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The Astral Projection Guidebook: Mastering the Art of Astral Travel

Copyright 2013 by Erin Pavlina

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever including Internet usage, without written permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1491246979 (pbk)

Book design by Maureen Cutajar

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To all the intrepid explorers

of the unknown. Be brave

and you will see all.

Acknowledgements

Thanks go out to my product manager, Stephan van Coppenole, for handling all the details so I could concentrate on writing.

To Erin Ashley Kerti for her feedback, encouragement, and support in reviewing the book to make sure I was making sense.

To Traci Shoblom, for her excellent copywriting.

To Maureen Cutajar at GoPublished.com for handling everything including the editing, design, and formatting. Im so glad you do what you do.

And to the thousands of people who emailed me asking about astral projectionthis book exists thanks to you.

Contents

Understanding Astral Projection

Preparing to Project

Achieving Separation

Navigating the Astral Realms

Safe Traveling

Chapter 1

The Science Fair

My journey into discovering and eventually mastering the art of astral projection began, ironically, at my junior high science fair. I had decided to do my project on dreams and their interpretations. My teacher warned me it wasnt a very scientific topic, but I would not be dissuaded.

We were required to read at least three books on our subject, but when I got to my local library, I found eleven books I wanted to read on this subject. For me, it wasnt just a school project, it was a subject that fascinated me completely. I checked out and read those eleven books cover to cover.

From studying my books, I learned all about dreams, how to interpret them, and how they were tied to our sleep cycle. But in the process I also learned about two other phenomena I had never heard of before: lucid dreaming and astral projection. I was intrigued.

Lucid dreaming is when the dreamer becomes aware that he is dreaming while he is still dreaming. That sounded super awesome to me. I wanted to learn how to master lucid dreaming very badly.

The second item, astral projection, sounded like a fairytale. It was described in my books as an out of body experience, where people reported leaving their bodies and traveling on another plane, while fully aware and NOT asleep. I really didnt think such a thing was possible, but I was curious nonetheless.

I decided to start with lucid dreaming. It took me about three months of study, effort, and experimentation before I had my first lucid dream. After that, I learned how to control my dreams and even program the dream I wanted to have in advance. More on lucid dreaming later, but it was an important first step for me to eventually learn how to astral project.

Once I was well-versed in lucid dreaming, I decided to try having an out of body experience. This was not nearly as simple as learning lucid dreaming. I really had no reference experience for it, and didnt even know what I was shooting for. The books at the time were quite vague on how to achieve one, they mainly described what it felt like once it happened.

Getting to the place where I could initiate an astral experience was elusive. I tried meditating. I would lie in my bed, breathe deeply, quiet my mind, and imagine I was outside of my bedroom. Nothing. Although I could easily and vividly imagine myself somewhere else, I wasnt actually there. I was simply inside my imagination.

Then I tried mentally projecting myself to my ceiling so I could look down on my body. Nothing. Again, I could easily imagine it and visualize it, but I never escaped my body, I only escaped my mind.

I tried adjusting what time of day I tried it before I went to sleep, upon first waking in the morning, during naps, and just spontaneous times like in math class when I was bored. Failure.

Since I had mastered lucid dreaming, I decided to try dreaming about astral projection. I reasoned that if I could just know what it felt like to fly around outside my body, then maybe my real soul could really leave my body. I had success dreaming that I was flying, but that wasnt astral projection. I couldnt even mimic projection in a dream because I hadnt experienced it in real life, so I had nothing on which to base my programming.

I tried looking for real people who had real success but found none. I read everything I could find on astral projection, which wasnt much back then in the 1980s. With no friends who had ever done this, no Internet, and getting all my information from books in a library, I was very limited in my reach.

I worked on this for three years with zero success. I was frustrated. I decided that astral projection was a fantasy and people didnt really leave their bodies consciously. I gave up on ever learning the skill. I stopped trying completely.

My First Astral Projection

I started tenth grade in 1984. By this point, I was fantastic at lucid dreaming but had given up on astral projection. When I started my new school, I met two people who would become my closest friends, and who would become integral in my study and mastery of astral projection.

The first was a girl I met in Spanish class, and we clicked and hit it off as friends instantly. We had the same sense of humor, and were a little bit out there compared to our peers. To protect her identity, lets call her Ashley. From day one, we bonded like sisters and slipped into a very easy and close friendship.

The second person I met was a boy. Lets call him Jared. I was crushing hard on Jared, and the beauty was, he was just as out there as Ashley and I were, maybe even more so. He was into the occult and liked studying the paranormal.

It wasnt long before the three of us would put our heads together and be discussing all manner of crazy arcane things. It was so nice to finally have people to talk to who understood me and accepted me for who I was. It allowed me to open up more to my own internal intuitive abilities, and explore unusual things without fear of judgment. I was so grateful for Ashley and Jareds presence in my life.

Some of the things we played at were telepathy, dream sharing, and a fun game where we tried to get someone to look up at us on telepathic command. Neither of them had ever astral projected, so they were also a dead end to me in terms of having an expert to learn from. That was all right though. I didnt really care at this point; I was having fun with everything else we were doing.

But everything changed on January 7, 1985. That was the night my 15-year-old self finally experienced astral projection. It was unlike anything Id ever experienced before or could even imagine.

I went to bed like usual. In the middle of the night I woke up in my bed, on my back, and felt an intense tingling sensation throughout my entire body. It was like someone had attached electrodes to me and current was passing through my body. It wasnt painful, but it was intense and extremely unsettling.