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right direction can be a major accomplishment. This lack of control is simplybecause they are unfamiliar with astral form. It is like being in zero gravity. You haveto learn to move all over again. When you project in real time, you are just a point ofconsciousness with a poorly constructed etheric shell surrounding it. Motion is providedby thought - not muscles.Astral MomentumThere is a type of momentum in astral form that causes most of the problems. Thiscauses you to continue moving for a while, after you decide to stop. This may take youthrough a wall or a ceiling etc. This impetus is caused by the thought you used to causethe motion. If it is too strong, or too prolonged for the action, you will move too quicklyor too far. Only practice teaches you how to get about with any degree of accuracy andgrace.It really is quite a comical process, learning astral motion. I remember learning to moveabout my hometown, in my youth. I would start by trying to navigate through my house,usually ending up stuck in the roof, for a while. Then I would run down the road, tryingto build up speed and take off like a plane. I would get airborne for a while, but couldnever quite clear the rooftops of the surrounding houses. I would often floatunintentionally into strange houses, blundering about like a drunk in zero G. I seemed tobe endlessly apologizing to all these strangers in passing, as I floated in and out of theirhouses.How To MoveTo move about in astral form, simply - DO IT. Do not think about what you are doing,just DO IT. Be aware that motion is provided by your mind. You have to will yourselfinto motion, to change direction, and to stop. This is the best advice I can give you onthis. It really has to be learned by doing. Have fun.When you have learned basic motion, do not try anything too ambitious for a while.Stick close to the surface and learn to get around your local area first. Practice varyingyour speed until you gain some control over it. Learning To FlyLearn to fly the same way as you learned to move, by using your mind. At first you mayfind something very much like gravity affecting you. You may get yourself into the aironly to find yourself slowly arcing back to earth again. If you persevere youll findyourself moving in a series of short flight hops.This is caused partly by habit and partly by the basic motion problem in general. Yousink back to earth when your motion causing mental action falters. This causes yourflight impetus to stop and the gravity habit then pulls you down.You may find yourself, as I did, trying to fly by running down the road and leaping intothe air. This is not necessary. Focus your will into floating up into the air. Then useyour will to provide motion, same as with basic motion. There is NO gravity affectingyou in astral form. Convince yourself of this and you will be flying in no time.SpeedThe three speeds as defined by, S.
Muldoon, and commonly accepted,are a basic guide only. These are:1. Walking speed.2. Motor car speed.3. Instantaneous travel.I think these three speeds were a sign of the times back then. These would have been theonly types of speed known to most people. Today, movies, computer games and airtravel have thoroughly prepared our minds to accept much higher speeds.With practice and good mental control, you CAN vary your speed to your purpose, fromwalking speed to supersonic speed. This is a big problem for the beginner though, thecontrol of direction and speed. It has a lot to do with how stable the projection is andhow experienced you are at applying your will to motion.Instantaneous TravelIt is generally accepted that if you can visualize a destination you can project yourselfthere instantly, at the speed of thought. I have found this to be highly unreliable * I find this instantaneous method usually projects you straight into a subjective locationcreated by the visualization of your target. You may appear to be at your destination butyou will usually find many discrepancies between the real location and where you are.Instantaneous travel is very like VRP. By using your visualization powers to travelwith, you will not actually travel. You will create a subjective copy of a destination andenter it.Long Distance TravelI have found it more reliable to follow the surface for short to medium distance projectionof up to a few hundred miles. Even this can be difficult as it is easy to fall into the Aliceeffect while traveling. All you have to do is break concentration once and you will slipinto a dream pool. Strict mental control must be maintained at all times when traveling inreal time.It is not really practical to follow the surface for a long distance. For example, a countryon the other side of the world from you is 12000 miles away. You would need to travelat about 64 times the speed of sound to reach there in 15 minutes. At this speed in theatmosphere, everything blurs and clouds and surface features cause disorientation and acorresponding reality shift. Any real time objective aspect of the projection will then belost.Note: Newbie projectors can normally hold themselves in real time for only a fewminutes. Therefore, any long distance travel is limited by the real time part of aprojection.To travel long distance you need to study geography. You have to be able to recognisecontinents, oceans, countries, states and cities. You also need to study a map of yourtarget area and note any landmarks. To project there, after this is memorized, you mustgo into orbit and re-enter over your target. As you approach the earth you must adjustyour approach and aim for the geological features and landmarks around yourdestination.Orbiting the EarthTo enter orbit is a little more difficult than it sounds. Getting up there is easy, you just gostraight up, but stopping when you get high enough is difficult. Most people, myselfincluded, tend to blast themselves straight out of the solar system, sometimes right out ofthe galaxy. To avoid this, it is important to control your speed during the ascent.It is easier
