How to Achieve Astral-Projection; the Authors own methodology: There are many, many out-of-body techniques available through which to conduct your personal experimentations; hence, research as many different points of view on this subject as you possibly can! I have naturally experienced off and on phases of out-of-body phenomena since before I vaguely understood what the crown chakrawas, and, albeit, since long before I ever experimented with mind altering plants of any kind. It was much later during my life that I sought-out further understanding as to what was metaphysically occurring in correlation to the crown chakra during inductions of out-of-body awareness. Frankly, I never took the chakra force-centers very seriously until myrecent years, so I would concur that, based upon the darkest years of my personal astral projection experiences, wielding an advanced understanding of the chakra-system is certainly not necessary in order to achieve astral projection; though having such an esoteric knowledge would definitely benefit the student.
Stage 1: Firstly, force yourself to awaken during the cusp of early twilight, during the wee hours;
OR from between 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., as the Hindu Brahmans suggest. It is good to feel rather sleepy upon awakening, for it is imperative that you must feel tired enough that you can easily fall back asleep again; yet the trick is to not lose consciousness when returning to sleep. Comfortably lie on your back with your arms at your sides and relax. Try to catch yourself at the verge of losing consciousness, for therein exists a powerful gateway. Focus upon your mid-brain as you concentrate upon a deep breathing exercise of your choice. You may by-locate your concentration from betwixt your frontal lobe and your midbrain. Eventually, you should begin feeling a sense of light headedness; once felt, pay very close attention to this sensation. Specifically concentrate upon wherever you feel the sensations of light-headedness originating from. The stronger the light-headed feelings the better; this phenomenon will occur in mild waves at first but will exceedingly increase with concentration.
Gradually, you should detect feelings of electromagnetic or static-like vibrations coursing through the mid and upper brain, much like peculiar head rushes. If your concentration falters, the intensity of these light-headed electromagnetic sensations will decrease to the degree of ceasing entirely, and you will then be forced to recommence the exercise from the beginning. These sensations will intensify with perpetuated focus; willingly embrace these awesome feelings with all of your vitality and fear not. You should soon begin to feel tingly, static-like vibrations elevate above the mid-brain, within the uppermost region of your brain: Shift your focus to this area. As these awesome sensations persist and intensify, you might begin to fear that there might be something badly wrong or perhaps that you could be experiencing the initial symptoms of a seizure; for this phenomenon can be exceptionally frightening to the unprepared mind. Do not surrender to fear lest you lose the immediate focus upon your goal. Despite your fear, continue to intently concentrate upon these acute sensitivities and graduate your attention to the region of your aura that is about an inch ABOVE the top of your head. Visualization will greatly assist in this process. Yes, you will soon begin to notice a similar tingling of electro-static-like vibrations just above the top of your head. At this current stage, you may even feel an electromagnetic pull or rising, upward moving feelings: Herein is the gateway of exit through which the prana abridged electricity bond that intercedes between your astral crown chakra and the brain force-centers can be broken with determination. Thusly, thrust your mind-spirit into and through the rising sensations which stir within your spiritual aura that is just above the head of your physical-vehicle, and your astral crown will dislodge from the brain force-center receptors which interface your consciousness through the physical brain. The dislocation of the astral crown chakra is sometimes associated with a snapping of popping sound, but this is not a physically audible sound. Ive described a further explanation for the dislocation of the astral crown chakra in my bunk head-thread theory subsection of this chapter.
Stage 2: Your higher Sahasrara crown and spiritual-consciousness-thread have now separated from the EM-field of the brain and its inner-ethereal third-eye shield. There is yet one final phase to fully achieving freedom from your physical-body: At this stage, where I begin to feel a strong polarity of magnetic resistance within the naval region of my physical-vessel, and or within the center of my astral body. Some people feel this phenomenon manifesting from the heart chakra region of their physical body. In the past I have felt only minor phenomena associated with the heart force center but very rarely upon astral projecting.
Now, shift your focus to the auric area that is between your physical and astral centers. You might notice a feeling of magnetic tension, pulling or the stretching forth of energy between your astral body and the inner-ethereal EM-field of your physical body, thus as your spirit separates: This phenomenon manifests what I refer to as the astral-umbilical-cord. Vibrations will rush through this supernatural cord between your physical nervous system and your astral center. Like a tractor beam, the nervous-system aspect of the inner-ethereal aura will resist against the outward departure of your astral body if you allow it to. You should notice both protracting and retracting sensations of polarity within your astral tether. Concentrate upon the protracting vibrations in order to propel your astral body away from the ethereal tractor-beam of your physical bodys nervous-system EM-field.
