From: spamthis@texas.net (phobos) Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: A Brief History of the Brick Technique Message-ID: <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net> References: <3880DFA8.4B70CDF3@hotmail.com> <388be0b2.1214668672@news.texas.net> <3880FB66.B1DD9086@hotmail.com> <388e0a24.1225279712@news.texas.net> <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net> <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net> <85sdtk$kj6$1@news.laserlink.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 89 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:15:31 CST Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-Trace: sv2-6MPEkYPM+g5TcehcDB+pokSylOLaWqnSEyrEMDEJpWuJTsh9pV9r1h03ffMYsCp5R1uwVGcE1MKEg6i!apPjSMVjcjtD/7hpzkg0zg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:16:53 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!nntp2.giganews.com!news6.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:30171 On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:35:56 -0600, "Jerry Adams" wrote: >Uh, I haven't worked out the details yet. It takes too much time to recover >between trial shots. ;) No need to work out the details Jerry. The blunt trauma technique was worked out in antiquity and has been preserved by successive esoteric traditions and taught freely to the profane masses. Its endurance as a popular technique can be attributed to its utter simplicity and high success rate. This technique has most often been applied in a mutual situation -- i.e., people keen to induce OBEs in each other -- but occasionally through the ages it has been applied by the village idiot on themselves. In prehistoric times neanderthal man made use of small boulders. Man would later move on to the use of large animal femurs and clubs fashioned from wood and with the ease of portability these afforded the market for the blunt trauma technique rapidly expanded. People suddenly found it romantic and became very enthusiastic about helping others achieve OBEs. A notable descendent of this technique in northern Europe was the smashingly popular Nordic battle hammer which was sure to make one's neighbors witness the glory of Asgard firsthand. In more modern times man has developed many novel variations of this approach: the Smith & Wesson, the hand grenade, the L.A. police officer's nightstick, the thermonuclear warhead. Self-induction techniques have attained equal sophistication: snow skiing in an avalanche zone, exiting a city bus without stooping, springing fully erect onto one's feet in the window seat of a commercial airliner, bungee jumping over a dry river bed with an excessively long cord, etc.; as well as some *internal* blunt trauma methods such as eating fast food or chugging Goldschlager straight from the bottle. The brick technique in particular originated among the masons who built the pyramids at Giza and was passed down through the various masonic guilds and lodges until much later, under the bureaucracy of Western freemasonry, it was bastardized and the original meaning was lost by its metamorphosis into silly rituals in which dinky foam-rubber bricks were substituted for the real thing. Three renegade freemasons in the early 20th century realized this and were able to preserve the true spirit of the brick technique and many other ingenious techniques in a series of films under the assumed names of Larry, Moe, and Curly. Fortunately these highly illuminating instructional works are not hard to come by -- the local video store and many of the various Ted Turner cable networks are among the most prolific distributors of such enlightened knowledge. >B.D. Yager wrote in message <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net>... >>Hi Jerry! Welcome back Haunter,...we missed ya! >>Loved your Brick Technique, Jerry! I'll have to try this style >>sometime......maybe always tommorrow! >> >>How heavy needs be the brick? Should one align one's self on a north/south >>axis,...or doesn't this matter? Does this method preclude the need of the >>vibrations altogether,...or do they come violently and in short order? I >>seem to remember having a spontaneous brick-method OOBE once, and I noticed >>many, many points of flashing light in the visual spectrum, although my >eyes >>(physically) were closed at the time! Do these have any significance? >>Could they be my Guardian Angels...rushing in, albeit a little bit late??? >>Also, if I use the Brick Technique,... (since it is so breif a >>transition)... how do I prepare my consciousness to remain alert during the >>cross-over??? Or does it even matter??? I really, really, really, want to >>try this method! Please help me get started right away! Sounds smashing! >>Jerry? Haunter? Would appreciate anyone else's info and experiences with >>this technique, also! >> >>B.D. Yager >> >>Jerry Adams wrote in message <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net>... >>>Take a big heavy brick, raise it arms length above your head and let go. >>>Gravity will do the work. < ;] >>> >>>B.D. Yager wrote in message ... >>>>I cannot possibly