ASTRO TRAVELLING..?

[Kenn]

I thought this forum would be a good place to get some answers.A friend of mine has been into meditation for awhile now,the other day we were smokin weed and he starts tellin me that he can ASTRO TRAVEL!. He told me he can actually leave his body and travel any where in the world . The things he told me sounded really cool but i dont know what to believe! Can my mate really do as he claims or is he a bit full of it?

Kenn Reviewed by Kenn on 07-27-2006. ASTRO TRAVELLING..? I thought this forum would be a good place to get some answers.A friend of mine has been into meditation for awhile now,the other day we were smokin weed and he starts tellin me that he can ASTRO TRAVEL!. He told me he can actually leave his body and travel any where in the world . The things he told me sounded really cool but i dont know what to believe! Can my mate really do as he claims or is he a bit full of it?:confused: Rating: 5

[WeedGremblin]

After you do enough drugs you realize anything is possible

[Binzhoubum]

Astral projection is a load of bullshit as far as I am concerned.

But I suppose anything is possible...

Unfortunately I am not omniscient so I have no way of making any statement with complete conviction. Not even this one. :smokin:

[Binzhoubum]

People will believe anything if they want to...

And if you believe in something enough it makes it true in your mind, which is about the only truth most people have.

So, your friend probably is able to do all of that traveling within his own frame of reference. :smokin:

[Inferius]

Think about this: Your world, your reality, is all in your mind. Your reality is perceived through your eyes, your senses, your perception. It does not matter what anyone else beleives, merely what YOU beleive. If you beleive you can fly, you can. It's just like the matrix.
The trick is acheiving the control. Bending your own reality. From meditation and hypnosis to drugs and deep thought, the tools are there. Don't try. Beleive. Don't TRY to beleive. See, beleif is so deep inside your mind, it's almost impossible to change in a normal sober setting. Try acid. It sort of allows you to jump over the little walls of beleif, or denial. Or remember that movie Office Space? He was put into deep hypnosis, and right at the moment of total relaxation, his hypnotiser keels over and dies. This changes his entire outlook on life. They say meditation alone, when done properly and enough over a lengthy period of time, may eventually lead to constant bliss. Think about it, if someone can be depressed, and the person next to them can think life is dandy, can't you have someone who always feels high? It's only relative.
People do acid or shrooms and awaken the next day with a profoundly altered perception. This perception was IMPOSSIBLE to conceive before the expirience. The same goes for taking drugs, when you heard about pot when you were little, did you really understand the word stoned? Did you really KNOW what the high felt like? NO. You had NO IDEA.
:smokin:

[Hamlet]

When I was a child through some source I grabbed on to the notion of 'astral projection'. I read every book I could find on it and practiced for hours. I was completely obsessed with learning how to do it. --the ultimate escape. I had a few odd experiences but my conclusions are that it really doesn't exist. If you think about it a little bit; if someone could astral project they would be the most powerful person on the face of the earth. You could be the ultimate gov. spy. You would have unlimited access to wealth. Unlimited access to private information. Unlimited access to Angelina Jolie's shower....lol

So if it was real someone would have perfected it. But no one, in a controled situation, can project to another room and do something as simple as read a message written on a piece of paper there. (Amazing Randi is waiting).

Someone could argue that you only have access to the 'spirit realm'. But I kinda figure that's just the dream realm. Seems we're thoroughly trapped inside our heads unfortunately.

[beachguy in thongs]

I thought this forum would be a good place to get some answers.A friend of mine has been into meditation for awhile now,the other day we were smokin weed and he starts tellin me that he can ASTRO TRAVEL!. He told me he can actually leave his body and travel any where in the world . The things he told me sounded really cool but i dont know what to believe! Can my mate really do as he claims or is he a bit full of it?

Here, if you'd like to do some research.

http://www.tfd.com/astral+projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is a controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences achieved either consciously or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of disassociatives and psychedelics, like DXM, LSD, Psilocybin or 5-MeO-DMT. Proponents of astral projection maintain that their consciousness or soul has transferred into an astral body (or "double"), which moves free of the physical body in a parallel world known as the astral plane.

[FunkyMonkey]

other opinions here:
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=70431

me:
sage_wisdom(at)hush.com


peace.

[SpiritLevel]

Astral Projection.. Ummm, Yeah. I've heard of that. I met a woman who channels energy to people to revitalise them. I told her of a few strange things that have happened to me that words have no meaning for. I left her presence thinking it was normal and she told me about a few things which happens to her and what they meant to her.

I tried to Astral Project once or twice after meeting her. I wanted to visit the thought plane and see if i could manipulate the sea-of-knowledge. I am not sure if i was asleep but i was fully consious of what I could see. I tried hard to focus but fear got the better of me. After what seemed like 2 or 3 hrs of trying to reach the perfect state, I re entered reality to find only 15 minutes had past and I felt as though I was standing on a mountain top inhaling the purest air which was energising my chakras with every breath.

Reaching the perfect state is not easy without practice, but it leaves a lasting impression once you think you have obtained it.

[ate]

The consciousness through which three-dimensional terrestrial earth human being exists of is not created solely through a corporeal body.

It's ignornant and considered wishful thinking by those more endowed, that it would be that simple.

People have been astral traveling, using telepathy, psychokinesis, and all other "higher faculties" of the mind, which are suppressed and ignored through solo-western thinking.

It's fairly easy to do so, as it's the nature of human-kind to act a like a human, which is a multi-dimensional being, and not only existing of one corporeal three-dimensional physical body.

If you deny the claims, then you are speaking for the person and thus what you would call in blind faith that you know their experience, while the person themselves is speaking from their grounded and personalized experience of reality. If you haven't experienced that or any form of that reality yet, it's because you simply don't want to. Period!