Category: Astral Projection

My Experience Astral Projecting With Plant Medicines

Astral projection is undoubtedly a fascinating, but bizarre phenomenon. Over the last several years, I’ve astral projected just 5 or 6 times, however, each experience has been nothing short of profound.

View astral projection as your consciousness temporarily projecting into the spiritual dimensions, which allows you to experience alternate facets of your multidimensional consciousness.

Those of us who have astral projected recognize that some pretty wild things are happening all around us, at every moment. It’s just a matter of training ourselves to tap into states of consciousness that can perceive these alternative layers of information.

Most of my experiences with astral projection have occurred during deep states of meditation, however, I have also tapped into the astral planes with plant medicines.

My first successful experience with astral projection occurred under the influence of marijuana. I used to be a pretty heavy smoker, yet one experience; the one I’ll explain in this article, was significantly different from any other experience I had with the substance.

Just to be clear, I now only use plant medicines ceremonially usually under the guidance of a shaman or healer to tap into deeper layers of my consciousness. I’ve discovered that plant medicines can be spiritual gateways to alternate realms if used with respect and intention.

I’ve learned to go much deeper into plant medicine experiences, and now I much better understand the realms I’m tapping into.

My first experience with astral projection

My first experience with astral projection occurred around 4 years ago when I was living in Vietnam. The experience left a distinct memory that I won’t soon forget.

I smoked marijuana and lay on my bed as still as possible while observing my thoughts and feelings. This was a normal practice at the time to listen to what the teacher plant wanted to show me, I had no intention to astral project.

I felt like I was sinking deeper into my consciousness and slowly losing my grounding in reality while remaining completely still, breathing almost to a halt, and completely surrendering to the experience. This is where things started to take a life of its own.

I experienced something I now recognize as the bridge between reality and the astral planes; the gateway. I have experienced this phenomenon every time I have astral projected to date and recognize it as a cornerstone of the experience.

Essentially, the gateway is a threshold where my consciousness begins tangibly expanding into new territory. This is characterized by my closed-eye vision stretching out and brightening, the sensation of rapid vibrations in my body, and a feeling as if I’m beginning to disassociate from reality.

This experience is always intense, and can wake me out of my meditative state due to shock, fear, or excitement – which tends to quickly ground me back to reality, thus ending the experience. To successfully pass through this gateway I must remain completely indifferent to the experience, to avoid reactivating my mind. It is a very delicate process.

During my first astral projection experience, it wasn’t very pleasant. As I was passing through the gateway, dark shadows appeared around me and began reaching into my solar plexus area which was causing pain and distress.

At that point I was in between worlds. I was beginning to tap into the astral planes, however I was still lucid and recognized that I was in my apartment. I felt as if I was in danger, however I didn’t know how to navigate the situation. I have discovered that almost all of my encounters with dark entities attack my solar plexus energy center, it has become a common theme in my life.

Encounters with benevolent spirits

While in a dark space surrounded by shadows, suddenly two orbs entered the space. I intuitively knew they were here to help, and instantly felt relief.

One of these orbs had a violet radiant aura, and I could distinctly feel the energy of the being. It was feminine, soothing, and felt like someone I have known for a long time. There was no doubt that she was a spirit, however, the sense of familiarity with this being was surreal. I remember it very vividly today.

The other orb was masculine. He had a radiant green aura and a brotherly energy. I felt supported as if he wanted to protect me, like a big brother stepping into the scene when being bullied. At this point, I knew I was in good hands.

I had never before felt that sense of familiarity with another person, yet I felt at complete peace with this orb. After flying around for a moment, the feminine spirit began pulsating light. I witnessed these shadows dissipate in the light and felt at complete ease.

In the following moments, it felt like I was grabbed and shot through a tunnel, following behind these two orbs. As if I was on an interdimensional rollercoaster, my spirit shot out of my body and I was now far disconnected from physical reality.

Exploring the spiritual dimension via astral projection

The nature of my existence was energetic, however it felt strangely familiar as if I had been here many times before. I had no ability to think, at least not from my human mind. Therefore, everything occurred instinctively/intuitively from this point.

After whizzing through this tunnel guided by these two friendly entities who I perceived as orbs, the space opened up to a beautiful realm full of patterns and colors. Like I was on tour, I was moving through this interdimensional space in awe.

At times I would bump into neutral entities. Usually, you instinctively know whether an entity is of the light or dark due to the energy you pick up from them, but neutral entities seem to not have a read at all, meaning they were just there.

