Richard Webster - Astral Travel for Beginners: Transcend Time and Space with Out-Of-Body Experiences

About the Author

Richard Webster was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1946. New Zealand is still his home, though he travels widely every year lecturing and conducting workshops on psychic subjects around the world. He has written many books, mainly on psychic subjects, and also writes monthly magazines columns. Richard is married with three children. His family is very supportive of his occupation, but his oldest son, after watching his fathers career, had decided to become an accountant.

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Astral Travel for Beginners 1998 by Richard Webster.

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Contents

Astral Travel Requirements

A Few Definitions

Involuntary Astral Travel

Getting Started

The Astral World

Your First Astral Travel

Advanced Astral Travel

Exploring Different Worlds

Other Methods of Astral Traveling

Astral Traveling in Your Sleep

Traveling in Pairs

Group Astral Travel

Experiments in Remote Viewing

Numerology and Astral Travel

Conclusion

Introduction

Astral travel has fascinated people from the beginning of time. How was it that some people were able to transcend time and space, leave their physical bodies, and go wherever they wished? Was this talent available to just a few people or could anyone learn to do it? Naturally, the shamans who astral traveled to find glimpses of the future or answers to questions had a vested interest in keeping their simple techniques a secret. Their power would vanish if everyone was able to astral travel.

However, throughout history a few people have found themselves spontaneously astral traveling. In most cases, this was a pleasant experience, but some found it terrifying, and the stories of their experiences have made the very idea of astral traveling frightening for many.

My first astral travel was completely spontaneous, but fortunately was not frightening. I was fifteen years old at the time. One afternoon I was trying to find some information in the school library before going home. I knew that I was in danger of missing the train, but was trying to find some important information for my homework before leaving. All of a sudden, I found myself at the railway station with the other students. I seemed to be my normal self in every way, except that I was aware that I was out of my physical body. There was the usual horseplay going on and I decided to see if the others were aware of my presence. I gave a friend a playful slap on the back and found my hand went right through him. Neither he nor anyone else noticed anything; therefore, I knew that the others could not see me. I yelled a greeting to my friend, but received no response. I suddenly realized that I had left my school bag behind. As soon as I became aware of this I found myself back in the school library. I hastily packed my bag and ran for the train, but missed it.

I spent forty-five minutes waiting for the next train, which gave me plenty of time to think about the experience. I had previously read several books on astral travel, particularly the works of Sylvan Muldoon, so I was not particularly surprised that it had happened. However, although I had read about astral travel, I had never tried to do it. This experience provided the necessary impetus and desire to learn how to astral travel whenever I wished.

Thinking back on the experience, I realize now that all the right conditions were there for an out-of-body experience. I was desperately trying to find information in the school library and was in a hurry because I did not want to miss the train. Both of these factors created stress. I had also read about the subject and wanted to astral travel, so the desire to do it was there as well. A stressful situation, combined with desire, is an ideal scenario for an involuntary astral travel.

Many people think that leaving the physical body is dangerous. In fact, astral traveling is much safer than driving down the road in your car. In this book we will approach the subject in the safest way possible. For many years I guided students in my psychic development classes through their first astral travels. None of them had any problems, and all found their lives enhanced by this useful skill.

What is astral travel? Astral travel simply means leaving your physical body behind, going wherever you want to go, and then returning to the body. A more accurate name is Out-of-Body Experience, commonly known as OBE or OOBE for short.

Since the dawn of history, there have been reports of people who have been able to astral travel. Descriptions of prehistoric astral travels have come from Egypt, India, China, and Tibet. In Tibet, people who astral traveled were called delogs, which means those who return from the Beyond.

The ancient Egyptians believed in Ka (the astral double) and Ba (the soul or spirit), and believed that both were able to leave the body whenever they wished. In his introduction to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, E. A. Wallis Budge wrote that the ancient Egyptians saw the Ka as being an abstract body that looked like and possessed the qualities of the person it belonged to. However, it was also independent and free to move away from the physical body whenever it wished.

Plato believed that the life we lead inside our physical bodies was a pale imitation of what the spirit would see once it was free of the physical. Aristotle believed that the spirit could leave the body and communicate with the spirits. The Greeks also believed that we possess a second, subtle body.

In the Bible there is a reference to astral travel when the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip after a baptism and he was found at Azotus.