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Have you ever had an out of body experience?
- Thread starter Spiderman
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I've not personally but a friend did. An astral entity tried to possess his body while he was out and with God's grace did not succeed so my friend was able to reclaim his body. That was enough not only for my friend but also for me who is happy to be residing in my body as long as it lasts.
Ingledsva
HEATHEN ALASKAN
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Yes, I was lying down, meditating. I felt a gentle side-to-side hammock like rocking, - then all of a sudden I rocked all the way over, - and found myself looking down at my body. I said, "OH SH*T!!" And slammed back into my body. It felt like it knocked the wind out of me.
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Yes, I was lying down, meditating. I felt a gentle side-to-side hammock like rocking, - then all of a sudden I rocked all the way over, - and found myself looking down at my body. I said, "OH SH*T!!" And slammed back into my body. It felt like it knocked the wind out of me.
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Aiviu
Active Member
Imagined, remembered, and rendered by the machine called brain. The fear to die physically. The desire to survive at least as the spiritual 'me'. A deep voice/hum thrills and pushes me in a state extreme fear. Before i emotionally dissolve in it - i trust what what fears me. What ever it is - i trust it as much as it pushes me into extreme feel of beloved. All of it becomes just a mirror of my emotional self. So if i calm myself down I can act in this dream. My brain is able to render a copy of my house, street, etc,.. but much colder, darker, and devastated. If my fear wouldn't be that sensitive i could recall all people who got branded into my subconsciouss. That includes my ancients up to the first. Literally those who are written from generation to generation into my subconsciousness as who they were as they were alive.
Most are just shadows, dark clouds, ghosts, without a face that i am able to focus ... My brain only can render a face which i had seen and can remember. My ancients i'd never lived with and seen. Also those who i could have met I never lived with. I grown up alone with my mom. So no family appeared to live with me. So clouds, shadow, ghosts, ... are ok with me. I never saw their face rendered to a point i can say they are humans just by looking at them. But i sense that they are humans. I bow my head to calm myself when i want to talk to them else i'd emotionally loose it and the balance which keeps me awake in this kicks me out. Their visiblity is frightening and fearful but that is what i am able to give them. I wonder if there is a brain which can render them into visible persons tho i may see them. But anyway i found out its not the appearance, its the soul, this image.
Yerda
Veteran Member
Hi. What's an astral entity?
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I've had so many that I scarcely know where to begin.
Like others have said, the first time was extremely startling - but in my case - strangely familiar, so I wasn't frightened and just went with it. I was in a room with 4 friends and a dog. I closed my eyes and in a flicker I was still looking around at everyone. They looked different. I realized I wasn't seeing them with my ordinary vision or perspective. It was my first appointment with infinity and I wasn't even aware that I had an appointment.
All said and done, I handled it quite well. Almost immediately I understood ... so much... but first and foremost was that those around me could not understand what was happening to me. I didn't know how to describe it anyways and so just kept quiet. There was a strange moment when it happened though. There was like a tiny inner explosion, but one that radiated from me throughout the room and I heard everyone's startled voices asking, "What the hell was that?" When I opened my eyes, I saw that they were all looking at me.
There are times when it's really better to just smile and say nothing.
Like others have said, the first time was extremely startling - but in my case - strangely familiar, so I wasn't frightened and just went with it. I was in a room with 4 friends and a dog. I closed my eyes and in a flicker I was still looking around at everyone. They looked different. I realized I wasn't seeing them with my ordinary vision or perspective. It was my first appointment with infinity and I wasn't even aware that I had an appointment.
All said and done, I handled it quite well. Almost immediately I understood ... so much... but first and foremost was that those around me could not understand what was happening to me. I didn't know how to describe it anyways and so just kept quiet. There was a strange moment when it happened though. There was like a tiny inner explosion, but one that radiated from me throughout the room and I heard everyone's startled voices asking, "What the hell was that?" When I opened my eyes, I saw that they were all looking at me.
There are times when it's really better to just smile and say nothing.
Aiviu
Active Member
thanks for making me smile.
Indagator
Member
I had one when i had a bad case of panic attack.
I used to deal with them by being conscious of the fact that i am having panic attack so i would know that any bad thoughts that goes in my head is just my body trying to explain to it self what is going on.
But then one time i had an absolutely horrible panic attack where i was just sitting in a corner, was out of breath and my wife was trying to comfort me. I started to really focusing on being conscious of what is happening to me... and then it happened.
It was like a pure consciousness in both 3rd and 1st person. It was like consciousness was not in me but outside of me.
I was looking at me and my wife from behind and even saw my wife`s fine butt and it made me smile (although my wife said i did not smile, maybe it just felt like it... dont know). After that i snapped out of it.
Since then i never had any panic attacks. I also stopped being atheistic-physicalist.
I used to deal with them by being conscious of the fact that i am having panic attack so i would know that any bad thoughts that goes in my head is just my body trying to explain to it self what is going on.
But then one time i had an absolutely horrible panic attack where i was just sitting in a corner, was out of breath and my wife was trying to comfort me. I started to really focusing on being conscious of what is happening to me... and then it happened.
It was like a pure consciousness in both 3rd and 1st person. It was like consciousness was not in me but outside of me.
I was looking at me and my wife from behind and even saw my wife`s fine butt and it made me smile (although my wife said i did not smile, maybe it just felt like it... dont know). After that i snapped out of it.
Since then i never had any panic attacks. I also stopped being atheistic-physicalist.
Yep, at my first surgery age 7 tonsillectomy.
after blowing up the black bag (first stage of anesthesia) seems i left my body was surprised to see myself on the operating slab,
so being curious i perched on the surgeons shoulder and watched the operation ...
after blowing up the black bag (first stage of anesthesia) seems i left my body was surprised to see myself on the operating slab,
so being curious i perched on the surgeons shoulder and watched the operation ...
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I was struck at how calmly I took the whole thing though my circumstances were very different.
I found myself in the garage of my house. It was all very vivid. I didn't realize I wasn't there physically. Until I tried to open the door that led into the house from the garage. My hand wasn't able to grasp the doorknob. Then I panicked. I felt there was a dark entity in the rafters of the garage watching me. I started flailing at the door trying to open it.
Suddenly the doorknob felt solid in my hand. I threw the door open and as I step through I found myself lying in bed. Awake now I went downstairs to find my two kids sitting on the couch freaked out. They said the door to the garage had just opened wide for no reason. I explained to them the experience I had just had.
My kids still talk about that event occasionally. They think their dad has some magical astral powers.
Suddenly the doorknob felt solid in my hand. I threw the door open and as I step through I found myself lying in bed. Awake now I went downstairs to find my two kids sitting on the couch freaked out. They said the door to the garage had just opened wide for no reason. I explained to them the experience I had just had.
My kids still talk about that event occasionally. They think their dad has some magical astral powers.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Once I drank a slushie so fast it smacked my soul right out of my body, and good thing it did because that brain freeze looked painful.
The perspective of the 'astral' is where most people go after death to review their past lives and experience joy or suffering depending on their actions while in a physical body.
If you have a deceased soul who was for example a sexual predator they might still want to experience that even after not having a physical body. So they look around for a physical body they can inhabit to try to have that experience again.
I don't know if all souls on the astral are human being without a physical body or not. There are some beliefs that there are. And there are systems where the astral is subdivided into subplanes - people gravitate to the subplane that reflects who they were with those who lived loving lives gravitating to higher planes more filled with love, for example.
One book I read that I found interesting was "Testimony of Light" by Helen Greaves.