There were moments when I felt as if I physically bumped into these entities. There was something there, but I had no idea what it was, or what its intentions may have been.

I remember one moment when it felt as if someone was resting on my shoulder and moving around a little, the same way your partner may rest on your shoulder in bed. The thing is I was alone on my bed in physical reality, so this couldn’t have been a manifestation of someone resting on me. I thought it was a little strange, but didn’t feel uneasy about it.

encounters with neutral entities seemed to occur a few times as I was being brought along on this journey, however, it wasn’t a cause for concern. I felt safe and also had my orb friends with me, so I knew nothing bad would happen.

Encounters with an enlightened being

After moving around for some time exploring this new dimension of experience, I crossed paths with another orb. This orb had a bright silver aura, and instantly I knew it was a being of absolute love, absolute beauty.

I remember this entity very clearly because it was unlike anything I had ever felt before. The only thing I recognized was that this entity was a highly advanced spiritual being, akin to the status of enlightened. Just being in its presence was such an honor. I felt the energy of this being radiating light into me and it was truly blissful. Believe me, I don’t use that word lightly.

The only thing I knew at this moment was that my life had been building up to this moment. Intuitively I knew this was a big deal and just wanted to be in this being’s presence.

That’s when something spectacular happened. I received a download asking if I wanted to come with this entity. It was like a sudden spike of knowing that I was being invited to share an experience with it. It wanted to show me something, and I certainly wasn’t going to turn down the invitation.

The joy I felt was incredible. I was so excited to share an experience with this being and honored to do so. My soul instantly agreed and it felt like I was catapulted through a tunnel. This experience was much more intense than the first tunnel, however it was blissful. I knew I was in a good place and felt accepted by this glowing silver being.

My vision of spiritual warfare

After following this entity through this tunnel at light speed, this leads to the last segment of this astral projection journey. After exiting this light-speed tunnel, the space opened up to another realm, or perhaps a part of a realm, I’m not quite sure.

I remember opening up to a space where I very clearly saw spiritual warfare. This manifested as light and darkness colliding. It felt very raw and violent as energies clashed with one another, the space was beyond grand.

Whatever I witnessed, it was intense. There was an instant understanding that warfare is too a spiritual phenomenon. My whole life I thought warfare was a human construct. After all, surely spirits are much more highly advanced than humans, and these realms would only be love and peace… right?

There was no doubt that what I was experiencing was something real, and this spirit wanted to show me for some reason. It was almost like an epiphany as I witnessed that, but I didn’t know why. I didn’t know what the purpose of knowing this was.

I was only there for a few moments, although time can be difficult to gauge when in these alternate dimensions. From that point, I snapped back into my body. It took a moment to recollect myself. What on Earth did I just witness?

I didn’t sleep much that night while thinking about this profound experience I just had. I started to understand what astral projection is. It’s not about flying around reality and looking at things. Perhaps people experience that too, however, this was interdimensional and undoubtedly spiritual.

Insights from this astral projection experience

This was my first experience with astral projection, and it was a journey, to say the least. Since then, I’ve experienced astral projection a handful of times without the aid of any plant medicine or substance.

Although the experience is rather rare as I haven’t done any official training, or sought counsel from more experienced teachers, it does continue to happen here and there, and I’m sure it will continue.

I’ve learned that the astral planes are a beautiful, but strange place. Every time I enter this bizarre world, I encounter all sorts of spirits. Most of them are friendly, however, I’ve encountered several dark entities along my astral journeys too, and that can be frightening.

However, I am more excited than ever to be exploring these worlds, and I have now spent a considerable amount of time working in shamanic communities in Latin America, where the medicine people have been incredible teachers.

Astral projection is not an easy process. I certainly haven’t mastered this art, however, it does seem to occur more frequently nowadays as I continue opening my consciousness, exploring my reality, and engaging in various spiritual practices and cultural modalities.

All I have to say is that the astral planes are real. Astral projection is real. Spirits and energies are real. All of this spiritual stuff is real, and we all can train ourselves to tap into it.

29 June 2024
Astral Projection Entities: What’s Really Out There?

I’ve had a fascination with astral projection for years, and the occasions where I fully disconnected from my body were nothing short of profound. However, there’s also a dark underbelly of such experiences, and we can encounter all sorts of entities within these spaces.

While venturing into higher different realms of consciousness, it’s not unusual to encounter entities. These entities come in many forms, each with unique energies, personalities, and intentions. Astral projection is a fascinating experience, but there are things out there that we want to steer clear of.

