Astral projections are wonderful experiences. They greatly assist with your needs for adventurers and exciting experiences outside the human limitations of life on Earth. OBEs(Out of Body Experiences) assist you with learning about the mysteries of the universe, how consciousness works, and finding answers to questions that you have not been able to ask anyone but yourself. You will meet friends and guides, demons and enemies, and to learn about yourself in the process. Realize that the astral worlds are the big leagues. You are playing with the “big boys” when you enter the astral worlds. It is not all fun and games in the astral worlds, unless of course you are incapable of a negative emotion. Even the slightest of negative emotions can bring you challenges great and small. However, if you are wise enough to know that it is all an illusion, you will be safe. If you think for a moment it is real, you might find yourself feeling harmed, just the same as you feel harmed when you are on earth when you think it is also real. So don’t fear the astral worlds. You won’t be hurt, and you will learn so much about yourself. Another great thing about the astral worlds is that you realize you really are just consciousness, independent of form and limitations. You are not the identity you always thought you were. You are free to explore the universe as you wish.

The astral worlds are quite similar to the lucid dreaming worlds, however there are some differences. The lucid dreaming worlds are directly connected to your own consciousness and are not necessarily connected to the consciousness of others. The worlds of lucid dreaming are inside your own head, your own virtual reality. The lucid dreaming world is directly projected from your consciousness, and only your consciousness. This does not mean that there are not spiritual influences from your guides and spirit friends in the lucid dreaming worlds, a lucid dreams are not necessarily projected by anyone else’s consciousness but your own.

The astral worlds, on the other hand, are made up of not only your own projections but the projections of others as well. You are inside a larger virtual reality machine, the same kind that makes up the Earth reality of humans. The reality is made up of the projections of everyone who inhabits that reality. The astral worlds are more similar to the earth reality in that way. there are will be more curve-balls and surprises than there will be in the lucid dreaming world other beings’ agendas will be there to affect your own, or participate with your own, just as they do on Earth.

My first astral projection happened quite accidentally. It was beginners luck. I had only been meditating for two days, never having meditated before, not that I knew of anyway. The person leading the meditation was not actually attempting to create that experience for us all. However, as I was in the group listening to the meditation, becoming very relaxed, I found myself using the facilitator’s voice like a rhythmic sound that my experience rode on. I began to rise through the ceiling, over the house, up into the sky and over the town, and suddenly I felt as if I had a thousand dreams all at once in the span of only a second or two. Then it was as if I had broken through membrane of some sort and was free. The sun was just setting in real life, and this translated into the astral worlds as well. I turned toward the sun and found myself zooming very fast toward the light as if automatically. Since I was near the ocean, I was over the water and I remember looking down, amazed at how fast I was flying. Suddenly, two angelic beings caught me by the elbows and slowed me down. There was a certain humor in their energy, as if I was the one that almost got away, the child who had started to run before I knew how to walk. They turned me around and gently brought me back to my body. I didn’t want to come back, but at the same time I was so excited at the experience I had just had. It was the first time I had such an eye-opening adventure outside of my body.

Thus began my adventures in astral projection. I actually did not have my next astral projection for two years even though I tried very hard. It turned out that I had a lot of personal work to do with the ability to control fear before I was ready for the astral worlds. I have a lot of issues to come to peace with, or I would have acted them out and experienced even deeper fear in the astral worlds which would have made my path more difficult. I am thankful now that I was not able to get out of my body then, for who knows what kind of dark energies would have been attracted to my consciousness projections at that time. It is much better than I worked them out before entering the astral worlds. However, that first experience kept me on the spiritual path, like the carrot in front of the horse. I knew that my reward for doing my spiritual homework would be the freedom that I had experienced in that first astral projection. It kept me focused on the path.

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