{"id":5966,"date":"2011-10-01T01:10:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2011-09-29T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T22:52:12","slug":"plastic-paths-the-astral-travel-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2011\/10\/01\/plastic-paths-the-astral-travel-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Paths: The Astral Travel Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month\u2019s experiences had left me frightened. After recording an mp3 of my preferred astral traveling mediation, I discovered that listening to my own voice proved to be very effective and I was able to leave my body every time. The downside was that this created a split; while my astral body was wondering about, my physical body fought to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>I struggled with finding a way to keep the good and get rid of the bad with this new method\u2014finding a way to astral travel whenever I used the mp3 but not have to deal with the paralysis and nightmarish struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, I woke up from a 6 hour sleep, drank water, used the restroom, and went into the living room where I sat upright on the couch, covered in a blanket. Listening to the mp3, I meditated, eventually going out of body. This month I experimented with this to find a better way and eventually kept everything the same except lying on the couch instead of sitting upright. That seemed to work a little better, as the entire trip out wasn\u2019t a constant back and forth between astral and physical and there was more blissful travel time, but I still struggled with splitting into two.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to examine my script a little closer to see if there was something I was saying that triggered these results, but after a new read over, I didn\u2019t see one. I tried it again and while I was out of body and my body fought to wake up my astral self tried to comfort my physical form , repeating \u201cI understand, I understand\u201d with true sincerity and love.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, I thought. Is that what needs to be said? No harm in trying, so I re-edited the mp3 to include the phrase \u201cI understand\u201d, without giving it an explanation or further detail. No need to explain what I understand. My conscious, subconscious, and higher self will\u2026well, will understand. I was careful to say it with the same level of love and sincerity that my<\/p>\n<p>This worked! This first time I tried it, my body fought with the separation as usual. I listened to the phrase \u201cI understand\u201d and my astral form repeated it. My body calmed down, relaxed, and surrendered to the separation. The second night, my body fought for just a few seconds and after repeating the phrase, all was calm.<\/p>\n<p>That was the last time I felt trapped inside a paralyzed form. Mission accomplished and now on to happy travels! Speaking of which\u2026who is that person in my basement? The one I can only see when out of body?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month\u2019s experiences had left me frightened. After recording an mp3 of my preferred astral traveling mediation, I discovered that listening to my own voice proved to be very effective and I was able to leave my body every time. The downside was that this created a split; while my astral body was wondering about, my physical body fought to wake up. I struggled with finding a way to keep the good and get rid of the bad with this new method\u2014finding a way to astral travel whenever I used the mp3 but not have to deal with the paralysis and nightmarish struggle. Originally, I woke up from a 6 hour sleep, drank water, used the restroom, and went into the living room where I sat upright on the couch, covered in a blanket. Listening to the mp3, I meditated, eventually going out of body. This month I experimented with this to find a better way and eventually kept everything the same except lying on the couch instead of sitting upright. That seemed to work a little better, as the entire trip out wasn\u2019t a constant back and forth between astral and physical and there was more blissful travel time, but I still struggled with splitting into two. I decided to examine my script a little closer to see if there was something I was saying that triggered these results, but after a new read over, I didn\u2019t see one. I tried it again and while I was out of body and my body fought to wake up my astral self tried to comfort my physical form , repeating \u201cI understand, I understand\u201d with true sincerity and love. Ah, I thought. Is that what needs to be said? No harm in trying, so I re-edited the mp3 to include the phrase \u201cI understand\u201d, without giving it an explanation or further detail. No need to explain what I understand. My conscious, subconscious, and higher self will\u2026well, will understand. I was careful to say it with the same level of love and sincerity that my This worked! This first time I tried it, my body fought with the separation as usual. I listened to the phrase \u201cI understand\u201d and my astral form repeated it. My body calmed down, relaxed, and surrendered to the separation. The second night, my body fought for just a few seconds and after repeating the phrase, all was calm. That was the last time I felt trapped inside a paralyzed form. Mission accomplished and now on to happy travels! Speaking of which\u2026who is that person in my basement? The one I can only see when out of body?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}