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Astral Projection
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Is an altered state of consciousness. Which is to say that it is not our normal waking state of consciousness. Dreams are an altered state of consciousness. Our state of dreaming and AP's are very closely related states.
Anyone can learn to astral project. It takes some time and some knowledge, and thats what I am going to try to relate to you here in this very article. So, if your interested in learning, read on. Please follow along so your out of body experience (OOBE) is safe and no psychological danger will evolve from your travels. It is very important that you read this in its entirety. You will need to learn and understand it all in order to have a safe OOBE.
I need to stress this point, astral projection is only dangerous if you are ignorant about what is going on. You have to realize now that astral projection will take you into realms where the subjective becomes ABSOLUTELY REAL. All your ideas, fears, fantasies, become real things "outside" of you when you project. When you project, you will be somewhere, and in this somewhere (whether we call it a "plane" or whatever) all the things you think are subjective will become objective! When you astral project, you will confront yourself, your own personality, in ways that are totally different than how you relate to yourself when awake here in the physical plane. For example, if you have phobias in your personality, these may become monsters that try to attack you in your astral projection. Such an experience will more likely than not scare the crap out of you, and if you don't understand what's going on, such an experience may completely scare you away from astral projecting ever again. So, its EXTREMELY important that you understand that, in a sense, during a projection, your personality is "outside" of you, and not "inside" of you as it appears to be here in the physical world. In a very strong sense, astral projecting is a form of self-therapy. Most likely, we could all use a good dose of that from time to time.
The "dweller on the threshold" is a term used for things of your own creation. This is what you will first encounter when you initially begin to astral project. This "dweller" is you. The good, the bad, and the ugly, and, all your fears and phobias.
You need to understand that this is YOU and there isn't anything to be afraid of because it IS you. You will encounter all the negative elements of yourself. Again understanding this is very necessarily for you to go on.
You are able to banish those fears simply understanding them for what they are. Once you confront these negative aspects of yourself, they will disappear and you will have grown with new self-insight. It takes will-power to confront these things in yourself, and it takes wisdom and compassion to see them for what they are and to accept them.
Anyone that uses astral projection will very likely be confronted with the "dweller on the threshold". As you grow and get past this, your experiences on the planes will not be as contaminated by personal factors. As the personal factors become less a part of your astral projection experiences, then your experiences there will reflect more clearly these planes as they objectively exist, uncontaminated by your subconscious influences. This process is like cleaning off a window. The cleaner the window is, the better you can see through it. Likewise, when you project, the cleaner your personality is, the better you will be able to see through it into the planes.
Planes, Dimensions, Aethyrs, Lokas, Realms
(Or whatever you want to call it).
We need to understand that our consciousness transcends our physical body. The universe is a series of planes. Other terms for planes are: "dimensions", "aethyrs", "lokas". "realms". All are the same. I will be using the term "planes" in this article. We are on the physical plane. Thats where we live. Our conscious level. Each plane is a world unto itself. We have the facilities for interacting with a least 4 of these planes. They are called "vehicles" or "bodies". The four planes are the: physical world, astral world, mental world, buddhic world. So, the act of astral projection is, transferring your consciousness to the astral body to explore the astral world.
Our physical world only gives us the physical senses of the body. Our ears, eyes, taste, feeling, senses of heat and balance, and smell. There are energies that exist that we cannot perceive with our physical senses and without the help of machines. There are energies that even modern scientists are completely unaware of.
Each plane is a world, a giant world full of all kinds of strange and exotic places and creatures with sights and sounds that dwarf anything we know of here in the physical world. Remember the famous Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland? That very well could have been scenes from someones astral travels.
These planes are extremely plastic. They are molded by your slightest emotion, desire or thought. The second you think something, a little piece of the mental plane is shaped exactly into your thought pattern, making a thought-form. This is exactly why your initial experiences projecting will be so extremely colored by your personality.
There are seven planes, and as I stated previously, humans can access the 4 lowest planes.
This is the list:
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- Physical Plane (which includes the Etheric Plane)
- Astral Plane
- Mental Plane
- Buddhic Plane
- Atmic Plane
- Anupadaka Plane
- Adi Plane
1. Physical Plane
On the Etheric side of the physical plane, you will be able to see ghost. You in fact will seem like a ghost. No one will see you (except perhaps for psychics). The vibrational level is just a bit higher on the Etheric than that of the physical. It is a bit harder to move in the Etheric plane than that of the astral.
- 2. The Astral Plane
When we go to sleep and dream, it is the astral plane we visit. The only thing is, for most of us most of the time, we are not lucid at the time of the dreaming. So there we think it is just a dream in the dream world.
In the astral world there is quite a number of creatures including fairies and devas. You will no doubt see many strange sights. Some of these animals or creatures may even be able to talk.
