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There are two facts about Astral Projection of which I am certain:
1. It is real, and possible to "do" on purpose, and
2. I am not good at it!
I can still hear my mother insist that I only bought the Denning & Phillips book because of the naked woman on the cover. I've been obsessed with it for most of my life. There is really a limited amount of literature beyond which it becomes redundant. Besides the Aurum Solis (Denning & Phillips) stuff, there is Carrington & Muldoon, Ophiel, and the set of authors who turned it into a bookshelf genre. Apart from reading, I made plenty of effort at their techniques, and nothing stuck even though they all had interesting features as techniques and explanatory models. I've read 6th & 7th degree AMORC monographs on the subject, and their techniques all appear to have these same sources.
I worked at most of these with friends, attempting to convey information or receive it, but no spectacular results. What finally "worked" was a car accident. Instead of experiencing the accident, I saw the entire thing as if from several feet away. I had a head injury, could not remember basic facts about myself, and eventually recovered. The OBE was genuine, not imaginary or dreamy but real-life. Obviously I didn't want to get another head injury, but the knowledge that the OBE was real and possible was very motivational.
I was introduced to what was described as the A.:A.: method, from Libri XI and DLV, and was later to understand that this is perhaps a nonstandard reading of the text. In this method, you sit and imagine the expansion of spatial awareness and then re-centering that in some other nearby area. After much effort, I found myself across the room, also with that peculiar sense of reality, then falling backwards as if I was attached to a silly putty string. I was not asleep, and I was not awake, it was something else. But there was no control, really, and nothing to be done, and it was a hard-won experience. I tried again, nothing, I could not regain the same type of focus. I was discouraged.
I remain discouraged. I have attempted similar things through other techniques, attempting to see into other places, but this Astral Projection to me has always been one of the higher-tier occult powers. And to be clear, I am not talking about "other planes" but using more or less ordinary waking awareness to ferret out facts in places the ordinary sensory organs cannot. It is clear to me that this kind of experience is possible, and I hypothesize that it could be "used" and directed and not merely experienced as a dream or as the result of injuries.
For what it's worth, long ago the father of a friend of mine was associated with some people who he claimed were credible and capable. They ended up being the Aurum Solis.
1. It is real, and possible to "do" on purpose, and
2. I am not good at it!
I can still hear my mother insist that I only bought the Denning & Phillips book because of the naked woman on the cover. I've been obsessed with it for most of my life. There is really a limited amount of literature beyond which it becomes redundant. Besides the Aurum Solis (Denning & Phillips) stuff, there is Carrington & Muldoon, Ophiel, and the set of authors who turned it into a bookshelf genre. Apart from reading, I made plenty of effort at their techniques, and nothing stuck even though they all had interesting features as techniques and explanatory models. I've read 6th & 7th degree AMORC monographs on the subject, and their techniques all appear to have these same sources.
I worked at most of these with friends, attempting to convey information or receive it, but no spectacular results. What finally "worked" was a car accident. Instead of experiencing the accident, I saw the entire thing as if from several feet away. I had a head injury, could not remember basic facts about myself, and eventually recovered. The OBE was genuine, not imaginary or dreamy but real-life. Obviously I didn't want to get another head injury, but the knowledge that the OBE was real and possible was very motivational.
I was introduced to what was described as the A.:A.: method, from Libri XI and DLV, and was later to understand that this is perhaps a nonstandard reading of the text. In this method, you sit and imagine the expansion of spatial awareness and then re-centering that in some other nearby area. After much effort, I found myself across the room, also with that peculiar sense of reality, then falling backwards as if I was attached to a silly putty string. I was not asleep, and I was not awake, it was something else. But there was no control, really, and nothing to be done, and it was a hard-won experience. I tried again, nothing, I could not regain the same type of focus. I was discouraged.
I remain discouraged. I have attempted similar things through other techniques, attempting to see into other places, but this Astral Projection to me has always been one of the higher-tier occult powers. And to be clear, I am not talking about "other planes" but using more or less ordinary waking awareness to ferret out facts in places the ordinary sensory organs cannot. It is clear to me that this kind of experience is possible, and I hypothesize that it could be "used" and directed and not merely experienced as a dream or as the result of injuries.
For what it's worth, long ago the father of a friend of mine was associated with some people who he claimed were credible and capable. They ended up being the Aurum Solis.
