My first Astral Projectiion experience occurred when I was 21, lying in a George Washington University hospital bed after a appendicitis operation for which I was given a morphine injection. I wrote about it in my book, Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time, from which, the following excerpt is taken:
“I was in this half-state between sleep and waking. A great glowing light filled the room. Suddenly, I was floating upward. When I reached the ceiling, I realized I could steer myself. I’m having trouble though. I command myself to roll over and I’m looking down at my physical body, asleep in the bed, and I realize that I’m in an altogether different body.”
“So?”
“So I stayed up there watching my body asleep in the bed. I knew I could leave the room, but I didn’t know if I’d be able to get back. I knew I’d see amazing things, but I figured I had to return to my body, that I wasn’t ready to take off and leave it.”
“Hummph.”
“Well, it opened my mind… Perhaps, I shouldn’t say ‘mind’ because the mind may not be part of it.”
Until my Kundalini awakening fourteen years later, I had no further Astral Projection experiences. Since activating Kundalini, I have had numerous Astral Body experiences and am now able to put myself into the state at will. Travel of any sort is usually beneficial. In my case I have experienced most of the effects listed in Abhishek Agarwal's Astral Projection Course! Namely, the abilities to:
- Fly like a bird and even visit outer space,
- Walk through solid objects like walls, ceilings etc,
- Meet loved ones who have "passed on,"
- Grow spiritually and gain awareness of your True self,
- Visit the Akashic Records and see the past and the probable future,
- Increase your psychic abilities,
- No longer fear death,
- Become a better problem-solver,
- Become a better person in all areas of your life,
- Have Astral sex! (yes, even that's possible!),
- Heal yourself physically and mentally.
Is an active Kundalini necessary for Astral Projection? It certainly doesn't hurt. Kundalini shares most of, if not all of, these effects. But is it absolutely necessary? Isn't Astral Projection a subset of Kundalini effects? Given the large number of Astral Travel accounts over the centuries, I don't think so. People have been experiencing it without ever knowing about, or even having heard, the term Kundalini. In its own right — Kundalini is perhaps more difficult to realize. Again, I experienced the Out-of-Body state spontaneously and also as a result of Kundalini. Perhaps, my first experience acted as a "warm-up" — a signal that this faculty would lie dormant until my meta-body was sufficiently reprogrammed, in my case, by Kundalini, a condition that would eventually enable me to summon my Astral Body at will.
Only recently with the explosion of self-realization study has a critical mass of interest in Astral Projection and Kundalini appeared, which has led to Astral travel self-learning materials, such as those developed by my friend, Abhi.
Should you become interested and wish to explore Astral Projection, one critical point to remember is: You retain conscious control over all your impulses. Just like my experience in the George Washington Hospital when I decided to pull back, you can exert the same kind of control. In other words, you can move forward incrementally, only undertaking astral travel as you are able to master your emotions: fear, anxiety, etc.
Since awakening my Kundalini 40 years ago, I have mastered the techniques and highly endorse Astral Projection as a means of spiritual development. Once you master it, there's no limit to the insights into the cycle of life and death that Astral Travel bestows on you, the traveler.