- 3. The Mental Plane
This plane and the astral plane seem to overlap. You will most likely see numerous thought-forms as you learn to astral project. There is a good chance that you will NOT perceive the mental plane as distinct from the astral plane. It takes a lot of talent to get to the mental plane, so there is a good chance you will never see the stuff that could make you lose your mind.
As "human beings" this is the highest plane we can achieve. This plane is in effect the realm of our soul. In our daily lives we use the energies of the Buddhic plane. They are: inspiration, great creativity, compassion, wisdom, will-power. This world "leaks" these into our daily lives.
The Buddhic plane is supremely abstract and extremely powerful. It is also very unlikely that you will go to this plane in a projection. Even more skill is needed to focus your consciousness exclusively on the Buddhic plane.
It is crucial to learn to access the "energies" of the Buddhic plane in order to succeed in astral projecting. This plane represents everything that makes human live good. The more Buddhic energy you have in your aura the "lighter" you will be in your consciousness, and therefore, you will be able to travel through a broader range of the planes than otherwise. On the other hand, the less Buddhic energy you have in your aura, the harder it will be for you to astral project, and as well, you will project into ugly regions of the planes, and in general, probably hurt yourself in the attempt to project. Maybe not hurt yourself physically, but emotionally and mentally.
Getting confused? Stay with me, you'll understand better later on in this article.
For now, understand that, the Buddhic plane is related to morals, wisdom and creativity. These are very important qualities no matter what activity you want to undertake. In this regard, astral projection is no exception. You will need moral values to be safe. If you do not have them, than astral projection can be dangerous. Its that simple.
Morals in reality are the laws upon which our entire human existence is based. And we need them. Don't worry to much about this. With astral projecting you will find out exactly what YOU need to grow. As we know, we are all unique people, therefor will our projections be unique. The messages they will contain will be EXACTLY what YOU need at whatever stage you are at in your life.
Thats it for the planes that we can access now. But the list still goes on. After many incarnations, maybe some day we will move on to the rest of the planes. Maybe?
- 5. Atmic Plane
- 6. Anupadaka Plane
- 7. Adi plane
Now if that wasn't enough, there's more. Each of these 7 planes have 7 subplanes. There are different grades that seem to blend into one another from lowest to highest. The lowest being everything bad or evil in human emotions: hate, anger, lust, etc. to the highest of human emotions: love, kindness, caring, etc. There is every combination possible in between. More on this later.
Know you have a rough idea of the 7 major planes of our universe. Now let us look at the "vehicles" or "bodies" we ware for interacting with the planes. Forget about human anatomy. Much of what we have learned in science class falls short here.
The bodies fall in line with the 5 planes and are as follows.
- The Physical Body
- The Etheric Body
- The Astral Body
- The Mental Body
- The Buddhic Body
- 1. The Physical Body
We need to view these bodies from two perspectives: 1. in terms of normal waking experience, and 2. in terms of altered states of consciousness. For the physical body, it is the only body we directly perceive while awake in the physical world. And when we are in an altered state of consciousness (such as dreams), we no longer perceive the physical body. When we astral travel, we lose consciousness of your physical body while at the same time gaining consciousness of your astral or Etheric body.
- 2. The Etheric Body
The Etheric body is the basis of all sensation and perception. When you feel something, smell something, taste something or what ever, these sensations are registering in your Etheric body. This is why you do not perceive things happening in the physical plane when you are asleep or unconscious. Therefor it is a mistake to think your physical body perceives things. Your body is like a lens that focuses sensations. These focused sensations then register in your Etheric body, which means they are brought into your awareness. The physical body is a machine thatconveys sensation. The Etheric body is the body that registers and interprets sensation.
It is possible to move about in the Etheric body independently from your physical body in an altered state of consciousness. This is very difficult to do though. You can always tell that you are in your Etheric body because you feel very heavy and it is very hard to move. Also, it is likely that if you are in your Etheric body, then you will be in a dark, and sometimes, scary subplane.
Have you ever had the experience of waking up in bed and trying to move, or trying to talk but not being able to do so? If so, you might have even felt scared. If this has ever happened to you, what is actually going on here is that you are actually not awake. Instead, you have "woken up" on the Etheric plane in your Etheric body by accident.
- 3. The Astral Body
Have you ever gotten "vibes" from someone? Like a creepy feeling, or another person uplifts you and makes you feel good, and yet other people seem to drain you of your energy or whatever? If so, you are in actuality sensing that person's astral body. When you get angry, or sad, happy or feel any emotion, you are feeling your own astral body. When you sense these emotions in another person (which is called "empathy") you are feeling that person's astral body.
Feeling emotion is not dependent upon having a physical/organic body. After you die you will continue to feel emotions because emotions originate in your astral body.
A large majority of your OOBE's will be in your astral body. While you dream, this is the body you use. The world you will be in during astral projection will be very much like the world you're in when you are dreaming.
