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Chapter 8

Astral Projection for Dummies Part 2

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the references from Wikipedia that I have borrowed for this particular chapter.

 

“I'll take it.” Kagome said firmly and with a nod she took the book from the old woman and followed her to the counter to make her purchase. Once she'd paid the woman, Kagome ran all the way home, dashed up the stairs to her room. Where she then locked the door and began reading.

 

Chapter 1

Astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experiences achieved either awake or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of psychotropics. Proponents of astral projection maintain that their consciousness or soul has transferred into an astral body (or "double"), which moves en tandem with the physical body in a parallel world known as the astral plane.

There are two general schools of thought on the nature of astral projection; these can broadly be defined as the mystical model and the phasing model.

The mystical model includes a large variety of belief systems and astral maps, but they are tied together by their belief that astral projection takes place outside of the actual physical body. A more subtle energy body is believed to carry the consciousness outside of the physical body, and as one progresses to more advanced levels of the astral plane, more subtle bodies are realized and consciousness is transferred in turn to each of them. (Other mystical models assume only one subtle body.) The subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of an energetic connection which usually takes the appearance of a silver cord 'plugging' into the chakras like an umbilical cord.

“This is crazy” she whispered to herself as she read futher.

 

The phasing model, which was defined by Robert Monroe, contains the belief that it is impossible to actually leave the body in the truest sense of the word, and that the astral planes and the physical world are merely points on the long spectrum of consciousness. When a person projects, they actually "phase" into another area of consciousness and the locales it contains. This can be likened to tuning a radio to another station. One of the initial signposts representing a phase shift away from physical reality has been labeled the state of focus 10 (mind awake/body asleep). This viewpoint can be seen as a logical progression of the philosophy that external reality is actually an internally created state

“This is crazy.” Kagome repeated to herself. “I can't believe I actually thought…but…what have I go to lose?” She asked the air, yea, now I know I'm out of my mind I'm sitting here reading a book called Astral Projection for Dummies and talking out loud to myself. How could I be so stupid as to think this book could actually help me get back there?