imagine achieving an OOBE in 30 seconds! I should >think >>>>that if it could ever be done this quickly and easily....it should have >>>been >>>>discovered thousands of years ago! Don't you think? However,...I'm all >>>>ears, and willing to try anything once! (But I, too, think just a little >>>>more info will be needed!) :) >>>> >>>>B.D. Yager Cheers, phobos "We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." -- Robert Frost, The Secret Sits <> ###### From: "Trish" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3880DFA8.4B70CDF3@hotmail.com> <388be0b2.1214668672@news.texas.net> <3880FB66.B1DD9086@hotmail.com> <388e0a24.1225279712@news.texas.net> <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net> <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net> <85sdtk$kj6$1@news.laserlink.net> <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net> Subject: Re: A Brief History of the Brick Technique Lines: 131 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: X-Trace: /wmTi3ed1IXroo6KRkZiOZnL5e0A44c4I3axUZum+fNCMzSmqkv+/pPQ1ZkmnTZpjw0fmPx/1bhe!6pxBhC0DqUG/5Si7YqSKdlyLloR72dZRK9NB8GrLn1ujjYEtP5wiXqDODNLzAINvg/OuhuiBWSk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:56:08 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:56:08 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!enews.sgi.com!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:30261 HAAAAAAAAA! hahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!! : ) Trishy phobos wrote in message <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net>... >On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:35:56 -0600, "Jerry Adams" wrote: > >>Uh, I haven't worked out the details yet. It takes too much time to recover >>between trial shots. ;) > >No need to work out the details Jerry. The blunt trauma technique was worked out >in antiquity and has been preserved by successive esoteric traditions and taught >freely to the profane masses. Its endurance as a popular technique can be >attributed to its utter simplicity and high success rate. This technique has >most often been applied in a mutual situation -- i.e., people keen to induce >OBEs in each other -- but occasionally through the ages it has been applied by >the village idiot on themselves. > >In prehistoric times neanderthal man made use of small boulders. Man would later >move on to the use of large animal femurs and clubs fashioned from wood and with >the ease of portability these afforded the market for the blunt trauma technique >rapidly expanded. People suddenly found it romantic and became very enthusiastic >about helping others achieve OBEs. A notable descendent of this technique in >northern Europe was the smashingly popular Nordic battle hammer which was sure >to make one's neighbors witness the glory of Asgard firsthand. > >In more modern times man has developed many novel variations of this approach: >the Smith & Wesson, the hand grenade, the L.A. police officer's nightstick, the >thermonuclear warhead. Self-induction techniques have attained equal >sophistication: snow skiing in an avalanche zone, exiting a city bus without >stooping, springing fully erect onto one's feet in the window seat of a >commercial airliner, bungee jumping over a dry river bed with an excessively >long cord, etc.; as well as some *internal* blunt trauma methods such as eating >fast food or chugging Goldschlager straight from the bottle. > >The brick technique in particular originated among the masons who built the >pyramids at Giza and was passed down through the various masonic guilds and >lodges until much later, under the bureaucracy of Western freemasonry, it was >bastardized and the original meaning was lost by its metamorphosis into silly >rituals in which dinky foam-rubber bricks were substituted for the real thing. >Three renegade freemasons in the early 20th century realized this and were able >to preserve the true spirit of the brick technique and many other ingenious >techniques in a series of films under the assumed names of Larry, Moe, and >Curly. Fortunately these highly illuminating instructional works are not hard to >come by -- the local video store and many of the various Ted Turner cable >networks are among the most prolific distributors of such enlightened knowledge. > >>B.D. Yager wrote in message <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net>... >>>Hi Jerry! Welcome back Haunter,...we missed ya! >>>Loved your Brick Technique, Jerry! I'll have to try this style >>>sometime......maybe always tommorrow! >>> >>>How heavy needs be the brick? Should one align one's self on a north/south >>>axis,...or doesn't this matter? Does this method preclude the need of the >>>vibrations altogether,...or do they come violently and in short order? I >>>seem to remember having a spontaneous brick-method OOBE once, and I noticed >>>many, many points of flashing light in the visual spectrum, although my >>eyes >>>(physically) were closed at the time! Do these have any significance? >>>Could they be my Guardian Angels...rushing in, albeit a little bit late??? >>>Also, if I use the Brick