What is Astral Projection?
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Some people think they can 'leave their bodies' and join the 'astral plane' and wander some alternate existance that is close to our physical one.  but different than an OBE.  \n\nTo do this you generally enter a state of extreme relaxation, until you are near sleep paralysis, and through much traning and excerse you pop out of your body and have a great time. \n\n\nI think its just a lucid dream...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection
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It depends some dreams just seem to be thoughts in ones subconscious, but then other dreams are able to give you a glimpse of the future. There is of course ways to enter a different dimension or a "timeless" state called "astral travelling", but this is not like any dream, it is a process of separating the "astral body" (or soul) from the physical body. In most cases this happens to people that have near death experiences and people that are in comas. It does sometimes happen to people while sleeping (some times you don't remember it happening).\n\n "Astral projection" is the process of meditation that causes you to experience this phenomena at own will. Here is a link with some information on this:\n\nhttp://www.astralweb.com/phps/topics_whatis.php
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Yup. Right now, I just enjoy (like a little kid) the flying (sometimes like a bird, and sometimes playful like superman). I tried aiming for a certain country....not sure if I got there, but I arrived somewhere...lol. So, next time, I'll aim for a place I've actually been before. When I realize I'm in my astral body, I'm not afraid anymore. I was very afraid for many years, because I didn't know what was going on. I'm still a little bit afraid when I realize I'm in the astral dimension/world, but I try to have fun with it now. A few times I felt entering and exiting, both accompanied by a buzzing/ vibrating sound...one time it was so loud that I almost couldn't stand it. Even then I didn't panic, because I knew what was going on. Getting back down, ...back into my body sometimes seems way too fast,...but I just tell myself, "I'll be fine.".. and depending on how my body is positioned I imagine using my arm and hand  in such a manner that would allow for a smooth - I call it: home- coming. It's so liberating to know that I'm not the only one who experiences astral  projection....because I only found out recently that there are many!
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You're right!\nMy personal motives prevents me from doing astral projection.\n\nOne time, im out of the body then i think of a person that am going to visit then i feel heavy and being pull back to my body.\nAlso, my other experience that im going to visit my friend while in the astral or etheric world i suddenly get stuck and being back to my body.\n\nFor this i think its my hidden personal motives why i do not go further.\n\nBut now i pray and ask for my guidance to guide me and all i have to do is to be prepare and my DESIRE to do astral projection.. and i do it at will and by practice\n\nDo character building.. so you can go further in the inner world so you will not attract lower entities.\n\nGood Luck
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Introduction: \nAstral projection is a state where the astral body has separated from the physical body, with or without the rational mind. As uncommon as it may sound, it isn't. In fact, it is suspect that everybody experiences this separation each time they fall asleep. However, most people don't remember it. This nightly excursion out of the body is forgotten -- at least to the conscious mind -- simply because the ego has not put forth the effort to recall the experience. It is the same with dreams: If you deem them unimportant, you won't remember much of them -- if any.\n\n\nBut out-of-bodies are real. You are much more than flesh and blood. Death is not such a fearful thing when you realize it never really existed. As Seth says: "You are as dead now as you will ever be."\n\n\nTo go out of body is a good thing and as natural as breathing -- but the second body, or double, is controlled, usually, by the subconscious. The aim of this article is to help you achieve the out-of-body state on a regular basis and with your full critical faculties, the I-consciousness, intact.\n\n\nGOTO Site below for detailed info
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astral travel is journeying on the 4th dimension and is inadvisable.  Although I am not really familier I am led to understand that you can invite unwanted energetic activity into your life which can be an uncomfortable growth process - If you really wish to understand more about the other side then I recommend meditation - which is much safer and can take you further than you have ever dreamed possible!!!\n\nThere are many meditational CDs available try doing a google search or use a buddist technique
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yeah, what about it?\n"Astral" means "of the stars and other celestial bodies" and "configuration" means "the way things are configured or ordered". So put that together and "astral configuration" means "the ordering of the celestial bodies" or "where the stars and things are in the sky".\n\nI hope that answers your question.
