Sparks from the Fire

I was in my early thirties on a great adventure and had worked very hard for close to 2 years with my dream study and early experiments with Fox’s Dream Method of astral projection. I had read literally hundreds of books on both subjects and spent countless hours contemplating the intricacies of both subjects.

Living as a composer for the theater, I was fortunate not to have a day job and have my mornings free to do this work and exploration. My schedule was my own.

I was experienced, but, looking back, not nearly as experienced as I thought I was. I was officially an astral body traveler, even though I had only gone but several steps from my physical body — once. I was a lot more confident and excited about the great adventures that lay before me that I should have been.

Fox warned over and over again in his writings to not go too fast, too far or too high — to take the first steps slowly. I instinctively knew he was right, but ah impetuous youth!  I was ready for some real astral adventures.

One very early morning before dawn I woke up and decided to snooze – perchance to dream.  And dream I did.

I was walking along the ridge of a great green and beautifully flowered valley. As I walked, I came upon an ancient stairway carved out of the side of the hill that led hundreds of yards down into the valley. I began to descend the stairs, but they were made of earth and rock and were very uneven and old.  Because of the roughness of the footing, I had to watch very carefully where I put my feet so that I would not fall.

I grew impatient with this mode of descent because I wanted to experience the beauty of the valley and get to the bottom quickly, but the descent was awkward and not going quickly enough. I began to trip on the stairs several times in my haste.

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So there I was, about a year and a half into my fascination and exploration of my dreams.  One day while reading one of my myriad books on the subject I came across the following:

“Among the early independent students in the field of astral projection was a self-taught pioneer worker by the name of Oliver Fox.  In the early 20s there appeared a book written by Mr. Fox called “Astral Projection”.  It is now long out of print and copies are hard to come by.  In this book Fox teaches a system of Astral Projection which he calls “The Dream Method”.   Fox says that he discovered the system himself and experimented with it himself for a period of 30 years prior to the date of the publication of the book.”

This, of course captured my attention as an interesting direction for my newly learned knowledge.  I wandered the used bookstores until I found Mr. Fox’s book and then read it with relish.

The basic idea of Fox’s dream method was that a person could, starting with a dream, learn how to “wake” in the midst of the dream and, from that point of awakening, start a train of inner events that could lead to a type of astral projection.

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