Have you ever been woken up in the morning with a desperate need to go to the loo?
Up you get and stroll towards the toilet the same old route you always take and then as you try to open the door you realise you can’t open it because your hand just goes straight through it.  With the realisation that you aren’t actually awake you are straight back in your body thinking “I really need to go to the loo now, so I need to wake up or it won’t be good.”

That happened to me this morning.  In fact it took me three attempts before I was actually really awake and going to the bathroom to my relief.  I haven’t had an astral projection experience for a little while so I was quite surprised by it and a little frustrated as well for obvious reasons.  I used to astral project quite a lot as a child and it seemed to be quite easy for me to do and more regular.  The main place I remember doing it the most was at my Nan’s house.  My sister and I would be put to bed, far too early as far as I was concerned, whilst my Mum, Dad and other members of that side of the family would be downstairs, chatting, laughing and watching the television.  I remember going to the top of my Nan’s stairs and jumping down the stairs and flying all the way to the bottom.  When I got to the bottom I could hear the chatting and laughing even louder outside the glass door they used to shut at the bottom of the stairs.  The feeling of floating down the stairs was really exciting for me at that age which would probably have been the contributing factor of me astral projecting more often as a child then an adult.

I know of people who can astral project on command. One friend told me he fights the feeling of when his body wants to go to sleep and after a while he starts to feel his body vibrating and then there is a loud popping noise and he is above himself in the bedroom floating around in figures of eight.  I don’t seem to be able to do it when I want to any more.  Although I do manage to get myself into quite a deep meditation sometimes where I can feel my body go forward and lift up.

It is quite surprising how many people do astral project and see themselves floating above their own body.  One of my friend’s never knew what it was and he used to call it his “fun dreams”.

The exciting thing about astral projection is that you have a chance to look into the spirit world without actually having to go there.  I was only a child when I realised that nobody could see me whilst I was flying carefree down my Nan’s stairs when, to my surprise, a relative opened the glass door when I was at the bottom. I was scared, at first, that I was going to be told off for being out of bed but instead I wasn’t noticed just as if I were a ghost.

I have seen many spirits in my astral journeys but the most important one was my first.  It took me a while to get to sleep this night and as I woke up in my astral state I started to stumble across the room because I couldn’t see where I was going. This was strange because I had always been able to see in other astral projections. I could feel as I entered the hallway from the bedroom that there was someone standing in front of me and they had noticed me as well.  I held the hands of this person as they reached out to touch mine and although I did not see them I knew it was my Great Aunt who had died a few years previously to this event.  It was only confirmed when I heard her voice.  It was a very amazing moment for me and to this day I don’t know why I was not able to see that night.  As soon as she spoke to me I was straight back in my body asleep in bed because unfortunately as soon as you realise you are astral projecting it seems to stop.  I have seen other spirits since then and with my astral eyes open and it is a wonderful experience to see a glimpse of the other world.

There used to be a very good website about astral projection by a young man called Jonas Ridgeway who would write about his own experiences when he astral projected.  Unfortunately it is no longer online and all the other websites I have looked at seem to write about it but not from a personal level.  I remember when I first read Jonas’s website that it made me feel that someone else understood what happens and some of the things he wrote about related to me. This is why I thought I would share my experiences so that those of you who have had astral encounters and even for those of you who are just interested can hear about it from a personal level.

Thursday 3^rd April 2008           Spiritual Development Night

Tonight was my first group at home after five weeks in the library.

I noticed a difference straight away in the atmosphere of the group being at my home.  They were more relaxed and more responsive spiritually.

I know I am not the only person who felt this as I had comments after from some of the group members saying it was "the best so far" and "the mood of the group was more energetic and uplifted".

We started with quite a long talk from me which hopefully was inspired and not just me rambling on.

We started with our usual opening meditation which brings about all manner of awareness for our group members which are then shared after or shared with me at another time.  This was followed by me teaching them a new way to work spiritually.  At the end I wanted to leave the group with something physical from the spirit world.  To do this we had a tumbler which we asked spirit to move to certain answers.  As usual the spirit world didn't let us down and moved about answering correctly to their relatives that were in the group.

Tonight we had tears, laughter and a chance to stop for a minute and think about how we feel and how others feel.  Which is something that is ignored as we rush through our every day lives. 

Working with this group makes me feel inspired by your experiences and enthusiasm and for that I thank you all. 

Saturday 20th April 2008

I happened to be listening to 80’s tunes on the radio which remind me of my teenage years.  So I was feeling young and carefree again whilst listening to these songs and strangely more energetic.  Realistically I was still in my 36 year old body doing a boring job but these songs were stirring up an emotion inside me that made me feel I was still that young teenager.

I remember one of the first spiritual development classes I did where I was trying to explain clairsentience to everyone by using music and that is what this situation reminded me of.

Clairsentience for anyone that doesn’t know is one of the three clairs mediums use to connect with spirit.  There is clairaudience where you hear spirit, clairvoyance where you see spirit and clairsentience where you feel spirit.

Clairsentience seems to be the predominant clair for most mediums so I felt it was important for the group to understand how they can feel spirit coming close to them and I did this by using emotion provoking music.  It was quite a difficult task to do because sometimes the emotions you feel from hearing a song are quite personal.  For instance there are songs that make you feel sad because they remind you of a person you have lost or there are songs that remind you of when you are young.  There are even songs that make you feel quite loving (if you know what I mean).  I bet if you think about it there is a song for nearly every emotion you feel.  This was my point.

Before spirit come close to you, you are just feeling your normal self then, just like when an emotion provoking song comes on, spirit come close and change your feelings to how they were, what they were and how they felt.

It’s such a subtle feeling that most people ignore it but if you just take notice of your self and how you feel and how that feeling changes suddenly without any need for it to happen.  You will notice how our loved ones in the spirit world are around us so much more.