✨ General articles on the subject of astral projection, etc

It's my opinion that astral projection, dreaming and lucid dreaming are intertwined in the same locale. The difference between dreams, projection and lucid dreaming is what is at the controls (the conscious mind or the subconscious mind). Even if you get the vibrations and roll out of your physical body, you will end up "dreaming" very quickly if you don't know what you're doing. People say, "I failed because I fell into a dream." Well, no you didn't, you just gave up conscious control to the subconscious mind which makes the experience totally different! The subconscious mind has its own agenda and communication system.



Your conscious mind is concerned with the here and now. Your subconscious mind is concerned with processing life events, working out soul lessons, attempting to bring past and future events into your consciousness, and a bevy of other things. Subtle realm experiences, dream or otherwise, get "fantasy like" because again, a person has lost conscious control. The same exact thing happens in the astral if you don't use clarity statements. People just don't realize what the astral is like (during a conscious projection). Yes, it can be as lucid and clear as the waking state, but you can slip into the Alice in Wonderland effect (subconscious control) faster than you can shake a stick! In fact, control can be lost in less than a minute. I have rolled out of my body, gotten half way down my stairs, totally lost conscious control, and slipped into fantasy land immediately. Only through sheer will power, and constantly directing my focus towards my goal, am I able to maintain a lucid state. Published astral projection author, William Buhlman, also states that clarity statements are a must for maintaining lucidity and control.



The astral is a malleable place where form follows thought, but don't just think it follows "conscious" thought. It also follows subconscious thought. Many an advanced projector, including the famous Robert Monroe, would marvel at how things would materialize (or that they would be transported to an event or place) quicker than they could form the desire consciously. That is how fast and strong the subconscious works!





An example of an astral dream is if you are working on a lesson. Many lessons cannot be worked out on the physical plane because you wouldn't be able to handle the issue over and over (or even once), whereas you can handle fairly severe scenarios in the astral. For example, we assume all beings not recognizable, such as subtle plane entities, are "evil." If you dream of a freaky looking entity then you'll experience the fear emotion. Fear is generally the first reaction, and often the only reaction, to this experience. Time and time again I was afraid of what I didn't recognize, until I learned to give it a chance, and even send it love. Only then did it morph into something I recognized and that is, the very same life energy that I was. I doubt I'd find it all too pleasant to find some scary looking being in my bedroom at night in the physical, but I can endure it over and over in the astral. It seems like a "crazy" dream, but it is your subconscious mind nudging you in the direction of total awareness and unconditional love.



Dreams can often come true. A common name for a psychic of this sort is a "sleeping psychic." If we did nothing but remain in our bodies during sleep then this would not be possible. People have even met their friends and loved ones in "dreams" and both parties remembered the experience. In so called dreams, messages are given and futures told.



People write me in frustration that they can't consciously project. Well, why not instead realize that you project every night and tackle it from a different viewpoint? Why not learn lucid dreaming (or lucid projection) and bypass the whole nonsense of "vibrations and rollout?"



Remember, you project every night you sleep. All we're doing here is trying to get conscious control of the subtle state.  ~  ~

Great Rick.  I think this will be quite interesting.

The word Poltergeist originates from the German words poltern, ‘to knock', and geist, ‘spirit'. Basically, it's an entity that can produce physical and auditory disturbances in a person's environment. What it also can be is terrifying. Originally thought to be demons and devils, it was later believed that the person receiving the poltergeist's attention was the cause of the disturbance itself. However, I do not agree with this in all cases as I myself underwent a serious poltergeist experience and actually saw the non-human entity while in the etheric!

Poltergeists are attracted to negative and powerful energy centers, and my home, when growing up, was a cesspool of negativity, thus making it a natural breeding ground for negative and unwanted visitors. Because of the tumultuous nature of youth in general, they are common recipients, or targets, of unwanted energies and this applied to me as well.

