Excerpts from Astrala resor ut ur kroppen (Astral journeys out of body) by Thomas

Karlsson.

An atheistic astronaut and a brain surgeon had a conversation about whether a

spiritual world exists beyond our physical world. The astronaut explained that he had
never seen anything like God, Heaven or angels on any of his journeys into space.
The doctor listened with interest, and conveyed that he had operated on numerous
brains, but had never found any thoughts.
The brain surgeon revealed that there are important aspects that make up the
foundation of mans existence, that we cannot see, for example our thoughts. Though,
someone may say that thoughts can be roughly measured in the form of brain waves,
brain waves reveal only a minimum of the thoughts content. There is a world within
man that is and will remain unreachable for materialist science, a world of thoughts,
feelings and inner experiences. These experiences reveal that man is not a machine,
but a complex being whose full being we may never completely understand.
If there is an inner invisible world hidden in our mind, there may also be an
outer world, just as invisible, but at the same time pivotal for our existence. In almost
all times and all cultures we can find ideas that are describing a non-material spiritual
dimension and the thought that man, during certain circumstances, can reach this. In
Neo-Platonism and Western Esotericism this dimension has been known as the astral
world and is generally looked upon as an intermediary level between the physical
world and the divine levels of existence.
Irrelevant of how we view the metaphysical, philosophical and religious
speculations about such worlds, we have to accept that there are numerous individuals
who have openly shared their experiences of leaving their body, of journeying into a
reality beyond the material world. These people are not psychotic, but psychologically
and physically healthy, and are able to discuss their experiences in a coherent way.
But, nevertheless, these confessions are generally viewed with great scepticism. We
have been shaped into a paradigm in which man is equalled to a machine that simply
ceases to function when we die. Historically, such a view of man is something
unusual. During all times, people have had a strong experience that there is something
beyond the physical existence.
The book you are now holding in your hand contains both descriptions of out
of the body experiences, and journeys into astral worlds, as well as techniques that
will help you acquire these experiences yourself. This book does not claim to
challenge materialistic science or prove that there are astral bodies and non-physical
worlds. Out of the body experiences are just that, experiences, and here you will find
a number of confessed experiences, told to the author by people from all walks of life
– but also a step by step guide to reach these worlds and experiences personally.
Whether this is proof of the existence of the soul, life after death or worlds beyond
our material world, is something that the reader is free to make up his own opinion
about.
From many years of out of the body experiences and astral travels both my
own and others, I have come to the conclusion that all who have these experiences
view them as breathtaking, overwhelming, mysterious and wonderful, and that they
would never liked to have lived without them.
Among the ancient Greeks the teachings about the soul was of great
importance, and it is from the Greek word for soul that we have arrived at the term
psychology. Out of the body experiences and astral journeys is a metaphysical
psychology that deals with travels of the soul and simultaneously into the soul, to
explore the hidden sides that are within us. Perhaps, it is only when we leave
ourselves that we can gain an actual knowledge about ourselves.
If the astronaut in the anecdote did not see God, or any spiritual worlds in
space, perhaps the psychonaut, the one who travels with his soul, may experience
invisible worlds that give life a deeper meaning. It is my hope that this book can act as
a handbook for experiences of the soul, and the astral worlds.

Chapter 1: An astral stroll through central Stockholm

My coffee cup suddenly vibrated in a most quaint fashion. After having somewhat
manically consumed far too many cups of coffee at a café in central Stockholm, I was
beginning to feel a strong anxiousness growing inside me. This was not unexpected,
considering the amount of caffeine I must have consumed and I sweated profusely. It
was not a new sensation, but something was different this time. Previously when I had
over consumed coffee it had produced physical reactions that could be remedied by a
long walk, I would usually find myself out on Djurgården before the effects would
cease, and since my coffee sessions generally took place together with a good friend,
the long walks would be filled with interesting discussions.

