Flying Out of Body: Ancient and Modern Teachings on Soul Travel, Spirit Realms, and the Light Body
Flying Out of Body is not just another astral projection guide. It is a complete re-visioning of spiritual flight—rooted in soul anatomy, luminous presence, and the sacred responsibility of returning whole.
Written by Laing Z. Matthews—author of The Spirit Heals, The Breath of Time, and Healer of Heaven and Earth—this groundbreaking work cuts through the noise of pop-spirituality and fantasy-driven projection. Instead, it offers a clear, precise, and ethically grounded path to genuine spirit departure.
Yin Shen and Yang Shen — The Core Distinction
At the heart of this work is the classical Daoist distinction between Yin Shen—dissociative, shadow-driven projection—and Yang Shen—luminous, cultivated soul flight. This is the first comprehensive book to treat out-of-body experience not as a thrill, escape, or ego game, but as a sacred discipline of consciousness, clarity, and light.
Yin Shen exits, Matthews explains, often arise from trauma, fragmentation, or spiritual bypass, and lead to depletion, illusion, or even possession. Yang Shen travel, by contrast, is the fruit of steady cultivation—a sovereign act of the spirit leaving in clarity, integrity, and light, then returning whole.
A Map Across Traditions
Spanning six sweeping Parts and more than 30 chapters, Flying Out of Body weaves together:
Daoist internal alchemy and the breath-based art of light-body formation
Yogic and Tantric methods for prana refinement and chakra alignment
Hermetic and Kabbalistic teachings on ascent through the planes
Shamanic soul-flight traditions from diverse cultures
Clinical case studies of projection, possession, and reintegration
Historical records of adepts who walked between worlds
The result is a living map of awakening—free from superstition, yet steeped in the precision of spiritual science.
Inside, You Will Learn:
The anatomy of the soul in Daoist and cross-cultural models
How trauma, fragmentation, and bypass create chaotic or unsafe projection
How to recognize and avoid false light and karmic traps
The difference between Yin Shen exits and Yang Shen travel
Sealing and anchoring methods for safe departure
Breathwork, visualization, dream-exit, and inner-stillness techniques
The dangers of premature flight—and how to prepare body, breath, and spirit
How to return whole, integrate the journey, and embody the light touched
The Sacred Task of Coming Back
Matthews insists: the goal is not simply to leave the body, but to return with light intact.
In doing so, the journey becomes more than a personal vision—it becomes a transmission. You carry back what you touched, and you live it.
From the opening line—
“Leaving the body isn’t enough. Leaving it clearly, with light intact, changes everything.”
— to the final reflection—
“One exit was enough. Because now you are a portal, not a passenger,”
the book guides you into a deeper purpose than travel: to embody the light you encounter and allow it to move through your life.
For Practitioners, Seekers, and Healers
Whether you are:
A seasoned traveler of astral planes,
A seeker drawn to mystical states, or
Someone recovering from spiritual fragmentation,
…this book offers a mirror for your journey—not to escape the world, but to walk through it as the spirit you truly are.
With sections on spirit possession, disordered exit, karmic entanglements, and how to rebuild the soul after fracture, Flying Out of Body is as much a guide to safe departure as it is a handbook for luminous return.
A Different Kind of Out-of-Body Book
This is not fantasy. It is not role-play. It is not a mechanical how-to.
It is a field guide to your own spirit—its risks, its disciplines, its capacities for light.
In Matthews’ hands, the practice of soul flight becomes what it always was meant to be: a path of awakening, reverence, and service to the living Dao.
You do not fly to leave life behind.
You fly to return and live it fully.
The Hidden Harvest: Stop Feeding the Unseen Forces That Drain Your Emotion, Attention, and Energy
What if your pain, your attention, and even your emotional highs weren’t simply personal experiences—
but fuel for something else?
Every day, unseen forces feed on your light.
Not as a metaphor. Not as poetry.
Energetically.
The Hidden Harvest reveals the ancient and modern systems—spiritual, psychological, and digital—that siphon your life force without your consent. It’s the map of an invisible economy that thrives on your energy, and it is also a clear, unflinching guide to stepping out of it.
A Sharp and Sacred Refusal
This is not a book about fear.
It’s about freedom.
