Though the practices are often linked in theory, their differences—both in approach and application—are vast. In fact, it is the practice of putting your body to bed while your mind stays awake.
Once outside of the human body, that astral form can travel wherever it wants to in the universe. You do the reality checks, you count the fingers, you focus and stay calm while lucid dreaming, you think of a door, walk through it, and then boom: Your soul is free to travel anywhere you can imagine on the astral plane.
Astral travel may not have the practical appeal of teleporting, the obvious health benefits of yoga, or the edge of witchcraft And why would anyone want to astral travel so badly? The most righteous reason is because the spiritual community sees astral projection as a sort of radical self-care. In the astral realm, adherents say, you can heal grief through encounters with loved ones who have passed on, or embrace the physical manifestations of your past traumas, or gain insights into illnesses and relationships that you can then bring with you back into this reality.
The slightly less righteous reason—the one that most on-screen depictions are banking on—is that astral travel is pure escape. You can do anything you want in the astral realm without the fear of getting arrested or making everybody mad at you.
Fistfight with the Rock? You can do that there. Look like Dermot Mulroney? You can do that there! Look like Dylan McDermott? You can also do that there! You can do that there, but be cool about it —ethics still exist in the astral realm. Eventually I attended a workshop with Jade and she shared with the new astral projectors among us why someone would choose to dedicate their life to teaching others astral projection.
How is this possible? Seemingly in this reality! So just the sheer extraordinariness of it is—you want to explore, you want to do it. Which brings me to my own astral projection journey, and my second, far more elusive astral travel teacher And when that goes unaccepted, I send a slightly more desperate email, and start piecing together my own lucid dreaming and astral projection study plan while I wait ….
I start where any good journalist should when researching an ancient spiritual phenomenon: by sitting down with its most lucrative pop culture interpretation to date. The plot of Inception is simple. They may be able to help by ruling out serious conditions or offering some reassurance. But for centuries, many people have reported similar sensations of their consciousness leaving their body. OBEs appear to be more common with some conditions, including certain dissociative disorders and epilepsy.
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Kornilova, L. Orientation illusions in spaceflight. Where is the anxiety being felt on your body. How many deep breaths can you do before the elevator reaches its destination. If you are on line at the store or waiting for a bus, subway, or stuck in a traffic jam, etc and feel like you are in a rush, take a deep breath again, ask yourself where you are feeling the pain of being in a rush.
Is it in your stomach? Is it in your chest? Your face? Just feel it. When you wake up, take three deep breaths, count them. Try to list all of the things you hear that moment. Do you hear cars outside? Your house creaking? Kids downstairs? You have no idea who you are and you have to start with a completely blank slate.
Spend the next minute figuring it out. Do this one five times a day. Washing dishes is a great one. Stop yourself from daydreaming.
Really try to do a good job washing each dish. Not a speck on them. You just missed a spot! Your only purpose in life is to wash the one dish you are currently working on. They are going to take over your body and mind and do their thing today. Hand over the keys to your body and mind during those sixty seconds and know that today will be dedicated to doing their mission. You are just the vehicle. Make a list in your head of all the people in your life you are grateful for.
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