Astral Projection The Bitter Truth
�Astral travel for me is I close my eyes � they don�t close all the way � and
I�m peering through a slit and this happens: the instant I close my eyes I see people and
places instantly.
Maybe it�s more like remote viewing.�
Stanley Victor Paskavich Astral projection is defined as a willful
out-of-body experience.
Believed to be a form of telepathy, this concept assumes that the consciousness or soul often
referred to as an �astral body� is a separate entity from the physical body, and therefore
able to travel outside of the body through the universe.
A belief that has existed throughout history, dating back to ancient times, it is one that
has been discussed, debated and contested throughout the decades.
At this time experts believe that somewhere between 8% and 20% of people make the claim
that they have had an out-of-body experience at some stage in their lives.
This includes experienced during sleep, while under hypnosis or one that comes about from
nothing more than mere relaxation.
The difficulty in quantifying whether or not astral projection exists in the world of science
is the inability to actually measure the moments in which individuals state that their spirit
�leaves� or �enters� their body.
Without tracking this phenomenon there is no way to scientifically measure and assess
whether there truly is a separation between body and soul, or whether they are merely
experiencing a heightened dream state.
Susan Blackmore, author of �Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences�
explained that people who experience astral travel �have been found to score higher
on measures of hypnotizability and, in several surveys, on measures of absorption, [a] measure
of a person�s ability to pay complete attention to something and to become immersed in it,
even if it is not real, or imagined event.�
Claiming that those who identify as having out-of-body-experiences are more suggestible,
imaginative and fantasy-prone, experts do advise that these individuals have low levels
of drug and alcohol use, and no obvious signs of mental illness or psychopathology.
The question remains, then, if they are not experiencing an out of body experience, what
is actually happening?
It is possible that they are entering a dream state during a �microsleep.� A microsleep
refers to any time that an individual falls asleep for half a second to a minute, not
realizing that they have done so.
Often people who experience this state wake up believing that they have been asleep for
minutes, or even hours, unaware that they were only sleeping for such a short time.
During this time, it is conceivable that they may be having extremely vivid and realistic
dreams, which are then being interpreted as an out of body experience.
Despite the inability to scientifically prove or disprove the phenomenon, it continues to
take the world by storm, bringing in large incomes for those who are able to appeal to
the believers.
Mark Pritchard even offers an online course and book on how you can learn to astral travel
in eight weeks.
While this may be entirely true, or nothing more than a money grab, it is both entertaining
and harmless.
There have, however, been cases where the experience has been life-changing.
While scientists continue to speculate whether they believe this can actually occur, there
are limitations to science and aspects of the natural world that it cannot hope to understand.
For this reason, whether it can be scientifically measured doesn�t disprove its ability to
occur.
It simply leaves us with unanswered questions and the amazing first-hand accounts of those
who have experienced it, until such time that Science may some day catch up.
�[Science] is not perfect.
It can be misused.
It is only a tool.
But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything�
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