Also this time I was sitting in the café together with a friend, but I now very much
wanted to be by myself. When the inner turmoil arose, I attempted to act normally and
I held on to my cup with a strained calm. My fingers manically gripped the cup; as if
it were a pillar I could hold on to while the storm raged. My friend didn’t seem to
notice anything out of the ordinary and kept on talking about the book he had just
read. “Keep talking”, I prayed to myself, while it became increasingly difficult to
focus on his words, all my energy was used to prevent my hand from spastically
throwing the cup on to the floor.
The cup kept on vibrating in the same peculiar manner, but there were no
sound, which was strange since it was supposed to vibrate against the saucer. Still, the
cup vibrated hysterically, but in silence. Awestruck, I noticed that it was shaking
without my hand actually moving. My hand was completely still, holding the cup in
an iron grip. Then, I noticed that the coffee inside the cup was completely still,
notwithstanding the vibrating cup.
I was absorbed by the phenomena and almost forgot where I was; I could hear
my friend talking somewhere in the distance, and had I not been so caught up with the
odd behaviour of the cup, I may have reacted to the fact that his voice seemed to be
talking in slow motion. During all the time that I was studying the cup, he had not had
time to speak more than a few words. It was as if time was slowing down, coming to a
speed where every second were becoming several minutes long.
My eyes blinked, as if blinded by the sun, which was not, however, reaching
us in here in the café. To my amazement, it was the coffee cup that had started
glowing with a sharp light. Soon, the entire café was beaming with light; the tables
gleamed with a bright glow, as did my friend.
To the left of me, at another table, a girl sat whom I had noticed before as
being very attractive; sitting by herself and reading a book, she had appeared as even
more interesting to me, and she had somewhat distracted me during my conversation.
I could sense an intense pulsating light from her, but when I tried to turn my head and
look at her, I noticed that it was impossible; I was paralysed. I could not even move
my eyes. This was hardly a normal reaction from too much coffee. Panic arose within
me and I had to struggle not to let it consume me. My mind was flooded with
thoughts, what on earth was happening to me? Am I acting strange? Have I entered a
psychosis? Is anyone here noticing anything?
Thoughts flew through my head, and using the word flew is here entirely
appropriate, in a manner I had never before experienced. I could see my thoughts as
flying objects, and like bubbling strips of text they were dancing around me in the air.
The more I noticed the phenomena, the stronger it became and I saw more and more
thoughts, stronger and stronger. Finally, I was almost drowned in jumping and
dancing words and sentences. I wanted to puke.
The need to vomit came as a rescue. The thoughts had within seconds turned
into millions of objects that pranced around like small irritating entities. It was as if
they were dancing around me, making fun of me for not being able to control them.
Just as I believed I would puke right on the table, I felt a cleansing wave arising
within me and the objectified thoughts dispersed like a hoard of whining elves. This
was so absurd that the feelings of panic turned into a bubbling laughter, I was almost
beginning to enjoy the situation. For sure, this was not a reaction from the coffee. And
the vomit was not consisting of the sandwich I had just consumed, but was made
purely of the laughter that had been growing from the depths of my being. A silent all
encompassing laughter arose and I could see it as a rainbow coloured fountain
flowing from my mouth. “This is totally insane!” I though to myself, and laughed
even more at the sight of my own laughter.
A voice inside me ordered me to focus myself. “People must not notice that I
am acting strange.” I thought. At this stage, my thoughts where once again
internalised and avoided jumping before my eyes. I was still paralysed, but I felt that I
was gaining at least some measure of control over myself. My attention was now
directed towards my friend and I suddenly realised that he was still finishing his
sentence.
“Time has stopped”, I thought, and quickly analysed my situation. I found that
there could be three alternative explanations to my situation. Either, I had gone
completely mad, but I knew enough about psychology to know that this was not like
anything that was common in psychological breakdown. Social and genetic factors
usually played a large part, but this was beyond all that. These kind of tangible
visionary hallucinations are also very unusual among psychotics, and are more
common for people under influence of hallucinogenic potions. Perhaps my friend had
spiked my coffee with LSD, but this was not very likely for this careful law student.
Perhaps some terrorist had spiked the entire café with LSD, but that seemed even
more unlikely. Only the third alternative remained: I was on the verge of a
spontaneous out of the body experience, an astral projection where one consciously
leaves the body.
I was very young when I first experienced leaving my physical body. A sound
in the basement woke me up, and curious as I was, I got up to check out what it was.
As I sneaked down the stairs, I noticed that I was rather floating or flying down, like a
kind of ghost.
I do not exactly remember my reaction, but I seem to remember that I did not
react in any major way at all. I may have thought it was just another dream, or, the
world in general is perhaps so overwhelming for a small child that such an
experiences does not stand out from anything else.
The basement was pulsating in gloomy green and red colours and a shadow
moved towards me, arose to human form before me. I was startled at first, but I took
hold of myself and gazed into the shadow, which slowly took on the shape of myself,
as a darkened mirror. Now, fear got the best of me, and I ran screaming up to my
parents room. When I tried to awaken my mother, my hand passed right through her
body, just like if I was a ghost. At this stage I woke up in my room, and I went
straight in to my parents, who luckily woke up this time.
Before beginning school, I had experienced these so called out of the body
experiences (OBE), even if I had never heard about the actual term. As the name
implies, such an experience denotes that one leaves the physical body, and finds
oneself in what is traditionally referred to as the soul, or astral body. As a child, these
experiences were often exciting and my curiosity grew, as is common in childhood. I
would not claim that these experiences were more important to me than what occurred
in my physical life, they were rather a part of my life in general. At times, my astral
experiences would be scary, but not more so than when we were being yelled at by
some neighbour for some prank me and my friends had done.
Only when I became older did I realise that out of the body experiences are
associated with lifes great issues about life and death. When I was seven, I was
absorbed by school and what it could teach me, and the out of the body experiences
diminished. Perhaps, it is possible to say that school taught me a paradigm in which
