lift your emotion — lighter, more elevated feeling carries you. Explore by intention, but lightly, with surrender not force. Stay anchored in a felt sense of underlying wholeness; from there nothing can harm you. Meet fear with calm, not resistance.
What it is
Reaching the out-of-body / expanded state is only the start; staying clear in it and moving through it is a second skill. Jurgen Ziewe’s account in Multidimensional Man describes how, once consciousness is free of the sleeping body, he keeps the experience stable and lucid, raises the quality of his awareness and emotion to rise and move, and explores with intention while remaining surrendered — never gripping, always anchored in a sense of underlying unity.
This entry gathers his practical posture for being in the state, as distinct from reaching it.
The Method
Faithfully, from Ziewe’s account:
- Establish clarity first. On finding yourself out of body, steady attention and bring the experience into focus — the calmer and more single-pointed the awareness, the more vivid and stable the environment becomes.
- Raise the emotional tone to move. Ziewe is explicit that movement and ascent follow emotional state: “In order to be able to fly, you have to adopt more elevated emotions… more lighter emotions.” Lightness, gratitude, and joy lift you; heavy, fearful states pull you down or eject you.
- Hold intention, lightly. Direct exploration by intent — a wish to go somewhere or reach someone — but do it with surrender rather than force. Ziewe favours acceptance over analytical control, letting the state respond to gentle intention.
- Stay anchored in unity consciousness. His central safeguard: remain connected to a felt sense of underlying wholeness. “I still was connected to my unity consciousness, so there was no chance that I could be harmed.” That anchor steadies the state and dissolves fear.
- Meet fear and instability with calm, not resistance. Disturbing imagery or a wobble in the state is met by softening and returning to elevated, light awareness — not by fighting, which intensifies it. (Sourcing note: short quoted phrases are from Ziewe’s recorded interview discussion of his practice; the sequence is a faithful paraphrase of his described approach.)
Source & Lineage
Jurgen Ziewe (b. c. 1949) built this over five decades of meditation and hundreds of documented out-of-body excursions, recorded in Multidimensional Man (2008) and Vistas of Infinity.
Notably, he frames the practice less as conquest and more as respect and gratitude toward what appears — reading the experiences as consciousness revealing the scope of a greater reality.
Common refinements
Gripping / forcing exploration. Analytical control collapses the state; use light, surrendered intention.
- Riding fear. Fear and heavy emotion eject you or darken the imagery — soften and lift the emotional tone.
- Over-exciting at success. The thrill of being out wakes you; meet it with calm.
- Losing the anchor. Without the felt connection to wholeness, instability and fear take over; keep returning to it.
- Treating it as conquest. Ziewe’s stance is respect and gratitude, which itself steadies and elevates the state.