Have you ever had a situation when you had a feeling that your body is like an object and your head is a separate world? If so, you’re not alone.
The reality of the astral projection has attracted humanity throughout ages provoking a lot of discussions, investigations, as well as doubts.
Even though it might sound like something out of the alien movies, astral travel – the ability to realize the act of having a conscious looking into the universe by the “astral body” – still puzzles and neglects science.
Alright let’s dig into this topic, and explore the darker side of this dream like experience people go through.
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What Is Astral Projection?
Simply put, astral projection is the concept of travelling outside the physical body so that you may roam around in terms of spirit. This state is often called an out of body experience (OBE in short).
There are books about feeling your physical body, moving to different places or even to another dimension all together.
Despite the fact that everyone would think it is something that could only be found in a fairy tale or in space, there are millions of people who say that they have gone through astral projection.
Some do it consciously with the help of meditation, visualization or other things and some do it unconsciously. For others it happens randomly, it may happen while a person is sleeping, or near-death experiences.
The Science of Out of the Body Experiences
While astral projection often feels deeply spiritual, the scientific community has attempted to explain it through various cases:
Neurological Explanations
This paper shows that the brain’s temporoparietal joint is involved specifically in sensory information and spatial arrangement. Interference with the activity of the TPJ, that may occur during the seizure or an intense meditation, results in out-of-body experience.
Lucid Dreaming
Lucid ideas depend on the idea that astral projection may, in fact, be a type of lucid dream in which the dreamer becomes fully conscious of the dream state and interfaces with it.
Thus, people perform a number of actions in dreams, these experiences, which are usually highly detailed and often seemingly surrealist, bear some resemblance to astral travel accounts.
Sleep Paralysis
In sleep paralysis a body is conscious and fully aware while the body itself does not respond to anything. This state can result in hallucination or some people experiencing a feeling of floatation, which some of them regard as astral travelling.
DMT and the Pineal Gland
The physical body contains the so-called “third eye”, the pineal gland, which creates the DMT, the hallucinogenic substance. Some theorize that natural DMT release during deep meditation or near death experiences which might activate astral-like events.
Astral Projectors
Let’s take a look at some of the most striking stories ever shared by the people who claimed to have been astral traveling. Here are some of the most common experiences:
Meeting Other Beings
Some say they meet people along the way or even spirits, befriend them, or trick them into doing something.
Accessing Hidden Knowledge
Health practitioners claim that many clients reveal information about the cosmos, the self or the future.
Exploring Other Realms
Aside from the geographic setting, people also report travelling in dreams to some other place or space, some state of another dimension or a different level of reality.
Witnessing Remote Events
Some have named it remote viewing, and due to the claimed high accuracy of events they saw they are said to view events happening miles away.
How to Gain Astral Projection
For those curious about exploring astral projection, various techniques can help:
Meditation and Relaxation
Deep relaxation is key. When meditating, the best advice anyone could give you is to try and focus on your breath while at the same time making sure that your entire body and mind is relaxed yet awake.
Visualization
You are out of body or perhaps hovering above your body. Some see a rope they use to pull themselves up on.”
Affirmations
Some phrases such as, “I will leave my body” should be recited and perhaps can help to enter a state of astral projection.
Lucid Dreaming
Master falling asleep and becoming conscious while you are in the dream, which can help you to actually go astral.
What Science Can’t Explain
While neuroscience and psychology offer interesting insights, there remain aspects of astral projection that defy explanation:
Shared Experiences
Different people and even groups of people say that they have made astral travel at one and the same time while experiencing some events which are similar in their astral travel.
Profound Transformations
Most come out with knowledge transformation, enhanced ability to see, or even renewal; research indicates that there is, therefore, more to the story.
A Journey Worth Exploring?
The phenomenon of astral body travel is therefore situated right on a fine line between science and spirituality, and accidental evidence.
As the wave of questioning, demanding evidence, non-believers are still billions out there searching for this seemingly hidden practice and finding new ways of looking at the world, ourselves, and the universe.
Whether you view astral projection as a profound spiritual journey or a curious quirk of the mind, one thing is clear: it encourages us to think about how and where we exist.
So, are you ready to start your new adventure into the never known? Maybe, the solutions for the questions you have are as close as you can get, it is just across the journey.
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