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Part 1: General
What is the Astral Dimension?
The astral is the closest dimension to the physical. It overlays and
permeates the world like a huge mind net, catching and holding all thought.
Its contents are created by the collective consciousness of the world mind.
It contains all the thoughts, memories, fantasies, and dreams of every
living thing in the world. In it, the laws of sympathetic attraction, or
like attracts like, causes this ocean of mind stuff to strata and settle
into layers or pools. These pools of thought are more commonly called astral
planes, astral worlds, astral sub planes or astral realms.
The astral dimension is composed of astral matter and is aptly described as
mind stuff. It is extremely sensitive to thought and can be moulded into any
shape or form. These creations can be so perfect as to be indistinguishable
from reality.
The best way to explain this, mind stuff, is to draw a comparison between
astral matter and unexposed, high speed photographic film. When this film is
exposed to light, focused by the cameras lens, a perfect image of reality is
instantly burnt into the film by the chemical reaction of the film to light.
When astral matter is exposed to thought, focused by the lens of the mind, a
perfect image of reality is instantly formed out of astral mind stuff by the
reaction of astral matter to thought. The complexity and durability of any
creation in the astral dimension depends largely on the strength of the mind
doing the creating.
Dreams
This is how the subconscious mind creates dreams: By tuning into the astral
dimension during sleep, it can create any scenario it wishes. This is the
subconscious mind's way of solving problems and of communicating with the
conscious mind. It creates a series of complex thought form scenarios and
projects them into the mind stuff of the astral dimension, where they become
solid. The conscious mind then lives through and experiences these created
scenarios in the dream state. In a way its like a movie projector
(subconscious mind) projecting onto a movie screen (astral dimension).
Thought Forms
Any new object in the real world is assimilated into the astral dimension
over a period of time. A thought form representation of it first grows in
the lowest part of the astral, close to the physical dimension, becoming
more and more permanent as time goes on. As with all thought forms, the more
attention paid to it the quicker it grows.
The higher up in the astral dimension, or the further away from the
physical, the less thought forms, of the physical world, as we know it, are
found. Physical things have to soak in to it for a very long time before
they take shape, and are found, in the higher astral.
Have you ever tried to move around a strange house in the dark? You bump
into everything, right. But as you become familiar with it though, a mental
picture of your surroundings forms in your mind, and you can find your way
around it better. The longer you spend in this house the stronger this
mental picture becomes. This is similar to how things are assimilated and
grown, as thought forms, in other dimensions.
The generation of thought forms in the astral also works in the reverse. If
a physical object has been around for a very long time, it will have grown a
lasting thought form impression in the astral. After the object is destroyed
or removed, its thought form still endures. You may, for example, in the
astral, find furniture in your house you don't have, jumbled up with your
own. This is caused by the decaying thought forms of old stuff, belonging to
previous tenants etc, still being there, years after the originals have
gone.
Old thought forms do not follow their physical counterpart around when they
are moved. New ones begin to grow in the astral wherever it is while the old
ones slowly decay. The longer a thing is in one place, the stronger the
thought form will become in that place. This also applies to buildings,
structures and geological features. You may project into a park and find a
house, bridge, stream, hill etc that you know is definitely not there. These
may have existed in times past. The higher up in the astral you go, the
older the thought forms are, or the further back in geological time you
appear to be.
The rate of growth of a thought form depends largely on the amount of
attention paid to it. For example, a famous painting; loved, viewed and
highly thought of by millions, will have a much stronger thought form than
that of a common painting that hangs in someone's bedroom and is only viewed
by a few. The number of thought forms you find in the astral also depends on
how close you are to the physical dimension. If you are very close, as in a
real time projection or OOBE, very few thought forms, if any, will be found.
In a real time OOBE you are not quite in the astral dimension but are
existing as an astral form in the buffer zone between the astral and the
physical dimensions.
Astral Vision
In the physical body we have 220 degrees of vision, i.e. we can only see in
front of us, but not behind, above and below at the same time. In the Astral
body we have MORE than 360 degrees of vision and can see on all sides at
once. This is Spherical vision. During projection, habit forces us to focus
our attention in one direction only, where we feel the forward part of our
vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right is still there, and
seen all at once, but it can not be assimilated by the brain, all at once.
This goes against the brains lifelong habit of frontal vision. Spherical
vision is like being one huge multi faceted eye that can see in all
directions, up, down, left, right, front, back, but all at once!