With that said, sometimes we can’t.

Thankfully, we’re relatively sheltered from entities with nefarious agendas while on this Earthly plane. This is a different story when we step into their territory, and it’s something that needs to be cautioned.

In this article, I’m going to talk about astral projection entities and my experience encountering a demonic spirit when tapping into the astral. You’ll learn what astral projection entities are, what happens when we encounter them, and what we can do about it.

What are astral projection entities?

What we see in the physical is just one layer of the consciousness cake. In different realms of consciousness (or what we can understand as dimensions), there are all sorts of beings. These beings are also souls like you and me, however, they exist within an energetic container rather than a physical container (or body).

Imagine this reality as one face of a cube.

In truth, reality has many faces, and each face is a stage for foreign experiences of consciousness. In my perspective, this is the best way to conceptualize alternate dimensions, and astral projection is the act of tapping into them.

During astral projection, you’re not necessarily going anywhere. Rather you’re rotating the cube to experience another layer of reality. As with our reality, these spaces are also teeming with life, it’s a very diverse world out there.

Makes sense?

Astral projection entities refer to the spirits we can perceive during astral projection. You can view these beings as souls that exist in higher realms, and we can encounter them when we tap into these realms.

With that said, these beings don’t have physical bodies because the realms these souls are inhabiting at non-physical. Many of these entities have forms, often appearing as orbs, and others are just energies that you feel. These realms act on the language of intuition, so trying to rationalize these beings is like speaking a language that doesn’t exist.

Astral projection is a tedious process. I’ve attempted many times to no avail. On the odd occasion, however, I entered a bizarre but beautiful realm teeming with life. I’ve encountered all sorts of entities during astral projection. Some of these entities are positive beings of light, some are neutral, and some are dark.

Usually, my experiences with entities during astral projection are positive. I often encounter spirits of light who want to help, and it’s exciting to come into contact with them. Often, these spirits show me spiritual truths and teach me things, and there’s a powerful intuitive feeling that they are there to help.

I’ve also come into contact with many neutral spirits – those I couldn’t get a read on, and didn’t know what they wanted or how they intuitively felt, but they were certainly there.

It has become apparent to me, that each spirit is an individual. Each spirit has its personality, identity, and desires. They all want different things. We can’t just generalize people and say we’re all the same, and we can’t do it with spirits either.

My experience with an astral projection demon

Several months ago, this excitement for encountering spirits fell short when I was forcibly catapulted from my body into the grasp of a demonic presence.

I was lying in bed feeling restless and thinking about some impending decisions in my life. Astral projection was the last thing on my mind, I had no desire or intent to leave my body, yet something odd happened.

Out of the blue, I heard my dad’s voice call out my name. His words were crystal clear like he was in the room, and this was enough to instantly snap me to full awareness.

“What on Earth was that?’”

I sat up in bed with my ears perked. My dad is on the other side of the world, yet I heard his disembodied voice as clear as day.

Within moments, a deafening ringing pierced my ears. Before I had a chance to react, my body began rapidly vibrating as my vision brightened and stretched out – revealing patterns, and what I can only describe as energy.

Even though this sensation felt familiar, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Due to the intensity of the experience, I knew it was the real deal – there was no doubt in my mind that this was just a dream, hallucination, or sleep paralysis.

‘I’ve been here before’ I thought with mixed emotions of nerves and excitement.

My grip on reality was rapidly deteriorating as I felt myself being sucked out of my body by some unidentifiable force. I didn’t know what was happening, but when a spiritual experience comes knocking at my door, I seize the opportunity to explore it. I let go and allowed myself to enter this foreign territory.

‘something doesn’t feel right’ I thought.

Still in shock by the speed and spontaneity of this experience, I began to notice a quality of energy in this space that was anything but inviting. This dense energy instantly put me on edge – as if I was in physical danger.

‘Okay, this isn’t good’ I thought as this dark presence became more prominent.

I immediately thought there could be a dark spirit here. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve encountered one. Theoretically, I know what to do if that were to be the case, but it doesn’t ease the nerves.

‘Just hold the space and be in a place of love, and all will be right’.

I envisioned myself in a safe aura of golden light, however, the darkness became more intense. Naturally, I began to worry. My efforts to spread light weren’t working, and I was seemingly trapped in this space. All I wanted to do was snap out of this eerie space I found myself in.