- 4. The Mental Body
Shifting the focus of your consciousness to your mental body will allow you to directly perceive the mental plane. Remember, this will require talent and much practice. It is very difficult.
- 5. The Buddhic Body
It is very unlikely that you will learn to focus your consciousness onto the Buddhic plane. I don't mean to put negative thoughts out for you, it is just very difficult to do so.
Ironically, though this is the hardest to attain, it is the energy you should most desire to attain. Frankly, astral projecting is nothing compared to learning how to have Buddhic energies run through your being.
Sum It Up
There are 7 planes, each with 7 subplanes. We have bodies for perceiving 4 of these planes. Altered states of consciousness are explained by the fact that we shift our conscious awareness from the physical plane/body to one of our other, nonphysical bodies and perceive events occurring on the respective plane.
LD vs AP
Ok, we have had a lot of talk about the different worlds/planes and bodies. I want to take a break from all that and tell you a little about what to expect when an OOBE happens and the difference between LD (lucid dream) and AP.
LD is when you are asleep and dreaming, (remember, you are already in the astral plane) in your dream you all of a sudden find yourself aware of the fact that you are dreaming. You then can sway your dream the way you want the outcome to go. This is pretty neat in its self when it happens. Usually I do this when I am having a frantic or troublesome dream. My unconscious alerts my conscious and lets me know I need to intervene and change the outcome of the dream. LD = becoming aware.
In an AP you are going there aware. I like the way Kristian Kaikkonen Author of Flakes Book about Astral Projection put it. "My little theory is that AP is sort of a wake induced lucid dream. A wake induced lucid dream (WILD) is just what it sounds like, you can make up your own scenarios and so forth. But in an AP you donīt think of any scenarios, you just relax, and when the time comes you are in another state of awareness, and the only scenario that your mind can chew on is your room, and that scenario becomes the LD."
To help us understand AP, I would say, AP is a dream in which you are fully aware of your physical life. So, with astral projection, what we are trying to do is "take our waking mind into the dream world and back with us.
If you become aware in a dream that you "are" dreaming, then you are "lucid" If you can remember your name and the aspects of your life, then you are astral projecting. If your sill somewhat confused, don't worry about it. When you AP you will then know the difference and understand this better.
Here is a link to a book that you may find interesting. Astral Projection for Beginner by McCoy, Edain. Second one down.
EP vs AP
Ep is Etheric projection. As I said before, this is when you leave your physical body and enter into the Etheric body on the Etheric plane. This is almost the same as the physical vibrational state of your normal physical body. It is like your normal body but no one on the physical plane can see you. So how do you know if your in the Etheric body or the astral body when having an OOBE? The Etheric plane seems to be a lot like the physical plane, while the astral has a feeling of a dream like state. Also as I have said earlier, it is hard to move in the Etheric body as appose to the astral, ware it is much easier.
When you AP its like you wake up but are still sleeping. Your mind is alert. Most of the time you will hear a strange buzzing/rushing sound, you then will leave your body. Now, how much cooler is that?
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Keep a note book next to your bed. Every time you come back from a journey, (return to the physical plane) write down your experiences. Write in detail, trying not to omit anything. Even the smallest segment may turn out to be something. If not, no big deal, you still have a wonderful account of your OOBE. If you wait until morning or the next evening to write down your "trip", you risk the chance of forgetting some detail that could have proven to be of some importance later on.
AP is a skill you will have to learn. Some people will learn quickly, others it may take some time. You had to practice to ride a bike or swim, and therefor you will have to practice this also. There are very few people that it came natural. I envy these people. I have to practice and practice with all I do. I am not a natural at anything. But patience is a virtue. Be dedicated and it will come.
It is crucial that you hold the correct beliefs. If you really do not think you can do this, then stop reading any further. You cant. If you are a devote Christian who believes in Hell, you just might find yourself in Hell during AP. This could literally scare the "hell" out of you. Remember what you read earlier, Astral projection is a journey of self transformation to some extent or another.
Lets now also remember that our dreams and astral projections are very closely related. Our dreams are unconscious astral projections, astral projections are conscious dreams.
We all dream every night. Some people say that "they do not dream". In reality they do. We all do, every single night of our lives. Just because you don't always remember them doesn't mean its not happening. There are some different theories or beliefs about what dreams are. The truth being, no one knows for sure what dreams are.
Most people do not take dreams seriously. Some try to interpret them with books they buy. I have done this, but I need to point out that most of the books interpretations don't quite fit my lifestyle. I have learned that a few certain symbols for me, mean something "to me". These same symbols may mean something different to someone else, given their upbringing. Right from the start most of us are taught that dreams are not real. As children, we have a nightmare and mom or dad tells us "its ok, it was just a dream, it's not real" or something to that effect. So, right form the start society has given us a bad attitude. You will need to abandon this bad attitude and change your belief system.
