She understood she was no longer a girl that did things; she had become a girl that things happened to. For the next few months, Cassie kept to herself in case someone could smell it somehow, or see it moving. She wore big winter sweaters into April. When other kids headed outside for softball or Frisbee, Cassie stayed in a corner of the cafeteria, pretending not to see or hear.
The rumors that buzzed around her were like living things and they stung. Why would you want to leave your body? Then what? Suppose there are all sorts of really cool things up there? Cassie pulled her fists into the sleeves of her sweater. And you understand. She was staring back at a group of girls who sat bunched together like wads of gum. Gail was tiny, but there was something about her that made other people smaller.
The girls looked away. It was summer and I could hear music coming from an open window and I realized that the pace of my steps was the same as the beat of the music, and the lady sang a high note that was so beautiful and my heart floated up high in my body I was suspended off the ground. Gail rolled her eyes. Cassie went back to reading. The connection between the two forms—the physical body and the astral body—is a golden cord.
And according to Mrs. Beatrice Warsaw, if it were not for that, for that connection with all that is loved, I would not return from weightlessness. All that is loved. At one end of it she drew a lit match, at the other, a bomb, like in Road Runner cartoons. In early May her mother told the school that Cassie had mononucleosis and promised she would finish the rest of her schoolwork on her own.
Adela came home with a neat stack of worksheets. Her father stopped at every Sunoco station claiming to need to smoke, pee, or stretch his legs, so the whole trip took nearly twice as long. Aunt Liz and Uncle Harold had one son: Carl, long-legged, like his dad, a senior, meant to graduate high school in June.
There had been a girl, Laura, but she died from leukemia when she was ten, so there was that. That cannot be gotten over. More often, though, it was. Cassie and Adela were huddled together at a window, sun blasting a white stripe across their table. Cassie stared at the meter maid outside on the sidewalk, who was biting a hangnail that Cassie could tell was already bleeding. Women smiled at Cassie wherever she went.
At Kmart, at the post office, when she was getting her bangs trimmed at Prime Cuts. She hated them all. But some day you might not even remember this time so much.
Girls get through this and go on to have perfectly ordinary lives. Not like heaven, not glow-y or anything. There are things that tie us together.
Love can bind people together. Cassie rolled her eyes and stroked her belly in big, exaggerated circles. Adela swept a few rainbow sprinkles off the tabletop into her palm. Dream body, she read, was you, but only part of you, the part that was pure. A golden light permeated everything; everything seemed alive, glowing and pulsating.
I was filled with wonder. People lifted easily— floating out of the body, and re-entering it is rather like swimming —and looked down at their own selves, aware that they were two places at once. Cassie knew why. But the night outside was loud: crickets in the hedge pulsed sharply, then hushed.
She went to the window. The yard was lit by a full moon. The family dog stood alert, eyes trained on the rusted swing set that sat in a corner of the yard. It can also be consciously practiced to become aware of other levels of consciousness. There are an infinite number of realities, planes and realms in the astral dimension.
Since Astral Projection is a naturally occurring phenomenon while asleep, remember to work on losing your fear of the unknown. Never attempt Astral Projection while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Start the experience with positive and wholesome thoughts about yourself, your kith and kin and your imminent experience.
Before astral travel, always visualise a protective circle around yourself. Imagine a white light around you. Visualise two large white hands come down and gently clean your aura from head to toe, removing all negativity, embrace and enjoy the all over clean feeling this gives. Use meditation music without drum beats. Clear your head of random thoughts.
Focus on your breathing—in through your nose, out through your mouth. Visualise yourself breathing in tranquility and breathing out disharmony. A world where astral travel is a commonly accepted spiritual practice , if not a scholarly accepted scientific one. Could lucid dreaming and astral projection really be as simple as counting your fingers before bedtime? I intend to find out—no matter how many fingers I have to count, Marvel movies I have to watch, waking hours I have to spend lying down, teas I have to drink, experts I have to badger with emails, or astral planes I have to traverse.
And, I guess, because the idea of exerting some control over my circumstances during a time when circumstances are so often out of my control sounds pretty damn appealing.
