Astral Travel & Aura Viewing

Many Effective & Easy

Astral Projection Techniques

By Yvette Anne Marie LeBlanc

Copyright 2011

Yvette Anne Marie LeBlanc

This book is available in print at most online retailers.

All rights reserved. This book is dedicated to my family who mean everything to me.

And I must confess that, if any credit is due from this book, it really belongs to my spiritual guides who constantly inspired me and practically wrote it.

Table of Contents

Foreword

PART ONE

Definitions

Practical Use

Dweller on the Threshold

Basics

Different Bodies

Intent

Other Realities

Vivid Projection

High Spiritual Guides

Healthy Projection

Energy for OBE

Additional Projections

Air Quality

Yoga

Confidence Building

Destination

Natural Ability

Twirling

Positions

Rays of Light and Energy

Feeling Secure

Distractions

Your True Identity

Sphere of Light

Tunnels

Chanting

Heart Chakra

Astral Plane

Vibrations

Projecting Inward

Projecting Outward

Projecting Upward

Our True Identity

PART TWO

My Techniques

Two Methods to Project to Wooded Areas

The Third Eye

Two Ways to Contact Your Holy Guides

Lucid Dreaming

Projecting to a Body of Water

Contacting Other Life in Outer Space

Projecting to a Physical Object

Visits to the Deceased

The Block Method

The Ascension

PART THREE

My Experiences

Group A, Holy and Wonderful

Group B, The Difficult

PART FOUR

Aura, Etheric and Halo Viewing

Foreword

As a young child, many vivid dreams of jumping down my front-hall staircase without touching the stairs and floating over a grassy hill gave me a firm conviction that I was like Peter Pan and could fly. And guess what, we can all fly and I can tell you how.

During my mid-twenties, while giving myself self-hypnotic commands to relax, I very unexpectedly, while fully awake, floated above my body for a few moments. I was a sphere of energy and light and could see in all directions at once. This earth-shaking experience started my quest for knowledge and thirst for more such experiences. Due to the kindness of my spiritual guides, I have now had many exciting astral travel and inner world adventures. I feel compelled to share this wisdom and my stories, both awesome and difficult, with you.

I now realize that physical life is a lot like a movie that we write, produce, star in, and direct. But it is a temporary production. Our essence, beautiful light and energy, is permanent and the part of us that is capable of traveling to many other realities. Our true being is located on the skin right between the eyes not even inside our heads. Our physical bodies are simply vehicles needed to experience the physical plane.  Such travel can eliminate a fear of death because, if you choose and ask for the wisdom, you will know for certain we are all eternal, each a single cell in the magnificent body of God.

It is my belief that each one of us, through our own free will, has created and then chosen this distorted physical existence to learn the lessons that only a belief in a beginning and an end can bring.  I can think of no other reason.  If you choose to find the truth, you will learn we all have a vibrant, healthy existence apart from our physical reality which is only a very small part of us.

I know that time is an illusion because I have time-traveled backwards and been an active participant. I believe I have also traveled to the future, but it very easily could have been to another reality. Who can tell for sure?

Everyone willing to invest some time can easily and safely have many exciting astral travels. The amount of time needed varies from person to person depending on any natural ability. Sniffing glue, taking drugs, or eating hallucinogenic mushrooms is not only unnecessary but will cause distortions in your trip, and who knows what the health costs might be. By following the simple and direct methods I teach, you can journey to the astral counterparts of the past, present, and future and to other dimensions. My techniques involve deep breathing, chanting, spiritual meditation, and visualization.

It is not an emptying of all your life force from your physical body and leaving behind a shell; if it were, you would not survive the trip. It is instead a separation. There is the part of you who needs to breathe quietly and stays behind and the part of you who leaves and has an adventure. You remain as safe as when asleep.

It is through deep, holy meditation and prayer that we can become blessed with the assistance of great spiritual beings. We need their help. When it comes to astral travel, you and I are in kindergarten; our guides, however, have their doctorates. We become volunteer work for these awesome higher beings. I can show you some easy ways to get out of your body, but it is your guides who will take you on your astral travel adventures.

On a scale of one to ten, one being the projection that happens when you glance at something, ten being an astral projection that is just as real to you as things are right now while reading this book, of course, your goal is ten. It might be very easy for you or, like me, you might have to become determined and put some effort into it, but everyone can do this. When you reach 7, 8, or 9 on that scale, you will have longer and more vivid flashes of other realities.

There are probably as many techniques as there are people who project; and you will also develop your own methods. However, you can learn a lot from what I and others have found on our pathways.

Some time back in the 1960's, before I understood what LSD was, I took a metaphysical correspondence course. I found it very enlightening and after a while I dropped my guard. One day in the mail I received a little white pill from these people. I was very young and gullible. I actually thought it must be some special herb that was gathered at the time of the full moon. I swallowed it and laid down. Very shortly, without any effort, I astral traveled to Medjugorje and viewed Mother Mary talking to some young people. She did not look in my direction. I was awe stricken to be in her presence but I knew I was not welcome and did not belong there. I felt like an intruder. Believe me; it is so much more rewarding to astral project without the use of drugs.

If you honestly believe you cannot project, this book is written for you.  It gives extremely detailed instruction using some basic techniques designed for EVERYONE to succeed.  I have also explained some pathways to build up confidence.

Aura viewing involves gazing into a mirror and seeing your astral and etheric light and your golden halo. You might also find sacred symbols embedded in your aura. You'll be amazed at how easy it is and at what you will see even on the first attempt. If you can see your energy extending from your physical body, then you know you can float on top of it because a part of you does that all the time.  An easy confidence-building technique is given where you will start by floating only your two feet upward.  Looking at your own magnificent light and then floating above your physical expression are life altering experiences and prove you are indeed a child of God.

By following this guidance, I believe you will more fully understand why we’re here and how to benefit from the Earth experience.  My beliefs and yours and everyone else’s can be so different and yet we all start from and will eventually end up at the very same place, the Godhead (which we really never leave, we just think we do).  It’s good to understand these things so our attention is on the spiritual and not on the material.  Just writing these words helps my focus.

You think you can’t astral project?  I had those feelings once, so I can certainly relate.  But follow my instructions, put in the necessary time, and you will find yourself projecting to wherever and whenever your focus dictates on the astral, etheric, and spiritual planes.  Sometimes you’ll be real close to the physical, sometimes not.

All the techniques I teach are easy and basic.  You can do these things if you really choose, but you need to put it on your “front burner” as far as your attention and time scheduling go.  It’s a matter of building up and maintaining a momentum of spiritual energy.  If you have problems, schedule your practice times closer together.  If I haven’t astral projected in a while, to gain the necessary momentum of energy, I schedule two or three sessions a day.

For me, and probably you, the length of each session depends on whether I fall asleep or whether an overwhelming burst of energy comes and wakes me back up to the physical.  Once the momentum of energy is there, one time a day works for me to maintain it.  Everyone is unique.  You’ll find your own pathway.  And then, like me, you’ll probably feel compelled to share.  I hope you do.  I want to read your book.

This guidance for both astral projection and aura viewing and the accounts of many of my adventures were first written by me about seven years ago for a series of magazine articles that never materialized. I then sadly had other matters that took up most of my energy. When I decided to publish this material, to verify everything I said earlier, I started over as a beginner. I had to rediscover my own teachings, inspired by my spiritual guides, which lead to the most profound, intense and life changing experiences. It pains me to know that over time I abandoned this wisdom to concentrate on what is more mundane. This book is therefore written from both the expert teacher's and the student's perspective.

In January of 2013 I wrote a paper designed to help those who were still having difficulties projecting.  Then I incorporated these even easier techniques into this book.

If you start to have visions and possibly hear voices, and you probably will if you regularly practice what's in this book, and if you change your mind and want them to stop, simply stop practicing the techniques, assert out loud that you wish them to stop, and they will then start to go away. However, just like it usually takes time to develop this ability, it could take some time for these interruptions to stop. So you are about to make a very serious, life-altering decision.

Part One of this book gives basic information in preparation for travel to the inner and outer astral worlds. Part Two gives many different concise and detailed instructions, leaving you with freedom to choose the pathway that is best suited for you.  Part Three tells of my adventures, both spiritual and traumatic, so you will have an idea of what to expect. Part Four digs into the aura, etheric, and halo lights and contains a basic viewing technique which will give you tremendous confidence that you can leave the physical, because a part of you already has.  You will find my instructions are very concise with basic information and a multitude of techniques. I explain what you need to know, what to expect, and how to do it. This book is not lengthy but simple and direct.

I hope you enjoy reading it.  I certainly enjoyed writing it.

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PART ONE

Definitions

Ancient through present-day, metaphysical wisdom has come to us from many sources resulting in a slight semantic problem. Different experts and traditions occasionally have varied meanings for the same words. Because it can sometimes be confusing and distracting, I offer some brief definitions of words and phrases as used in this book.

The following is my understanding; others might have different definitions and relate to things in their own ways. And you, too, will have your own approach to these mysteries, if you don’t already. It's difficult to label and explain because the boundaries of the astral and etheric worlds are not as clear as the physical plane.

The acronym “obe” stands for out-of-body experience which I will use throughout. It basically means that part of you, your true being, will leave your physical body and travel in a sphere of energy to another reality, sometimes very close to the physical, sometimes far from it. I will use the verb “project” to define the act of having an obe.

Everything that's alive has an etheric counterpart. You can sometimes see it as a white light extending about a couple of inches from one side. It has the same size and shape as the physical and is very closely connected to this plane. Sometimes if you stare at your head in the mirror, it can be seen as a whitish glow. It is your ghost. Of all your nonphysical bodies, it can be viewed the most easily. However, it can get a bit confusing because it sometimes reflects the light of your aura, clothing, hair, and especially your golden halo.

The lower etheric plane is a place where danger is usually found everywhere. If you have an obe while centered in your lower etheric body, you can and should raise your vibrations and change your trip for the better by looking upward and searching for vibrant rainbow colors and brilliant white light. It won’t be difficult.  There is also a high etheric, a spiritual plane with awesome white light sparkling with flashes of rainbow colors. I consider it to be the very highest of heavens. This is where you can find unbelievably beautiful spiritual beings. A few times I have been so overwhelmed and so grateful to be in their presence I just trembled. If you look, you can also find your own Christ Self there.  Some authorities label this plane instead as a high astral or spiritual plane.  And, I believe, there are many etheric planes in between.

The astral plane is a vibration of life that is highly emotional and visiting it can be a nightmare world of hell, a blissful journey to heaven, or one of many, many places in between. Normally, we project using an astral body, so we should expect to have emotional experiences. We possess different energies of all vibrations; and will, without realizing or making any effort, choose just the correct combination depending on the vibration of light needed for the journey.

Astral energy and life can sometimes be seen on the physical plane as flashes of different colored light and it sometimes blends with the etheric.  It could reflect astral life beyond our comprehension, our own aura, our own positive or negative thought forms, positive or negative thoughts directed to us from others, the presence of the deceased, angels, guides, and on and on.

The borderland is a hallucinogenic plane between our reality and the astral and etheric worlds. It is where people intoxicated on alcohol or drugs visit. You can also create this distorted place if your intentions are not righteous.

The word “chakra” comes to us from the Hindu and Buddhist teachings. Simply defined, they are swirling centers of energy and light located, I believe, in the astral.  Some place them in the etheric.  It is widely accepted that there are seven major chakras and many minor ones. My belief is that the first four major chakras are located along the spinal cord: at the very bottom, at the points corresponding to the middle of the stomach, the bottom of the rib cage, the very center of the chest. The three higher are at the center of the throat, the middle of the head, and at the very top of the head. But there are other teachings that say the heart chakra is located where the physical heart is located.

Except for the throat chakra which, most experts agree, is colored blue, the colors vary from teacher to teacher. And there are many different beliefs pertaining to minor chakras as to their location, color and meaning.

Practical Use

I don't consider the obe experience to be physical-world accurate enough for scientific research nor for financial or stock market guidance. You would be trying to force the astral body to be in a realm where it is not designed to operate; doing so could create a borderland of illusion.

It's also very difficult for the astral body to deal with a mundane task.  From my experience, when you enter the astral plane, you'll be much more emotional than you usually are and will want to do things like flying and visiting other more interesting realms. Putting on your astral body is in some emotional ways like becoming a young child again.

Obviously, it's the best way to visit those who have passed on. You can even settle things by extending love and forgiveness. Just keep in mind that the deceased, having a vibrant, very important life beyond our understanding, are not just hanging around up there waiting for our visits.  And sometimes there is only a short period of time before they reincarnate. Of course, be careful not to encourage haunting. Contacting my parents has given me great comfort.

Personally, I don't think an astral projection should be used to locate a missing person or valued object. You might be very successful but then again your attempts could also do more damage than good, especially if you are emotionally involved. The physical body is designed to deal with the physical plane. When you use an astral vehicle, you might find what you expect to find and not what is there from the physical perspective. If I wanted to locate someone or something in physical reality, I would rely instead on dowsing techniques that incorporate the use of a map or use remote viewing. There are lots of good books on those two subjects.

And, of course, astral projection is the only way to time and dimension travel, to fly, and to visit an astral counterpart of a spirit or physical object or place.

