Foundations of Astral Projection for the Curious Traveller

i want to thank you too brandon. you are a seasoned traveller in this domain. and it is kind to share your expertise with us earthlings. tonite i am going to make a serious attempt at it in my bed. the rafters in this old stone farmhouse, could be good to sit up on! ill let you know. lets keep each other posted on this important work.

the dream catcher discussion and this one should be fused now.. somehow. read what that guy had to say about the importance of dream catchers for AP. sounds like a good plan. the thread and the net.

@fyrirrek and @ uncle brandon
when reading this discription of F i am sure i have been doing this in certain dreams for years, infact it sounds so familiar. is it like when you are in a dream and you are walking next to someone on a path, and then you start to run and whoosh up you go, you can fly, then you swwoop around the persons head, and everything becomes super clear, like the details of the plants and the rocks and the ground are crystal clear, and you swoop up and swan dive down, and for me i say ‘now swim your arms’ and if i swim them to the right i turn to the right, i can control my direction, like in the water but more free. so free. like you said flight at the speed of freewill of thought.
is this what you are talking about or is this only a lucid dream….

@Brandon Pinkney, What do you enjoy doing in the astral plane? If I ever manage it I would love to fly, I had a dream about flying once and it was epic.

If I become lucid in one of my dreams, can I enter the astral plane or is that already happening once lucid? @hlalhabattu,

I’ve been looking for some decent advice on this type of stuff. Thanks man, great post!

I have a question though, about the entities. Say I leave my body and there is an entity in my room with me. Will he acknowledge me? Or will I have to acknowledge him first? I’ve heard stories about people having trouble with demons or bad spirits and I want to be able to know how to handle that. Have you ever encountered a bad spirit yourself? If so, how did that go? Just wanna be prepared before I step into another world.

@fyrirrek, I’ve had experiences like that in dreams where the dream is naturally flowing then something happens that I don’t like so I “rewind” to the start and keep playing out the same thing. But for some reason my consciousness hasn’t taken over yet and made me realize that I am dreaming I just wake up the next morning like “damn, that was a dream”. How do you think that I could get myself to start realizing that I am dreaming instead of the dream just continuing?

I heard the intense ringing!!! but I wasn’t ready… I was having a wild crazy dream and within it I started to become lucid, Its like the 2nd time I’ve ever been able to realize I’m dreaming. As soon as I realized this though, and when I wanted to change stuff I just started to feel as if my body in the dream was floating up and the scene just grayed out. I was thinking to myself aww man I finally get lucid and the dream grays out on me lol. Then it happened the intense ringing and serge of energy almost that I’ve read about, and I realized that I was laying in my bed and that I must be starting to go astral. I didn’t want to at the moment I just had the crazy dream and then finally getting lucid I think was enough for me that I didn’t want to go just then. So I managed to stop it by opening my eyes and sitting up, there was a brief moment though when it felt like I was waving my arms around, but my body never actually moved, so maybe I started to separate partially? I’m not sure it was very brief right before I actually sat up.

This is the second time I’ve had the “signs of separation” the first time it was only a vibrational buzzing of the body and sound, but this time it was just such an intense ringing. I kind of regret that I always get freaked out and not allow it to just happen. I think partially its because I wasn’t sure if I actually believed in it when I first started trying, but now that the signs have shown these few times its almost too real for me and I’m afraid of getting spooked out by something. I should just man up I guess haha and try it at least once to just let it happen, maybe I’ll get another shot soon.

@antu, I believe these are merely projections of yourself, so no need to be frightened.

Oh and I tried this earlier today, I felt my astral body leave for about 2 seconds and maybe a few inches from my regular body but then I got too scared of the sensations it was giving me and snapped out of it. I need to overcome my fears.

@antu, Nope. I believe the act of putting this barrier around you just makes you “feel” safe, when in reality, you always are. So I guess, it doesn’t hurt to put this barrier around you, and if you forget, I wouldn’t worry :)

What if I mess up and don’t make it back to my physical body? Will I essentially be dead?

http://obe4u.com/files/SOBT.pdf

at least a full hour of entertainment and more importantly, information on Astral Travel/ Out of Body Experiences… and even personal accounts from masters of this thing like Steven LaBerge.