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How to Astral Project Part 1

Witches' Flying Ointment

Traditional European witchcraft descends from shamanism, which is evident when we compare  the abilities attributed to witches during the medieval witch trials with the powers of shamans. Witches healed the sick. They performed divination and augury. They conversed with spirits and kept familiar  spirits as  their servants, usually in the forjms of small animals such as cats. Witches were able to bewitch beasts, cause storms, ancl affect the growth of crops. Spirits instructed them in the technical details of  their profession. Most significantly,  it was believed that they had the power of flight. All these abilities are shamanic.
Sixteenth-century  English author Reginald Scot gave an extended  catalog of the supposed powers of witches  in his Discoverie  of  Witchcrafi,  including the following talents: 18  Soul Flight Some write that with wishing they can send needles into the livers of their enimies. Some that they can transferre corne in the blade from one place to another. Some, that they can cure diseases supernaturallie,  flie in  the aire, and danse with divels. Some write, that  they can plaie  the part of  Succubus, and contract themselves to Incubus; and so  yoong prophets are upon them begotten,  etc.  Som saie  they can  transubstantiate  themselves and others,  and  take the forms and shapes of asses, woolves, ferrets, cowes, apes, horsses, dogs, etc. Some say they can keepe divels and spirits in
the likenesse of todes and cats.

Descent to the Underworld

Descent into the underworld of the dead was achieved by passing through an opening in the ground, reached by means of a soul flight across the astral plane. Shamans  descended to ihe underworld either to escort there the soul of a member of  the tribe who had died, or sometimes  to retrieve  a soul  in order to bring the newly dead back to  life. Such descents were considered dangerous by shamans, and few records of the rituals they used still ex-ist. In one such rare description, an Altaic shaman descended vertically down through seven subterranean levels called pudak, a word that means "obstacles." In this  task, he was accompanied both by  spirits of  his ancestors and by  familiars. At  the seventh level, he reached the place where  the nine subterranean rivers have their mouths and met the lord of the dead, Erlik Khan, to whom he uttered a prayer. If  the prayer was accepted, he was permitted to return to the ~urface.~ Sometimes a shaman who went down to rescue the soul of  one who had died was not so fortunate. 

There is a tale in the Chronicon Norvegiae of a shaman who attempted to bring back the soul of a woman who had suffered a sudden death. In the middle of this work, a severe wound appeared on  the shaman's abdomen and he fell lifeless  to the ground. A second shaman revived the woman. She related how she had seen the astral spirit of the first shaman crossing a lake in the form of a walrus, and that someone had struck the animal with a weapon, causing the wound that was visible on  the ~orpse.~ This story may not be a complete fiction.

The Spirit Guide

If  you understand soul flight in the way  it has been described here, as a transition  of consciousness  from one mental  level to another,  you will not face  the same limitations as the spiritualists,  but will be able to visit astral worlds of all kinds, and will interact with and have dealings with all manner of strange spiritual creatures. When  traveling  through unknown lands, it is always useful to have a guide who knows the territory, or at least one who is able to deal with any problems that might arise. When  in the astral world, your guide must be an astral being, which I refer to here by the general  term spirit. Dante, traveling through hell in his epic Divine Comedy, was guided by the ghost of the Roman poet Virgil. Although Dante's journey was fictional, it illustrates the utility of having a spirit guide to warn of dangers or to explain confusing  events. The spirit guide, often  referred to as a control by spiritualist mediums, has a long and honorable  lineage. The tutelary spirits of  traditional shamans around the world were their spirit guides, as were the familiars of medieval European witches and the guardian angels of Christians.  In modern times, spirit guides sometimes  assume the forms of

aliens  to astral  travelers who believe themselves abducted by UFOs. Although the type of spirits who act as guides may change from generation to generation, their role remains the  same-to  offer advice, guidance, and protection  on matters  relating  to the  astral world.

Astral Travel Occurs in the Mind

All astral travel is travel within the mind, brought about by a shift  in consciousness from one level to  another. As  remote viewer David Morehouse observed with a surprising degree of  insight during an interview for Nexus Magazine, "You're  not really traveling. It's  like folding space. You  are traveling, but you're not moving."You  do not actually project yourself to distant places; you access  those places in your mind by the process he likened to folding space. One of  the  reasons descriptions of  astral projection differ so radically  is that the common concept of projection through space of some sort of subtle body  is only a sensory metaphor adopted by the mind for  the sake of its reassuring familarity. Travelers are not describing a physical process, but a mental process. 

The mind contains  the physical body, the astral body, and  the entire perceived world not only of  the present moment, but of all past memories of the individual. It may also be connected with the minds of other human beings, or even with the minds of the entire human race, enabling an astral  traveler to explore not only his own personal world, but the worlds of others. Indeed, there is reason to suspect  that the mind is linked with all life throughout the universe, and that there exists only a single mind, which is perceived in a restricted way by each living being as its own mind, according  to the expectations and  limitations of that creature.  If this  is so-and  many philosophers  and mystics believe it to be true in a factual sense-then  in soul flight we have the potential to go anywhere, through any period of time, beyond the limits of our personal experience.

Astral Projection

Astral projection is usually understood  to be the act of  separating the subtle or astral body from the physical body, so that the astral body can travel away from the physical body, carrying with it the consciousness of the traveler.  It is held that the astral body can be projected any desired distance by the force of  the will, even to the farthest corner of  the universe, unrestricted by  the physical laws that govern the movement of matter, such as the limitation of  the speed of  light. Vast distances are crossed instantly. The physical body remains behind, as though asleep or in a trance state. The astral body stays connected to the physical body by  an astral umbilical cord known  as  the  silver cord that can stretch to an unlimited degree, and when stretched to its thinnest has the appearance of  a strand of spider web. The link of  the silver cord allows the astral bodyin charge of the experiments  thought that their travelers were viewing the actual physical environments  to which they were sent, when they were actually  seeing distorted astral reflections of  those environments constructed in the mind. Little wonder the results of the experiments tended to be uneven.