Astral Projection
Descriptions of ancient astral travels have come from Egypt, India, China, and Tibet. Tibet, people who traveled astrally were called delogs, which means “those who return from beyond.”Astral projection is also called an out of-body-experience (OBE) or soul travel, which occurs when the nonphysical or astral body takes a short trip from the physical body and then returns, Ancients believed that, when traveling, the astral body is connected to the physical body with a silver cord, and that all people on the planet are bound together with silver strands of light. Years ago I actually saw this web, before I read anything about it. Some describe this tapestry of light as a web of silver, and that’s exactly what it looks like. In the Druids traditions, there is an old story about Mog Ruith, a Druid from West Munster, who was able to fly over heads of an opposing army and bring back details of the enemy while wearing a bird costume—an obvious account of astral travel.
What most people don’t realize is that OBEs are, for many individuals, a natural part of the sleep cycle, and that your astral bodyis a regular little traveler throughout the universe and you don’t need a passport (or your conscious mind)to do it! Controlled OBEs (when you are consciously trying to have an OBE experience) are sometimes called remote viewing(also known as bilocation), and our federal government has done a heck of a lot of experimenting on that with a great deal of success.
Although you can plan OBEs, some of our most profound experiences will most likely happen when we aren’t expecting them or trying to make them happen. These events are normally very spiritual and they occur as a part of Spirit’s overall plan to help us reach another level of spirituality, or when it is time for our perception on a particular subject to drastically change. These vivid OBEs are normally full of sharp color and unusually loud sounds---Spirit’s way of making sure we do not forget the experience. Such spontaneous episodes often relate to critical times in our lives when we are under stress or must make an important decision. It is as if Spirit says,”You’ve got this great but little-used tool in your magickal toolbox, and it’s time to use it!” OBEs can also occur when we are sick or when we have experienced a loss. In this case, the OBE helps to create a positive event from which we can gain healing and find the courage to go on.
Many people think that astral projection involves making your astral body get up and move around by conscious direction in the physical world. Although this can happen with practice (for some its easier than others), the range of OBE experiences tells us that OBEs occur with various degreesof consciousness while daydreaming, meditating, sleeping, when your ill, or when you are simply resting after a particularly stressful day. Some OBEs may be extremely dramatic, and others not. Some may appear to take place in the physical world with familiar surroundings, where others will happen in foreign placesand even other worlds! These worlds are called astral planes.
There are few negative side-effects from OBEs, and we should talk about them in case you have any such experiences (or have had them before and didn’t know what they were).Have you ever been half asleep and half awake and your body feels like it is frozen and you have no control over your limbs? Talk about panic! This happened to me all the time when I was a kid, and it occurs because your astral body hasn’t fully connected to the physical one. Sometimes the sensation takes place right before you go to sleep, or when you have been suddenly awakened. You don’t have heart failure,this will pass quickly. Have you ever felt like you have fallen back into your body with the speed of a freight train? That’s another one. For some reason your astral body had been told that it is imperative that it return, and so it does. Normally, if you follow a simple induction procedure when trying for an OBE, you won’t have these experiences, and if they happen naturally, you’ll know exactly what they are. The most common reason for failure in the conscious OBE work is your own fear that somehow if you go, you won’t be able to get back, or something bad might happen to you while you are gone; however, there has never been a recorded instance of either of these things occurring. In several instances it has been proven that a portion of your consciousness does remain behind, that it can tell the difference between friend or foe near your physical body, and that it would rouse you should you be in physical danger. According to Richard Webster, a highly skilled teacher on the subject, you are actually a great deal safer on the astral plane than in the physical one!
You’ll be surprised who and what you meet during an OBE exercise—famous people, mythical animals, angels, loved ones who have gone beyond the veil, and even archetypes (gods and goddesses). I remember my last one and it was a very heartfelt one my grandfather had passed on fourth of July 2002 and I was only 18 then and we had made a promise to one another that before the summer was over that we would go fishing like we always did because I knew his time was running out in this world and it had been a long time since we had gone fishing well a few months ago I was out in the woods up in the White Mountains near Sedona in Arizona and we were camping I went to go to bed and decided to meditate that nite and I fell into an OBE and he came to me and we went fishing and was just bullshiting around smoking and he brought up that he never forgot the promise we both made to each other and he also said that don’t ever believe I never thought of you as my daughter cos you are my daughter and even though you’re my granddaughter I raised you as my own and no one can say different and he was right I was the baby out of all his 12 kids and I was his favorite lol I know cos he said that a lot lol but that made me all like very calm and ok with his passing as I have not been ok since the day he has passed beyond the veil. Ok so if you have any experience or think you have or have any questions or you need to express anything on this subject please post here as I would like to know ~NamastE~
