Soul Travel

By Sri Harold Klemp

In the simplest terms, Soul Travel is an individual moving closer to the heart of God. . . .

If you can imagine a scene, then you can be there this same instant in the Soul body. That is the Imaginative technique. It may feel as though you are hurtling through space at a breakneck speed, like a rocket, and zooming on a journey to outer space. In fact, though, Soul (you) is motionless. It is shifting Its attention to some higher state. That shifting of attention results in a feeling of fast motion to the material senses.

Soul Travel begins with a Spiritual Exercise of ECK in a physical setting.

A contemplative may hear a rushing sound, like a wailing wind in a tunnel, along with a sensation of incredible speed. But as explained, Soul doesn’t move; Soul is. Time and space adjust to Soul’s state of consciousness, and it is this adjustment of time and space that renders an illusion of movement or breathtaking speed. A seeming, rapid change of location is one aspect of Soul Travel that may prove to be a daunting obstacle for the timid. These people fear going beyond themselves.

Soul Travel is, therefore, for the bold and courageous in spirit. But remember, since one doesn’t in fact travel anywhere, it’s impossible to get lost.

Keep that principle in mind during a spiritual exercise. It will lend confidence to open your heart to love and so delight in any enlightenment that finds you.

Another form of Soul Travel is the expansion of consciousness. This aspect is the true state of personal revelation or enlightenment that we aspire to in ECK [Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ]. It visits both the timid and the bold, and is a gentler, less robust version of movement in consciousness. Most people experience this sort of gradual shifting of awareness.

Love and wonder define Soul Travel the best. . . .

Soul Travel, in a broad sense, is of much value because it is a link to the expansion of consciousness. The rule of destiny holds that people at some time will begin to awaken to who and what they are. A knowledge of past lives may also open to them by way of dreams or déjà vu. A few catch a glimpse of future events.

Note that Soul Travel means moving into the higher realms of God, to places people haven’t yet dreamed of. Soul Travel reveals a majesty and security that abounds in the arms of God alone.

For this reason, Soul Travel transcends astral or mind travel, and rote prayer, elevating one into profound spiritual areas. Whenever Soul reaches the far orbits of the inner planes through Soul Travel, the human heart opens to God’s all-consuming love.

It is our very purpose to discover that love.

By Suzie Kurz

I was very curious about Soul Travel when I was new to Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ and wanted to experience it for myself.

So, with great anticipation, I practiced my nightly spiritual exercises, hoping I would leave my body and travel the inner worlds as Soul.

But most of the time, I just dozed off to sleep and woke up the next morning with little recollection of any experiences. Still, I patiently wrote down in my journal whatever I learned from my dreams. This went on for a long time.

Then one night, it happened!

I was lying in bed, feeling very relaxed. Quietly, I began to sing HU, an ancient love song to God. As usual, I started dozing off to sleep.

All of a sudden, I had the sensation of feeling feathery light, as if I was floating on air. I knew my body was in bed, and yet there I was—floating!

With my eyes closed, I looked around with my inner vision. There were trees everywhere. Then I knew I was out of the body.

Slowly I floated toward the kitchen, and I found I was in the middle of a forest. The wall that separated the bedroom from the kitchen was gone. I looked toward what was supposed to be the kitchen window.

Instead of seeing the street, I saw a river surrounded by shrubs and trees and heard the sound of rushing water.

Happily, I said to myself, This is fantastic! I’m out of my physical body. This must be Soul Travel!

Then I accidently wiggled a toe on my right foot.

Immediately I was back in my body in bed. I remained awake for a while, trying to comprehend this incredible and awesome experience. It was so real!

As I lay there, I thought, So this is what Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ is all about. It is a teaching to realize and know one’s True Self!

I had proven that I am Soul, a spiritual being that is separate from the physical body. It was the beginning of my conscious spiritual journey back home to God.

