The premise is that Soul is not created, not fallen and not in need of rescue. What it needs is to stop being confined to one vehicle at a time. Eckankar teaches Soul Travel as a learnable skill: shifting attention from the physical body to the inner bodies and moving through the planes with the Mahanta as guide. Members describe results ranging from vivid dreams to full out-of-body experience and treat the variation as normal. The teaching's appeal is that it is checkable on the person's own terms — the practitioner is told to try it rather than to believe it — and its exposure is the same thing, since nothing is checkable by anyone else.