In the astral body you do not have any physical organs, i.e., eyes. You are
a non-physical point of consciousness floating in space. You are also
unaffected by gravity and other laws of physics. In this state there are no
ups or downs, backs or fronts, left or rights. It is only lifelong habit
that tries to force this perspective on you during projection.
It is important to understand spherical vision, if you are to operate
competently in the astral. This is especially so when you project, in real
time, close to the physical dimension. Spherical vision will often cause you
to think you are in a mirror image dimension, or a reversed copy of reality.
This means your house, for example, will appear to be reversed, back to
front. This is caused by you losing your original natural viewpoint during
projection.
At some point during the projection you have become disoriented and taken a
different viewpoint from normal, i.e., you have rotated or turned upside
down or inside without thinking. This reverses your natural left right, up
down viewpoint. This tricks the subconscious mind into reversing the place
you are in so your conscious mind can function properly.
As you don't have a physical body in the astral, if you want to look behind
yourself you don't have to turn around, or move at all. You just change your
viewpoint to the rear. This, when done without moving, causes the mirror
image effect, in a way its like looking in a mirror to see behind.
The diagram below illustrates this reversal of viewpoint without turning,
note left and right do not change:
                    Right     |         Right
                              |
       (A)   <<<<<<<<<--------|-------->>>>>>>>>>   (B)
                              |
                    Left      |         Left
i.e. If viewpoint (A) becomes viewpoint (B) without turning, then Left and
Right are not reversed. This causes the subconscious mind to use its
creative power to correct the view by reversing it, or parts of it. This is
easier and causes fewer problems for the conscious mind than if it had to
try and accept a reversal of left and right.
A similar effect can be had by lying down and looking above your head, or
standing on your head and trying to pick the left and right sides of things.
This causes a slight confusion in your sense of left and right, i.e., you
have to consciously calculate which is left and right from your reversed
position. This slight confusion is all that is needed to trick the
subconscious mind into creating something easier to accept.
Your brain is unable to assimilate this reversal and thus gives you a new
perspective according to what it feels is left and right at the time. Once
you consciously notice this anomaly it is too late to reverse it. The brain
cannot accept a conscious change of left and right.
If you understand spherical vision though, and happen to get reversed
sometime during a projection, it is no longer a problem. You can take it
into account and function normally, rather than thinking you are wasting
your time in some strange mirror dimension, i.e., if you had plans to do
something in the astral you still can. All you have to do is, take your left
right coordinates from the building or structure around you, and ignore your
own sense of left and right completely.
Everything you see while you are in the astral dimension is directly
perceived by the mind. It is a simple matter for the subconscious mind to
twist or reverse, all, or even part of, your conscious perception of reality
during a projection.
Note: This reversal of viewpoint can happen many times during any one real
time projection.
Creative Visualization Power
The subconscious mind has VASTLY greater powers of visualization than the
conscious mind. It is like comparing a super computer to an childs
calculator. In the astral dimension, during any conscious projection or
lucid dream, where the conscious mind is aware, this difference can cause
great confusion. The subconscious mind simmers beneath the surface during
any projection. All that creative power is just bursting to get out, to
create, and it will do just that any chance it gets. This difference in
creative power, combined with the lifelong habit of normal frontal vision,
is the cause of the "Alice In Wonderland Effect." Let me explain....
Take these together:
   1.  The incredible creative power of the subconscious mind.
   2.  The weak creative powers of the conscious mind.
   3.  The sensitivity of astral matter to thought.
   4.  Spherical vision.
   5.  Left, right sense reversals.
And you have a recipe for total confusion.
The Alice In Wonderland Effect
You project your astral body and look around your room. Everything appears
normal, but suddenly, you notice the door is on the wrong wall? While
looking around, you have seen this door with your rear vision, confusing
your natural left, right, brain perspective. The brain can't assimilate this
because your frontal perspective, and the position of the furniture,
pictures, windows etc, are normal; but the view behind you is reversed. This
tricks the subconscious mind into creating a door where it thinks it should
be. When you look at this door, it appears real, even though you know it is
in the wrong place. Once it has been created, it will not be uncreated, as
that would be unacceptable to your conscious mind. i.e. solid doors don't
normally have a habit of vanishing before your eyes.
When you turn to where the door really should be, you will, usually, find
the door there as normal. Now you may have two, or more, doors where there
should only be one. If you go through the real door, you will find the rest
of the house as it should be, hopefully. But, if you go through a false
door, the mind knows its false and won't accept it opening to a normal part
of your house that it knows can't possibly be there. So, if you open this
door you will find something else. It is usually a corridor or passage, you
don't have, leading off into other parts of the house you don't have either.