experiences of this kind does not fit in.
With the establishment of modern society the view of man as a machine has
become popular. We are compared to cars, computers and other technical and
mechanical things. The soul has for many people been rationalised away, or become
merely a poetic metaphor. When in my early teens, I began to read about occult
phenomena and out of the body experiences, my interest in these aspects - which had
been a normal part of my life as a child - was reignited. I quickly became clear to me,
however, that such descriptions are met with great scepticism; they do not fit in the
mechanical world image. Notwithstanding the resistance to out of the body
experiences there are quite a lot of statistics that reveal that a great number of people
have had, or will have out of the body experiences, at some stage during their life. Dr.
Göran Grip has pointed out that something like 20% of all people have had these
experiences. According to historian of religion, Dr. Henrik Bogdan, these experiences
are frequent among children and teenagers. For those who have had these experiences,
it is beyond all doubt that the soul is not only a poetic metaphor, but something that
can be experienced as just as concretely and sensuous as the physical body.
To many people, out of the body experiences are associated with traumatic
feelings where they feel that they are dying or are going insane. The problem is that
these people are lacking a world image that explains these experiences. It is
unfortunately so, that the majority of modern secularised people are equalling these
experiences with madness or lively imagination, despite the fact that we can find
numerous descriptions of out of the body experiences in all times and cultures.
When, in my teens, I realised that I had experienced the occult, I attempted to
find a method and philosophy to help me place these experiences in a understandable
situation. After a time of studies, I came to understand that there were many old
traditions which described occult experiences and how man can learn how to control
them. Already the old Greeks, Pythagoras and Plato, had mapped the dimensions of
the soul in a sophisticated manner. It was the Neo-Platonists who formulated many of
the basic theories regarding other worlds that we can today find among those who are
discussing occult experiences. The Neo-Platonists brought us the words “astral body,
“astral plane” and “astral world”. The word astral comes from Latin astralis, which
denotes something belonging to the stars. Star is astrum in Latin. The Neo-Platonists
claimed that between the highest world and the world of man existed a middle world
which was called the star world or the astral world. Mankind can access this world
during dreaming, religious trance or at death. The part of man that can enter this
dimension is called the astral body and such a journey is called the astral journey, or
astral projection. The astral body has been described as an invisible version of the
physical body, but which can fly and pass through walls. Certain researchers of
ghosts, believe that ghosts are astral bodies of those who can’t or won’t leave the
material world after death.
Subjects like these were frequent among me and my friends as we visited the
many cafés of Stockholm and often we were forced to take long walks to relieve the
effects of too many cups of coffee.
What had convinced me that I was entering into a spontaneous out of the body
experience was the odd paralysis I felt. I had previously, many times, woken
up at night and found myself in just such a paralysed state. The body was numb, as if
sleeping, while my mind was clear and awake. The first times had scared me and been
associated with heart beating and a strong feeling of dread to be locked in my own
body. After a while I would wake up in my normal state of mind and could thankfully
move my body again. Just like in the café there would be strong lights and sometimes
I would see things that seemed to be coming out of myself or from some parallel
reality that flowed out into the room. All objects were shining, especially from the
plants in the window. When I sensed things that did not come from my room, but
from some unknown dimension, it seemed as if the corners and angles around began
to vibrate intensively and the view of the room became as if double, mixed with the
view of another room. I managed to find books that described the phenomena of
waking up with a clear mind, but a paralysed body. It was called hypnagog sleep
paralysis or sleep paralysis and is not uncommon. Sleep paralysis is experienced by
most people as very uncomfortable. This was true also for me, but a break through
would make me appreciate this state.
The sleep paralysis states had arisen only after I had seriously began my
studies of the occult. It is possible that it had occurred before, but I could have
forgotten or repressed it, since at that time I had no theory by which to explain it.
During my teens, I had developed a growing interest in religion, spirituality,
occultism and the paranormal. Often, I neglected my homework and instead studied
books like Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi or The Secret Doctrine by Madame
Blavatsky. I was also inspired when I found books that were not really occult, but
described normal people who had experienced the astral worlds.
Encouraged by my occult studies I now entered sleep paralysis with a growing
curiosity, and it occurred more frequently. It could pass weeks, or even months,
between them, but sometimes they happened every night. Before I had gotten used to
these states, I was scared of them, but in time I learned to control my emotions and
stayed willingly in the sleep paralysis to see what would happen.
I could now prolong the state, which resulted in an increase in supernatural
and strange aspects. In my early experiments I could see perhaps only the room in
which I slept, although my eyes were closed and I could hear my heart beating. When
I started to control the experiences they became increasingly fascinating and
breathtaking; parallel rooms opening up in the middle of my bedroom and I could see
the silhouettes of beings moving, other times I could see a huge forest and peak
through the trees into a mighty landscape. Lights and sounds of all kinds also
appeared. Tunnels of light, rotating in rainbow colours and took the shape of
kaleidoscope whirls, could suddenly appear anywhere. Sounds, like water falls,
streams, bubbles, distant voices or birds also came and went. A recurrent sound, like a
huge propeller, somewhere above my head was common. These phenomena often
melted into each other and I could at times perceive the propeller sound as a huge
magnesium white disk rotating above my head.
According to books about theosophy and Indian Yoga traditions, there exists a
certain energy zone at the top of the head, or above; it has several names, but the most
common is Sahasrara and it is viewed as the highest of seven charkas. Chakra is a
Sanskrit word from the Indian Yoga philosophy and denotes energy centres in man.
The lowest chakra is called Muladhara and is associated with basic instincts such as
eating, escaping or defending oneself. The next level is called Svadhisthana and it is
associated with the genitals and the sex drive. The third is called Manipura, and it
