How to Astral Project

I often get asked by friends, or on forums, how I Astral project. It is an experience which really needs to be felt to be understood. 
Of my non-witchy friends, It fascinates me how many people laugh and joke it off, which is fine - it is a pretty wacky subject for those who aren't used to the idea to get their head around, but then they wont even try! They think it's too silly to even bother doing. Either that or they are too scared... and then I think - but you don't believe in it so why would you be scared?


I always try to encourage others to have a go - everybody can do it and seeing is believing, as they say!
I'm quite lucky because it's never been too much of an effort for me to project. I think this has a lot to do with me being quite a calm person, I can meditate easily for this reason too.
I used to experience it as a child but I didn't know what it was. It was only when we got the internet and a computer in the house that I really delved into the subject and understood what it was.

If I'm honest, I haven't as yet consciously Astral Travelled for any reasons other than exploring the realms and having fun!
Now, this isn't a bad thing per se...there is nothing wrong with getting used to this 'new world' by testing out how things work, who's out there, who you can communicate to and just getting the general feeling of being without your physical body. I mean, I could spend the entire time just flying around in mid air, it feels so fantastic. But in truth, it's a waste. There are high vibrational energy beings for you to meet and to help you in your spiritual journey. You can meet spirit guides, angels, power animals. You can work spells and plant 'law of attraction' seeds and wait for them to grow out from the astral world and your physical one.


The reason I've kept it 'just for fun' is because unfortunately, even though I find it easy to 'get out', my time actually exploring is very short. After a while I either get too excited or something makes me scared and I fall back into my body. This is something I'm really going focus on changing from now on because I don't want to waste such good opportunities.


So basically, when you do this have fun by all means but don't forget the higher purpose of the whole experience.

Here's my How To guide but please read on afterwards for extra tips and advice. This is how it works for me, everybody is different and once you've got the basics you can relax a little more and try out different techniques.

• What you have do to, is lay down flat on your back, it's best to do it in bed, no covers on top ( at least at first, until you are used to doing it, you could use a very light sheet if you need to feel more secure) but make sure you're not cold, you need to feel cosy and be able to fall asleep. 

• Take a really good look at your ceiling, study every little detail for a few minutes, the colour, the texture - your going to need this image later on.

• Keep your eyes closed from now on and your arms and legs straight down. 

• A lot of people say not to do it at your usual bed time but for me, I find it easier to because my body is already part way relaxed, it's not too much of a strain to get your body to fall asleep.

*the key it to keep you mind conscious while just your body falls asleep*

•  Lay like that for a while and just relax, if your not quite sleepy enough, have a day dream about your day or visualise something nice, like sitting on the beach or in a beautiful woodland until you feel zoned out enough. 

• When you start to feel like you're relaxed, clear you mind as much as you can, it helps to focus on your breathing which should be slow and heavy, don't let yourself think of anything other than breathing. Do that for as long as it takes to feel totally relaxed.

• By this point, you should be really sleepy, but try not to fall asleep!! You can now start the process of coming out of your body. Don't get frustrated by how long it can take. I can sometimes be out within minutes, other times it takes hours.

• Imagine yourself floating up towards your ceiling, really picture it, find the image you stored in your memory a litle while ago. Visualise yourself slowly floating up, seeing the ceiling getting a tiny bit closer to your face every minute. Imagine how light you feel! floaty and made of energy. Just 'pretend' for a while, pretend your all ghosty and as light as air as you very slowly float upwards.

• Make that how process last for as long as it takes for you to feel fuzzy sensations in your body. This could take a long time or a short time, just *dont give up!!* 

• Everyone experiences something different at this point, the main ones I feel are buzzy feelings, vibrations or slow turning that gradually get into a spinning sensation. If you carry on visualising yourself getting closer to the ceiling you will soon feel those tingling sensations in your body strengthen and become really noticeable. 

• Then you will either feel like you are shooting upwards (or downwards, either is fine) very fast. You may hear clicking and popping noises and maybe even see colours around you. Sometimes I can hear scary noises, like scary cats screeching or malicious laughing - you have to do what you can to *Stay calm* because once you start to get too scared or excited, you will find yourself back to square one.

• When you are having the 'zooming' sensation and the tingling sensation, you don't usually have to do anything else - you're being taken up and out of your body and soon you will awake in the astral realm

• When I'm in the zooming part, I repeat a protection chant - this particular one is something I learnt on an online Astral Projection course that used to be free many years ago and it has always been successful when I have used it. You should learn this - or another of your choosing - off by heart so that you can repeat if from memory when you're in the astral to repel negative being or energies. If you google 'Bellilin Chant' you should be able to find some sound clips on youtube so that you can hear how it should be said.

Bellilin, Bellilin, Bellilin! 

Amphora of Salvation 

I would like to be next to you 

Materialism has no strength next to me! 

Bellilin, Bellilin, Bellilin! 

And that's it!! Hopefully that will have gotten you out....

A few extra tips:

1.   If you ever want to return to your body, for whatever reason, whether you've encountered a negative being or your scared or you've had enough... just repeat "I am back in my body, I am back in my body, I am back in my body" over and over until you are. This is sort of an emergency landing and it's not too pleasant because everything happens very fast, and most often than not you will experience sleep paralysis at the other end (where you are aware that your back in your body, but you cant move your body or open your eyes or speak) It'll only last a few moments though so just *stay calm*.
2.   Sometimes, when I am in the getting out part of astral projection, the bit there you are imagining yourself floating towards the ceiling I physically move my eyes to they are crossed *never open your physical eyes though* just go cross eyed, as if you were looking towards your 3rd eye. I find it helps! *Practise now, just to see how it feels - close your eyes right now and cross your eyes gently, bringing them up to look at your third eye in the middle of your forehead, do that for a moment and see what it feels like, for me its like I can automatically feel my astral body, so its easier for me to separate it from my physical body*

3. No matter what, always think positive when you are out in the astral! always always. You have to remember that what ever you think will happen out there. That's how you move from place to place, you have to think "I am now outside the house" and you will be so if you think "what if a scary monster appears!? bah! im scared!" then most of the time......one will!! so if ever your worried or scared, repeat your protective chant and imagine yourself surrounded by positive white light.