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Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, resulting in a much clearer ("lucid") experience and usually enabling direct control over the content of the dream. The complete experience from start to finish is called a lucid dream. Stephen LaBerge, a popular author and experimenter on the subject, has defined it as "dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming." \n\nThere are many unanswered questions about lucid dreaming, and about dreaming itself. LaBerge and his associates have called people who purposely explore the possibilities of lucid dreaming oneironauts (literally from the Greek meaning "dream explorers"). The topic attracts the attention of a diverse and eclectic group, namely psychologists, self-help authors, New Age groups, mystics, occultists, and artists. This list is by no means exhaustive nor does interest in lucid dreaming apply necessarily to each group. Clear and consistent knowledge about lucid dreaming is difficult to find amongst the many interpretations of the experience, especially considering its highly subjective nature. It may be classified as a protoscience, pending an increase in scientific knowledge about the subject. Researchers such as Allan Hobson with his neurophysiological approach to dreaming have helped to push the understanding of lucid dreaming into a less speculative realm.\n\nLucid dreamers regularly describe their dreams as exciting, colourful, and fantastic. Many compare it to a spiritual experience and say that it changed their lives or their perception of the world. Some have even reported lucid dreams that take on a hyperreality, seemingly "more real than real", where all the elements of reality are amplified. Lucid dreams are prodigiously more memorable than other kinds of dreaming, even nightmares, which may be why they are often prescribed as a means of ridding one's self of troubling dreams.\n\nThere is a substantial cottage industry based around the technique of lucid dreaming, with an array of induction devices (usually based around flickering light arrays) commercially available to allegedly allow induction of lucid dreams. Their proponents also sometimes claim that these devices help achieve a higher level of spiritual consciousness, and associate it with other New Age concepts such as astral travel or dream sharing. Some proponents of the technique claim they can use symbolic methods to research, program, and modify their nervous system itself. Memory management, creative solution generation, accelerated healing, autoinduced priapism, and ecstatic envelopment of one's body are among the various claimed techniques[citation needed]. Regardless of these claims' validity, lucid dreaming as a scientifically verified phenomenon is well-established.
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Hey you could be astral projecting at night! That's when you leave you body behind and you soul or spirit goes out to perform some type of task. Your love and devotion to your girlfriend might be affecting you in the dream world as well Some ways to tell if you might be astral projecting are the following. Have you been tired when you get up even the you slept soundly? Do you seem to remember your dreams vividly as if you were really there. Do people comment on how hard it is to wake you? Or do you wake up suddenly for no reason. If the anwer is yes for most of these questions, then your probably astral projecting. Look it up on te internet. This is a very rare and useful gift and you should learn how to focuse it to your advantage!
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An hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality - visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, or proprioception (sense of balance and position in space).
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WHAT IS LUCID DREAMING?\n\nLucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden  who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. Lucidity usually begins in the midst of a dream when the dreamer realizes that the experience is not occurring in physical reality, but is a dream. Often this realization is triggered by the dreamer noticing some impossible or unlikely occurrence in the dream, such as flying or meeting the deceased. Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream; they just suddenly realize they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams (according to the research of LaBerge and colleagues, about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM (dreaming) sleep directly from an awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness.\n\nThe basic definition of lucid dreaming requires nothing more than becoming aware that you are dreaming. However, the quality of lucidity can vary greatly. When lucidity is at a high level, you are aware that everything experienced in the dream is occurring in your mind, that there is no real danger, and that you are asleep in bed and will awaken shortly. With low-level lucidity you may be aware to a certain extent that you are dreaming, perhaps enough to fly or alter what you are doing, but not enough to realize that the people are dream representations, or that you can suffer no physical damage, or that you are actually in bed.