Here is an account of my poltergeist experience when I was about 17 years old. First, ghosts were common in my house as both my grandparents died there and their presence was often felt. However, I don't lump ghosts and poltergeists into the same category, per se. I consider ghosts to be humans passed on, while poltergeists can be non-human energies from the lower planes. Being that Poltergeists are from the lower planes (and there they stay), their behavior is always malevolent and centered around woefully unhappy people, and unlike most adults, teenagers rage with volatile emotions and unwittingly open themselves up to pestering.

I first started to notice a presence in my room by the temperature variation from the rest of the house: it was cold! Then our pet Labrador would sit at my bedroom doorway, not entering, and growl at the seemingly empty space inside. It was then that I started to be visited during my sleep. I would become lucid to something painful going on such as my sides getting pinched or squeezed. I was generally in the catatonic state and totally unable to move. On one occasion, I used my eyes to look down at my waist area to see what was causing me pain, and I saw a small creature curled up next to me, almost clinging. I was very terrified and I started to develop insomnia out of fear of falling asleep and being visited. The general bizarreness of my life took off at this point and lasted many months. There was an event that showed me how these things, when provoked, can punch a whole into our physical reality.

I was at a male friend's house telling him about this poltergeist issue, but he refused to believe it. He insisted on seeing for himself, so I asked him to come home with me and check it out for himself. When we went into my room, it was very cold, as usual. My friend started becoming belligerent and making comments like, "There is no entity here! If there is, it's pathetic because I sure can't feel it!" I was mortified and told him to not say this, for fear something ill would come of it, but he continued on until he left the house satisfied that nothing was there. The moment he left, the room was clear. Warm even! The change was so noticeable that I thought it had gone for good and I had the best night of sleep in months. What I didn't know, is that it followed my friend back to his house.

The next day, I got a call from my friend saying he could no longer be my friend, per his parents demands. Apparently, when he got home that night and went to bed, the stereo had flipped itself on and was dialing through channels much to his shock. Then his closet collapsed and he become hysterical, waking up his parents. Upon questioning, he told them what he had done that night, and that this "thing" was probably from my house. That was all it took!

A year after this incident occured, I moved in with a family that I was friends with, but this thing followed me regardless. Without me even saying anything about it, the mother, who was a gifted psychic, said that she knew I had a low level entity attached to me. This entity was my constant companion until I eventually outgrew it by raising my vibrations, therefore making its attachment to me non-existent.  ~  ~

I get many e-mails asking me if projections are real or if lucid dreams are a form of projection.

And I always ask, "Where do you think your soul exists?" or "Where do you think your consciousness exists?" Your reality is defined by whatever you're experiencing at the moment.

Let's drop some labels for a moment (such as awake, sleeping, lucid dreaming and astral projection).

And know that:

the brain is a filter

the body is a filter

the dream is a filter

the astral is a filter

the emotions are a filter

the ego is a filter

the perceptions are a filter

There is no real location or perception that will truly depict where the soul is because there is only one soul and it is everywhere.

So as you are reading this, you are perceiving soul through the physical. If you have a lucid dream, you are perceiving soul through that mode of perception, but in no way is soul defined by the body, the mind, the ego or the subtle realms. As far as "astral projection as a reality" again it's whatever you are perceiving. If I "see and experience" that I'm in X location then I am! It doesn't matter if it's in my imagination, a dream, physically or in the astral. Now, while I may close my eyes and imagine being in X location, it doesn't mean that my physical filter is present, it just means that other filters are present (in this case, the mental, ego, perceptual, emotional and subtle filters).

Projections and experiences of all kinds are real but it's not truth. You thinking your soul is in your head cavity is not real, but you think it is. You think your "soul" leaves the body when you project or die, but that is not real either. The soul is everywhere and all things therefore it never "leaves" anything. It just switches modes of perception, ego and bodies (all filters) so you think it does.

So think not what is real in any of your experiences, but how you wish to perceive reality. It's up to you. This is why we are asked to "awaken" to reality and know that everything is a dream, which is just a filter of our soul!    ~  ~

Interesting!

