| What is Astral Projection and What Are the Best | | | | back into the physical body under the slightest |
| Conditions for this Strange Experience? | | | | provocation of fear and/or even thinking of the |
| Astral projection also known as the out-of-body | | | | physical. Death can never be caused by astral |
| experience and as "soul travel" by some groups, can | | | | projection, however the process of dying is often |
| happen to anyone at any time in one's life. Astral | | | | the greatest opportunity ever for astral projection! |
| projection is often confused with lucid or vivid | | | | There are countless worlds in the afterlife that are |
| dreaming and most skeptics would say that what | | | | filled with vast wonders and opportunities of all kinds. |
| most people would experience as an out-of-body | | | | For those who are good natured, kind hearted and |
| experience is just a dream. Even though it is quite | | | | full of love (most people are) the afterlife is simply |
| common for an astral projection experience to be | | | | wonderful and filled with unspeakable beauty, great |
| immediately proceeded by a vivid dream or even be | | | | love, awesome bliss, great music and great |
| mixed up with or embedded within dreams, when | | | | adventures. |
| one has a full-blown out-of-body astral experience, it | | | | As long as no illicit drugs are involved, astral |
| is often so real, so vivid and clear that in no way, | | | | projection is a 100% natural, 100% safe and 100% |
| shape or form is it considered by the experiencer as | | | | blissful occurrence. Astral projection is an expression |
| just being a dream. Genuine astral projection is | | | | of the conscious freedom of the soul while the |
| experienced as a fully awakened state outside the | | | | physical body is in a temporarily state of suspended |
| body, and the person is able to actually see, usually | | | | animation and slowed down or "hibernating" |
| from a strange angle, his or her usually still or lifeless | | | | metabolism. The more often one can induce this |
| looking body lying down on the bed, sofa or couch. | | | | temporary "death" of the physical, the sooner one |
| One is able to see minute details in the room and | | | | becomes an adept or master over the otherwise |
| travel anywhere else conceivable and watch events | | | | terrible whims of life and death. |
| and discover new places and/or previously lost or | | | | The Various Forms of Astral Projection: From |
| undiscovered items that can later be confirmed. | | | | Traveling Clairvoyance to Complete Immersion on |
| Certain Tibetan masters and Indian yogi masters | | | | Astral Plane |
| throughout history have developed the ability to fully | | | | There are various forms of astral projection. The |
| conscious astral project at will and as a result of this | | | | simplest is remote viewing, which really is a form of |
| awesome faculty, many other special powers too. A | | | | traveling clairvoyance as a fragment of one's self |
| contemporary example is Yogiraj Gurunath | | | | senses events and scenes from a remote location |
| Siddhanath who because I have met personally and | | | | while the remote viewer sits in a darkened room in a |
| directly experienced his amazing aura of energy | | | | light state of trance. While meditating in my darkened |
| (darshan), I may have seen a few times in the astral | | | | apartment one morning, I could actually see within |
| as there were some instances of this great yogi's | | | | my mind's eye (or third eye?) a clear image of some |
| presence appearing during my sleep and in deep | | | | contractors working on the roof of a small house. It |
| meditation. Other such great masters of astral | | | | had a chimney and it appeared like there were up to |
| projection in the past include Paramhansa Yogananda, | | | | seven contractors working on the construction of a |
| Sri Yukteswar, Rabindranath Tagore who came back | | | | new roof. At first I assumed I must have been |
| speaking through the ectoplasm of direct voice | | | | picking up a scene from the astral plane (happens to |
| medium, Leslie Flint (1960's?) regarding his | | | | me sometimes) of astral workers creating an astral |
| experiences with astral travel and general information | | | | building (does happen on some of the astral worlds). |
| regarding power of thought, and the transmigrated | | | | It was not until after I stopped meditating, and while |
| Tibetan Lama, Tuesday Lobsang Rampa in the body | | | | on the way to get my mail, I happened to notice a |
| of Cyril Henry Hoskin. Rampa provided the most | | | | small house going up right next to my apartment |
| outstanding descriptions and knowledge of astral | | | | complex with the same contractors working on the |
| projection, however he was also apparently the | | | | same roof with chimney, etc! It is experiences like |
| author of some of the most controversial books I | | | | these that prove to me beyond a shadow of a |
| ever read. | | | | doubt about their reality. Experiences of remote |
| The Right Conditions for Astral Projection and How | | | | viewing, though rare and hard to repeat, are real as |
| 100% Safe, Natural Astral Projection Can be Induced | | | | day. |
| The right conditions for conscious astral projection | | | | A deeper form of remote viewing occurs when the |
| are tricky to master. To start with it is very helpful | | | | soul is aware in two places at once, behind the |
| to learn meditation and train the body to increase | | | | physical eyes and from within the astral viewpoint. |
| concentration on the inner self (third eye) and | | | | This effect does happen and illustrates the fact that |
| withdrawing away from the external senses, while | | | | as long as the physical body remains alive, the soul |
| calming down one's breathing and slowing down heart | | | | stays behind with the body while its etheric double |
| rate toward 40 beats per minute. Celibacy is quite | | | | goes around and about which the soul also keeps in |
| essential, otherwise it can be very hard trying to | | | | touch with. Another form of astral travel is actually |
| maintain the constant enthusiasm and concentration | | | | the out-of-body experience where one is aware |
| required for the successful completion of this project | | | | mainly of the etheric counterpart of the earth plane |
| which involves the process of slowing metabolic rate | | | | and can perceive, even sometimes feel (but not |
| and fully replacing all physical activity, physical | | | | actually touch or pick up except under very rare |