This is when I started hearing a deep demonic-sounding voice whispering to me. Although I couldn’t make out the words, it sounded like they were right next to me. Never have I heard disembodied voices so clearly.

I was vulnerable and I didn’t have the experience to deal with something like this, which only made me more afraid. It felt like my body was collapsing under its weight, and my Manipura (solar plexus energy center) had a dense, almost painful sensation to it.

This wouldn’t be the first time a dark entity focused its intent on my Manipura. This is a common theme with dark spirits, perhaps because my center of power is my weakest energetic point, and it still has some substantial wounding from childhood.

Re-embodiment after my astral projection encounter

I reached behind my back to grab onto the bed while trying to free myself from this disembodied state, hopefully grounding myself to reality.

To my surprise, my arm brushed through the air with nothing to obstruct it. As I was reaching behind my back in a state of complete bewilderment I spouted “Oh my god I’m levitating!”

Keep in mind, I didn’t know I was astral projecting at this stage. During this moment I still thought I was in my physical body. I didn’t realize that I was in my astral body until later on after the experience ended.

This is when I snapped myself out of this state and landed on the floor next to me. All I wanted to do was turn on the light so I could at least see what was happening.

I began brushing my hands against the wall near the door looking for the light switch in pitch darkness – while the whispers from this entity continued. In my desperate attempt, I couldn’t find the switch, so I opened the door and attempted to find the light switch in the hallway in a desperate scramble to orient myself.

As I peered down the short hallway outside my bedroom, I noticed a dark silhouette in a cloak sitting in the living room. I stood there paralyzed.

I gasped for air and opened my eyes in bed. I was emotionally dysregulated as the ringing in my ears continued. I was disoriented and felt incredibly out of place, still wary if this entity was around.

Without hesitation, I reached for my phone light. The exact moment I turned on the screen, a message came through from a Huachumera (Huachuma Shaman) I worked with when I was living in Ecuador.

“Hi Daniel, your dad is here, it was great meeting him, he is very proud of you” – the Huachumera said, referring to her shamanic healing center in Ecuador.

I would have been more stumped by this synchronicity if this ringing had subsided, but I couldn’t focus. It was just so damn loud.

I turned on the bedside lamp, put my phone down, and spent some time recollecting myself. It took about ten minutes for the ringing to subside, and I then sat in silence for another ten minutes thinking about what happened. I was now wide awake, and it was only around 1 am.

Shortly after, I messaged back telling the Huachumera what had happened. If there is anyone who knows about this stuff, it’s her.

These were her actual words:

“Your dad was probably helping you saying a kind of ‘look out!’ The dark spirit means you’re graduating to the next level of your astral projection game! It’s good! You’re ready to play in the big leagues now! Congrats. So get used to this, these spirits you’re going to be inviting back to source someday soon, it will be your otherworldly work.

It all clicked.

I was astral projecting!

That’s why the experience was so familiar. I’ve experienced the same gateway phenomenon every time I fully disembodied. Although this experience was involuntary and much quicker, it was the same phenomenon.

What are dark spirits during astral projection?

The next day I spoke with a Huachumera (San Pedro shaman) I know about my encounter.

She told me that people who are learning to astral project will eventually encounter dark spirits. Like we encounter benevolent spirits who want to help us, it’s just a matter of time until we run into the darker underbelly of the spiritual dimensions. The spiritual realm is a fascinating place teeming with all sorts of life.

There are many beautiful loving, angelic spirits out there, but as with duality – if there is light, there is also darkness.

Darkness exists in the void of light. When any being loses touch with the light – of energies of love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness, they enter states of consciousness that are tormenting and destructive.

Astral projection is not demonic, and it’s not bad. It’s a tool that can be used to access the astral planes which are another layer of consciousness. We can use astral projection as a tool for darkness the same we can use it as a tool for light, depending on our intention of tapping into these spaces.

I perceive dark spirits as wounded souls who have lost their connection to source – in the same sense ‘bad’ people are wounded people because their attitudes and actions are a manifestation of their internal reality.

Even though some people do terrible things, can we blame them? Does evil really exist, or do individuals just stray too far from god?

When you begin entering other realms of consciousness, whether it’s via astral projection, shamanic ceremonies, or energy healing, you’re popping your head into their world, so these spirits become aware of you.

Although I’m still not sure why I was spontaneously pulled out of my body, it reinforces the fact that there are dark spirits out there, and sometimes we might land in their crosshairs.