This information is very ... enlightening win5

As I awoke from a "dream" this morning, I felt myself gently enter my body. We assume that because dreams don't make sense that they are dreams and not astral experiences. I believe however that all dreams make sense, it's just that we don't understand them. I also think dreams are in fact, subtle realm experiences.

The only difference between a dream and a projection is that the unconscious mind controls the dream whereas when you separate, you're consciously aware. That's why even after you separate from your physical body, you can slip into a "dream" which transfers control back to the unconscious mind. It's not that you've returned to your physical body just exchanged control.

People say that when they leave their body they see all sorts of strange things. Is this any different than a so called dream? We have locks on our physical doors to keep out the things we don't want, but in the astral, it's a free for all, unless you know how to construct your own boundaries. You may also see crazy things in the astral out of choice. If something is unpalatable to us, our unconscious mind will morph it for us. This is also why people block out their own past miseries and forget them completely on a conscious level.

Astral dreams (I prefer to call them this) serve a wondrous purpose. If you were to keep an astral dream journal, you would see that your unconscious mind (or higher self) is always serving you. It teaches you exactly what you need to know to realize your perfection. In truth, the only teacher we need is ourselves. There is no other teacher that will be as patient as your higher self. Your higher self knows where you are at in your cycle of growth and feeds you what you need to know at the perfect time. It doesn't project fears or biases onto you like a teacher might, nor does it rush you.

An example of this is a reoccurring dream that I have. In this particular dream, something is said to me that triggers my ego to react. Over and over I fall victim to the bait as my unconscious mind waits patiently for me to "awaken" in this dream and let go of my ego (notice I don't say "control the ego" because with control, the ego is still present. It's the letting go of ego that is the goal). In physical awareness, I would not react as I do, but in the dream I do. When we've overcome our obstacles on a dream level, then we've worked out the lesson. This is no different than Robert Monroe's and William Buhlman's reoccurring dreams of fear. Both were repeated until the lesson was learned, at which point they stopped.

For those of you who have read my "Verses on Contemplation" you may remember my dream where I was fighting good against evil. Evil was under my vengeance, and I was really getting into the fight. Then evil morphed and slipped easily from my grasp, and said, "I have always loved you... The only role I serve in your life is to teach you about yourself, and how far you still need to come in learning love."

Buddha said that his enlightenment was from being Awake, but I'm sure he was Awake on every level. Awake to the fact that there are no dreams, only reality. We exchange one reality for another every night. And every night our higher self lovingly waits for us to Awaken.

So the next time you complain you never project, know that that is not true.  ~

I sometimes get the occasional mail from readers that suffer from some form of physical ailment such as poor vision or a walking problem. Understandably, they want to know if these restrictions will carry with them into the astral plane.

It is my belief that it will not. I myself have a poor back and not that great of hearing, however, it is all completely restored in the astral. I've known of people who were completely unrestricted in the astral although they were a paraplegic in the physical.

The reason this is so is because the ailments are only physical. If they weren't corrected upon entering the astral you could forget them ever being corrected after death! And time and time again people who have had near death experiences have located loved ones that no longer suffered any ailment that they had suffered while in their physical shell. Also, some other points; if you are in a wheelchair, remember that in the astral your body isn't even really necessary nor do you see with "eyes". Robert Monroe constantly talked about doing a "double roll-out" where he wouldn't even have a physical shell. In other words, it is only your mind that restricts you. If you think you can't see in the astral, you very well may create your own veil to make it so. Wish to see clearly, and you will. What we think, we manifest.

One minor study was done by Robert Bruce, author of Astral Dynamics, of a blind person who left their body and couldn't see, however, the person never moved away from the magnetic body range!! We are ALL blind when we are within the magnetic body range! But even published authors can make mistakes. And one case is hardly proof of anything.  ~

LOL!!  I'm sure you can't.  Me neither!!

Luckily, as this poster writes, all children leave their bodies while dreaming so this natural skill is developed early ... though most are unfortunately not aware and become adults not realizing what a fabulous experience it is when lucid.