Both astral projection and lucid dreaming are ancient concepts that have points of credibility throughout history.
Some of the effects of lucid dreaming are actually backed up by science ; and even as stodgy an entity as the U. Army repeatedly deployed intelligence officers to study astral projection at the Monroe Institute throughout the s, as revealed by declassified CIA documents.
Though the practices are often linked in theory, their differences—both in approach and application—are vast. In fact, it is the practice of putting your body to bed while your mind stays awake. Once outside of the human body, that astral form can travel wherever it wants to in the universe. You do the reality checks, you count the fingers, you focus and stay calm while lucid dreaming, you think of a door, walk through it, and then boom: Your soul is free to travel anywhere you can imagine on the astral plane.
Astral travel may not have the practical appeal of teleporting, the obvious health benefits of yoga, or the edge of witchcraft And why would anyone want to astral travel so badly?
The most righteous reason is because the spiritual community sees astral projection as a sort of radical self-care. In the astral realm, adherents say, you can heal grief through encounters with loved ones who have passed on, or embrace the physical manifestations of your past traumas, or gain insights into illnesses and relationships that you can then bring with you back into this reality. The slightly less righteous reason—the one that most on-screen depictions are banking on—is that astral travel is pure escape.
You can do anything you want in the astral realm without the fear of getting arrested or making everybody mad at you. Fistfight with the Rock? You can do that there. Look like Dermot Mulroney? You can do that there! Look like Dylan McDermott? You can also do that there! You can do that there, but be cool about it —ethics still exist in the astral realm. Eventually I attended a workshop with Jade and she shared with the new astral projectors among us why someone would choose to dedicate their life to teaching others astral projection.
Now you can train your brain in the comfort of your own home. This powerful hypnosis program for astral projection is safe and easy to use, and will help you harness the power of astral travel in no time. Listen to the induction track, and if you fall asleep, that's okay. This program will work for you if you are awake or asleep.
This audiobook was very helpful for me, but it took some time for me to figure out the right conditions to attempt astral projection. I think this is because I fall asleep too quickly for the hypnotization to work properly. I finally got it to work when I decided to try it in the middle of the day in my empty house. I laid down on my back as if I were going to take a nap, and I placed a smooth amethyst stone on my forehead, at the location of the third eye.
I made sure the volume was loud enough for me to hear and understand the words, but not so loud that it could jolt me out of the between-sleep state. By the end of the guided meditation, my body went into a state of sleep paralysis I noticed this happened another time when I was attempting past life regression.
Instead of allowing the sleep paralysis to freak me out, I tried to embrace it as I realized this may be indicative of slipping into the astral plane. At one point I felt my legs raising, but my physical body had not moved an inch. But now that I know what to expect, I plan to try it again soon. A note on the sleep paralysis: after I got up, I looked up connections between sleep paralysis and astral projection.
I found a wealth of information about this, and it appears that many others have experienced similar events. If this happens to you, try not to let it scare you, but instead encourage you that you are on the right track. How hard is it to leave copyright info at the start of an audio book? This lady woke me right back up with her abrupt loud voice. Do Better!
It even says it will send you to sleep. Direct, insightful imagery and depth. I listen often. The meditation was great overall, I felt really relaxed. But there was a couple of points during the meditation when the speaker would pause for a little while which would allow me to drift off. Then when he spoke, after the long pause, he would suddenly speak which would cause me to jump. I Iisten at least once a day I'm retired so i can.. It's funny when he announces "You've now reached?
I can't understand his pronunciation of the word he uses. It wakes me up momentarily but I mean for 2 seconds. Astral projection has not gone anywhere yet, but I know it's possible because I've experienced it.
I'll just keep trying. Ok… this was incredible. I listened to this and felt deeply relaxed, but I could sort of hear my baby moving around in bed so I ended up getting up. The only complaint I have with this is immediately following the soft, calming music after the dialogue is an unexpected and startling bit about copyright and whatnot.
It would have been WAY better to put that at the beginning. I wish I could set this thing to just turn off before it gets to that point. Well done, like the use of spirit AND Astral bodies, was successful right off, amazing.
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