Astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts.
It is described as the soul’s journey, the “ascent” or “out-of body experience.
The spiritual traveler leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dream body or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms.
There are times that people have been pronounced dead at the scene of a car accident and then at the hospital morgue they have rejoined their bodies and returned to life. This has been called a near death experience.
I believe fearing the pain their bodies were about to go through, they astral traveled.
I believe that sometimes it is our angels and spiritual guides pulling us out of our body so the pain does not affect us. After we are pronounced dead or being in a coma, we can come out of it without any memory of the accident.
It is sometimes attempted out of curiosity, or may be deemed a necessity, or the result of some forms of spiritual practice. It may involve “travel to higher realms” called
astral planes but is commonly used to describe any sensation of being “out of the body” in the everyday world, even seeing one’s body from outside or above.
Astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experience.
I have astral projected since I was very young.
The first time I did it was when my mother was yelling at me about not going to see my grandmother Mary for ice cream and cookies. While she was yelling, I astral projected to my grandmother’s table and ate ice cream and cookies with her.
On the physical plane my mother was in the process of grabbing my arm and taking me to bed in the middle of the afternoon. When she slammed me into bed the vision stopped and I came back to my body. The process had ended.
My Great Aunt Julia talked to me the next day and told me I had separated from the physical body and traveled outside it. She said that by being scared or in danger I left my body and went next door at Grandma Mary’s where I was safe and loved.
Remember What You See And Where You Travel
My Great Aunt Julia said to take notes of my travels when I woke up in order to increase my subconscious. When you wake up, relax, and think about everything that happened and write it down. Even if it is only a few key words it could still help.
Doing this often, you will begin to remember more and more until you do not need to write it down anymore. Try this with your dreams also. It will be very helpful for remembering a successful astral projection.
When I cut my wrist in 1996 on a broken window, I lost 3 pints of blood until I made it to the hospital to stitch up the artery. Feeling panic at seeing all that blood, I astral projected to see my Aunt Maudie at her house in East Alton. She, being gifted, had seen me looking at her in her living room while she listened to Billy Graham.
My phone rang while I was showering the blood off, and she told me I should not have showered, but she was glad I came to see her. She then added that the towel I had wrapped around my wrist was not tied tight enough to stop the blood flow. Saying this meant that she also astral projected to me and checked my wound.
How can I do this, you ask? I will explain.
When you are just starting out do the following steps of simple exercise.
Lay or sit relax with music or not.
Wear loose clothing no jewelry that binds you or will hold you to the earth or in your body
Cover yourself if you feel you need your body temperature warmer
Visualize yourself pulling from the chest out of your body and turn at a 90 degree angle
Sitting up pull yourself off the bed raising up over your body
Looking down upon your body remember it is safe we have many bodies
Your astral body is ready to go further see yourself going through the doorway
Then go through out your house looking around at everything as it is
Go back to your body if you do not feel you want to travel further
The next morning write up all your belongings in your living room and in your kitchen that your remember from the travel there during your astral travel the night before. That will help you when you really travel outside the house on a journey.
If you had problems with this exercise remember the whole trick is to just let go. Quit thinking in the present and create a sense of floating. The way you are going to accomplish this is to just do it.
Tell yourself, “As I breathe in I am getting lighter and as I breathe out I am being released from my physical body.” You imagine what it is like to be out of body then focus on that and nothing else. If you don’t have trouble with that, then with each breath the possibilities are limitless.
You are on your way to your “out of body” journey. Astral Projection is yours for the asking. Just relax and quit thinking, just as a sports player has to do before the big game. You know you’re on your way to the journey into the night of travel.
The Other Planes Can Be Traveled To
I have traveled into the other planes because I feel that I have enough experience to do so but I do not suggest others do this without formal training.
I can go to the other side to see where my relatives are and how they are doing.
I am taken there by your relatives daily during readings for you and I am wide awake when I do it for your information.
I have fears about clients with no experience doing this by themselves. I feel that they could possibly get into uncomfortable situations. They might even run into relatives that have abused them.
There are many astral levels to travel to. One such plane is you past life.
You could encounter tragic experiences from those lifetimes. Make sure that you use a qualified guide to help you on these journeys.
I have guided clients from distant cities like New York from speaker phone so they would not be on this journey alone. After Amanda awoke from her guided travel, she discovered her great grandmother moved a chair into the middle of the living room.
Unfortunately, the chair was too heavy for my client to move back by herself. This was one problem this gifted psychic did not know how to solve. This would have been hard to explain to the neighbor who usually helps her, so she had to wait two weeks for her parents for help. It was proof that her great grandmother was there with her.
The next journey can be done as I did to visit a relative or friend. You can go to any place you enjoy, an art museum, a car show, or other place of interest.
Lay north and south direction if you feel you need to or sit relax with music or not
Wear loose clothing no jewelry that binds you or will hold you to the earth or in your body
Cover yourself if your feel you need your body temperature warmer
Visualize yourself pulling from the chest out of your body
Sitting up pull yourself off the bed raising up over your body
Looking down upon your body remember it is safe we have many bodies
Your astral body is ready to go further see yourself going through the window
Concentrate on the place you are to go and visualize yourself being there.