What to do when encountering a dark spirit

Even though this was the most intense encounter I’ve had, it was not my first encounter with dark spirits. I’ve bumped into a few via ceremonies, meditation, and within my day-to-day life. I’ve witnessed a few exorcisms and learned some valuable wisdom from the shamans performing them.

High vibrational energy is a repellant to dark energies.

If you can experience energies such as love, gratitude, or compassion in the presence of a dark spirit, they want nothing to do with it. This is another reason they try to scare you: fear will quickly dissolve the high vibrational energies you’re experiencing.

The challenge is to hold a space of love.

You might think it seems simple – the fear is all in your mind so just maintain a space of love and you’ll be right. But it’s not all in your mind. These experiences are very real, and when you’re in the presence of a dark spirit you feel a visceral danger.

Imagine you’re in an old house by yourself, and suddenly furniture begins moving, you see shadows, hear noises, and perceive something in that house that wants to harm you. Would you be able to hold a space of love?

Probably not, at least not without being very centered in yourself and indifferent to whatever you’re experiencing.

Unless you’re very advanced with this sort of work, you’re probably going to panic. Especially when the nature of the being is otherworldly, you don’t know what you’re dealing with. It’s unknown which makes the encounter even more eerie.

With that said, try your best to hold love for the being. This light energy will ward off the dark spirit, or better yet, convert it. If you can project this light energy toward the spirit by genuinely wanting to help it, then you may even get through to it, and illuminate a better path for the spirit to take.

What do dark spirits want?

Dark spirits feed off dense energy. They intend to lower your vibration by provoking feelings of fear, anger, shame, guilt, and resentment.

Imagine they’re sucking out your dense energy through a straw. If you’re not experiencing much dense energy, they will squeeze as much of this sweet nectar out of you as they can.

Dark spirits are very good at identifying your wounds, and leveraging them. If they sense you’re in a conflict with someone, they may play on your guilt, shame, or hatred, and stir the pot. If they see you lack self-love, they will do everything in their power to kick you while you’re down.

This is why deeply wounded people are often beacons to dark spirits. These spirits see a buffet and often attach themselves to these vulnerable victims – often resulting in mental illness, suicide, perversion, psychopathic behavior, or in extreme cases, killings.

And they do this by attempting to scare you. Maybe they will play on your guilt, or press your buttons to make you feel angry. The more pain they can cause you to feel, the more they benefit from you.

In my experience, dark spirits try to scare you. Fear is a particularly juicy energy for them, and it doesn’t take a lot to make people experience it.

Envisioning yourself with radiant golden light can act as a protective barrier between you and the entity. Although envisioning yourself being surrounded by this golden light, this can be difficult to do when you’re under the spell of fear.

Affirm your stance

Remember, despite how frightening the encounter is, you are in power. If you stand in your power and firmly tell the spirit it’s not welcome, it won’t be able to get to you.

This needs to be done with confidence (not anger, because that will attract it). Again, spirits feed on low-vibrational energy. Therefore, if you’re standing in your power and not falling into their games, there’s not a whole lot they can do.

Some people will call on the name of Jesus, or god. Although I’m not sure if words really make a difference as it’s more about the energy you’re experiencing, some people claim that telling the spirit to leave in the name of Jesus works.

I believe it’s more the confidence and faith that someone experiences by using the name of a benevolent figure they hold closely in their heart. In this sense, I imagine falling back on any icon you hold in your heart may work, it doesn’t need to be Jesus if you don’t genuinely love Jesus.

Send them back to the source

We have the power to send these spirits back to source, but the spirit must be willing – meaning you must get through to it.

I haven’t sent any spirits back to source myself as I’m relatively inexperienced, but from what I’ve heard, you may be able to reach through the darkness and tap into the soul of the entity.

This can take practice because first, you need to practice holding your light in the face of darkness. But if you can do so, you can help these spirits – at least the ones that want to go home.

Ask the entity what has hurt them. Ask them if they’re ready to start a new experience, and make sure you do it from a place of genuine compassion and love.

From my understanding, if you can reach the soul within the darkness, and they agree to be helped, other spirits such as angels will appear in space and bring them back to the source to be transmuted into raw energy.

Essentially, when a dark spirit wants to be helped, that’s the end of its lifecycle, where it can be transmuted into something else.

16 April 2024
How To Astral Project In 3 Simple Steps
Astral projection is something I’ve had a fascination with since I first experienced it several years ago.

It has become apparent that within our consciousness lies a doorway into foreign realms of experience – distant from ordinary reality. People can reach these doorways via various disciplines, whether it be meditation, fasting, prayer, yoga, breathwork, mediumship, shamanism, or astral projection – just to name a few.

