[Thydaysuh]

First off,

What an amazing forum! I have bought Robert Bruce's book a long time ago but did not know he had such a nice web page up online. Keep up the great work and let's share our wonderful the unique experiences.

Without further ado here's my experience:

Before i even came across Rorbert's book, I stumbled across the idea of astral projection when i was reading books such as Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and other wonderful books on the third eyes and such. On top of that i have always been interested in finding out whether there is a higher consciousness or another level of existence.

This has been a question asked by men through the dawn of time, and i'm fortunate enough like the many of you to have been able to experience a glimpse to this answer.

Six years ago, i was practicing astral projection for the first time in my life. I was lying in my bed at night with the lights shut off and concentrating on my breathing to help me meditate (clearing my mind) and achieve a trance state when i started feeling a sense of heaviness as though i was sinking deeper and deeper into my bed. Then after a while it felt as if my third eye opened... because i was fully awake and had my eyes shut closed, but for some reason, i was able to see as if the fog infront of my eyes were getting clearer and clearer... it is then when i started to see thousands and thousands of tiny white particles on top of my body; hovering and swirling around... is it then i started to open my physical eyes... and to my surprise i was still seeing the same thing. so this being the first time i have ever seen anything out of the norm, i moved my hand and arm towards the area of my body and suddenly all my bodyhair stood up as if they touched an electrical current....This was my first experience... i stopped a few minutes after... not because my mind snapped out of it, becuase eventhough i was 100% consicous and aware what i was seeing and no in a trance state, i just stopped the whole activity to collect my thoughts and think about what exactly just happened.

So the next night, i did the same thing in hope of achieving astral projection... and same thing happened.... but this time instead of seeing my energy.... i saw a green mist hovering on top of myself. I did not know what to think... but all i know was that it closely resembled a human figure because what i saw wasn't a clear image like you would see form a picture , but i was pretty sure it was a figure.... and the next night i did the same thing agian, and started seeing the same green misty figure.. but this time i could make out its features a little bit more.... then the next night, same thing... and each night i was able to make out of the figure a little bit more... i started to make out the eyes, the nose, the lips of the facial structure... again it's not a clear picture, but these features are definetly without a mistake.... and this figure just keeps hovering on top of my body as i lay there.... to be honest, i was a little freaked out of the whole experience and did not know what to think.

and the strangest thing was that.... during the day the next day i had a weird experience. it was as if i saw that same facial figure (i think it might just have been the eye that i saw) in my peripheral vision, at the blind spot. i'm not sure how exactly to describe this really.

Anyway, my mom is a budhist as we were from Taiwan, and she had a very devoted budhist friend who doesn't eat meant and would pray for hours a day. Anyway, the reason i brought this up is i told this experience to my mom and like any mom would say: i think it's probably best if you be careful... but she also told me the story that her devoted budhist friend told her... anyway the story goes like this: a friend called taht lady because she had a friend who started acting really crazy just out of the blue.... started speaking in a different language and even tried to pick up a knife to kill her husband... they had no idea what was going on so they called my mom's friend to come and have a look... so anyway she went, and started saying a prayer while putting a hand on the lady and the posessed lady just flinched away from her as if she was afraid of something..... then they had to get an exorcists type person to get the spirit of the lady and etc etc...... now. this lady just happend to live upstairs from a person who was having a funeral at his house.... it was a gloomy day like in the movie and she used to practice a lot of tai chi.... so i'm not sure if it's because of the negative energy that was around during that day and the fact that she was practicing tai chi and meditating and left her physical body empty and vulnerable or something... but this really freaked me out... and no i do not believe my mom made this story up for the fact that i know this devoted budhist friend of my mom as well and do not doubt her for a second....

so anyway, this is why i havent practiced since, eventhough i am still very much intrigued.

I did read robert bruce's book after my own experience and from what i read, i might have been the more sensitive type person who was able to see my own projected double during a fully conscious state..... i was even more amazed at the diagram he drew of the timeline of the astral projection from the preparing stage, to the near astral stage (it has a picture of a projected double hovering on top of the projector's physical body)

And after reading the book.... i started to t hink that maybe what i saw was not a spirit or entity at all, but maybe my own projected double... and now that i think about it. the facial features do look a little similar like me....

So that's my experience in a nutshell.... has anyone experienced anything similar? I would very much like to hear what you all think of my personal journey as well as a better clarification and maybe a story or two from your own personal journey, since i have only gotten to the near astral stage.... but i was amazed at how easily i entered into this whole experience, as well as how easily it was for me to actually see things with my third eye.

It was a wonderful experience i will never forget.

hope to hear from you all soon.
-Mike