Astral Projection Information
One thing I want to add from experience- most authors claim the astral cord is silver. I have seen bronze/copper colored when someone I knew astral projected into my room to visit me. This was a human being. Also, in astral projecting, one’s astral body must be strong enough to remain outside of the physical body at will. Astral projection may be easier for new people, after invoking energy through power meditation, to where you can feel your aura real strong. Also, mental concentration during the separation is very important. Concentrating on separating after the rocking sensation. “Mental Wandering” is remote viewing; placing your consciousness in a certain area, by will and viewing the goings on with this. These writings are only a guide. As with everything, experience is always the best teacher. ** Conscious Separation of the Astral Body from the Physical Body ~
Do you **REALLY** die when you are projecting and someone touches
your body? This just seems kind of suspicious to me. I've never had
this situation so I wouldn't know.
--- In , "High Priestess Pythia" wrote:
One thing I want to add from experience- most authors claim the
astral cord
is silver.
I have seen bronze/copper colored when someone I knew astral
projected into
my room to visit me.
This was a human being.
Also, in astral projecting, one's astral body must be strong
enough to
remain outside of the physical body at will.
Astral projection may be easier for new people, after invoking
energy
through power meditation, to where
you can feel your aura real strong. Also, mental concentration
during the
separation is very important.
Concentrating on separating after the rocking sensation.
"Mental Wandering" is remote viewing; placing your consciousness
in a
certain area,
by will and viewing the goings on with this.
These writings are only a guide.
As with everything, experience is always the best teacher.
**
Conscious Separation of the Astral Body from the Physical Body ~
In this chapter the magician will learn how to separate his astral
body from
his physical body by means of
conscious training, and how to get to places he wants, not only
with his
spirit but also with this soul, to
places he wants to visit in the shape of his astral body. As we
shall see,
the emission of the astral body is
different from mental wandering or the state of trance caused by
akasa. The
state during which the
mental and astral bodies are separated from the physical body is
called
ecstasy in the terminology of the
occultists.
The perfect magician is able to go anywhere he likes in his astral
shape,
though inmost cases he
will content himself with mental wandering or the state of trance.
As a
rule, the astral body when united
with the mental body but separated from the physical body will
only carry
out jobs that need to be done
by physical magic action.
When emitting the astral body, certain precautions have to be
taken, since
in this case both links between
the mental and astral body and the physical body, the so-called
mental and
astral matrix, are loosened from the body.
The mental and astral bodies are connected to the physical body
only by a
very subtle elastic ribbing that shines like silver.
If during the period in which the mental and astral bodies are
loosened from
the physical matrix,
the latter were touched by another person, no matter whether
skilled or
unskilled in magic practice,
the said ribbon, being extremely subtle, would break in two at
once.
The connection between the physical body being thus interrupted,
physical
death
would be the consequence. Therefore utmost care has to be taken
right from
the beginning of these
exercises that nobody should be able to touch the body of the
magician when
he puts himself in the
described state. The thin ribbon would be torn to pieces, the
electromagnetic fluid in man being much
stronger. Even the tender life-ribbon of an advanced magician
would not be
able to resist that fluid. A
medical expert examining the body of a person killed in such a
manner would
come to the conclusion that
death was caused by heart failure or embolism. In its state of
ecstasy the
physical body is, a in the case of
apparent death, without life and feeling; its breath has stopped
and its
heart has come to a standstill.
The following lines are intended to give you a clear picture of the
practical side of the procedure. Apparent
death too is a state of ecstasy, though caused by the pathological
conditions in the person concerned,
which can be explained easily by any magician.
It should be added, however, that the mental matrix, the binding
agent
between the mental and astral
body, is kept working by normal breathing, which supplies the
blood vessels
with the four elements and
akasa via the lungs. We all know from experience that there can be
no life
without breathing. The astral
matrix, the connecting link between the astral and the physical
body is kept
alive by food. The magician
will now become aware of the connection between the food supply
and breath
and will have found its
true cause in the preceding chapters dealing with conscious
breathing and
well-balanced nutrition.
If one point or another is neglected during this stage of
development,
disharmonies, diseases and other
inconveniences will be the result. Many mental and psychic
disturbances are
caused by irregularities in or
neglect of these two factors. Therefore it has been pointed out
right from
the beginning that body, soul
and spirit must be equally developed and kept in order. If the
physical body
is not well balanced, not
strong enough and tough enough, and if it does not have a
sufficient reserve
of electromagnetic fluids
stocked by substantial food, rich in vitamins and minerals, thereby
procuring itself an adequate elasticity,
ecstasy training could have an ill effect on it. Therefore, any
magician
will agree in that ascetical training
necessitating diet reduction must be considered extreme and
therefore
unhealthy. Many oriental methods
demanding asceticism and ascetical training are one-sided and no
doubt
dangerous to people who are not
natives of India and whose physical structure is not accustomed to
the local
climate. If the magician,
however, has been able to develop equally the three steps of
existence,
i.e., body, soul and spirit, he need
not fear that there could happen any disorders in his mental,
astral or
physical bodies. But the person not
going through this course step by step, but neglecting here and
there the
necessary precautions must
account for possible disharmonies.
