An astral experience in deep space

[Apollon]

Hi all,

yesterday night I had a unique experience. I mean i had astral projection experiences before but never in space.
I started having the weird symptoms of astral projection, just last February. I had no idea what astral projection was at the time and I only knew of some stories of people experiencing OBEs while close to death. I really don't know for what reason all that started happening to me all of the sudden, I did nothing to cause it.
Anyway, since then i started searching of whats happening to me and after some time i ended up following the Gnostic movement.

So, to make the long story short, last night when i went to bed I prayed to my divine mother for conciousness while out of the body and asked of her to transfer me in space and really meant it from the heart.

Very soon after closing my eyes I started getting loud buzzes in my head (within few minutes) that seemed to come and go like waves. Soon i felt released and out of body but without any vision, when i finally started to see i could only see stars all around me. Suddenly i started to travel with what felt like light speed and i think i could see both infront and behind me at the same time. It looked kind of how the enterprise looks when it travels at warp speeds in star trek.

When i stopped i found myself in a very weird environment, i could see coloured formations that resembled bacterial shaped like life forms (the size of a small dog) only they were moving in space and they were not on some planet. That was weird !!!! Life in the vacuum of space?
After that I remember thinking how I'm going to find earth and return since it looked like i was in the middle of nowhere, just stars everywhere but I remembered that i shouln't worry about returning, it would happen anyway.

When i found myself in bed, i felt like crying, my eyes got watery from deep emotion.

Anyone had ever seen life floating in space just like that while traveling in astral space?

[TNAstral]

Hi-I'm new here and I"m enjoying reading everyone's experiences. It's nice to know other people are experiencing the same things I am and going to the same places! I don't usually go to space during my OBE's, but I have in the past. I can't remember if I specifically asked for it, or if I just "went" there, but I remember heading towards space and just rushing, zooming there straight up and appearing above earth. Normally, I'll look around during my OBE's on land and see the stars, so I know that I'm outside, but this was the first time I remember being in space. I haven't tried to go back; I've been more interested in exploring the different dimension levels lately. It was cool to be there, but even after 2 years astral projecting, I'm kind of scared about exploring too far into space.

[Apollon]

Why are you afraid of exploring deep into space? Afterall distance doesn't seem to matter right?

I've been astral travelling for about 7 months now and it all started by itself. Did you make constant efforts to achieve more astral projections?
Since you've been astral travelling for 2 years, please tell me, did the experieces seem to come more and more often and easier with time?

[TNAstral]

Distance doesn't matter but the physical part of me in that state still gets a little weary about long distances. The second I start thinking "this is far away" I zoom right back in. I know I"m not going to get lost from my body or anything, but right when I start thinking about it, I lose it. However, I have no problems traveling far away (up) on the planes. I'm much more interested in exploring those places, so I guess I have no problems with how far away they are.
As far as the time part of your questions.. yes, I did have more and more experiences with time, once I realized what was happening. I figured out what time it worked best for me, what didn't work, the physical signs that it was going to happen etc. I'm to the point where I can pretty much have one whenever I want. However, some nights, I'm blocked. Like in some previous posts from people I read, about not being able to get past the ceiling, or in some cases, not being able to even lift off my body. I never thought of my chakras causing this, but that makes perfect sense. Are you able to travel anytime you want? Where have you explored?

[Apollon]

I'm still a rookie, I can't control where I'll go yet although I've done it once or twice. I've mostly travelled in real time zone but there were some cases that the scenery was too weird to be in RTZ.

As for travelling in other times, i think that may have happened to me once because i found myself in what appeared to be RTZ at a well known to me place but it was daylight and not midnight as it should and i saw people there, two of them have passed away long time ago. So maybe it was indeed another time period.

I observed that as time goes by, i have more and more astral experiences and more vivid ones, although I don't do any daily excercises like meditation etc. What i do is when i lay down to sleep, i try to keep focuced, I'm focucing on my third eye. I find it easier to focus on my third eye, i imagine looking at it from the inside of my scull, soon after I begin to feel it. I didn't read this anywhere, i just find my third eye easier to focus on.

Also (and please tell me your experience with this), the separation symptoms seem to have changed a lot since my first astral projections 7-8 monthe ago. At that point i used to hear a loud buzzing inside my head (not pulses througout the whole body), most of the times i got distracted by it and didn't make it out. Other times I gained conciousness after the buzzing had seased and i would just get out of bed and walk away just as i would do if i was awake. Also I had many sleep paralysis incidents at the begining.