Dweller on the Threshold

The following is my belief based on my own personal experiences and research.

In early lifetimes, most have committed evil deeds that would shock and hinder progress if known about now in our more refined states. Unless you're a saint, this dark side is still with you and needs to be addressed. Made of the densest etheric matter and separated for the sake of our sanity, it still maintains some of our life force, has movement, and a separate but very closely linked intelligence. It has control over our negative thought forms and will tempt us at every opportunity.

We have probably made much progress, but some lessons are still waiting, otherwise we would not be here on the Earth plane. With a fierce determination, this being holds us to the Earth and lower astral planes.

You can feel the pull of negativity on the physical, called gravity. An extremely holy person can walk on water and levitate because these energies have been conquered. Of course, there are teachings in the bible of Beloved Jesus walking on water. Tradition teaches that Saint Teresa of Avila (1515 – 1582) sometimes in deep meditation did not touch the ground but floated above. And I understand there are accounts of Hindu saints who have levitated and might still be levitating.

The presence of the Dweller on the physical is also reflected in us through disease and death.  I know with me sometimes I have intense cravings for food that I know is not healthy and will do me damage.

On the astral or emotional plane, this pull is called by such names as depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, fear, and the list goes on and on.

The Dweller wants us to fail because then the separation diminishes and it gains dominion; the holier we become the less power it has and considers that its death. It wants us to exist only in the lower astral plane where it can gain total control, the state of existence called hell, where it becomes our tormenting devil.

When you are very relaxed and ready to project, do not be surprised to receive a visit from the Dweller. Even though it sometimes presents itself as a very ugly monster, if we understand it, it should not be feared; it's part of us. It could use a multitude of ploys: for instance, just before an astral projection, it's a common occurrence to hear clear voices saying things like: “There's a fire in the house.” “Your children are in danger.” After you have responded several times by getting up and checking, you will find, if you pay no further attention, the ploy will stop.

We all have temptations to overcome that act as anchors to the Earth plane. Meditation and projection force us to deal with them. Organized by the Dweller, these weaknesses exist on the lower astral plane and try to prevent us from progress. They are called negative thought forms and have a life, color and form; they are alive and very confused. Mentally send them light and they will be transformed into energies that will lead to higher planes instead. They usually appear as snakes like mine have.

Once in a great while, for our own good, our guides allow us to see these negative thought forms from the astral plane. But that does not mean we're on a bad trip. It's good to view our own negativity in this manner, even though it is shocking. It helps to give us the whole picture.  I have found such visions help combat negative temptations. I suggest you simply accept any such experience for the lesson it is meant to be.  However, if you are on such a trip, and want it to stop, say “no” out loud and move your fingers.  Any such trip will then stop immediately.

Basics

Your physical body is the vehicle designed to help you live on the physical plane.  It’s similar to an automobile or an airplane with you as the driver.  When you leave the physical you might stay close but you’ll be in an astral, spiritual, or etheric body, usually an astral, so during a projection to a physical object or place expect to see some distortion because you won’t be using the vehicle designed for the physical plane.

Do not be concerned if you are afraid of heights; you won't be when you project. An astral travel adventure of flying off a tall mountain or into deep space will be exhilarating and not scary.

And most important, don't get discouraged.  Unless you're blessed with a gift, for the rest of us dealing with the astral is like a child going through school; you make the effort and take it one step at a time. When you focus on it, your pathway will open to you making it not only manageable but easy and very exciting.

We are able to leave the physical body in that very relaxed moment between sleeping and waking. Approached from the waking state, it is a fairly deep meditation; from the sleeping, a lucid dream. Both, of course, initially appeal to different people. Once you make progress using one approach, the other becomes easier as well.

To astral project from the waking state, my advice is don't get hung up with tedious, drawn-out methods to leave your physical body one body part at a time. You don't need to project an astral counterpart of your entire physical self as in some teachings.  The exception, of course, is when you float on top of your physical body, an amazing experience that I will teach later in this book.

Most often, I suggest you simply project that part of you located between your eyes. If you pause and think about it, from this very basic perspective, we’re really a small ball of energy located there most of the time anyway. The physical body is a vehicle for this ball of life to understand and relate to the physical world.

A fast and easy way out is to just focus intently on wherever it is you want to be. Don't even consider what you look like.  Once you're at your destination and satisfied with the intensity, you can change your size if you choose.  But it sure is amazing to see the world from the perspective of a small sphere of light.

One mistaken belief that might prevent you from projecting is that you cannot separate from the part of you that breathes.  The way to get over that fear is to use your breath instead as a tool to leave.  You’ll notice in my techniques they all are based first on deep breathing.  You breathe deeply until you are so filled with oxygen that your breath naturally slows way down and you can pause very briefly on the exhale, your way out.  There will be the part of you that continues to breathe softly and the part of you that has your astral adventure.  Your physical body will tell you when it needs your attention to supply more oxygen, sometimes ending your trip, sometimes you will just continue to be two—the part that breathes and the part who does not.  If the need for breathing ends your trip, it’s usually easy to return after an additional period of deep breathing.  This is why drugs that slow down the breath artificially work for projection, but obviously not a healthy pathway.

If you are sleep deprived, attempts to meditate will just bring you to sleep. But that's okay. You can project from the sleeping state into a lucid dream which then usually becomes an inner obe.

If you choose to project from the dream state, frequently during your daily routine (out loud if possible) pause and say something like “I am awake and now in control.” If statements like this are a habit during your waking life, they will flow more easily into your dream state as well. As you go to sleep at night, assert that you will remember your dreams and be able to manipulate them. Once you start to doze, I suggest you try to fly.

And then these two approaches just blend together anyway.  You can easily fall asleep into a vivid dream that starts from the waking state; and you can wake from the sleeping state to continue your astral travel adventure.

There is one other thing I want to emphasize before you get started.  Even the most amazing projections happen in a matter-of-fact manner.  There are no bells ringing, no choirs of angels singing.  Sometimes it will take a little while to digest the experience and realize what happened.

Pray for signs that your path to astral projection is correct for you and follow your own inner guidance.

Different Bodies

The concept of having different energies (bodies or vehicles) available is a fairly new one for the western world, but the Hindus have taught just that for thousands of years. In Manly P. Hall's book, Unseen Forces (Philosophical Research Society, Inc., Copyright 1978), he explains we have four types of vehicles: the physical, etheric, astral and mental.

When you project, you will usually be in an astral body so expect highly emotional trips.  However, an etheric projection, from my experience, will bring you to a place that is all foggy white and much harder to understand than the astral plane.  But it’s easier to do a full-bodied projection from the etheric, which would be your ghost.

The Theosophical Society also reports that to leave lower emotions behind we can project upward from our astral body to the mental body (sometimes called the high etheric).  The advantage is that you won't be as emotional, will be more focused, and will have a much more spiritually oriented adventure.

Intent

Intention is everything.  Be positive and both your astral and physical worlds will improve. If you try to force yourself to do something even borderline evil, boring or repetitious during an obe, your chances of success are pretty small. I have found it difficult to astral project to the same physical object in my home more than once. Our guides are the ones really in control and get bored with us sometimes. And they certainly shy away from some of the things that might interest us like financial matters or what a neighbor is doing.

Positive astral energy can be seen as beautiful spheres of light, heard as a popping noise, felt like vibrations of electricity and can be magnified by focusing on it.  Sometimes as it passes through our physical bodies it causes an itch, twitch, or a shudder.

Negative astral energy can sometimes be seen as snakes or gargoyle-like figures, colored blood red, black, brown, or grey.  Whenever you see it, transmute it into a violet color (forgiveness and mercy) through visualization.

Other Realities

It's possible to visit a myriad of other realities in what is considered to be the present, past, future, and parallel universes including many different heavens and hells. When you do so, you will realize that time, space, form, even the concept of an inside and an outside are all illusions we have created to experience life in an orderly manner. The past and future become the present moment, because there is nothing but the present moment.

When we time travel, we are in an astral vehicle so our astral projection will be emotional, sometimes to very rough times. The good old days for most of us were usually not so good.

You will find that oftentimes when you astral travel you will be an active participant in these realities, probably a volunteer. You could slip into the consciousness of another and take control for a few moments or longer usually to help an individual deal with an extremely difficult event, like a death.

Sometimes during an obe it's a challenge to figure out if we are in the present, future, past or alternate reality because in a projection we just get a piece of the picture. From my experience, we seem to have a myriad of existences all going on at once. I believe what we consider to be our present is simply where our focus happens to be.

To time and dimension travel we must deal with the free will of our guides, the people visited, and sometimes that of an alternate self. To relate to another physical-appearing reality, usually we need to slip into the being of another. Think about it. When would you welcome someone from another reality entering your consciousness? It would probably be only at moments of intense grief, pain, fear, or death. With very few exceptions, when I have time traveled, it has been to such very painful places.

If you choose to travel only to happier times, make the request out loud at the very first stage when practicing any of my techniques.

Vivid Projection

Since vivid projection from the waking state usually entails first going into a deep meditative trance, if you are sleep deprived, you will probably just go to sleep, but possibly to a lucid dream. Vivid, astral projection from the waking state requires one to be both fully alert and fully relaxed.

Those who consume caffeine or lots of sugar could be too wound up to relax enough to have an astral projection.

Digesting meat and fish brings on a heavy, sluggish feeling, making projection more difficult than it has to be. The creatures that have been eaten have usually suffered a painful death and the essence of fear stays in the flesh even after it has been cooked and may have a very negative influence on a projection. If you have vivid nightmares, this could be your problem.

I have found a mostly vegan, organic diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds has a very positive effect. Eating in this manner means a lighter and more energetic feeling throughout your body making it easier for astral travel in a healthy manner.

People who will find it the easiest to project have a natural ability (sometimes earned from a previous or alternate lifetime), are in the habit of frequent meditation and prayer, and can control their minds. However, everybody can have vivid, life-altering obe adventures, some with more and some with less ease. Like me, you might have to put some time and effort into it.

You need to know you can do it, be willing to master the techniques, build up a certain momentum of energy through spiritual meditation, deep breathing, and chanting.  You should also request one or more spiritual guides to help, and always follow your own inner intuition.

The more energy and focus you give it, the wider and stronger the pathway will open for you.

High Spiritual Guides

An astral travel adventure that is planned and controlled by your guides should be expected because it is your guides who will know the best times and places to take you. OBE and inner-world travel is really a group effort.

Sometimes I extend a lot of energy trying unsuccessfully to project, but then instead I get a vivid dream later that night or I'm blessed with a projection first thing in the morning as I wake. The conclusion I have come to is that the timing of an obe is not always ours to decide because we're on the schedule of our guides.

Request help by praying for their assistance, and then always be grateful to them.  I strongly suggest you don’t attempt projection without them.  They offer protection and wisdom.

Most of the time, while on a trip, I don’t even notice the presence of these wondrous beings.  It’s later when I do a mental review of the trip that I realize somebody had to be guiding me.

Usually when we astral project it will be in energy that is highly emotional, so expect very emotional experiences, both positive and horrific. To raise the energy level, look upward for beautiful light.

Under the guidance of high spiritual guides there will always be a lesson to be learned or a task to be completed.  Spiritual progress will always be made.  A trip planned and directed by your guides is a most valuable treasure and blessing.  If you have the highest and purest intentions, they will be eager to assist, because in this way they can also grow spiritually.

But if your desires are not pure and of the highest spiritual intent, then you could attract low-type spirits who are looking for a good laugh at your expense or even some evil beings, and that at best would be a waste of time. And heaven help you on any trips they might have up their sleeves.

Healthy Projection

It is my understanding that the reason people have prolonged astral projections who have consumed mind-altering drugs, eaten hallucinogenic mushrooms, or sniffed glue is that these substances can induce an anesthetizing effect on the body resulting in the breath slowing down way too much. Consequently, these people do not feel the need to breathe anywhere near as much as is necessary.  Due to a lack of oxygen, the blood drains from their faces and they appear to be very ill or even dead while on their extended but much distorted trips.  Obviously, that is not a healthy approach.

To have a healthy astral projection starting from the waking state, it is the time directly after chanting and during deep breathing spent on the out breath as well as the pause after the out breath that will become your doorway to many exciting astral travel adventures.

To get to this place where you can project, you must become very relaxed so that tension is released; spend time chanting and deep breathing; sometimes you will almost start to doze. You will be so full of oxygen that your breathing naturally slows way down and the pause on the out breath extends almost without your notice, called by some the trance state. It is then through deep meditation and a very positive attitude that it becomes possible to separate from the part of you who continues to gently breathe.

Become so relaxed from this holy deep breathing that you feel heavy and filled with electricity. After a while, your body will tell you that it needs more oxygen and you will start to awaken from your trance. At this time, do more deep breathing and chanting.  The second or more round will be to an even deeper trance state.  The deeper the trance and the more focused you become, the easier the projection either outward or inward will be.

Focus on love for All That Is, our Creator, our God.

Energy for OBE

Projection is possible by utilizing energy obtained from very focused deep, rhythmic breathing and chanting which can be heard, felt and seen. It makes a ringing noise of various pitches; sometimes you'll hear a snap or a pop; it feels somewhat like electricity racing through your body. You can see it when the screen your eyelids make when your eyes are closed seems to contain an energy that is alive and sometimes becomes full of very intensely beautiful spheres of multicolored light.

