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.It isonly when back in the body that you need to feel imprisoned,encased in clay, weighted down by a heavy body which does notrespond very well to spiritual commands.No, there is no place forfear in astral travel, fear is quite alien to it.We are going to repeat astral travel directions under slightlydifferent wording.You are lying fiat on your back on a bed.Youhave made sure that every part of you is comfortable, there are noprojections sticking into nerves, your legs are not even crossed,because if they were, at the point where they cross you might havea numbness after just because you will have interfered with thecirculation of the blood.Rest calmly, contentedly, there are nodisturbing influences, nor are you worried.Think only of gettingyour astral body out of your physical body.Relax and relax yet more.Imagine a ghostly shape correspond-ing roughly to your physical body, gently disengaging from the66flesh body and floating upwards like a puffball on a light summer'sbreeze.Let it rise up, keep your eyes closed otherwise, for the firsttwo or three times, you may be so startled that you will twitch, andthat twitch may be violent enough to “reel in” the astral to itsnormal place within the body.People frequently jerk in a peculiar manner just when they arefalling asleep.All too often it is so violent that it brings one back tofull wakefulness.This jerk is caused by a too rough separation ofthe astral body and the physical body, for, as we have alreadystated, nearly everyone does astral travelling by night even if somany people do not consciously remember their journeying.But back to our astral body again.Think of your astral body gradually, easily separating from thephysical body, and drifting upwards to about three, or perhapsfour feet above the physical.There it rests above you swayinggently.You may have experienced a sensation of swaying justwhen you are falling asleep; that was the astral swaying.As wehave said, the body is floating above you, possibly swaying a little,and connected to you by the Silver Cord which goes from yourumbilicus to the umbilicus of the astral body (Fig.8).Do not look too closely because we have already warned youthat if you become startled and twitch you will bring your bodyback and have to start all over again on some other occasion.Suppose you heed our warning, and do not twitch, then yourastral body will remain floating above for some moments, take noaction at all, hardly think, breathe shallowly for this is your firsttime out, remember, your first time CONSCIOUSLY out, andyou have to be careful.If you are not afraid, if you do not twitch, the astral body willslowly float off, it will just drift away to the end or the side of thebed where quite gently, without any shock whatsoever, it willgradually sink so that the feet touch, or almost touch the floor.Then, the process of making “a soft landing” over, your astralwill be able to look at your physical and relay back what it sees.You will have a quite discomforting sensation of looking atyour own physical body and we point out now that it is often ahumiliating experience.Many of us have a completely erroneousidea of what we look like.Do you remember when you first heardyour voice? Have you heard your voice on a tape recorder? Forthe first time you may have frankly disbelieved that it was your67voice, you may have thought that someone was playing a trick onyou, or that the recorder was faulty.The first time one hears one's voice, one disbelieves it, onebecomes appalled and mortified.But wait until you see your bodyfor the first time! You will stand there in your astral body withyour consciousness quite fully transferred to your astral body,and you will look down upon that reclining physical body.Youwill be horrified; you will not like the shape of the body nor thecomplexion, you will be shocked at the lines on the face and by thefeatures, and if you advance a little further and look into yourmind you will see certain little quirks and phobias which may evencause you to jump back into the body out of sheer fright! But sup-posing you surmount this first frightening meeting with yourself,what then? You must decide where you are going, what you wantto do, what you want to see.The easiest system is to visit someperson with whom you are well acquainted, perhaps a closerelative who lives in a neighboring city.First it should always be aperson that you frequently visit because you have to visualize theperson in considerable detail, you have to visualize where he orshe lives and precisely how to get there.Remember this is new toyou-new to you doing it consciously, that is-and you want tofollow the exact route which you would follow if you were goingin the flesh.Leave your room, move to the street (in the astral, of course, butdo not worry, people cannot see you), traverse the path which youwould normally take keeping fixed before you the image of theperson whom you want to visit and how to get there.Then, veryvery speedily, far more quickly than the fastest car could take you,you will be at your friend's or relative's house.With practice you will be able to go anywhere, seas, oceans andmountains will be no bar, no obstacle, to your path.The lands ofthe world and the cities of the world will be yours to visit.Some people think “Oh! Supposing I go and I cannot get back.What then?” The answer is—you cannot get lost.It is quiteimpossible to get lost, it is quite impossible to harm yourself orto find that your body has been taken over.If anyone comes nearto your body while you are astral travelling the body relays awarning and you are “reeled in” with the speed of thought.Noharm can come to you, the only harm is fear.So do not fear, butexperiment, and with experiment will come a realization of all yourhopes, all your ambitions in the realms of astral travel.69When you are in the astral stage consciously you will see coloursmore brilliantly than you do in the flesh.Everything will shimmerwith life you may even see particles of “life” about you likesparks.That is the vitality of the earth, and as you pass through ityou will pick up strength and courage.A difficulty is this; You cannot take anything with you, youcannot bring anything back! It is, of course, possible under someconditions—and this comes with much practice only—that youmaterialize in front of a clairvoyant, but it is not easy to go to aperson and carry out a diagnosis of their health condition becauseyou really need to be able to discuss things like that
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