The following factors can lead to the exit from your physical body of the etheric, emotional or astral double: asceticism, starvation, loneliness, sexual and sensual depression, shock, stress, drugs, prolonged meditation, self-hypnotic suggestions, monotonous chanting of psalms, mantras, whirlwind dances, sleep, awakening of the Kundalini.
At first these will most likely be unconscious exits, but they can also be conscious. In the early stages of the exits of the subtle double, incomprehensible sounds inside the head can be heard: crackling, ringing, chirping, clicking, voices, noise, which eventually turn into one lingering or ringing note. Such cacophony usually scares the student if he is not warned in a timely manner. The outgoing astral body cannot cause movement in the physical body. But the etheric body can thicken its substance and have a physical effect on people and objects. Our night dreams are also unconscious exits of the astral bodies.
The astral body is a medium for such phenomena as clairvoyance, spirit flights, telepathy, proscopy, teleportation, knowledge of the past and the future, and others. For example, many discoveries of scientists are made in a dream using the astral body. American inventor Thomas Edison had the habit of making a list of questions in the evening and setting himself up to get answers to them during sleep. And often he got what he wanted. The invention of the phonograph, the incandescent lamp, the public power plant, the improvement of the telegraph and telephone - this is not a complete list of the discoveries made by Edison with the help of the astral body. In a dream, the Russian chemist Mendeleev saw his periodic table, the German physicist Karl Gauss discovered the law of induction in a dream. And the Danish scientist Niels Bohr, the creator of modern physics, saw a model of an atom in a dream. Albert Einstein established the relationship between space and time during sleep. Austrian geneticist Mendel discovered the laws of heredity in a dream. English microbiologist Fleming invented penicillin while sleeping. Banker from San Francisco Heinrich Schliemann, who never thought about archeology, dreamed about the location of the legendary Troy, and later - Mycenae on Crete. And this list of world discoveries can be continued indefinitely.
Our seven consciousnesses, located in the main chakras, are independent of the material body, since the physical brain depends on thoughts, and not vice versa. During the day, we operate mainly with the consciousness of the third chakra, called the mind. By inhaling chloroform, one can leave the physical body, while maintaining the rational consciousness in two or three of their bodies at the same time. Being in the astral worlds, a person notices the growth of all his abilities. It seems to him that everything around him is illuminated by a translucent light, every object shines from within, a feeling of happiness and eternity arises, a feeling of the fullness of being. If the physical body is sick, then here it is healthy, if the body is old, then here it is in its prime. The characteristic feature of the astral body is its lack of form. But it seems to a person that it has arms, legs, clothes. Because in the astral world to think is to be. The subject's thoughts instantly take the form he desires. However, a person tends to identify with the situation of the physical world. Therefore, in the astral worlds, he can stretch his arm to an incredible length or try to open a door, although he does not need arms, legs, or doors. He can imagine an animal transforming into a plant. This will happen. He can easily fly through walls and floors and see through all objects. To think in the astral plane is to act. Think about flying and you are flying. Think about the destination, about the person - and you will find yourself in this place and next to this person. By the way, the same thing happens in the physical world, only much more slowly, since material atoms are thousands of times larger than astral ones. Therefore,to push atoms into thought-forms and quickly transform physical matter, a tremendous concentration of thought is needed. This explains all the phenomena of saints and yogis, shamans and magicians.
The astral body cannot set in motion material objects. Therefore, in the astral world it is impossible to satisfy your physical habits: to drink, eat, smoke, inject, and so on, since there is simply nothing to do. And people with addictions after death suffer greatly and become nervous because they do not satisfy their unbridled desires. Indeed, in the astral plane, the power of desire increases thousands of times. Some of these depraved souls seek a material vehicle to satisfy their abhorrent habits. They inhabit the physical bodies of people whose souls are young and weak, and cannot provide a worthy rebuff to the invaders. So the weak in spirit become possessed.
In the etheric, emotional, mental and astral worlds, people find themselves in different countries or on other distant planets. But when they suddenly leave the physical body, they remain near it.
Being on the subtle planes of being in full consciousness, people are surprisingly indifferent to their dying body and to the entire physical world. The actions of people saving the body or health workers for them, looking at it from a two-meter height, is a boring theatrical stage. And only the suffering of the people whom the dying person truly loves can soften his alienation and force him to return to his numb body.
Often the thought of returning to the physical world becomes very unpleasant for a person. He sees his native physical body as scary, slippery and uncomfortable. It seems to the astral double as a terrible prison, from which he was lucky enough to escape, and life on Earth seems to be - well, living hell.
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The failure in consciousness during the traveler's transition to subtle bodies and back to the physical is explained by a change in the mechanisms that control gross bodies from the mental worlds.
