Astral Travel or Outer Body Projection?

One of the members of our local Gratitude Group, *Beverly, has been interested in experimenting with Astral Travel, or Outer Body Projections, for a while. She experiences nightmares regularly, so was really excited to have the following dream last week:

Beverly said she became aware during her sleep that she was 'up off the bed, like floating above the bed'. In her dream she was fascinated and wondered how Astral Travelers moved about, and then she floated higher until just below the ceiling. She said she noticed yellow stains there and that she'd never noticed any yellow stains there before. As she was hovering there, her brother *Ron, who shares her apartment and is also interested in Astral Travel, came into the room and they exchanged greetings. She said he appeared three dimensional, but was not solid, more like a hologram. As he left the room, she wanted to stop him to exchange a sign so they would know without doubt that this was not a dream, but in fact an out of body experience. But she was unable to control her movements and her brother left the room. She then floated off into the night sky and alighted on a rooftop, of which she recalled the concrete being very cold.

In the morning, Beverly, wanting to prove that she'd been Astral Traveling, asked her brother if he remembered coming into her room during the night, but he had no recollection of.

There were different opinions among the group to explain Beverly's experience and as nobody knows the answer for sure, any of these explanations may serve Beverly. One was that she was dreaming a dream of desire. Her desire to Astral Travel is so strong that she achieves it in her sleep. Another idea was that she had in fact had an ethereal experience that none of us were qualified to judge. She left her body and went into the sky. The fact that her brother didn't remember it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

At the Gratitude Group, we often delve into deep topics such as this. It's all about increasing our awareness of ourselves as spiritual beings in temporary physical bodies. The group is open to everyone and all are welcome, however only a small group of people are vibrating at the level that makes them want to search for 'the answers'. We can speculate and theorize as much as we like, but until we die, we won't have all the answers.

A famous Aussie, Kerri Packer, who experienced a near death experience, said he went to other side and there was nothing there. He should have qualified his statement by saying that 'he was not aware that there was anything there'.

*Names are changed for privacy reasons.