By paying attention to this energy, it can be augmented for astral projection. It is not an unusual experience for the intensity to get so great that you feel paralyzed. If that happens and you want it to stop, just mentally say “no” and move your fingers. Although it's certainly not necessary to get to this very intense state, it's fairly easy to project either outward or inward when you do. Once you're used to this sensation, you'll realize it's not a negative thing; it just means you have an abundance of energy at your command.

The more you meditate and project, the more you will probably spontaneously hear and see signs of an astral reality in your day-to-day activities, especially when you're relaxed, because the energy takes a while to fully dissipate. You might start to hear voices, a ringing noise and see flashes of light, NOT indications that you are having mental, ear, or eye problems.  Accept this new reality for the blessing it is meant to be, but stay in control.  If the distractions become too frequent or too intense, demand out loud that they leave; and they will.

When I haven't projected for a while, it takes me usually a few sessions to build up the necessary momentum. There is much more energy available immediately in a very carefully planned group session because we all nourish each other with astral energy all the time.  From my experience, it is difficult to relax in these group sessions unless all the members are well known to each other or unless a trusted member stays alert on the physical to supervise the gathering.

Additional Projections

As amazing as it sounds, sometimes we project more than one astral body at a time.  I know it sounds crazy; but it is true.

For instance, in your deep trance state you could see a projection of yourself probably flying. You might be discouraged because you are not centered in that energy. And, for me anyway, this was a common occurrence at one time.

There was the part of me who stayed behind to breathe; there was the projection flying in the sky; but there was also the one who observed. It took me a while to realize I had projected two astral bodies and was centered in the observer. I needed to change my focus and the direction of my gaze to have my astral travel adventure.  Once I learned to do that, my travels became much more vivid and exciting.

It is also very common to have one or more astral projections but not be centered in the outgoing energy at all but in the energy that stays behind and breathes gently, so you won't have a memory of the experience. You will know when a projection leaves your physical body because you will suddenly become tired and chilled. When it returns, you will become energized, sometimes with a start.  People who wake up suddenly in the middle of the night might do so because a projection originating from the dream state has returned.

An experience of mine demonstrates this truth:  “The separation was in a whole different manner, I remained in my physical body while I felt energy projecting away from me in continuous waves. I became a being of white light energized by my heart chakra.”

Air Quality

An important consideration is the quality of the air you will be breathing very deeply. You need a good supply of healthy oxygen.

In this day and age, we are taught that to conserve the heat in a house we must seal the windows, doors and attic so that heat does not escape. The problem here is that we end up breathing the same air over and over. I suggest you open your windows some time during the day and let the fresh air circulate throughout your home. It stands to reason that you will be healthier and deep breathing for meditation will be more effective.

We are all connected to each other on this planet very intimately by the exchange of atoms found in the air we breathe. On the astral and higher levels, these atoms retain our essence and that of all others they have thus touched. By using highly spiritual meditation, we can elevate the vibrations of these atoms we breathe and thus bless all others who later breathe them. The wind can spread wonderful light and happiness or gloom; it's our choice.

Yoga

Yoga is a spiritual practice that originated in India and designed to assist in holy meditation.

The ancient yogis considered astral projection to be a distraction from their goal of self-enlightenment. But the combination of meditation, deep breathing, and stretching exercises of yoga sometimes brings on these experiences.

The yoga headstand in particular is known for opening the crown chakra, which is a primary exit point and located at the very top of the head. If you don't feel you're flexible enough to do it, even the preparation for it is very valuable. There are many excellent yoga instruction books on the market that give detailed guidance.

If this is out of the question, consider lying on your back on a bed and then lowering your head and your upper body over the edge. Use common sense. If you're elderly, sickly, or your health-care professional or your own inner guidance advises against it, don't do it.  There are lots of other ways to prepare.

The Yoga sun-piercing breath is practiced by some to help with astral projection.  I've used it many years ago and with success.  But eventually it leaves a mark in the middle of the forehead caused by the breaking of blood vessels and takes many years to heal and fade.  However, this marking is a sacred symbol in India.

Confidence Building

If you want your confidence to build and need some kind of physical proof that you can astral project, do the following:  On a day when there is no wind and there are white, puffy stationary clouds in the sky, if you stare at one point in such a cloud for a minute or two, a hole will always form.  At first you will think it is just a coincidence and you might have to try it again. But here is evidence that you can send your energy, a part of you, all the way up to the clouds.

As you stare at the cloud, imagine how it would feel to be floating inside it. Try to smell and feel the moisture and look out through its fog. The more you do this, the more real your visit will become. It's a good way to start because projecting in and out of clouds can eventually be used as a bridge to other realities.

You can project your hands most easily because we use them to express emotions. In the physical, start by stretching, massaging, and blowing on them. Make believe you have a beach ball. Think of what it would feel like to hold it and toss it up and down. You could also clap your pretend hands.

Destination

Stick to one general type of trip at a time so you don't get fragmented, but don't get too specific. Trust your guides to have the final say. For instance, don't request to go to your last lifetime on Earth because for all you know you might have been a miscarriage. And remember you're on the time schedule of your guides.

If you don’t have a destination in mind at the very first stages of projection, sometimes you’ll be back inside the physical faster than you want; other times I have found I can fly instead and experience tremendous freedom.

Sometimes foggy-looking clouds appear on the screen my closed eyelids make and interfere with my plans. They must be either ignored or shaped into the destination. They respond to commands and will bring your destination to you and then you enter it.  Chanting (explained later) will help to clear and shape the clouds.  You can change the clouds into your tunnel (also explained later) and your destination will appear in the center.

Natural Ability

Music, such as Gregorian chant, may increase your natural ability to project, but unless you want it as a controlling influence, only play it during your preparation routine.

Imagine what any image looks like from the opposite side and then from the top. If you have chosen a tree, ask yourself what the other side looks like and then what it looks like from the sky looking downward. Don't be concerned with accuracy; just start to get a feeling for being outside of your body.

When very relaxed, imagine you can pass your hand through an object or jump off the side of a mountain.

To make a projection more intense practice visualizing one or more rainbow colors or brilliant white light and then add shape and movement. Visualization is the tool that will move the intensity of a projection up the scale. When you are high on the scale, there will be no doubt; you will know the difference between imagination and projection. You will say to yourself, “Something happened; this is real.”

Twirling

In the higher realms energy flows in a circular movement; so a good daily preparation is twirling; about 20 spins will help to loosen your physical attachment. The goal is not to twirl until you get so dizzy that you fall on the floor and then project; that's not what I recommend. However, doing controlled spinning either clockwise or counterclockwise before an obe attempt is very valuable.  Spinning should be done in your bare feet and with common sense.

Advanced: With your arms held straight forming right angles to your body, palms facing downward, head held high, rotate on the ball of one foot; take small circular steps with the other. Your speed should always be comfortable.

Intermediate: To reduce dizziness as you twirl, clasp your hands so that you can stare at your thumbnails.

Beginner: Slowly walk in a circle, arms at your side.

Make sure there is no furniture with sharp edges near and that there's a soft resting place close by.

Positions

In order to help control your mind, the real important thing is to keep your back comfortably straight and your mouth closed except while chanting the AUM as I will explain later.

The yoga sitting postures were designed to meditate with a straight back, a great idea if you're a yogi adept. It's also possible to astral project from a sitting position using a fairly comfortable chair with extra cushioned support to help you maintain a straight back. From a lying-down position (which I prefer and think is easier), it is best to be on a very firm mattress or futon, lying straight on your back, no pillow, no distractions, with your head pointing to the north.

Compasses work because there is an energy pull from the south to the north. If you put a blade of grass in a wide cup of water, placed on a level surface, the grass will move to the north/south axis. You can use this energy flow to your advantage to help you project from the lying-down position.

If you have long hair, pull it gently so that you feel a slight pressure on your scalp.  If you have short hair, place a pillow not under your head but positioned so that you can feel a gentle pressure on the very top of your head.  This helps open your crown chakra, a common exit point

Rays of Light and Energy

If you meditate on the colors blood red, black, brown, gray, or beige, they will only bring you to a lower astral state. Use brilliant shades of vibrant rainbow colors and white in a circular movement instead.

It sometimes starts quite simply in the imagination and then progresses to more real experiences. Do not get discouraged because it will happen quite naturally as you build up a momentum of energy.

There are teachings, in which I believe, that we came into this life on one or more beautiful-colored rays of light and energy and that it stays with us. Try meditating on rainbow colors and white one at a time and you will know which one (or maybe more than one) is your ray. It will be the most easy for you to visualize; you will feel electricity pumping through your body; and it will be the color(s) that makes you the most happy. Meditating on it can act as a pathway out as well as in.

Feeling Secure

Choose a quiet, comfortable, dimly lit, neat and secure place. You have probably spent many lifetimes sleeping around an open fire or huddled in a cave where for survival you needed to be fully awake at the slightest disturbance. Your subconscious mind remembers and needs to feel very secure to relax. If you are trying to project from the center of a large, fairly empty room, it's probably not going to work as well as if you're in a smaller more cozy setting. Make sure it is quiet, doors are closed and there are no edges of furniture pointing at you nor should you be under exposed ceiling beams. This advice might not make mental sense, but it makes emotional sense.

When you astral project, the part of you that is left behind will experience a chill needing extra warmth and comfort, perhaps a blanket, but one that does not contain wool is best, because you don't want to pick up on the energies of animals.

Distractions

Because of a charge of healthy energy flow, your physical body could experience some twitching and itching. Deep meditation can also become a diuretic.  In other words, expect distractions; don’t be discouraged or try to ignore them; that’s just how it works in the beginning especially.

You start wherever you are:

If you are distracted by tension, it can be released by visualizing the color violet entering your body on the in-breath. If you take a calcium and/or mineral supplement anyway, consider taking it just before a projection attempt.

If you are distracted by physical pain, meditate on it frequently and offer it up to God. Mentally turn it also into violet-colored light. From my experience, your pain will then either dissolve or move and can be chased. The more you chase it, the weaker it becomes. And, most amazingly, your health will start to improve or an avenue that leads to good health will open up. And I'm not even remotely suggesting that you don't also deal with physical pain or ill health as your health-care provider suggests.

If you are distracted by emotional pain, visualize the problem or condition above your head and offer it to your higher energies to heal. The problem or your attitude towards it will then start to improve.

If you are distracted by anger or other negativity coming to you from other people, when you are alone, out loud talk to them. Call them by name and extend love and respect. Express your gratitude for their presence. If it's very difficult to show love, remember they are also part of God's creation and imagine them as they once were as young children. You will be amazed that they will pick up on this energy and their attitude towards you will improve.

If you are distracted by rumbling noise and motion in your belly, you might have a parasite problem in your digestive tract.  You could eat lots of ground-up, raw, fresh ginger, raw garlic or the ground- up herb turmeric especially first thing in the morning for cleansing.  But check with a health-care provider.

If you are distracted because you are sick, tired, or depressed, one thing you can do is meditate on a pine tree.  Mentally embrace it; feel its energy and life force enter your body.  Live in the present moment with it.  Experience its love for All That Is.  The problem here is that you will become energized and start to think of more mundane things that you “just have to get up and do right away.”

The following explained deep state of meditation is also self-induced hypnosis.  If you have any personal changes to your behavior you desire to make, this is the time to assert the positive, just be careful and plan ahead.  My warning is that I believe I have brought on spells of nausea by telling myself over and over that I dislike certain foods.  I went too far.  There’s a delicate balance to maintain here.

Your True Identity

Pause for a moment and experience your true identity, not as a human but as a sphere of life located between your eyes, not even inside your body, but attached through tension just outside.  Release the tension and you have the freedom to come and go as you please.  I suggest you meditate for a time on your true self and its location so that you will more fully realize that you are already separate from your physical.

Think about it.  You do one of two things.  If you move a physical part of you, your attention will first travel inside your body for a tiny fraction of a second to that part of you that will be moved.   You’ll need to flex some muscles.  After all, that’s how your physical body is designed.  However, if you only think of a part of your physical body with no intention of movement, your attention doesn’t travel through your body; it travels for a brief, short moment on the outside.  SURPRISE!  SURPRISE!  You project all the time.  And notice also that it’s only part of you that travels to your foot, your hand, or wherever.  Most of you stays located between your eyes and you also continue to breathe.  This is exactly how projection really works, no hocus pocus involved.  It’s part of how we operate all the time.

Please take the time to digest and experiment a bit with what I’ve just explained.  It’s imperative that you understand before you proceed.

Sphere of Light

Even though it is certainly possible to exit from any point within your body, when using my techniques, you will probably exit through your head or the very center of your chest so a gentle massage of those areas would be helpful.  Loosen or remove any tight or restricting clothing.

Raise your physical arms above your head. Close your eyes. Think of the space between your hands as a sphere of your favorite colored, positive light. Let the sphere remain above your head as you return your physical hands to your lap or your side.

