Déjà vu or simply you?
A déjà vu - the feeling of having been somewhere before – is nothing more than an indication that you have subconsciously projected yourself into that space before. Can you also do this at will? Thane Plus uncovers some theories
Nasser Lalljee
I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of -if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities
- Edgar Caycee.
when going to a new place or meeting a stranger, how many times have you had that familiar feeling of having been there before or meeting the person before? All of us feel it at some point or the other. This is because you have projected yourself into this place at some point in time, albeit unknowingly.
At one level, the experience of being without a body is frightening. And if you have never heard about astral projection, it would be totally chaotic. It is natural to assume that you are dead and panic sets in. The result generally is a quick return to the body. A quick return is sometimes accompanied by sensations of a jolt to the physical body accompanied by a loud band and a flash of brilliant light. A headache or something similar could accompany this. A quick return generally happens when the telephone starts ringing or there is someone at the door. Other than these intrusions, the return of the soul is as smooth as it leaving. Once the initial fears are overcome, astral travel becomes natural and is not accompanied by any negative sensations.
Astral traveling is leaving the body at will and projecting your self anywhere, either in this world or anywhere else in this universe or beyond. The soul moves into an astral body which moves free of the physical body in a related world known as the astral plane.
The astral realm is actually all around us; we just can't see it. This area is a reservoir that contains all our thoughts, emotions and generally everything that is individually T, and collectively 'we', that is the world's thoughts and ideas.
The stage percolates the world absorbing all thoughts, memories, emotions, fantasies, and dreams of every living being in the world, and its content is created by the collective consciousness of the world mind. These –pools of thought are more commonly called astral planes, astral worlds, astral sub-planes or astral realms.
It is the place that we reach when we sleep. In our dream state, we stay close to our physical body and we project emotional content from our subconscious mind. We are not conscious during this process.
Astral traveling is when you are in this state awake. This has been referred to in many mystical texts and has more recently been studied by scientists investigating reports of people who have had a near death experience. Inquiring minds and those who dare to explore the different have delved into this thought process and were very happy at the results obtained. They found that when astral matter is exposed to thought, focused by the lens of the mind, a perfect image of reality is instantly formed out of astral mind stuff by the reaction of astral matter to thought.
The complexity and durability of any creation in the astral dimension depends largely on the strength of the mind doing the creating. You need to conquer yourself and clear your mind of thoughts and emotions to be able to successfully astral travel at will. You do this through personal development.
Frederik van Eeden presented one of the first studies of out of body dreams to the Society of Psychical Research in 1913. Van Eeden had already presented evidence for lucid dreams in which the dreamer becomes conscious while the dream is taking place.
He told the society that his own lucid dreams were often preceded for several nights by dreams of flying. Sometimes these lucid dreams included apparent clairvoyantly received information that could be verified later. In other instances he believed he left his body.
One of the most recent, world-renowned psychics, Edgar Caycee was also known as the Sleeping Prophet. Edgar Cayce made his name in the first half of this century in America as a psychic healer perhaps the greatest that the United States ever produced. During his lifetime he was credited with assisting thousands of people suffering from all manner of ailments. But there was also a lesser-known aspect to Cayce's psychic revelations. Occasionally while in a self-induced trance Cayce would speak of events to come. He predicted the First and Second World War, the independence of India and the 1929 stock market crash. He also predicted, 15 years before the event, the creation of the state of Israel . Admittedly, many predictions have not happened by the time depicted.
His lifelong secretary, Gladys Davis, took down virtually all his readings, and they are recorded and indexed in the Association for Enlightenment and Research, established in Virginia in 1932 to study Cayce's work. In all, he gave 14,879 readings, well over half of them for people concerned about their health. Over a period of years, he read for more than 6,000 people. In 1933, after he had been exercising his powers for 31 years, he explained that he still understood Very little about what he was doing.
"Apparently," he said, "I am of the few who can lay aside their own personalities sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to a universal source of knowledge -but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact, I do not claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inherently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that does not possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of - if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities."
