Stumbled upon this article that’s kinda neat. It’s an interview with an astral projection teacher. A great read for anyone who’s new to out of body experiences (OBEs) and astral projecting.
From silver cords to flying dreams, this article covers quite some ground.
If any of you have ever astral projected, had an OBE, or are thinking about doing this, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Drop a comment below and throw in your 2 cents.
Astral Projection: You Can Do It Too
Everyone can have an out-of-body experience, says expert Jerry Gross — in fact, you probably have. In this interview, Gross explains OBEs, what happens and how to begin your adventure>
When noted out-of-body teacher and practitioner Jerry Gross wants to travel long distances, he doesn’t bother with the time and expense of catching a plane. He just uses a different kind of plane, and travels there astrally — unless, of course, he is teaching one of his many classes and workshops on astral projection, also known as OBE or out-of-body experience.
According to Gross, the ability to leave the body has been with him since childhood. Yet, rather than regarding this as a special gift, he believes that this is an inherent ability that can be developed by anyone. In the following article, Gross discusses the out-of-body experience with freelance writer and former workshop participant Sandy Jones.
Jones: What is astral projection? How would you describe it?
Gross: Astral projection is the ability to leave your body. Everyone leaves their body at night, but before they do leave, they have to put the physical mind to sleep. Most people don’t remember this, but when the physical mind is asleep, the subconscious takes over, and this is usually when you do your astral projection. In other words, everybody does it, but they just don’t remember doing it.
Jones: What is your earliest recollection of doing this? What was it like?
Gross: I can remember doing this clear back to when I was about four years old. I never lost the ability to astral project, and kept it throughout my whole life now. Everyone is born with this ability. If you think back, you can probably recall having dreams of being somewhere, but as you got older, you lost the ability. What I’m trying to teach is that you can do this at will.
Jones: In those days, astral projection was almost unheard of. Did you ever tell anyone about it? How did they react?
Gross: It was strange for me because at that age, I thought everybody did it. I used to talk about it, until it kind of got out of hand, and when I started getting into trouble with it, I went to my grandmother, who could do it too. She told me not everyone could do it, so it would be best not to talk about it, and to come to here if I wanted to talk about it. So throughout all my life, most of my experiences with astral projection were kept a secret, except for her.
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Wow that’s very interesting. I personally can’t remember any out of body experiences, in fact, it sounds kinda scary (leaving your body???)… Don’t get me wrong, I believe it but I’m not sure I’d really want to if I knew I had the ability.
I think for now if I want to go somewhere I’ll just wait til’ I wake up and drive there
On a serious note, I have had a few occurrences where my “mind” would wake up a little earlier than my body, and I’m not sure if it’s the same type of feeling, but I didn’t like it…
My real question is, if someone has an out of body experience and astral projects themselves somewhere, since it is their subconscious mind doing it, would it really seem like you went anywhere, or when you wake up would it just feel like you dreamed it? Whenever I have a dream it seems kinda real, though wacky and nonsensical at the same time… and when I wake up, nothing makes sense and nothing seems real.
Is that what it’s like when astral projection goes on?
Wow, I am so glad that I came across this article. Before I begin, I am sure I am not the first person to say this, but the link “click here to read more” doesn’t work. Can you please email me the correct link?
I don’t know if what I am experiencing is the same as astral projection, but it feels like it might be. Let me explain what happens: On certain nights just as I am getting ready for bed, I get this ‘feeling’ that ‘it’s’ going to happen. By ‘it’ I mean leaving my body. It started roughly about 6 years ago when I was in my mid 20’s. Back then it would only happen every couple of months and then it started to happen more frequently. Basically what happens is the following: before I fall asleep I feel a jolt go through my body and I feel like I am going in and out of my body really fast – I fight it most of the time because it scares the hell out of me. However, if I am in a good space, I will let go and just go with it. Well, two nights ago I completely left my body and went into outer space – it happened really fast and I was really out there (It sounds crazy, I know). This happened once before, but I was in complete control, the second I felt as though I was too far I asked my soul to return to my body and that is what happened. I have gone to Dr’s about this, but I am convinced that this something that medicine doesn’t know very much about. I have been trying to figure out why this is happening – I am asking for guidance. At this point I am just trusting that it’s happening for a reason. I am just waiting to for the bigger picture to reveal itself to me.