Pay attention to the sphere. Show your creation love by extending imaginary hands up to it and pretend to caress and kiss it.  Let the sphere of light remain above your head not only in meditation but throughout your day. (My days go much easier when I follow my own advice here.)  The more you meditate on and enjoy it, the more vivid it will become and the easier it will be for your guides to contact you and the more frequent and real your astral trips will be.

Tunnels

There are energies with us always that on the astral plane appear as tunnels connecting us to our past, future, and other realities. People who have near-death visions see and sometimes travel through one leading to the other side.

If you stare at a sheet of plain, white paper or a white wall, pretty soon you will see a small, vibrating, colored sphere of light, maybe surrounded by the appearance of a tunnel or even some circular lines. It might be necessary to raise your chin and lower but not shut your eyes. This is the energy you are sending out which combines with your karma, words, thoughts, astrological, and numerological energies and forms the events and emotions that make up your life.

You project to whatever holds your attention all the time. Life is the act of projecting and then experiencing. After all, we are here to learn. You project even while asleep and call it dreaming.

With your eyes closed, for a couple of minutes, VERY LIGHTLY massage in a circular motion first in one direction then the other the back of your head, the area at the base of the skull and just above the neck. Doing so will help you start to see at least one tunnel which could be rotating in either direction. It sometimes helps to move your closed eyes in a circular movement first one way then the other or very gently massage your forehead in a circular direction.

If you stare in a very relaxed manner with closed eyes in the very center of the screen your closed eyelids make, the tunnel and sometimes the vibrating light in the center will then appear. Sometimes you will just see a few circular lines and that's okay. If you're at a crossroads in your life, you could see the outline of two or more tunnels.

Common sense dictates that massaging a soft place on your head should be done with caution. Please do not be tempted to put a vibrator on the area or apply any pressure. It's just a very light touching. You won't intensify your experience by harming your head. Be careful.

Chanting

In the ancient Sanskrit language, one of the sacred names for God is AUM, also spelled OM. Chanting and singing it will give energy and bring a higher plane of vibration. From a sitting position it's easier. AUM and the work “home” sound the same except for the letter “h”; there is the hard “O” sound and then a long humming of the letter “m”.  It’s a disgrace that this sacred sound is sometimes the object of jokes. I hope you don’t let that deter you.

Inhale deeply through your nose with your mouth closed; as you exhale sing one long AUM at whatever pitch. There should be longer and longer pauses on the out breath. It's a breathing technique as well as a calling out to God. If this is not easy for you to do, it's probably because your breath needs to be deeper.  If you find it difficult from a lying down position, doing it mentally or very quietly is highly effective.

The screen your closed eyelids make changes instantly. You will see round-shaped energies that appear alive. Look for a tunnel to start to form on the screen your closed eyelids make.

Heart Chakra

Next, position your attention at your heart chakra, located in the very center of your chest at your backbone. You will know you are in the correct location when you smile.  All kinds of tension come and go in all of us especially in this location; otherwise we would not be here on the physical plane.  Before you can progress further, it needs to be released.  Picture a violet-colored flame, bringing forgiveness and mercy, engulfing and dissolving it.

While visualizing a sphere of rainbow-colored or brilliant white light at your heart chakra, an overpowering feeling of love will come over you. If you do at least five minutes of deep breathing centered there, you acknowledge the part of you who stays behind and you start the separation.

On the out breath, chant the AUM. If you inhale through your mouth, your mind will wander more easily. Pause after the out breath because you can separate during the pauses. Repeat until you have so much breath in you that your physical body feels numb and heavy. This is how you can start your engine for obe and inner world travel.

Astral Plane

There is a vibrant world filled with life all around us that is not usually seen nor felt from the physical perspective.  It is called the astral plane.

Once you have entered by deep breathing, chanting, and meditation, you will see the astral counterpart of the screen your eyelids form when your eyes are closed. Small forms of etheric matter could play across the screen; with practice you can change them.  Faces might come, one right after another—maybe guides or people from previous, future, or parallel lifetimes—and beautiful colored spheres of light.

One of the real secrets to projecting both inward and outward is right before your eyes. Pay attention to depth, detail and shading on your screen; and don't simply look at it, but stare at it while still relaxed.

With patience and determination look for whatever or wherever your destination and it will either come to you or you will go to it.  For me, it all starts in my memory and focus.

Vibrations

Vibrations accompany obe and inner-world experiences. To have frequent and vibrant trips, increase the intensity and frequency of these vibrations by paying attention to them. Don’t wait for the vibrations to increase on their own; take control yourself.  They sound like a ringing and a little bit like the noise of crickets. The sound is always faintly in your head. As you progress to higher states of consciousness, the ringing will become louder and of a higher pitch. You might hear a popping and a snapping noise.

Visualize brilliant golden, pink and white light, shimmering with rainbow colors, or whatever beautiful colors draw you, filling you with love and opening your path back to All That Is. This technique brings tremendous happiness, a wonderful feeling of wellbeing and lots of healthy energy.

Occasionally, while in deep meditation, the vibrations might become so intense that you feel paralyzed. It's easy to slip out into an obe at this time, but if you change your mind, you can just relax, move your fingers, mentally say "no", and the vibrations will decrease.

Projecting Inward

When you meditate on your heart chakra, you will experience who and what you really are, a spiritual being of great love and light. Whatever is going on in your physical life will suddenly have little or no meaning. There will only be the present moment filled with tremendous love and strength. This becomes an awesome inner projection that can be turned into a healing time by mentally expanding this wonderful light and energy to fill your entire body.  This energy is God given to each of us at conception and then maintained by God throughout our lives. By acknowledging its presence we can heal not only ourselves but those around us.

Another way to get inside for an inner world experience is to gently focus your attention at the center of your head, where a powerful chakra is also located. Mentally color it a beautiful rainbow color. Get used to the feeling of movement by going back and forth. This is how you project, by moving your attention because you are wherever your attention is.

Projecting Outward

To turn this wondrous experience into a projection outward, pretend your heart chakra expands and becomes a beautiful cloud-shaped space above your body. The more you meditate on it, the more centered you will be in it and the more real it becomes.  You will then quietly float above your body.

Another way:  relax and deep breathe with your attention traveling from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, in unison with your breath.  You’ll find you will naturally travel on top of your body not inside.  Pay attention to the sound of the ringing in your ears.  Let it get louder and ever louder.  When you feel like you’re floating in a soft, white cloud, let your master pick your astral body up.  Floating on top happens in a very matter-of-fact manner.  Feel his/her embrace and love for you.

To make it easier, think of the freedom and happiness such a projection will bring you. You'll be in the astral realm and emotion reigns supreme there. There will be the one who stays behind and slowly and quietly breathes and the one who floats above. You will be filled with tremendous energy and love.

Pretend you can do it and then you will.  If you have problems it’s because there is doubt which brings tension.  Dissolve the tension away by meditating on the color violet.  It will be as easy as you allow it to be.

You say you try and try but can’t travel on top of your body?  Keep in mind you do it all the time.  Bear with me.  To make this experience very real, start by raising your knees and vigorously rubbing them.  If you’re very flexible, kiss them so you can work with the sensation of feeling.  Perhaps put your favorite perfume on them so you can use your sense of smell. Lay on your back with your knees bent upward, feet firmly on your mattress.  On the inhale, think about your knees, on your exhale think about the top of your head.  You won’t be inside your physical body unless you choose to be.  You’ll be on top of your body going back and forth.  Do this over and over until you feel the need to lower your legs.

Continue only now travel from your head to the point where your knees used to be.  After a while, let your breathing slow way down and so also will the time it takes to travel back and forth.  You will feel lighter and a tingling sensation.  You’ll hear a ringing in your ears.  Intensify these feelings through practice and your attention to them.  Continue going back and forth until you realize that you are projecting with ease.

When you feel you are ready, let your breath slow way down, let your traveling slow down to keep pace with your breath.  Then, when you are so filled with oxygen that your breath naturally pauses for a moment, pause your attention very intensely in midair.  You say you can’t do that?  Yes, you can.  In deep meditation you can focus on any point you choose with very little effort.  And expect the point of your focus to slowly drift upward as you continue to breathe softly.  Relax and go with it.

Now you have changed the direction of your travels. Instead of going from your head to your knees, you are going from your physical body upward.  You say you still can’t do that?  YOU CAN.  I know you can because you’re already there.  You'll discover what C. Lorraine LeBlanc in her wonderful book, “Stumbling Upon the Spiritual Path” in Chapter One, explains.   A very small part of us is actually located inside the physical body.  Our presence, our energy and light, is really a huge sphere extending way beyond our physical manifestation.  You see, a large part of you is  already there.

Think about the area above you and you’ll be there.  There should be almost no effort when very relaxed.

Projecting Upward

In the teachings of Beloved Saint Germaine, we learn that the space above our head is where our Higher Mental Body dwells, above that is our Mighty I AM Presence. The Hindus teach that this space above us is a second heart chakra. Jim Hertack in his book “The Keys of Enoch” (Academy for Future Science, 2007) talks about two chakras located above the head. When you give yourself permission to contact God directly, you're apt to smile and raise your arms above your head. So there are many arrows pointing to this space as being very sacred and powerful. Meditating on it as beautiful light and energy is a most wondrous experience and an easy way out.

This technique works best if done immediately following projecting from the heart chakra (as already discussed, floating on top of your body). You will already be centered in a ball of love energy that will follow your focus and commands and will bring you upward.

Think of going to an astral counterpart of outer space; make the request out loud. Remember what the sky looks like at evening time in the country, just filled with stars. Stare very intensely (while still very relaxed) at the center of the screen your closed eyelids make looking for a single beautiful star. This point will become the center of a tunnel pointing upward.  You will then see wondrous flashes of twinkling light.  The longer you stay focused, the more vivid they become.

If you don't have a feeling of movement, to travel upward, motion with your projected arms in the opposite direction that you would swim using the breaststroke. To project your arms, just pretend. The feeling of love will be your engine. As you move forward, using the power of loving All That Is, bring outer space within and you will travel massive amounts of space in a short time. You can fly with the angelic host if you choose.

You will come to a very holy place that is part of you, called by Saint Germaine your Higher Mental Body and even above that is your Mighty I AM Presence.  Once you get there, you will feel complete.

Our True Identity

Acknowledge where you are located most of the time, right between your eyes, not even inside your body but on the edge of it.  If you pause and think about it, you will recognize this statement as the truth.

Believe that you are already a separate entity from your physical body, its function being that of a vehicle.  For additional support of this belief, I offer the following:

Swami Muktananda, in the second edition of his book “Meditate” (Copyright 1980, 1991, SYDA Foundation) talks about the benefit of even once seeing the Self as separate from the physical body.

A.D.K. Luk in the book the “Law of Life”, Book One (Copyright 1959, A. D. K. Luk Publications) explains that we are not a physical body but a stream of light, a projected ray from the Godhead.

In Paul Williams book, “Remember Your Essence” (Copyright, 1987, Harmony Books) he compares our true self to an ever-burning log of wood and the fire to our life force.

In the wonderful book, “Stumbling Upon The Spiritual Path”, (Self-Published, Copyright 2006, available at Amazon), C. Lorraine LeBlanc channels her individual manifestation of God.  She explains that as we grow we become aware of consciousness of which we are a part in physical reality.

Master Subramuniya expressed it very well in “The Self God” (original Copyright 1959; 10 edition, copyright 1973, Comstock House).  He explains that we are light in an illusion created by ourselves.

Paramahansa Yogananda in “How You Can Talk with God” (Copyright 1957 & 1985, Self-Realization Fellowship).  He explains the energy we all feel that operates our physical manifestation.

Are you stuck?  Are you not keeping up?  Relax about it and let’s take a side trip.

As described above, lay on your back, bring your attention to the very center of your chest.  Breathe very deeply through your nose until you hear intense ringing in your ears and you feel heavy.  That part you can do.  It just takes some time and focus.

Once in the state described above, go back to the beginning and again pretend you’re five-years old.  Clap your pretend hands until you know they are your projected hands.  Move your pretend feet up and down until you know they are your projected feet.  Do this for a few minutes.  Now give yourself a real treat.  With your projected hands, massage your feet.  Trust me, it’s easy.  This will help you relax deeper and deeper.  Do this until your projected feet float in a white cloud above your body.

Once you know you can float your feet, it gives you tremendous confidence that the rest of your astral body will follow.  Massage your back and, most important of all, massage the area between your eyes.  Do this relaxation technique until you’re out, however long it might take, however many sessions it might take.  IT WORKS.  It’s worth the effort. It will change you forever.

Having said all the above, you could instead take a shortcut!!  Unless you choose to, for the wonderful experience it is, you don’t need to project or float an entire replica of your physical body.  The only part you really need to project is the energy that is really you, located between your eyes.  Start out by massaging your head with your projected hands, then the area between your eyes, separate from the tension there and you’re out.  Make it even easier by visualizing that sphere as holy, amazingly beautiful light.  Make it energy you will enjoy melting into.

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PART TWO

My Techniques

Make your experience ever more real.  Decide where it is you want to go.  What place do you love the most?  Do you love the ocean?  The forest?  A time in the past?  Wherever that is for you, make that your first trip.  Make sure it is someplace where you can remember the feeling.  If it’s the ocean, remember the sensation and smell of the water and the waves moving.  If it’s a forest, climb a tree; remember the feeling of the branches and the leaves.  If it’s a time in the past, remember time is an illusion.  You can go there, just feel something you vividly remember that was there.

