Experiencing Astral Travel: An 8 Week Course Book Pdf
Francis Caya
Astral projection, after all, is like taking a vacation without even leaving your home. All you have to do is, well, leave your own body. Unlike the sort of out-of-body experience some people report after near-death experiences, astral projection is an intentional out-of-body experience, giving you a sort of third-person perspective.
"Astral projection is when the consciousness of a human is projected outside of his body into what we call the astral world," emails Robert Rubin, a tarot card authority at Mysterium Philippines. "Astral projection happens when the consciousness is sent to the astral form of this world (i.e., the astral representation of Katipunan, Manila, San Francisco, etc.). It usually has many, if not most similarities, with its real-world counterparts."
In other words, if you can harness the power of this phenomenon, you could potentially travel anywhere your imagination desires. How handy would practicing astral projection be in the middle of another stay-at-home order?
Astral projection is anything but new. It dates back to ancient times, strewn throughout various cultures and religions. But its most recent resurgence in the Western world as a belief system occurred in the 1800s.
"The idea comes from a 19th-century mystical system called theosophy, which claims that we have seven bodies from the lowest physical to the highest spiritual and mental bodies," emails Dr. Susan Blackmore, a writer, psychologist and visiting professor at the University of Plymouth in England. "The astral body is supposed to be able to separate from the physical and travel in the astral worlds."
Theosophy gained traction in the United States of America thanks to Russian immigrant Helena Blavatsky, who helped found the Theosophical Society in 1875 in New York City. Born into a wealthy family, she traveled much of the world, soaking up various religious beliefs along the way and then reworking them into new forms via theosophy. One of Blavatksy's teachings involved the astral body, and its ability to transcend mere flesh and travel to new places untethered.
"I have found that most people pursue astral projection as a part of their spiritual development," emails Laura Brown, a "spiritual life stylist" and founder of Intuitive Alchemy. "As we go deeper into our spiritual exploration, we learn that we are more than our physical Earth suit, and astral projection reinforces this notion. Not to mention it's quite a trippy experience to feel the sensation of leaving your body and being weightless."
Rubin adds that people do this "usually to understand the deeper significance of what lies beyond this realm, or to go places their physical bodies could not go. Even in some cases to commune and interact with nonphysical entities, like spirits, gods or even the departed at times."
"They are 'real' in the sense that they feel real for the person experiencing them. As do dreams," Aspell says. "But does the experience reflect external reality? There is no scientific evidence that consciousness/mind/self can exist separately from the body or can 'detach from it.'"
She adds that it seems as though the self is in a different place to the body during OBE and astral projection, and that experience must of course be itself generated by the brain. Our brains create a model of reality, in response to the information received and interpreted.
"They really are fascinating," she says. "Once you reject the idea of astral projection, you come to think about the physiology. How does this work? What's going on? We now know that OBEs occur when our body schema is disrupted, that is the brain's continuously updated model of what our body is doing. OBEs can be induced by stimulating the part of the brain that builds this inner model, and we can practice playing around with our body senses in this and other ways."
"The more I work with astral traveling, the more I am fascinated by how it confirms that our consciousness and soul are not bound by the physical," she says. "We've often seen the human body as the central aspect of being, but it's what the human body is home to, that it contains this beautiful spiritual aspect of ourselves and the way projection affirms this."
For those wishing to try out astral projection, the website Spiritual Unite suggests lying in bed, clearing your mind and visualizing that "your astral body is leaving you." Laura Brown advises that it takes practice.
Astral sex is sex on the astral plane via astral projection, a type of intentional out-of-body experience or OBE. Essentially, partners travel outside of their body to a dimension known as the "astral plane," where their souls are able to have sex. There's not actually any physical act happening, but two souls are witnessing and experiencing each other wholly, in a very intimate way.
Is astral sex a real thing? It's hard to say. But countless people claim to have experienced OBEs1, and many of them believe they were able to visit the astral plane, sometimes at will. The idea is that someone is able to intentionally "leave" their physical body, and if you believe in this core concept of out-of-body experiences, then astral sex is within the realm of reason.
According to Graham Nicholls, an OBE researcher and author of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience, one theory is that an OBE is "a construct or schema that is based upon sensory information not coming from the ordinary senses2 (extrasensory perception, if you will)." When this happens, he explains, the self or one's consciousness seems to be able to function and perceive independently of the physical body.
Astral sex, then, is "more like a union of two conscious experiences," he explains. "In some of the esoteric literature, astral sex has been called 'melding,' which gives an idea of what the experience is like. It is more like the entire self, or inner experience, is shared and unified with another person."
This melding is what the experience of astral sex is all about, says Catharine Allen, a clairvoyant intuitive and author of A Little Bit of Intuition, though she describes it less in terms of astral projection and more in terms of a soul connection: "There are definitely connections you make with people on a soul level. The soul connection is real enough that there's telepathy, and certainly, that sexual energy and attraction on a soul level could manifest as astral sex."
Having astral sex is not exactly an effortless feat. "In order to achieve astral sex," Nicholls says, "we need to be attuned deeply on a psychological or psychic level, as well as be able to take that connection into an OBE."
He notes that it's most common when a new relationship has formed and is brimming with energy and the desire to connect. "It can also happen in longer-term relationships," he says, "but there must be a great deal of passion, connection, and ability to have OBEs."
The first step is for both partners to get comfortable with astral projection, aka having out-of-body experiences. This might be something best learned by working with a professional, but in general, Nicholls says you can help induce OBEs through techniques that break down your sense of self: For example, try using visualization methods, breathing techniques, and even physical exhaustion. When you lie down at night, start to work with the sensation of your soul separating from your body.
Once you've got that down, your next step will be to meet your lover in the astral plane. You won't need to be physically near each other either, of course, as you'll be meeting on a soul level. As Allen notes, astral sex between couples that are physically separated is certainly possible.
Astral sex isn't going to look like your usual bedroom routine, and though it may not be a physical act, it's sure to touch you on a soul level. When two souls can transcend their physical bodies and connect on a deeper, more spiritually intimate level, it can bring them even closer together.
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