what got you into this?

[SnakeDoctor]

i always wondered, what made every one interested into APing?


for me, i wanted to talk to my dead neighbor...he was one hell of a man, almost like a 2nd father to me. even though i've only known him a few short years before he had passed on. once he found out i wanted to be a Marine Corps sniper, he took me under his wing and taught me everything he could(he was a Navy Seal sniper during the Vietnam War). Wanted to tell him, thank you. for believing in me and encouraging me, and being there when i needed someone to talk to. and when i finally pass on myself, we will finally get that party we were planning....and of course that i love him.

when i finally get that, i'll be content enough to never need to OBE/AP again.

what about you all?

[ka0s]

A quite short and simple answer for me. I am naturally curious about everything in this world and when I started having them spontaneously I wanted to learn how I can help others with these experiences through God (and I still do)

[Impermanence]

I was always interested in the 'paranormal' since the age of 10 or so. I didn't have any special talents myself, other then frequent lucid dream at that age. So I read and read until I realize that the subect that interested me most was AP/OBE. I started practicing seriously about three month ago and I managed only about 20 projection so far.

Still, any hand-on experience is good, it make you progress faster  .

[Dr.Acula]

A quite short and simple answer for me. I am naturally curious about everything in this world and when I started having them spontaneously I wanted to learn how I can help others with these experiences through God (and I still do)

pretty much the same thing here.

[Sisyphus]

NDE/OBE when i was a child ( i think i posted about it on here)  Nothing dramatic though!!  was 4 or 5 years old was put under at the dentist. left my body hovered around the ceiling watching the dentist and assistant hovering over me (although i say me it didnt feel like me was down there)
thats about it.  Has been some slighthly unusual stuff over the years (like extremely vivid frightening nightmares and other things)

[Halofreak32]

Well, I'm skeptical of all of this supernatural sort of thing, but instead of having stubborn one-sided beliefs, I instead investigate all sides of the arguments. I'm curious, but my stance as a skeptic has remained unchanged so far.

[ancient_one]

i always wondered, what made every one interested into APing?


for me, i wanted to talk to my dead neighbor...he was one hell of a man, almost like a 2nd father to me. even though i've only known him a few short years before he had passed on. once he found out i wanted to be a Marine Corps sniper, he took me under his wing and taught me everything he could(he was a Navy Seal sniper during the Vietnam War). Wanted to tell him, thank you. for believing in me and encouraging me, and being there when i needed someone to talk to. and when i finally pass on myself, we will finally get that party we were planning....and of course that i love him.

when i finally get that, i'll be content enough to never need to OBE/AP again.

what about you all?

I had no choice in it. I had unwanted episodes of "awareness in sleep paralysis" ever since I was 5-6 years old-  The projections came from my struggle to live with the SP. 

[dbmathis]

I have a friend that I have been talking to for over 10 years who mentioned astral projection on and off for the entire length of the friendship. I don't know why, but for some reason 2 months ago and listened and decided to give it a try rather than just dismissing it.

I tried it, it worked, it blew my mind and I am now hooked for life. Not only did my life open up to the world of astral projection, but I am now involved in Reiki healing and Buddhist study and meditation.

Best Regards

David

[Prophazuh]

I found Astral Projection by chance and didn't really believe that it was possible. I always thought "what if..." which led to me attempting a few times without success. Months passed and late one night I tried and succeeded but the OBE lasted for only around 5-10 seconds. Although it was short, I was really excited that I proved to myself that everything that I read was true and...Then, I began using this ability that I had developed as a means to escape the pain I had/have and to see if I can find answers to problems that I had/have on the Physical Plane.

[sminson]

It automatically/accidentally used to happen to me when I was a little kid (weak heart), so I needed to get control of it.

[Steele]

When i was younger i began to doubt christianity and the teachings of faith and whatever. naturally as a teenager i went to an extreme and began to call myself a satanist. im still unsure of my religous belief. i decided i dont really care. in these times i discovered meditation. i learned to enter trance state and then i joined a few forums and from there i found astral projection and its been part of me ever since.

[tr0798]

Heard about it from reading about a band called "maudlin of the Well". They apparently used astral projection to bring back music with them. The song in the link that I posted below was claimed by them to have been composed entirely during astral projection. I really enjoyed a lot of their music, so I got interested in how they did it. At the time I was really into playing guitar and making music and I wanted to do the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC7HBpSaxno

On a side note, I will mention that a good number of their songs have a death metal aspect to them. I was quite surprised when I was listening to one of their albums and started hearing random screaming and other stuff like that going on.

They reformed into a new band called Kayo Dot in 2003. Not sure if astral projection is still a major influence for them, but judging by how it sounds, I would guess that they still use astral projection to make music. Definitely cool stuff. They have their entire new album online at http://www.bluelambencydownward.com . Check it out to see what I'm talking about.

[KarmicTruthSeeker]

I'm sure i posted this somewhere before. I went to bed one night, and got an extreme sense of vertigo after I layed down, i then had a spontaneous and unwanted out of body experience. i flew out my window toward the cold pavement below, and didn't know I was out of body. ever since then i have become fascinated with the idea of oobe, and want to use it for spiritual development. but besides that its a sense of adventure that got me into it. the entire world has been mapped and there's nothing new to discover here on the physical. the astral opens up a whole new level. I want to feel what Columbus felt when he stepped foot on the new world.   

[radiospirit]

Greetings!  I'm relatively new to all this, and have started researching, including both of William Buhlman's works on the subject.  I've always been interested in this and related phenomenae, but have been trying to break through whatever barriers I have to engage in this.  I've tried Lucid Dreaming, but have had relatively little success (though some success nonetheless).

I decided to move onto OBEs and have had some more, including one successful on purpose projection, which I will talk about later.  Since then, I've been able to summon up the vibration, but haven't yet successfully projected again.  But I'm still trying.

There is a particular ritual that William Buhlman recommended as OBE prep that I seem to be able to do with ease, but so far, haven't been able to project again.

But I will continue, as I am certain this is very real, and my one projection so far was amazing (despite what was experience in itself was quite mundane, which in itself was part of what was so convincing).

[phxsun]

Hello all....for me I was reading about " gog and magog" that led me to some 2012 websites and then on to the AP website. I have had some strange things over the years. Like once a spirit screamed at me to wake up, that was really funny!, and on several occasions a good friend of mine came to me in my dreams after he passed on. Well I started all this in Feb. I have had the vibrations but no OBE as of yet, but I will keep trying.