Look at it this way, when you dream, you are someplace experiencing something. Your dreams are real experiences of your consciousness.
believe this, we live two lives. One life we live here in the physical plane. The second life we live in the world where our dreams occur. Both worlds are REAL. Both are very different from each other, but each life is totally and completely real IN ITS OWN TERMS. We can not interpret our dreams in terms of our physical life.
Look at space and time in the physical world. They both have definite properties. Our mind and perceptions are conditioned by the properties of space and time as we know them on this plane. We can not see around a corner (space). We can not go backwards in time (time). We take time completely for granted. It is an overpowering factor in our lives. We "know" that time goes forward. We are born, we age, we grow old and die. That is how it is in the physical world. Space and time are not the same when we dream, therefor, it can't be the same in the astral world. This alone will help us to understand our dreams and AP. Just remember that, every plane has its own set of laws of space and time. These are completely natural for that world.
We have a hard time remembering all of our dreams, and even if you do remember part of one, that memory usually slips away during our waking hours. We don't take our physical memories to our dreams. With astral projection this is not the case. When we do project we take our physical memory and personality with us. When we come back to the physical world, our memories of the experience comes along too. How great is that? But, let me warn you. As with dreams these memories can also slip away from us as we start concentrating on the day ahead of us. You should relax and think about your projection before you get out of bed. Try to remember every detail, AND WRITE IT DOWN. I promise you, if you don't and you start to have OOBE's, you will be mad at yourself for not listening. Another good practice to get into is, when you lay in bed to go to sleep, tell yourself over and over that you want to remember your dreams and your astral projections. This may help you when you return to he physical world. This is self conditioning. Heck, you can even tell yourself that during the day a few times. It wont hurt. More on that in a bit.
Self conditioning.
As I said a bit earlier, Tell yourself before sleeping that you want to remember and that you want to AP. If you keep telling yourself something, so will it be. You are in effect "training yourself". Even during the day while your awake, tell yourself things like: I will astral project, I am learning how to do this and I will project. Use any other terms that fit you. Be sincere in this and believe it. You have to believe that it is possible to do it. If you have any doubt, it will be harder to do, if not impossible for you. You will need the desire to have OOBE's. That desire will fuel your efforts. Desire is very strong in humans and if you truly desire something it is much easer to achieve. Don't get frustrated if it takes some time to accomplish this feat. Just keep the desire, the need, and the patients, it will come. Keep your mind on track. Have a one track mind. Live, eat, sleep astral projection. Read as much as you can about this astral projection. Everyone will have ideas of there own. As you absorb all this information you are conditioning your mind to AP.
What can you do?
While you are projecting, you can walk around, float, fly, or just stand there. You will be able to talk to people and even some animals. One of the main things I have found is that I am in aw as to where I am. I love to just check out my surroundings. Once I was flyings over some mountains, just examining the crevices. I was very high up and just floating and flying. I came upon a eagles nest. The mother eagle was in it. I found this to be most impressive. Then, (being untrained at the art of AP) somewhere in my mind a thought of danger. Danger being face to face with this magnificent creature. The talons on it were long and very sharp looking. I thought "this thing could rip my face off". Thats all it took. The next thing I knew, I was back in my bed awake and mad at myself for "freaking out". This was such an awesome experience to see the mountains from this vantage point.Note: This happened a long time ago. I did not write it down. Shame on me. I know can't remember if there were baby eagles in the nest or not. I think so, but I'm not sure.
Ok, now what you have been waiting for.
HOW TO ASTRAL PROJECT
There are different methods used for astral projection. I will explain a few to you. This should get you on your way to a fantastic experience.
Using Our Dreams To AP
We can use are dreams as a diving board for astral projection. There are triggers in our dreams that we can learn to recognize. We just need to know about them and how to use them.
First, as we know, when we are dreaming, things just aren't real. Things occur in our dreams that are impossible in our waking life. Strange things. Perhaps, your in your house but it's not your house at all. Its different. The rooms are to big or to small. Maybe there are more rooms than should be. Its full of birds, they talk, they go to you closet and put your cloths on. Anything. Whatever weird or different is a trigger. You will need to condition yourself to recognize these triggers. When you see something odd or out of place, weird, etc. us this circumstance to tell yourself that you are in the dream world. Think to yourself throughout the day and just before bed that, when you see these odd things in your dreams you will become aware that you're dreaming. Again, repetition, eventually it will happen for you.
Some people report that when this happens to them, they get a strange feeling in there bodies, tingling, hear some sort of whooshing sound. I guess there is not an explanation for this. I think maybe its just a signal for the brain to realize you are changing worlds. Therefor your body also changes for that world. Who knows, just my theory.
