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From Unconscious to Conscious Projection
The astral body is capable of a very special type of travel. While leaving the physical body at rest, it can get up, walk around, and look back at its physical body, explore its immediate surroundings, and then journey to new places. What makes this experience really amazing is that you are fully conscious and in control throughout the experience.
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This process of consciously leaving the body and traveling free of physical constraints is often referred to as astral projection or astral travel. Although many people use the terms interchangeably, experts distinguish astral projection as an awareness of separating the conscious mind from the physical body. With astral travel, an individual uses this conscious awareness to experience a sense of flying to new, nonphysical realms, as well as physical ones.
How the conscious mind disconnects from its everyday type of mental consciousness and separates from the body remains a mystery. It is difficult to prove what really happens during astral travel and, one way or the other, it doesn't really matter. Since astral travel is no easy task to master, whatever works for an individual who can make it happen is just fine, regardless of the process or what you call it. Indeed, experts say that naming or analyzing the process may only interfere with the process itself.

 
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