You know basics of what it looks like there.
When you see the place you are going to look around
Do you see anyone and what is going on around you when you are at the place you traveled to?
Relax they might not see you. I have been seen when visiting clients having hospital staying or giving birth, but most times not seen.
One friend another psychic said one person said that she astral traveled without any robe on and one of her people she visited told her they saw her in the evening wear
Each time you travel, do it the same way so it helps you learn faster. The more often you get your memories of your travels down on paper the more you will be able to remember future travels.
One of my clients went forward into her future seeing herself doing a sweat lodge, then becoming a shaman woman and teacher. She was going to do the healing and teaching along with her new husband.
People asked what level she went to. It was to the God level of her third eye. I was her guide with her on this astral travel. You should never go to this level unassisted.
The Bible
A common belief is that the subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of a psychic silver cord. The final chapter of the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes is often cited in this respect;
“Before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern”
Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians (Chapter 12, verse 2) is more generally agreed to refer to the astral planes;
“I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows) such a one caught up to the third heaven…”‘
Islam
There are passages in the Holy Quran that may be interpreted
as instances of astral projection, for example Muhammed’s night flight to Heaven in sura 17, Isra and Mi’raj. Another is this: It is Allah that takes the souls (of men) at death; and those that did not die, during their sleep: those on whom He has passed the decree of death, He keeps back, but the rest He sends (to their bodies) for a term appointed. Verily in this are Signs for those who reflect. [Holy Quran 39:42]
Ancient Egypt
Similar concepts of “soul” travel appear in various other religious traditions, for example ancient Egyptian teachings present the soul as having the ability to hover outside the physical body in the ka, or subtle body.
China
Taoist alchemical practice involves creation of an energy body by breathing meditations, drawing energy into a ‘pearl’ that is then “circulated” “Xiangzi … with a drum as his pillow fell fast asleep, snoring and motionless.
His primordial spirit, however, went straight into the banquet room and said, “My lords, here I am again.” … When Tuizhi walked … with the officials to take a look, there really was a Daoist sleeping on the ground and snoring like thunder.
Yet inside, in the side room, there was another Daoist beating a fisher drum and singing Daoist songs.
The officials all said, “Although there are two different people, their faces and clothes are exactly alike. Clearly he is a Divine immortal who can divide his The two merged into one.”
India
In the advancing stages leading to the beginning of the path, the aspirant becomes spiritually prepared for being entrusted with free use of the forces of the inner world of the astral bodies. He may then undertake astral journeys in his astral body, leaving the physical body in sleep or wakefulness. The astral journeys that are taken unconsciously are much less important than those undertaken with full consciousness and as a result of deliberate volition. This implies conscious use of the astral body. Conscious separation of the astral body from the outer vehicle of the gross body has its own value in making the soul feel its distinction from the gross body and in arriving at fuller control of the gross body. One can, at will, put on and take off the external gross body as if it were a cloak, and use the astral body for experiencing the inner world of the astral and for undertaking journeys through it, if and when necessary….The ability to undertake astral journeys therefore involves considerable expansion of one’s scope for experience. It brings opportunities for promoting one’s own spiritual advancement, which begins with the involution of consciousness
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Inuit
In some Inuit groups people with special capabilities are said to travel to (mythological) remote places, and report their experiences and things important to their fellows or the entire community; how to stop bad luck in hunting, cure a sick person etc., things unavailable to people with normal capabilities.
Looking as a psychic when one views the physical during an out-of-body experience; one is not technically “in” the astral realm at all. They may describe a domain that has no parallel to any known physical setting. Environments may be populated or unpopulated, artificial, natural or abstract, and the experience a belief is that one may access a compendium of mystical knowledge called the Akashic records. In many accounts the Astral traveler correlates the astral world with the world of dreams. Some travelers even report seeing other dreamers enacting dream scenarios unaware of their wider environment.
The astral environment may also be divided into levels or sub-planes by theorists, but there are many different views in various traditions concerning the overall structure of the astral planes: they may include heavens and hells and other after-death spheres, transcendent environments or other less-easily characterized state.
Notable practitioners
These people are the historical best: Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote: Spiritual Diary (1747–65, then novelist Honoré de Balzac‘s fictional work “Louis Lambert” suggests he may have had some astral or out-of-body experience. Others include Robert Monroe, Oliver Fox, Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington, and Yram. These include Carrington, a psychical researcher, and Muldoon, who professed ease with astral projection, jointly published The Projection of the Astral Body in 1929. Techniques they felt facilitated projection included visualizing flying or ascending in an elevator just before going to sleep and trying to regain waking consciousness while in a dream state (lucid dreaming) by habitually recognizing apparent incongruities in one’s dream such as a different pattern of wallpaper in one’s home. Such recognition, they said, sometimes resulted in the feeling of being outside the physical body and able to look down on it. Only a few authors remain widely cited. Robert Monroe’s accounts of journeys to other realms (1971–1994) popularized the term “OBE”.
There are many articles online for astral projection and books out there. To schedule your astral projection session, please contact me.
Let me be your guide to the astral plane.
Blessings,
Linda Humphries
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