Out of Body Travel - Spirit Communication

One of the most confusing aspects of out of body travel, receiving messages from entities in higher realms can prove very disorienting. While their words may be of the highest truth, they can be spoken from a dimension far above our own, and because of this their messages sometimes require translation.

When first experiencing out of body travel, it’s easy to confuse a less evolved soul with someone of a higher evolution. Because an entity in spirit does not have to carry an ego of the same density that is required in the earth, a very young soul can appear quite dynamic and evolved in an out of body experience. So it does take time to learn to differentiate between the two.

The most evolved beings seldom, if ever, give definitive directions or suggest a specific course of action for your life. The highest beings can inspire you with the simplest of words, as their refined emotions actually have the power to lift you into a higher state of consciousness. On the other hand, less evolved beings—however well intentioned—do not have that capacity and often can only advise you of a specific action to take, something they might believe to be beneficial to your life. While there is purpose in both of these interactions, it’s very important to realize that anyone simply telling you what to do—is not highly evolved. I always use caution in dealing with such souls.

In the highest dimensions, far above the earth in vibrational frequency, fear cannot exist as we know it. And it is in these inspirational realms where the energy is created that breathes life into the earth, into the dreams and thoughts of those incarnated in this world.

We can have our own resistance to these higher frequencies, unconscious fear that separates us from something we wish to manifest or express. We could return to the guidance we were given and claim it to be false. But what is missing from the message, is acknowledgement of the required path we must first walk – life experience that teaches us that certain beliefs, behaviors and attachments we embody might be limiting us. There may be many life experiences between message and manifestation, events that cause us to release beliefs that stand in the way of our longing. It is often a leap in consciousness which ushers in a new aspect of life.

Wanting to immediately manifest a vision, I sometimes find that the earth refuses to yield. Of course this is actually the purpose of incarnating into a dimension of such density. We are forced to renounce and release those beliefs that prevent us from more deeply aligning with our Higher Power and deepest Self. We may feel the longing to reclaim missing pieces of our soul and we feel the pressure to gain understanding. If we are spiritually focused, we may intuitively realize that we are being asked to release. If we are deeply grounded in the illusion of the earth, we might suffer through the breaking down of the ego.

I’ve learned not to attach to the grand visions within my dreams, out of body travel and sight. I’ve learned if they are meant to arrive in the physical realm, they will arrive in their appropriate time. As it must be, the earth requires us to cleanse our hearts before we may evolve our experience of oneness, and that seems to be an ongoing evolution into greater depth.

Out of Body Travel - Grounding

One of the challenges of the dreamer is how to be grounded in the physical world, while remaining connected to the mystical worlds. At first glance, grounding, becoming present in this dimension (or any dimension that you happen to be in) can seem to mean joining the shared consciousness of those around us.

For me, this would be quite uncomfortable. I do not wish to ground in the illusion, in the illusory earth. I wish to ground in what I perceive as reality. And that is a world that is governed by laws that are different than the laws of illusion, or the mainstream.

As one begins a process of awakening, this prospect can be almost unimaginable. But there are ways to ground in reality, the higher laws governing existence, though it does require diligence. One must seek opportunities that raise the vibrational frequency of the body. And developing a spiritual practice can do this.

The natural world does not forget and within every plant and animal is a frequency of energy that vibrates at much higher rate than the physical illusion. Walks in nature, visits to the ocean are just a couple of ways to reconnect with this frequency. Vision Quests are a part of my life – how do you remember the eternal?

Out of Body Travel

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Vision Dreams

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Spiritual Practice

Perhaps my most valuable teacher for learning out of body travel has been developing my own spiritual practice.

And a practice is really not something that can be passed down verbatim, as it must be a match to an individual soul and his/her needs. There are many modalities that could be part of a spiritual practice, like consciousness work through dream work, contemplation, journaling, introspection, vision questing, etc. The importance of the practice is to gently force consciousness.

But I believe it’s very important to spend time 'in the past' healing old injuries. Many practices tell you to stay in the present, but you get to live in the present, by going into the past and healing the fragments that were lost when injured there. Gently returning on occasion to face issues that still trouble you release energy as the light from your current knowledge purifies the experience. Any knots tied in the energy of those experiences are unraveled as you bring new life force into the present.

With more life force flowing, more conscious memory in the dream state returns. Dreams become more lucid, and we can be blessed with out of body travel experiences beyond our current imagination.

Out of Body Travel - Question

Question:

I am wondering why, during 2011 in particular, my out-of-body travel is
increasing in frequency. I have been ill with Lupus and chronic pain
and while my body is in decline, my soul/spirit is getting much stronger.
I can visit old friends and lovers, see what they are doing, and sometimes
have this confirmed later. While in the Emergency Room this week
with a moderate concussion, I fell asleep and traveled to the waiting
room where my friend was waiting anxiously to be called in to see me.
I could see her entire soul/spirit....a beautiful yellow and white aura.
She is so much more than her earth-based personality. It was a wonderful
revelation.

Is it common to experience more out-of-body travel when one is sick?
Sometimes I can leave my body and look at myself sleeping in bed.

Catherine

Reply:

Catherine,

There is always a positive side to any form of suffering. What happens during an illness is that a crack is formed in the ego that allows darkness to escape and light to enter. As darkness exits the body, it is raised in vibration and allows one to see things that had before been concealed from consciousness. So the spiritual purpose behind an illness is for the purification of the body. I would suggest that you aren’t actually having any additional experiences of out of body travel, but that you are just becoming more aware of what you are already doing. The 17th Century Abbot and poet John Donne has written much about this spiritual connection between illness and the Divine. And the tradition of the Vision Quest, in the spiritual belief system of many indigenous cultures is to purposefully recreate the same results.

John

The Nature of Magic

During conscious out of body travel, the light body vibrates at a very high frequency, much closer to our soul experience when we are not incarnated into the earth. We are able to feel things normally unimaginable, and depths of connectedness and inspiration are available that cannot currently reach us in the density of the physical earth.

Then upon waking, we realize just how limited we experience our day to day life. During out of body travel, we feel vastly powerful. And when waking and returning to this dimension, we may feel a longing to return to that level of consciousness. The magic that we feel in these higher realms now becomes a seed for future growth in the earth.

It doesn’t take many of out of body experiences to realize that the physical laws in the spirit realm are different than Earth physics. Time is relative to the dimension we experiencing. In the spirit realm, we see that our power is immediately accessible. When in the earth, there is an obvious lag in our ability to create and magnetize. In spirit, we can receive a desire in an instant. Here in the earth, we may have to wait days, weeks or even years for them to manifest.

There is of course a reason for this. The earth is where we learn to develop power. Time is slowed down for us to consider what we want. Desires within us must reach a certain level of congruence before they materialize. So if congruence does not exist within our being for something we believe we want, we are not completely open to receiving. As time passes, we may look back and see why we received certain things and others didn’t arrive.

But through experience we learn what is appropriate for us, what will add to our lives and what would detract. The result is power, an inner knowing that is developed through contemplation and experience. It is a power that enables us to have balance and goodness in our lives. This learning has an energetic memory that will remain with us in future lives as well as when we return to the world of spirit.