Robert Bruce > Quotes

“As poetry, art, and music are the twin languages of the soul, so symbolism and metaphorical imagery are the languages of the spirit above the base level of consciousness.”
― Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-Of-Body Experience

“Comparing the subconscious mind's creative power to that of the conscious mind is like comparing a bank of supercomputers to a child's calculator.”
― Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-Of-Body Experience

“Rapid Progress: You will progress more rapidly with body-awareness energy work than you will with any other energy-work system. Body-awareness actions have a more direct impact upon the energy body. This also results in more rapid energy-body development. The”
― Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics: The Complete Book of Out-of-Body Experience

“Fear related to the projection exit is a natural gut reaction caused by the unusual and often extreme sensations, events, and situations. It causes the would-be projectors to abort their exits time and time again, usually right on the brink of their very first, long-sought conscious-exit projection.

However, most projection-related fears are born of simple ignorance.

Knowledge replaces fear by making the unknown and unexpected the known and expected.”
― Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-Of-Body Experience

“God in His mercy and in His infinite and bottomless compassion, has set up this Sacrament as a sign upon a high hill, so that it may be seen on every side, far and near, to recall all those who have shamefully run away; and He clucks to them as a hen to a chicken to gather them under the wings of His infinite mercy. The”
― Robert Bruce, Mystery of the Lord's Supper: Sermons by Robert Bruce

“He tended to live too much by the private judgements of his own conscience and not enough by the sheer Word of the Gospel, forgetting, perhaps, that if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, infinitely greater. That is the Majesty of His Mercy. Over against that the Christian conscience is not something that a man possesses in himself, but something that he shares with his fellow-believers, and above all that which they in togetherness share with God, a con-science which is their joint knowing of the Divine will in Christ announced to them through the Gospel. The tendency for the conscience to rely upon itself as an autonomous or semi-autonomous principle was characteristic of the humanism of the Renaissance,”
― Robert Bruce, Mystery of the Lord's Supper: Sermons by Robert Bruce

“Relax and use awareness belly breathing for a few minutes. Pre-stimulate your hands and feet, legs and arms. Then do a whole-body bounce. Perform the full-body circuit for a few minutes. Then return to awareness belly breathing and spend fifteen minutes relaxing and quieting your mind. The energy work you have done so far has mainly involved secondary and tertiary structures. It is important to be comfortable with this level of energy work before approaching the primary energy centers, coming up next.”
― Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics: The Complete Book of Out-of-Body Experience

“Awareness Belly Breathing The stomach area contains the largest energy center in your body, the navel center. The stomach and the breathing process can be used to help quiet and relax your mind. The body-awareness belly-breathing method given here is the simplest way I have found to achieve this. Awareness belly breathing can be done anytime, anywhere. Waiting and travel time are excellent opportunities for practicing mental relaxation and energy work. Belly breathing promotes deep physical as well as mental relaxation. A relaxed state provides a clearer inner focus. It also increases energy-body sensitivity and its responses to stimulation actions. Belly breathing also stimulates the navel center in a robust natural way. This helps empower and balance your whole energy body. It is also an excellent stand-alone meditation method. Method: Awareness belly breathing involves focusing your body awareness on the physical action of breathing, on the rise and fall of your stomach. Loosen your belt, sit quietly, close your eyes, and focus your attention on your stomach. Take your time and become more aware of and focused on this area. Let your stomach sag and relax. Breathe a little more deeply from your stomach, feeling it rising and falling as you breathe. Observe this action and use this focus of attention to relax your mind. Hold your mind relaxed and clear of thought words. If thought words begin, simply release them and bring your attention back to your breathing and stomach movement. No matter how many times distracting thoughts creep in, just push them away and refocus on your stomach. This is the easiest method I have found for relaxing the mind. Two ways to ease the pressure of persistent thoughts are (1) Write them down. This will lessen pressure from your subconscious to deal with pressing issues. (2) Making firm mental commands such as, "I choose not to think about that. I choose to relax my mind!" will also help. Energy-Movement”
― Robert Bruce, Astral Dynamics: The Complete Book of Out-of-Body Experience