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This was posted to "Astral Awareness" in reply to a question, but it should be here if I can hope for any feedback on it.
Glad to Ryan:
This technique centers on the ‘third eye’ chakra. When I began my investigations many years ago it only made sense; if you want to SEE in the astral, start there. So I simply began looking with my eyes shut, concentrating on what I could see and hear (a high frequency pitch). I noticed blobs of light. At first a dull, foggy yellow/buff color and then points and squiggles. I concentrated (as we know, we can focus with our eyes closed; I think I’ve even seen my retina) and the light would intensify and change colors; swelling sometimes from the periphery towards the center, sometimes from the center out. It all became very entertaining and I had something to DO.
Eventually, things start to take shape, literally. In the early stage I start getting faces made of the light, usually a monochrome yellow/orange. Quite distinct and unique as any faces on earth, but never anybody I know. Once I was standing at a door looking through a small window in it at a room full of old people. One by one they would step up to the window and peer at me, then file away. Very entertaining. I don’t know what to call this.
In the second stage of the meditation the light has gone blue and bright small features start to take shape. At this point my mantra is “What is it, what is it?” and something surprising happens – I get pictures, beautiful 3-D photographs. They are generally very mundane, like so what?, but a few days ago I got floating rocks, like I was looking at one of the rings of Saturn – beautiful!
I should say something of the experience here. Thoughts are constantly floating through our brain but at this stage they are meaningless. I don’t fight them because they have no emotional content and they are really useful. A thought floats in and you go, “Oh, go away” and for just a moment another one hasn’t come along yet and that’s when it happens, you see a landscape (or floating rocks).
Now, the idea is to make the exit, or more precisely, entrance. Generally, the picture is gone practically before I know it, but from time to time I can hold on to it and “step” in and walk around.
This is an actual experience: I walk through the door of small, red brick, white trim house. I continue through the kitchen to the living room and to a sliding glass door. Out the door I notice the reflection of the sun of a hot summer’s day on the patio is almost blinding. (Reading RB’s Ast/Dyn I should comment that I am not aware of my body walking nor the heat of the day. The scene could be real time, as it was a hot afternoon when I did the meditation.) Then I walk into the yard. I look around, the scene is complete; a hedge growing along the chain-link fence, a neighbor’s detached garage, blah, blah, blah, and a tree. There’s a square of tin hung from a wire wrapped around the tree with something written on it. I walk up to it to see if I can read it. I can’t make it out even though it’s rather short.
At this point I’m thinking “I’ve worked all these years and I can finally project in a waking state, thinking of exotic places, high adventure, and here I am in this crappy back yard”. LOL To tell the truth, I was bored by the situation so I bailed out.
To be honest I don't really know what I have here.... LD, LDP, AP, OBE? Mr. Bruce is getting me confused in these matters LOL.
I hope this was interesting, if nothing else