My Out Of Body Experience

In 2003, I had a life-changing out-of-body experience (OBE), where the true purpose and meaning of life was revealed to me in the most extraordinary way. Most of the material in my eBooks, videos, and workshops is based on that experience, along with what I have come to realise since. Here’s the full story.

It was November 11, at around 11am. 11:11:11 – spooky right? And the OBE probably happened at 11:11am, although I’m not 100% sure. But it wouldn’t surprise me, as 11:11 has always marked significant points in my life. That would make it 11:11:11:11 – spookiererr.

Anyhoo! I was touring as a musician at the time. I’d taken a few days off to look after a house of some fellow musicians, who had flown to America to do some gigs. I was sitting in front of the fire, casually reading a book. I never intended to have an out-of-body experience. I was just relaxing, reading, enjoying my book.

But that book (and it was a very enlightening book) must have done something to my mind. It must have opened a channel, or raised my vibration, or tweaked a past-life memory - who knows - because all of a sudden and without warning, my mind left my body, took off, and ascended into the Light.

And no, this is not a religious discussion.

One second I’m sitting on the couch reading a book; the next second I am standing in the Light, surrounded by Light. All I can say is, there is a lot of Light “up there”, and whilst I was “up there”, my mind somehow reached out and touched the Light. And when it did, I suddenly received the answers to every single question I had ever had about anything. And believe me, I had a lot of questions - questions about the Divine, creation, the Soul, life, the mind, death, and so much more. They were all answered … in a split second!

And although people think that must have been an amazing experience - it wasn’t. When you’re “up there” in the Light, everyone "up there" knows the answers to those questions. It’s in the Light, and it's common knowledge. So, when you’re "up there" in the Light yourself, you become part of the knowledge that's inside that Light. You kinda already know it. Consequently, when a Light-Being in the Light (revealed in Level V) shows you those answers again, it's kinda “Meh!”. It’s like if someone came up to you to exclaim, "Did you know bread has flour in it?!”, you’d probably say, “Yeah. I did know that! But thanks anyway (weirdo).” It's no biggie, no surprise.

BUT, when the OBE finished, and I returned back into my body of "limited" human knowledge, did my mind go, "SURPRISE!!!". Those OBE-answers absolutely blew my socks off! It's the biggest realisation I’ve ever had, and I’ve never had anything as big since.

But unfortunately, I only had that realisation for a moment. It was just too much information for my mind to handle all at once, and it very quickly faded to the back of my mind. But I wasn’t worried. I just knew – deep down - the information was “still in there somewhere”, and it would slowly unravel over time.

Although, I didn’t know that slow unravel would take 20+ f***ken years! Still, it gives you an idea of just how much information I brought back with me. It was a LOT!

Anyway, back to my OBE. After the Light answered all my questions, something shifted my focus out of the Light, and over to planet Earth. I actually found myself floating in space, looking down at our planet from a distance.

My focus was then somehow zoomed in, and I was shown behind the “curtain of reality”. I was shown how life functions as a grand illusion. I was shown who we really are and why we come here in human form to live within that illusion. I was shown how to navigate that illusion - how to live successfully outside of it, rather than struggling within it.

And then something else was revealed to me, something huge, something incomprehensible, which I have kept secret for decades, and can’t even mention here (It’s in Level V of the workshop though). It kinda relates to who God really is, and what God is not, and it’s mind-blowing, but not in a religious way. Again, nothing I do is religious. I am not a big fan of religion.

And then WOOOSH!. My OBE finished abruptly. There was none of that, "Hey, nice to meet you Matt. Thanks for coming. Hope you learned something. We’re going to return you to your body now. See you next time! Oh and by the way, my name's Bob. See ya!". Nope. None such pleasantries for me. No, everything just stopped, and without warning, my mind came crashing back into my body with a mental thud - my body still sitting on the couch, book in hand, holding the page open I was reading.