Here I’ll focus on astral projection because it tends to be one of the lesser-known spiritual crafts, yet it’s undeniably profound.

I want to be clear, I’ve only successfully astral projected four times in my life. I’ve experienced this intriguing phenomenon a couple of times under the influence of plant medicines, and a couple with no aid at all.

These experiences have all been profound, yet worlds apart from the many stories I’ve heard. There’s a lot of conflicting information out there, so I want to clear the table from my limited, but genuine experiences with this other-worldly phenomenon.

What is astral projection?

Astral projection occurs when your soul temporarily unplugs from physical reality – allowing you to perceive and experience other realms of consciousness. Think of it as projecting your consciousness into other dimensions that can’t be ordinarily perceived.

Instead of viewing your human awareness as an isolated point, imagine it as a node on a string. This string connects you to source (the core of all creation), and vicariously exists in other realms too. We understand this string as the soul.

This means your soul vicariously exists within other realms, and currently, you’re only experiencing a single manifestation of your immense consciousness.

If my experiences with astral projection have taught me anything, we can move our awareness along this string by sinking deeper into the experience of consciousness. We can leverage deeper states of awareness to tap into different experiences of the soul.

While tapping into deeper parts of your soul, you will traverse foreign realms, contact spirits, and soak up an abundance of wisdom within these realms.

I know what you’re thinking.

‘Dude, I just want to fly around Earth and look at things, let’s not overcomplicate this’.

Although I do believe flying around our universe in real-time is a true phenomenon, I understand this phenomenon as remote viewing, not astral projection. Astral projection is interdimensional, and teeming with entities of all kinds. Angelic, demonic, beautiful, weird, neutral, you name it.

So let’s explore the common misconceptions about astral projection to know what we’re actually dealing with here.

Common misconceptions

First off, it’s important to separate fact from fiction and untangle this mess we’ve created.

Astral projection is interdimensional, not part of this universe.

I’ve heard one too many stories of people flying around the universe or touring the pyramids of Giza in spirit. It’s difficult to say what others have experienced, but I believe people tend to mix up the terminology.

Even though astral projection is technically an out-of-body experience because your consciousness is detached from your physical body, it’s not in the way you would think.

I once had an out-of-body experience onset from a lucid dream. I was walking around my house while simultaneously aware of my physical body in bed. However, when I stepped outside into the cold morning mist, my physical body began shivering even though it was cocooned in warm blankets.

This is what I understand as an out-of-body experience. It’s completely different from astral projection because as you’re still here in reality. Sure, you may be disembodied, but it’s the same universe.

I believe remote viewing is a variation of an out-of-body experience. Rather than solely walking around like a regular human, people train themselves to fly, appear in different locations, and go on world tours.

What are the astral realms?

Our reality is akin to a layer of an onion, not the onion itself.

Beyond reality lies other realms of existence that consciousness occupies, but currently we’re experiencing a single layer of it here in the flesh. Each layer represents a different dimension of consciousness, and the core represents source (or god), where all things manifest.

The astral planes are of a different dimension. Different dimensions act as alternate platforms for consciousness to undergo experience. The nature of existence within the astral planes is purely energetic (vibrational), and void of Earthly constructs such as time, matter, and form.

Within the astral planes, I tend to experience moving sacred geometry, colors, and entities. Sometimes entities have a form, however, they often appear as qualities of energy, orbs, or auras.

I’ve tapped into some of these alternate dimensions of consciousness mostly through shamanic ceremonies and plant medicines, which have been extremely foreign to our experience here.

You can read about my complete submersion into one of these realms via ego death here.
How to astral project

Now we’re getting into the fun stuff – the experience of astral projection, and how I’ve achieved it.

Astral projection is most commonly experienced during deep states of awareness induced by meditation. Imagine sinking so deep into your consciousness that you penetrate the fabric of reality. By creating a needle-like focus on your 3rd eye, your awareness pushes through that hole to enter a foreign realm of experience.

Although I have experienced this phenomenon spontaneously without intending to do so, it occurred during deep states of meditation every other time.

My journey of astral projection is characterized by distinct stages. These stages include:

Regular meditation

Deep mindfulness via meditation

Gateway phenomenon (needle-point awareness)

Astral projection

Understand that astral projection is an advanced spiritual discipline. Don’t expect to successfully astral project after a few attempts as it requires a lot of practice and patience, as does any spiritual discipline. This process is a long learning curve and can take years to experience.