To move your astral-vehicle: Intently focus upon the center and of your astral-vehicle and will your spiritual-self forwards in order to travel.
To return to your physical-vehicle: One technique is to intently focus upon the retracting sensations within the astral-umbilical-cord; doing so can resultantly pull your spiritual being back into a state of embodied cohesion with your physical-vehicle.
The art of tripping the astral umbilical cord: This may be easily accomplished if another person disturbs the comatose physical body of an astral projected person, thereby triggering a surge of electromagnetic polarity through the astral cord in which extracts the dislocated astral vehicle back into a state of embodied cohesion with the physical-vehicle. Another means for triggering an astral cord extraction is by intently or forcibly tugging against or otherwise by tampering with the astral-cord prana current. Toying with a dislocated ethereal double is yet another means for triggering an ethereal security system reaction that surges through the astral-cord to the astral-body.
The astral hands: Both Robert Bruce and Carlos Castaneda had emphasized upon similar astral oriented methodologies for utilizing ones astral-hands in regard to achieving dreaming lucidity, and thus a conscious state of astral-projection. Simply gaze at your astral hands in order to invoke a sense of conscious lucidity or when you feel as if you are losing consciousness. One can where a dreaming ring in order to entrain their mind to get into the habit of looking at ones hands during waking consciousness. During your daily routines, casually glance at your ring and ask yourself, am I dreaming? One day you will find yourself in an ordinary dream as you happen to gaze down at your hands, thus asking yourself, Am I dreaming? And this little rite just might trick your mind into becoming conscious midst a lucid dream or an out-of-body experience!
Etheric-projection and being stuck half in and half out-of-body: This can occur if the ethereal security system is inadequately stalled when extracting the astral spirit-body from an out of body or state or if an entity is attempting to possess your physical-vessel; OR if the practitioner fails to break free of the ethereal veil during the initial phase of astral projection.
Feeling & seeing the astral-cord:As for many out-of-body experience practitioners, perceiving the astral-cord is rather an obscure phenomenon. Depending upon ones conscious degree of sensitivity to astral vibrations, the cord phenomenon can be either seen or felt. Fascinatingly, there are people who firmly ascertain that an astral cord lifeline manifests from the heart chakra region of their physical body when they astral project, however, there are yet many others who strongly affirm that an astral-cord manifests from the navel or solar-plexus area of their physical-vessel when they go out-of-body. What if both sides to this debate are correct? There might be pertinent metaphysical explanations as to why the astral-cord is either felt or seen as emitting from different locations of ones physical-vehicle during out-of-body phenomena.
Out-of-body flight and astral cord phenomena: Whilst flying amidst an out-of-body state have you ever felt buoyant, protracting, retracting, springy, or tension-like sensations in which rush up and down your lifeline, especially as you will your astral mind-spirit body forward? And have you ever noticed any slight to severe nervous-system convulsions or tremors from within the midsection region of your physical-vehicle upon being jolted back to embodied cohesion from an out-of-body state? Further, have you ever experienced any feelings of energetic resistance within the naval region of your physical body upon going out-of-body during the initial phase of astral projection? Clearly, the astral lifeline is a critical element of the ethereal security-system of the physical nervous-system. Once the ethereal/ physical security-system defenses have been activated the umbilical life-line then triggers an over-powering current of electromagnetic polarity through which it promptly extracts ones dislocated astral spirit-vehicle. Ones astral-body chakras tend to slightly shift from their stationary points, which could also attribute to the buoyant sensations which are felt during astral flight.