I like to feel the hand of an angel or spiritual guide that is helping me.  Feel a hand pulling you upward.  You’ll find your own pathway.  The trick is, for me anyway, to make it real by using the memory of what things feel like.  If these places have a certain smell or emotion, that memory will help as well.

Two Methods to Project to Wooded Areas

The First Method

I'm putting this technique first because it is the easier of the two and you can build on it later. Of all my techniques, it's very basic and one of the simplest.

People who garden a lot and love to do it frequently project to their gardens when they take a nap or retire for the evening. They can't help it. They don't know how they do it; they just do it. You can also quite easily use this pull of Nature to project.

Start out by going for a walk in a wooded area and carefully studying the trees. Imagine how it would feel to be able to fly above and through them. Imagine what the wind would feel like. Stay long enough to experience a kinship of love with Nature.

This first method starts out usually by being in two places at once. The part of you who stays behind and breathes gently watches the projection. The part of you who projects has the feeling of flying over a wooded area, and sometimes there will be houses, people and animals.  It’s a very healing, exhilarating and wondrous adventure.

To start, as always, relax, deep breathe, chant the AUM, meditate on your heart chakra and then project upward.

Next, meditate on the screen your closed eyelids make.  Once you see at least a few circular lines, look to the bottom and probably to the left of your screen. Request to go to a wooded area. Expect to see trees moving toward you; but if you don't or if your vision of them is very faint, repeat your request to your tunnel. Have patience and they will then appear. If you have the experience of flying either over or through different colors of light instead, it's because you are not close to the physical but higher up in the astral plane. You can get closer to the physical by simply making the request to your tunnel.  But sometimes it’s a good idea to just go wherever your guides lead you.  There’s always a reason for every trip.

It's like watching a 3D movie only you can move inside. To enter your projection remember what the wind feels like; with your pretend hands touch the tops of the trees. Very surprisingly, you will have the experience of flying above a wooded area. Your every command to your tunnel will be followed. Mentally ask to see the trees more clearly and your trip will slow down and you will see more detail. It's a lot of fun to fly through the trees.

When you are in the air and you feel like you are flying, you might not be. It took me a long time to realize that I was really located in a point in the sky. I had no physical body so I was not subject to gravity. However, the Earth was rotating on its axis. I just had the sensation of moving. It's like when you're in a carwash seated in your automobile. The big brushes come forward and you have the sensation of moving even though you are not.

Sometimes traveling is the obe destination; it is a lot of fun and very rewarding to have the feeling of flying above or through nature.  The more you practice, the more real and easier it will become and the more likely it will be for your guides to intercept and take you on a trip.

The Second Method

As in the previous technique, we can all use Nature as a portal to exciting obe experiences.  To prepare, go out for a walk someplace you find especially beautiful and peaceful. Imagine you can fly over the landscape on your walk only much slower and closer to the ground than the previous technique. Touch and smell as much as possible. Meditate there until you feel an overwhelming love for all. Get very intense; pretend that your eyes can photograph the scene as you walk along. You could choose an object to take home such as a wild flower, a rock, a leaf or a small branch of a tree.

You can spend hours looking at Nature and nothing will happen until you pay attention to detail, shading, and depth. Then you will be flooded with love which is the fuel for obe and inner world travel.

Later when you are at home, place the object you have brought with you on a table near a comfortable chair or you can simply gaze at an object of Nature through a window. Your back should be straight. Deep breathe and chant the AUM until you are in the trance state. Stare at your object until you feel that overwhelming sense of unconditional love. It should remind you of a time as a child when you were loved not for anything you did or said but just because you existed.

Gaze especially at details. Once this love relationship is established, close your eyes and you will see at least a small flicker of the object on the screen your eyelids make when they are closed. Ask your tunnel to take you to other places where it also exists. And it will. Pay close attention to details and it will appear clearer. Tell it to expand and you will see the whole object, not the one you're meditating on but another one in the wild. Ask for more to appear and they will. Your first thought might be that it's an optical illusion. Just let that thought come and go, but work with the image. Command it to come closer, become more vivid, turn, grow, and multiply. Amazingly, your directions will be followed and you will be in a clearing in a wooded area. Have patience and make as many attempts at this as you need until your obe is as vibrant and as clear as you want it to be. Listen for the ringing in your ears.

You will experience what you expect. Be sure to make it a bright sunny day.  Never travel to a dark place.

Ask your tunnel for movement.  Look for something abundant and close to the ground like dandelions or rabbits.  Use your memory of touch and smell as tools. You will have access to many projected hands at the same time.  Smell and caress whatever you find. You'll be able to examine the trees especially in layers by traveling through them.  Play in nature as though you are a four-year-old. The feeling of petting a rabbit helps me.

If your mind wanders and you lose the image, open your eyes and gaze at the object again. Don't get discouraged, the more the effort, the greater the gain.

If you want to experience a full-body astral projection, this is the perfect technique for you.  In your projection, look for a pine tree.  Give it a full-bodied embrace.  Feel its quietness, holiness and power of existing in the moment.  Show it love.  Feel your entire projected body the size and dimension it is in the physical.  And you have it.

The Third Eye

First, if you center your attention at the bridge of your nose and then fall back to the very center of your head, you will be able to locate an astral eye and use it.  Amazingly, if you request it, the screen your closed eyelids make will move to the top of your head because this “eye” will be awakened and functioning.

You might have the sensation of passing through a tunnel. It happens in a very matter-of-fact manner. You can then astral project through your crown chakra located at the very top of your head by simply focusing on the center of your screen and thinking of doing it.

I suggest your goal should be to project your eyes and the space between your eyes because the easiest form to project is a sphere of emotional light containing your eyes. You need to have a destination planned or your trip might end sooner than you want.  It’s a good method to fly over vast landscapes or the ocean.  You’ll have the sensation of experiencing tremendous freedom

As explained earlier, after following the above instructions, you might instead see spheres of beautiful light. If this happens, you'll know that even though you might not have separated yet, you are on a high astral plane. Expect to hear a ringing and sometimes a popping noise.  Pay attention to these noises and lights so they will increase; they accompany a lot of obe and inner-world experiences.

The more you practice the above technique, the easier it becomes, to the point that it is among the simplest and most direct method for astral projection.

Two Ways to Contact Your Holy Guides

The First Method

Out loud request one or more of your guides to be kind enough to present themselves. Their visit might happen during the following projection attempt or later during a dream or as you awaken in the morning. The timing will be a decision of your guides.

Blow on and rub and massage your hands. If in a sitting position, raise your arms above your head, if lying down to the north of your head. Keep them there for as long as your arm muscles will allow. Return your hands to your lap or to your side but do not mentally move the space that was between your hands. Fill it with a rainbow color or brilliant white letting it become a sphere of light. When the visualization is firmly set, see it move. As it moves, you might see it take the form of a holy guide who might offer his/her hand. If that happens, you could project a hand and grasp it, paying attention to the feeling of holding a hand. The more you practice, the more real and sacred your projection will become.

To make your obe more intense, visualize a golden chalice filled with light. Let your guide give you Holy Communion. Feel the chalice with a projected hand especially just inside and outside of the rim and the stem.

The Second Method

You may contact the deceased, your higher self, your guides, the angelic host, and all kinds of high beings of light. Pray first that they will be gracious enough to present themselves.

First, focus in the very center of your head. At the same time, pay attention to the astral counterpart of the screen your closed eyelids make and direct the screen to also move inward. It will. At first it might not stay for more than a moment, but keep working with it and it will stay longer and longer. Then look not especially for the tunnel but for the light in the center of the tunnel for that is where your guides will appear. Look for and then pay attention to rainbow color or brilliant white light, movement, shading, depth, and detail. Ask for clarity and you will amazingly receive it. Become as determined as necessary and you will be most blessed with their visitations.

Lucid Dreaming

Lucid dreams are really inner-world projections. To have them, before dozing off to sleep, state out loud the type of dream you wish or even a destination, and ask to remember it. The more spiritual your request, the easier it will be.  Presume a guide is there to help and talk to him/her. Be sure to express your gratitude.

The more attempts you make, the more vivid your dreams will become and the more control you will have to the point of astral travel adventures.  You can ask any question and you will receive some type of an answer.  The more mundane the question, however, the foggier the response will be.  Spiritual and health-related questions will usually be answered promptly and clearly.  You can even ask the same question night after night until you are very sure of the correct path to take.

I suggest you lay on a very hard mattress or a futon, positioned so that your head is to the north. Lay on your back with no pillow. Close your eyes and intensely gaze at one point on the screen your closed eyelids make. With all your might, stay awake as long as you can. From my experience, the harder I try to stay awake the faster and easier sleep comes.

Follow these instructions every night and the momentum of energy will build up and you will have many adventures and receive much wisdom.

Sometimes after a long, unsuccessful session of astral projection using other methods, stop trying to project and just go to sleep. Because of the large momentum of energy you've probably built up, you’ll be able to project quite easily from the sleeping state into a lucid dream.

However, be careful. There are trickster spirits out there who might enter your dream time. It's happened to me. To prevent them from entering, meditate on beautiful-colored light and chant the AUM (even silently).

As you wake from your dreams, recount them out loud; that will help you remember them later in the day.  And be sure to express gratitude.

Projecting to a Body of Water

One of the places I like to go is to the ocean, flying over and through the waves and diving deep within is just wonderful and very strengthening. Look for your tunnel and ask it to take you to the ocean. I find the waves start to appear at the bottom of the screen my closed eyelids make.

Try to use all your senses; remember what the ocean smells, feels and looks like. Visualize things like seaweed, clams, lobster, and fish.  Of course, the more you do it, the more vivid it becomes. It's very powerful and healing.

You can enter the consciousness of one of the fish, if you want; but then it will be hard to eat fish later.  If you do enter, you will be amazed that you can relate to their emotions and you will find that they also have thoughts and goals.

One evening I picked up on the energy of a fish I had eaten that day.  Its last thought before being caught was that if it could just make it to a certain point in the ocean it would be safe and happy.

Contacting Other Life in Outer Space

Stare at a point in the sky for a few minutes. As I’ve mentioned before, staring at anything is a projection whether you're centered in it or not. Send out unconditional love. Your energy could be answered in some way either immediately or within a day or sometimes a week or two, either by a vivid dream or a projection in the morning as you awaken. A response that I have received is of strong surprise and curiosity.

However, this is one area where great caution should be exercised.  In answer to one of my attempts at contact, I received a clear vision containing many squares, triangles, circles and lines. The vision itself had a slowly moving outline that resembled somewhat a very thick letter "S" and contained brilliant blue, some white and some gold color that reminded me of sand.

The vision seemed to speak to me in some weird computer-like manner, more of a vibration than any kind of words. What bothered me was that it was outlined in black, which might have stood for outer space; I'm not sure. However, since I believe that black in a vision reflects death, illness and depression, its very presence gave me pause. I demanded it leave. But it stayed for about ten minutes. I had to become very firm before it finally left.

It all transpired while I was working on this very book at my computer.  I have never had an apparition so brilliant that lasted so long.

The timing of this experience is also very interesting; it happened in the afternoon of November 8, 2011, when an asteroid passed between the Earth and the moon.

There is a very ancient method to travel to outer space. Lay down outside in a quiet, secure, comfortable place with your head pointing north. Say out loud your intention to project upward. Then simply relax and gaze straight up until you do.  Because I'm a city dweller, I haven't tried this method, but it does sound enticing.

Projecting to a Physical Object

From my experience this type of projection requires caution. Meditating on places beneath you when sitting or located directly to the south of you while lying down could activate lower energies. To exit the lower etheric, you look upward and seek beautiful color.  And as I’ve explained earlier, if you don’t like your trip, out loud say “no” and move your fingers so that it will end.

You can approach this type of astral travel using two entirely different methods.  The first has more details to consider but should become more vivid; the second is much more relaxed.

The First Approach:

Choose an object that reflects a little light and is of a positive color.  Never project to anything the color of black, brown, blood red, or grey.  The color of your object will influence the type of astral travel trip you will have, so be careful.

Before you project you should:  (1) Place your hands on both sides of the object to be visited. You will remember that feeling and it can be used later to help anchor you near the item. (2) Examine the object with your face right up next to it from many different angles. Remember how it looks. When you project, you will be very small and real close to it. However, your vision of the item will not split into two as it does on the physical plane.  (3) Look at the room from the perspective of being very close to your item, that will help you locate yourself later and the experience will be more real.  (4) Place the object you want to visit so that you will not project in a straight line. If you travel in a curve to get to your destination, once you're there you won't have the feeling that you cannot move around it.  (5) Kiss and stroke the object so that you can use the memory as a tool.  (6) If you are projecting to something like a bowl or dish, I have found the memory of pinching the rim helps.

To put it very simply, if you want to astral project, you start by simply imagining yourself there; become emotionally attached to the object; and then you work at that vision until it is as real as you are now in the physical. Your imagination and emotion become your bridge.

