Has anyone ever experiences astal projection?

Question

Listen I know alot of you Jesus people out there are going to want to preach to me about how the occult is evil. I am aware of your beliefs so please keep them to yourselves but I am just curious as to whether anyone has ever visited any astral planes or had anyone profound out of body experiences.

Answer 1

YES!
when i was very young i researched many topics in the occult out of morbid curiousity. One of those which was astral projection what a concept huh?
Well, about this time last year I was employed in a manner where I was always on call. I had responded to work so many times in two days that I hadnt nearly slept in 3. When I told my supervisor I was going home to sleep and not to call me for the next 12 hours I was physically exhausted. mentally hazy and totally out of it.
By the time I had made it to my bedroom I collapsed, just for a minute, not even getting my shoes off falling back on the bed.
Immediately when i closed my eyes I was aware of all the pain and soreness in my body. but there was some sort of synaptic ovrride is the only was i can describe my experience from that point, because also along from that pain came a wave of euphoria to finally be laying down to sleep. the wave ran quickly in the span of maybe .5 seconds or less from the top of my skull and down my spine to my legs...I can never forget that feeling.
I knew that I was falling asleep but also i felt conscious and in this euphoric i felt myself drifting suddenly upward immediately toward the ceiling in my room. I also had just enough time to muse what I was experiencing and recongnized it in awe. But it was all too short a ride.
right before I was to maybe pass through the ceiling in the room (total ride maybe 3 seconds) my eyes flew open and my head was to the side. My body was paralyzed as if entirely asleep including my neck and jaw but i could look around with my eyeballs. I felt what was like electrical shocks inside my brain. funny that at this moment was the first time id ever felt the inside of my skull in such a manner. It was as if almost I was aware of which hemisphere of my mind was currently online and open for business.
I did what I think anyone in this situation might do 'PANIC!"
all i could do was moan quite vocally and was suprised that my voice was much more like a zombie from a hollywood horror as also i had no control in my vocals. just a really loud forceful "UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" came out.
I felt also a strange voice that came from teh very center from my head "YOU WILL NEVER BE AS GREAT AS ME" almost mocking or authoritative, threatening? I looked around hard, I dont know why maybe just the normal subconscious reaction to identify source of sound and thought back hard 'WHO ARE YOU' as if i had some idea of a link to something. 'WHY?, HOW?' I beckoned after "TELL ME!' but apparently thats all there was to it.
about 30 seconds later i managed to sit up (even before could properly turn my head.) and all of my limbs were asleep still.
I thrashed my arms back awake slowly and slapped myself in the face two times by accident while doing so. It was funny really looking back at it now. Then my legs.
I was so nervous I went and took a shower and made sure my blood was flowing right doing some light calisthenics before committing to lay down and sleep again.
This left me in wonderment for a couple of weeks after. I consulted an old friend who is heavily into occult phenom. Old beliefs and astronomy and so forth. When I described my experience and my condition leading into it he gave me the no nonsense answer that what I did was alot like what the ancient Egyptian priests did to initiate an astral projection. They would go sit in a cool dark cave and meditate and focus and chant to keep themselves awake for days with minimum stimulation and just a small bowl of water enough for sustenance. The key was physical exhaustion to seperate the mind from the world but in a relaxed manner that did not bring the stimulus of pain.
However in my case what brought about the seperation of conscious from the body was extreme fatigue, utter exhaustion and basically just collapsing at my finish line (my bed). There was a lot of pain I had in my body that by staying focussed at work I was consciously seperated from.
Me being the skeptic I solidly am kept searching for more answers. I heard about a phenomenon called sleep paralysis which seemed to fit the ticket just right. Part of my body and mind went and initiated sleep mode without consulting the other parts or portions of mind in sequence. Thus I was vastly aware of my body shutting down around me and portions of my brain went offline and I was given a larger than normal dose inside the brain of the chemical that normally initiates sleep. Definately my conscious link to mortor control was gone.
So why then the hallucination of drifting upward? was it because it was the last thing I saw was the ceiling? and why then when I became partially awakened to experience paralysis did I hear an alien voice that was not my own id or words or direction of thought? This is mystery to me.
But maybe there is a simple scientific explanation for all of this.
and for firsthand experience...even though the journey was quite quip (3 seconds if that) I can see why some definately might feel they are flying away. That said the feelings are so euphoric and stong I can see why someone might become addicted to such and experience and note it as some form of alternate reality.
Also I can see why some might consider the whole silver cord portion of the phenom...and demon intruders especially! because one part of my mind which may contain certain vocabulary said something to me as if it were a foreign entity. And it did feel like I was wrestling for control of my body, but that the invader had slipped away giving up the fight. When actually it may be just some form of self hypnosis and directed dreaming. It still fascinates me to this day, but im not quick to bite, judge or name anything that doesnt directly apply to common sense.

Who knows? maybe it was as the ancients described? maybe the demon found my body undesirable as he was taking over he couldnt have it all. On top of that if that were true though, I dont know by what force of blessing or good spirit may have guided me back to my body just in the nick of time if that were the case. On top of that I was no more than 6 or 7 feet above my body when suddenly I recoiled. So this to me kinda disproves teh silver cold...maybe im not well endowed in that manner? Or maybe the demon was haunting me to cut my cord itself as soon as I would have such an episode.
All I know was the experience was very visceral, but as far as ancient beliefs go (which I would love to discover are true actually, but I have to keep it real otherwise id be liable to believe just about anything) theres just too many holes in the logic that it was demonic and spiritual and rather an uneven distribution of chemicals in the mind followed by static and a semi-scitzotypcial episode brought on by the extreme exhaustion.

Answer 2

I think I had an out of body experience once. I didn't feel a complete separation from my body, but I felt like I was a bit above my body and my perception was different. So I guess I had a half out of body experience.

Answer 3

Yes, last week during a class at the Monroe Institute in Virginia. During meditation in complete darkness, I moved my hand slightly and saw it move as if in a mirror. Here's the website: http://www.monroeinstitute.com/

Answer 4

Yep. It's a big part of my occult research at the moment, actually.

Answer 5

I was sleeping once and it seemed like I was hovering over my body watching myself sleep...then I began to wet the bed and I returned to my body and woke up promptly

Answer 6

I have....when I was in my late teens to late 20's. I am no longer into that as I am afraid that the silver cord may be severed...if you know what that means.

Answer 7

I pesonaly think it's wrong to do it and it's up to GOD alone raise my spirit when my physical body dies.
I heard Astral Projection is very dangerous from someone.It leaves your body wide open for demons to posess it for good.Don't do it please!!!
God Bless!!!