The magician will therefore not start practicing the emission of
his astral
body unless he is quite certain to
have a thorough command over all the steps recommended up to this
point. In
the case of mental wandering
the most subtle part, the astral matrix connecting body and soul,
remains in
the body, but when the astral body
is separated from the physical body, everything is pulled out of
the latter,
which makes double precautions necessary
when one proceeds to ecstasy training.
The procedure to be followed when emitting the astral body
actually is quite
simple, especially for
magicians that have a good command over mental wandering. The
separation of
the astral from the
physical body is carried out as follows:
1. Sit in your asana posture (though these exercises also can be
done when
lying down) and let your mental
body escape from your physical body.
2. Your consciousness now being transferred into your mental body,
watch
your physical body.
You will have the sensation of your physical body being asleep.
3. By means of imagination you must now think that your astral
body, much
the same as your mental body before, is
being drawn out of your physical body by your willpower. The shape
of the
astral body must be equal to
the shape of your mental and physical body.
4. Then unite yourself with your astral body by entering the
astral shape.
When doing so you will
have a queer sensation, as though the astral body were not quite
yours, and
therefore you must at once consciously
connect your mental to your astral matrix. Otherwise you would not
succeed
in keeping your astral body in your imagination,
the astral being constantly pulled towards your body as though an
invisible
magnet were working on it.
If you watch your physical body during this exercise, you will
realize that
there are irregularities in your body's breathing.
But the moment you concentrate your thoughts on uniting with your
astral
body and on breathing regularly, you will bring
yourself actually united with your astral body.
5. Right from the moment you are thus uniting yourself with your
astral body
-- like a spirit beside your
physical body -- do not watch anything else but the breathing.
This exercise
has to be repeated until you
have become accustomed to breathing in your astral body which you
have drawn
out of your physical
body and with which you have united yourself spiritually.
As you see, it is only conscious breathing in the astral body that
brings
about this separation of the astral
matrix. If, by repeated practice, breathing in the mental as well
as the
astral body has become quite
familiar to you, you may go another step forward. If you begin
breathing in
your astral body, your physical
body will stop breathing. Because of the separation of the
physical body
from the astral shape, the former
will lapse into a state of lethargy, a sort of morbid drowsiness,
the limbs
stiffening, the face turning pale
just like a dead body. But as soon as you stop breathing outside
your
physical body, wanting to end your
experiment, you will instantly notice your astral body, as if
pulled by a
magnet, at once being pulled into
your physical body which now begins to breathe again normally. But
not
before you spiritually transfer
your mental body, i.e., your consciousness to the physical body,
so that the
astral and the mental body
reassume their physical shape, will you recover your senses and
gradually
come round again.
What we usually call dying is the same process with the only
difference that
the matrix between the
physical and the astral body is destroyed. In the case of normal
death, the
astral matrix between the
physical and the astral body has been broken in two by a lethal
disease or
for some other reason, and
therefore the astral body together with the mental body, having
lost its
footing in the physical body, has to
emanate automatically from the latter whether willingly or
unwillingly.
During this process, breathing is
transferred to the astral body without the astral body becoming
conscious of
it. That is why deceased
being at first do not feel any difference between the physical and
the
astral body. They will come to
realize it gradually as soon as they notice that the material body
no longer
is of any use to them, and that
the astral body is subject to very different rules (the laws of
the akasa
principle).I have written about this
already in the previous chapters concerning the astral plane.
Consequently
the practice of sending the
astral body out deliberately is an imitation of the process of
dying. This
evidently proves how near you come
to the border between actual life and what we call death when you
practice
such exercise.
Therefore, proceed with caution.
Provided the magician has got a perfect control of sending out his
astral
body, (1) the fear of death has
become absolutely superfluous, and (2) the magician does know
exactly the
process of his dying as well as
the place where he is going after stripping off the mortal frame.
After frequently practicing the deliberate separation of the
astral body
from the physical one, breathing in
your astral shape will become a matter of routine, so that you
will not
notice it any more and you will
experience the same sensations in the astral body as if you were
still in
your physical body. If you wish to
return to your physical body, you have to hold the breath
deliberately back
in the astral body so that the
astral body is able to disentangle from the mental body and to
reassume the
shape of the physical body. In
this moment when the astral body reassumes the physical shape, the
body will
automatically begin to
breathe again, which makes the return into the physical body
possible. This
should always be considered
first.
Being subject to very different laws, the mental body does not
breathe in
the same rhythm as the material
body does in connection with the astral body. Only if you have
become
accustomed to the astral and the
mental body going out from and returning to the physical body, so
that you
can do so as often as you
please, considering the precautionary measures with respect to your
breathing, only then are you truly able
to withdraw successively from the physical body. In the beginning
of this
preliminary exercise, do not
stray far from the side of your body. Thus you have the
opportunity to stand
beside your physical body or
to take up its actual posture, the asana.