As I've mentioned earlier, the physical body is meant to experience the physical plane. When you project, you'll be in astral energy projecting to an astral counterpart of something, sometimes very close to the physical but still in the astral. There could be some distortion.

One time, I projected to a vase located on my bureau which was covered by a white cloth. During the projection, the cloth extended over the bureau's edge by about an inch but on the physical plane the cloth did not meet the edge of the bureau. The projection was very real, vivid and beautiful. I was tiny and the vase was gigantic. I was able to move all around the vase and viewed it from a whole different perspective.  I cannot put into words the wondrous feelings I had.

You will experience a different reality. Expect to be very emotional, very small, and objects very large. You can travel all around an object and go through it. To make your experience more intense, look for shading, depth, and details. Give yourself commands to make your experience more clear. Except for your projected hands, you will be very small so you can also have some fun during a projection by jumping inside an object like a bowl or vase.

Keep in mind the scale of 1-10 for projection. One being the energy you send when you glance at something, ten being just as real as you feel right now. Get stubborn and emotional but yet relaxed during your projection and don't settle for anything less than ten.  Attitude is very important.

Use a strong emotional motivation to help you project like the word “freedom.” If you like to dance, imagine yourself dancing while exploring the object; maybe kiss it. Do whatever it takes to enjoy the experience.

Keep the actual projection very simple. Pretend you are already wherever it is you want to be. If you are not at ten on the scale, keep working at it until you are, but make sure it’s fun.

You might be fully centered in the projecting energy only, or you might be centered in both your physical body and outgoing energy. Either way is great.  To strengthen your projection, listen for the ringing in your ears to become louder and the pitch to become higher.

If you are projecting to an object that is placed on a table, first project a pair of hands on either side of the object to act as your anchor. Remember the sensation of touching the table. With other projected hands, touch your object; kiss it; look for shading, depth, and detail. If your breathing is noticeable, you're too tense. If you can feel any part of your physical body, that will distract you. Don't make more than one mental attempt at traveling to your object so your energies will not become fragmented. Move around it and view it from different angles. It might take more than one session to get the reality you want.

It's a common occurrence for the vision of the object to instead come to you. When that happens, you need to mentally place it back where it belongs. Project a pair of hands to the table or wherever the object is in the physical. Pay attention to the sensation of feeling.

The Second Approach:

But then maybe you don't want to put a lot of effort into this and just want something more simple and direct. I can relate. Here's a fairly easy way to project to an object in a room.

If you are one who watches television late at night, get very comfortable maybe in a reclining chair, comfortable enough to doze but with your back cushioned so that it is fairly straight, and be sure to have your remote nearby. During the commercials lower the volume way down and gaze at some object in the room that reflects a little light; this will establish a bridge. Later, when the television has been turned off, when it is very quiet and the light is very dim, just gaze again at your object until you start to doze. Because the easiest part of you to project is your hands, start by imagining what it would feel like to touch it. You should easily project to it, if you can control your mind.

The object you project to can be a destination, that in itself is very exciting; or it can be a springboard to other realities. If you are determined, you will succeed. It's well worth the effort; it will change you forever.

Visits to the Deceased

First, remember he/she must be willing to contact you as well. If there was anger, guilt or fear coming from either side in your relationship, it might take them some time to release it, just like it is for us here on Earth.  And the deceased are busy up there learning things probably beyond our comprehension. They might even be preparing to reincarnate.

There are a lot of factors to think about, one of the most important being that time is an illusion. For instance, you might contact your parents or other older relatives as they appeared and related to you when you were a child, re-experiencing the hopefully wonderful, unconditional love you received from them.

I have read, and it’s part of my experience, that once older people enter the higher worlds of the astral plane, the appearance they choose to give usually changes and they start to appear as they did on Earth in their mid-thirties. A child reportedly will mature.

If your objective is to give and receive unconditional love, to say goodbye, or to make sure they are okay, that's very good. If you want material guidance from them, then you're encouraging haunting and that's not a good path for them or for you.

To visit, first meditate on a picture taken in happy times, hold something they handled frequently. The block method below is a good technique to contact them or use any method that appeals to you. It might take more than one attempt, but your efforts will be noticed. Some kind of response should be received either right away or within a day or two.

You could find your loved one in the light at the center of one of your tunnels, waiting for you in a pine grove, in a lucid dream, or simply fly into the sky and locate your loved one out there. Perhaps instead, as happened with me, your visitors will come to you at a time when they are ready.

The Block Method

This method is designed with the practical person in mind, those of us who set a goal and then take positive, well-thought-out, basic steps to achievement without wasting valuable time.

When in deep meditation, this technique will become much easier than it sounds right now.

Start by intensely (but still very relaxed) focusing on the screen formed by your closed eyelids. Pretend that it is one side of a solid, touchable block and that each side of the block looks exactly the same. Make believe that you can move slowly to view the other sides by traveling around it on the outside. When it becomes very real, forget the block and you're out. But if you don't have a destination in mind, you might be right back in the physical.

The Ascension

The ascension is the ultimate projection.  Therefore, I want to include teachings given to me by my spiritual guides.

Almost all of us have had uncountable lifetimes progressing through the animal kingdoms and then through the human.  We are making much progress; but we have much to learn from each precious life.  We study intensely during the time between incarnations to choose the best path to take next.

The word “ascension” means different things to different people.  As the word is used here, it is an individual embrace of God and a very powerful acknowledgement of the light and energy of the Creator.  It is not a return to God, because it is impossible to really leave.  If we did, we would no longer exist.

The journey of the ascension is an automatic, individual process with no need for outside help.  Everyone is always on this journey both in this lifetime and in others because that is the sole purpose for life.  You see, since we are a projection of God, we will ultimately return ever and ever closer to God.

To speed the process up, you could go about your daily activities meditating on and being in the embrace of the Violet Consuming Flame of Forgiveness and Mercy which will transmute low energy to high spiritual energy.  In addition, while in deep meditation, visualize a white sphere of light surrounded by a beautifully vibrating, golden yellow light.  You will eventually go wherever your attention takes you.  The more you follow this instruction, the faster illness and poverty will leave, the better and happier your whole life will become both here and in the lives to follow.

You do not have to leave the physical plane to make this progress, although you might. You are always in the perfect place at the perfect time.  And making ever more progress to the ascension is the best thing we can do for all humanity because we are all so intimately connected.

And the individual act of the ascension never ever stops.

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PART THREE

My Experiences

These trips, arranged by my guides, usually occurred immediately following a technique. But sometimes I built up energy and they just happened later, some came in a vivid dream, some as I awoke in the morning. Two happened while I was watching television.

Grouped into two types of experiences, the first holy and wonderful, the second sometimes very difficult but things I needed to see and/or do.

I’m including these two sections so that you will know what to expect.  I hope the difficult projections do not discourage you.  And I hope the beautiful ones will encourage.

I feel it’s only fair to be totally honest.  There are no exaggerations; everything reported as it actually happened.  A lot of them I recorded about seven years ago in my journal; the rest came recently when I made the request to my guides for information for this book.

Group A, Holy and Wonderful

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My tunnel became God and love.  I was told to focus on becoming the love, light and energy for which I search.

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While praying for help, I saw a vision of Mother Mary carrying the Christ child. She handed me the baby who melted into my heart chakra. I then meditated on the light to the north of my head and saw an arm reaching for me.

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While going about my daily activities, I saw a white gold light for a fraction of a second and felt the strong presence of my deceased father, a very comforting experience.

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I had a dream of the head of Beloved Master Jesus. It was almost like a statue in a holy church came alive.

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To prepare, I massaged my head and did the Yoga sun-piercing breath. While meditating on a violet crystal, I asked to see my spiritual guides. Amazing spheres of brilliant colored light appeared. I saw a pink spirit and a golden flame baby which I brought to my heart chakra. The face of a happy young man, looked Arabic, smiled at me. My tunnel rotated very fast and pointed very high.

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Using the block method, I stepped behind my screen and found myself in very high, scarce clouds and saw the lights of a city far below.

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Starting with the yoga headstand and sun piercing breath, I then meditated on a small pine tree. There were lots of vivid scenes of a forest. I was offered a projection to a Christmas gathering but refused it. Rays from the “Sun of Even Pressure” (a St. Germaine teaching) and visions of mountain peaks presented themselves.

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My deceased father led me to a time when I was about three-years old when many people surrounded me with love. My parents, aunts, and uncles were all there. It was strange to experience myself at this age and to see my older relatives so young and vibrant. I then went back even more in time briefly to my mother's womb.

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I had a vision of a man in a white robe with lots of brown hair and a brown beard.

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As I woke up one morning, I experienced an obe of flying over trees during a bright sunny day, a magnificent trip.

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While projecting to either a future world or an alternate reality, I saw many tall buildings and lots of people. To get from one building to another they did not have to leave one place and walk across a street. They just got into small elevator-like rooms and were safely “sling shotted” to specifically designed areas going from building to building.

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One evening I meditated on a random star in the sky and attempted to send and receive energy. Later I saw the Christ child over my head descending down to my heart chakra. I remembered the star and felt flooded with tremendous energy as though there was some type of sacred communication.

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I was visited by a golden light breaking forth in the sky through the shadows.

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I experienced a full bodied, etheric projection into a hazy white world. I became my ghost.

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In the early morning as I woke, I saw two little shy and quiet girls in simple, homemade-looking clothing and a very vibrant little boy with dark hair and eyes. I had a strong feeling they were previous incarnations of my own three children.

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As I first laid down, without any preparation, the energy was just waiting for me. I could hear a very loud ringing and felt strong vibrations of electricity.  Right after I closed my eyes there appeared on my screen many settlers from frontier days, American Indians dancing, and people in stage coaches. The vision stayed for quite a while.

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There was a small sphere of white and gold light, like a Christmas tree ornament. Several days later I again saw a small sphere but of a medium shade of blue light.

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While in a deep meditation, there were deep purple, gold and white spheres of small light. As I pleaded for help, golden angels enfolded me. Many arms were reaching to pull me out and upward. I was told to meditate on the blue light at my throat chakra for the power to accomplish.

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As I awoke in the early morning, my head seemed to be elongated. While I meditated on my higher mental body, a connection came. I then meditated on my heart chakra and also felt a connection. Some kind of initiation or stronger bond seemed to take place.

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A golden flame appeared and I realized my mind directs where I go. I alone am in control of my ascension to the light and must focus mostly on that.

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I meditated for about one hour each on the heart and just above the crown chakras. Later I saw a large (about one half my size) blue and white spirit real close to me on my right side. It was an overwhelming experience which I cannot stop thinking about. Earlier that day I had seen a blue sphere that was larger than I normally see, but not as large as this.

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I had a vivid dream about a large stone castle apparently built into the side of a mountain. There was a protected walkway around the outside of the top, but it abruptly stopped, revealing a very long dangerous drop.

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A blue and white light spirit appeared just for a moment.

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I was in a sea of light, like a cell in the body of God, all part of each other, all one.

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While flying above the Earth, I felt tremendous love radiating from the trees and the Earth. It was wonderful freedom. I then flew very high above the clouds.

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As I laid myself down to sleep, I immediately flew over great expanses of multicolored lights.

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During the commercials one night while watching television, I wondered if Beloved Master Jesus would teach me. He appeared in an overpowering deep rose color.

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I saw a hole in the sky with an angel showing me the way to go through it. I moved closer to the opening and saw many colored lights reminding me of Christmas.

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During meditation, the screen before my eyes was at the crown of my head. I was looking upward through my Third Eye.

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I saw a border of blue around the screen my closed eyelids make.

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It was my deceased mother's birthday. In the physical, I saw a license plate that read: “me mere”. This is French for grandmother and that is what my children and grandchildren called her. Later that day I had a wonderful meditation and saw tremendous light. I felt the presence of God more intensely than ever before.

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I heard my deceased mother say very clearly: “Yvette, are you all right?”

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Upon waking, I was playing with a small, white, brilliant light which somehow I knew was a prayer I had made the day before.

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For a moment, I was looking downward from the side of a very tall mountain bathed in bright daylight. There was much light-green color emanating from the pine trees.

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There were trees, mountains, and ocean. While stopping over a wooded area, I found a wild rabbit that is still with me.

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The space above my head was wonderful gold light. Inside there was a group of spirits worshiping God. I asked if I could take a gift. A male spirit answered “certainly”. I scooped a small amount of light which then flowed down to my heart chakra. In this light I saw the suffering of Beloved Master Jesus, three wise men, the meditating Buddha, a tabernacle of gold with gold beads strung like pearls. Amazing!

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I experienced a wonderful projection to a wooded area, lots of movement.

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I projected to a crystal and moved all around it. I was tiny; it was gigantic. The experience was life altering.

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When I projected to a bowl of alfalfa sprouts, I found it to be boring. To make it more real, I flew from a great distance and crashed into the bowl going right through it. It seemed necessary to have fun. I then sat inside the bowl with the alfalfa sprouts and that was fun.

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While again attempting to project to my bowl of alfalfa sprouts, I met a guide who tried to help. He and I were looking at the bowl together. When my mind started to wander, he talked to me and brought my concentration back. I wondered if I was looking at what he really was and immediately I saw him instead as a pair of brilliant blue eyes.