It is very easy to just wake up when you first start to "transform". You are aware of what is happening and you are so excited by this (you have been waiting for so long) that you just excite yourself awake. Thats ok. It is a great sign for you that you "were" there. Just keep practicing. Tell yourself that you wont get so excited next time and you will stay in the dream world longer. Maybe, you should start this from the beginning and it might not happen at all. Try it. Who know?
Let summerize what we have learned.
- You need to set your belief system to understanding that your dreams are a real thing and valid to you as a human being.
- You will need to start a journal. One for dreams, One for AP's. Or you can combine them and use just one book. Just make sure you can distinguish them apart from each other.
- A dream is just that, a dream. You are not aware of yourself. An astral projection is a dream that you "are" fully aware of your physical life.
- You need to strengthen your ability to remember your dreams.
- You have to "desire" to want to AP.
- Condition yourself to recognize when you are dreaming. Then use your triggers.
- When you wakeup in the morning, remember as much as possible about your dream/AP and write it down. Remember all the weird things that happened in your dream/AP.
- Throughout the day and just before you go to sleep at night, tell yourself that you can and will project.
Using The Trance Methods
Well, we have learned so far about using our dreams to enter into the astral plane. This idea works and works great for some of us. Some people just cant seem to get it though. Good thing there are other ways to achieve our desires. That is what this chapter is all about. Using the trance method to get from one world/plane to another.
Some know this term as Transcendental Meditation, or just meditation, or hypnosis. Here, we are going to learn how to use this technique to AP.
AP this way is more direct than using our dreams. We do it while we are awake. WOW, really. Yes, really. When you leave your physical body, you will be totally aware, highly conscious of the act of dissociating from the physical world. The experience will be the same as being lucid in a dream. You just took a different path to get there.
Using this method really gives the term "out of body experience" some meaning compared to astral projection. You feel your consciousness dissociate from your physical body.
How to do it?
First you will lay down and relax. Deeply relax. You will not fall asleep though. (hopefully)
You will learn to let your body fall to sleep, but not your mind. Then you will feel yourself slip or push out of your body. Now when this happens you will be either in one of the planes (described "way" above), or you will be in a void. You will then have some great adventures. It can be like taking a trip and not leaving the house. You will remain in this state until some outside (physical) interference disturbs you "awake". You are also very capable of waking yourself up. You may need to go to the bathroom, pick up the kids, or maybe you are in a situation in you OOB that is to scary or hurtful for you. By all means, become aware of you physical self.
Putting yourself into a trance
Set the stage. Make sure nothing is going to interrupt you. Take the phone off the hook, go to the bathroom, do what ever it takes to be convertible and quiet. I should mention that if you are a bit tired this will help. Lay comfortably on your bed. Put your arms at your side. Be sure you will be warm enough, but not to hot. Close your eyes. Now your set. Your ready to get centered and relax. Relax your body. Keep your mind alert and relax just your body.
There are many books on the subject of relaxation. You may want to read one of these if you don't know how to do this. I have read several things on relaxation. Basically what you do is start out by taking some deep breaths through your nostrils, filling your chest completely, let the breath out slowly through your mouth. You should feel your body start to relax. Now concentrate on your toes, feel your toes, (not with your hand, with your mind) let them go, relax. Deep steady breathing. Now, notice your feet, feel them relax, let them go. Now your legs, both legs, feel them relax, let go. Still deep, slow, steady breathing. Do this all the way up you body until you end at the top of your head. From your legs go to your lower body, your upper body, your hands, your arms, neck, face, head. You will actually feel each part relax, let go, become heavy. Keep your mind focused on your body and how it is relaxing. Don't fall asleep. If you are too tired when you try this, most likely you will fall asleep. Again, stay focused and aware.
Now, your body is relaxed. Heavy. Keeping your mind alert. This is critical. Be aware of your body laying on the bed. Stare into the darkness behind your eyelids, focus you mind on projecting. Tell yourself "I am going to leave my body", "I am going to go to another plane" or any words you want that will mean you are going to AP. Pay attention to the way your body feels and what you are seeing behind your lids. Look for any changes that will occur that will clue you into leaving your body.
What you will see
First you will notice that it is not just dark or black behind your eyes. You may start to see colors or faces. There could be motion, tiny little pin pricks of electrical light. Lots of them. They have a name and it is "ideoretinal light", or "eighenlicht" and "entopic lights". It has been documented and is real. What ever it is you see behind you closed eyes, just try to make out what it is. Keep staring at it while you go into trance.
