More on Astral Projection

Someone asked if I had more than the one experience I discussed in the first article. I have to say yes as I have had a number of experiences that I would have to say were out of body.

Since my mid-twenties, I have meditated, often twice daily. Anyone who meditates regularly will agree that not every meditation results in a spiritual experience, but the regular practice results in allowing one to attain the focused, meditative state almost instantly. That skill has helped me to do things I could not otherwise have done.

The first time I consciously reached out to help someone else who was near death, was when my father-in-law had surgery and found it difficult to breathe afterwords. He was in recovery much longer than normal. When we visited in the hope that he would rally with family around, I could feel his struggle to breathe. I dropped into a meditative state and spent a half hour breathing with him. Afterwords he was much better and continued to rally. It may have happened regardless of my intervention, but everyone believed that I had made a difference.

The second time I performed this function it was for a woman whom I had never met. We had a mutual friend, who asked me to help if possible. The lady had a brain tumor and had surgery on it three times because of cerebral fluid leaks. She was very weak and had pretty much given up. My friend told me everything she could about her friend and I was able, in meditation, find her and offer my strength and support to survive and rally for the sake of her young daughter. She did survive and a few months later, I met her. She and my friend came to my house to visit. My friend had not told her anything other than that I was a friend of hers. When I came to the door, the lady wrapped her arms around me and began to cry, telling me she knew me from when she was in the hospital. I had not visited the hospital. It was over a hundred miles away from where I was. The only way she could have recognized me was from visiting her on the spiritual level.

These experiences, coupled with my own experience of being helped back through the mist when I passed away in the ambulance and was resuscitated at the hospital last April, convinced me that the ability to affect others while in the spiritual realm is quite possible and probably happens much more regularly than we would suspect. My experience of watching my own surgery in my early twenties predisposed me to recognize subsequent experiences as out-of-body events.

There have been other experiences during meditation, some I remembered, others were more of a blank, but I would return in a state of elated calm that would last for the rest of the day.

I believe that when an event is fraught with intense emotion, it is more indelibly written on the conscious mind. When one gives ones self over to the do the bidding of the Creator, there are many experiences during both waking and sleeping, which the conscious mind does not register. The Ancients have told us repeatedly not to get distracted by the gifts and skills we receive while on the path to Enlightenment. If we do, we can be seduced off the path, believing we are more than a willing tool of the One. They also told us that we would have the skills to do the work we are assigned when needed. I have found this to be true.