what got you into this?

[ingerul9]

In the beginning meaning 7 years ago I was trying to understand why I had no success with girls  . I was doing all that was supposed of me to do it but I didn't understand why no girl wanted to be with me. So one day I got an email saying something along the lines of how I can be more successful and I said what the heck - let's see what it's all about. It cannot hurt more than being alone and feeling miserable. I was rather desperate at that time.

I have discovered there was a whole underground study of this that I wasn't aware of this. It is like an analogy of this site until you discover it or any one of astral projection information. If you don't direct your attention to studying it further you would never find it through informational ways on internet. So I began my journey of studying human psychology. I was as if the lightening has struck me with some awesome information on the dynamics of male-female relationship. I had a lot of AHA moments and I was quite suprised everybody was doing it but was unaware of it. And when I'm saying about it I mean how guys who have a lot of success with women act in front of them. I started to see paterns emerging that I didn't see before. I couldn't believe it I was so blind to all of these before. I hadn't the slightest clue as to why before and now low and behold everything was being explained to me in a rather logical and rational way as why everything happens and how to become successful like many others.

So I started practicing to see if it's the real deal on my female friends just to view if they respond somehow. And they responded big time. I even tried to explain these concepts to them but they wouldn't hear it. They said it doesn't apply to them but only to a certain percentage of women. But I had a different take on it. It works 100%. This literally changed my life and has made it into a beautiful roller-coaster and hadn't stopped since. I changed my style and take on life. I improved myself in many areas and I continued to study further.

Studying over the years got me into reading also different recommended books by this successful guys. They dealt with psychology,sociology, empathy, biology. I've gone and made myself a lot of new friends. I have taken dance lessons to meet new girls and the idea that it's 4 girls to 1 guy ratio is totally true. So when you're asking where all of the girls have gone you'll find them in the dance room  . I've gone to all sorts of expozitions and cultural events and started having conversations with random people (mostly women ofcourse  ). I've learned how to be more sociable and I learned one of the best lessons of life - that you have to enjoy it. You have to be happy for no reason altogether than being happy. If in the initial run I was on the track of meeting new women now I was discovering another face of life.

I was going slowly, slowly towards spirituality without actually knowing. By attending different cultural events I end up in gnostic teachings. These were like a sect. But going to these classes put me in touch with spiritually. I had many common ideas with what they were sharing but at some point in time I discovered they were going in another direction than what was mine. But in one of the classes it was presented to us the idea of astral projection. In the beginning I didn't put much attention to it but over time I become more and more interested and decided it's time to test this idea to see if it's valid or not. I was trying at night and didn't succeed with the first few attempts and one night I was coming from a party and being quite drunk and not feeling so good I decided to skip going to bed and stay some more time on computer reading. When I've gone to bed to go to sleep I literally when I've put my head on the pillow got out of my body. I knew it was an OBE. It felt so cool and so enlightening at the time. I was in awe days after this experience. One thing I forgot to mention was that some days before I just shouted in my mind to the universe to show me some real proof that this stuff it's real. I was becoming frustrated at my attempts being failures. But now I had this result who surpased all my expectations. After this my intuition grew and all aspects of my life was falling like pieces in a puzzle everything going where it should. Life was being effortless. I was meeting people of all types and I had certain situations, events, circumstances that was clearly showing I was going in the right direction.

Life is great ever since I had these epiphanies. Nowadays I just teach people the concepts to being happy for no other reason than being happy. My concepts have expanded and grown since the beginning. I feel more at ease with life. I sail with it, go with the flow, surf it however you want it to say. Life is great. Every day is a blessing.

[Xanth]

I got caught stealing. Wasn't able to leave my room for about a month. Looked up time travel and came across some AP videos on youtube
I couldn't believe that people could actually do this and I needed to do it myself. I picked up 2 of robert monroes books and since I had nothing better to do I would take like 2 or 3 naps a day and try to get oob.

I never succeded during that month, but a month later I had a spontaneous obe and it was the greatest thing ever lol. Been hooked on it ever since and also for spiritual growth

Wow, you got off easy... who needs to leave their room when you've got a computer and net access! 

I got into APing *many* years ago... but didn't really give myself much time to practice it.
It's only recently that I've buckled down and got more into it.

I find that the time between then and now has actually helped me to understand the "why" I want to do it and the "how" as well.

[radman32]

On the same note of Xanth and others that I read about, getting into APing brought a state of being so much greater than what I expected. The world seemed to fall into place, what I was doing and what my most intuitive friends/communities were doing; my life started turning around. Partly because of what new life choices I'm building for myself, but as a result of getting spiritual, knowledgeable, and guided through AP. It was a whole natural cycle and system of revelation., I couldn't stop, it was all so appealing and real, yet mysterious.
Some things i got into lately that made me more spiritual and connected: APing, Parkour/Freerunning, Sunfood/Rawfood/Veganism, the untold histories of our world, exopolitics, hemp/cannabis, barefeet, crystals.

[personalreality]

I forget where I first learned of astral projection, but I've always been a curious explorer.  When I was a kid I was fascinated by astronomy, I've always loved space and I have always wanted to be on the Starship Enterprise.  When I got to my teenage years I remember a friend who got me interested in lucid dreaming.  I had also started reading Carlos Castaneda.  While I never became proficient at lucid dreaming I really got into Castaneda.  I even declared myself as an anthropology major when I started college because I wanted to go drink ayhuasca with some shamans and become a shamans apprentice.  I guess I was always interested in exploring the unknown, but when I got to be about 15 or 16 it took on new meaning as I got more interested in philosophy and metaphysics. 

[Eyyoshi]

I was very interested in dreaming as a kid, but never looked into "how to dream more" kind of stuff. Until last August 2009, I found out about lucid dreaming. I tried it out, yeah I had dreams that were lucid-ish but never were they vivid. Well while I was searching up ways to make my dreams better, astral projection was in the related searches. I looked into it, thought it was too good to be true. The FIRST time I tried to project I nearly exited. I was convinced that this had to be legit.

But I've yet to exit after all those months. However I am on the edge of exiting these days, every attempt I get close. MY PROBLEM was that I never knew how to do single minded focus. Which is actually quite easy plus the sensations come on quick.

People/beginners get frustrated and ask "how do you relax" or "what technique should I do". I was the same, excluding the technique part, but I thought I had to hit trance even though I don't really know what trance is. So I would just lie there relaxing, expecting something to happen, get impatient or frequently question why wasn't anything happening, which made me uncomfortable and ultimately ruin my attempt.

[Fresco]

what got you into this?

I had a spontaneous, non-planned OBE a few years ago.
Before that I had no interest in the subject, and other than a few documentaries on discovery channel I didnt lend much credence to the OBE and NDE theories.

I do now though!