Astral Projection Meditation

Astral projection, or astral travel, is when the conscious mind leaves the physical body and has experiences in the astral body or subtle body. This experience is different from dreaming because you are in control of your actions and fully conscious during the experience. The subtle body and the physical body remain attached to one another during astral projection, and many people have described a silver cord tethering the two bodies together, much like an umbilical chord. The subtle body is having experiences in what many people believe to be the spirit realm during astral travel. Some people experience astral travel while falling asleep at night and are able to experience the astral plane with little effort. Others must put in some effort to achieve the same results.

It is necessary to be fully relaxed before attempting to leave the physical body. Lying in bed under a comfortable blanket is ideal and if you must wear clothing, make sure it is comfortable and loose. Drinking a tea of mugwort 30 minutes prior to projection can really help to ease you into the experience. Placing an amethyst crystal near your body will also help facilitate your astral journey.

To begin, focus your mind on your breathing. Become aware of the rise and fall of your breath. Your aim should be to reach the hypnotic (hypnogogic) state just prior to sleeping. As you are nearing the sleep state focus one of your big toes until you can picture it perfectly. Then begin to flex it in your mind, but not physically. Continue doing this until it seems as though your toe is actually flexing. Next mentally flex your foot, then your leg, slowly working your way up your body until you can move all parts with your mind alone. Your physical body, of course, is lying still and not moving. Next you can begin to move your body around the room you are lying in. From this point you can begin to lift off or hover off the ground. This is the point in which many people can look at their physical body across the room. It may take a lot of practice to get to this point. Many people begin to fear they will not be able to return to their body and the fear jolts them back into the physical self. Remember that the soul body or subtle body is connected to the physical body by a silver cord. Eliminating fear is key to astral projection.


Once you master leaving your body and moving around the room you are in, you may want to exit through a window and begin to travel outside. Some people travel to other countries and as far as other worlds while out of body. There are no limits to your adventuring once outside the physical body.


The below video is a tool to help bring you to the proper state for your astral travel. After using the tips above to prepare for your journey use headphones to listen to this video and begin your experience.

Ancient Lotion

Wild Roses. Source.

This article at Higher Perspective came across my Facebook feed.  This lotion recipe looks interesting, it's something I want to try eventually.   

I love lotions.  It seems sometimes that I am on a never ending search to find the best lotion for me.  Recently, I've decided to start making my own.  I just made my first batch, though a different recipe.  I'll be trying this recipe soon.

Higher Perspective claims this recipe is over 2000 years old.  If it is . . . well, that's pretty neat.  The recipe follows.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 8 tablespoons of grated beeswax
• 200 ml of almond oil
• About a half cup of rosewater
• 2 small, cleaned, and sanitized jars

Instructions:

1. On low heat, melt the beeswax and honey into the oil in a small sauce pan.  Once melted, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
2. Pour the rosewater into a small jug and add on drop at a time, whisking well as you add.
3. When the cream is fully saturated with the rosewater, it will begin to bead and not stir in.  At that point stop and allow the cream to cool.
4. Finally, pour the mixture in your jars and leave to cool completely before adding the lids.  The cream will lighten as it cools.

River Wishes

Finley River. Ozark, MO.

Take a piece of paper (8.5x11 is fine), preferably paper that is easily biodegradable, with no harmful chemicals added.

Write down your wishes, your dreams, your hopes, things about yourself or your life that you want to change or work on.  Write down your prayers to the gods.

Meditate on what you wrote, the feelings behind it, what you are going to do to pursue these dreams or goals.

When you are clear and calm, and feel that you can go no deeper in your meditation, fold the paper into a little origami boat.

Origami boat tutorial:

Next take your boat to a river or stream.  Place the boat in the river and recite the following*:

This small boat carries my dreams to the sea.
River spirits - kind, beautiful, and strange -
Guide this craft that carries pieces of me
And guide my transmogrifying sea-change.
I'm letting go, the past has no more hold,
My dreams, my wishes, I will now pursue:
Where once I feared change, I will now be bold;
Where once I did lie, I will now be true.
Little boat, as the river makes your way,
I work to shape reality from dream.
Water spirits, sprites, nymphs, and gods, please sway
The magics of rain, river, sea and stream
To facilitate the change in my life
I need to make to live without much strife.

Release your boat in the water, watch as it travels downstream.  Imagine it joining with the next river, and the next, and ultimately with the sea.  See yourself, as you watch your boat, working towards your dreams, working to change yourself to be the person you want to be.  Imagine doing it.  Watch as your boat drifts farther and farther away, and see yourself changing in your mind.  

Say a last farewell to your boat, thank the river spirits, gods, nymphs, sprites, and such.  Get up, and get to work.  The change must come from within you, and all the magic in the world won't help if you don't start pursuing your goals.  Magic doesn't take the place of doing the work, it just makes it easier.  

*Actually, you can recite any small chant you think will help to focus your energies and magic, cementing your path to change within your mind.  I just wanted to write a sonnet.

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