Your vision should take on a 3 dimensional appearance. Your breathing is quiet and regular. Your body is heavy. It is heavier than before. As your body becomes more heavy, the darkness becomes a space that you could reach into. You are entering the Alpha brain wave state. This is a state of deep relaxation. Your mind is still conscious of your body, you can hear noise from your physical world. Now, shortly after entering this state you should have some strange things happen in the darkness behind your closed eyes. This could be any number for things. Flashes of light, colored flashes, windows, openings in the darkness, Faces, landscapes, just about anything. This is "hypnogogic imagery". That is what the psychologist call it. The occultist calls it "clairvoyance". At any rate it is when you see things in the darkness behind your closed eyes. I suggest you do some reading on this topic, Hypnogogic Imagery. It is really quite interesting. As you go deeper into your trance you will see hypnogogic imagery. The time is coming close to leaving your physical body. Oh boy, its about time huh. Speaking of time, lets take a time out. I just wanted to remind you of your journal. You should still use this book even for this method. Write down the clairvoyant imagery you had seen for each of your trances.
Don't be afraid of any clairvoyant imagery you may see. Some times things get pretty gruesome. It's not real. Just remember that. If you do get freaked and start to "unrelax", relax yourself immediately. Keep staring into your closed eyes no matter what it is you see. Don't get yourself worked up. It Is Not Real. I usually just tell myself that its not real, settle down and lets see where this takes me.
What you will feel
As you lay on your bed, relaxed, depending your trance, be aware of your body and the sensations in it. this too will clue you as to when it is time. When your body undergoes the "changes" it needs, it is then time to leave. Ok, let me explain those changes.
- In the beginning you are aware of the feeling of your body lying on the bed.
- You start to relax.
- Your body gets heavier.
- You "may" feel a wave of relaxation sweep your body.
- Your skin "may" tingle.
- You "could" feel chills moving through your body.
- You get more and more relaxed.
- Your body feels heavier and heavier.
- Finally, it feels like your body is slipping backwards, or forwards, or that you are falling, perhaps your body is gently floating downwards.
- You could even black out for a split second. When you regain conscious you will be astral projecting.
- You even could possibly just jump into the hypnogogic image you are having
Let me point out that this could have just happened while you were relaxing. You may not even had clairvoyant images. Every one is different and every projection is different. The big thing now is Do Not Get Startled.
Sometimes when this happens you will be in darkness, the "void" I mentioned earlier. If you find yourself in the void you can stay or you can go. You can fly around in it if you so chose, or do summer salts. You can do what ever you want there, It is a nice quiet place. Or you can leave it too when ever you want.
You have no body at the moment. You will want to materialize one. Try looking at your hands. Try to bring them up to your face ware you "should" see them. Their not there. Yet. As you look for them, you will see them form right in front of you. Your hands, arms, legs etc. until you have all the parts you want. You are tuning in to a subplane. The next thing you'll know is that you are somewhere. Somewhere in the planes.
That is one way to get out of the void. Another is to spin yourself around like a top. Just spin as fast as you can and you should appear "somewhere".
If it's not the void where you land, it could be anywhere. And I do mean anywhere. You can "appear" in one of the planes or a subplanes. Somewhere in the dream world, fully aware. You could land in your room, someone else's house, it my be somewhere you recognize, or not. Where ever it is, know this, you will be astral traveling.
As you practice this method and get more familiar with it, you will be able to tell when the time is right for leaving your body. You will be able to push yourself or jump instead of having to wait for the time that you will slip or fall away.
The feeling listed above are examples of what could happen. As I said before, everyone is different and everyone perceives things in a different manner. I needed a place to start you at and some suggestions to help you understand what it could be like for you. For me on occasion, I hear a buzzing sound and my body feels thick and seems to vibrate. But it is not actually vibrating. See, there was another example for you. So it could go any number of ways for you.
Visualization Methods
If you practice yoga, meditation, or ritual magic, this method would probably suite you fine. You have to train yourself to concentrate on a image for a while without loosing that image or drifting away from it.
To AP using the visualization method, you will visualize a image, say of a place you want to go in your projection, hold that image in your minds eye concentrating on it until you can step into the image. This "stepping into the image" would be like pushing out of your body. (Above section on the trance method.) This could take concentrating on the image for 15 to 30 minutes without loosing that image. This is much harder than it sounds. To keep your mind from wondering, and keep that image in place in your minds eye is really a talent. With yoga meditation you will learn that visualization is a basic technique.
It is like this, you create a daydream. Visualize and concentrate on this "daydream" until you shift your awareness from the physical plane to the astral.
Things That Could Help Or Not.
In this section I will discuss a few things that could help you achieve an OOBE. And what will NOT help.
First the positive.
There are some tapes produced that could manipulate your brain waves in a way that may help you to the other planes. For some people, these tapes work fine. If you are having trouble with one of the "natural" methods mentioned above, try adding one of these tapes made for astral projection. Most people do not need these tapes and I suggest trying first without them. I have included 5 music files you can try out. Experiment and see if any will help you. Also, I've included some videos that might help. Click here.
Other tapes are very common and you can find them at just about any New Age shop or spiritual store.
