Astral Projection? Need 411?

That's one thing I've been wanting to do. I've never been able to just leave my body. Is there anyone here that can offer advise? Particulrily in the precaution department.

check out the forums at www.astralpulse.com. Its all specific to Astral projection.

Well.. How you doing (First of all)

Precautions
There are really none. Many spiritualist (and variants) believe that good intent may protect you, but if you are looking at this from a non-spiritualist standpoint and from someone who has been in the subject for a while, that is not something that can make/break the experience.

Preperation
Relaxation IS the key to astrally projecting.. If you are unable to relax your mind there are a view execercises you can do. Meditation is a great way to learn how to control your mind.

Yet, there is still something that can hold you back.. Belief.. I know it may sound a bit of a cliche especially considering my avatar, but you need to "Free Your Mind" and "Believe" in under to achieve (that rhymed a lil')

DO NOT TRY WHEN TIRED OR GOING TO SLEEP
It increases the chance of you falling asleep while trying. Do it when you are a state of relaxation, but alert.

Practice
Practice is the universal way of learning anything. No matter how many times your fail or deem it impossible, keep trying.

The Actual Experience
Let things flow.. Intill you have become good at astrally projecting, let the experience take YOU.. There is no way you will get lost, so do not worry about that..

Hope it helps, if you have any other questions, comments, concerns, or rants, let me know..

-Jago

Originally posted by damien1966
That's one thing I've been wanting to do. I've never been able to just leave my body. Is there anyone here that can offer advise? Particulrily in the precaution department.

Are you willing to face your fears...of the unknown...of un-assurance?

I think that's what you need to overcome first...even though you may not have thought of that...

Originally posted by damien1966
That's one thing I've been wanting to do. I've never been able to just leave my body. Is there anyone here that can offer advise? Particulrily in the precaution department.

Practice Dream Yoga.

I will list some sites for you to check out, in no paticular order.

The Astral Projection and Astral Plane Research Project
This site is from ATS.

Robert (Bob) Peterson’s Web Site
This is a well known guy in the studies of Astral Projection, or oobe.

Mysticweb
This place offers free online courses for you to take, I think in total its 46 weeks or something.

Astral Society
This place is good to lok at, also has a forum where you can ask questions on things also.

AstralVoyage.com
This is a really cool place to check out, alot of good reading on AP, RV, and so on.

Anyway that should get you started, also you might wanna check out this post made by TheRiverGodess, go tells us about her 1st AP experiance.

conscious Oobe....It's Real!!

There are some techneques in there that you might want to try out.

and some other misc ATS posts that have to do with AP, oobe.

Dangers of AP/OOBE?
OOBE proven scientifically!!!!
is SP related to AP

Also in Tamahu's post, you might want to check out the Karma area, thats alot to learn there.

And the ATS post that talks about Karma is here.
Karma...can you explain?

[edit on 7/21/2005 by ThichHeaded]

I've left my body many times. Most of the times when I'm in a light sleep or during a dream. I tend to get freaked out and wake up. You feel a "static" feeling when this happens, man I hate that feeling.

One time I was astral projecting and as I left my body, I looked down on myself and noticed that I wasn't in my bed. I was on a couch at someones house, this scared me because I forgot that I was at my grandmother's house, I paniced and snapped out of it.

Originally posted by ThichHeaded
Anyway that should get you started, also you might wanna check out this post made by TheRiverGodess, go tells us about her 1st AP experiance.

conscious Oobe....It's Real!! ThichHeaded]

WOWZERS Thickheaded....that was a seriously informative post on this question! Applause to you for doing such a good job! These kind of posts make ATS the greatest site on the net!

I want to bring attention to the above link...the first page talks about my first experiance......BUT.....it has become my online diary of my OOBE travels. It is SO CHALKED FULL of advise, tecniques....warnings of possible dangers. Many of the OOBE crowd on ATS has shared details of how THEY do it......its a long thread yes, because it contains SO MUCH......with no fighting even!

Good luck Damian!

Originally posted by theRiverGoddess
WOWZERS Thickheaded....that was a seriously informative post on this question! Applause to you for doing such a good job! These kind of posts make ATS the greatest site on the net!

Its not a big deal, I spend alot of my time looking at Astral Projection, so I have alot of AP posts on my favs list.

As for Offsite things, Some people say that Robert Monroe is pretty good also, he does work with Hemi-Sync to help people get into AP'ing a little bit better.

Also in the one book Robert Bruce writes he talks about one of Monroes books that is a very good start supposively that book can be found here.
Journeys Out of the Body

Anyway TheRiverGodess, thanx for the applause.. I have been waiting to make a cool post like that.

Thank you all. I've tried some methods over the years none have worked. Fear is the big thing keeping me in my body. I haven't tried for a while, but I think it's time again to try. Than you all again.

sometimes i get that feeling when becoming half-asleep as well...i've actually woke up a couple times to my bed shaking because my heart was beating entirely too hard and fast...that kind of freaked me out a little bit and im clueless as to what it may be...but i did feel pretty vacant at the time...like i should've been dreaming but wasn't and immediately woke up when it started

i finally calmed down by taking some deep breaths but needless to say, it was kinda scary. what would've happened if i had stayed sleeping?

Originally posted by damien1966
Thank you all. I've tried some methods over the years none have worked. Fear is the big thing keeping me in my body. I haven't tried for a while, but I think it's time again to try. Than you all again.

if you wanna get past fear in that department ********, i found they help you tap into that part of the mind that is usually locked in science. then again fear can be a big part of that too, because a bad trip can be the worst experience of your life...but you'd have to take a lot to do that and even then it's an interesting journey, probably the closest i've ever gotten to astral projection...hell, maybe it was and i just don't know it

Ed to delete drug usage reference

[edit on 1-8-2005 by DontTreadOnMe]

Originally posted by Sacreligion

Originally posted by damien1966
Thank you all. I've tried some methods over the years none have worked. Fear is the big thing keeping me in my body. I haven't tried for a while, but I think it's time again to try. Than you all again.

if you wanna get past fear in that department *********.

I wouldnt try this if I were you.

Doing drugs while trying to AP, OOBE is a bad idea, you are more than likely to gets stuck in the sub levels of the A.W. which makes the exp a lot less disireable.

If you do this try and do it clean, straight and no with drugs or anything to impare yourself.

[edit on 1-8-2005 by DontTreadOnMe]

I too am a newbie at astral projection.. the furthest i've gotten us my arms out and I can remember clawing at my eyes trying to open them to tell myself to wake up till I realized it was my astral arms trying to open my real eyes.. anyway on my second try i had woken p early and for some reason just said to myself let's do this and got intense vibrations but chickened out a little bit with any luck we'll get there.

well there has been a machine that can produce an actual astral experience...I tried to find some article for you but no luck x.x

perhaps you will be able to find some info.

Originally posted by Binx
well there has been a machine that can produce an actual astral experience...I tried to find some article for you but no luck x.x

perhaps you will be able to find some info.

I heard Special K was a machine which produces a breakthrough astral experience ;o)