to project to the moon first, as a way of entering orbit. This gives you a largevisual target you can project to in moments. Once there, it is a simple matter to head backto Earth, enter orbit, and circle until you are above your target. In space, away from theatmosphere, there are no problems with speed induced blurring. How Far Can You Go?There are * NO * limits to distance, destination or speed. You can travel to the mostdistant galaxy. The speed of thought is infinite. It is like folding space and movingwithout moving. If you can see something, you can be there.... as quick as that. Incomparison, the speed of light is that of a snail. I often go out into deep space, where thegalaxies are just tiny smudges in the distance, to think and meditate. That is easy, but thetrick is getting back for a conscious re-entry. Unless you have a good knowledge ofastronomy, which I do not, this is difficult. Following the silver cord, if you can see one,is not practical at that kind of speed, though it will give you a basic direction to go in.To return from a long distance projection, tune into your body and become aware of it.Then try moving part of your physical body, i.e., a finger or toe. This will return you toyour body, and end the projection with full memories of the OOBE.FUTURE WINDThere is a strange phenomenon you will come across, from time to time, while you areprojecting. I call this Future Wind.You will be OOBEing somewhere, minding your own business, when all of a suddenyou will feel an irresistible force. You will feel yourself being moved against your will,usually backwards, by this force. You can fight it for a while but it will grow steadilystronger until you are blown away; over the roof tops, up into the sky and....into thefuture.Then, after a while, you will come down in a different place.... and time. Often it willbe somewhere mundane, maybe a domestic setting of some sort. You will be releasedthere and left to wander about... confused. You may even meet people you do not know,yet, and they will be just as confused as you are.This may be an actual scene out of your future life; it may be a symbolic vision, or amixture of both. You may be an invisible spectator to this scene, or you may merge withyour future self, and see out of your future eyes for a while.This can also be a scene of an important future event. It could be a disaster, natural orotherwise, or something unusual or exciting on the world scene. These types of eventsusually have a lot of energy surrounding them, and this may be part of the reason for thevision.The only explanations I can give for this are:1.The intervention of your higher self: For some reason it decides that now is the timeto show you something from your future. 2. Clairvoyant interference: Your Brow chakra has become clairvoyantly active and hastuned into a future setting. Your point of consciousness is caught up by
this vision andprojected into the vision.3. A combination of both of the above - this is the most logical.Symbolic VisionsThere is another aspect of this wind that is very similar to the above but the vision youexperience is symbolic, or has a symbolic aspect, rather than an actual future event orscene.Note: I would like to warn you about the symbolic aspect of visions. If you dontunderstand the nature of symbolism it can cause great harm to your life. Thiswarning applies to all clairvoyant visions in general, whether experienced in astralform or not.For example: You are taken, by a future wind, to a scene in which you see yourselfwinning a lot of money. You are sitting at a table checking your lottery ticket with theresults. You see the prize money is $18 million. You check your numbers, or ticket, andfind you have the winning ticket. You feel all the excitement, the surge of adrenalin;dreams of wealth come flooding into you and your heart races with excitement.After this vision, you start buying lots of tickets. You also start to make decisions thataffect your life with a When the money comes through type of attitude. This can causeirreparable damage to your life! You lose your drive, your initiative, your ambition, i.e.,you stop trying. This imparts a Cargo Cult type of belief system on you, a belief thateverything will be given to you - with all the negative aspects this primitive beliefsystem has.This can cause you to mark time in your life, instead of living it to the full. What you may have missed, from the symbolism of the above vision is:The amount of money may be unusual for that lottery draw. $18 million is an oddamount of money and may be a rare event. This is what I call a SIGN POST - a datestamp of a future event. This means that when your local lottery has a prize of the aboveamount, something important is going to happen in your life or in the world around you.If you know how symbolism works, during the vision you would have been able to pickup more information about this coming event. The setting, the symbols, the connectionsto you, the action and the sequence of events in it, are all important aspects of itsmeaning.Misunderstanding a vision can ruin your life. Only experience and the intelligentapplication of logic can teach you how to interpret a symbolic vision. Until you have thisexperience, it is best to treat any sort of vision with caution. Some possible reasons for a symbolic vision are:1.You are being given a warning or guidance by your higher self.2.You are being given proof there is a future, a destiny, a meaning, a purpose toyour life.3.The signpost of this vision may mark a good or bad event in your life.4.You may actually win the lottery. Personally, I would always make sure I had aticket in the draw, just in case, but I would not depend on it.Future Wind ExampleI left my body and was moving about my home, getting my sea legs. Suddenly, a forcemoved me across the room.
