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I'm experiencing strange sensations in my jaw when I try to astral project. I'm using the Gateway Experience audio tracks. My jaw was shaking like crazy earlier while listening to this - it stopped as soon as the session ended. It was quite a distraction. I've previously had experience with kriyas (involuntary movements) when meditating intensely, and I wonder if this is something similar? Am I just going crazy or has anyone else experienced the same thing?

I've heard that time spent in the astral reduces fear of death. I just wonder if this is confirmed by people's experiences on here. Do you feel that their astral experiences confirm to your own satisfaction that consciousness survives death?

I worked as a palliative care nurse for a few years and know how hard it can be for people to face the end. I suppose this has made me far more aware of the need to be ready for this stage in life when it comes. So I'm wondering if experiences in the astral do make people more at peace with death?

Sorry for not introducing myself properly, but I'm itching to ask a question. I've been able to lucid dream irregularly for the last few years, but I want to go deeper and with my astral explorations. I bought the first 3 waves of the Gateway Experience last month. For the first three weeks I was just galloping through them, but now I've gone right back to the beginning, and I'm working very slowly through each level. I've read some threads on here and they were very helpful - they suggest focusing on wave I track 2 and that is what I've been doing. I'm managing about 5-6 sessions a day. I think I'm putting a decent effort into this practice at the moment. I'm also a long term meditator, and I had hoped that this would give me a head start. I had a couple of lucid dreams in the first week and one almost out of body experience but since then nothing. It seems strange to me that I'd experience more in the first week than I would three weeks later. Is this normal? It sometimes feels as if the more effort I put into it the less impressive are my results. I suppose I'm looking for a pep talk here.