controls the individual will and the ego. The fourth is called Anahata and it is
connected to emotions and empathy. The fifth is named Vishuddi, at the throat, and is
associated with communication and intellect. The sixth, Ajna, is often referred to as
the third eye, some writers believe that it is associated to the pineal gland in the brain.
In Yoga texts, it is located between the eyebrows, like a 180° turned eye, also similar
to a vagina. It has to do with enlightenment and insight, and spiritual rebirth. The final
chakra level is not really a chakra, according to many theories, but represents God
himself, Shiva, or the divine consciousness. During one sleep paralysis, I was
convinced that this rotating disk of light above my head was the Sahasrara chakra,
described by the Indians in ancient texts. It is associated with out of the body
journeys, since I had read that it is a form of gate through which the soul can travel
out of the physical body and into higher spiritual levels. To pass through this chakra
would lead to spiritual illumination and entry into divine consciousness.
I decided to make an attempt. If I could, already as a teen, reach
enlightenment, I would beat even the likes of Buddha and Jesus. They had been more
than thirty when they were enlightened, I thought, so I would at least a decade earlier
than them. Enthused by my conclusions, I made a mental effort and tried to push
myself up through the rotating disk. I hit into something with a bang and everything
went black. I awoke in my physical body with a terrible headache and had to run to
the bathroom to vomit.
My first real astral break through would take place a few weeks later. I was
also then in sleep paralysis, but there was no sign of the rotating light disk. The room
was dark and quiet, without any significant lights, sounds or parallel dimensions.
After the unpleasant experience with crashing into the rotating disk, I had changed
strategy. I was going to be a bit more careful. Enlightenment would have to wait.
Now, I was happy only to move my astral body during sleep paralysis, because in the
books that I had read, this was always mentioned as a pre-stage to astral journeys.
If I could only make my arm move in this state, I would be more than happy. I
focused on my right arm and was reminded of the unpleasant sensation of being
unable to move. Neither my physical arm, nor my astral arm would move an inch. I
was very close to giving up altogether when suddenly an intense vibration spread
through my arm and into my body. I felt like a surge of electricity. It was both
unpleasant and quite nice. The unpleasant part was the feeling of over loading my
nervious system, and that I was pushed to something hard. The pleasant sensation was
similar to a prolonged orgasm. I had to fight hard not to begin hyperventilating and
my heart was beating like a piston. When I finally managed to discipline myself and
relax, the enjoyable feeling took over.
My body was beaming with a sharp electric light. Also my environment was
shining and I could see everything much clearer than in my normal waking state.
“Hand, rise up!” I said silently to myself. I was not going to try to force my hand to
get up, but wanted to use a thought command instead. I let out a silent scream of joy
within myself and was filled with a stream of happiness when my arm arose straight
up into the air. It was not my physical arm, which was still in bed. Another arm was
now moving in the air according to my will. It obeyed me and I could move it back
and forth. It resembled my physical arm, but as if made of light or electricity.
This experience was far more than just being able to move an astral arm. This
was an experience of fulfilled hopes and a tingling feeling of standing before
something limitless. Childish fantasies mixed with a respectful wonder before the
mysteries. My years of studies had finally paid off. There was a reality behind the
theories.
My childhood experiences felt more real than ever. During long periods I had
practically forgotten them, or not really thought about them at all. Now I had taken
decisive steps to re-experience them, but in a more mature and controlled form. Even
if I had so far only gotten my arm out, it was still a pivotal milestone that proved to
me that the next step was within my reach. I was going to leave my body.
From this moment the sleep paralysis would become something desirable and
not unpleasant. The nights that were without it, felt like a disappointment. Those
nights when it did happen, I managed to release both my astral arms and I was
fascinated by how it looked when I closed them together, like to ghost arms. There
would be a flame when they met, and if I closed them like in prayer, they would shine
violently, just like if I was creating a kind of energy communication.
A couple of months after my initial success, I could also make my legs rise up
from the body, which created a very peculiar position. I laughed to myself and tried to
move on. I lifted my entire body, except the head. I was not standing on my head, on
the astral plane. It would not let go. I was not beginning to rotate automatically, like a
propeller. I was going faster and faster, like a toy whirling around.
The sound of a string bursting would best describe the sound of what I heard.
It was a kind of metallic ping, and an invisible force took hold of me and I was drawn
backwards upwards. It was like going on a roller coaster the other way. The feeling of
freedom cannot be described. I felt like a butterfly that had finally left the cocoon and
can use its own wings for the first time. I could see my physical body below me on
the bed. I had left my body! It was clear to me, that I had begun an adventure without
equal.
The coffee cup vibrated while I fought to control the situation. I was
acquainted to out of the body experiences, but not in mundane situations. What would
happen if I left my body now, at a café, during a conversation with a friend? The
thought frightened me. Never before had experiences of this kind occurred to me,
without me trying to reach them first. Still, I could not resist the temptation of taking
an astral walk in the centre of Stockholm.
After I had identified what was taking place, I could begin to control the
situation. I could either abort the experience or go on with it. Since my friend had not
gotten very far in his sentence I took the chance that my experience was taking place
in another time dimension. It was worth a try.
I concentrated and attempted to rise up with my astral body. Lights beamed all
around me stronger and stronger, when I tried to get up. My physical body was left in
the chair and I was floating in the roof above the other visitors, and as far as I could
see, I was the only one leaving my body. Since the astral body can pass through
physical objects, I decided to go straight through the walls. I found myself on the
crowded Sveavägen where cars and people are hustling and bustling. But now,
everything was going in slow motion and the sounds of the car engines were a low
murmur that was hardly noticeable. I had never seen Stockholm like this before. I
floated back and forth and observed buildings and people. This kind of out of the
body experience I had never had before, and I was fascinated, but also a little worried,
that this had happened without my intention in the middle of the day, in the middle of
the city.