Technique,... (since it is so breif a >>>transition)... how do I prepare my consciousness to remain alert during the >>>cross-over??? Or does it even matter??? I really, really, really, want to >>>try this method! Please help me get started right away! Sounds smashing! >>>Jerry? Haunter? Would appreciate anyone else's info and experiences with >>>this technique, also! >>> >>>B.D. Yager >>> >>>Jerry Adams wrote in message <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net>... >>>>Take a big heavy brick, raise it arms length above your head and let go. >>>>Gravity will do the work. < ;] >>>> >>>>B.D. Yager wrote in message ... >>>>>I cannot possibly imagine achieving an OOBE in 30 seconds! I should >>think >>>>>that if it could ever be done this quickly and easily....it should have >>>>been >>>>>discovered thousands of years ago! Don't you think? However,...I'm all >>>>>ears, and willing to try anything once! (But I, too, think just a little >>>>>more info will be needed!) :) >>>>> >>>>>B.D. Yager > > >Cheers, >phobos > > "We dance round in a ring and suppose, > But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." > > -- Robert Frost, The Secret Sits > ><> ###### From: "B.D. Yager" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3880DFA8.4B70CDF3@hotmail.com> <388be0b2.1214668672@news.texas.net> <3880FB66.B1DD9086@hotmail.com> <388e0a24.1225279712@news.texas.net> <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net> <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net> <85sdtk$kj6$1@news.laserlink.net> <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net> Subject: Re: A Brief History of the Brick Technique Lines: 133 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:40:04 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.129.99 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 948051944 156.46.129.99 (Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:45:44 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:45:44 CST Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!newspump.sol.net!news.execpc.com!newspeer.sol.net!homer.alpha.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:30251 Hey, Phobos.... ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! SUPER!!!!!! I shall treasure this always....and will practice it tonight!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!! B.D. Yager!!!!!! (still laughing, and can't typeir toojjk good!!!) hahhaha! :) phobos wrote in message <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net>... >On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:35:56 -0600, "Jerry Adams" wrote: > >>Uh, I haven't worked out the details yet. It takes too much time to recover >>between trial shots. ;) > >No need to work out the details Jerry. The blunt trauma technique was worked out >in antiquity and has been preserved by successive esoteric traditions and taught >freely to the profane masses. Its endurance as a popular technique can be >attributed to its utter simplicity and high success rate. This technique has >most often been applied in a mutual situation -- i.e., people keen to induce >OBEs in each other -- but occasionally through the ages it has been applied by >the village idiot on themselves. > >In prehistoric times neanderthal man made use of small boulders. Man would later >move on to the use of large animal femurs and clubs fashioned from wood and with >the ease of portability these afforded the market for the blunt trauma technique >rapidly expanded. People suddenly found it romantic and became very enthusiastic >about helping others achieve OBEs. A notable descendent of this technique in >northern Europe was the smashingly popular Nordic battle hammer which was sure >to make one's neighbors witness the glory of Asgard firsthand. > >In more modern times man has developed many novel variations of this approach: >the Smith & Wesson, the hand grenade, the L.A. police officer's nightstick, the >thermonuclear warhead. Self-induction techniques have attained equal >sophistication: snow skiing in an avalanche zone, exiting a city bus without >stooping, springing fully erect onto one's feet in the window seat of a >commercial airliner, bungee jumping over a dry river bed with an excessively >long cord, etc.; as well as some *internal* blunt trauma methods such as eating >fast food or chugging Goldschlager straight from the bottle. > >The brick technique in particular originated among the masons who built the >pyramids at Giza and was passed down through the various masonic guilds and >lodges until much later, under the bureaucracy of Western freemasonry, it was >bastardized and the original meaning was lost by its metamorphosis into silly >rituals in which dinky foam-rubber bricks were substituted for the real thing. >Three renegade freemasons in the early 20th century realized this and were able >to preserve the true spirit of the brick technique and many other ingenious >techniques in a series of films under the assumed names of Larry, Moe, and >Curly. Fortunately these highly illuminating instructional works are not hard to >come by -- the local