Is there a connection to the Astral while active?

[beavis]

There is always a connection, but while awake, we are easily distracted from it.

[OverDriven]

I've never had a conscious exit project, but have gotten very very close. Even so, during the day I can shift my focus to my astral body. Its a strange feeling...my vision usually goes blurry, I feel vibrations everywhere, and sometimes lights in the room will dim or flicker (this is not something that happens often). ESP and telekenesis skills usually increase during this period. Its very hard to stay there though...you must think absolutely nothing. Some say they can actually see into the astral while wide awake and interacting with the physical.

-Joe

[Thing]

i don't believe that there is someone who will cut any belt and kill us. what the hell is that? life-control?
like when you have a accident or someone dies in a war, is it something who feels like cuting many belts that day? hehe no sense

[Selete]

Yeah, at first I didn't beleive it either, until I saw the 'umbilical cord' thing going from conciousness to body in those OBE pics. As he tells me, he doesn't 'kill' them, it's more like he 'is' their death, or at least the separation part. And yes, he says there are things that cut those 'belts' in war, but he says it takes different people to 'separate' different ways. He tried to go on into how, but I didn't really understand him. Something about energy, karma, and hanging on to the physical world.

[Selete]

Like, can one communicate with astral beings while still 'awake' and doing mundane things, anything repetitive that you do every day? This is when I 'talk' to what I thought of as imaginary friends when I was small, delusions when I learned about schizophrenia, and beings when I learned about all this weird stuff. I wouldn't suppose it was anything more than day dreams if not for 2 things: 1) I can't controll the actions of the beings, and 2) They tell me things that turn out to be more or less true.

For example, One of them calls himself Demon, although he says he was a bartender called Darren when he was alive. He's something of a shady character, but I've known him for a long time and I've come to trust him. Anyway, he was telling me how he considers some ghosts to be 'bums' because they don't have jobs, and just sob about how sucky their lives were instead of doing anything. I asked him just what it was that he does, and he told me that he's something he calls and 'equalizer;' thay he kills people. Before I freak out, he explains that he isn't their cause of death so much as the death itself. He explained it like this: there's a person's body,a person's soul, and a person's life essence. Then there's what he described as a 'belt' that connects the latter two to the physical body, and when it's time, he cuts that belt. I always pictured a belt like a peice of clothing, until I saw the pictured that Peacefulwarrior posted in the OBE section, with the 'belt' of energy connecting conciousness to body. Is it possible that this is the 'belt' demon spoke of? Or should I seek psychological councelling?