Rooted in Daoist internal alchemy, trauma healing, and decades of fieldwork in energy medicine, Laing Z. Matthews takes you directly into the mechanics of what esotericists call the Loosh economy—the harvesting of emotional, mental, and spiritual energy through drama, distraction, and unconscious consent.
From grief loops to ecstatic highs, from algorithmic attention traps to astral parasites, this book names the predators and shows you how to become energetically unhookable.
You Will Learn:
Why emotional pain and euphoric highs alike are prime fuel for parasitic systems—both human and non-human.
How entities, algorithms, belief-forms, and social patterns siphon energy without your awareness.
Why spiritual bypass, looping trauma, and unsealed sleep keep you leaking even during “healing” practices.
How to seal the Dantian, stabilize Shen, and reclaim your luminous field using Daoist methods.
What it means to love without leaking—holding compassion without surrendering your essence.
How to witness without being baited, staying present in a world built on triggering reactivity.
Why Daoist adepts remain untouched and radiant in a signal-saturated, energetically predatory age.
Each Chapter is a Blade
Every section of The Hidden Harvest is designed as both insight and action:
A blade of discernment to cut through false narratives.
A rite of reclamation to bring your energy home.
A field-strengthening practice to make your boundaries living, not theoretical.
You’ll learn to identify subtle leaks—during conversations, online engagement, even dreams—and how to close them permanently.
The Landscapes We Walk
This book does not shy away from the dark terrain:
Energy vampires in personal and professional life.
Astral parasites and dream intrusions.
AI-driven attention harvesting.
Cultural grief loops and outrage cycles.
The seduction of false light and spiritual theater.
But you will not stay there.
By the end, you’ll emerge with something most spiritual texts avoid—a sealed field, a clear no, and a living yes to your own sovereignty.
Your Declaration
“I revoke all silent agreements to be fed upon.”
This book is your manual for making that declaration real—physically, emotionally, spiritually. You’ll uncover how much energy you’ve been giving without knowing, and exactly how to stop.
Not Fear, but Freedom
The Hidden Harvest is for:
Empaths and sensitives who feel “drained for no reason.”
Spiritual practitioners tired of bypass and vague protections.
Anyone navigating grief, outrage, or high-stimulus environments who wants to stay clear and intact.
Seekers who suspect there’s more to their exhaustion than “stress.”
From trauma integration to spiritual hygiene, digital boundaries to soul retrieval, Matthews offers a rare integration of the seen and unseen, the psychological and the energetic.
About the Author
Laing-Z. Matthews is a writer, energy cultivator, and independent scholar who has spent two decades mapping the hidden worlds between emotion, attention, and energy. His works blend Daoist alchemy, shamanic practice, lucid dreaming, and sovereign psychology into piercing clarity.
Discover all his books in the Laing-Z. Matthews Author Storefront on Amazon.
For teaching, workshops, or spiritual counsel, contact: [email protected]
No more unconscious contracts.
No more harvest.
Your light is yours.
Master Thinkers on Freedom and the Final Liberation: Thirty-Two Minds. Four Unbindings. One Return. (A Philosophical Journey Beyond the Idea of Freedom)
What if your pain, your attention, and even your emotional highs weren’t simply personal experiences—
but fuel for something else?
Every day, unseen forces feed on your light.
Not as a metaphor. Not as poetry.
Energetically.
The Hidden Harvest reveals the ancient and modern systems—spiritual, psychological, and digital—that siphon your life force without your consent. It’s the map of an invisible economy that thrives on your energy, and it is also a clear, unflinching guide to stepping out of it.
A Sharp and Sacred Refusal
This is not a book about fear.
It’s about freedom.
Rooted in Daoist internal alchemy, trauma healing, and decades of fieldwork in energy medicine, Laing Z. Matthews takes you directly into the mechanics of what esotericists call the Loosh economy—the harvesting of emotional, mental, and spiritual energy through drama, distraction, and unconscious consent.
From grief loops to ecstatic highs, from algorithmic attention traps to astral parasites, this book names the predators and shows you how to become energetically unhookable.
You Will Learn:
Why emotional pain and euphoric highs alike are prime fuel for parasitic systems—both human and non-human.
How entities, algorithms, belief-forms, and social patterns siphon energy without your awareness.
Why spiritual bypass, looping trauma, and unsealed sleep keep you leaking even during “healing” practices.
How to seal the Dantian, stabilize Shen, and reclaim your luminous field using Daoist methods.