Strange brain conditions
The absence of waking consciousness in a person is accompanied by unusual and strange states: somnambulist, sleep, trance, loss of mental consciousness, epilepsy, coma. But a change in consciousness can occur when a person is in a waking state. This occurs during drowsiness, intoxication, with serious physical or mental illness, and this is a natural companion of early childhood or advancing old age. In all such cases, the physical and astral bodies do not partially coincide. A rapid displacement of the astral double is also caused by hypnosis, medicine in large quantities, a blow to the head, a high-speed elevator, repetitive actions (long running, work on an assembly line, prayer bows) leading to fatigue, loss of blood, dancing with a fast twisting, self-hypnosis. When you feel dizzy,know - this is a characteristic symptom of the exit of a double. My astral body exits used to be accompanied by headache, nausea and dizziness. But over time it passed. The most convenient postures for exiting the astral body are the inverted postures of the yogis, such that the head is at the level of the knees or below (the purpose of this posture is to direct the hidden pranic currents of the body to the brain). The three best ones that I recommend you do every day are Halasana (plow), Sarvanga-san (candle) and Shirshasana (headstand).so that the head is at or below the knees (the purpose of this posture is to direct the hidden pranic currents of the body to the brain). The three best ones that I recommend you do every day are Halasana (plow), Sarvanga-san (candle) and Shirshasana (headstand).so that the head is at or below the knees (the purpose of this posture is to direct the hidden pranic currents of the body to the brain). The three best ones that I recommend you do every day are Halasana (plow), Sarvanga-san (candle) and Shirshasana (headstand).
Let's emphasize that the health of the physical body is inversely proportional to the ability to exit the astral double: the more painful the body is, the easier it is for the double to exit. We also note that extreme cold or heat, fatigue and exhaustion, head trauma, blood loss, shock, illness crisis contribute to the rapid exit from the body - all this violates the integrity of the physical body and its astral double. Even Plato said that a serious illness contributes to the emergence of supernatural powers in a person. And William James argued that the temperature of 57 degrees Celsius is favorable for learning the Truth.
Asceticism, prolonged sexual abstinence, volitional suppression of other physical desires also lead to the exit of the astral body.
Astral body
The most common method of going into the astral plane used by seekers to learn the truth is fasting (fasting). It is the lightest, most beneficial for physical health and the most harmless to the subtle bodies. On the fourth day of fasting, I no longer feel like eating. On the thirtieth day of fasting, all auric layers of a person are purified. On the fortieth day of a properly performed fast, siddhis appear: teleportation, clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis, and others.
Insomnia or violent wakefulness leads to other states of the rational mind: three nights without sleep - and the person loses a sense of orientation in space and time. If you do not sleep further, then ripples will appear in the eyes, and then halos or hazy images appear around objects that can move, expand or contract, as if they were alive. All this is accompanied by a chaos of thoughts, auditory and visual hallucinations. It may seem that huge insects are crawling on the skin, or gnomes and dwarfs appear, behaving extremely aggressively. Such an average unprepared person is not able to withstand, and if insomnia continues, he will quickly go crazy.
There is a great deal of similarity between the psychic fantasies of celibate hermits, the dreams of desperate prisoners in solitary confinement, and the hallucinations of those subjected to forced wakefulness. They all see, hear and experience similar feelings in other subtle dimensions.
The culminating point of Initiation into the mysteries of various closed esoteric societies is the exit of the astral body in full consciousness. Initiation is carried out over many months of study so that the adept can experience the experience that will happen to a person after his death. Therefore, in world religions, there is a long and monotonous chanting of psalms and mantras, causing the disappearance of logical control over the mind. Endless bows, singing, howling - are intended to cause physical exhaustion, to reduce the oxygen content in the blood, thereby causing a state of trance. For these reasons, any religion for most commoners is a universal means, opening the way to other dimensions.
The use of sexual rituals to achieve trance, to exit the astral double is as old as the world. In the left tradition (tantra, black magic, drug addiction), sex is the most powerful force naturally. Various types of sex (group sex, masturbation, homosexuality) cause stable forms of vibrational energy, and these forms generate their own charges of power in the etheric planes.
We can say that many shamans, magicians, priests and mediums have the gift of a spiritualist who leaves his physical body for a while in order to give another more developed spirit an opportunity to enter it.
It has long been noted that being outside the body, a person experiences a state of ecstasy, a feeling of indescribable bliss. Poets, writers, artists and other artists are familiar with this feeling of ecstasy, when life-giving inspiration reaches the soul and drives their unmanned creativity. Socrates said that the authors of brilliant works of art are not their authors; the author is a high spirit that entered them during inspiration.