From then on, if you go through this door, you are in Wonderland, where
everything is possible, just not very plausible. What you are doing, in
effect, is entering the astral dimension via uncontrolled creation, through
this door you don't have, but now do. Once the subconscious mind starts
creating like this it continues to do so at a geometric rate. It has to, for
the conscious mind to assimilate the abnormal situation it is in. At some
stage, in this creative maelstrom, the subconscious mind loses it completely
and starts tuning in to other parts of the astral. At this point of the
projection, all semblance of reality is lost and you fade into the astral
dimension proper.
There are many ways this "Alice" effect can happen during a projection, the
above example is just one variation. It has been noted by many projectors
that at sometime during a projection they seem to lose control of it.
Objects appear, disappear, and generally everything gets a little strange.
This is caused, basically, by the subconscious mind's vast creative ability
being triggered. It starts making and unmaking things, and tuning into other
areas of the astral and generally making everything difficult for the poor
projector.
To avoid the above problem: Concentrate on what you are doing while you are
projecting and don't let your mind wander. The vision reversal problem can
be minimized if you concentrate on your forward vision during projection,
i.e., focus in one direction at a time. When you turn, follow the room
around with your vision and don't allow it to flit from one view to another.
The astral is not a good place to relax if you have serious plans.
The vast creative power of the subconscious can, however, be utilized. It is
an extremely valuable tool if you know how to use it. I will outline ways to
do this, in the third part of this series, under the heading: "Virtual
Reality Projection" where I will outline how to custom create your own
personal astral realm.
Melting Hands
When you project the astral body close to the physical world you do not have
a body as such. But, the mind cannot accept this and so provides a thought
form one made out of etheric matter. If you try and look at your body, say
your hands, you will find they start to melt very quickly. They look pale
and odd, and in a couple of seconds your fingers start to melt away like ice
under a blow torch. They shorten into pale stumps, then the rest of your
hand and arm starts to melt away too. This melting effect only seems to
happen when you deliberately try and observe a body part or consciously
create something.
Deliberately observing an astral body part like this, uses the conscious
mind, which, having poor creative powers, can't hold complex shapes together
for very long and it is this that causes the melting effect. If you happen
to notice parts of your body, in passing, during projection this melting
effect will not be seen.
Created Thought Form Objects
You can use your conscious mind to create objects while projecting. The
duration of these, thought form, created objects depends on the strength of
your creative visualization ability. It also depends on how much time and
effort you put in to a creation.
This same melting phenomena happens with any conscious creation done in the
astral dimension. If you create for example, a sword, it will appear in your
hand just as you imagine it, briefly, and then melt away just like the hand
did. If you concentrate on it you can hold it in shape, but as soon as your
concentration wavers so does the creation. This is similar to any other
visualization you do in the real world. It is difficult, and you have to
concentrate to hold the visualization in your minds eye. Once your
concentration wavers, so does the visualized image. This illustrates the
vast difference between the creative powers of the conscious and the
subconscious mind.
To make a lasting thought form object you have to trick the subconscious
mind into creating it for you. I will deal with this subject, in greater
depth, later in the series.
How does Projection Happen?
During sleep, the energy body, also known as the etheric body or vitality
sheath, is put on charge. It expands and opens in order to accumulate and
store energy. The energy body can, normally, only do this in its expanded
state during sleep. Once expanded, the chakras trickle power, in the form of
etheric matter, into the energy body. During this recharging process the
astral body separates and tunes into the astral dimension where it can
create and experience dreams.
If this separation is done consciously, or if you become aware after it, you
can take some control over it. It then becomes an OOBE, astral projection or
lucid dream.
The main differences between an OOBE, astral projection and a lucid dream
are:
The OOBE
The OOBE (out of body experience) is a real time projection close to the
physical world. This often occurs as part of a near death experience. This
is where a person is knocked out of their body as a result of some kind of
severe trauma, i.e. car accident, surgery, heart attack, child birth etc.
OOBE'ers are aware of things happening in the real world, in real time; such
as conversations and events centred around, or near to, their physical body.
In many cases, these events and conversations are accurately reported by the
person after they have returned to their body.
Note: The OOBE is slightly different from astral projection or lucid
dreaming because of its real time, objective aspect. This is caused by the
astral body containing a large amount of etheric matter, which holds it
close to the physical world.