I don’t know if this makes sense – it sounds crazy, but it’s all true.
It would be really great if you could send me the correct link – I’d like to read more about this.
Love and Light to all,
Javier
Hi Javier, thanks for pointing that out. I’ve updated the post with the working link.
I can remember an experience very similar to Javier. I was suddenly aware of myself “outside” my body and I knew it. It frightened me so much I immediately went “back into” my sleeping body. I awoke of course and was sure that I was dying. Now that I know it’s “normal” I’m going to try and go with with it if it happens again. Thanks Javier. I thought I was the only one there for awhile
For Javier…its not crazy, and yes, you should trust in your ability to go back into your body as needed. this is natural for many people. We just haven’t had the opportunity to discuss it often. There are names for different experiences…lucid dreaming, remote viewing, astral projection are just a few. It is best to journal as many of these experiences as you have had. You may learn quite a bit from doing so. This is not the realm of most doctors, although having had a near death myself, my doctor at the time was fascinated. Interest doesn’t mean knowledge. Enjoy your journeys, whether you shoot out into the universe quickly, bounce off walls or trees or travel in time. Research if you desire, but trust in the experience. Blessings, Victoria
I do this all the time. It is one of the best ways to gather information. I have found that id I focus on a particular situation prior to going into a meditative state then I typically meet up with someone in another dimension that has the answers I’m looking for. I’ve had this ability since I was 4 years old and I was afraid at first too. However, as of late it has really aided me in problem solving.
the link does work . just scroll down a bit to continue where you left off
OBE,I’ve had some.None quite memorable as the first one I had when I was in my 20s.I had seen the movie Superman at the theater.The movie was great(Christopher Reeves)and all day I kept thinking about him being able to fly.It was just so astonashing and real.But,everytime I get on a ride,I get that weird feeling in my stomach and it frieghtens me.That same night when I went to sleep,I was laying on my back and the next thing I remember I was flying.I was soaring through the country next to an expressway.I was up high and I could see streets crossing over the expressway on bridges.Some how I went lower and started flying low and when I would get close to the next bridge,I would fly up to avoid colliding with the bridge.I know I was flying.
Because I was flying towards a bridge that higher than the rest and I had to fly up high to avoid it.I did it but when I came down on the other side,it was a steep drop.It scared me,I felt that frieghtening feeling in my stomach and it scared me awake.I was sitting up in bed,all wet from sweat,heart pounding and body shaking.But the memory of really flying is still so vivid in my mind,I cannot and will not forget it.Was to real for me and the excitement and the adrenaline was so great,I don’t ever want to forget it.I still have some OBE,none as great as the first one.
I was 15 and wanted to hitchhike to the state fair with my friends. My family found out and dissallowed it. I went to bed early that night and went to the fair astrally! I tried to ride on the rides, but because I was floating and had no mass, there was none of the exciting effects. The centifigal force ride where the floor falls out from under you, I just floated and watched everyone else spin in the cylinder. The rollercoaster would fall the downside of the track leaving me floating in the air just watching it go away from me. It was nice I was able to get my wish to go and its a great memory; the amusement rides are just better experienced in person.
I love to fly. Since I was a child I remember learning to fly in the field in front of our house. I was asleep of couse. I remember starting to float, still in my nitie. It was the coolest thing ever. I have had several flights over the years. Never knowing were I’m going, but loving the feeling. Sometimes I’m standing up right buzzing all over, sometimes I’m horazonal like supperman. Sometimes its dark outside other times I’m way around the world and it’s day time. Some of the the most beautiful colors I’ve experienced. The only sad part is, sometimes it’s a long time between and I can’were I go.
