Between the Gates: Lucid Dreaming, Astral Projection, and the Body of Light in Western Esotericism

by John Michael Greer and Mark Stavish

Book Overview

An A to Z guide to evolved states of consciousness. Between the Gates is a manual of selfinitiation and liberation that takes the student through the basic methods of experiencing dream states and conscious astral projection, to the ultimate culmination of consciousness creation of the Body of Light. Between the Gates is for anyone who has ever desired to experience the "afterlife" while still alive, or who has desired to rid themselves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578633966
• ISBN13: 9781578633968
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Far More Than Just Astral Projection

Between the Gates is the kind of book I wish I'd had in my hands over a decade ago, at the start of my spiritual journey. This is an outstanding mixture of Hermetic theory, discussion and, most importantly, staged exercises that can serve as a strong foundation for those interested in spiritual exercises and "occult" practices. This book covers an amazing amount of material while still being quite accessible. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to build a solid foundation for their work in Out of Body Experiences and the many other paths that lead from it.

Fantastic!

One of the most impressive books to come out lately. The body of light is frequently mentioned in many texts and few if any ever expand upon it. What is it? What makes it different from the astral body? How do you create it? How do you use it? This book actually details all this and more. The first few chapters of the book offers a crash course in hermetic theory. Nothing new but does so accurately and with surprising completeness considering the vastness of the subject. Then moves on to inducing lucid dreams and astral projection in the following chapters, before getting to the creation of the body of light itself. There are ample exercises and rites with in depth explanations and directions that would give the feel of a workbook if not for the numerous articles of information between them. The critiques I have is in some places the author glosses over some finer points within his articles that often leaves you with wanting him to elaborate further but doing so would probably have ballooned the text beyond the scope of this work. Additionally there are so many exercises scattered throughout the chapters, many listed by the author as core, to be done daily, that I wish there was an index to them. Overall I was highly impressed with this book.

Excellent gide to the Hermetic path

On an initial read-through, I found this book fascinating. I am not that familiar with the Hermetic literature, but I have not seen anything quite like Stavish's approach to it anywhere else. He links astral travel, lucid dreaming, and other psychic phenomena to the Qabala and path working in a unique way. The exercises are not onerous, all the early exercises and many of the advanced are not time consuming, needing only 10-15 minutes a day. Like any other system, they require consistency and perseverance but do have the promise of yielding positive feedback fairly soon instead of years from now. Also Stavish puts his system in a context of other spiritual disciplines so the work he describes can me melded with many different paths. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in lucid dreaming or astral travel no matter what their spiritual path.

Great info

I really enjoyed this book. Although it is a quick read do not be fooled. The work involved is just that, involved. But, it is worth it! He has a very x-tian bent in his writings but that is his paradigm and it is tough to write outside your own view. Overall it is a very good book with exercises that explain much of what is not out in the open about developing the light body. Overall it is not a lot of new information and a good portion of this work can be found in other works. what makes this book so valuable is that it brings all of that information together into a system.