AnVil, on 17 August 2011 - 11:48 PM, said:
If phasing is like remote viewing or 'conscious mental projection' then you can see in live time. I've been thinking of ways to try and convey a technique for this that would make sense to others.
As for FAQ's what is your idea for that exactly? The astral travel thread currently works as question thread or are you thinking of something more organised? I was also thinking it could be interesting to start an Astral Experiences/Projections/Dream thread for astral related things only. Not techniques or non astral dreams. Either way, pinning those threads should be no problem I can do that.
Yes, phasing, at least from how he described it, sounds pretty much as a "inner vision" type of experience. Such visions are very common to experience late at night when very tired and lying down in bed with closed eyes, at least for me. I often take advantage of these visions, as they come completely randomly and show basically anything, and just think of something I would like to see and explore, such as Mars, and then it will tune into that and start being like watching from the perspective of a camera flying around the surface of mars. This method is completely mental, meaning you and your body stays completely awake and alert and able to function as normal, and there is no sense of disconnection from the body or other sensations, just a clear view of a location with the eyes closed, where you can direct it around to places of interest. I often prefer this method, since it is much easier and quicker to do than a full separation from the body and a "real" astral projection, but it is equally useful. You can travel through different astral planes, meet and communicate with other entities, and mostly anything else that you can do while under a full blown astral projection separated from the physical body.
Actually it is very similar to a method Carl Jung used and taught for traveling and communicating with Archetypes etc, which has been further developed and perfected by Edwin Steinbrecher as detailed in his book The Inner Guide Meditation - a true masterpiece and highly useful method on its own, where you work more with "the inner worlds" of yourself rather than exploring the "outer external worlds". Going inwards like that, to communicate with different aspects of yourself, is highly useful and can teach you a lot, I'd recommend this book to anyone. And this technique taught there can easily be adapted for general astral projection use as well. The specific "inner guide" technique incorporates a bit more sensations than vision alone though, such as making oneself feel ones body "there" in the location viewed, touch surroundings, etc - but this is all while being fully awake and aware, conscious of your physical body, and able to function as normal.
Since I already wrote a long article about this technique and different aspects of what one can encounter there etc, I will quote a part of the actual method itself since some may find it useful as a way to induce astral projections:
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First of all find yourself in a comfortable position either in a nice chair with both feet on the ground, separated not crossed, and your arms by your sides - or simply lie down in bed or on your coach to relax there.
During this meditation it is important that you do not "drift away" or get into a "trance state", you have to be conscious throughout the whole procedure and be aware of everything you do and experience.
Thus you should try to do this when you are fresh and awake and not when tired or sleepy.
Once in your position, mentally imagine yourself somewhere else, such as in a cave. Feel and sense yourself there, and experience yourself as being INSIDE your body looking out from your own eyes - this is also crucial for this meditation, you need to experience yourself as "being there" and NOT as if you are watching yourself on a film screen. To "anchor" yourself more within yourself it can be good to touch your surroundings, feel your feet on the ground, notice the details - is the ground flat or bumpy, rocky and solid or sandy, how does it smell in there, do you hear any sounds, how does the walls feel when you touch them with your hands, look at your hands and see what they look like, look down at your body and see what your body and legs look like - how are you dressed?
Make this as vivid and clear as you can in your mind, really sensing yourself as being there and able to have a solid image of the place you are experiencing yourself to be - always go back into "your body" in any place you go during the meditation, should you suddenly see yourself from the outside in the cave, simply slip back inside yourself and make sure you look out through your eyes and see the surroundings as you would in real life, as clear as you can.
Work on this first part for a while so you really get it as strong as you can visually and in your imagination, sensing it as clear and powerful as possible.
If you for some reason do not like caves, you can imagine yourself somewhere else, such as in a room, or in a garden etc, just make sure to keep to the same procedure described above.
Now once in your cave, look around and see a door in front of you. This can also simply be a passage, a open portal, or any other sort of opening leading forwards from where you are at, and with an exit behind you from where you came into this cave - similarly imagine such things if you imagine yourself anywhere else than in a cave.
Walk forward, while walking notice the feet stomping on the ground, let your hands touch the surroundings, the rocks, when by the portal touch it, look at it, study it for a while. Then continue forward and through it.
Once you have either gone through it, or if you are walking in a passage, immediately turn to your left and now find yourself in a new landscape, as if you have found your way out of the cave and now are outside the mountain the cave is in. Or out of the house, garden, or whatever else place you may have preferred to imagine yourself.
In either case, after moving forward, and then turning left, notice the landscape your are now in. In the whole process let the images come to you, dont try to force it or create it with your mind, just be open like a blank piece of film where the image is slowly becoming clearer and manifesting itself.
Study these new surroundings, where are you? Inside or outside? Is it hot or cold? Dry or wet? Is the ground hard or soft, is it any smells there, touch your nearby surroundings with your hands and look around.
For the rest, it can be found in my full article here:
http://www.pleiadian...ide-change.html
Now in the original method, which I quoted the first part of the method itself from, it focuses on meeting your "Inner Guide" to work with yourself, improve situations in your life, find out reasons behind certain issues you may have etc, a very useful psychological tool for self-improvement and understanding yourself and that around you. That on its own can be extremely adventurous, interesting, insightful and useful - though for direct astral projection uses doing the above mentioned part of this method should help many obtain a perception of an external location and thus be able to explore it. When reaching the last part I quoted, where you're studying the surroundings, you could simply imagine another doorway somewhere, or a portal , a hole in the sky or anything else with the intention of going to a specific location when entering such. And it should then be possible to "teleport" from your imagined location to a real external location you want to explore or visit. The more its practiced, the easier and more clear and vivid it becomes.
Once you've gotten experienced with this method, you could either try to travel directly to the location you want from the very start using the same principles and techniques, or you could do as I've done and create your own astral sanctum - as I call it - a world of your own that functions as a "headquarte" for different types of astral / spiritual activities such as a portal to enter other places, a place to meet spirit guides and communicate, a place you can view your past lives, a place for healing, and deeper spiritual meditations and experiences. I have found this extremely useful, and its a great place to have where you can always go when you want to explore something or just have fun or relax. This place will also become more and more stable, clear, fixed and real the more you practice and truly becomes a world of your own which will get more and more easy to visit. I can "go" there almost instantly, even if just sitting here now closing my eyes, the place quickly starts to show if i focus on that.
If you're already good at imagining places and have a natural tendencies to easily have clear visions when you're relaxing with closed eyes , whether in bed or elsewhere, you could skip the whole "inner guide" approach mentioned and go directly to this "astral sanctum" method instead as it should be fairly easy in such a case. Since it will be too much to quote the whole method in its full here I'll just link to the original article I wrote on how to do it and what you can do there:
http://www.pleiadian...unveil-all.html
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The 2-D blackness in front of your eyes will shortly expand to 3-D blackness. The feeling is unmistakeable! The 3-D blackness is fun in and of itself-- you can view windows into the Astral where it's like watching the cinema. As fun as this is, we want to have a full-blown OOBE. So we use our Intent to travel to anywhere in the astral. 