| thought, awareness, and consciousness with internal | | | | conditions) all the things most closely associated with |
| spiritual awareness to the point that the physical | | | | Earth. Actual astral projection is travel in the higher |
| becomes quite numb, cold, still and lifeless. Only then | | | | spheres above the earth plane where one is in the |
| in such a deep state of trance does it become | | | | astral counterpart (or duplicate) of one's physical |
| possible to consciously leave the body at will. Such an | | | | body and can meet friends and loved ones who |
| attainment of this nature is quite profound, vital and | | | | either have passed over or are also asleep, dreaming |
| priceless, because such an ability leads to a complete | | | | and/or astral traveling! |
| mastery over the very powers of life, death and | | | | There have been some documented cases where |
| reincarnation. It is extremely unfortunate that during | | | | one has actually seen while wide awake physically |
| this present age, that the overall tendency of | | | | someone else's etheric double (or doppelganger) |
| humankind is too much external, way too much | | | | standing in the same room often to say "goodbye" |
| sensuality, and too much into the physical world and | | | | to a loved one if while in grave danger and/or dying |
| physical senses. It is this overall tendency or | | | | or simply while astral projecting. In the book, |
| tendencies that are causing so much pain, so much | | | | Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda |
| skepticism against spiritual truths, confusion and | | | | there are several instances of yogis traveling in their |
| suffering in the world. This grave concern is the main | | | | astral bodies either while still physically living or even |
| reason why I am taking so much of my time to | | | | after their deaths who were able to fully appear in a |
| create this website. | | | | solid form in front of various witnesses. For example |
| Spontaneous astral projection during deep sleep is | | | | read The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar and wonder |
| much more common and more accessible by some. | | | | about that. Paramhansa Yogananda never had any |
| The odds of astral travel occurring during deep sleep | | | | personal reason(s) or inclinations to ever lie or |
| can be improved by some form of vigorous physical | | | | deceive others. |
| exercise near end of day so that muscles are no | | | | I personally had someone come visit me in the astral |
| longer restless and are therefore more prone to | | | | while I was in a deep relaxation trance in my early |
| relaxation. In early evening after a light dinner (or | | | | twenties. This person's energy was so intense it |
| sometimes even a fast depending on individual need) | | | | pulled me out of my body through my heart center! |
| one should practice a little yoga and do some | | | | Then when I saw this guy sitting with his normal |
| meditation before sleeping. Start actual night time | | | | clothes on in a meditation posture right in front of |
| period of rest or sleep with a deep relaxation posture | | | | me, I had no idea whatsoever that he was there |
| while concentrating on every muscle in body to | | | | because he had just died! The entire experience can |
| completely relax, withdrawing energy from each and | | | | be found on my free e-book The Science of |
| every muscle to all the spinal centers and then up to | | | | Wholeness, "Lesson 14" at paragraph 14.7: Death, |
| third eye. Try to remain wide-awake while body falls | | | | Enlightenment, Bliss and Resurrection. I know for sure |
| asleep. If this does not work, (usually takes several | | | | these things are real, and when one has a paranormal |
| weeks of practice) set alarm at 3:00 or 4:00 AM, get | | | | experience, there is no denying it whatsoever, it |
| up and exercise for 15 minutes at that time and then | | | | happened! |
| follow the same deep relaxation routine leading to a | | | | The wise yogi learns how to calm his breath, slow |
| wide-awake yet fully asleep effect. What should | | | | down his heartbeat and withdraw his physical energy |
| happen is a deep internalization of awareness along | | | | deep into the spinal centers and then ultimately deep |
| with a state of temporary paralysis (catalepsy) and a | | | | into the third eye where he can "die daily" with full |
| terrific vibration and/or intense tingling sensation that | | | | ability to leave his body at will just as one can leave |
| can seem way too intense to stand. In this vibrational | | | | one's vehicle by simply opening the door and walking |
| state, it becomes possible to split away from the | | | | out of it. The late Indian poet and master of yoga, |
| body and further away one gets the less vibration | | | | Rabindranath Tagore who came back speaking |
| one feels until one is several feet away and some | | | | through the ectoplasm of direct voice medium, Leslie |
| can observe a silver cord between the physical and | | | | Flint very clearly explains his life-long interest in astral |
| astral or etheric self. It becomes possible then to | | | | projection and how he mastered it and the |
| move about the room by concentration on where | | | | unspeakable beauty of the higher spheres that he |
| one wants to go. It takes much practice at first to | | | | now lives on. Unless one has (perhaps in a past life) |
| learn how to control the astral body which is much | | | | previously learned it, astral projection is never |
| like the life of a newborn child which has yet to learn | | | | something one can simply learn overnight and then |
| how to walk and run, etc. | | | | do for recreation or entertainment. It is rather a |
| There is absolutely no danger or ever any real reason | | | | serious undertaking requiring total commitment. Astral |
| to fear astral projection or even death for that | | | | projection is a spiritual enrichment practice and not |
| matter. If one has to die then death involves simply | | | | something one should do only for materialistic, |
| taking up a much more permanent residence at one's | | | | sensual, selfish or mundane reasons, as such low |
| true home in one of the astral spheres. Fear during | | | | levels of intention and/or consciousness would be |
| the first few attempts at astral travel is a huge | | | | unwise and make it much harder to achieve any |
| problem and will often find one's self slammed right | | | | worthwhile results. |