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Well, I don't know Voodoo or proper Voodoo counterspells. For that kind of help you're probably going to have to contact a professional Voodoo person and pay thru the nose to raise sufficient interest in him or her to make this his or her business.

As a few stopgap measures, here's a some things you can try.
- Get some of your Mom's hair, an item of jewelry, and a picture. Put these things together and, while touching them to her, have some Energy (Aetheric would be best, but Prana will do) flow thru her and into the things, making them be as one. Then put the group of things that now are one with your Mom into a 1+ gallon container of rock-salt mixed with table salt. Salt has a tendency to make magickal processes cease working, so the only problem with all of this is that when it starts working as a magickal process, you'll know it because while it will make all of the other magickal processes focused on your Mother stop, it will also make itself stop,, so you'll need to re-do it, probably daily, and/or teach your Mom to do it herself;
- Gather whatever you need to be able to focus on the person who is causing all of this. Make the space sacred in whatever way you know and are most comfortable with. Focus on the person, and as you have experienced a bunch of the negative results of her presence and activity in the world, know that it is likely that many others have done the same. Using that awareness, imagine everything in the world that challenges her or opposes her, or frustrates her or limits her or restrains her. Turn your focus to all of those {people/things/phenomena}, and intensely bless them with great positivity, energy, motivation, strength, power, vitality, health, joy, love, life, and every blessing that you can imagine;
- Go to a powerful diviner and find out which spirits or Deities you should involve in this to counteract the negative entities she is sending, then research the rituals to contact/ evoke them, do so, and make agreements of alliance with them;

I hope that helps!
Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!

[If it doesn't happen easily, you may have to practice having an intense expectation, and you might have to 'act as if' or 'pretend' that it happens until you get the result of it happening. Few can see it with their physical eyes right off the bat - - - Astral Eenergy doesn't seem to work that way. But it can be sensed somehow, and after enough 'acting as if', you will have shown your subconscious how you want it presented to you (the conscious mind). This will help with all kinds of sensing and interacting with Astral Energy.And I think this may be of interest to those on the forum, so I'll re-post it all there.Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!]

Step 1 = Create Astral Spark,

Stand relaxed in an area where you won't be disturbed for about ten minutes or so, with your eyes closed. Become aware that in a moment or two you are going to snap your fingers, and when you do a 'point' of Astral energy is going to come into existence, as small as a needle-point and as bright as a star, just because you 'command' it to come into existence, because you expect it to. Do expect it to.
Open your eyes, snap your fingers! Watch how the spark moves around as you move the focus of your eyes, or 'tell' it to, or expect it to.

Hey. I tried snapping my fingers to create an astral spark. Are you actually supposed to see something with your phyisical eyes? I couldn't get anything to happen. Any tips?

If it doesn't happen easily, you may have to practice having an intense expectation, and you might have to 'act as if' or 'pretend' that it happens until you get the result of it happening. Few can see it with their physical eyes right off the bat - - - Astral Eenergy doesn't seem to work that way. But it can be sensed somehow, and after enough 'acting as if', you will have shown your subconscious how you want it presented to you (the conscious mind). This will help with all kinds of sensing and interacting with Astral Energy.

And I think this may be of interest to those on the forum, so I'll re-post it all there.

Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!

The only way that their "spells" would have any effect, whatsoever, is through ignorance or superstition.  Yep.  Have you ever seen somebody cast a spell?  Have you ever seen an effect as a result of someone casting a spell?  No?  Then it's bogeymen and closet monsters all the way!

How lovely! Do those who establish this forum come to your favorite area and start spouting things like 'Astral Projection is just dreaming'?!!! I mean, have a modicum of respect, please?
Yes, I have seen spells cast and take effect. I have cast spells myself and positively affected the probabilities to get a job, get a girlfriend (magick's not good at making free-willed people stay, tho), get a raise, get a vehicle, find things that are lost, return things that are stolen, heal animals when I couldn't afford to take them to the vet, I could give you hundreds of examples if I had the time or patience. I'm probably 'talking' to 'deaf ears', but I find it massively offensive that you could come to a category this clear and immediately start talking against its basic premises!

