Crown Chakra

Nothing to be embarrassed about, not even a little. Asking about this is the right move, and the answer is yes, what you are describing is documented and expected, not a sign that something is wrong.

A few things are happening at the same time, and the Temple of Zeus lays out each one clearly. The page on Opening the Crown Chakra predicts almost exactly what you described, down to the wording. It says the effects of the exercise are extremely pleasurable, that a feeling of lightness should follow, that some people feel energy or tingling in their heads or covering them, and that there can be a slight pressure in the crown area along with intense euphoria. It lists headaches, especially for people prone to them, as an expected effect. It also says the bliss state can occur hours or even days later. So the lightness and the headaches you are feeling are not something you imagined and not a cause for concern. They are the Crown Chakra opening.

What you felt in the trance after the Crown work has a name in the Temple system. The page on Siddhis: Powers You Can Develop by High Priest Zevios Metathronos defines Laghima as the sensation of lightness or weightlessness, and adds that from this power other abilities like levitation and telekinesis can be built. That covers the floating, weightless quality of what you felt. The sense of almost standing up, of moving a body that is not the physical one, is the early threshold state the Meditations for Astral Projection page describes in almost the same words: relax until you can no longer feel your body, and you are at the door. A useful comparison is something everyone has felt. Think of the falling twitch you get just before sleep, when the body jerks as it lets go. Now multiply that by the energy of a freshly opened Crown, and you are in the territory you reached last night.

There is also a trance element. The page on Determining the Depth of a Trance lists sensation of lightness, floating, swinging, or falling as a marker of the deep or somnambulistic trance state. The High Priest has publicly addressed an experience that is almost identical to what you described. On the Ancient Forums, a member wrote about feeling like they were about to leave their body during sleep, and his reply, which you can read at this post, was simply: yes, and congratulations, do not be afraid, try to limit fear, nothing is going to happen to you that is negative on this state. His tone is the tone to keep. There is nothing wrong here. The Crown is opening, the body of bliss is starting to activate, and the siddhi of lightness is showing itself.

About the astral projection question, your instinct to wait is the correct one. What you felt is the edge of that territory, the threshold state the projection page describes, not a full separation. The right move is exactly what you are doing, which is to keep building the Crown and the trance without forcing a projection. Pushing for separation before the chakras and the mind are strong enough tends to create the kind of experience that leaves a person more scattered than empowered. You are not behind, and you are not slow. You are pacing this correctly.

Two practical things to add to the end of your sessions, both from High Priestess Lydia Coventina. In her sermon Raising and Anchoring Energy, she warns that if you stay in the raised state after meditation, you can become too spacey and unable to tend to the responsibilities of daily life, and she instructs practitioners to ground the raised energy through all the chakras and into the physical body after working on the Crown. Her companion piece, Regrounding After Meditation, gives a short protocol: rub the palms together, place them over the closed eyes, trace the hands down the body, and seal at the solar plexus. This is how you bring the bliss state down into the body so it serves your life instead of leaving you floating through the day.

There is also a doctrinal reason this matters, which High Priestess Lydia explains in Piercing the Granthis With Bandhas. The Rudra Granthi sits right at the Ajna to Crown area. If the granthis are too loose, she writes, one will be more scattered, spacey, overall weaker, and less able to navigate the duties of the physical realm. This is not a warning to stop. It is a confirmation that the energy is loosening, and that grounding is the correct response. Loose granthis plus anchored energy is a much better state than either alone.

On the headaches, the High Priest has a direct reply about head sensations during Crown work, which you can read at this post. He calls them good signs of 7th chakra activation, notes they affect the pineal gland, and advises to keep going step by step. That matches the On Chakra Work sermon, where he reminds practitioners that opening chakras takes months or years of patient work, that pacing matters more than intensity, and that the Crown in particular contains the third granthi, often the most difficult for the serpent to break through. You are not behind. You are at the part that takes time, and the sensations you are feeling are the signs that the work is landing.

Keep going, do the regrounding after each Crown session, do not chase the floating feeling, and do not feel embarrassed about asking. This is exactly the kind of experience the Crown is supposed to produce, and the Clergy have left very clear guidance for handling it.

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Having an altered state of consciousness when working with chakras is normal and part of the process.

This is normal but generally ground yourself after these; it is not good if your higher chakras are always activated and your lower ones are never.

But yes this is a good thing and good sign and experience in itself. Maybe you can also let your creative mind go wild in these states to make it more productive.