What are some dangers you've encountered during astral projection / travel?
My experience was more of an astral dream, the a projection. I was asleep in bed. I was with a friend at another friends house visiting. Very real, but not quite lucid. To cut to the chase, we were spending the night there and I went to bed. Lying in bed several shadow creatures came into the room and surrounded me in the bed and started pushing down on my chest. I believe at this point I was entering sleep paralysis which we all do every night. As the shadow people were pushing down on me, I started to struggle to no avail. Got pissed and threw out my arms and yelled BE GONE!! I woke sitting up in bed with my arms outstretched. Up till now I have not faced any dangers in astral travel. The reason may be that I always ask my guides to be with me and surround myself with protective energy before attempting AP. I can offer you a few pieces of advise. 1) If you meet a shadow person or something nasty on the astral plane, confront it. Sometimes just saying hello drives them off. 2) Ask the shadow being what it why it is there. 3) If you meet a so called demon on the astral planes tell it forcibly to leave with out feeling any fear. 4) If you run into any being on the astral plane and you feel creeped out, you can always go to a higher vibration by saying or thinking take me to a higher vibration, or simply go back to your body. Do not be fooled just because you have a good feeling about an astral being you meet up with. Some will trick you into thinking they are good and are not. Use your energetic discernment. Lastly do not attempt to AP if you are not in a good mood or behaving in a negative way. The vibration we are putting out is the most likely vibration on the astral planes you will end up on. You don't have to be super holy, or happy go lucky all the time. We're all human and make mistakes. However if you are being an ass most of
the time, that's what you are going to find on the astral. Not the most
direct answer to your question. But I hope it helps.
My most recent astral projection experience became a darker journey than any other I have yet experienced. As a note, I do not try astral projection trough any form of meditations and so on, it is just something that happens unexpectedly to me.
During this particular incident, I found myself suddenly back in England, in the small childhood house I grew up in. The most immediate sensation I felt was coldness, but being unable to shiver. I found myself in the living room, but I felt I was in between two realms. My eyes would not fully open. My vision was through the slits of half closed eyes. The house seemed abandoned and full of shadows and no colour. I was floating, but my movements felt more like a moth in the wind than having firm control of my movements. I found my old Labrador bouncing around. I know he is dead now, but he bounced around joyously to see me while in his shadow form, yet I had no power to interact with him.
There was strong silence, but the coldness pressed in all around me. The rooms were intact, but derelict and decaying. I did not have control of my body to interact with my dog, but I was able to awkwardly float up the stairs and into my old room.
That's when I saw them. The dark entities darting around. They were darker
than any shadows and about the size of a child. There were about 5 or 6 altogether. When I tried to focus on one, it would immediately dart out of my vision, so I had to keep awkwardly spinning my body around to follow them. They did not attack me, but were aware of my presence. I felt uncomfortable and for some reason anger outweighing any fear. I wanted to chase them out of my old home, but did not have solid control of the whole situation to do so. Somehow I know they have always been there, but I had never been so aware of them before as I was at that moment. To me they felt evil, but not the worst kind. I could not fully interact and so I felt brave trying to watch them.
Without warning, I woke up cold and shaking back in my bed.
And that I believe to be the dangers of astral projection. To suddenly find yourself in the realm between two worlds, and the the realm of all things made of shadow and devoid of any life. And to find yourself in a room full of dark entities and lacking solid control of your astral body. I am still pondering this new experience. Be careful and safe on your travels.
No, it is not dangerous. It is extremely safe. Nothing is safer than OBE: It is our normal state of being.
I never saw the "ombilical cord" you are talking about. My guess: it probably does not really exist. It is only there if you expect to see it there. Remember, you are consciousness in a field of consciousness and can create anything you want, need, expect,...
If you are ever scared while doing it (and this is the key word: "scared" - scared does not mean dangerous, it just means YOU perceive it as scary based upon your beliefs - you can instantly merge back into your body by just thinking-of/wiggling your big toe: truly instant return. The problem is not coming back to your body, the problem is staying out at will as you will end up wishing for.
All the entities/beings you see are part of you, part of the same field of consciousness. Consciousnesses is the ultimate, indestructible reality, you are part of it and depending on how you focus, what you want to perceive or look for, you can become that which you are looking for. You ARE, forever, indestructible.
Telling there are "dangerous entities" is like telling the left hand of your physical body: "hey, left hand, be careful, I know there is a right hand out there and it is very dangerous, it will get you. Watch out!!!" It is nonsensical, they are both part of the same greater thing: your body. As a matter of fact when your right hand "will get" your left hand, they will rub each other and will both feel better, becoming a greater thing...
Being in a physical body is the scary thing: you can die, you can be hurt, you feel anger, thirst, pain,... Being in the body is not natural and not easy. It takes a lot of learning to figure out how to focus on physical reality and move a body through it.
Dying is very easy (some people don't even realize they are dead - these are what you would call ghosts or spirits)
Birth is the difficult step: you go from a state of total freedom, no-need/no-pain to a state where you are a virtual prisoner of a physical body bombarded by many very uncomfortable signals (pain, anger, thirst, total restriction of movements,...)
Anybody who claims it is unsafe to OBE falls into one of these three categories:
- they don't know the first thing about it: they never did it themselves.
- they've a hidden agenda (they want to control you - either money or power trip: you follow me and I'll keep you safe or you give me money and I'll keep you safe)
- they belong to a group of people who either get scared by anything and everything or they want to be perceived/venerated as heroes: "it is the scariest/most dangerous thing ever but look at how brave I am - I do it, I am a real hero"
Bottom line: enjoy, experiment, be curious & have fun.
If you OBE even only once, and even for a very short time, two things will happen:
- right afterwar & for most of the day: you will feel incredibly blissful, energized and rested.
- it will totally transform your perception of reality. A new door has been cracked open for you. You just have to step through it and touch infinity.
No, it is not.
But in some cases:
We all know astral planes are 7.
But there is a Ground plane inhabited by Lower degree malacious beings.
When our astral body comes out from our Physical body. then it starts to inhabit in the Groud plane of astral world.
Here our astral body may experience some kind of demons or wicked spirits Hidden beings (Djinns, shayateens).
They try to kick our astral body out of the astral world's Ground plane. they also want to have food from our fear. how much we fear that much energy (food) they will get. They generally don't harm our astral body anymore.
But in some cases these beings surrounds our Astral body and never allow it to return inside physical body. During this time problem will arise in physical world. you wont be able to wake up. until and unless they (malicious beings) allow our astral body to return into physical world. It is not fake but a dark reality.
After death every human soul travel towards 7th astral plane in order to hear God's word. this astral world is the world of dead people not living. We are making fool to ourselves but not God.

Clarke,
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