What it means to love without leaking—holding compassion without surrendering your essence.
How to witness without being baited, staying present in a world built on triggering reactivity.
Why Daoist adepts remain untouched and radiant in a signal-saturated, energetically predatory age.
Each Chapter is a Blade
Every section of The Hidden Harvest is designed as both insight and action:
A blade of discernment to cut through false narratives.
A rite of reclamation to bring your energy home.
A field-strengthening practice to make your boundaries living, not theoretical.
You’ll learn to identify subtle leaks—during conversations, online engagement, even dreams—and how to close them permanently.
The Landscapes We Walk
This book does not shy away from the dark terrain:
Energy vampires in personal and professional life.
Astral parasites and dream intrusions.
AI-driven attention harvesting.
Cultural grief loops and outrage cycles.
The seduction of false light and spiritual theater.
But you will not stay there.
By the end, you’ll emerge with something most spiritual texts avoid—a sealed field, a clear no, and a living yes to your own sovereignty.
Your Declaration
“I revoke all silent agreements to be fed upon.”
This book is your manual for making that declaration real—physically, emotionally, spiritually. You’ll uncover how much energy you’ve been giving without knowing, and exactly how to stop.
Not Fear, but Freedom
The Hidden Harvest is for:
Empaths and sensitives who feel “drained for no reason.”
Spiritual practitioners tired of bypass and vague protections.
Anyone navigating grief, outrage, or high-stimulus environments who wants to stay clear and intact.
Seekers who suspect there’s more to their exhaustion than “stress.”
From trauma integration to spiritual hygiene, digital boundaries to soul retrieval, Matthews offers a rare integration of the seen and unseen, the psychological and the energetic.
About the Author
Laing-Z. Matthews is a writer, energy cultivator, and independent scholar who has spent two decades mapping the hidden worlds between emotion, attention, and energy. His works blend Daoist alchemy, shamanic practice, lucid dreaming, and sovereign psychology into piercing clarity.
Discover all his books in the Laing-Z. Matthews Author Storefront on Amazon.
For teaching, workshops, or spiritual counsel, contact: [email protected]
No more unconscious contracts.
No more harvest.
Your light is yours.
Sacred Madness: Daoist and Esoteric Views on Mental Illness
Sacred Madness
Daoist and Esoteric Views on Mental Illness
By Laing Z. Matthews
What if what we call “mental illness” was not always a pathology to suppress—
but, in some cases, a spiritual initiation misunderstood?
Sacred Madness is a groundbreaking work that reframes breakdown, visionary states, and psychic crisis as potential thresholds to transformation. Drawing from Daoist medicine, Tibetan Tantra, shamanic traditions, Jungian depth psychology, and modern clinical insights, Laing Z. Matthews reclaims madness as mystery—an expression of the soul’s rupture, revelation, or return.
This is not a romanticization of psychosis, nor a rejection of clinical care. Instead, it is a bridge between worlds—offering a cross-cultural, multidimensional framework for understanding spiritual crisis in a culture that has forgotten the rites of passage once surrounding it.
From Breakdown to Threshold
In Daoist internal medicine, the health of the psyche depends on the integrity of Shen—the spirit that animates and integrates the mind, heart, and will. Matthews introduces readers to the anatomy of Shen disturbance, the Daoist concept of spirit-field leakage, and the energetic realities behind symptoms like visions, voices, dissociation, or night terrors.
Rather than reducing these phenomena to chemical imbalances or labeling them as disorders, Sacred Madness asks:
What if these experiences are not errors—but thresholds?
A Cross-Tradition Lens
Across its chapters, the book compares psychiatric, Daoist, Buddhist, Jungian, and shamanic interpretations of spiritual crisis—highlighting both overlaps and critical differences. You’ll discover:
How unresolved trauma, ancestral interference, and soul loss can mimic “madness”
The role of initiation sickness in shamanic cultures—and how it parallels certain psychiatric symptoms
Why some visionary states destabilize, while others transform
How cultural context determines whether a person is treated as “ill” or as an initiate in training
What You Will Learn
Inside Sacred Madness, you will find:
The Five Spirits of Daoist Psychology — Shen (spirit), Hun (ethereal soul), Po (corporeal soul), Yi (intention), and Zhi (will)—and how their disharmony manifests as mental disturbance.