Real Magic by Isaac Bonewitz,
Illusions, and One, by Richard Bach (doesn't seem exactly like magick, but important concepts),
11 Lessons in Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig.
Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham.
That should get you started.

I didn't quite know where to put this, it involves lucid dreaming, kind of, but it was also the first 'crack' in my perception of reality that allowed me to learn all that I have.

It was late 1976, I was cutting high school freshman class and hanging out at the Washoe County Main Library. That was something I did all the time, along with quite a few homeless people. One such guy and I tended to read a lot of the same books, books on psychic phenomena, magick, etc. We never spoke to each other, the few times I tried, he just glared at me. Anyway. The last day I ever saw him, I was sitting about 15 feet away, and he was reading one of the first books on Lucid Dreaming. Suddenly he looked up and said: "I see! All you have to do is wake up!" The book dropped to the floor, and he wasn't there anymore. I freaked. Later, when I tried to talk about him to the library staff, no-one ever knew that he was ever there. Some people have tried to convince me that he was a ghost, but after several years I have discovered with what I call 'Reality Navigating', when you do it completely, the people in the Reality that you have Navigated to do not remember the Reality that you Navigated away from, because they were never there.

Anyway...
Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!

Soon after that, I met a couple of college guys at the Library, and we had an interesting conversation about magick. Gradually I became involved in their unofficial, co-ed "Frat"-house. Most of the guys were involved in Psychology somehow, and they ran their own experiments. I did not realize that I was one of their main subjects until long after. One of the guys was always ready for me to 'find charged quarters'. He would have several dollars worth of quarters, and some of the them would be 'charged'. I had no idea what that meant at the time, but he let me touch a charged and an uncharged quarter, and I could feel the difference. Anyway, he would throw them all onto the lawn, and if I brought back the charged ones, I got to keep them all! Later, he changed the game so that I would have to do it blindfolded, and I found that I could find the charged quarters even faster that way. Without realizing it, I got passed to the next guy, who had a beginning telekinesis-test set-up. I never got anything or anywhere with this, evidently, I am a complete dud at telekinesis. So I got passed on again, and this one was the most interesting. By then I was 16, and Star Wars had come out (made a difference for talking about 'feeling' things blindfolded). The testers were a college guy and his girlfriend. The test was that he would throw orange balls at me, and I was supposed to tell by 'feel' which ones were which. I was supposed to move so that the orange pool balls did not hit me. I was supposed to block the oranges. I was supposed to let the orange tennis balls hit me. We started out at 15 feet away, and as I improved, increased the distance. The price of failure was fairly obvious, enough so that I wasn't all that interested in participating, until he told me the reward for complete success (fellatio from his girlfriend). Sorry to be so revealing, but that's the way it was. When the distance had been extended to about 80 feet, which was about as far as he could reliably throw the balls, I 'graduated' to being blindfolded. I got hit with pool-balls a lot as I learned, and I once broke a finger trying to block a pool ball. But I also got completely rewarded three times.
Soon after the last reward, the police broke the "frat" up and these people drifted out of my life.
But I had begun to learn something that I now call 'truth-sense'. It doesn't sense the absolute truth, if that is even possible. It senses what is best or worst for me to believe, or do.

Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!

Fairly soon after that I got involved in the local province of the Society for Creative Anachronism, greatly expanded possibilities of face-to-face Roleplaying (with dice, not underwear), and some of those people introduced me to involvement in the spiritual thing they had going, which was a Wiccan Group that met on weekends of the Full Moon (for more details, look for my post "First Astral Projection with Ullr".)
Anyway, after a few months of knowing me, one of the members suggested that I check out Anton LeVay's Satanic Bible.

