Dangers of Astral Projection (Out-Of-Body-Experiences, OOBE)

As it doesn't affect anyone but the.one trying to travel......how safe do... YOU.. feel trying this activity...

I would say it's about faith and belief....

I dont believe the silver chord can be severed during astral travel. Thats just my personal belief. The only time it is severed is when its time to leave the earthly plane.
And yes i do think astral projecton can be dangerous!

And yes i do think astral projecton can be dangerous!

I wonder if you could say a bit about why?

I say it can be dangerous because we can encounter negative entities while in the astral. Some do you no harm, some curiously watch you with a look of malevolence and some are quite intent on doing you harm!

I have read that no physical harm can come to you when in the astral. In my experience that is rubbish! While i experienced torture on the astral level , having screamed myself awake , i found myself zapped on the bed suffering from real physical pain in the same area of my body.

It's a very interesting question. In replying, let me say that I am not good at frequently "astral"-projecting at will. So I don't write as a personal expert. But I write also on what my own teachers, whom I very much respect and believe, would say. So it's a mix of them and of my personal opinion.

Yes, I've encountered fear and problems on the astral plane. I'm still here and alive. It's an important point that we are out of our bodies every night: being unconscious in the body is by definition to be "projecting". We do it at least once every 24 hours, so we can deduce from that, there is no danger. One can encounter scarey things, but IME we always without fail come back.

The crystal or silver chord, now... That is literally the connection, sent to our "four lower bodies" i.e. physical body, emotional or astral, mental and memory bodies, from our own personal God Presence, which is one with the One God. God the One isn't going to let anything snip that chord, surely? The One is omnipotent.

Projection out of the body involves a number of other topics not related to the thread question, but which always have to be kept in mind. What is the motive for wanting to be out of the body consciously? (Usually it's just human fascination and an ego trip.) So motives and purpose always have to be looked at on this topic. Of course, then it begins to happen spontaneously, which is another matter. But often (not always) the motive is a flawed one, not to do with the only thing that's really important in life which is spiritual progress.

I'd end the post by saying that the astral plane is the plane or level of human emotion. Given the kind of emotions humans give out at this point in world history, minute by minute, the astral plane is no wondrous place, but - though it has different levels, lower to higher - it is basically a sewer. Who wants to be in a sewer of human emotional dung?

We have higher bodies than the astral we can also project in (including nightly, in sleep) and the astral simply goes along attached to them. Immediately higher than the astral is the "mental body" (using the terms of Theosophy, but known elsewhere by many other terms). Being in that, we are free of human effluvia, but actually, though all appears wonderful around us, it's still illusion and unreal. There's a "higher mental body" on the next level or plane up. All these bodies coexist aligned with the physical when we are conscious (they are aligned with your physical as you read this): they are where our memories, thoughts, and feelings really take place. In the higher mental body we are at last seeing, experiencing, and being conscious in genuine, non-illusory, worlds beyond the physical. It's where you can genuinely contact and commune with Masters, Archangels, etc.

So my point here is: I'd advise forgetting "astral" projection altogether. Attune with vehicles of ourselves above it. The astral plane is, IMHO, as said, a sewer of illusion. We need to just go immediately through it within moments when we fall asleep each night. The key to doing that is: we go each night to where our attention lies, and to where deep within we really want to go. So it involves character-building too.

V

P.S.

Building on to my post above, I'd add, then, that OOBEs are not all "astral" projection. Lower than the astral in terms of vibration or proximity to the physical, some people find themselves, and have written whole books, about often finding themselves OOB in the etheric double, which is just the finer or pranic aspect of the physical body. Thus, while OOB they are "earthbound" and cannot experience anything but seeing this physical world, and earthbound etheric spirits.

(I suspect, basically am convinced, that the etheric double is what gets a quick rush of energy during power naps. So being OOB for just 5-15 minutes can renew us in the body for many more hours.)

And then, as indicated, IMHO the goal to aim for is OOBEs higher than the astral. Our astral body is just the form within which our human emotions take place. We have much better vehicles to travel in that that, and much better places to end up in!

V

I agree with Venetian in that you have to seriously ask yourself why you want to get involved with this sort of thing. Sure, it's a fascinating subject, but what do you expect to get from it?

A friend of mine, when he was teenager, was studying a martial art and his teacher (recklessly in my opinion) mentored him in some advanced practices. From then on, and on a very regular basis, he was very disturbed by out of body experiences. I was talking to him recently and although it's 25 years since he received that training he still has to make an effort to prevent it happening, and he would like it to stop.

It might be interesting to travel in an astral body, but for most of us exploring what good we can do whilst in our physical bodies would be a lot more rewarding (in my opinion :)).

All I know is what I have read in some books written by a buddist monk (T. Lobsang Rampa) in the 1970s about his experinces growing up in Tibet and being educated to do all kinds of things such as astral travel and opening of the third eye. He said when he was learning to do astral travel he only did it while supervised by his teacher because it is dangerous. Although the cord cannot be broken people can have trouble 'getting back' into their body, or get lost somewhere as there is a lot that can frighten or confuse you. Indeed even he got surrounded by something and couldn't find his way out, it was his teacher calling his name that saved him.

From my personal I've had one out of body experience and it was everything I hoped and heard that it would be. I think it only lasted a couple of minutes because I remember going to look at myself in the mirror that was in my bedroom and that was when i must have freaked slightly and woke up in a snap of a second feeling very excited that I just had the trip of a life time.

I would do it again anytime because its not worth being to worried about unfriendly spirits and such like. When people say that they had a near death experience or obe one thing they say is that they never felt happier and light with emotional baggage, i can fully understand why they say that because it was unlike anything i've felt before, it was pure happiness.

I've heard about people saying that the sliver cord can be broken but I really dont think it could be by anyone except God and he wouldn't do that because I just don't think he's that way inclined so dont worry yourself about that at all

If I could do it every night when sleeping that i would jump at it because it my mind its a lot more interesting then being stuck with gravity 24/7

All I know is what I have read in some books written by a buddist monk (T. Lobsang Rampa) in the 1970s

You do know he was just a Western guy born and living in Birmingham?

Yes, he did come out with a story to explain that but still ... I never believed his books TBH.

V