I tried to fight it but it grew stronger until I was blown out ofthe house and up into the night sky. A short time later I was brought down again, outsidemy home. I was just left standing there in the middle of the road. In front of me stood arefrigerator. It was just sitting there in the road with its door open. I examined it andcould tell it was not working. Behind it was a massive red brick wall, 40 feet high andtwice as wide. There are no REAL brick walls in this street. Then I noticed my wife wasstanding beside me. I turned and said hello to her. She just said goodbye, very coldly,then turned and walked away. Perplexed, I watched her walk away. Oddly, instead ofwalking to our home, she walked away from it and off into the distance.Being experienced with the symbolism and nature of visions I knew what this foretold,the end of my marriage. I could not understand it as we were only recently married andvery happy together.To decipher a symbolic vision it is necessary to analyze it and break it down into its parts.The six significant aspects of this vision are:1.The sign post... (the date stamp of the event)The refrigerator that did not work.2. The connections... (something, or someone, in the vision thatconnects the events to me).1. My wife.2. It was outside my home.3. I was there as me.3. The symbol... (the basic nature of the coming event)The large brick wall. This symbolizes a barrier or an end to something. Thiswas the only actual symbol in the vision, but other parts of it were by nature oraction - symbolic. 4.The symbolic action... (This signifies the meaning of the vision)My wifes cold goodbye.5.The symbolic modifiers... (these modify the symbol or, in this case, the symbolicaction in the vision).a) My wife departed in a direction away from our home.b) She walked away until she disappeared from view.6.The sequence of events.a) The broken fridge.b) The large brick wall.c) My wifes actions.OR:When I saw the broken fridge (sign post) I saw the brick wall (symbol) and my wife(connection) said goodbye and left (symbolic action) in a direction away from ourhome, until she disappeared(symbolic modifiers)The timing and sequence of a vision is important to unraveling its meaning. It isimportant to break a symbolic vision into its 5 basic parts and to note this in your journal,while it is still fresh in your mind.Note: There may be more than one modifier to each part of a vision.HindsightA year after I had the above vision, we moved to another town. The day we moved, wehad to borrow a refrigerator from a relative. Ours had broken down and was in forrepairs. The borrowed fridge did not work either. After ours was repaired, this otherfridge sat on our porch for two and a half years, waiting to be collected. I rememberedthe vision clearly, and knew this fridge was the date stamp of an upcoming event. I alsoknew what the event was, but honestly could not see it happening. One day, though,they came and collected this
fridge. A week later my marriage ended. Suddenly,permanently, and for no foreseeable reason.Looking at it in hindsight, it is crystal clear what the vision meant. It was as simple as itwas accurate. Most symbolic visions are this simple. Be very careful not to read toomuch into vision otherwise the true message in the vision will be obscured. Always break a vision down into its parts.Ask of each part:1. What is it in itself?2. What does it do?3. What is its simplest, most basic, symbolic meaning?Write these answers down and then apply common sense and logic to them. This willgive you insight into the true meaning of the vision.MIRRORSMirrors, historically, are magical devices used as doorways to other worlds. There arealso numerous superstitions and old wives tales concerning their effect on the recentlydeparted. After a person had died, all mirrors in their home were covered. This was sothey could not see their lack of a reflection and be shocked. Another reason for this wasto prevent them from being accidentally trapped in a mirror.There is some logic to this if you look at the mechanics of projection. Death, in the earlystages, is very much like a powerful real time projection. The biggest difference beingthe lack of a living body to return to.Spirits are normally held close to the physical dimension, in real time, for a week or soafter death. This is until the supply of etheric matter that binds the spirit to its physicalbody runs out.During this time it is normal for the spirit to wander among relatives and loved ones,saying goodbye and coming to terms with their new state of existence. This goodbyeprocess, eases the psychological trauma of death, and helps prepare the spirit for the nextstage of existence.What can happen with mirrors is this: A new spirit can inadvertently enter a mirror. Ifthis happens, they enter a mirror world in the same way a projector enters a picturethrough VRP. Once in a mirror world they usually do not know where they are, or howto get out of it, and can be stuck there for the duration of their real time stay. This willnot interfere with the journey of the soul. It will just cause confusion for a few days untilit enters the next stage of existence. This can though, make their last days near thephysical world very confusing and interfere in the natural goodbye process.This, I believe, is where the old superstitions came from. Therefore, in the light of myunderstanding of projection and the death process, I think the covering of mirrors after adeath is a VERY good idea, for the benefit of the deceased. This is best done for twoweeks, to be sure. A Better GoodbyeIt is possible to communicate with a recently departed spirit during its real time, postdeath wandering. This can be done by leaving a letter, uncovered, for the spirit to read.They can also hear you, so talking to them is also effective. I think a good practice wouldbe to have goodbye letters, from all the people that loved the deceased, stuck to the wallin the spirits old