Astral Journeys: When the time comes.

When one has entered into an astral projection, it may feel as if the senses are waking
up, one by one. One can, for example, hear and feel, but not see the astral energies;
one will instead see only black as if the eyes were closed, or the sight can be sharp,
but there is not hearing.
The first experience of the astral plane is often described as a physical feeling,
but actually the senses are not separated and are not ruled by the same laws as on the
physical level. Sight, hearing and feeling may on the astral level be one, and can melt
into each other. The astral traveller can experience that sounds are seen, or that smells
can be heard. At first, this can be hard to understand. The astral body can in principal
take on any form, or no form, but the astral traveller will generally in the first stages
experience it as a variation of the normal physical body.
You can also open your astral senses even when you are still in your physical
body, for example at Kundalini meditation, or when you are opening the charkas.
Also at these moments, it is common that the senses are awoken one by one.
The most common methods for astral travelling is either to experience how
one floats out of the body, or to visualise ones body outside oneself, and sending the
mind into it. It is generally easier if one is in a unusual state, fever, exhaustion or
other extreme physical or psychical states. Near Death Experiences are examples of
this.
You should devote at least one hour a week to develop your astral senses and
your ability to do astral journeys. Concentrate your will and create a strong focus
under the exercise. Too great expectations may, however, block the results. What is
important is to do the actual exercise; the result may arrive at some other time, but
will still be a associated with your workings. If you wish to work in a systematic way,
you can use the schedule that is presented below.
For many people, the first sensations are tingling vibrations, rumble in the ears
and rapid heart beating. Some become so scared from this that they do not continue.
But these symptoms are benign, and only signs that one is just about to make it. It it
also common to experience that one is passing through a tunnel.
It is very unusual to get lost in the astral planes for any longer periods of time.
After a while one is generally drawn back to the physical body by something that in
occultism is known as the silver cord. This is a link between the physical body and the
astral body, only at death, does this cord break.
But extreme circumstances may prevent the astral body to get drawn back,
during accidents or chock. According to certain theories, a more common form of
getting lost on the astral plane is something that happens to people who have just died.
In case these people have no knowledge whatsoever about the other side, they may
not realise that they have died and floats around looking for something familiar.
Magicians, shamans and mediums have during all times guided lost souls to higher
levels.
It may take some time, however, to learn to do astral journeys, and the results
may appear when one least expects it. But, the results are generally due to the
exercises. Every fifth person has at some time had an out of the body experience, but
if we actively work towards achieving this, the chances increase substantially. Astral
experiences can also be on several levels, a full blown out of the body experience one
will feel stronger and clearer than what one experiences in the physical body. Some
astral journeys can be vague and be reminiscent of dreams or fantasies. These
journeys are still of great value, since they bring insights about ones inner existence.