A Cross-Tradition Diagnostic Matrix — comparing psychiatric models with spiritual and esoteric frameworks.
Field-Tested Rituals — for soul retrieval, dream gate sealing, and spiritual containment.
False Light and Intrusion — how to recognize untrained channeling, spiritual parasitism, and the difference between awakening and fragmentation.
Containment and Restoration Practices — sealing the energetic field, grounding the Shen, and integrating visionary material without collapse.
A Model of Healing Through Sacred Integration — centering wholeness, not suppression.
For Those Who Have “Seen Too Much”
This book is for the ones who:
Have walked through visions that changed them forever.
Broke open under the weight of truth, only to be told it was “all in their head.”
Carry stories the modern world has no language to hold.
It speaks to survivors of psychiatric misdiagnosis who felt their spiritual reality erased, to therapists who sense something deeper beneath the diagnosis, and to spiritual practitioners grappling with overwhelming psychic openings.
Healing at the Threshold
Matthews draws on decades of training in Daoist internal alchemy and Western esoteric systems to present a model of care that unites energy and ethics. He exposes the conditions—both inner and outer—that can turn a sacred crisis into a dangerous spiral, and the conditions that can transform it into a medicine for the soul.
Through poetic insight and practical tools, Sacred Madness shows how healing is not always linear. Sometimes, the road winds through chaos before it opens into clarity.
Who This Book Is For
Therapists seeking a cross-cultural, spiritual framework for mental health.
Healers ready to work at the intersection of energy, psyche, and soul.
Spiritual practitioners navigating visions, dreams, or initiatory collapse.
Survivors reclaiming their truth after misdiagnosis.
Seekers exploring the esoteric dimensions of the human mind.
Becoming Whole
Sacred Madness calls for a new kind of healer—one who can sit beside the broken, guard the threshold, and say:
“You are not broken. You are becoming.”
Poetic yet precise, mystical yet grounded, it offers sacred language, clinical clarity, and tools for navigating the liminal space between madness and awakening. In doing so, it affirms that, when held with reverence, what we fear as madness may be the very doorway to the soul’s return.
Day Trade with AI on House Money: The Seeker’s Secret to Financial Freedom
This is not another hype-filled trading book promising overnight riches.
It’s a manual for getting your time back—for creators, spiritual seekers, and calm rebels who want to trade without selling their souls or sacrificing their mornings to chase every market move.
In this honest, sharp, and soulful guide, Laing Z. Matthews—30-year trading veteran and practitioner of Daoist inner alchemy—shares how he uses AI bots and prop firm “house money” to generate consistent income without the obsession, stress, or adrenaline addiction that destroys most traders.
Forget the Lambo fantasy. This is about rhythm, structure, and clarity—trading in a way that supports your life, instead of consuming it.
Trade Without the Burnout
Most traders fail—not because they lack a winning strategy, but because their psychology sabotages them. They overtrade. They revenge trade. They sit glued to the screen chasing one more move, riding the dopamine wave until they crash.
Matthews offers a different path: letting AI bots handle the math and execution while you focus on living your real life.
This isn’t passive investing. It’s active trading without the active grind—backed by discipline, structure, and the capital of prop firms who put up the money so you don’t have to risk your own.
What “House Money” Really Means
When you trade on your own capital, every loss feels personal—and every decision is tinged with fear or greed. But when you trade with prop firm funding, you’re playing with “house money.” You’re operating within clear rules, defined risk, and a funding partner who shares in your wins.
The result?
Lower personal stress
More disciplined trading
Faster capital scaling without draining your own account
Matthews explains exactly how to qualify for prop funding, pass evaluations, and structure your AI bot trading so the firm’s capital works for you—not against you.
Inside, You’ll Learn:
How to use AI bots and automation to trade with discipline, not dopamine
Why most traders fail—and how to stop repeating their psychological mistakes
The truth about prop firm funding and how it changes your entire trading mindset
How to create a daily trading routine that takes 15 minutes, not your whole day
Practical AI bot setups for calm, consistent execution
How to reclaim your mornings, focus, and peace of mind without losing market edge
How to trade in harmony with your spirit instead of battling your emotions
Trading for Time, Not Trophies
If you want to spend your mornings writing, walking, creating, or simply being, this approach frees you from the tyranny of the screen.
Your AI bot does the execution.
Your prop firm funds the account.
Your discipline keeps it running.
