Astral Projection

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Witches' Flying Ointment

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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

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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 appearance of marks or wounds on the physical body of someone engaged in astral travel is a common feature both of legends of the werewolf and other were-animals, and of the lore of spiritualism and Theosophy. It is known as repercussion. Werewolves are astral projections. The astral body can take any form desired, since its shape is not fixed but reflects the expectations and emotions of the traveler. Regarding repercussion, Charles W. Leadbeater wrote: The principle of sympathetic vibration mentioned above also provides the explanation of that strange and little-known phenomenon called repercussion, by means of which any injury done to, or any mark made upon, the materialized body in the course of its wanderings will be reproduced in the physical body.

We find traces of this in some of the evidence given at trials for witchcraft in the middle ages, in which it is not infrequently stated that some wound given to the witch when in the form of a dog or a wolf was found to have appeared in the corresponding part of her human body.' Repercussion appears when the projected body is of so dense an astral composition that it acquires an almost physical reality, and is seen by others as though it were a solid material body. This happens most often when it is projected in animal forms, since the emotions involved are of the most primal and powerful sort, and enable this seeming density of the astral vehicle. Repercussion is uncommon in ordinary projection of the astral double, and is not a consequence to be greatly feared by those experimenting with astral travel.

The Spirit Guide

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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.
There are two general classes of spirit guide, those that are human and those that are inhuman. When I refer to human spirits, I refer to spirits who believe themselves to be the intelligences of living or formerly living human beings. By inhuman spirits, I mean all varieties of astral inhabitants who identify themselves as something other than hu- man. Before spiritualism, it was relatively uncommon to encounter the first kind of spirit on the astral planes; after spiritualism, it became the norm rather than the exception. Perhaps both classes exist, and it is merely a matter of selective access to their planes, the result of expectation in the unconscious minds of astral travelers. Or perhaps, as I tend to believe, all astral spirits are inhuman and essentially formless in their root nature, and when first contacting human beings, they put on whatever forms and identities they find in the minds of those with whom they communicate.

This second hypothesis does not preclude the existence on the astral level of enduring realms and populations, or of spirits who have a fixed and sustained identity, since it is possible that once having adopted an identity as its own, a spirit may be enabled to keep it over a span of human generations with the support of shared human belief in the existence of that spirit. For example, a goddess such as Aphrodite may continue to exist on the astral level for many centuries because her nature and qualities are known to many human be- ings and are never absent from human thought. The same consideration applies to a being

such as Santa Claus, or indeed, to Jack the Ripper.

Astral Travel Occurs in the Mind

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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.

Once we grasp that what appears during soul flight to be the ordinary physical world is really the base level of the astral world, we can understand why strange creatures or spiritual beings sometimes intrude on astral travelers, terrifying them into an immediate return to their bodies-that is, to their ordinary waking level of consciousness. Because the base level of the astral world is no different in its essential nature from the higher or lower astral levels, it is possible for spirits to enter it, either deliberately or by accident, in much the same way that a deep-dwelling sea creature can, if the needs arises, swim up toward the surface. Such encounters occur infrequently to those who explore the base level when they maintain in their minds the belief that they are actually traveling through the ordinary physical world, but they do happen.

Astral Projection

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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.