Three-month schedule for making a successful astral journey

First month: Preparation.

During the first month, you should cut down on meat, sugar, fast carbohydrates and
animal fat. You should take a walk every day, preferably in some park or forest, to
enhance the oxygen in the body. You should also avoid alcohol, caffeine and nicotine,
or at least use it sparingly.

Week 1: Learn how to meditate. Sit or lie down in a comfortable position and focus
on some calm favourite music and other sound that you prefer. Try to be as focused as
possible while still remaining calm. Think about the five points: Silence, Right
breathing, Relaxation, Presence, Stillness.

Week 2: Continue working on meditation, but instead focus on your astral body.
Experience how you can feel both your physical body and your astral body. Visualise
how your astral arm arises out of the physical arm. Practise dream control by writing
down what you wish to dream about, placing the note under the pillow and visualising
the chosen theme.

Week 3: Combine the meditation with self-hypnosis in which you experience how the
body becomes heavier and heavier for every breath while the astral body becomes
lighter and lighter. Attempt to raise your astral arm during the hypnosis. Keep
working with dream control.

Week 4: Work on silencing your inner dialogue and developing your astral senses.
Try to feel things with your astral arm and see the place where you are with astral
sight, hear sounds with astral hearing, taste and smell astrally. You can begin by
visualising this, as a way to open yourself up to the real experience and later try to
experience your impressions as if they appear independent of your ability of
visualisation. Keep working with dream control.