You simply maintain the system, collect payouts, and let the market work while you live your life.
For Calm Rebels and Spiritual Seekers
This book is for:
Creators who want income without killing their creativity
Traders tired of the war-room mindset
Seekers who want to align their financial life with their spiritual values
Anyone who believes freedom matters more than flashing P&L numbers
Wit, Wisdom, and Tools You Can Use
Matthews blends practical trading guidance with the rhythm and philosophy of someone who has seen every side of the market. You’ll get the step-by-step process for setting up your AI trading system, the prop firm strategies that keep you funded, and the mindset tools that protect your peace.
Because the real goal isn’t to get rich.
The goal is to get free.
Let the Machine Do the Math. You Do the Living.
Trading doesn’t have to be war. It can be a quiet, consistent partnership between you, your AI, and your capital source—built on discipline, respect for risk, and a commitment to living well.
Day Trade with AI on House Money will show you how to make that partnership real—so you can stop chasing the market, and start living the life you wanted trading to give you in the first place.
The Forbidden Flame: The Mystic’s Path Beyond Doctrine, Nation, and Name
The Forbidden Flame
The Mystic’s Path Beyond Doctrine, Nation, and Name
By Laing Z. Matthews
The Forbidden Flame is a spiritual declaration for those who walk without maps, kneel without altars, and burn without permission.
This is not a book of religion. It is a book of return—return to the flame that cannot be caged, bought, or sanctioned. In every age, mystics have been born: souls who glimpse the Real not through doctrine, but through direct experience. They do not ask for approval. They do not seek conversion. They are lit from within—and for this, they are often exiled from the very temples built to honor what they know.
A Life Between Worlds
Raised in an atheist China where the word “God” was forbidden, Laing Z. Matthews felt an ancient longing he could not name. As a child, he wandered into silent temples, leafed through sacred books, and listened for the hidden pulse beneath the world’s noise.
Later, in the West, he entered churches, studied theology, and sought the essence behind the names. But the deeper he looked, the more he saw the same fire feared and smothered by systems claiming to guard it.
This book is the result of that search—and the freedom that came when the search itself was released.
A Quietly Radical Path
Across twelve luminous chapters, The Forbidden Flame offers a mystic’s way that neither rebels nor reforms, but returns. It is a call to the mystic in all of us—to walk back to the center not through institutions, but through breath, silence, and presence.
You’ll discover:
Why the sacred never left—it only unhoused itself.
How true mystics live inside every tradition, yet belong to none.
The difference between fire that burns and fire that blinds.
How to seal your spirit-field, reclaim your dreams, and tend your inner flame.
Practices for mystical sovereignty, ritual simplicity, and sacred companionship.
How to recognize false light, cultic charisma, and “post-dogma” traps.
Why spiritual decentralization may be the greatest blessing of our time.
The Flame Beyond Names
Here, the wind is holy.
The stars are scripture.
The breath is prayer.
And your heart is the only altar that cannot be defiled.
This is not a book to help you seek “more.” It is a quiet invitation to return—to the fire that has always burned behind all names, beyond all borders, before all creeds.
Key Themes Include:
Mysticism beyond dogma and institutional control
The rise of post-institutional, self-initiated spirituality
Breath as a living sacrament
Sacred solitude and the paradox of community
Everyday fire-keeping rituals for modern mystics
Discernment of spiritual energy—light and shadow alike
Nature as the eternal temple
For Seekers Of:
Interspiritual wisdom and inner alchemy
Christian, Daoist, Buddhist, Sufi, and nondual mysticism
Healing from religious trauma or institutional betrayal
Practices rooted in silence, presence, and self-initiation
A deeper, cleaner way to walk with God, Source, Dao—beyond language
The Heart of the Teaching
Matthews writes for those who have already stepped outside the gates but still feel the call of the sacred. This book affirms that the Real cannot be owned, trademarked, or confined to a single doctrine—and that the mystic’s true work is to tend the inner flame with clarity, discernment, and devotion.
The practices inside are both subtle and practical—breathing rituals, dream-tending, field-sealing, and nature immersion—designed to keep the flame alive in a noisy, distracted age.
Final Words
You were never outside.
You don’t need robes to carry the light.
The temple breathes when you do.
Welcome home.
The Forbidden Flame is both a personal testament and a universal call—to live lit, walk free, and bow to the One that needs no name.
