Ultimately, Sono, you answer these questions for yourself. Have you read Robert's Catch basket concept? This might offer you an approach that helps break a psychological block.
I do have mixed feelings about the astral, having been taught as a child that it is part of Maya, the cosmic illusion (same as "physical" reality but more fluid) & that attempts to gain any sort of psychic ability can only lead one away from higher truths. . . consciously I reject that as oversimplification, but wonder if I am sabotaging myself somehow. If that's the case, how would I go about de-programming this perception?
You say you consciously reject what you've been told. I presume then that you have asked yourself why we are in the cosmic illusion we call reality in the first place and why it is we are permitted to access the astral? If they are illusions, aren't they somehow part of the maze we make our way through to arrive at reality?
You can see this as just one view. Shamans everywhere and throughout time have believed the astral realms are true reality. Logically, someone is wrong. If you are prevented from accessing the astral then you will not be able to verify the truth for yourself. Must you then just take someone's word for it?
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
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