By Sri Harold Klemp

“Fred” wasn’t an ECKist, but he married one. And he told of an experience that convinced him there was something to Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ, HU, Soul Travel, and the Spiritual Eye. He and his wife lived in Canada. His wife had come from Germany, and after they’d settled in Canada, they decided to go back to Germany and pack up her belongings.

So they made the trip. They packed everything in boxes, and his wife told Fred, “You take care of everything in the office and mark the boxes Office; take care of the files and whatever else you find.”

Fred went to the office and put everything in boxes. In a front room, there were soon rows and rows of boxes stacked to the ceiling. After they’d been at this for most of the day, Fred’s wife asked if he had happened to see a certain file. “I need that file,” she said.

Fred said, “I don’t know anything about the files. You just said to pack them; I didn’t read them.”

“We’re just going to have to find that file,” she said.

The office boxes were mixed with the rest of the boxes, so as they had time, Fred and his wife pulled boxes down and looked. But they couldn’t find the file.

The night before the moving company was going to come, Fred’s wife said, “I know how we can find it.”

It was late and he was so tired. He said, “How?”

She said, “Come in here to the couch. We’ll sit down and do a contemplation.”

He said, “What?” She hadn’t talked to him too much about contemplation.

She said, “We’ll sing HU.”

Fred had heard about HU, the holy name for God, only once before. But he was too tired to argue. He sat down on the couch with his wife, and she said, “Put your attention at the Spiritual Eye, which is back in the center of your head right about here.” She touched the place between her eyebrows.

As they sang HU, Fred felt a slight pressure here. Then suddenly, just as clearly as a slide projector throwing a picture up on a white screen, he saw the box. He saw the row, and he saw where it was in the row. They came out of contemplation, and he said to his wife, “I know where the box is.”

They went into the room. The box was in the second row, third box back from the wall, at a certain height. They had to dig. Fred said, “And you’ll find that the file is upside down in the box. That’s why you couldn’t find it.”

They looked in the box, and Fred’s wife pulled out a file that was upside down. It was the very file they had been looking for. And they were both astounded—even the wife, the ECKist who knew all about HU.

At first Fred thought, Maybe this was just something in my subconscious mind. “That’s where it was, dear,” he said. “It was in my subconscious mind.”

His wife said, “But you didn’t open the file. You didn’t even know what it was.”

Fred said, “That’s right. You’re right, dear.” What’s a husband to say?

But this experience got Fred thinking. His wife had told him about Soul Travel and Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ, and maybe there was something to it.

By Vic Shayne

For a few years after finding Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ, I made a concerted effort to prove to myself that Soul Travel was real. Every night I would get out of my body in the wee hours of the morning.

I would try to wake a family member or leave some physical proof of my out-of-body travels. This went on for some time until I got tired of trying. I had not yet realized that Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ points the way to Soul Travel experiences for deeper, spiritual purposes.

One morning, at about 3:30 a.m., I was in the midst of a dream. I was on the steps of a courthouse or government building, chasing a small, reddish-haired boy up the steep steps and around the railing.

We played chase like this for a couple of minutes until I found myself at the side of my bed, looking at my own and my wife’s body asleep under the covers.

This was amusing. When I looked to my left, I noticed the ten-year-old boy from the dream standing beside me at the side of the bed.

While we were standing there, my wife, Janice woke up in the physical. She looked at me with the strangest expression. The next thing I knew, I was being shaken from a deep sleep.

In my grogginess, I mumbled something like, “What are you doing? I was having the most amazing dream. It had something to do with the courthouse steps and . . .”

Janice interrupted me, “Never mind your dream. I just saw you standing at the side of the bed, out of your body!”

“No Kidding?” I replied, still staring at the inside of my eyelids. Finally it registered. “Really?” I asked.

Then I said, now coherent enough to quiz her, “Was anybody with me?” (I thought she’d never guess this one in a million years.)

“Yes. A small boy with red hair was standing next to you.”

I was amazed! Not only did Janice confirm that I was out of my body, but she also described my companion! We discussed this incident only for a minute; then we both rolled over. However, I was determined to repeat this wonderful feat.