An entirely different exercise is to observe not merely the body,
but to
take notice of the immediate
surroundings, similarly to sending out the mental body. After all,
it is the
same process as mental
wandering; you should feel, hear and perceive every single object,
with the
difference however, that the
mind is in a way taking a robe with it - in our case, the astral
body, which
allows sort of a more physical
effect. Supposing you will pay a visit somewhere in your mental
shape only
in order to observe an event
that might cause a good or bad psychic sensation, you can neither
perceive
nor feel it in your mental body,
nor can you be influenced in any way. On the other hand, if you
make the
same experiment with your
astral body, you will perceive it as intensely as if you used your
physical
body.
In the next exercise you will learn to withdraw gradually from
your body,
step by step. At first you will
feel as it were pulled back from your physical body by an invisible
attractive power, similar to that which
a magnet exerts on iron. This is to be interpreted by the fact
that the bond
between the astral and the
physical body id fed, preserved and kept in balance by the most
subtle
fluid. By performing the exercises
of sending out the astral body, you are committing a deliberate
act against
the lawfulness of the natural
elements in your body, which must be overcome. Consequently the
movement of
your astral body
requires a greater effort than if you would move away with you
mental body
alone. This is the reason
why you should draw away from your body only a few steps at first,
and
return to it instantly. Because
the magnetic attractive power is constantly pulling and
influencing you, it
will provoke various feelings in
your astral body, such as the fear of death and the like. These
feelings
must be overcome at any event.
Having advanced to this point, you should master all these
occurrences.
Extend the distance from your physical body with every new
exercise.
As time goes on you will be able to cover greater and greater
distances.
And the farther you move your astral body from your physical body,
its
attractive power will
become all the weaker. Later on, when traveling very far, you will
find it
really difficult to return to your
body. This will become a tricky problem for the magician, mainly
if he is
wandering about in planes or
regions that allure him so much that he is beginning to feel a
little sad at
the very idea of having to return
to his own body. Here you see that the magician must be absolutely
the
master of his feelings, because as
soon as he gets accustomed to the idea of feeling quite at home in
his
astral body, not only on the physical
level but also on the astral plane, usually he becomes weary of
life,
feeling inclined never to return to his
physical frame. A longing will overcome him to destroy by sheer
force the
bond of life that still ties him
to his physical frame. Doing so would mean to commit suicide in
the same way
as on the physical body.
It is quite understandable that the temptation to commit such a
suicide is
very strong,
especially if the magician is nearly pining away for grief in the
physical
world after all the blissfulness he
experienced on the other planes.
Having made good progress in these exercises concerning the
sending out of
the astral body, so that he can
cover any distance, the magician now has the opportunity to use
this ability
for manifold tasks. He can
transfer himself anywhere with his astral body, wherever he likes
to be, he
can treat sick people by
accumulating and condensing the magnetic or electric fluids in the
astral
body and conveying them to the
patients. The treatment with the astral body if by far more
pervasive and
effective than by the mere
thought-transference or the mental wandering, because the fluids
the
magician is working with will
become effective only on the sick person's corresponding plane.
The magician can exert a lot of other influences too. He can
materialize
himself with the help of the earth element,
which he condenses in his astral body on the astral plane under
the very
nose of an experienced adept as well as
a layman to such a degree that he can be seen, heard and perceived
with the
physical eyes.
The issue in this respect depends on the duration of the training
and on the
capacity of the accumulation
of the earth element in the astral body.
It is obvious that the magician also can perform physical acts
with the help
of his astral body.
Producing phenomena - as adepts see them - such as knocking
sounds, and
influence on terrestrial affairs,
etc., find a satisfactory explanation here. Really and truly, no
limits
exist for a magician, and it is entirely
up to him in which line he specializes. In any case, he knows
exactly how to
manage all these things, such
as how to condense only one part of the body, i.e., one hand,
while the rest
remains astral. If he is able to
accelerate the electronic vibrations of an object with the help of
his
imagination, he will also manage to
"spirit" away any objects corresponding to the measure of his
forces and his
development, before the eyes
of other people and transfer them to the astral plane. In these
instances
the material objects are no longer
subject to the material laws but will become astral. Therefore it
is a mere
trifle for the magician to
transfer such objects to the farthest distance with the aid of his
astral
body, and to bring them back again
to their original form.
From a layman's point of view, such phenomena seem to be chimera,
but any
experienced magician
will easily be able to produce such and even more astonishing
phenomena that
otherwise might be spoken of as sheer miracles.
But as you have gathered from what I have explained up to now,
these
phenomena are no miracles,
for in the true sense of the word, miracles do not exist at all.
The magician recognizes the Higher powers and their laws, and he
knows how
to utilize them.