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Someone recently asked me if I could share what I have learnt from my astral projection practise, what knowledge I have brought back. Wow that really is an excellent question as sometimes we get so involved in actually doing it, trying different techniques, sharing our successes and failures that we lose track of all the wonderful insights, and yes even mind-blowing knowledge we come back with.
I should say here that things I am going to discuss are based on my own experiences, many people would not even consider it knowledge but nonsense. However, what I am going to talk about are the things that at this moment in my life I feel to be true.
The first thing I would like to talk about is that I have learnt that we are never alone, when we are born, when we die, in our most desperate moments we are never alone. Years and years ago before having out-of-body experiences, when I was a lot younger I used to think that we were alone, but I see now this is just an illusion, we feel separate as we see our physical body has an outline, a form, but we generally cannot see how our energy expands beyond our physical body and even mingles with that of others. We cannot see the waves of invisible communication that happens over space and time, we can however, feel it. The intuitions we feel, those dreams that make us sit up and listen, feelings, strange synchronicities all lead to that part of us that knows all is not as it seems in the physical.
So how did my experiences in the astral contribute to the idea that we are never alone. For example, I met my Dad in the astral just after he died, I think he had always been a little afraid of dying, after all, who isn’t? I joked with him saying something like, ‘there you see it wasn’t so bad was it?’ He agreed and said his sister was there to meet him. Other people I know have seen angels at the moment of their passing. There is a thought to remember here though if you expect to be alone then maybe that will be your experience, even though there are always guides available, if you expect to be alone maybe they will have to respect your wishes, at least at first.
There are people, including unfortunately children, who die believing so much that they are alone that this becomes their reality; people who have had a traumatic life or experience sometimes get stuck in it as it has become embedded so much in their psyche. When they die they end up reliving over and over again the same emotions, the same desperate feelings, it could be anger, shame, guilt, despair, fear, or a combination. It’s as if they build a wall around them that is difficult to break down. However, these people are never alone there are always spiritual helpers trying to reach them, trying to take the wall down brick by brick. Many times I have been part of the team of helpers trying to reach these people, I sometimes get called upon while out-of-body to help out. I am incarnated on the Earth, I have a physical body and in the astral that is recognisable as a particular type of vibration, a particular type of energy. The person who needs help may even be frightened of the higher beings as they don’t recognise the energy whereas someone like me who carries the Earth vibration may be more easily accepted and therefore it is possible communicate with them.
Even if we feel we are alone we are not, inner work will take down the blocks and open up a world which is full of support. In the astral I have met many guides, I have had different ones depending on what I am working on. Some just pop in, others stay for longer, and some pop up every now and again. I have had humorous ones and very serious ones, there is one who I love to meet he has the symbolic appearance of a man like Gandalf from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ we have known each other for thousands of years, it feels so good to meet him, he knows me so well. I do not believe that the influence of these guides starts and finishes in the astral, that would not make sense as the physical is not separate from the astral, it is all connected. However where you might get a visible form in front of you in the astral in the physical their help comes in the form of intuitions, overheard conversations that stick in your mind, books, songs etc so we have to listen carefully. Also in the astral they don’t always put in an appearance, in fact they do tend to take a back seat and let you get on with it, but if you call for help they will come, one way or another. Some people call this guides ‘invisible helpers’ which is a great name for them.
We are also in communication with other lives and can draw on the skills learnt in other lives, even heal other lives; it is possible that people who astral project naturally or people that find it easy to learn have learnt it in another life. I have had a strong connection with another life, this life had been a difficult one and needed healing, it’s a long story, basically I heard his call for help and went into action, in helping him I was also helping myself as we are part of the same whole. How can we be alone when we have all our other lives to call upon if need be? Who knows even some guides may be another version of us, and we are simply helping our selves as much as we can.
However, the fact is that sometimes human beings feel alone, in order to feel less alone we do have to make the effort to get in touch with that part of ourselves which makes communication possible, I believe this is the heart. So often in astral projection people talk about opening the the 6th chakra (the 3rd eye) the heart chakra often takes a back seat but in my opinion it is a very important chakra to develop.
“Heart intuition or intelligence brings the freedom and power to accomplish what the mind, even with all the disciplines or affirmations in the world, cannot do if it’s out of sync with the heart.” – The HeartMath Solution, 1999, Childre and Martin
I have learnt a lot about the heart through astral projection and I’ll talk about that next time.
We do forget who we are when we incarnate on Earth and that was all part of the plan, but we weren’t left here alone without the tools to communicate with the beyond and with our invisible helpers. We need to stop looking externally for answers for the answers lie within.
Thanks for being here with me today!
Ali. x
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