You might find this site interesting and full of astral projection recordings. Click here or try clicking here for Lucid Dreaming Binaural Beat Recording. This is a great site and full for useful information. I have some CD's on the subject that are very useful. Check them out and see what you think. Click here.
Another thing is "dream goggles". Some of the New Age groups use these. Yes there is such a thing, and other electronic gadgets that are supposed to help. Many carry a pretty hefty price tag. Do a search on the subject to see if this is something for you. I have never tried these kind of devices, therefore I'm not equipped to talk about them. But, I do know their out there.
Now the negative.
Street Drugs. If you are a user, you may want to stop if AP is really something you want. Contrary to popular beliefs, street drugs DO NOT give you altered mind states inductive to an OOBE. Street drugs such as alcohol, marijuana, LSD, and cocaine produce conditions within that will prevent you from an OOBE. You will want to have your system "clean" in order to experiment with altered mind states.
One drug I do know of that could help would be Ketamine. This has the potential to be a very dangerous drug. If this is something you want for yourself, then fine. I will not, and do not condone the use of drugs for astral projection. Ketamine is an illegal drug for you to have. You will need to know how much to inject yourself with. It is a dissociative anesthetic; Psychedelic and will cause sleep. Many patients that were given this drug have reported very unpleasant experiences such as nightmares or weird visions. On the other hand, many have reported it to be a great helper for astral projection. For more information on "K" Click here
The Realm Of OOBE
The astral plane is much like a foreign land filled with strange inhabitants and exotic sights. Its much about what ever your unconscious mind can conjure up so to speak.
Our language is quite limited in trying to describe the astral plane. In an OOBE so much can happen that we just can't put it to words. It is kinda like trying to describe our dreams. Many times the things in our dreams that happen are very hard to put into words. I will do my best to try and explain it to you.
Remember what we have already learned. When we visit the astral worlds, we take our waking personality with us. Well, I hope I didn't misguide you. We never take 100% of our personality. Its really more like a portion of it. We mix our waking personality with the dream personality. Our consciousness is not exactly the same as it is when we are awake, and not at all the same as if you were just dreaming. You are not ever quite "all you" over there. Your state of mind is a mix.
Over Coming Fear
For most of us, fear is just something we don't understand. If you read about what it is you are afraid of and gain insight into that fear, you become less frightened, if frightened at all. Fear is something we create in our own minds. Understand what it is you fear, learn as much as you can about it, you then replace the fear with understanding. Hence, no more fear. Always remember when you project, "it is not real". The only reality of it is, it's part of you. Whether its your thoughts or your unconscious fear, it's you. Don't fear yourself. Learn to understand yourself.Things that are inside of you on the physical plane could show up on the outside of you on the astral plane. Many time, thats just what will happen when you start to project. You will be met by yourself in one form or another. It will be up to you to figure out the message and deal with it accordingly.
Remember what you read about the The Buddhic Plane?
Click here to go back and read it again. Click on the last word in that paragraph (life) to return back here.
When you get there.
This topic is about what you can do on the astral plane that you can not do here, on the physical plane. This is the fun part. On the physical plane as you know, you can not fly (without the aid of some device) you can not walk through walls, breath under water, teleport from one place to another, or a number of other things we are limited to in our physical bodies. On the astral plane, there are no laws, no rules, no science to hold us back. Your own imagination is the limit. If you don't have much of an imagination, go to some forums on astral travel and see what some of the other people are doing. Read books on the subject. Many will give examples of their own experiences.
At times on the astral planes you may find it hard to get around. Say when you try to run, you will move in slow motion, finding it hard to move at all. You may want to fly and only float and stop. Sometimes these thing just happen and it isn't as simple getting around as it was in a previous projection. Why, Well I don't know for sure. There are a few theories on this, and thats about all they are, theories. Some believe its that your transferring your consciousness from one subplane to another. Maybe its your subconscious, conscious holding you back. Maybe your not listing to yourself and there is a lesson to learn. Perhaps for eveyone its something different. At any rate, if this happens to you, try meditating on it for a few days and the answer may come to you. Maybe not, but it wont hurt you to try. If any of these things should happen, try to just take your time and walk or fly slower. Don't be in a rush. Concentrate on what it is your trying to do and take each step with determination. If you try to hard, you may find yourself falling back into your physical body. If you are having trouble walking through walls, try to do it backwards. This sometimes will work. If not, use a door or window to get out. I have had this happen to me. I am a stubborn, strong willed person and didn't want to have to use a door when I knew I didn't have to. So, I sat down in front of the wall I was trying to pass through and just thought about the wall becoming soft like warm wax. The wax got warmer and warmer until it just melted away. I got up and walked out "through" the wall of melted wax. I did not have to use the door. I concurred the wall. After thinking about this later on, I think the wall was an obstacle in my life I had to deal with and I knew I would be able to overcome that block in real life as I did with the wax wall.
