Are you overcomplicating astral travel?
Hereâs the thing: By far the most common question I get from people is âhow do I astral?â Which is, well, a big question. It begs other questions, like:
>Why do you want to travel
>WHERE do you want to travel
>Do you have jobs you need to do over there or are you gonna hang out
But hereâs the thing: Often people decide to travel, and then they get stuck. They try a method they maybe heard about once, and it doesnât work, so maybe they research another method. Maybe they pick up a book on the topic, maybe the book tells them âyouâll know youâre astral traveling when you can rise out of your body and see it on your bed.â
BOOM. Imma stop you for a minute.
There it is. This is the moment the Gold StandardâąÂ for the new person gets set in stone. The mind now says âIf Iâm not hovering above my body with full range of vision, Iâm not Traveling, with a capital T.â
So now we have this goal. The person may feel a little more confident because there is a road map in front of them, and that map may have steps, often detailed by a book author, or maybe even a blogger here on tumblr. Maybe the person tries the steps, and fails. Maybe it takes months. Maybe it takes years, but eventually, maybe the person gets frustrated, and they give up.
âI just canât travelâ, they say, truly discouraged, or âIâm just not meant for this, if I was, I would have been hovering outside my body by now.â They maybe pack up the books and leave it be.
Perhaps you see people on tumblr or blogs that talk about full blown OBE or extreme situations, and then you internalize THEIR gold standard, and then you fail to achieve the standard. Same situation applies.
Imma stop you right here. What happened?
Person decided they wanted to travel
Person researched or was told what âauthenticâ travel looks like
Person attempted to reach the âauthenticâ standard
Assumed they were not meant to travel, due to their failure to reach âAuthentic Travelâ.
Hereâs the secret, my bros:
1. There is no one form of âauthenticâ astral travel. You will find this is an epidemic with older books on the astral, when astral âtravelâ or astral living was equated on a wide scale with your classic OBE, or Out Of Body Experience. So in reality, what many people are trying to achieve, when they want to travel, is an OBE. Based on what books/people tell them. But that is FAR from the only way to astralâin my case, for example, Iâve never achieved full OBEâand not for lack of years of trying. (Because I thought that was How One Astral Traveled)
1-A. THERE ARE MANY FORMS OF ASTRALING BESIDES âTRAVELâ. I donât travel because I lead an astral double-lifeâI âtune inâ. An OBE is wrong for my circumstances, and if I would have learned that sooner, it would have helped me a lot. There are people that astral-trip only in dreams! People that astral-trip only while DAYDREAMING! People that mentally trip but never leave awareness of their body, people who canât âseeâ anything there but hear everything perfectly, people who can only see the astral in black and white, people without a âformâ or a body, people with only a bizarre pinprick field of vision! HONESTLY ITâS ENDLESS. Learn your style!
2. Because there is no one form of âauthenticâ astralingâthere is no ONE WAY to achieve the travel! If you fail at going OBE, there may be a perfectly good reason you arenât suited to that route! The failure here also lies on authors and books that imply there IS one way of authentic travel, and therefore, the user is set up for a failure situation a lot of the time. (And for example, OBE LEAVES your body open for attack or walk-ins in a lot of casesâdid you ever think this was your natural energy defense system preventing you from leaving yourself a shell?)
3. Your way of travel is probably NOT going to match someone elseâs, so you absolutely need to drop the gold standard now. I am NOT telling you to give up on discernment, because that will keep you alive when you reach the astral. I am telling you that if you have lofty expectations of what the astral is going to be like for you based on someone youâve read (including me!) you need to drop it before you go, because itâs likely to fuck you up. I have listened to hundreds of different astral experiences, and I co-run the astral atlasâitâs all remarkably different for each individual based on your needs and jobs.
4. Your ideas of the astral are probably going to get blown out of the water when you get there anyway. Know this. Expect it. It will constantly surprise you and remind you that this isnât In Your Head, and in doing so it will shatter your ideas of what it is, over and over again.Â
5. Stop complicating things. If I had a nickel for every time person that came to me and asked why they canât astral, and I gave them the idea of âWell, did you try opening a door?â and then the look of revelation descended, Iâd be rich. This is not a blame on you, because I donât blame you for this over-complication thing. Weâre humans, we like to complicate everything, it makes us happy and whatnot. It makes me almost tremendously happy to shroud things in pomp and circumstance. But seriouslyâhave you tried opening a door? Like. Visualize a door, and then open it, and then walk through. Thatâs how I first got to the astral.
After weeks of trying and doing all this complex shit, eventually I was told to visualize a door, and walk through. And then I was fucking there.
(Can you imagine how pissed I was, though. Like wtf I WAS TOLD MY ENTRANCE WAS TO BE GRANDIOSE AND MAGNIFICENT, not a fucking shitty wooden-ass door with nobody around to see me. Harumph, I said. I ended up in an empty field in fuck-all nowhere, if you wanted to know.)
Iâm not saying itâs always easy to get to the astral. It has ways of keeping you out (or in) inside mental spaces or white rooms until youâre ready to be out on your own. This is where discernment and patience come in. But I AM saying if you find yourself failing over and over again at this thing, ask: Is it because you have an unconscious Gold Standard? Analyze why. And then, let it go. Because itâs not going to help you, itâs just going to make you anxious and perpetuate the failure cycle, trust me. And then ask: Am I overcomplicating my approach/expectations because of my gold standard? Analyze that, let it go.
Then, try an amazingly simple thing like opening a door, and stop cutting yourself off at the pass, and just let it happen.
You might be surprised at the results.
(This post is aimed at people who a) WANT to astral and b) have a hard time doing so for unknown reasons. It is not suggesting everyone should astral if they donât want to or have no interest, if that wasnât self-evident.)
