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Firstly, I just want to assure you, I am not trying to be controversial for the sake of it!! My following questions and statements are not intended to provoke a reaction but to seek answers to the questions we have all asked ourselves at one point or another.

So here goes....

I am not convinced that Astral Projection is anything more than the mind and imagination working in tandem. I should also point out that i'm not entirely convinced it's not either!!

Since my last post, projecting has been happening thick and fast. Its been happening most nights actually, even when i'm not trying to do it. I've had some really lovely experiences and some quite profound as well. I've been getting guided by a cloaked figure that has never revealed their face, i've been taken to what looked like a giant chess board in the sky and saw myself (looking very warrior like and awesome) as a third party being reprimanded by some archetypal Zeus figure telling me i'm not capable. I've been shrunk to the size of a bug and explored the grass in my garden. My point is, I've been having some really great experiences but that old devil "doubt" is starting to sink in.

Are we really projecting our consciousness into unseen realms? Are we really communicating with spirit guides, archangels , deceased loved ones and other entities? Is our consciousness manifesting outwith our physical selves and having an independent experience or....Are we simply projecting sub conscious feelings and emotions whilst in a lucid dream state and experiencing what we want and expect to experience?

If you ask me, the two are most definitely not the same!

I first came across the term "astral projection" when I was learning about meditation and a few books later, I was completely engaged to the idea. I had it in my head that I would first learn to exit my body, see my physical form on the bed/chair, see some sort of silver cord, be able to call upon various forms of beings who would be looking out for my best interests and learn step by step from there!! That has never happened. My experiences, whilst great at the time, have not led me to believe that what is happening is anything more that just my imagination manifesting as dreams relating to something that has been in my mind at that particular time.

If i'm honest...the reason I am writing this post is 90% for reassurance or guidance. But if that is the case, does it not make sense that I (we) should be having these experiences if we desire and will it so much??

Any feedback would be welcome as always.

Be well



 

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has tried or succeeded in projecting with a partner or friend? Is it even possible??

My wife and I both project occasionally or as often as life allows but I suppose you could say we are still very much beginners!

I read a book a couple of years ago by an author called, Erin Pavlina.. I think. In it, she talks about projecting with friends and meeting up in the astral to go fight negative entities wherever they found them.
With a few AP experiences under my belt now, I have to say, this is not what I've experienced so far but the thought of meeting a friend and exploring together really really appeals to me!

Any thoughts would be much appreciated as always...

 Hope you are all well..

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on a strange experience that we have been having lately -

My wife are I have been practicing AP for about a year now as well as trying to develop spiritually through daily meditation. We have two boys, aged 7 and 5 who are, for the most part, really happy, healthy kids. We are really lucky actually and have a very positive, happy home which we are grateful for every day.

Recently, my wife has been experiencing these regular dreams where there seems to be this entity of sorts, trying to pull her from the bed and move her around the room. She says it is a "creepy old woman"? I looked into this online and have read stories about "the old hag" and decided that it must be some sort of manifestation of her own fear but when we talked about it, she is adamant that she does not have any fear of AP and that any experience she has had until now has been lovely.

The bomb dropped last week when our kids both came through to us in the middle of the night saying that they had both had nightmares and when we spoke about it, they both said that a "scary lady" was trying to pull them out of their beds?

I have had similar experiences in the past (not lately) but it is not something i'm afraid of.

I could understand this if it was just my wife and I that were experiencing it, but I have no idea how my kids could be experiencing the same thing. Is it just a freakish coincidence?

Any thoughts would, as always, be most appreciated.

Thanks

Hi guys, hope you are well..

I had a strange experience last night which I wanted to share.

I was in the void space trying to project when the all familiar voices started. I turned my consciousness fully toward this voice and concentrated on what she was saying. She was talking about the inner power of mankind and how the ability to affect change is in our hands. She said trust yourself and those around you who are capable and aware! There was a lot more but I had forgotten most of it by the time I started writing it down.

It occurred to me, this morning, (after noticing the 60,000 views on the top post) just how many "capable and aware" people there are just on this forum!!

There are probably many different views on the powers behind the state of our world at the moment, but I don't think that really matters. One thing I'm sure everyone could agree on is that it is in a horrific, fear driven excrement state and there is and has always been a determined effort to suppress the individual connection to spirit.

I wrestle with my conscience daily. What can one individual do against a torrent of suppression and fear? Well if my spiritual journey has tought me anything so far, it has been that we are far from powerless. We are part of something much much greater and while most of the world has yet to awaken to this reality, for those among us that have, this ability to feel love and compassion and joy and empathy and hope is a gift. A gift that can be shared!!

We are all here for a reason, you are reading this for a reason. Maybe that reason is purely to further your connection and spirituality on a personal level but maybe it can also be for a greater good??

For those of you who are thinking "what the hell has this got to do with OBE"? Think of all the experiences you have had, the cryptic feelings and voices that you struggle to remember or just fall into ambiguity. Could there be a message there?

Food for thought!

Hi All,

this is my first post on my first forum. Just finding my feet with the "other side of life" at the moment so please bare with me...

I first started trying to AP about six months ago after reading a book by Robert Bruce. In all honesty, I found it a bit difficult to digest. The info was very specific and detailed and almost structured and I came out of it thinking, surely, a journey within yourself would have to be a bit more individual and personal (i'm not knocking the guy or his work, he clearly knows what he's talking about). Rightly or wrongly I started trying a basic technique as often as life allows and have had some success on a few occasions but mostly I either fall asleep and wake in the morning without recall or lie for hours in the blackness, seeing colours and shapes and feel buzzing but when I try to move, it's still my physical body that moves!
In a nutshell, I try to follow these steps - Deep breathing, deep relaxation, try to get to the sleep paralysis stage then just float out!?!
One of the times I did succeed, bizarrely, I ended up in my parents next door neighbours house in the pitch black with a feeling like something badass was trying to get me!!

If anyone has any advice I could try I'd really appreciate it. Hopefully I can come back and share my first proper AP experience with you guys soon.

Many thanks