Came across this interesting article today. I've always thought that moving into the astral state was a form a meditation. You utilize the
same techniques of relaxation and breathing to get to a semi or higher level of consciousness. Here is part of what Baker notes in her article:
"To be fully honest, my experience in the meditation was that once I felt
my spirit body leave my physical body, I felt it shoot all the way out
into the astral plane within seconds. The problem was, I could hear Nuur
still guiding me through the meditation, describing my soul body as
"floating inches above my physical body," when in fact I was already
feeling completely weightless, out of my body, all the way out in the
astral plane. But frankly, that didn't last long. The total experience
lasted an hour, and I'd say about 50 of those minutes were of me coming
in and out of it, as my thoughts kept bothering me about whether or not I
was moving too fast for the meditation. As Nuur took me through each
level of the astral plane, I'd felt like I didn't care, and that I
wanted to get to the upper layers, which I felt I'd already been drawn
to in the beginning. In the moments when I was really able to be
present, what I visualized was a scene similar to driving through New
York on an EXTREMELY foggy night, with beams of light passing me by,
seemingly out of nowhere. Or, if you ever opened your eyes underwater,
it was a lot like that."
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I Tried Astral Projection & Experienced A Higher Level Of Deep Meditation