Seated in the High Priest's living room, not paying attention to the possibility that any place repeatedly made into sacred space might have the barrier between worlds quite a bit thinner than 'normal', I began to read, and immerse myself in page after page of pure hatred. Hate God, hate life, hate everyone... and as I began to seriously contemplate life while believing these things, my ability to sense without seeing the difference between an orange and an orange pool ball seemed to 'flex' somehow, and I became aware of a tremendous female presence silently saying: "No! If you want to thrive you have to love God!", and I proceeded to get four hours of automatic writing that I call the Teachings of Shekinah. Very powerful, very informative, very positive. Among other things it informed me that God had a mate that the Patriarchs hid, a mate named 'Wisdom' the way that He is named 'I Am', that She invented the idea of death and mortality as a way for Angels to learn faster and adapt to changes more easily, that the first planet in this system to host life was called 'Tiamaat', and that the Earth was made from parts of Her; that in the allegorical 'garden of Eden' tale, Lilith really was Adam's first mate, and Eve was their daughter. It's all coming out very bald here, She told it to me far better than I am telling to you, but I wanted to get across some basic ideas, like the fact that there were and are even now Patriarchs who decide what it is best for them that you know, who run society not through any kind of conspiracy or gathering, but through disempowering decisions and applications of propaganda.
Anyway, after that tremendous burst of personal gnosis, my ability to sense what is best for me to believe in, follow, & use was no longer limited to fast-moving, orange balls. I began to write notebook after notebook of philosophy, science fiction stories, game-world ideas. I began to get inspirations on psychic and magickal techniques to try, and my development took off.

hey, i've been "informed" about this theory about the psychological death where you eliminate your ego and all of that but... what does that have to do with astral projection? people and internet have kind of pieced little parts into my brain about how to astral project, eliminating your ego, building consciousness, and even something to do with "sex magic"? id like to start over though because its not helping and im just really confused about what to do with life.

1. How do you even astral project?
2. why do you want to astral project? is it the answer to life some how or something?
3. am i to young to do all of this?
4. is there scary things about astral projection?

i want to do something with my life not just live, die and its over. does this somehow relate to the answer to life? i dont know what to do and i think ive been introduced to these concepts the wrong way

by the way im new to astral pulse  

Welcome! I hope you find what you are looking for!!! 14 is a great age to start, and insisting on clarity is a great way to start, good job! I'm sure that if you look over the FAQ, the Permanent Topics, and the topics in the Astral Experiences category you will find several ways to Astral Project. Try 'em all, you can never tell which one is going to work for you, or work best for you. That's probably great advice on everything in life, but in particular in any metaphysical endeavor, it is essential. You are a unique being, and not everything that works for some people is going to work exactly the same way for you (or me, or anyone).

Astral Projection is not itself the 'answer' to life. Life isn't a question anyway (to me), it is a process, a journey that is not about the destination. But, as with learning to drive cars and then having access to a car, Astral Projection can be a great help in finding your own answers.

If you can ask the question, if you can contemplate the possible answers, then you aren't too young. (in my opinion)

Scary things, hmmmm. Are there 'scary things' about driving? Every human endeavor has scary things in it, especially for those who charge into things without precautions, without caution, without forethought. However, the 'scary things' on the Astral Layers need not have any permanent effect upon you, if your mind and sense of self are strong. On the Astral, you go where you think about, so somewhat like in the animated movie 'Peter Pan', have happy thoughts ready should you find yourself in some place that you don't want to be at.

I hope that helps you.

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It was the late 1980-s, I was involved as a 'seeker' with a group of Wiccans in Reno calling themselves the College of One. According to their rules, one could only be a 'seeker' for six months, but what kept happening was that we'd reach the end of the six months, they'd tell me that if I wanted to continue I'd have to choose a teacher, I'd thank them, and wish them well, and just before the next Moon Meeting they'd call to see if I was coming. I never chose a teacher. I consistently felt something weird and creepy. One of the many frustrations of being a seeker with that group, was that they would welcome everyone to the Moon Meeting, we'd all start having a little fun together, then they'd decide that it was ritual time, and all the non-initiates would have to leave the ritual area (usually going down into the basement for the period of the ritual). I noticed after a few months that I could 'feel' something going on above that changed things in the basement (I later discovered that what they were doing that was noticeable was 'cutting a circle'). Doing some library research, I figured that they were somehow 'making sacred space', and that I could use that for my own purposes. So, the next time it happened, I mentally shouted, asking for someone to show up who could teach me about all of this stuff. And an entity 'arrived' who called Himself Ullr, the Norse god of the hunt. I don't know, I haven't been trained in how to validate the existence of gods. In any case, His main way of training me was to pull me up onto the Astral, a few layers above the physical reflection. The place abounded with all kinds of spirits, deities (male and female), and beings in between. There was no conflict between them, even though they were connected to different human cultures, and there were a bunch that weren't connected to any human culture. Ullr made me aware that spiritual conflict is a product of limited mortal perspective. Then He took me back to my body.