Second month: Time to get to the point.

From the second month you should eat vegetarian food only. You should take a walk
every day, preferably in some park or forest, to enhance the oxygen in the body. You
should also avoid alcohol, caffeine and nicotine, or at least use it sparingly.

Week 1: Prolong your daily meditation to one hour. Enter into self-hypnosis and
separate the physical body from the astral body through breathing, like you began in
week 3. Make a Kundalini meditation and methodically move through every chakra
and allow the Kundalini and the charkas to enhance your experience. Visualise three
objects. Thereafter visualise what you wish to dream about during the night. When
you have moved through the seven charkas, allow the Kundalini to sink back into the
base chakra.

Week 2: Continue like last week but do not abort the Kundalini meditation after one
hour by allowing the Kundalini to return to the base chakra, but use its force to
become conscious in your dreams. If this results in dream paralysis, you can use the
energy to move into an astral projection. Allow the Kundalini to return in the when
morning comes.

Week 3: Continue like last week, but make the meditation even longer and make right
before going to bed, to make the experiences continue into the dreaming. During the
Kundalini meditation, use the Kundalini as a force to make the astral body arise out of
the physical body. Try to reach the ceiling, or about three meters above your physical
body. Explore your surroundings. Allow your hand to pass through physical objects.
Try out your astral senses. Conclude your astral exercises and the Kundalini
meditation in a very concrete way, for example by ringing a bell.

Week 4: Continue like last week but now move on to exploring larger parts of your
surroundings. If you are indoors, investigate other parts of the house. You will
become aware that nature, unlike physical buildings, change shape during an astral
journey. You can enter into a tree crown, and it becomes like a whole world. But at
this stage do not enter into gates or tunnels, stay on the normal level. Conclude the
workings in a concrete way.

Third Month: Exploring the Astral worlds.

Also during the third month you should eat vegetarian food only. You should also
take a walk every day, preferably in some park or forest, to enhance the oxygen in the
body. You should also avoid alcohol, caffeine and nicotine, or at least use it sparingly.

Week 1: Astral journeys and out of the body experiences demand energy and the third
month you should work towards prolonging and strengthening your experiences. It is
common to fall asleep or wake up when the energy begins to fade. Explore the
physical plane even more from your astral perspective, seek out objects and analyse
them. Move over greater surfaces and explore places that are further away.

Week 2: When in an astral projection, you may seek out a place that you experience
as especially positive. Here you can gain new energy, which can be used to travel
further on your journeys. This place will also act as a place of protection and rest. You
may attempt to contact astral entities when you are in this place. It is not uncommon
to encounter beings or persons that are close to ones life, or small irritating beings that
one should only ignore until they disappear by themselves.

Week 3: When you are in an astral projection you may contact your higher self, what
is generally known as your Daemon, Holy Guardian Angel or Totem, depending on
tradition. Do this from the positive place that you found. Your higher self may show
you objects that you can recreate on the physical plane, which can later become keys
to the other side. This can be anything, for example a small stone. When you return to
the physical plane, you should try to find a similar stone or make one in clay. This
will be your astral key.
Week 4: Irrespective of your astral work going by schedule or not, it is now time to
summarise what has taken place. Continue to meditate as during week one, first
month. It is easy to become overwhelmed when the astral experiences arrive, but it is
important that you learn how to combine them with your mundane life on the physical
plane, making it a source of positive energy in your everyday life. Only when we are
about to die, can one prepare to enter fully into the astral levels. But before that, the
experiences are to complete and strengthen our lives.

If you do not, during some week, reach what is written in the schedule, simply keep
going a bit longer or go back a week. You should not, however, work with the same
week’s exercises longer than three weeks, since you may be stuck. In that case, the
next month’s exercises may be more suitable.
If you after three months feel that you have not reached the results that you
had hoped for, do not redo the schedule at once, but wait one or two months before
doing so. Sometimes we block ourselves while doing the exercises, and the results
may arrive after stopping trying.
Don’t forget that for many people, it takes very long time and major efforts to
reach astral experiences. For some, it may take years. What is demanded to succeed is
patience and dedication.