Astral Projection
What is it and how does one go about it
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About three years ago while doing research for a college course I happened on an article about meditation and visualization practices. Up until this moment in my life I was led to believe that things like meditation and old world spiritual concepts were just things found in low budget movies on the science-fiction channel or for guest gurus on morning talk shows. After the well worded post opened my mind to concepts that I had never given much thought, I began to look into philosophical arguments for the soul, life origins, and even quantum theories. Throughout this time one common topic, though whispered at first in the forums and published documents kept popping up, astral projection.
What is it?
Astral projection has had many names in many cultures: spirit walking, out of body or near death experience, dream travel, and others. Astral projection assumes that consciousness or mental awareness can become disconnected and separate from the physical body. Once separate, your consciousness than may travel throughout a space called the astral realm. This space too, in which the soul, spirit, or consciousness moves about has inherited many names like heaven, hell, summerland, and so on. The labels of such things tend to insight personal biases from culture to culture when they all seem to be describing the same thing, so for this short blog the language of such will be the Astral Body for the soul/spirit and the Astral Realm for any nonphysical world or lack-there-of place that this detached consciousness travels in.
According to the most prevalent theories on Astral Projection, the physical body (the brain and everything connecting to it) is not what originates consciousnesses. The body is a receiver of consciousness and not a creator of it. Like a remote controlled car receiving radio waves to function, consciousness is received by the body and it becomes through this vessel that we are allowed to experience the physical world. If the remote controlled car is damaged our driving experience is changed but you, controlling the vehicle, are fine. Things like alcohol and even brain damage may be likened towards this example of the physical body limiting our consciousness's expression in the world.
A study into validating Astral Project
How to Astral Project
This is the tricky part. For some people it takes years of practice, while others are naturals and may even have unknowingly gone out of body already. The trick to astral projecting is much like lucid dreaming, where the conscious mind is awake while the body is asleep. The differences being that with lucid dreaming you are already within your own mind dreaming when you become consciously aware. Astral Projection, you remain awake consciously while your physical body falls asleep, your consciousness then travels outside yourself not within the confines of a dream.
Sleep Paralysis
This is perhaps the hardest part of the process. Staying consciously aware while your body goes to sleep. Some people use repetitive sounds like biannual beats or hemi-sync to distract their minds and relax their body's during this process. You could even merely think of a single repetitive thought over and over again in your mind, so that the physical body is tricked into thinking the mind is shutdown, just giving off static background thoughts. During the process, your body may test your wakefulness by giving you an itch or some other form of minor discomfort. Stay still and do not respond with any movement. Eventually your body will feel very heavy and your breathing will feel labored, like a lead blanket is lying across your chest. Do not freak out! You are at this point paralyzed, and your body is on autopilot but your mind is aware of everything.
Vibrational State
While lying there unable to move your limbs, start to clear your mind and relax any excitement you may have. After a few minutes you should begin to feel a vibration throughout your body raging from a slight pulsing to a fast shaking sensation. Some people hear static sounds or even a complete absence of sound during the vibrational state. Stay very calm, this is your Astral Body becoming out of frequency with your physical body. I can personally attest to this state being a wild experience that took me a year of trying to reach but once I did all my skepticism went out the door, as I had never felt something so profound and validating as the virbrational state felt for the first time.
Exit Technique
Eventually the vibrations will slow or stop outright. Now is the time to leave your physical body. Different people report many different ways to exit the body from this point. Some individuals say that visualizing climbing a rope that hangs above their chest works best, while others suggest that visualizing rocking back and forth until you completely roll out of your body works. Its all individual preference at this stage, the point is to conceptualize yourself emerging out of your physical body. Once out try to open your eyes, you may find that the Astral Body is only limited in appearance and function by what you believe it can do. Do not be afraid if you see anything or anyone strange by you that you could not see in the physical body. Just like in the physical world good and bad things exist, no need to freak out. Too much shock of excitement will only jolt you back into your body and end your trip to the astral early.
Another video explaining Astral Projection
Hope you succeed and have an amazing, life-changing experience in the Astral.
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