Astral Beginnings n.2

In the last episode I talked about the lead up to my first OBE, that first time was so wonderful, I was full of joy at finding myself floating above my physical body, the proof for me that we exist beyond the body. However, at that point I didn’t know if it was just a one off, I had to get more information so I went to my local bookshop and to my surprise I found a copy of William Buhlman’s ‘Adventures Beyond the Body’, it was in Italian obviously as I live in Italy, I do prefer to read in English but I was so happy to find this book. Now we can find books easily via internet but this was even before Amazon launched in Italy, god that makes me sound old lol. I still have this book and the pencil written translation I wrote in the book at the end where there is a meditation. I discovered through the book that William came to Italy regularly to give workshops, I found out when the next one was and signed up. I ended up going to 3, they were a lot of fun and it was great to meet people who were also interested in OBEs.

After I found William’s book, I knew I had to really focus on OBEs in order to make it a part of me, so I found as much info as I could on the subject, I would repeat the affirmation ‘Now I’m out-of-body’ as often as I could, especially before sleeping, I suppose I was secretly a little obsessed with it lol. As I walked around my town and I came to a high point I would imagine myself flying over the town. To tell the truth I think the main thing that contributed to my continuing OBEs was the longing feeling I spoke about in the first episode in this series, plus the joy of flight. There are no words to describe the feeling of flight, at least for me, it is as if it connects you to your true essence of joy. Of course there are many things to experience beyond the body and a lot of work to do in the astral realms but it is that joy of flight that pulls me. Sometimes after the heaviness of life in the physical you really need that release, maybe it acts as a kind of energy detox. I had a flying OBE recently and it made me feel so good in the morning.

I had woken up early, it was cold so I put the heating on and went back to sleep, it got sooo cosy in bed I must have been particularly relaxed. The OBE goes like this…..

I wake up once more thinking I am awake again and think I might as well get up. I get out of bed and walk onto the landing, however I notice one of the bedroom doors is shut and I know that I didn’t shut it and there isn’t anyone else in the house. At this point I realise that I was out-of-body, wow it feeels so good as it has been a while, I am so happy. I say to my higher self ‘take me where I need to be’, I immediately find myself flying among the clouds in a blue sky. I am going so fast it feels wonderful, the flight seems to take a long time and I feel I might wake up before I can be of service to someone. I start to feel a little bit bad at enjoying myself so much when I know there are many people who need help so I say to my higher self ‘I want to help someone.

However, thinking about it I think my higher self gifted me the flight as I know you don’t really need to fly to get anywhere in the astral you just have to use your mind and things are instantaneous. Back to the OBE…

When I land I am with a young man who is a guide or a representation of my higher self. We are in a town, and standing at the entrance to a sort of cavern where there is a group of people they are party of a religious group, best to not say which one as I don’t want to end up in trouble, you can’t say anything these days without someone getting offended somewhere lol. They are sitting around a table and doing some sort of research, there are so some other people around the table which seemed like students. The young man whispered something in my ear I can’t remember the exact words but the underlying meaning is that they are doing something sinister, although it is covered up by their research activities. My guide says they even have something written down about my mum. The young man tells me I have to remember a phrase but I don’t understand what he says, I said it needs to be short if I am going to remember it when I wake up, so he says something like Host Monster, I say I think I wil remember that, even Social Monster would be good, I would remember that. I leave the entrance of the cavern to have a look around the town. It is very family orientated everyone has to be a member of a family, there are no loners, or people thinking for themselves. Although everyone is very nice it seems a bit like a cult and it feels that there is something not quite right. I want to walk down a particular road and a lady asks me if I am looking for a hotel, I say no I’m not I got the impression that she would have been quite willing to host me. I don’t really remember any more after that except slowly waking up this time in the physical reality.

I have an idea what the OBE was about, maybe some kind of ‘astral cult’ but this isn’t the time to go into it, it was great to be out again and the flight in the sky shooting through clouds was amazing.

Anyway back to my earnest attempt to keep the astral adventures going….I would count my OBEs but when I passed 1000 I realised that they were now a part of me and would continue. I wasn’t a natural flier at first it took me a few OBEs to get the hang of it and actually manage to get through the window. Sometimes I would wake up in my body and not know if I was awake in the physical or if I was in the mind awake/body asleep state. Similar to the OBE I just described when I only realised I was out-of-body because I knew I hadn’t shut the bedroom door. In my early days I remember testing to see if I was OBE by trying to put my head through a wall then laughing so much when I heard my husband getting up (I was sleeping in a different room) and I thought to myself what if I’m not OBE and my husband comes in and sees me banging my head against the wall. It turns out my head went through lol.

Often I don’t get any obvious signs that I’m out-of-body, my exits are usually very quiet.

During these early days I was reading everything I could on OBEs, I found a copy of Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce, I had also found some material by Bob Peterson called 14 OBE Letters on an old site called spiritweb.org, you can still find it via the way back machine. It was quite an intense time for me, mother and English teacher during the day, flying around the astral at night or at least trying too. In the end I found a forum as well, I loved those old forum style discussion sites, the first one I joined was William Buhlman’s discussion board it was very simple, wow how things have changed and how communication has exploded. William’s discussion board evolved and became Project Radiant Light ran by Rick. Good times. We shared all our adventures, tips, techniques etc plus a lot more.

Now I realise in those early days I was programming myself to have OBEs, for better or worse we are very programmable and we can use this to our advantage when learning to travel beyond the body.

Thanks for listening, if you have any questions, or want to listen to my book ‘Astral Dancer’, I’ve uploaded up to and including Chapter Six so far. You’ll find me at patreon.com/aliwings Hope to see you there.

Thanks for listening, bye for now!