flight to other planets will begin on the moon, so the best launch pad for mental travel can be found on the intermediate plane in dreams. You can detach yourself from your body more easily when it's asleep. And consciousness takes the helm again as soon as you 'wake up' within a dream, i.e. realise that you're dreaming. Yet 'out-of-body' doesn't necessarily mean entering another world. Ideas - both your own and those of other people, living and deceased - can manifest in this intermediate realm. This explains the many contradictory and often nonsensical reports and fantasies concerning the 'afterlife '. On this subject, too, the book you now hold provides a guide to orienting yourself in this state of consciousness. . Lucid dreams as a launch pad for mental travelling . Wakefulness in everyday life and wakefulness in dreams . Learning to wake up in your dreams . Flying dreams as a jump-start . The secret of the flying carpet . The dream realm as a site for encounters with the dead . The idea "I am!" as a mediator of consciousness The portal to the spiritual realm is opened by wakefulness, not by trance.