I have encountered many negative entities in the Astral and it's not a pleasant experience so make sure you're prepared with protection chants and that you asked for protection before you begin.

I really recommend reading 'Astral Dynamics' by Robert Bruce... I can't express how helpful it has been to me when I was learning but also helps when you've become a bit more advanced. I've read loads of other astral projection books and haven't yet found anything as in depth as this one.

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/robert+bruce/astral+dynamics/6863308/

The Witching Hour (and Faerie help!)

12am is the traditional ‘witching hour’  when ghosts, demons and spirits take over our streets, haunt our houses and nibble on our toes as we sleep!

Of course, I don’t believe that it's as fairytale-esque as our imaginations would let us believe.

You can see it now, ghosts and monsters off all shapes and sizes, lined up outside a door, the florescent lit waiting room filled with bored ghouls flicking through magazines and hobgoblins slumped on the floor staring off into the distance. Suddenly, a muffled tanoy announcment crackles through the hall:

‘krrsssk "Door to earth opening in 1 minute, please collect all your belongings. Be reminded that we close at 4am and will not open until 12am the following night. Have a nice night.” krssssk’

Everybody starts standing up, patting down their clothes and polishing their teeth as one by one they dissapear through a portal now visible through the open door, popping out in the streets and bedrooms of our world.

.......At least, hope that's not the case!

Jokes aside, for me there is a very definite ‘thinning of the veil’ feeling around 2am, peeking at 3 and then tailing off by 4am. A really perfect time to practise witchcraft and related subjects!

I often have spiritual experiances around this time, so there must be something going on!

I guess that once, The Witching Hour did begin at 12am as the tradition tells. I suspect that ‘the other side’ were able to filter through a lot easier without all the modern vibrational chaos that we create with electricity and such. As a society we also went to bed a lot earlier, the streets were quieter earlier, our minds switched off earlier... we were not as stimulated with the computer games,  tv and sugary drinks that we have today.  Our bodies and minds were able to atune to energies without so much effort. 

So in turn, people often got the heeby jeebies earlier on at night!

I certainly feel a greater psyhic awareness a few hours after midnight; I regularly experience clairvoyant happenings around this time, hearing as if somebody was talking directly into my head. I even once had a mild channelling of what I think was my grandad (whom I’ve never met) ... that unnerved me greatly and isn't something I’d like to repeat until I understand it a little better, but again, happening all around 3am.

Awareness of my Astral body is quite prominant too, I can feel the energy of it, like static, attached to me but made of a completely different material.

They also say that 3am is a common time for people to die (if they are meant to, of course - don't start freaking out if you wake up then!)

I was with my lovely Nan when she passed away in hospital, the time was 3am when she suddenly woke up after spending days sleeping, she said her loving goodbyes and then passed at 3.30am.

It was a comfort to actually feel the air change in the room, it was thick with a fuzzing energy, like somebody has just opened a door for her, let in some ‘other worldly breeze’ and she went straight on through, closing the door behind her. I felt certain at that point, that we do go on, that there is another world and it doesn't all end with this one.

On a magic working level, it's a great time to add extra focus and energy to a spell when you have a touch of doubt on it's ability to succeed. Everything feels that much more powerful and connected.

Also attempting Astral Projection at this time works well for me.

(I actually want to go into astral projection and how to do it in a future post, it’s a skill that I believe everybody should master and is essential to understanding our true forms away from our earthly bodies)

It’s as if there is a shift during The Witching Hour(s), and everything merges ever so slightly together,  making the vibration of this word more closely matched to the vibration of the other world.

So, my fellow Witches - take advantages of the raised power and set your alarm tonight, even if you don't work a spell, purely cast a circle and meditate in there for 30 minutes and see if you can see the difference too. It's also great to get you more in tune with the surrounding energies if you've not done anything witchy for a while, or you've just moved house.

Now, I quickly just want to talk about the Faeries! I was hoping somebody could impart their wisdom to me concerning this...

I've invoked the energy of nature spirits plenty of times in spell work, but never have I seen a physical manifestation of them.

Something tells me what I'm seeing aren't nature spirits as such.... but they have a very Fae like vibe about them....

They start appearing around 1am. My house-mate and I call them the night faeries (how creative..!)

They look like small, flying shadows but they don’t feel ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ but then they don't feel good either... they seem to be just a neutral energy. We figure that perhaps our human brains just can’t perseve the actual colouring of them.

Normally they are only seen coming in and out of the fireplace (no..they are not soot!) and in the living room where the fireplace is, but they sometimes venture out into the rest of the house, I often get glimpses of them in my bedroom.

They don’t cause any problems (that we know of!) and we don’t get an unsettling feeling from them. They seem to be just going about their own business and arn’t fussed around our presence.

I’d really like to know how to communicate with them but I’m not sure how. I know that when we start talking about them their attention does turn to us – their behaviour stops being so business like and becomes more playful...

They don't stop still long enough to actually see, it's more a fleeting flash out the corner of your eyes but sometimes you can focus on them straight on for a second or two.

My house mate and I often see them at the same time, so we know it’s not our eyes playing tricks (and we don’t do drugs!)

Please suggest something in the comment box below if you have any ideas on what they could be or if you can suggest a way to communicate with them. We’d quite like to know what they are up to!