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I am reading Llewellyn's Practical Guide to Astral Projection, and it says that I should not practice AP when my hemisphere is farthest from the sun, from mid December to early March, and during the waning moon. It says that it is too difficult to control during these times.

Naturally, I am not pleased since it is already the beginning of December and I have only just begun to read about AP!

Have any of you encountered similar advice elsewhere? Do you experience greater difficulty in these months (or June-Sept for the southern hemisphere)?

Should I not try until mid-March?

Hello!
I am new here, having just experienced something completely unexpected and unusual, posted in more detail in Astral Experiences. I am a musician, on a kind of extended undergraduate degree program (the kind where you stop and work for a few years and change majors a couple of times), but I'm not yet 30.

I am very interested in meditation and in exploring various spiritual practices, currently, I am working on blessings (or treatments if you're familiar with Religious Science) for those people I have trouble with on a mundane level. Hard work but rewarding, if only due to increased peace of mind.

I look forward to exploring more of the site.

Hello!
I just found and joined these forums this morning, because I had a frightening experience, and would like to share it with people who actually have experience and/or interest in this stuff.  I am generally spiritually attuned, ascribing loosely to Religious Science, which tries to find the main themes in all religions instead of getting caught up in specific, nonessential trappings of any in particular. I have been doing a lot of meditation on my higher self recently, and attempting to overcome a particularly difficult failed romance.

I was asleep, hearing music from the radio downstairs. I thought it was a little odd, because I didn't turn the radio on last night. It was: Michael Bolton style belting, super cheesy, but as the bridge came up, the lyrics were..."every word I say is true, _my first name_..." I was delighted because I supposed it was the validation I had been looking for concerning a certain matter, and I had a mini-fantasy about the ex hearing it and realizing it was me he truly loved... During the whole song, my face was tingling hard, almost to the point of discomfort. I realized that my eyes were closed. I had to try really really hard to open them, and I found that when I did, I was truly awake and there was no music.

I closed my eyes, and immediately the music was back. I rationalized it again to myself in order to stay asleep/not freak out, and I heard the tagline for 93.3 (although they would never play something like Michael Bolton), the last station I had been listening to, and it reassured me that it had just accidentally turned on. Then it started to play some random song, again something I've never heard in real life, but with no real significance.

Then my mattress was gone. I was sitting upright with my legs folded in front of me and there was a weird brown thing in front of me. It looked like a large crumpled sweater with koosh balls, rubbery spiky fringe or something around it on two sides. I kicked at it a bit, and it didn't seem like it was alive.

I opened my eyes again and I was still in bed. I thought, maybe I'm astral projecting! I wonder if I could move around? I closed my eyes. I was in bed again, and the radio was playing and I could feel myself tingling. Suddenly a great force seemed to push me from underneath my shoulders, vibrating the whole time, and I felt compelled and forced to get up. Scary scary scary! I tried to open my eyes. I said No. I said to myself, Wake Up. Finally I started to repeat to myself, "God is All there Is," and I could finally open my eyes.

At first, being in an extremely paranoid state, I thought I might have been under psychic attack. But I've read about those, and it didn't seem to fit. I knew I'd been emotionally unbalanced over the past couple of days, but I couldn't see why that would make something like that happen. So I did some research about astral projecting and obe's and found something called a 'vibrational state', and read that it's nothing to be scared of.

Has anyone here had a similar experience, with audio and with states happening upon them completely unexpectedly? Any advice? I've had a few instances in the past  where I've had to force myself to wake up, and I always found it extremely frightening.

Thank you.