ASTRAL PROJECTION

Some people think they've had an astral projection but it was a dream.

But half the stories I hear are not astral projection experiences; they are lucid dreams that involve flying, and people mistakenly believe that if they are flying around and conscious then it must be an astral experience. But that is not so. Before I even had a name for astral projection and lucid dreams, I have experienced this for a long time. When my friend started talking about what it was called, I didn't understand him, when he explained what it meant and what happened, I understood what I was really into when I was meditating and sleeping. He gave my experiences a name. As soon as you have a name for something, you also have control over that name. Names put a whole different perspective on things.

The first time I consciously experienced the out-of-body experience was the day I first meditated. I had spent some time meditating for 5 min, at first it was difficult to focus just as it is for everyone who starts meditating. After a few minutes I ended up in a trance and my breathing became heavy and relaxed, I began to see a dark purple colored flame dancing for me back and forth right between my eyebrows, I focused on the flame and became mesmerized. I continue to focus and all of a sudden it flashed with a quick white light, all of a sudden, I was shot straight up sitting on my chair. I saw my astral body sitting on a chair above the Earth. I looked down and saw the Earth under my feet. I saw a "rope" hung down between me and the Earth, all I could say was "oh shit I'm outside the Earth" just when I said it was pushed back faster than the light to my body again. When I woke up, I had my head on my knee and slobbered like a dog. Believe me, there is not even a chance in the world that I can sit and bend so much that my head nudges my knee. But I was so relaxed that my whole body was paralyzed. I thought I had meditated for 5 min, but it had been 20 min. The bell rang but I heard absolutely nothing, ever since that day there has only been lots of experience all the time.

Let me explain how you can tell if you are having an astral experience or simply dreaming that you are astral. In a true astral projection, you will wake up first, in your bed or wherever you are sleeping.

You will likely be in a state of sleep paralysis, feel a strong tingling sensation in your body, achieve separation, and lift up and out of your body. At that point, you will hover, fly, or bop around like a helium balloon in your room, eventually getting out of your room and floating around your house or down the street. Once you have achieved separation, your locomotion speed can be slow or ridiculously fast. And you can start going to other planes and frequencies, travel through time, or move lower vibration beings out of your space. When you are done playing, you will think about being in your body and it will whip you back fast. You are done.

On the other hand, if your experience starts from inside a dream, it is likely going to remain a dream. A lucid one, sure. But not an astral experience.

“I was dreaming I was eating and all of a sudden I was lucid. I flew out the window and fought these bad guys wearing masks with swords. It was epic. Then I woke up.”

That’s a dream. You didn’t wake up in your bedroom FIRST. You didn’t go through a separation. All you had was an epic lucid dream.

“I dreamed I was floating up to heaven and I encountered my deceased father who told me how much he loved me. Then suddenly I was at his graveside. It felt so real. I told him I loved him. Then I woke up.” Not an astral experience but could be a visitation inside a dream.

When you go to sleep and dream you step into a mental construct that is inside your own head. Inside this construct you could be totally lucid and aware that you are dreaming. You can even have real conversations with real conscious beings who are able to tap into your frequency while you’re dreaming and really be there and really be talking to you. But your soul never leaves your body. Rather, you have invited other conscious beings into your construct.

Unless you wake up and consciously separate your soul from your body, you are probably having a very lucid, possibly epic, dream. I’m not here to diminish the awesomeness of your lucid dreaming, but don’t get caught up in the idea that consciousness or flying equals astral projection. In a true astral projection, you can encounter other beings who don’t have bodies. These are not dream constructs you have manufactured to play a role in your dream. These are beings outside of you who are also traveling on the same frequency you are.

You could even encounter a friend who is astral projecting but getting onto the same frequency at the same time is not easy.

In a true astral projection, you will not be eating, talking to people who are wearing clothes, or jumping back and forth between scenes.

Astral entities will have shape and energetic signatures, but they will not be wearing flip flops and hats.

Mastering lucid dreaming can definitely help you learn how to astral project because both involve becoming conscious while your body is unconscious. But only in astral projection does your entire being leave your body. In a lucid dream, you sink deeper into your own mental construct and are able to control the scenery with your thoughts.

If you can make something disappear by willing it, that’s a dream. If you try to make something disappear on the astral plane, the entity will be like, “Dude, I ain’t your subconscious. Step off.” And then it may try to kick your astral ass. So know the differences. Be safe traveling. Don’t piss off the entities. They have as much right to be on the astral plane as you do.

I will go through the common sensations in the next post and try to explain as best I can so you can identify what is happening.