

These should be written down in as much detail as possible immediately upon waking. The steps to remembering astral journeys, and later actually directing them, start with simply remembering the dreams. In it, you were drifting down the Nile River in a Chinese junk that suddenly disappeared and left you fighting Confederate soldiers with nothing more than a salmon-fishing pole! On waking, you may have only a confused recollection of what seemed like one long, very strange dream. Then you may visit the pyramids in Egypt before rounding out the night reenacting a battle of the Civil War.

From there you travel to the Orient and have a pleasant journey in a sampan. Suppose that in the dream state-more correctly, on the astral plane-you take a trip to Scotland and do some salmon fishing. The average person experiences a large number of dreams during the course of a normal night’s sleep. This is because only the highlights of several dreams are remembered. Frequently dreams seem ridiculously involved and mixed up. All people dream, though not everyone remembers his or her dreams. Many dreams may be the remembrance of astral journeys undertaken while asleep.

If you decide you’d like to be half way around the world, you will be there immediately and can return just as fast. Then the etheric double moves away rapidly to wherever it wishes to go. From whatever point it leaves, the astral body floats up and away from the physical body so that it is possible for one versed in the art to look back down at their own sleeping form. The person projecting often experiences what feels like a rapid shaking or vibration of the physical body at the moment of departure. Others say it is from the position of the Third Eye or from the crown chakra. Some say that the astral body emerges from the physical body through the solar plexus. This silver cord is what draws you back to your physical body in case of any emergency. In astral projection, your physical body relaxes and rests while your etheric double departs from it, maintaining an apparently tenuous yet surprisingly strong connection in the form of an infinitely elastic silver cord. However, the majority of recorded cases of astral projections have occurred after development of the skill by long and assiduous cultivation. The ability is inherent in most individuals and frequently occurs spontaneously. Astral projection (or OOBE-Out-Of-Body Experience) is the ability to send out this etheric double, causing it to travel elsewhere without the physical body. The physical body has an invisible double known variously as the spirit, ethereal body, or astral body. Astral Projection (religion, spiritualism, and occult) From Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington (1929). Representation of an out-of-body experience (OOBE) in which the astral body hovers over the physical body yet remains connected.
