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Astral projection Astral projection (or astral travel ) is an interpretation of out-of-body experiences ( experiences (OBEs OBEs)) achieved either awake or via lucid dreaming, dreaming, deep meditation meditation,, or use of psychotropics !roponents of astral pro"ection maintain psychotropics that their consciousness consciousness or or soul soul has has transferred into an astral body (or body (or #double#), which moves en tandem with the physical body in a parallel a parallel world known as the astral plane plane
$he concept of %stral pro"ection has been around for thousands of years, dating back to ancient &hina &hina 't is currently often associated with the ew the ew %ge %ge movement
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Schools of thought $here are two general schools of thought on the nature of astral pro"ection6 these can broadly be defined d efined as the mystical model and the phasing model, saurabh edit edit**
Mystical model
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$he mystical model includes a large variety of belief systems and astral maps, but they are tied together by their belief that astral pro"ection takes place outside of the actual physical body % more subtle energy body is believed to carry the consciousness outside of the physical body, and as one progresses to more advanc ed levels of the astral plane, more subtle bodies are reali=ed and consciousness is transferred in turn to each of them (Other mystical models assume only one subtle body) $he subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of an energetic connection which usually takes the appearance of a silver cord >plugging> into the chakras like an umbilical cord edit*
Phasing model $he phasing model, which was defined by 0obert onroe, contains the belief that it is impossible to actually leave the body in the truest sense of the word, and that the astral planes and the physical world are merely points on the long spectrum of consciousness 9hen a person pro"ects, they actually #phase# into another area of consciousness and the locales it contains $his can be likened to tuning a radio to another station $his viewpoint can be seen as a logical progression of the philosophy that ex ternal reality is actually an internally created state (see !ostmodernism, Buddhism) edit*
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Astral projection $he traveller finds him- or herself in an apparently real domain, analogous to the #other worlds# experienced by traditional peoples, which have no parallel to any physical setting or to consensus reality, described by ew %gers and occultists as the astral plane or the astral Environments here may range from populated to un-populated, artificial to natural to completely abstract environments and from beautific to horrific ere, normal physical laws often do not apply and humans can often, for example, float or fly Cuality of physical detail ranges from crude and un-detailed and depressing to bright, vivid and fascinating as detailed, among other writers, by 0obert Bruce in his Astral Dynamics $ravellers may travel from one realm to the other !ro"ectors may find access to visions of the past or future and to the %kashic records accessible from here 't>s been said that space and time don>t exist on the astral plane nor the higher planes - but no explanation is given as to how forms and entire environments can exist without spatial dimensions, nor why there can be a seDuence of events and yet no such thing as time any travellers have theori=ed that people having dreams actually travel to the astral realms, unaware, and, again as reported in Astral Dynamics, travelers have reported seeing dreamers enact
dream scenarios on the astral plane, unaware of the more extensive and varied non physical environment surrounding them edit*
Real time projection 'n contrast to #astral# pro"ection, the traditional understanding of out-of-body experiences involves the pro"ector (or traveller) moving about in (usually invisible) ghost-like form in a world resembling mundane physical reality $his world may, however, have minor differences between the physical reality world we know and travelers may encounter nonhuman astral entities !ractitioners sometimes refer to this practice as 0eal $ime !ro"ection (0$!) and the mundane world as the 0eal $ime one @rom the 0eal $ime one, travellers can access #the astral# edit*
%irtual reality projection !art astral pro"ection and part real time pro"ection, called 2irtual 0eality !ro"ection by most, is when a pro"ector claims to move on the physical plane and interact with the astral plane at the same time %n example of this is the pro"ector walking into a #real# poster or picture and being transported to a perfect reconstruction of this placeFworld, via the concentrated experiences and thoughts of every beholder of the concept of the picture edit*
Research 0obert onroe, founder of the onroe 'nstitute, published several accoun ts of his experiences of astral pro"ection, including Far Journeys onroe developed a method he calls emisync to induce mental states that are favorable for pro"ection emisync is a synchroni=ation of the brainwaves of both of the brains> hemispheres or lobes $his is said to work by altering brain waves using sounds, together with meditative instruction, listened to on headphones $he process is based on a concept referred to as binaural beats %n exhaustive reference, which includes techniDues and types of out-of-body experiences and related phenomena, is the +,.GGH page Projectiology by Ar 9aldo 2ieira, A, which has over +,IG8 bibliographic entries from sources in +J languages on the topic edit*
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