video store and many of the various Ted Turner cable >networks are among the most prolific distributors of such enlightened knowledge. > >>B.D. Yager wrote in message <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net>... >>>Hi Jerry! Welcome back Haunter,...we missed ya! >>>Loved your Brick Technique, Jerry! I'll have to try this style >>>sometime......maybe always tommorrow! >>> >>>How heavy needs be the brick? Should one align one's self on a north/south >>>axis,...or doesn't this matter? Does this method preclude the need of the >>>vibrations altogether,...or do they come violently and in short order? I >>>seem to remember having a spontaneous brick-method OOBE once, and I noticed >>>many, many points of flashing light in the visual spectrum, although my >>eyes >>>(physically) were closed at the time! Do these have any significance? >>>Could they be my Guardian Angels...rushing in, albeit a little bit late??? >>>Also, if I use the Brick Technique,... (since it is so breif a >>>transition)... how do I prepare my consciousness to remain alert during the >>>cross-over??? Or does it even matter??? I really, really, really, want to >>>try this method! Please help me get started right away! Sounds smashing! >>>Jerry? Haunter? Would appreciate anyone else's info and experiences with >>>this technique, also! >>> >>>B.D. Yager >>> >>>Jerry Adams wrote in message <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net>... >>>>Take a big heavy brick, raise it arms length above your head and let go. >>>>Gravity will do the work. < ;] >>>> >>>>B.D. Yager wrote in message ... >>>>>I cannot possibly imagine achieving an OOBE in 30 seconds! I should >>think >>>>>that if it could ever be done this quickly and easily....it should have >>>>been >>>>>discovered thousands of years ago! Don't you think? However,...I'm all >>>>>ears, and willing to try anything once! (But I, too, think just a little >>>>>more info will be needed!) :) >>>>> >>>>>B.D. Yager > > >Cheers, >phobos > > "We dance round in a ring and suppose, > But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." > > -- Robert Frost, The Secret Sits > ><> ###### From: "B.D. Yager" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3880DFA8.4B70CDF3@hotmail.com> <388be0b2.1214668672@news.texas.net> <3880FB66.B1DD9086@hotmail.com> <388e0a24.1225279712@news.texas.net> <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net> <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net> <85sdtk$kj6$1@news.laserlink.net> <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net> Subject: Re: A Brief History of the Brick Technique Lines: 133 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:40:04 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.129.99 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 948052640 156.46.129.99 (Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:57:20 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:57:20 CST Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!newspump.sol.net!news.execpc.com!newspeer.sol.net!homer.alpha.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:30253 Hey, Phobos.... ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! SUPER!!!!!! I shall treasure this always....and will practice it tonight!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!! B.D. Yager!!!!!! (still laughing, and can't typeir toojjk good!!!) hahhaha! :) phobos wrote in message <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net>... >On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:35:56 -0600, "Jerry Adams" wrote: > >>Uh, I haven't worked out the details yet. It takes too much time to recover >>between trial shots. ;) > >No need to work out the details Jerry. The blunt trauma technique was worked out >in antiquity and has been preserved by successive esoteric traditions and taught >freely to the profane masses. Its endurance as a popular technique can be >attributed to its utter simplicity and high success rate. This technique has >most often been applied in a mutual situation -- i.e., people keen to induce >OBEs in each other -- but occasionally through the ages it has been applied by >the village idiot on themselves. > >In prehistoric times neanderthal man made use of small boulders. Man would later >move on to the use of large animal femurs and clubs fashioned from wood and with >the ease of portability these afforded the market for the blunt trauma technique >rapidly expanded. People suddenly found it romantic and became very enthusiastic >about helping others achieve OBEs. A notable descendent of this technique in >northern Europe was the smashingly popular Nordic battle hammer which was sure >to make one's neighbors witness the glory of Asgard firsthand. > >In more modern times man has developed many novel variations of this approach: >the Smith & Wesson, the hand grenade, the L.A. police officer's nightstick, the >thermonuclear warhead. Self-induction techniques have attained equal >sophistication: snow skiing in an avalanche zone, exiting a city bus without >stooping, springing fully erect onto one's feet in the