Telepathic communion via O.O.B. states: Telepathy is a mode of spiritual communion that occurs through thought-frequency receptions and transmissions between two or more spirit-entities, thus circumventing all communal language barriers. All thought energy is derived from the mind-spirit vibration of the Devachan planes. In essence, spirits communicate by means of telepathic conversation, for disembodied ghosts and other astral plane spirits, also including astral-projected human spirits, have no physical mouths through which to convey their thoughts; so it is thus by means of telepathic communion through which all astral spirits converse. What makes you any different than a ghost? Other than the fact that you are a physically embodied spirit whereas they are not? Achieving a simultaneous, co-interactive state of astral projection with another person tends to naturally manifest an open channel of telepathic communion between both spirits; also, merging astral-vehicles and Sutratma-threads is an exceptionally effective means for manifesting a resonant mind-meld bridge between the spiritual-consciousness-frequencies of two astral projected spirits. Thought is simply a frequency of energy, of whichevery individual mind-spirit resonates with its own unique channel or frequency of thought. Ones mind-spirit willnaturally hone into another out-of-body spirits specific channel of thought-frequency in a relatively comparable fashion as to how a broadcasted radio-frequency bandwidth can be tuned in over a radio signal receiver.The most profound telepathic experiences generally occur during out-of-body states.An intensive astral projection experience withanother out-of-body traveler will tend break down ones third-eye barriers. Some degree of telepathic phenomena might ensue for a limited duration of time after two correspondent astral travelers have returned to their physical-vehicles. When a state of telepathic communion occurs between you and your partners out-of-body mind-spirits, you may spontaneously alternate between disembodied and embodied states of consciousness together without immediately diminishing of your telepathic link. Followed by returning from your co-interactive out-of-body state, your telepathic connection will grow weaker until it eventually ceases due to the natural sealing of your inner-ethereal third-eye shield. Depending upon how tightly your third-eye seals closed, a very limited degree of conscious thought to thought transference might actually endure between you, but at random; especially if you have past life or over-soul-group affinity with that person.
Telepathy versus empathy: These are two entirely different phenomena, though synonymous to a limited degree. Empathy is merely the innate capacity to empathize, feel, perceive, understand or sympathize with anothers specific emotional, mental or physical conditions. Telepathy is a purely spiritual phenomenon through which two or more spirits may express unobstructed conveyances of intent betwixt themselves; strictly defining thought to thought receptions and transmissions between two mind-spirits. True telepathy more commonly occurs during out of body states than midst physically embodied states, due to the ethereal third-eye seal. Lesser telepathic states have been known to seldom occur at randomly during ordinary wakeful states of human consciousness, but often to a very limited degree. For instance, think of past scenarios where you were thinking of a word or an expression, and maybe you were even about to speak it, but the person who you were talking to conveyed it before you did: Insinuating, Hey! I was just thinking that before you said it! Telepathic phenomena can occur on either sub-conscious or conscious levels.
Several examples of various reports concerning astral-cord phenomena:
1. According to many out-of-body practitioners, an astral-cord can be either felt or seen as exuding forth from between the naval force-center of the physical body and its correspondent astral body force-center. This cord phenomenon might be attributed to the fifth ray of consciousness in some out-of-body parishioners. However, not all astral practitioners report feeling or seeing this variant of astral cord.
2. Numerous other astral projection adepts report that an astral cord phenomenon can be either felt or seen as protruding forth from between the heart force-center of the physical body and its correspondent astral body force-center. This cord phenomenon might be attributed to the fourth ray of vibration in some O.O.B.E. practitioners. Of course, not every astral practitioner attests to feeling or seeing this particular astral cord variant.
3. Some insist that they neither see nor feel any astral-cord phenomena when they astral project and are uncertain as to whether or not it exists, and others surmise that the astral cord does not exist.
4. Yet others believe that an astral-cord manifests from wherever one believes, thinks or wills or that it will manifest from.
5. Certain practitioners have spoken of a mysterious throat chakra cord.
6. And there are some who believe that the astral-cord manifests in correlation to interplay between two or more chakra force-centers.
7. A few yet proclaim that an astral-cord can manifest from through the back of thehead, but rumor has it that only an enlightened master can astral project without breaking the resonant bond of fohat mingled prana between the brain of their physical-vehicle and their golden Sutratma-thread. This head-thread phenomenon might be achievable by some individuals, but such is likely to be exceedingly rare in the Authors fervent opinion.
The silver-cord vs. the golden-Sutratma or spiritual-consciousness-thread: The spiritual-consciousness-thread, or technically referred to as the golden Sutratma-thread, should not be confused with the astral-umbilical-cord, as these are different cord phenomena. In the Authors perception, certain Theosophists have attempted to discredit the silver-cord by asserting that it was confused with the golden Sutratma-thread. This is not a plausible speculation for anyone who has experienced the naval cord for themselves.
The bunk head-thread: This cord concisely manifests as a direct result of a division between the ones astral, ethereal, and physical spirit-bodies during the initial phase of astral projection.