when I first taught myself conscious exit projection.I have been projecting since the age of 4 or 5, but this was always spontaneous and I hadlittle control of when I would project. I taught myself to project deliberately at the age of21, and found Rampas books a great help.(As a side note: many people have claimed that Lobsang Rampa was discredited, that hewas exposed as being nothing more than an English plumber cum writer onmetaphysics. But, if you read his first book The Third Eye youll see that he fullyexplained his circumstances, and how he came to be living in the body of an EnglishPlumber. He claims to have swapped bodies with a suicidal English plumber who wasabout to kill himself - while his own Tibetan body lay dying of wounds. This feat wasaccomplished during an astral operation carried out by high ranking Tibetan masters(spirit masters) to preserve Rampas unfinished life path, while freeing the Plumber (withhis full permission) who was at the exact end of his life. Personally, I found Rampasbooks to be very good reading, and they contain a great deal of useful information onprojection, clairvoyance, metaphysics, etc.)Back to the projection: After exiting my body I moved through the wall and floated outinto the rain drenched night. What a gloriously wet feeling that was. I could feel andtaste the cool rain and blustering wind passing through me. The smell of rain andwetness was everywhere, seeming to fill me with a bright and happy energy. I floated upto the roof and sat on the chimney, looking out over the town. I felt a little bit like a verywet Mary Poppins. I watched the rain dancing over the roofs and streets, swirlingthrough gutters and gurgling into drains. It seemed to have a friendly voice and rhythmall its own drink me, splash me, gurgle me, slosh me. (It seemed funny at the time:)While sitting on the roof, I felt my body stirring in room chair below me. This effect hadoften intrigued me and I decided to slide back through the roof and study it more closely.As I passed through the roof I saw my body sitting in the chair, right where I had left it,but suddenly I became aware of also watching my projected double (from my perspectivein the chair) sliding down through the ceiling - both at the same time! It was ME, sittingin the chair watching another ME floating down through the ceiling, but it was also MEfloating in front of my chair some ten feet away - watching myself sitting in the chair.This was not only confusing, it started making me feel quite ill.I had two sets of vision and two sets of thoughts, all at the same time and all joinedtogether, it was fascinating. It also made a lot of sense. Just because the projected MEwas outside its physical body, why should the physical ME have to stop thinking. Whywould it be left (as is commonly believed today) as a mere empty shell during aprojection? This raises the question of what actually leaves the physical body during aprojection?The projected
ME (real time double) moved about the room, observing my physical bodyin the chair - while it watched me back at the same time. I could still see the projectedME, even when my projected double was situated behind the physical ME. I could feelmyself in the chair perfectly, as I tried to follow the movements of my projected doubleabout the room. This took some very real effort, and it also took a lot of energy to move my projected double. It felt like I was moving through thick mud and I felt an enormouspressure building up inside both of ME.I was existing in both my physical body as well as in my projected double - both at thesame time. I was fully awake (mentally) and aware and thinking inside both aspects ofmyself. Inside my physical body, my consciousness appeared to be actively centered inmy etheric body, and this appeared to be how the physical ME was able to see theprojected ME (real time sight - seeing through closed eyelids). I came to this conclusionbecause of the way I could move around inside my physical body, and could even seebehind myself without physically moving. My etheric body appeared to be, quiteliterally, able to turn around inside my physical body. This ability of the physical body tosee through closed eyelids and from different perspectives is frequently described byprojectors and trance meditators.Note: The etheric body appears to be the very first level of subtle body, one stage upfrom the physical body. This appears to be so closely enmeshed within the physical bodythat it cannot normally leave its confines while it still lives. During the full trance state,as well as during the projection process, however, it appears to gain some limitedfreedom of movement. It will also often gain the ability to see into the real time zone,and sometimes even into the astral dimension, around it. The etheric body appears to beresponsible for the ability to see through closed eyelids and covers, as is often reported byprojectors near the exit stage of a projection.My observations: the center of waking consciousness appears to shift over into theetheric body when the physical body enters the trance state and falls asleep. This is verylike an internal projection, taking a reflection of consciousness one step away from thephysical body and mind, while still holding its original place within the confines of thephysical body. This stage, I believe, is the very first level of the multi dimensionalprojection process, and is marked by the heaviness experienced when the full trancestate is entered, which is also the sign the physical body has fallen asleep.This process makes a lot of sense and answers a lot of questions when projection casehistories, plus the mechanics and dynamics of projection, are studied. It points toprojection being a staggered process where consciousness is reflected one stage at a timeaway from the physical body and mind. Each stage becomes progressively more subtleand refined, while still maintaining firm telepathic and energetic links between eachstage. Basically, this allows the projection of all the higher subtle bodies at the sametime, while keeping a