Now its different, I don't have sleep paralysis any more, I still get the buzzing in my head of course but it seems to be much less loud than it was at the beginning and it has a higher pitch now.
I also find it much easier to sustain the buzzing and not get distracted by it (although i don't think i'm doing anything more than i did before) and I also think that the separation process is much much faster now. I close my eyes, soon come the buzzing and boom, I get up and out of there.... I get astral blindness more though.

Whats your opinion in this?

[TNAstral]

I'm always surprised at how aware I am about where I want to go and where I end up when I'm traveling-I always think I'm just going to veer off in some unknown situation but I usually end up doing what I set out to do (with some exceptions of course).  I don't do any daily mediation either- what I do is sleep to new age music every night (all night). I noticed that's pretty much when my traveling started so I keep it on. It's hard to sleep now without it- it's very relaxing. If I want to travel, I concentrate on a pulsing in my forehead. That usually means it's going to happen.. maybe this is the third eye, I don't know. I've read on here from several people talking about the buzzing you mentioned, but I've never experienced that to my knowledge.
That's really interesting about traveling to other times.. I would love to try that sometime. I tried once to explore a past life but it was total astral blindness, if that's the best term for it. Just total blackness when I tried to go there. I've tried transporting to other locations (like to my sisters house, or my parents) with just thinking about it, and I experience the instant zooming but when I get there, it's blackness. I'm just very inexperienced in these areas so I'm sure I have to practice trying to go there more often to get a better hold on it.
What have your experiences been with audio? For a long time I had no audio in my travels, then all of a suddent, I was talking and hearing sounds from other travelers. Also, have you had much experience with intruders or seeing other travelers? I am always scared of seeing evil beings so I will say out loud before the OBE, "Only positive energy here, only positive energy." That's helped a lot-I was just inviting all kinds of visitors when I first started and I was getting flooded with them. Now I tell them if they are welcome or not and they leave me alone.

[Apollon]

I really can't tell you much about audio because i had very little encounters with others in the astral. Most of the times I'm somewhere but alone or watching other people that seem to be in the physical. I can't recall actually hearing them say something though.

Only once i remember percieving a figure standing on the other side of the room while i was still in my body but could percieve the astral. I don't remember feeling any fear, i remember extending my astral hand towards whatever it was. But you know what they say.... you attract the same as you are mostly. If you're full of negativity then thats what you'll get coming to visit.

When i concentrate in my third eye (before i go to sleep) it feels like some kind of pressure in the spot where i'm concentrating on.

At a Gnostic center i used to go, the said that if you go deliberately in a specific place and you can't see when you get there, its probably a negative entity there that inhibits your vision and you should say a banishment in order to send it away and be able to see. The taught us two of these... I actually tried this once when I got to a place and it worked, as soon as i gained my vision i saw that i was transfered at my summer house's balcony.

If you're interrested in learning a banishment, search the web about "belilin"

I would be intrested in trying new age music, i've tried bineural beats so far but not during the whole night. If you care telling me what exactly is the music you hear, please email me (its in my profile).

[Stumpy]

Hi apollon!

My separation symptoms are very much like yours, especially when it comes to the third eye. When going to 3D darkness i experience the same pressure at the third eye when i try to stop using my physical eyes (like pulling down a screen to see with my third eye) . I tried to describe once as something pulling back and contracting the third eye especially when you are "zooming out" the 3D blackness. I wonder if this is common with others too?

Similarly, i dont get very vigorous buzzing and stuff. I wouldn't know much actually, since i only had one experience so far and it was unintentional.

How does one move from RTZ to astral plane?

[Steel Hawk]

Now its different, I don't have sleep paralysis any more, I still get the buzzing in my head of course but it seems to be much less loud than it was at the beginning and it has a higher pitch now.
I also find it much easier to sustain the buzzing and not get distracted by it (although i don't think i'm doing anything more than i did before) and I also think that the separation process is much much faster now. I close my eyes, soon come the buzzing and boom, I get up and out of there.... I get astral blindness more though.

Whats your opinion in this?

I've noticed the exact same things happened to me... As above so below, I think if you think about a female virgin it would have some comparisons to astral projectors.

[TNAstral]

If you care telling me what exactly is the music you hear, please email me (its in my profile).
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I just listen to a free New Age station on the web-it streams all night. At first it was weird falling asleep to music but now I can't sleep well without it. I don't know what impact it may have other than it's just a good relaxer.

Last night I had an OBE when I wasn't even planning on it. I thought I was too tired, but then I found myself zooming out backwards again and heading towards the Crossroads. I did make it there again (finally, I was having difficulty the past few times). I spent a significant amount of time there and I mentioned to the "spirit guides" or whoever is at the desk at the location that I wanted to try and stay longer and not lose the connection. I'm going to try and go there again tonight!