I had several other similar travels with Him, and learned quite a few things.
Later, when I became more interested in finding out how to Astral Project on my own, the Fountain out of the Llewellyn Guide to Astral Projection worked easily for me, even though I've had to tweak it over the years to teach it to others in a way that they could do the same.

When adept at the Fountain and the use of an Astral Projection Miniature, you're probably ready to begin using it for full Astral Projection.
Do it lying down this time, and do Steps 1 - 5d the same as normal, except put a ball-copy into your Solar Plexus after you place your chest-ball and before you place your belly-ball.

Step 5e = Activating your Solar Plexus

As your chest-ball becomes full, you inhale and the Astral Energy cascades down, overflowing the top of your head, your forehead, your throat, your chest, and into the ball in your Solar Plexus, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, and more comes down, and it starts spinning; inhale again, and more comes down, and it starts glowing, completely full. Inhale again, and more comes down, overflowing to your belly-ball...

(then do the rest of Step 5, and Steps 6, 7, and 8 as normal.)

Step 9 = Releasing your full Astral Body

Gather your focus, and as you inhale, remember your Astral Body, the ideal vision of your Physical Body, and orient upon your Solar Plexus,, then as you exhale, have the energy move thru your Solar Plexus and up, out of you, to form a cloud just above you. Focus on it becoming a place where your Astral Body will be comfortable, and it does.

Step 10 = transferring your consciousness

Remember all of your Chakra-balls except your Solar Plexus, and imagine them rotating counterclockwise (to the left) while you mentally command: "Release!" Then focus on your Solar Plexus and imagine it rotating clockwise (to the right). Immediately you will feel a sensation of swift, sudden movement as you follow the flow of energy out of your physical body. Open your eyes, and you should see your physical body lying beneath you. Move your Astral limbs, test out your other senses.

Step 11 (various travels, looks, and validation excercizes),

You can go anywhere you can imagine or think about. Try various of the validation excecizes included at this site. Go look at the past, your own birth, your gestation, what was happening to your spirit before you were a gleam in your parents' eyes... Whenever you feel mentally tired...

Step 12 = returning

...turn to look behind you. You should see a connection to your physical body. If you 'grab' that and 'pull', you will be instantly moved back to your physical body. As you look down at it, remember being in it with love and nostalgia, and you should 'snap' back in with another sudden movement sensation.

When adept at the Fountain, you're probably ready to begin using it for Astral Projection.
Do it lying down this time, and do Steps 1 - 5d the same as normal, except put a ball-copy into your Solar Plexus after you place your chest-ball and before you place your belly-ball.

Step 5e = Activating your Solar Plexus

As your chest-ball becomes full, you inhale and the Astral Energy cascades down, overflowing the top of your head, your forehead, your throat, your chest, and into the ball in your Solar Plexus, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, and more comes down, and it starts spinning; inhale again, and more comes down, and it starts glowing, completely full. Inhale again, and more comes down, overflowing to your belly-ball...

(then do the rest of Step 5, and Steps 6, 7, and 8 as normal.)

Step 9 = Creating an Astral miniature,

Gather your focus, and as you inhale, orient upon your Solar Plexus,, then as you exhale, have the energy move thru your Solar Plexus and up, out of you, to form a cloud just above you. Focus on it becoming a ball, with a closed eye, and it does.

Step 10 = transferring your consciousness into the mini

Remember all of your Chakra-balls except your Solar Plexus, and imagine them rotating counterclockwise (to the left) while you mentally command: "Release!" Then focus on your Solar Plexus and imagine it rotating clockwise (to the right). Immediately you will feel a sensation of swift, sudden movement. Open your eye, and you should see your physical body lying beneath you. It can take a few tries to get this just right.

