From an early age I learned that we are not the body but something that stores the real self which is our souls. I wasn't able to put it into words like that, but I had a higher understanding of the spirit self. Back in the nine-teen seventies doctors removed troublesome tonsils. I was five years old and apparently a little apprehensive about getting my tonsils removed; I figure because as I laid there on the surgery table while the doctor proceeded to remove my tonsils I got out of my body and went around to the other side of the table where he was proceeding to remove my tonsils. It came natural to me to just walk out of the body in a time of great concern for the outer form that housed my spirit. I stood there looking at the doctor that was giving great care to me. I remember details of what he did, what he used and the tray next to him. I stood there watching the whole thing until he left the room.
That memory remained withe me my whole life. It was something I couldn't ever forget. It's not everyday that you are able to consciously recall stepping out of the body and turning around and viewing the form that housed you; unless you were critically ill, or you died.
That memory wouldn't be the last time I was able to Soul Travel. The second time I was aware of being outside of my body and literally “seeing” was when I was about seven years old. I laid there in my bed watching the wind blow the leafs on a tree, that was in front of my bedroom window. It was as though I was in a form of meditation because my body was so relaxed.
Just then I opened my eyes, to the exact same scene before me. Confusion was mine, because I didn't understand at all how I could have been watching the wind blow the leafs on that beautiful tree as I laid there in bed, and see the same thing I saw as my body was asleep? I knew in my heart and mind that I some how was able to see with eyes closed as clear as day but I couldn't explain it or put it into words.
My body might have been in a sleep state but my spirit body -- my soul was wide awake, enjoying the view. I think what might have happened was that I was levitated slightly over my body, or was in it but was astrally seeing outside of it in a literal since because I was seeing out of my body from my soul's vision of seeing. That experience at the time was put in a block of information categorized as unexplained and I continued forth in my journey living.
Later on as an adult I reflected back on those memories and I wanted to be able to do that again but to have control over the experiences; where I would go and who I would see. I got a book on Out of body experience (OBE). Also referred to as Astral Travel, or Soul Travel.
(It is all the same thing that consists of stepping out of the body.)
My interest was sparked because I new that it was fact that you can leave your body, but I just didn't know how to do it on will. I never did do it on will as a child; not to my knowledge anyway. Instead it just came natural for me to walk out of my body without telling myself literally that was what I was going to do. It just happened. It wasn't something I forced or expected to happen or for that matter even wanted to happen.
Anyhow, I got a book on how to project out of the body and I tried it. The first attempt, I fell asleep and never recalled Astral Projecting. The second night I paid more attention to the fact that you have to really desire to leave your body, but I fell asleep again. The third night I decided to say to myself: “ I will remember where I go when I leave my body.” I also had a desire to see my boyfriend that was 150 miles away from me. That night being the third night of trying to Astral Travel I succeeded.
I went to the house my boyfriend was at. I observed his spirit body standing upright above his face as his solid body slept. His feet were directly above the head area. I was astonished to see him like that over his body. Nonetheless we chatted and that was that.
Years later I took a class at a college about diverse culture beliefs. In that class I learned about a spiritual belief that some people have about, that the soul departs the body at death from the crown of the head. So there was truth to it, or else he would not have had his feet directly above his face. That explained why my boyfriend was in that position. He had came out of his body through the crown of the head.
With my own experience you do not have to go out of the body that way and you definitely don't leave your body only upon death. You can walk out of your body any which way you choose. I guess it would all depend on that individual person / soul.
Not long after that experience I had been trying to kick a cigarette habit and I forgot my Stop Smoking Hypnosis tape at my mom's house which was a four hour drive from where I was. That night when I went to sleep I remember going to my mom's house in an out of body experience and I tried to get that tape back. My hand literally went directly through the glass door to where the stereo was. There was no way I could literally grab it up to take it back home.
Disappointed in my failure to retrieve my possession I literally walked right through my mom's bedroom door and tried to wake her but she was sound asleep, and there was no response to my verbal cues for communication. With no response from her, I disappointingly returned to my apartment / bed.
I learned from those last two OBE's that I mentioned that all you have to do is think where you want to go and instantly you are there.
Also, there never was a cord connected to my body. You know, from the first time I left my body I was me but transparent "me" that was it. There was no silly cord. Someone must have made that up to help people feel connected to their bodies in someway; so what better way than to put an umbilical cord on them, to make them feel more comfortable about traveling out of the body and having less fear about coming out of the shell form.
In addition, there is information out there that teaches people to have fear while on their OBE. That they can be harmed by entities. That's all nonsense! You can instantly project somewhere else if you had to, or go back to your body.
Another area of concern for false information is that I found silly and that was the teachings that if you stay out of your body to long you will die...Hog Wash! Silly stories just to frighten people. Any disturbance with your body brings you right back to it. If you even hear a noise you are instantly back.
Teaching Fear reminds me of the bible stories, about going to hell if you're not good. It's bull. And is a way to try to force people into thinking one way. What happens in that process is deception and major dishonesty. If you love God and believe in him with all your heart, soul, and mind you never have anything to ever fear.
