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The techniques on the astral travelling worked for me . My personal sub conscious symbology had developed into a type of language that my sub conscious could communicate with me with a fair amount of accuracy. This time their was no fear and their was a feeling of certainty that if I put in the effort it would happen. Doubt was absent. I was also motivated to find my guidance seeing as it was not finding me too often at that time.
Mainly what I do is wake up in dreams. This is often called Lucid Dreaming. At some point in the dream I realise that I am dreaming and can act with volition. I thought that I would learn a lot by doing this, Masters and schools came readily to mind, and this hasn't been the case. I have had a lot of fun though - moonwalking, manifesting objects at will, flying, moving in and out of what appears as matter. The sensory experience seems more real than everyday reality. I feel more, see more - everything is more intense ...and real. Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man - type situation!
Sometimes I also fly through roofs into nothing, a void. I think it might be the same void that is in me when I'm in meditation. In lucid dreaming I am in it and that experience is alway amazing. I take deep breaths that seem to last and last. I feel ecstatic both during and after the experience. Sometimes the high lasts for several days.
I think that the astral techniques produced results this time because my attitude was right. The elements of this attitude were 1. The belief that it could be done 2. The strong intention to do it 3. Consistently doing the various techniques several times a day. 4. Strong focus on doing it which included reading everything I could find. I was also doing a module on dream interpretation for the course I am studying.
You can try this: Visualize an astral body lifting from your own physical body. Have it stand right in front of you. You can make it in any image that you want. I affirm that a "drop" of my personal essence is in the astral body. You can make a "date" with like minded friends to meet on top of Mount Shasta, and have them describe what they saw. Did they see your persona? If you use your regular form, then your friends may think that they are imagining you being there. If you make up a fun persona, then "it" is not threatening. It is a fun exercise. This is more like remote viewing. You are fully conscious of your physical body, and the events going on around you. You project an image of your self, like a Xerox copy, with a portion of your consciousness.
You can create an astral body, and then affirm that there are 100 duplicates of that astral body. Give all of these astral bodies a task or many tasks to achieve.
For instance, say that you have misplaced something in your home, which you have searched for and can't seem to locate. Give your projected astral body an assignment to find it, and return with instructions where to find the item. I find this almost a 100% successful. It will suddenly "dawn" on me where to search for the item.
I create an astral body in the form of a mountain lion, or perhaps a big Viking with instructions to guard my body while I am out-of-the-body doing my spiritual traveling during the night. When your astral body has completed the assigned task, just destroy the astral body. Then reclaim your personal essence by directing it to your 8th chakra for neutralizing to gold (present time) energy. It will be returned to you through the 8th Chakra.
When you actually go out-of-the-body your spiritual body leaves your physical body in kind of a suspended animation. Have you ever been sitting concentrating on something (day dreaming), and someone comes in and really startles you? We often go out of the body under such circumstances, and can be easily startled because we are not aware of our surroundings. Many people go out of the body when driving to and from work, as this is a redundant task that can easily be accomplished by the unconscious mind - except in an emergency.
When the consciousness is shifting more and more towards the etheric body, the etheric body gains increased liveliness and independence. The consciousness in the etheric body state was always clear, as to my experiences, I was alert exactly as in daytime awake state; therefore I often thought to have become awake and to have fallen out of trance. But by ignoring this pretended awakeness and by continuing my exercises none-the-less, I usually was very amazed, when I became aware that I could move my etheric limbs. Testing my freedom of movement, usually there were no difficulties to move legs, arms and head. In contrary to limbs and head the trunk mostly was stuck firm in the physical body. When frequently OBE-ing the difficulty of sticking to the body vanished and then stepping out became more and more easy.
Silver cord:
In all "stepping-out"-OBE's, which were induced in trance, I could feel the pull of the silver cord, which limited my excursions to a certain distance. The distance was too short to make wider excursions and to experience interesting situations. Therefore the silver cord was a bothering limitation for my OBEing when using the "stepping out" method.