Step 11 (various travels, looks, and validation excercizes),

You can go anywhere you can imagine or think about. Try various of the validation excecizes included at this site. Go look at the past, your own birth, your gestation, what was happening to your spirit before you were a gleam in your parents' eyes... Whenever you feel mentally tired...

Step 12 = returning your consciousness and dissolving your mini.

...turn to look behind you. You should see a connection to your physical body. If you move to overlap that, you will be instantly moved back to your physical body. As you look down at it, move down into your Solar Plexus and 'give up' into sleep...(when you fall asleep your lack of focus on your mini makes it fade away, until about the third time you do all of this. If you do it that many times, you'll have a mini in your Solar Plexus that you can Project with whenever you want without having to do the Fountain, or even that you can send out to 'look at things for you', and get the visual recordings of when you bring it back to you, or Project to it.)

Step 3 = Astral ball copy placement,

Holding the Astral Ball you have just made in your right hand, grasp it with your left, inhale, and just because you expect it to, as you exhale pull with your left hand, and pull a 'copy' of that ball of light out of it, then place that into the top of your head. Pull out another copy, and put it into your forehead. Pull out another copy and put it into the base of your throat. Pull out another copy and put it into the middle of your chest. (5e*) Pull out another ball and put it into your belly. Pull out another copy and put it up under your groin area. Lean down and put the original into the ground or floor between your feet.

Step 4 = Astral Spark makes sky-funnel,

Make another Astral Spark, and turn the focus of your eyes and imagination far up into the sky above you, allowing the Astral Spark to follow. When it feels like you are imagining the view from about three miles up, move your focus about one and half miles Northward, and then begin circling above your physical body, going North to East to South to West to North (clockwise looking down at your physical body). As you breathe, your Astral Spark completes this circle faster and faster, becoming a 'solid ring' of light. Then, as you inhale, lines come spiraling down the edges to the ball in the top of your head. All kinds of energies are passing thru this funnel of Astral Light which you have created: Sunlight, Moonlight, Starlight, Cosmic Rays, microwaves, Radio Waves, cellphone communications, electricity, waves of magnetic energy, gravity, etc. As they pass into the funnel, and as you inhale, they all become Astral Energy (Prana, Orgone), and come cascading down into your Chakra-system:

Step 5a = Sky Energizing top Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down into the ball in the top of your head, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball in your forehead...

Step 5b = Sky Energizing forehead Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down to overflow the ball in the top of your head, into the ball in your forehead, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball in your throat...

Step 5c = Sky Energizing throat Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down to overflow the ball in the top of your head, then to overflow the ball in your forehead, and into the ball in your throat, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball in your chest...

Step 5d = Sky Energizing heart Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down to overflow the balls in the top of your head, forehead, and throat, then into the ball in your chest, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball in your belly...

Step 5e = The next would be your Solar Plexus, but this Chakra has the opposite function as regards Astral Projection to the rest of the Chakra-s, energizing it prematurely will not have any positive result.

Step 5f = Sky Energizing belly Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down to overflow the balls in the top of your head, forehead, throat, chest, and into the ball in your belly, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball in your groin...

Step 5g = Sky Energizing groin Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down to overflow the balls in the top of your head, forehead, throat, chest, and belly, and then into the ball in your groin, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball between your feet...As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down into the ball in the top of your head, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts glowing, now it is completely full. Inhale again, more comes down, and it overfills, overflows down into the ball in your forehead...

Step 5h = Sky Energizing foot Chakra,

As you inhale, the converted energies of the Sky come cascading down to overflow the balls in the top of your head, forehead, throat, chest, belly, groin, and then into the ball between your feet,, and as you exhale it starts vibrating; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it starts spinning; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it grows larger, and you feel the Astral Funnel in the sky above you begin fading away; inhale again, more comes down, and as you exhale, it grows larger, and the Astral Funnel fades away completely.

Step 6 = rooting,

As you inhale, root-buds form on the underside of the ball between your feet, and as you exhale they go spiraling down deeply into the ground; inhale again and feel the energy all thru you vibrate, then exhale and the roots go spiraling down thru the Earth's crust into the Magma; inhale again and feel the energy all thru you vibrate, then exhale and the roots go spiraling down into the white hot center of the planet, and suddenly you can feel a presence, looking at you. You can feel the Spirit of the planet....and as She considers your existence, you inhale and all of your energy comes...