window seat of a >commercial airliner, bungee jumping over a dry river bed with an excessively >long cord, etc.; as well as some *internal* blunt trauma methods such as eating >fast food or chugging Goldschlager straight from the bottle. > >The brick technique in particular originated among the masons who built the >pyramids at Giza and was passed down through the various masonic guilds and >lodges until much later, under the bureaucracy of Western freemasonry, it was >bastardized and the original meaning was lost by its metamorphosis into silly >rituals in which dinky foam-rubber bricks were substituted for the real thing. >Three renegade freemasons in the early 20th century realized this and were able >to preserve the true spirit of the brick technique and many other ingenious >techniques in a series of films under the assumed names of Larry, Moe, and >Curly. Fortunately these highly illuminating instructional works are not hard to >come by -- the local video store and many of the various Ted Turner cable >networks are among the most prolific distributors of such enlightened knowledge. > >>B.D. Yager wrote in message <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net>... >>>Hi Jerry! Welcome back Haunter,...we missed ya! >>>Loved your Brick Technique, Jerry! I'll have to try this style >>>sometime......maybe always tommorrow! >>> >>>How heavy needs be the brick? Should one align one's self on a north/south >>>axis,...or doesn't this matter? Does this method preclude the need of the >>>vibrations altogether,...or do they come violently and in short order? I >>>seem to remember having a spontaneous brick-method OOBE once, and I noticed >>>many, many points of flashing light in the visual spectrum, although my >>eyes >>>(physically) were closed at the time! Do these have any significance? >>>Could they be my Guardian Angels...rushing in, albeit a little bit late??? >>>Also, if I use the Brick Technique,... (since it is so breif a >>>transition)... how do I prepare my consciousness to remain alert during the >>>cross-over??? Or does it even matter??? I really, really, really, want to >>>try this method! Please help me get started right away! Sounds smashing! >>>Jerry? Haunter? Would appreciate anyone else's info and experiences with >>>this technique, also! >>> >>>B.D. Yager >>> >>>Jerry Adams wrote in message <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net>... >>>>Take a big heavy brick, raise it arms length above your head and let go. >>>>Gravity will do the work. < ;] >>>> >>>>B.D. Yager wrote in message ... >>>>>I cannot possibly imagine achieving an OOBE in 30 seconds! I should >>think >>>>>that if it could ever be done this quickly and easily....it should have >>>>been >>>>>discovered thousands of years ago! Don't you think? However,...I'm all >>>>>ears, and willing to try anything once! (But I, too, think just a little >>>>>more info will be needed!) :) >>>>> >>>>>B.D. Yager > > >Cheers, >phobos > > "We dance round in a ring and suppose, > But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." > > -- Robert Frost, The Secret Sits > ><> ###### From: hawksmoor@dial.pipex.com (Julia Hawkes-Moore) Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: A Brief History of the Brick Technique Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:07:15 GMT Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom Lines: 5 Message-ID: <388232bb.1274754@news.dial.pipex.com> References: <3880DFA8.4B70CDF3@hotmail.com> <388be0b2.1214668672@news.texas.net> <3880FB66.B1DD9086@hotmail.com> <388e0a24.1225279712@news.texas.net> <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net> <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net> <85sdtk$kj6$1@news.laserlink.net> <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net> Reply-To: hawksmoor@dial.pipex.com NNTP-Posting-Host: usercc81.uk.uudial.com X-Trace: lure.pipex.net 948057101 16697 62.188.151.93 (16 Jan 2000 21:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jan 2000 21:11:41 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:30254 On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:16:53 GMT, spamthis@texas.net (phobos) wrote: a very funny article! Well done, Phobos! Do you write professionally? You should. Love from Julia. ###### Reply-To: "Floating" From: "Floating" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <3880DFA8.4B70CDF3@hotmail.com> <388be0b2.1214668672@news.texas.net> <3880FB66.B1DD9086@hotmail.com> <388e0a24.1225279712@news.texas.net> <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net> <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net> <85sdtk$kj6$1@news.laserlink.net> <3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net> Subject: Re: A Brief History of the Brick Technique Lines: 137 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:57:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.126.151.38 X-Complaints-To: abuse@freeuk.net X-Trace: nnrp4.clara.net 948149877 212.126.151.38 (Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:57:57 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:57:57 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!isdnet!