The first thing I said on my return was, “Holy s***! What the f*** just happened!”, or something to that effect. I must have sat on that couch for an hour, in shock, trying to comprehend what just happened. It was huge, it was overwhelming, it was shocking, it was extreme, it was exciting - all at the same time.

And it was so REAL – more real than any experience I have ever had “down here” on Earth, that’s for sure. And it changed me. I was never the same afterwards. I couldn't view life in the same way ever again, nor could I go back to my old ways.

So much so, that 4-months after it happened, I walked away from a very successful music career, sold all my gear, moved to coastal NSW Australia, and started a whole new life! I had to. I was compelled to. I couldn’t handle the energy of playing Blues music in the pub scene any more. It was all just too “dark and dingy” all of a sudden. I just couldn’t do another performance in that environment, and I’ve never done one since.

Much to the disappointment of the record company I was signed to, and the management who booked my gigs - but much to the delight of my mum!

When I look back now, I can clearly see why “They” - the Light, and the Light-Being in the Light (all revealed in Level V) - needed me to quit the music scene forever. Which by the way, I felt guilty about doing for about a year and a half afterwards. “They” knew I’d need a super positive environment to understand the super positive information revealed to me in my OBE, which is exactly what I found in that beautiful coastal town in NSW.

In stark contrast, Being a Blues musician is a notoriously negative environment – a lot of alcohol, cigarettes, bad food, late nights, long drives, messed up relationships, occasional pub fights, and not a lot of sleep (No drugs for me). It’s a lot of fun, but it’s chaotic. It was my choice to leave, but I am glad I did, because that sort of lifestyle would never have allowed me the space and peace I needed to figure my OBE.

So, I moved to coastal NSW, near the beach. I fell in love with an amazing and deeply spiritual woman called Jayne, and her two amazing daughters. I credit a lot of my initial understanding to Jayne, and her amazing family - all of whom had a deep understanding of esoteric and practical philosophy. We all had many long nights, chatting about the stuff. Sadly, Jayne passed away in 2018, but I think she's still "up there" with the rest of the "gang", helping me write - just like she did in the first seven years of relationship.

She was very patient, watching me slave over a laptop, 8-10 hours a day, for seven years, writing a spectacularly unsuccessful book about my OBE. It was so over-complicated, even I couldn’t understand the bloody thing, and I wrote it. Consequently, it did not do well, and has since been unpublished. But that’s OK. It was great fun, and it taught me how to be a writer, and that’s gold!

At the same time, I studied and researched whatever I could to try and comprehend the OBE itself, and the OBE-answers that were now slowly starting to unravel again in my mind. I met with every psychic, new age, spiritual, weird, freaky person I could find, hoping they might have the answers. I trained in various complementary therapies – from the freaky weird to the more practically weird – trying to get a better understanding of how the mind, healing, human behaviour, and fear fitted into all of this.

I travelled Australia and parts of the world, seeking truth from whoever or whatever place I could find it. I ran various workshops about it, developed and tested tools around it, and applied as much of it as I could in my own life, to see for myself, what was true and what was not.

I never quite knew exactly what to do with all that information! But when life stopped during the dreaded events of 2020-2023, I figured it out. I realised (with help from my Soul) the best way to present this information, was to break it down into bite-sized chunks, and present it in levels, starting with the more practical stuff first, and building up to the more esoteric stuff second.

Previously, I’d always done that backwards – hitting people hard in the face with the really deep and freaky esoteric stuff first, wondering why they were clicking their tongues and rolling their eyes, as they put my spectacularly unsuccessful book back on the table, and slithered sideways out of my workshops. Oops!

Then in 2024, I did my own purpose process (of which level I of my workshops is based on), to confirm that my purpose was indeed to present five levels of workshops to help others find, live, manage, sync, and deepen their true purpose in life.

Fast forward to 2025, I am now 56 years old, and have moved back to my home town of Perth, Western Australia, where I devote all my time to running findtruepurpose.com and those workshops.

I am so excited about what I have to share - I really am - and I can’t wait to share it with you.