Step 7 = Earth Energizing all your Chakra-s,

...rushing straight up to you, straight up thru you, straight up to th ball in the top of your head, and as you exhale it all bursts out of that ball to rain down all around you and pool at your feet.

Step 8 = Cleansing your Aura,

Inhale, and the pool of energy drains into the ball between your feet and straight up to the ball in the top of your head. Exhale and it bursts forth to rain down all around you and pool at your feet. Begin breathing faster and faster, moving the energy thru you and around you faster and faster. Continue until you are breathing as fast as you possibly can.

Step 9 = Balancing Earth-Sky Energies.

When you feel like you are almost going to faint, big inhale and the energy moves straight up thru you one last time,, then exhale and blast all of it back up into the sky.

["do" fact]

May I ask how you know all these things as fact? such as, "you have an energy-body and can make more at any time."
or
"there are organs n your energy-body called chakra-s"

Im not saying its not true, just wondering how you came to those conclusions.

Thanks

I don't "do" fact. I've tried, and it is evident that my validation process is not up to par with the validation processes of various scientists, university students, and semanticists that have accosted me over the years. I do personal gnosis, and as I explained in my own introduction (Grrrrrrreetings Entities!), I usually sound quite authoritarian, but I do not mean it. All I am relating is of my personal gnosis, and I actively disbelieve that there is any One True Way for everyone to believe and follow. I share what I have discovered works for me not to convert people to doing exactly the same thing that I do, but to inspire them to try different things and discover what works for them.

I hope this helps you.

There are a number of steps involved. You might need to read over this a number of times before you begin to use it, or you might do some of the steps as whole projects separately until you are adept at them, then combine them into a whole sequence. Note that the placement of the Chakra-s are according to the 'developing Chakra-s' {as related in Essential Reiki}.

Step 1 = Create Astral Spark,
Step 2 = Astral Spark becomes line, disc, ball,
Step 3 = Astral ball copy placement,
Step 4 = Astral Spark makes sky-funnel,
Step 5a = Sky Energizing top Chakra,
Step 5b = Sky Energizing forehead Chakra,
Step 5c = Sky Energizing throat Chakra,
Step 5d = Sky Energizing heart Chakra,
Step 5e = (skipping the Solar Plexus),
Step 5f = Sky Energizing belly Chakra,
Step 5g = Sky Energizing groin Chakra,
Step 5h = Sky Energizing foot Chakra,
Step 6 = rooting,
Step 7 = Earth Energizing all your Chakra-s,
Step 8 = Cleansing your Aura,
Step 9 = Balancing Earth-Sky Energies.

After adept at all of that and ready for Astral Projection steps, change to:
Step 5e = Activating the Solar Plexus,
Step 9 = Creating an Astral miniature,
Step 10 = transferring your consciousness into the mini,
Step 11 (various travels, looks, and validation excercizes),
Step 12 = returning your consciousness and dissolving your mini.

After adept at that, change to:
Step 5e = Activating the Solar Plexus,
Step 9 = Releasing your full Astral Body,
Step 10 = transferring your consciousness
Step 11 (various travels,)
Step 12 = returning


Step 1 = Create Astral Spark,

Stand relaxed in an area where you won't be disturbed for about ten minutes or so, with your eyes closed. Become aware that in a moment or two you are going to snap your fingers, and when you do a 'point' of Astral energy is going to come into existence, as small as a needle-point and as bright as a star, just because you 'command' it to come into existence, because you expect it to. Do expect it to.
Open your eyes, snap your fingers! Watch how the spark moves around as you move the focus of your eyes, or 'tell' it to, or expect it to.