During star inspiration, a person enters a trance: he does not feel the body, sounds, time. Cascades of ideas, poems and poems, plans for novels, monologues, etc. fall on him. He does not have time to write them down - he does not have time to remember them. Having come to his senses, the artist finds himself unable to explain what he created, and how he created, and why he created it. World writers and great composers, genius poets said: "This is not work - this is eavesdropping."
Strange states of consciousness are sometimes expressed in various forms of insanity, schizophrenia. Most types of schizophrenia are self-centeredness and loss of contact with the outside world. Paranoia, schizophrenia is when the astral world begins to invade ordinary logical consciousness. The patient hears voices, feels the invisible, acts in accordance with internal commands. His body assumes yoga postures for several hours, although in a normal state the patient did not know about them. In the ancient world of Egypt and Greece, these diseases were even considered sacred. Before death, the subtle double often leaves the physical body. I will give examples related to historical names. Countess A. D. Bludova in her memoirs described the appearance in the palace of a double of the Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna (1693 - 1740). When the queen's double entered the throne room,the guards saluted and reported to Biron the arrival of Anna Ioannovna. “It cannot be,” the duke exclaimed, “I’m from the empress now, she has gone to bed in the bedroom.” Biron returned for the empress, and the two of them hurried to the throne room. Here they saw a woman strikingly similar to the queen, who was not in the least embarrassed. "Daring!" - Biron exclaimed and summoned all the guard. The Empress, standing for a minute in surprise, stepped forward, went up to this woman and asked: "Who are you, why did you come?" Without answering a word, she began to back away and climb the throne, not taking her eyes off the empress. “This is a daring deceiver! Here is the Empress! They order you - shoot this woman! " - Biron shouted to the platoon. But as soon as the soldiers took aim, the woman on the throne once again looked at Anna Ioannovna and disappeared into thin air. The queen turned to Biron and said:"This is my death!" A few days later, the empress died.
Another Russian empress, Catherine the Great, two days before her death, also met her double. At night, the Empress was awakened by the ladies-in-waiting and was informed that a woman very similar to Catherine was sitting on the throne. The queen quickly dressed and, accompanied by her retinue, went into the throne room. The door was open, and a strange sight presented itself to the eyes of those present. The huge hall was all lit up with some kind of greenish-blue light, and Catherine the Great was sitting on the throne. The Empress screamed at this and fell unconscious. From that moment on, her health was upset and two days later she was gone.
Shortly before Lenin's death, the double of the leader of the world proletariat visited the Kremlin and walked aimlessly through all the offices. Quite a lot of witnesses saw the double, and this case could not be simply silenced. So that the truth about the non-Marxist episode in the life of Vladimir Ilyich did not come out, it was necessary to confirm everyone in the idea that Lenin really came from Gorki. This is how the official version of Lenin's arrival in Moscow appeared before his death.
The exit of the etheric double from the body is not always accompanied by the death of the host. Here is an incident from the life of the Irish poet and playwright William Yeats (1865-1939). Somehow the poet urgently needed to convey the news to his friend, who lived in another city. At the same time that Yeats was about to write him a letter, he thought intensely about it. And suddenly his friend saw Yeats among a large crowd of people in the lobby of the hotel where he then lived. Not doubting his reality, a friend asked the poet to come to him later, when the audience dispersed. Yeats's doppelganger nodded in agreement and disappeared, but reappeared at midnight and told him the news that Yeats wanted to convey personally. At the same time, Yeats did not have the slightest idea about what was happening, since he was in another city.
The meditation technique also contributes to the emergence of trance and the release of doubles from the physical body. The eightfold path of yoga is classic for the transition of consciousness to the astral worlds.
For conscious visits to the astral worlds, the easiest method is sleep. During the night, a person sees 5 - 10 dreams. They last up to 15 minutes and run every 1.5 hours. The first sleep begins about an hour after falling asleep. If a person is awakened during sleep, it turns out that he remembers him; if you wake up between dreams, he will not remember anything.
In classical yoga philosophy, there are 4 levels of consciousness:
1) Full wakefulness, during which a person is completely involved in maya (the illusion of the five senses);
2) Sleep with a dream, when Reality merges with maya;
3) Sleep without dreams, when Reality can be achieved without images and symbols;
4) The state of purely abstract consciousness - samad-hi, when the soul is outside the body.
In a dream, we cannot reach the 3rd and 4th levels of consciousness. Our waking consciousness is a product of the work of the third chakra, transmitted through the nadi channels to the brain. Sleep is a product of the work of the consciousness of our fourth chakra, distorted by the memory of the physical brain. In dreams, we possess all phenomena, but the memory of physical laws revolts against reality. Due to the fact that the plane of the material world is not natural for the astral double, it must periodically "fly away" to its "homeland" in a dream and draw strength there. Astral energy after sleep revives the physical body. In our real dreams, there is no time, space, logic, forms - all this is brought into dreams by physical memory.
Boreev G. A.