For those readers who profess to regularly experience this head-thread phenomenon, here is the Authors bunk-head-thread theory, thus based upon his own out-of-body experiences:
1. When an astral projection phenomenon occurs, the crown force-center of ones astral body will begin to elevate with will, thereby dislodging from its cohesive bond of magnetism with the ethereal-crown-chakra-inlet.
2. The resistant bond between the astral crown force-center and the crown-force-center-inlet of the ethereal double, which interfaces a Sahasrara link to the brain of the physical body, is so great that it is difficult to break its resonant crown bond. During the initial phase of going out of body, the astral crown force-center partially dislocates the ethereal crown force-center inlet, pulling away from the brain interface and from the top of the head of the physical-vessel.
3. A weak cord of (fohat & prana mingled ethereal-matter) then stretches forth between the Sahasrar crown force-center and the crown chakra inlet at the top of the head of the physical body. At this stage the astral Sahasrar force-center has not yet dislocated from the crown force-center-inlet of the ethereal-double; with intent, the Sahasrar continues to separate from its energetic bond with the head of the ethereal body.
4.The astral crown begins to break its bond with the ethereal crown inlet, and an energetic cord like phenomenon then stretches forth between the dislocated astral crown force-center and the ethereal-crown force-center inlet, but temporarily. This bunk thread may weakly extend to the head of the physical body for a limited duration.
5. The fohat-ground link to bunk head-thread cord of prana quickly begins to diminish in its strength as the astral crown chakra continues to separate from the ethereal-crown force-center-inlet.
6. Soon thereafter, the magnetism of this bunk head-thread cord suddenly snaps and then completely dissipates. Hence, the astral crown force-center, intact together with the spiritual-consciousness-thread, has now broken free from the circuit of resonant magnetism in which had bonded it to the spiritual-consciousness-thread-ground or brain of the physical body. In other words, the astral crown force-center is thereby freed once it breaks its state of electromagnetic cohesion with the brain of the ethereal-double of the physical body.
7. At this instance, total astral projection has not yet occurred, for the astral body has not yet become totally freed from the grounding magnetism of the ethereal nervous-system chakras! Remember that the head-thread is merely a bunk, short lasting cord phenomenon for most astral travelers, as it will quickly begin to weaken and then snap the further ones ventures away from ones physical-vehicle; but the golden Sutratma-thread temporarily breaks its connection to the brain and remains as one with the out of body mind-spirit! Thusly, the spiritual-consciousness-thread will break its bondage of the consciousness-thread-ground force-centers of the brain of the physical body. As the bunk thread link snaps the silver-cord begins to manifest from the naval region of the physical-vessel in many out-of-body practitioners. Suddenly, it will dawn within the attention of ones spiritual-mind that one is indeed experiencing a genuine out of body experience. The dislodging of ones astral-crown chakra is sometimes accompanied by a popping or snapping sound; one may or may not notice this sound. At once, one will be immersed within a vast sea of endless astral vibrations.
The supernatural substance of the astral-cord: Subtle fohat-electricity mingled prana channels through the astral-cord circuit that manifests between ones separating spirit-bodies during out-of-body states; fohat-electricity charged ethereal sub-matter and prana form the base of the astral-cord, of which tapers off into a thin cord of prana and electricity. Subtle vibrations reverberate between dislocated spirit-embodiments through the cord of astral-prana, between corresponding astral to ethereal force-centers. It is thus by virtue of prana transference that the astral body subconsciously receives and feels all physical sensations before the autonomic nervous system of the physical body can translate physical impressions as conscious feelings. The astral-umbilical-cord is a silvery grey color at its lower base due to its astral to ethereal prana correspondences, for the ethereal double is also a silvery grey in color; whereas, the golden Sutratma-thread, or spiritual-consciousness-thread, is shimmering golden in color due to its direct correspondence with Boddhi-Atma prana.
In Sanskrit and Theosophical teachings, a centralized current of inward flowing prana enters each of the seven primary force-center vortexes and a series of evenly spaced prana rays emit from within the force-center vortex, thus circumferencing around the central stream of prana, like the spokes of a wheel. So, regarding the naval force-center, ten outwardly flowing rays or spokes of prana emit forth from around a central current of inwardly streaming prana. Strictly during out-of-body experiences, do the ten outward flowing prana rays wrap around the inward stream of primary prana flow to thus manifest the astral-umbilical-cord? Is this concept not dissimilar to the principle basis as to how an extension-cord conduits electricity, but concerning astral prana as its medium? The Author hasnt yetobserved this theory in other Authors out-of-body literature.
