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David Icke just might be worth reading if you have an interest in these issues.

The aim is basically to push people into as much of a material state as possible. Even still, the lower astral planes are around us and if we look they are there (auras, ghosts, and such). The more we evolve together, the more this will be so. The astral plane should merge much more with the physical when a critical number of people who can tap into that world is met.

It is quite fear based, which won't be so when there is no fear of not having money or being safe from war since we will be able to manifest those things with our own individual power rather than give it away to some collective organization.
I think it has been propelled quite well, when we consider how the government uses fear to get people to follow only what they determine to be true. There are countless lethal diseases and other things we are meant to be afraid of, the Church will often consider astral projection as the work of demons. It is all about fear, always.
You could watch 'tv' on your wall just by developing clairvoyance, but rather our conventional tv makes the mind more passive and causes people to fall even more into line with the culture and idiology of governments.

The astral is the passage to freedom, and there have always been people who do not want us to experience that. I could not explain the motives in enough depth here, but I do think some of David Icke's work might interest you.
Something that causes fear pushes people away, something that sais 'No' causes rebellion. Hence with LSD and drugs the government sais No because this will cause people to take them. However with astral projection the method to block it out is much more refined because it stands for true liberation of the individual which is the ultimate experience one can have.