Astral projecting refers to the projection of your true inner self or your astral body into the higher ethereal astral planes. Thus in other words, astral projecting involves attaining a deep trance state and moving out of your own body into other realms of consciousness.

The art of astral projecting is all about separating your spiritual inner self from your physical body and making the former advent to an experience of a life time. This experience which only a few handful people are lucky enough to enjoy, is one which changes the person forever. He attains a much higher level of spiritual awareness with an improved and developed perspective towards aspects such as life, death, reality or relationships.

The history of astral projecting can be traced back to the ancient times and across all ancient civilization, religions and cultures. It was believed in and practiced by spiritual travelers from Egypt to China and finds mention in the ancient Hindu Upanishads to the comparatively modern bible.

If we start from Egypt, one of the oldest civilizations of the world, astral projecting can be seen to be a concept formed around their belief in ‘ka’ or the immortal soul within man. They believed ‘ka’ to be an energy body, the immortal and omnipotent soul inside the boundaries of the physical body which had the ability to be free and to travel outside it. The proof lies in the fact that the ancient Egyptians preserved their bodies after death so that they can travel to the next world along the ‘ka’.

If one studies ancient scripts of a spiritually advanced religion of Hinduism, it can be seen to contain numerous writings about how astral projecting can be attained and the experiences thereof. A religion with its core belief lying in the immortality and omnipotence of the soul, it is all about how one can gain control over his subconscious mind through meditation so as to be able to do whatever and travel wherever his mind desires in separation to the earthly physical body.

In ancient Chinese philosophies, astral projecting finds place within all the alchemic practices thereof. Essentially it involves breathing techniques for drawing in energy in a small pearl which is thereafter circulated to form the required energy body for astral traveling from that of the physical body of the individual.

The topic of astral projecting in the light of the western philosophies, starting from the classical philosophies through the renaissance thoughts till the more modern theosophical beliefs consists of the concept of astral body as being the link between the soul and the physical body, the astral plane being the platform between Earth and heaven. In the bible also, astral projecting finds its mention where the popular belief is that the physical body and the astral body is linked with an illuminated silver energy cord similar to that of the umbilical cord. So when a person leaves his physical body and ventures out, he is still connected to it providing a sense of security.

Since the existence of astral projecting since time immemorial and across almost all ancient cultures has been proved, it may be said that astral projecting is an ability that is present in each and every individual. Making meditation a part of life with developed spiritual awareness about oneself, the sub conscious mind and one’s true potential, the one in a lifetime experience of astral projecting can be experienced.

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