There are two main causes of real time OOBE:
A person's body is near death, or thinks it is, which causes a large amount
of etheric matter to be channelled into the astral body in preparation for
the death process.
The person has active chakras which are doing a similar thing i.e.
channelling etheric matter into the astral body. Having active chakras can
be a natural ability, or it can be developed by training.
Note: You can project consciously, and have a real time OOBE if enough
etheric matter is generated by the chakras. In an OOBE, reality is perceived
as objective (real) and time is normal (real time).
Technically, when you project into the physical world in real time as in an
OOBE, it is really into the boundary area of the buffer zone, between the
physical and astral dimensions. If the astral body contains enough etheric
matter it can exist only slightly out of phase from reality. This means the
projection is in real time and so close to the physical dimension as to be
indistinguishable from it.
Note: I have checked this many times, by projecting, in real time, during
the day and scouting my local area for road works, accidents, incidents etc,
then verifying the accuracy of my findings afterwards.
There are strong natural barriers to conscious, real time projection, the
OOBE, in the physical world. The amount of etheric matter generated and
channelled to the astral body, is one of them. It limits the duration of any
real time projection to the degree of chakra development and control.
The Astral Projection
This is where the astral body is projected into the astral dimension, where
things are quite different from the real world. Time is distorted and
extended, i.e., an hour in the astral can be like a few minutes in the
physical dimension, depending on what part of the astral you are in. Reality
is fluid and changeable.
The Lucid Dream
This is where a person becomes fully aware that they are dreaming during a
dream. They either take some kind of conscious control over the course of
events, or they convert the experience into an astral projection. Lucid
dreaming is more similar to an astral projection than to an OOBE, as time
and reality are distorted.
Astral Projection Or Lucid Dream?
Many astral projectors black out before making a conscious exit from their
body and return to awareness in the astral dimension. You become aware after
the actual separation from the physical body and are usually already in the
astral dimension. If you miss the conscious exit from your body you are
technically having a lucid dream, not an astral projection as you have
become aware after separation.
All three types of projection are closely related, i.e., they all involve
the astral body separating from the physical and experiencing a reality
separate from the physical body.

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Vi Interessa ? Parte 1:
Generalità che cosa è la dimensione astral?
Il astral è la dimensione più vicina al fisico medica. Ricopre e pervade il
mondo come una rete enorme di mente, interferente e tenente tutto il
pensiero. Il relativo soddisfare è creato dalla coscienza collettiva della
mente del mondo. Contiene tutti i pensieri, memorie, fantasie e sogni di
ogni cosa vivente nel mondo. In esso, le leggi dell' attrazione simpatica, o
il simile si attrae come, causa questo oceano dello stuff di mente agli
strati ed al settle negli strati o negli stagni. Questi stagni di pensiero
più conunemente sono chiamati aerei astral, mondi astral, aerei secondari
astral o regni astral. La dimensione astral si compone di materia astral ed
a proposito è descritta come stuff di mente. È estremamente sensibile a
pensiero e può essere modellata in tutta la figura o forma. Queste creazioni
possono essere così perfette quanto a sono indistinguibili dalla realtà. Il
modo migliore spiegare questo, stuff di mente, deve effettuare un confronto
fra la materia astral e la pellicola fotografica non esposta e ad alta
velocità. Quando questa pellicola è esposta a luce, messa a fuoco dall'
obiettivo di macchine fotografiche, ad un' immagine perfetta della realtà
immediatamente è bruciato nella pellicola dalla reazione chimica della
pellicola per illuminarsi. Quando la materia astral è esposta a pensiero,
messo a fuoco dall' obiettivo della mente, un' immagine perfetta della
realtà immediatamente è formato dallo stuff astral di mente dalla reazione
della materia astral a pensiero. La complessità e la durevolezza di tutta la
creazione nella dimensione astral dipende in gran parte dalla resistenza
della mente che fa la creazione. Sogna questo è come la mente subcosciente
crea i sogni: Sintonizzando nella dimensione astral durante il sonno, può
creare tutto il piano d'azione che desidera. Ciò è il modo della mente
subcosciente di risolvere i problemi e di comunicazione con la mente
cosciente. Crea una serie di piani d'azione complessi della forma di
pensiero e li proietta nello stuff di mente della dimensione astral, dove
diventano solidi. La mente cosciente allora vive attraverso ed avverte
questi piani d'azione creati nella condizione di sogno. In un modo il
relativo lik