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!nnrp4.clara.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:30344 Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha! Very good phobos, you had me in stitches. Floating. phobos wrote in message news:3893d82a.1278029751@news.texas.net... > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 06:35:56 -0600, "Jerry Adams" wrote: > > >Uh, I haven't worked out the details yet. It takes too much time to recover > >between trial shots. ;) > > No need to work out the details Jerry. The blunt trauma technique was worked out > in antiquity and has been preserved by successive esoteric traditions and taught > freely to the profane masses. Its endurance as a popular technique can be > attributed to its utter simplicity and high success rate. This technique has > most often been applied in a mutual situation -- i.e., people keen to induce > OBEs in each other -- but occasionally through the ages it has been applied by > the village idiot on themselves. > > In prehistoric times neanderthal man made use of small boulders. Man would later > move on to the use of large animal femurs and clubs fashioned from wood and with > the ease of portability these afforded the market for the blunt trauma technique > rapidly expanded. People suddenly found it romantic and became very enthusiastic > about helping others achieve OBEs. A notable descendent of this technique in > northern Europe was the smashingly popular Nordic battle hammer which was sure > to make one's neighbors witness the glory of Asgard firsthand. > > In more modern times man has developed many novel variations of this approach: > the Smith & Wesson, the hand grenade, the L.A. police officer's nightstick, the > thermonuclear warhead. Self-induction techniques have attained equal > sophistication: snow skiing in an avalanche zone, exiting a city bus without > stooping, springing fully erect onto one's feet in the window seat of a > commercial airliner, bungee jumping over a dry river bed with an excessively > long cord, etc.; as well as some *internal* blunt trauma methods such as eating > fast food or chugging Goldschlager straight from the bottle. > > The brick technique in particular originated among the masons who built the > pyramids at Giza and was passed down through the various masonic guilds and > lodges until much later, under the bureaucracy of Western freemasonry, it was > bastardized and the original meaning was lost by its metamorphosis into silly > rituals in which dinky foam-rubber bricks were substituted for the real thing. > Three renegade freemasons in the early 20th century realized this and were able > to preserve the true spirit of the brick technique and many other ingenious > techniques in a series of films under the assumed names of Larry, Moe, and > Curly. Fortunately these highly illuminating instructional works are not hard to > come by -- the local video store and many of the various Ted Turner cable > networks are among the most prolific distributors of such enlightened knowledge. > > >B.D. Yager wrote in message <5_hg4.1354$TK4.421808@homer.alpha.net>... > >>Hi Jerry! Welcome back Haunter,...we missed ya! > >>Loved your Brick Technique, Jerry! I'll have to try this style > >>sometime......maybe always tommorrow! > >> > >>How heavy needs be the brick? Should one align one's self on a north/south > >>axis,...or doesn't this matter? Does this method preclude the need of the > >>vibrations altogether,...or do they come violently and in short order? I > >>seem to remember having a spontaneous brick-method OOBE once, and I noticed > >>many, many points of flashing light in the visual spectrum, although my > >eyes > >>(physically) were closed at the time! Do these have any significance? > >>Could they be my Guardian Angels...rushing in, albeit a little bit late??? > >>Also, if I use the Brick Technique,... (since it is so breif a > >>transition)... how do I prepare my consciousness to remain alert during the > >>cross-over??? Or does it even matter??? I really, really, really, want to > >>try this method! Please help me get started right away! Sounds smashing! > >>Jerry? Haunter? Would appreciate anyone else's info and experiences with > >>this technique, also! > >> > >>B.D. Yager > >> > >>Jerry Adams wrote in message <85rf6f$svv$1@news.laserlink.net>... > >>>Take a big heavy brick, raise it arms length above your head and let go. > >>>Gravity will do the work. < ;] > >>> > >>>B.D. Yager wrote in message ... > >>>>I cannot possibly imagine achieving an OOBE in 30 seconds! I should > >think > >>>>that if it could ever be done this quickly and easily....it should have > >>>been > >>>>discovered thousands of years ago! Don't you think? However,...I'm all > >>>>ears, and willing to try anything once! (But I, too, think just a little > >>>>more info will be needed!) :) > >>>> > >>>>B.D. Yager > > > Cheers, > phobos > > "We dance round in a ring and suppose, > But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." > > -- Robert Frost, The Secret Sits > > <>