During an OOBE, you don't always get to go ware you want. Sometimes you are just pulled to one place or another. It will seam as if you don't have any control of this. As with real life, sometimes things just happen that wasn't planned. I believe that as far as the astral world goes, somewhere in your mind you do know what is happening. You are the conductor of your world whether you are aware of it or not.
Your psychic abilities will be at max power. During an OOBE, this ability will come automatically. All the psychic powers will be there for you to use. Mind reading, psychokinesis, visions, memories of past and "future" lives. You will even on occasion have an OOBE during an OOBE. This is really a weird sensation. It has happened to me a few times and the felling it left me with was quite strange. You will no doubt be using these powers without even realizing that they are psychic powers. They are all "natural" in an OOBE. Now, seeing you now this, you can understand when you are using these powers that indeed, they are "powers". Try and experiment with them while OOB. When you have dreams at night, you use these psychic powers also. You just never thought of them as such. It was just a dream, right. Wrong. You are on the astral plane while dreaming, you just haven't become lucid. That is a very good reason to keep your dream journal. You will be able to start recognizing the psychic powers while dreaming.
The Subplanes
The subplanes are made up of many different regions. They are real and basically the same for all of us. These subplanes are greatly similar to human emotions and states of mind. Thus, if you stop to think about all the emotions you have experienced and the states of mind you have been in while these emotions played out, you can try to understand the subplanes. Each of our experiences on these subplanes will be different as all of life in the physical plane is different, but the places are going to be pretty much the same.
Let me try to show you a general description of them. I will divide them into 5 categories. The first being the "lowest".
- The Void
This subplane is one you may find yourself in immediately after leaving you physical body. Or, you could find yourself there at any given time during an OOBE. This void is just that. A big void. Black, empty, nothingness. I have heard that some people have met other people in this void subplane. I believe it is possible, but rare. Normally there is just nothing going on or nothing to see in this void. You may find yourself seeing faint images and figures while in the void. You could be close or on the edge of a plane or subplane. If you want to enter that plane, you probably can. Remember, you are formless. Concentrate on your own body, try to look at your hands. As you raise them up to your face and they start to form, you in turn should start forming in that world and be out of the void. - The Lower Subplanes
These planes I don't like at all. They are creepy, dark and usually hard to move in. The inhabitance of these planes are for lack of a better word, "ghoulish". I think all evil lurks in these planes. You may not spend much time there unless you are evil in nature. In that case you'll most likely spend all of your time there. If you find that you are visiting any of these lower subplanes, you have nothing to fear. Always remember you are an astral projection and any creatures that you may run up against can not hurt you. Normally you wont stay there for very long. You'll most likely return to the physical plane. You can try to get out of these lower subplains. Try flying really fast upward, or concentrating on just getting the heck out. Try different things, everyone is different and you'll need to see what works for you. - The Middle Subplanes
This realm is a lot like our physical world. All we have here will also be there, and then some. The difference is the ethereal feel. You should be able to notice the difference from the physical and the middle realms.
This is the world were "ghost" live. It could very well be the world we go to shortly after we die.There are many places denoted just to the newly dead. One author, Robert Monroe calls them "Rehab Centers". They are here to help the deceased adjust to not living in the physical world any more. If you look around some of these centers, it is possible that you could meet up with someone that you knew on the physical plane that has recently departed.
These middle subplanes are were most of your OOBEs will occur. You will be able to talk to people and observe things, walk around and go into any building you want. Take note of the differences here compared to the physical world. You will also be able to meet other astral travelers, and talk to them if you wish. - The Higher Subplanes
Visits here are nice. Not as much time here as one would hope for. Higher subplanes are much the same as the lower and middle except, the feeling here is much nicer. Very light, airy, peaceful. Colors are different too. Objects may appear to sparkle. You will know the difference from the other realms because of the "feel". You will be at peace and content.
Many discarnate souls dwell here. Once their earth bound physical needs are met, either in the physical world or the middle planes they move on to the higher subplanes. This is not the final resting place.
You will be able to do all the things hear as you can in the middle realms. The difference here, you will not be as apt to meet up with other AP'ers. As I said earlier, you will not be spending to much time here, so that means other travelers won't be either. It seems that the higher planes are just too satisfying. I think that as mortal human beings, we just arnt ready to be "that" peaceful and content. The beauty here is vast. Everything is just gorgeous. - The Surreal Regions
This is a hard one to explain. The surreal regions are full of abstract colors and shapes. Things could look rather biological. You will be seeing into things. Your eyes could become microscope like lenses. What I mean by this is, you wont need a microscope to see things. Many of these surreal regions existence. They are sort of "in between" or "to the side" of the other subpanes. It is possible to not quite totally enter a subplane, but rather see it from an angle. There are many, many surreal places including planes beyond the astral.
Good luck & happy traveling.
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