Step 2 = Astral Spark becomes line, disc, ball,

Focus your eyes on your right hand, and have your Astral Spark travel in a line between your thumb and forefinger, and as you inhale it travels faster, bouncing back and forth, exhale...inhale again and it goes faster, faster and faster and faster until it becomes a 'solid line' of Astral Light. Pull your hand away and watch the line of light hover there, because you expect it to. In a moment you are going to snap your fingers again, and when you do, the line of light will start spinning end-to-end. Snap! Watch it spin slowly, and as you inhale, it spins faster, exhale...inhale again and it goes faster, faster and faster and faster until it becomes a 'solid disc' of Astral Light. Pull your hand away and watch the disc of light hover, because you expect it to. In a moment you are going to snap your fingers again, and when you do, th disc of light will start spinning sideways. Snap! Watch it spin slowly, and as you inhale, it spins faster, exhale...inhale again and it goes faster, faster and faster and faster until it becomes a 'solid ball' of Astral Light.

I read the FAQ and I've been trying to read the permanent topics, but I keep running across the phrase "...projecting from meditation can take years to work...." Well, depending on how you meditate, I guess.

It's important to realize that you have an energy-body and can make more at any time.
It's important to understand that there are organs in your energy-body, called Chakra-s, part of whose function is to link and bond your energy-body into your physical body. Fatigue, stress, extreme hunger, and near-death intensity fainting can "short-circuit" your Chakra-s, but such are not to be recommended for regular practice, rather you should learn to cleanse your Chakra-s, clear out your aura, energize and unlock your Chakra-s, create a 'small' energy body to practice transferring your consciousness into, and then do that practice. Please note that this doesn't work very well when attempted out of sequence. Once you are adept with the 'small', you can create a full Astral Body (or use the one you already have) and begin full-on projections.

The technique I use is called "The Fountain". I ran across it in Llewellyn's Guide to Astral Projection, but I have 'tweaked' it over the years to be more effective to me. I am a Pagan. There are parts in this (where the female Spirit of the planet considers your existence) that might not be suitable for those that have other beliefs.

But I think there's a little problem:What about people with tinnitus? When I lay down, I can hear a constant tone in my left ear after a while, and I'm afraid that would be too distracting...

Tinnitus and hearing the 'Hu'.....People who have Tinnitus hear automatically what the rest of us have to ground, clear our minds, and get our minds to be silent to hear, the sound that our blood makes when travelling thru the vessels near our eardrums. This does not mean that it is not a good indicator of mind-silence, it is just automatically louder for those who have Tinnitus. Such persons can still focus on the sound, and as such focus becomes complete (it seems to get louder), their minds will become silent. So, worry not, it need not distract you "too much", particularly if you work with it.

Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!

When you meditate, are you using any particular method of cleansing and energizing your Chakra-s? If not, that's probably what is required. Your Chakra-s are the organs of your energy body, that permit and/or 'lock' your energy-body to your physical body. When they are clogged up, they can't 'unlock'.

All of these issues (metaphysics) are affected by how you think about them. Trying to have a 'reasonable expectation' can 'kill' the very things you are trying to experience. When a kindergardener goes to school, when should he 'reasonably expect' to learn algebra? Will not over-focusing on algebra substantially distract from all of the other things he could be learning? I'm not saying that Astral Projection is or will be as tough for you to experience as algebra would be for a kindergardener, but I exaggerated to get you to see the point.
Let go of your preconceptions, your expectations, your fears.
Indulge in the experiences, even if they are 'only' lucid dreaming.

Biggest Brightest Blessings!!!

[I am Raendome Al-Askendir Xtranj,]

I am Raendome Al-Askendir Xtranj, commonly called 'Random' by my friends (that screen-name was already taken), or even 'Rax'.
I am a 46 year-young, low-testosterone male, caucasian, bi-sexual (not very active though), active Pagan who is a Scorpio, Moon in Taurus, Capricorn Rising, with about 20 to 25 years of intense metaphysical experiences in the vicinity of Reno, Nevada, USA, Sol System, Milky Way, index universe 73 of the Gold Essence ruled spaces of the Omniverse. I indulge in three intensely active personality-modes, 'Random', 'Drakonaurex', and 'Damona'. I have a lot of personal gnosis and experiences, but not a lot of traditional work. I have been called a 'Chaos Elder' (until I explained that Chaos Mages don't have elders). I look forward to being able to share a lot of information in obedience to my oaths to Thot (which is how I pronounce Thoth), and being filled with joy and respect at the infinite ways to be revealed through the infinite unique perspectives on the world. Be advised that though I seem to speak with great authority, I am only revealing portions of my way, which has the same value and truth as anyone else's way, and no more.