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I meditated on my crown chakra, located at the very top of the head. I saw beautiful blue-violet light which seemed to open to a pathway of white. There were spirits extending their hands to help me enter. Once I went through there were three angels of beautiful rainbow-colored light who brought me upward to a treasure box filled with holy light.

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I was meditating on the light at the center of my tunnel when a spiritual guide stepped through and gave me Holy Communion. I recognized him from previous astral travel experiences. It was a holy and wonderful experience and I am very grateful.

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During an astral travel adventure of mine, I flew to a large brick wall. I could neither fly around nor over so I climbed it. When I got to the top, there was another "me" climbing up on the other side. When I saw her, I was too shocked to speak; but she managed to say "God bless you." I then found myself back in my physical body, but still quite startled.

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While meditating on my heart chakra, there was a sudden release of tension and I saw just the head of a very anguished man leave me.

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I was practicing astral travel to an object on a table. I chose a pine cone for this adventure. But instead of going to the table I was repeatedly drawn outside to a wooded area where pine trees grow.

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A friend reported that when she awoke one morning she saw another manifestation of herself quietly looking back.

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A relative projected to outer space where he remained still and was in awe of the beautiful lights and energy that surrounded him.

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After some preparation, I focused all my attention straight upward in a futile attempt to astral travel to outer space. After about twenty minutes of seeing no lights and experiencing no energies, I became very discouraged and pleaded for some return for all my effort. I was then blessed with two rectangular-shaped gifts of sunlight which I was able to embrace and take back down to the physical plane. They are still with me.

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I was meditating and chanting the AUM, when I was filled with beautiful colored shades of yellow with gold. After a while I tried to be filled with pink and then blue but I could not get the same brilliance. The message I received was to meditate more on pink for energy and love, and blue for the power to overcome and to accomplish.

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Sometimes I astral travel to the center of the Earth and experience overwhelming energies reminding me of a time when I was a very young child and remembered those same feelings.

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As I laid down, after very little preparation, I found myself flying over city landscapes. I saw women wearing long skirts, horse-drawn carriages, and some automobiles that appeared as they were in the beginning of the 20th century. I also saw the property where I grew up as it was long before I was born. The people were not ghost like; they appeared to be going about their normal daily activities. The flying was uncontrolled by me. It was a very invigorating and interesting trip which lasted maybe five minutes or so.

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I found myself in a dark cave-like place. I couldn't see anything except beautiful light glowing outside of the cave. I kept poking my head out to see the light and then withdrawing back into the cave. I was told that was how I am living my life. I should leave the cave and stay in the light.

Group B, the Difficult

The following experiences taught me a lot about the meaning of life. Let me warn you, they are depressing. It's why I try not to travel to other lifetimes anymore but sometimes my guides have other ideas.

I have read books that say to protect oneself in the white light when projecting. I find this works for a short time. When my attention starts to focus on the trip, the energies of the trip just take over. If I was always centered in a white mantel for protection, I would not have learned what I did. I believe even though some projections our guides bring us to appear to be extremely difficult, it's meant for us to face that part of life.

I believe these are lifetimes of mine. However, we are all so closely connected who really knows for sure. Some of these experiences I flew in, others I was just there.

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I was in a parking lot loading groceries into the trunk of my car in physical reality. I heard a robot-sounding voice say: "This is the time we agreed upon." I instinctively knew it was talking about my death. I argued back. After all, I did have three children to help raise. I then amazingly separated into two. There was the one standing by my car and the one further back close to the sound of the voice. A speeding car filled with teenage boys suddenly appeared and ran into the "me" standing by my car. I remember feeling no pain but a lot of pressure on my chest. The surviving "me" then saw the spirit of the other floating up into the sky. I was much shaken and went immediately home and laid down. I then heard my two daughters, like in a dream, discussing the last time they saw me alive.

I often wonder what happened to the “me” who floated away.

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I seriously considered not including the following experience, but I believe it's only fair to be honest. I warn you, reading it might change your mind about attempting astral travel.

Having prayed for quite a while for help to stay more focused on the spiritual side, especially the ascension, early one morning my prayers were answered but in a way I will always have problems accepting. I woke up to a projection that is the most powerful and chilling I have ever had. It's taken me quite a while to recover.

I projected to a future or parallel time and very closely gazed at my own rotting corpse.

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I saw simple buildings surrounding a large cathedral, all in the overpowering shadow of Beloved Master Jesus carrying his cross with the crown of thorns on his head. His shadow was immense, dark, and depressing to the people.

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It was evening time when I flew in. I saw many dead men lying in the street. They had no hats but were all wearing winter jackets. I moved into their future, saw many houses, and traveled down their then empty streets. It's strange that there were no women nor children, neither dead nor alive.

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I first floated onto a scene in the middle of a wooded area where there were many different hazy colors in the trees. Evidently I was not close enough to the physical and was drawn out. I flew in again and saw that the colors were from dead bodies of women and children hanging in the trees. Horrified I left. A third time I was drawn back but to a later time. I saw a man digging a grave for a young boy who wore brown woolen knickers. I was drawn into the consciousness of this man whose horrible emotional pain was unbearable. He was thinking with much intensity that he had to dig very deep to protect the corpse from animals. I believe my presence and my energies helped him for a short time, but I'm not sure. If I was of assistance, I hope others slipped in later. I do not know.

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I came upon a scene by the edge of the ocean. There was a young man slowly riding a horse with a group of people who were walking. He was wearing armor on the top half of his body. A huge wave came and he was taken. Because the armor was so heavy, he could not even swim. I slipped inside. I did not experience his actual drowning, but I think my presence helped him.

I stayed at the scene only up in the sky looking down. The wave had also taken some of the people who had been walking by the shore including a young girl. I picked up on what she was thinking. It had been her responsibility to care of a baby. She knew that the baby was dead and felt terrible because she believed it was her fault. She saw me, was drawn up to me, and gazed into my eyes. She was searching for some kind of guidance, but I had no idea what she saw or what to tell her. I felt I was not the one who should have been there. All I could mentally say to her was: “it's okay.”

As I was drawn out, I saw a much smaller group of people trudging away from the ocean. Their heads were down.

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Located on the side of a mountain, there was a huge stone castle which had many jagged edges of rock. I was part of a group of very intense people just outside. It seemed we were not worthy to enter the castle from the front. Because I was small and agile, I had been selected to deliver something of great importance to people waiting inside. I have no idea what it was. I climbed very high while hugging the castle the best I could to some kind of small opening in the rock.  I was petrified.

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I was a toddler who lived on the side of the road in the dirt because sometimes people in carriages would throw food my way. I ate bugs as well. There was a memory of being hurt by a large wheel. During this projection, I felt no physical pain but I believe I was again run over by a large wheel and this time I died.

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I saw myself as two beings--one of white light who shut a heavy, large metal door leaving the second "me" inside a dark room with monsters.

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I was a member of a close band of men who rode very fast on horses, killed many people, and destroyed much. We used fire and had been burnt myself. Many injuries were taken for granted. My clothing and my body were very dirty. Some nights I could not sleep when it was my turn to guard part of the perimeter around the campfire while others slept.

My projection also brought me to the time just after death. He was screaming into a void for a meaning to his life. I'm sure he saw me.

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From a very ancient time, I felt the emotion and heard a young man crying out for justice. He was part of a group of slaves and was severely whipped when any one of them did something wrong. Being young, healthy, and strong, he was able to survive the beatings whereas the guilty party might not. I can only imagine that guilt was being used by the owners for control.

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I was tiny and part of a small group of very fearful people huddled in a corner in the dark. The terror and then the memory of soft fur remain with me. Even in this lifetime, I see evil in cats.

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While preparing a meal in my kitchen, I suddenly thought of an easier and better way which I immediately used. I then felt the presence of two young military men. One said: “So are you now going to tell her what to do and she will just do it?” The other replied: “It's not like I'm going to tell her to commit suicide or something.”

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While watching television one night, during the commercials I was visualizing the sky filled with stars in preparation for an attempt to project. My guides, however, had a different plan. They did not want to wait and blessed me with the following projection.

There was a stone cathedral that looked very old. Before I floated inside, I viewed it from several different angles. After I entered, I saw a small group of monks standing two by two forming a short line. They were all very serious and depressed.

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At one time I was very determined to grow spiritually by doing two hours of deep meditation each day. One evening, after only one hour, I started to have thoughts like: “It won't hurt anything if I just skip one hour tonight.” “Why am I doing this anyway?” A very large, three-headed snake then appeared directly in front of me. I saw that one of its heads was mouthing the very words I was thinking.

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I dreamt I was third in a long line outside a cage full of hungry lions.  The first man in line was dragged by a guard into the cage.  While he was screaming and being mauled, an angel appeared and handed the man in front of me a gun with one bullet.  We all screamed “Kill the guard.”  And he did.

But our rejoicing didn't last but a few seconds when we saw the man in front of me, with his head held low, slowly walking on his own accord into the cage.  An angel appeared and handed me a gun with one bullet.  The man in the cage screamed at me to kill him.  But I knew he had walked into the cage himself.  I did not feel he was worthy of my one precious bullet.  The people at the back of the line screamed at me to kill a lion; but I knew that would not really help much because the cage was so full of the hungry beasts.  The woman behind me quietly told me to kill myself, but that was certainly not appealing.

I really wanted to shoot my precious bullet into the screaming horde of people, because the noise and the fear were overwhelming.  But instead I prayed and asked God for guidance.  I was told to simply put the gun down and walk away.

I believe the message of the dream was to not become too emotionally involved in the activities of life.

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I was drawn inside a young man standing in a field of dirt. His filthy and disheveled appearance was of one living in dire poverty. He was trampled by another man wearing armor and riding a horse. The victim had no resentment; his belief was that he was worth nothing. The man in armor, however, was some kind of knight and believed to have every right to do whatever he chose.

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I tried to fly over the trees, but could not. Drawn back to my tunnel, I found very little light, instead many brown clouds, the astral counterpart of depression and my feeling of being “out of sorts.”

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He was a military young man, heavy set, and physically and mentally very strong and powerful. Through astral travel I was drawn into his anguished but determined mind. It was a time from the distant past but for me seemed the present moment, the Colonial period in the American colonies. He was English and could only relate to the English point of view, which he considered to be an orderly and prosperous way of life. There was a young female child that he held in his mind for whom he wanted a better future. He could not understand the opposition and was wondering if he could actually kill or hurt any of them. He believed those opposed to the English were extremely confused and ignorant, but some were his family and very angry with him, including his very father.

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During an astral travel journey I came upon great stacks of human beings, still alive and moaning. I could see each stack had vast lifetimes and a single faint being of light who seemed to be growing with them. And I got just a glimpse of great light above. But there was such immense suffering. I begged to know why. Why such agony to reach the light? I was told in my head quite simply and without emotion that we are the beings who have chosen free will. Our lives thus reflect a constant choice between the light and the agony of darkness.

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I astral traveled to a previous life when I lived on a large island and was extremely powerful until one day the waves came and flushed us all out to sea. My last thoughts were not of fear but surprise that something so horrible could happen to a favored one like me.

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The following true story is pretty gross and shocking but also very interesting.

While slowly coming out of a deep meditation, my eyes came upon a cockroach running across the floor. I was drawn inside it for a couple of seconds. It felt a great urgency to get to the other side of the room, but at the same time it was petrified. It was very surprising to me that I could relate to its emotions. I came back with a start and very quickly got up and stepped on it.

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I was very small and laying on the ground.  I remember this large brown boot coming at me and kicking me.  There was not so much pain as pressure that lasted only a fraction of a second and I passed on.

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PART FOUR

Aura, Etheric and Halo Viewing

Seeing your own magnificent light will help you project because you will realize that a part of you is already outside of your physical body.  You will know you are a holy spirit and truly a child of God. It's very exciting, just a matter of waking up the Third Eye which (from my understanding) is located at the center of your forehead and extends to the very center of your head. This teaching originated with the Hindu religion and has been adopted by many others.

When following these instructions, you will have one foot in the third dimension (the physical) and one foot in the fourth dimension (the astral).  Keep in the back of your mind that on the astral plane, space is an illusion and intent is everything.

Beyond practicing the below-listed techniques, two other things you can do to help this skill along include doing the yoga headstand and paying close attention to colors here in the third dimension.

The best time to practice is just before you go to bed for the evening or when you lay down to take a nap, because later when your eyes are closed and you are relaxed enough to start to doze, you could see some other results of your efforts by spontaneous viewings of spheres of usually brilliant, vibrant rainbow colors or inner-world projections.

The instructions I am about to give you will bring a ringing sound which I have explained in previous sections of this book. When this sound gets very intense, some people mistakenly believe they have an inner ear infection. If you want the ringing noise to fade, stop listening for it and it will start to fade, but it is always with us.

Aura viewing can also bring other psychic gifts like the visions of angels and spontaneous very fast flashes of bright colors from higher dimensions including light from your own aura, the aura of a guide, protecting angel, or the light from someone praying for you or wishing you well.

You will not only be able to see your own aura in the mirror but will get spontaneous viewings of other people's auras when you're not even trying. At times, this could be very annoying because you might need instead to stay focused on everyday matters. When this happens, mentally say “no” and then blink your eyes and the view will go away. But the more you send these spontaneous viewings away, the less frequently they will occur.