Sandra C
I thought this was a great article. I like the way Jerry Gross shows you easy ways to get a first result. Thanks.
I would like to get this book.
Has anyone ever had these experiences?
When I was younger say around 4, I would sit underneath my covers keep my eyes open and think of things so much that I would see them float across the sky. I could make anything I thought of appear but I couldn’t make it stay in one spot, it would always float across my site until I blinked.
I also remember being in preschool and trying to stare this little boy down so much like I was trying to get into his physical body.
Also, I had a dream not to long ago that I was right above my body trying to get back in and when I did re-emerge with my body I saw millions of different color lights everywhere and I couldn’t move at all. It was all very strange and I was hoping I could connect with someone that might of had something similar happen to them so they could help me explain why this happened.
Thank you.
I have experienced astral travel a number of years ago but have not been able to to it now. I would like to be able to do it again.
It has always interested me and I very would like to actual learn how to do it. Thank you for sharing this article/
Astral projection has always been a passion of mine and I would very much like to learn how to do it.
Read the book ” Creative Dreaming ” years ago . It tells how a native tribe teaches it’s children to defeat thier dream enemies. It’s like a writ of passage to adulthood for them.
Basically , the process is simply to know you will dream at night, and then become aware that it’s “only a dream” while you’re in it !! Now YOU“RE in control , and can choose to fly away if you like.
It is very exhilerating to fly in dreams, and normal to wake up sweaty, or with a pounding heart, as here you are flying, and you start to slowly wake up befor landing.
Astral projection has always been a passion of mine and I would really like to learn how to do it.
I have had many vivid dreams in which I was flying, or was elevated above the level of other people, but I can only recall one incident in which I astrally projected while I was awake. I was in the dim basement of a church with a Bible study group. The conversation wasn’t very interesting to me, so I looked away and I saw Jesus with some Pharisees nearby. The carpeting changed to a pavement of worn old stones, and I recognized an underground place that I had seen when I had toured Jerusalem several years before. Jesus had a conversation with the people near him, and I knew that the time of the crucifixion was approaching. When I looked back at the people in my Bible Study group, the projected scene disappeared.
I had an obe once that i can recall.
I was useing a relaxing tape from a mega memory set. Like all tapes of this nature the relaxing technique is to visualize yourself in a calm and quite place and relaxing different parts of you body . I was almost to the end of the tape when I felt that was about 5 feet above my body. I was prone just like my body and upon recognizing where I was — the fear came to quit and slammed my back into my body. I have not had a another obe that I can recall. I do remember feeling very refreshed and relaxed after the incident.
. I learned about astral and soul travel when I started eckankar years ago. Astral travel is contained to the astral plane while soul travel is beyond the astral plane.Susan.
Myself and two friends were driving back to the US through the mountains in Mexico and I hadn’t had any sleep for two days. My two friends were both too ill to drive and we learned the hard way that you don’t just pull off the road in Mexico to get a nap. We had been robbed at gunpoint before, and had a deadline to make. As I was going up the side of the mountain, I got sleepier and sleepier. Once we got to the top, that’s when thi9ngs started to happen.….I noticed that I was rising up through the top of the van and was driving from a position about twenty feet above the ground. It looked to me like I was driving an old fashioned toy truck that had a steering wheel on top of a battery pack and this silver cable leading down to the van. I drove like that for twenty minutes or so all the way down that mountain one hairpin turn after another. Then I got jerked back into my body and my buddy was shaking me with one hand and steering with his other. He said that my snoring had woken him up.
omg lol i pity your friend, he must’ve been terrified! lmao =)) great experience though!
About 2 years ago — I was sitting in my car waiting for my son’s class to end. I had always wanted to try meditation — so I decided to relax and breathe deeply…tried to clear my mind and.…a few minutes later I felt like I was rising above the car.…it scared me because I thought “what if I can’t go back?” Anyways my fears ended when instantly I returned to my body. I’ve been so interested in what might have happened and would like to do it again if it’s safe! I can’t wait!