[Prana]

Kind of but not exactly. Metaphysical energies, being less exactly understood by most people in current times, cannot be dealt with as exactly as electricity. They act more like a cross between electricity and water, depending on which type of metaphysical energy you are dealing with. Astral Energy, or Prana, is like water vapor, and can be moved or shaped by focusing on it, getting passionate about it, breathing, and altering your state of mind while you do so. But it is difficult to store as is: when your focus is off of it, it tends to drift away. Aetheric Energy is more like sluggish, liquid water, that comes to a high tide during the 3 - 5 days of the full moon. It can be difficult to gather, you don't really collect water by grabbing it, but you can, over time, 'shape your aura' to become a 'deeper pool' so that when you do connect to an Aetheric flow, you can have more of it stay with you for longer periods. Chi is like highly charged (in the electrical sense) vapor. It tends to flow quickly and straightly. It can be stored, compressed, and both compressed and stored in your chakra-s.
Astral and Chi can be stored in objects, depending on the nature of the object.
 'Reabsorbing' is another question...rarely can the subtlety of the original Astral energy or Chi reoccur when it is brought out of an object - - - you are basically changing its state from vapor to crystalline to get it to stay in the object, so when you bring it out, unless you do almost as much work as generating/ summoning new Prana/  Chi, it generally stays like very cold liquid. You can use it for things, prayers, reality modifications, etc, but it takes a lot to be used by your body naturally again.
That being said, when you successfully store energy in an object, it changes the metaphysical nature of the object, and that's why most people do it, not to get the energy back again later.

The metaphysical nature of objects is determined by (a) the materials involved, (b) the conceptual momentum of the object-form, (c) the 'specialness' with which you consider the object.
Living and once-living materials tend to gather and permit the flow of Prana; animal remains (bones, horns, etc) tend to permit the flow of Chi, or, when properly prepared, to be deep pools of the Aetheric Fluid (such that the proper collections can be used as 'form-samples' to massively help in shape-shifting); metals tend to block flows of Prana and Chi. Using these principles together, you can cover some wood with some metal, and as the item moves through areas of Prana, the wood will collect it, but the metal will not let it out, and so it will build up. If the only 'exit' for the Prana from this object is a quartz crystal, the built-up Prana will be harmonized as it comes thru the crystal, coming out pre-focused and coherent, ready to be directed at anything. For the proper construction of such a device, read Crystal Tech by Llewellyn. (they're called 'Atlantean Power Rods'). There is some connection between the electrical conductivity and preciousness of the metal and how it interacts with Prana/ Chi - - - the more conductive and precious, the better. Lead is almost like heavy plastic or glass where Prana or Chi are concerned, almost not there. Tin is almost exactly like plastic or glass. Copper is much better, Silver even better than that, and Gold best of all, depending on your purpose. Silver is connected to Aetheric Energy, aspected by the Moon. But care should be taken, because when you store Prana in Silver with a purpose, it retains that purpose almost forever. Gold is connected to Elemental Fire, aspected by the Sun. You don't store energy in Gold so much as you use the energy you were going to store to 'ignite' the Gold and give it an active purpose, and from then on it produces Prana/ Chi for that purpose. Then there are crystals. When you store Prana or Chi in a crystal, it doesn't really go into the crystal, it goes into a nearby Astral Layer which that crystal is connected to - - - which means that amazing 'amounts' of such energies can be put in and accessed by the crystal depending on its type (and what elements it is connected to).

I personally feel that it the conceptual momentum of precious and conductive metals that makes them interact with energy as well as they do. Basically, how large numbers of people think and feel about a subject (including materials and objects), impacts how that subject can be. So this can change depending on what area of the world you are in at the time.

The more special you consider the object to be, the better it will work for the purpose you have in mind, particularly if you take time to focus on the object, think about its specialness and its purpose, imagine it working the way that you want it to, and praise, bless, and thank the object and the world that they work this way....

All of that, of course, is only my opinion developed over 20 years of metaphysical activity, and your mileage may vary.