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Projection of data means the future probable value of your recently acquired data. For example, if you do a population survey of a certain place, so your time would be the date you conducted your survey let say this year 2006. then you needed a population data for 2010 of course you dont have such data, but you have the data now and pass population data. you can compute for average birthrate, since you have birthrate you can compute now for the population for 2010. although you cannot actually compute the exact number but you have scientific basis for your projected data.\n\nget what i mean?? if you cant understand yet, feel free to ask more. jefrey_calosa@mhi.co.jp
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You have to be attuned to the level energy of the soul, that is the astral plane. Astral plane is also known as the emotional plane where all emotions negative or positive are kept. Unchecked or unresolved emotional conflicts on the part of the soul may cause it to manifest in other dimensions/plane like the one we occupy.
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I'm guessing here. an out of body experience. sometimes practice in either north or south Dakota by native American Indians.or the untying of ones self by power of the mind.or it could just be as simple as "spiritualists session"
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astral projection - i started reading about it a couple of years ago, and i was open minded but didnt truly believe in it. a couple of months ago i thought to myself that i would like to try again to see if it is real or not. anyway i jabber on, to cut a long story short - i had my first projection a couple of weeks ago. the first time only lasted a few minutes and i had a bit of trouble with my vision. the second time was excellent, it lasted much longer and i was able to 'teleport' \n to wherever i wanted and it was very clear. when i first read that people feel vibrations before they leave their body - i didnt really believe it but whenever i project now i always feel the vibrations first, sometimes i see a shade of gold over everything just after i've left. once youve actually learned to project, youre next mission \nwill be to learn how to make the projections last longer. i must say that i doubted the existence of astral projection until i had experienced it for myself. this is my technique and i really hope that it works for you: \ni make sure that im not hungry, thirsty, in a rush, or need to click my knuckles or anything like that.\ni lay down in a quiet place (my sofa with tv turned down very quiet) and keep my mind blank, i mean completely blank of any sort of critical thinking or rational thinking - if i do have to think something then i just rest my consciousness on my breathing, dont be afraid if you think you might fall asleep - actually welcome the slowed down feeling that it brings. if you find that your mind starts to wander into thinking then just blank your mind again without acknowledging it.\nif you can keep this going long enough then you'll start falling into a trance, although if you think to yourself 'oh im in a trance' then this will wake you up again so just let it happen and try not to acknowledge anything that goes on in your mind.\nat this point i just keep the trance going and dont think anything, my mind knows that my intention is to project so it will happen. then i get these mad vibrations through my body and i know that its happening - but dont think anything - just let the vibrations happen, in a way you have to ignore everything. then at this point my projection starts, and can happen in different ways. sometimes i just find myself out of my body, sometimes i feel myself sort of come out. \nanyway this method works for me and i wish you success, also feel free to change it a bit, do what comes naturally.\ngood luck!
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I have had out of body experiences.  I'm not sure if Astral projection is the same.  When I had these experiences, I was either lying on my back or half way (slightly on my side).  It always happened when I would lay down and relax to try and fall asleep.  It happens right before I would have feel asleep.  Except I don't actually fall asleep.  If you are aware of how you fall asleep then I think you could induce the out of baody experience.  Lie down to fall asleep and let yourself, but right before you go into a sleep mode, don't.  Stay aware, but in that state.  Don't move or think.  You may hear a buzzing in your head.  Vibrations usually follow that.  Then you will feel paralized.  Don't fight it.  Don't panic either.  Relax as all this is occuring.  You will then feel as if you are lifting up and out.  This is your soul.  Everything may be foggy at first until you have completely emerged.  I never got far from the side of my bed looking at myself laying there.  I was too afraid to go further, so I always went back in.  If you can't get back in right away, don't panic, you will.  I always panic, so I don't try to do this.  Everytime it has happened I didn't mean it to.  I would pray right before to have a quick exit and quick entrance.  If they aren't quick going out and in, you may panic or feel uncomfortable.  This is just my experience.  Let me know if it works for you.  E-mail me if you want.  Click on my name and hit contact Maky.
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Well, actually, what you can call a *ghost* is really a form of energy which manifests itself when one's brain is working at top capacity and thus you can control objects with your mind and such.\nRegarding aliens and UFOs, I think we're not alone in this universe, there's got to be some other lifeforms.