As mindfulness is the foundation of astral projection, you’re learning curve is likely much quicker if you regularly meditate.

Set your intentions

Setting intentions is an important element of any spiritual practice because your intention is the compass. If there is no desire to enter these realms, you will call quits as soon as anything out of the ordinary happens because it will be a shock.

Before you attempt to astral project, intend to reach these deeper states of consciousness where you can project outwards, and then let go of the result. Don’t think about your intention or hold onto it. Thinking about it will activate the mind and prevent you from slipping into deeper states of awareness.

Start meditating

First, you want to start meditating. Either sit or lie in a comfortable position, and loosen u[ your mind.

Usually, the first 10 – 20 minutes of my meditation sessions will be observing my thoughts in silence. I give my full attention to any thoughts or feelings that arise, and allow myself to think about whatever is coming up. I allow my mind to wander, and don’t resist where it takes me.

Slowly, I’ll begin recentering my mind to my third eye (point of awareness between the eyes). My thoughts will begin to slow down and become less intrusive the more I sit with them without judgment.

At this point, there is about a 50/50 chance that I will transition into a deeper state of awareness marked by tangible differences in my state of consciousness. However, this doesn’t always happen. Often enough, I won’t make it past the cerebral stage of meditation, and wrap up the session.

After years of inconsistent practice, it is just now becoming more common (and quicker) to pass the cerebral stage of meditation to enter the state of stillness that ensues.

So don’t pressure yourself. If you spend the whole session thinking, that’s also good because you’re processing your thoughts and emotions, and building the practice of disciplining your mind.

Reach a deep state of awareness

Sometimes when I’m meditating, I reach a stage where my thoughts seemingly stop. I notice my brainwaves changing, and everything slowing down to a near-halt.

There will be a deep sense of stillness, comfort, and peace in this state of consciousness. My breathing finds a natural rhythm by becoming slower and more shallow, to the point I almost feel as if I’m not breathing at all.

There may still be some thoughts, but they are non-intrusive, more so acting as background noise without goading my attention. I don’t have any desire to ‘do something’, because during this deep state of awareness I feel fulfilled. I’m completely present. There’s no place I would rather be than in this moment.

I’ve noticed that this state of deep awareness can be delicate. If my mind is reactivated, I slide back into the cerebral state of awareness (thinking). A single thought, or perhaps a loud noise can trigger this shift, so it takes discipline to sit with this experience and slowly slide into deeper states of awareness.

This is a very nourishing state to be in, however, occasionally I’ll go even deeper into my consciousness, and this is where I enter the gateway.

Enter the gateway

After entering a deep meditative state, sometimes I will enter an even deeper state of consciousness which I call the gateway. This is where things start to get real.

The astral gateway is the bridge between our physical reality and the astral realms, and you need to reach a certain state of consciousness to access it. The gateway is marked by a set of symptoms that occur simultaneously during deep states of meditation.

This experience tends to come on quite rapidly and it can certainly throw you out of balance, therefore maintaining your composure is necessary, otherwise, you’ll ground yourself and end the experience.

A sharp ringing in my ears occurs while my body energetically vibrates. There will be a sense of expansion, and often my heart starts racing. When this expansive feeling happens, my vision begins brightening – while becoming more complex with colors, patterns, and shapes. There is a heavy feeling in my body like I’m starting to disassociate from it.

Imagine your regular closed-eye vision as a static TV screen. As I become immersed in this expansive state of awareness, that screen becomes three-dimensional as the boundaries stretch outwards.

Within moments my closed-eye vision has depth while visuals including sacred geometry, movements, colors, orbs, and auras begin to appear inside that space.

Here’s what happens when I reach the astral gateway. These symptoms tend to all happen spontaneously, and simultaneously.

A loud ringing in both my ears occurs

My heart usually begins to beat quickly

My closed-eye vision begins to broaden, providing the sensation of stretching out

My closed-eye vision brightens to a whitish hue

There is an intense vibration feeling in my body

There is a generally heavy body feeling as my consciousness begins to detach (feels like I’m being stretched out)

I begin to lose awareness of my physical body

I may hear disembodied sounds, hums, and noises

Sometimes there are visuals including patterns or a grid matrix

Leave your body

To pass through this gateway, I need to maintain this deep state of awareness without snapping out of it – which has proven to be a challenge.

There were multiple times when I would start disassociating from my body, however, the only times when I have successfully passed through this gateway occurred when I could maintain complete composure while undergoing these intense symptoms.