Around your head you will see many different spheres within spheres of different colored light starting with the etheric, which I have explained in previously sections, your ghost, then the golden halo, which we all have, not just the saints. You will also see the aura which has many layers of amazingly beautiful light. There are also thought forms which consist of astral, etheric, and mental matter that we create and build ourselves or that we attract to us because of similar thoughts. It’s true what the old saying teaches:  “Like attracts like”. These thought forms have color, size, shape, and life.

When we view our light, we have one foot in the astral plane where time and space are illusions. So practice done on one day sometimes has an additional effect the next day or even the next week or month with spontaneous viewings.

The light of your aura, being very fluid, changes all the time by blending with other energies. When you are in a group of people, it blends with the individual auras of the members of the group. Music can be seen as a thought form moving through your aura. If you have just come from a very scary movie, if family or work problems have come up, if you are sick, these are all things that could create a negative color and energy.

Your most magnificent holy light is located around the top of your head. Located further down the body towards the middle to lower middle, you will find less brilliant light reflecting health issues and more mundane things but still very important to you. Towards the bottom, say from the knees downward is usually where the garbage is. And most of us have it. Otherwise, we wouldn't need to be here in this classroom called Earth. Down there, some of the things you might find could resemble black and red thunderbolts, snake-like images, and thought forms like the gargoyle statues from the Middle Ages.

Everything in our aura is either our own creation from this life, an alternate self, a past or future life, or energy we have attracted because it is similar to our own. These thought forms have the power to rise and stare into our eyes. And that is what they do when they are influencing us. To see them, like I have, is quite an awakening experience.

And in the above paragraph I deliberately mentioned "future life" because time is an illusion.

I've seen enough of my garbage that I don't even look any more. I just send light down there and pray for anything negative to be transmuted into the light of God. If you try to look for the negative, you'll find it and get depressed. Our mental institutions are full of people who have seen their own negativity and even talk to it and, guess what, it talks back. That's one of the reasons in times past this simple technique had been kept from most people. Think about it. This gift, if misused, could drive you insane.

Our light is recognized subconsciously by close friends and family all the time. They usually know how our presence feels to them. They can sometimes recognize depression and excitement even when we are trying to conceal it. Those close to us have auras that blend with our own very intimately in the fourth and higher dimensions.

You will never forget the first time you start to see your own magnificent light because you will then realize that you are a holy spirit and truly a child of God. It's very exciting. These lights will reveal themselves ever more and more deeply with practice. We all have the ability to see our own light if we apply ourselves.

As I have mentioned in previous sections of this book, the easiest light to see is that of the etheric body. Unless it is reflecting the colors of your aura, your golden halo, your hair, or your clothing, the etheric body is a white light extending about an inch or two on one side and fades in and out. Because of the contrast in color, it shows up more easily around those of us who have dark hair or skin against a white background; those who are bald or have white or blond hair with light-colored skin, against a dark background. But everyone has this light, our ghost.

In the movies and stories about people who die suddenly but try to stay involved with the Earth plane instead of going on to the light, they are in their etheric bodies. Those dramas are sometimes based on what can actually happen. The spirits who stay behind, usually automatically create a body in the image of how they view themselves. It is made from etheric matter which is very abundant. When this etheric light is separated from the physical, and if it is not molded into any particular image, it looks hazy and like the traditional white ghost image of Halloween. These ghost images are sometimes picked up around grave sites. However, when departed people instead go through their tunnel and embrace the light, they are then in their astral or mental bodies and their etheric light just fades away in time.

A problem is that this etheric light and the outline of our heads together can create an after image, more pronounced with dark-haired people. It's a good idea, while staring at an image when searching for light, to glance away periodically so you can separate the illusion from the real. These after images appear when the head moves, when you blink your eyes, and when you look at the aura directly. Proper aura viewing is done with peripheral vision. After images are very beautiful and look like halos of light, but eventually they float away.

When your eyes are focused on the astral plane, the atmosphere, the air itself, will look different. You will see small, rapid circular movement. The very air we breathe will appear to be full of life, and indeed it is.

One of the easiest colors to see is gold, because we all have a golden halo, not just the saints. This halo is a sphere of light encompassing and extending from our heads. It doesn't follow the outline of our entire physical body. But I'm not saying you don't have an inner sphere of golden light in addition to the halo, you might have. If your eyes are focusing on the gold, and you see gold everywhere, it's probably because you are looking out through your own halo. So you will not only be seeing lights reflected in the mirror, you will also be looking out through layers of colored lights.

One day, when I was viewing my aura in the mirror, I was amazed that my hair suddenly had a lot of golden highlights that I had never noticed before. But then I realized it was my halo that I was either looking at or through. You'll also see flashes of gold light under your chin, the front side of the bottom of your halo. If your skin suddenly appears more tan than usual, it's probably the halo you're starting to see.

The size of the aura is different for everybody. I have read that the aura of Gautama Buddha extended for several miles. I suspect people who have a strong charismatic personality have larger auras than other people.

Beyond the halo and the etheric light, there is an inner and outer aura. The outer is made of very fine light, very subtle; the inner aura light is more intense. Both contain different spheres of multi colored light and sometimes these spheres contain different colored bands.

Another common color to see that probably everyone has is blue gray, the color mostly associated with the astral plane. When Mother Mary appeared in Medjugorje, it was reported she came in a beautiful mist of blue-gray light.

Around your head, inside the inner aura area, you might find geometric shapes like pyramids and stars of brightly colored more intense light. Because I found they were difficult for me to see at first, I reported that in two of my classes and no one saw any. However in my third class, I forgot to tell them and almost everyone saw them. These are your highest thought forms, composed of astral and mental material.

Just like in the physical, you'll usually find what you're really looking for in your own and other people's auras. For instance, if you are a happy person, you will find beautiful light in yourself and others. If you are depressed or viewing someone who is depressed, you will find charcoal gray. Problems with anger or sex will show as bright red. Health problems will also be reflected as brown, gray, or even black patches. And you might be putting this light there or be helping to magnify it in others yourself. We all affect each other.

There are two things that really bother everybody: pointing fingers and staring. We all instinctively feel the intrusion when receiving this energy from others especially when there is anger. But on the other hand, we've all heard stories of people who can heal with their hands. This is because the light from our aura extends from our hands and eyes. The energy that we send out is very real and has a texture and a color.

As I reported earlier, aura viewing is done with peripheral vision. To view the aura, you will be sending out energy because you will be staring very intently. This light that you will be sending out can be seen in a mirror by looking straight ahead. It starts out as a small spiral of colored light; the longer and more intensely we stare, the larger it gets. It is the light in the center of our tunnel. So, of course, after a while, our own light going out blends with the aura that is being viewed even in a mirror. If the light you are sending gets too large and distracting, then you need to stop and take a short break.

To be able to identify this light going out and not get it confused with the aura you are viewing, simply turn your eyes to a blank space on the wall. You'll be amazed. Doing this has taught me the importance of my thoughts. One day, I was depressed when I was practicing. After staring at my aura for a little while, I looked at a blank space on the wall. I saw charcoal gray.

If your intent is to see your own light in the mirror, be sure to ask any guide or angel to kindly step aside. Otherwise, you could start to see their light as well, if they choose to reveal it to you.

And remember, the wall or ceiling you stare at is just there on the physical plane. On the fourth or even higher dimensions that you will be viewing, the wall might not be there. One day as I was reading a book, I received a spontaneous flash of light. What really amazed me is that the location of the light was behind the book. When I saw the light, I saw through the book.

Start by getting into a very tranquil state. Instead of relaxing by tensing each muscle group separately, save time and do them all at once. Pay special attention to your face muscles. Then roll your neck around slowly first in one direction and then the other. Move your shoulders up and down.

Next, get very comfortable and secure in your chair. Don't cross your legs or your ankles. Spread your legs a little. Your bottom should feel like the base of a pyramid. Like in astral projection, keep your back straight to help control your mind.

You'll be using muscles that probably haven't been used since you were a child. Even though they are small muscles, they can still cause a big strain. If you feel a headache or nausea coming on, take a break.

One of the sacred areas in our astral bodies is called the sun center located in the center of the forehead. When viewing your own aura in the mirror, or when viewing another person's aura, gaze at this sun center and then the aura will present itself through your peripheral vision extending outward from the physical body.

You'll be viewing spheres within spheres of different colored light. You might view one layer; then you blink and you're at a different layer with a different color. It's not an optical illusion. That's how vision on the astral plane works, very different from vision on the physical.

Pay attention to any flashes of bright color or geometric shapes when they first start to show themselves and remember where they are located. As you practice, they will appear more and more clearly. The more you study your own aura, the more it will open to you. Glimpses of vague curves seen in the beginning will take shape more clearly with vivid colors and a definite outline with practice.

At first, the golden light from your halo might make colors look muddy around your head. Don't think there's something wrong with you. These colors will clear to your vision in time.

I find that some deep breathing helps me stay energized but yet relaxed. I alternate this deep breathing with periods where I am so relaxed that I hardly breathe at all. I also find that aura viewing is much easier when turned into a spiritual meditation. I have seen the most clearly right after a short prayer. Something like: "Dear God, please reveal Thyself through my aura." Chanting the AUM is also very beneficial.

Twenty years or more ago there was a cartoon character named Mr. Magoo. He lost his glasses a lot and needed to squint and stare to see anything. He had the auric stare down real good. You want to get your eyes slightly out of focus, and then lower your eyelids so that everything but the point of your stare is out of focus. Experiment by moving your head back just a bit but not to the point where you are uncomfortable. When your vision enters the astral plane, you will know you are there because the atmosphere will have motion and life.

If you normally wear glasses or contact lenses, follow your inner guidance. Experiment and see if your auric vision is stronger with or without them.

As you view yourself in a mirror, try to keep your head still and don't let your eyes stray from the center of your forehead. These two things in the beginning can seem very difficult especially when you must relax at the same time, but by doing so, after images won't be too much of a problem.

A good way to start is by viewing the aura from a candle flame, because it is the easiest to see. Candle flame gazing helps to open the Third Eye. The Buddhists claim that if you gaze at a candle flame for four hours all of your anger will leave you. And many, me included, have found that flame gazing burns off other types of negativity as well. It is easy to understand why some ancient civilizations have worshiped fire. It is indeed sacred. It speaks to us of wisdom from beyond the physical and it easily reveals its aura to us.

As soon as you start to see the light extending from the candle flame just by looking at it, notice its height, intensity, texture and color. For a couple of minutes don't adjust your eyes in any way, just look at the flame.

Then practice the simple auric stare. First, just stare at the flame, not to the intensity that you see two flames, but adjust your stare to the point just before the flame separates into two. Practice this for a couple of minutes.

You will notice that the light from the flame gets a little bit shorter but more intense. You have penetrated a layer of the flame's aura. Next very slowly lower your eyelids but continue to stare. Slowly move your head backward just a little bit so that the only thing you see is the candle flame and its light.

The rays that extend from your eyeballs to the flame are an optical illusion. The horizontal bands of color are very real being the inner aura of the flame. Slowly straighten out your head and raise your eyelids. Do this several times and notice the difference in the auric light. Also notice, if you can, where your eyelashes might cause a distortion. The air should look to be alive.

Next, open your eyes, stop staring, and observe the light extending from the flame. It will appear different to you than when you first started. It will be more vibrant, the color more clear. It will look different because you have paid intense attention to it. And you have just exercised your Third Eye. This clarity will also happen with human aura gazing. The more you practice, the more you see sometimes without effort.

The meaning of the colors, to my understanding, are:  (1) white (the blending of pink, blue, and golden yellow):  purity and the power of innocence; (2) pink:  feminine, energy, and love; (3) blue: masculine and the power to accomplish and overcome; (4) golden yellow:  the offspring and wisdom; (5) green: good health and prosperity; (6) violet:  forgiveness and mercy; and (7) soft orange (the blending of pink and golden yellow): enlightenment.

You will never forget the first time you see your own beautiful, amazing light.

Thanks for reading.  I wish you the best of success. God bless us all.

Table of Contents

Copyright

Foreword

PART ONE

Definitions

Practical Use

Dweller on the Threshold

Basics

Different Bodies

Intent

Other Realities

Vivid Projection

High Spiritual Guides

Healthy Projection

Energy for OBE

Additional Projections

Air Quality

Yoga

Confidence Building

Destination

Natural Ability

Twirling

Positions

Rays of Light and Energy

Feeling Secure

Distractions

Your True Identity

Sphere of Light

Tunnels

Chanting

Heart Chakra

Astral Plane

Vibrations

Projecting Inward

Projecting Outward

Projecting Upward

Our True Identity

PART TWO

My Techniques

Two Methods to Project to Wooded Areas

The Third Eye

Two Ways to Contact Your Holy Guides

Lucid Dreaming

Projecting to a Body of Water

Contacting Other Life in Outer Space

Projecting to a Physical Object

Visits to the Deceased

The Block Method

The Ascension

PART THREE

My Experiences

Group A, Holy and Wonderful

Group B, the Difficult

PART FOUR

Aura, Etheric and Halo Viewing