I concentrated on a deep humming in my head as I left my body again. This time I appeared at the opposite end of the bed. Not yet asleep, Janice sat up startled in bed and stared at my nonphysical form. I tried to speak to her, but all I could manage to do was gesture that I was fully aware of what I was doing and had complete presence of mind.

Later that morning we discussed this experience. She remembered seeing me and described my gestures. I decided that my personal keys to achieving out-of-body clarity included focusing on the Sound Current and relaxing the mind. 

This particular experience proved to me that the dream worlds, the physical world, and the out-of-body state are linked by Divine Spirit. As Soul, we can move quite easily among these different levels of awareness.

By Sri Harold Klemp

A woman in Little Rock, Arkansas, was critically ill over the winter. There were holes in her stomach from an infection. The doctors had tried everything. They had put in tubes to drain off the infection. But nothing was working. Finally the specialist gave up hope. He said, “I just don’t know what else to do.”

The woman would get very high fevers. When the fevers got high, she hovered at the point of leaving this life. After a few days the doctor said, “We’ve decided to change the tubing. It will mean another operation.”

They took her into the operating room, and they were working on her. Suddenly she was outside her physical body, looking down from the Soul viewpoint. Those of you who are in ECK know this is an example of Soul Travel. In this higher state of consciousness, the woman saw the doctors working over her.

Suddenly the line on the heart monitor went flat. It meant that her heart had stopped. But here she is watching the whole thing. She sees her body on the operating table. The doctor’s trying everything to bring her back to life. But she’s there.

The woman notices the Inner Master, Wah Z, beside her, and she takes his hand. She says to him, “Do I go or do I stay?”

She looked in his eyes and saw unconditional love. It was her choice. She had a choice of whether to stay with her body, which had given her so much pain through the winter, or go and be free. She decided to stay because she wanted to be with her family. Instantly she was back. She opened her eyes and looked into the face of the specialist who’s operating on her. He was very, very concerned.

The next day he said to her, “Thank God the new antibiotic we tried worked. It got you back just in the nick of time.”

But the ECKist knew what really happened. She knew that the Spiritual Traveler—the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ, the Inner Master—had been with her. The name of this individual is Wah Z. It’s the inner side of myself.

She realized that life is something to live joyfully. Live it joyfully because you’re learning to be a Coworker with God.

By Sri Harold Klemp

Occasionally we go to a far world which has a beauty beyond words. There is no true way to describe what is seen. The closest is to say it’s a world illuminated by two golden suns, and everything is seen through a golden veil. When Soul comes here and begins walking into the land of gold, It wants never to return; It wants to go on forever. And I found myself in the same position.

I walked with the ECK Master Fubbi Quantz in this world of golden light. Two golden planets were in the sky. Since there is no time and no space, it’s interesting how things are perceived in the spiritual worlds.

I’m trying to describe a unified world. But since we are now in a world of duality, I can only express it by dimensions. The planets were moving very fast but they weren’t going anywhere; and yet they were able to move across the entire expanse of this golden world, which wasn’t round.

We went further into this God World of golden light, but we didn’t walk at all. Yet there was a yearning to go even farther, farther than ever before, because the love of the Sᴜɢᴍᴀᴅ, the love of God, always draws you on.

At one point Fubbi Quantz turned to me and said, “You have to go back now, my son.” It was spoken with a great deal of kindness, compassion, and love, born of the understanding that comes only to one who has walked into the golden worlds himself. At one time, he too wished to go on forever, to never come back; but someone had said to him, “You must go back now, my son.”

The higher you go into the spiritual planes, the greater becomes your capacity for love; compassion; and the attributes of wisdom, freedom, and charity.

Our responsibilities bring us back. And the only way we can ever go further into the heart of God is to face our responsibilities to serve God here, in our everyday lives. This is the paradox that both allows us to grow and gives us the yearning to want to grow.