Hello Alissa,
I read about one of your experiences as a little girl. And I think it is normal for some kids, maybe not all kids. And I have had similar feelings and experiences. I have been having outer body experiences since around 3 yrs old. And not knowing what was happening wasn’t normal at that age. Later my parents brought me to Docs. who didn’t have answers. I learned to hide it over the years.
I am so happy to find a place were people are talking!!!!
Sometimes when I sit in my lazy boy chair and I’m exhausted I can go to sleep at a snap. A couple of times when I did wake up I could not move. I had to tell my body to completely wake up muscle by muscle. The third & fourth time it happened I forced myself to fall asleep again and when I woke up again I was OK–I could move instantly.. I felt very relaxed like I had sleep for 8 hours. What happened while I was asleep sadly I don’t remember.
Was that astral projection with no adventure?
Sometimes when I sit in my lazy boy chair and I’m exhausted I can go to sleep at a snap. A couple of times when I did wake up I could not move. I had to tell my body to completely wake up muscle by muscle. The third & fourth time it happened I forced myself to fall asleep again and when I woke up again I was OK–I could move instantly.. I felt very relaxed like I had sleep for 8 hours. What happened while I was asleep sadly I don’t remember.
I first studied astral projection when I was in the service forty some years ago. Along with astral projection I studied self hypnosis. I had great success with the self hypnosis and pretty good success with the astral projection.
The one thing that I found that hindered my first attempts to astral project was my subconcious belief that this was not possible. My beliefs, based on social, religous, and peer learning told me that I was a physical being on a spiritual journey. This belief bound me to my physical body. In order to achieve an OBE it was necessary for me to change my belief system and instill on my subconcious that I was a spiritual being inside of a physical form. Living on two planes seperate and apart from each other and yet acting as one.
Once I could seperate these two parts on a ssubconcious level it became much easier to achieve astral projection. The method I used was to induce a self hypnotic state and once that was achieved I would invision my spiritual self extending beyond my feet and hands as if it were trying to seperate from the physical form. This took several trys until I was able to seperate the spiritual self from the physical self. I believe that the key to success is the belief that you truly exist on two planes and that the spiritual self can exist independent of the physical self.
I think I’ve had Out of body experience too, but I wasn’t very sure because it was very wird. it’s like I was laying down, opened my eyes, but cannot say anything, or moving any part of my body… but I’ll try to do it the way you said. ^_^
I think that this book is an important thing for me
I’m interested to hear more from people about this shaking phenomenon. I’ve had an experience from time to time over the years in which I energetically (not physically) shake. Up until my reading of these astral projection blogs on finerminds.com, I never connected the two as being possibly related.
It started when I was a child. Sometimes it gets so violent that I become extremely nauseated and the only thing to stop it is to put my feet on solid ground. Even if I open my eyes or sometimes move my physical body while laying down, the shaking will continue.
Recently, as I began some energy work training — Reiki and Matrix Eenergetics — the shaking has sometimes occurred if I lay down for a session or meditation. I’ve tried to stay with it, paying attention to the details of the experience. Still, if I let it go too long, the nausea begins. I stick with it as long as I can but before i’ve ever had an OBE or any other interesting experience, I must get myself out of it before I vomit.
I’m going to try to induce this today and then do the rope technique to see if this will help. In the mean time, I would love to hear from anyone who also has experience with the shaking so much that they have to stop the process, and what, if anything, they’ve done to move through this.
Thanks for these posts!
I have these *experiences* too often for my taste, and I always wake up ehausted, depleted of energy and terrified. Does anyone know how to stop it? I am tired all the time from these * experiences* and would greatly love for them to stop. And weirdly enough its most often I am flying as fast as those military planes, and wake up as if Id run a marathon, my whole body paralyzed. Sometimes I just float about the house like a helium balloon. I havent ever met anyone who has had this happen and its been recuring since I was 20, which is 6 years ago. I’ve stopped asking for advice because my friends and family think its not normal… so hope someone has a helping hint or something.
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