At first, I began to feel fear when this phenomenon began because it was a very unusual experience and I didn’t know what was going on. The fear would activate my mind and instantly snap me out of my deep meditative state.

Once I recognized this experience was the onset of astral projection, I felt excited when it happened. I would think ‘Woah, it’s happening again’ which activated my mind and again, snapped me out of my meditative state.

When you enter this astral gateway, you need to be indifferent to the experience which allows you to maintain a deep meditative state.

As soon as you react to what’s happening, you’ll instantly reactivate your mind and end the experience. You don’t want to be grounded, you want to leave your body and explore. Therefore, being indifferent to the experience is critical.

After a few moments of maintaining composure while passing through this gateway, the journey seems to somewhat stabilize, and you’ll find yourself in a space with a very different quality of experience.
Navigating the astral planes

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations, you’re in for a ride. So now you’ve made it through the gateway where your conscious experience resides in a bizarre, but beautiful place. You now exist as a form of self without cognition or rational thought.

Everything in this space is energetic, but you innately recognize everything you interact with. It feels very real, and there’s no argument that you’re no longer in reality (although there may still be a sense that you are energetically connected to your body, and aware that you’re astral projecting).

Guiding the experience

The nature of your awareness is different in the astral planes. You don’t think ‘I’m going to go that way!’ You instinctively act from desire. In other words, you cut out the middle man – the mind, which allows your experience to be more pure.

If you encounter something dark, your first instinct tells you ‘I’m getting out of here’ and the experience changes. If you encounter a loving being with a bright golden aura, you will feel beautiful feelings, and stay around unless you intend the experience to change (or until the being leaves).

Energy is the language of the astral planes, and intention is your guiding mechanism. Whatever you intend when you’re astral projecting tends to happen. If you get a message from a spirit saying ‘Let me show you something’ and you instinctively feel like it’s a good idea, you will follow it.

Even though there is a sense of movement, I don’t necessarily perceive space in the astral planes. Sure, the experience changes, but it’s almost like you’re watching a video rather than playing a game.

So trust that you know what to do. When you don’t have a mind to think from, guiding yourself in the astral realms is quite simple.

Interacting with entities

As the astral planes are teeming with life, you’re likely to encounter entities when you’re in this space. In my experiences, encounters with entities have always been a vivid experience. There was no doubt that I was interacting with a being.

I’ve experienced orbs with colorful auras that were either distinctly masculine or feminine. There have been all sorts of bizarre spirits both of light and darkness. I’ve also encountered neutral entities who I couldn’t read at all. They didn’t seem to have an intention or distinct energy. They were just there.

About a month ago I was thrust out of my body randomly and attacked by a dark energy. It was a terrifying experience, and I heard it very clearly speaking to me in deep whispers. I felt like I was in imminent danger, and that danger felt very real, regardless if it was in the astral realms.

During my time working at a shamanic healing center in Ecuador, I was told that dark energies can cause real-life issues, and I witnessed several exorcisms during this time too. Dark spirits can attach themselves to you and ride your spirit back into reality.

Unless you know what you’re doing, you’re vulnerable (or rather, exposed) in these states of consciousness. You’re in their world, so don’t play with fire.

There is often a visual component to spirits in the astral realms as they may manifest a form, however, you feel them, the same way you feel the presence of someone else in the room – however you’re much more sensitive in these energetic states.

Each being has a distinct, yet unique energy. When you’re in their presence, you will start to feel things. You may feel love and compassion, you may feel pain and hatred. Likewise, you may feel calm, strange, uneasy, or just downright weird because you’re picking up the energy field of the being you’re interacting with.

Astral beings can communicate with you, but as with all spiritual encounters, they do so telepathically. You may receive messages or insights as if you’re getting a download. You may hear voices, or attain instant understanding.

Returning to reality

At some point during the experience, you will snap back into your body. Like a lucid dream, I don’t see a need to end the experience. It will naturally end at some point, so my advice is to enjoy it while it lasts.

Remember, you’re still energetically tied to your physical body, so you can’t get lost. Having trust in the process may help. With that said, perhaps you’re feeling afraid and just want the experience to end. In this case, your desire to end the experience will probably end the experience.

It’s no mystery that the astral realms are an intriguing place to visit. There are so many beings to interact with, so much you can learn, and overall it’s just a fascinating experience.

Enjoy the journey and don’t be afraid to explore your immense consciousness!
9 April 2024