Relatives infected with Dogma...

[Tippycat]

I wouldn't share my experiences with just anyone. Very few can I talk to about cept my wonderful hubby and recently my mother. She is really into certain things, but holds on tight to her christian traditions.

When I spoke to her about my recent projection in finding my grandfather (her father) she was very intrigued, and even wanted me to ask him something if there would be a next time etc. She even confessed to me of having an OBE once when she fell asleep on the couch and was hovering over her body. She panicked and lost it. She said she has always understood that when you leave your body, that anything can over take it because of its vulnerability. All I could say was that we can control on who or what wants in, and I was in full control.

Does anyone have any advice on a better explination I could give her??

[Palehorse]

From the way I've seen explained by a lot of people, including Robert Bruce, we don't actually *leave* our bodies per se, so there's not really any danger of something coming in while we're "gone."  Rather, a functioning copy of your consciousness is what actually projects, has experiences, and then reintegrates with your physical brain.

It'd be a bit like if you made a backup copy of all the information on your computer's hard drive, and then put the backed up stuff on a new computer.  Then you made some modifications to the information on the new computer, possibly downloaded some new software, and copied all the information back to the old, where it would overwrite what was already there with a few new things.  The first hard drive is your physical brain, the backed up information is your consciousness, and the new computer is your astral body.  The new things that come back from the new computer are the memories from your OBE.

So y'see, being in danger of having your body taken over is a rather moot point, because it is not ever left empty or unguarded.  Your physical brain and the consciousness that's hardwired into it are always ready to yank the astral copy of itself back to the physical the very instant it percieves any sort of threat or problem.