Re: What are the limitations of the Astral?
I think whether you are in the physical or astral all your experiences with other entities are "permission based." This is why the disciplines with energy, meditation, emotional and mind or consciousness control is so important. Giving into fear, imagination or even one's superstitions could make one's OBE and astral adventures terrifying.
What you THINK exists in the astral / mental areas, indeed EXISTS. In fact, it is as if all energetic bodies and realities exist to parody the endless multitude of beliefs and non-beliefs that we can potentially experience consciously, subconsciously and unconsciously in projections, dreams, and obe's. I think this is why some people seem to have like a "Dungeon & Dragons" experience bubble, and full on fantasy, instead of recognizing what is really around them. If you use the astral realms as a theme park, then that is what you get. If you use it as a scientific laboratory, then you will be given endless experiments. If you use it like the Last Frontier and plan to map and survey it, then that is what you experience. If you use it to heal and help others and yourself, then you will find guides to help you. What is then real?
You either need to be solidly based in a belief system that gives you protection and parameters for your experience, or completely blank slated (wiped clean of all preconceived notions), but awakened to a sense of higher self / Source protection, to experience the astral realms in a way of understanding and control. And that is applicable whether you are alive or dead in the physical earthly reality, and entering the astral realms consciously for the first time or not. You will experience what you think you are at the deepest part of yourself.
Last edited by imogen; 26th February 2012 at 09:40 AM.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. ~ Albert Einstein
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