Many assume that children can use the natural projection ability as they are not weighed down by hindering beliefs about what is possible or not. This belief is rooted in the idea that what prevents a lot of projection-related events to occur or be remembered in most people is the state of their belief system.

There's nothing harmful about astral projection - it is an ability that comes naturally with the fact that you are more than a physical being. I believe that the development of the astral body can actually help the emotional development of a person. Dreams and their symbology aim at teaching us about our emotions. I read (and believe) that every dream of such a nature happens in the astral body, so everybody who can even remember dreams is working naturally with the astral body anyway. See for example "Otherwhere" by Kurt Leland how this relates to the wider astral.

Oliver