From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors,sci.skeptic
Subject: Astral 1.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:49:23 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Subject: Astral Projection.
  I have had some requests to explain how astral projection is done so here 
goes;  Well now that we've got this far you should be able to do, !. Send 
and receive thoughts. 2. Seal the aura (we haven't covered that one yet) and 
3. Call a flying saucer.  If you haven't accomplished these things yet it 
may take a while, say 10 or 20 years. Some people are born with these 
abilities and can do them without being taught, other people can do them 
with  a little bit of instruction, others take quite a while to learn and 
the last type of people are for sure they'll never learn and they usually 
are right.
  Your usually accomplish what you put your mind to do.  Lately there has been 
a lot of information about out of the body experiences. That is where you 
are being operated on and while under anesthesia, are able to leave their 
physical body and float up to the ceiling, looking back on your body while 
the operation is being done.  After the anesthesia dies off then you return 
to your body.  fter you return  to your body and wake up in your physical 
body you are able to tell everybody what was going on during the operation 
even though you had your eyes closed.  
  In other cases people lay down to sleep and just before going to sleep leave 
their physical body and float into the other room and see things, then 
return. 
  Part of my training was to learn how to do astral projetion. To do this you 
relax in a chair, or bed or in the lotus posture, if your studying Yoga. 
Then let yourself go into sort of a trance.  You let you astral or spiritual 
body (your mind)leave your body and go to anywhere you might want to go.  
Your astral body is connected to your physical body by what is called the 
silver cord. Its sort of a thin piece of nearly invisible material that 
stretches out between your physical body and your astral body.  This all is 
just a way of explaining it and it can be seen by a person with clairvoyant 
vision.  One of my teachers could go all the way to Venus by astral 
projection.
  Some people say that you should be careful that no one moves you while your 
on an astral journey because it will kill you if they break the silver cord 
but I've never been killed yet. I just wake up if someone shakes me.  Some 
people say you should have a teacher or Guru to accompany you on your trips 
but I could never seem to get all that organized so I just went anyway.  
After you get so far in all this business you'll find that the only real 
Guru is your higher self and if you can understand that little statement 
your pretty far advanced anyway.
  When you first start all of this its nomal to have what is calld a snap 
back.  That is when you just leave your body and are going pretty good, then 
realize what your doing, get afraid and you mind will snap back into your 
body.  Sometimes your astral body comes back into you physical body and 
doesn't get aligned just right and you won't feel exactly right (sort of a 
headache).  All you have to do in a case like that is to go back into a 
regular sleep for at least 5 minutes and you'll be feeling OK.
End Part 1.
John Winston.
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