The centers suggested here are the top and front of the head, or the “Crown” and “Third Eye” centers, associated with the pineal and pituitary glands. It is said that advanced practitioners can project their consciousness at the time of their death through the upper centers, thus ‘dying consciously’.
Other suggestions are purely visual, such as rising out of your body like a mist, or as having a second ‘body of light’ present next to your physical one. Other correspondences exist as well, but for our purposes these are the ones used most commonly and efficiently.Īstral projection is often suggested through the solar plexus, but for many this can be an unnerving and unsettling experience. These centers correspond to several levels of our physiology, that is on one level, our nervous system and plexus, as well as our endocrine system of hormone secreting glands. Within our physical body we have various organs of psychic perception, called psycho-spiritual centers in modern Western esoteric nomenclature, and chakras in Sanskrit. That is, they go from the most dense world of material Earth, to the most subtle of Infinity, or the point of our origin, the Mind of the Creator. These Worlds are categorized in the Gnostic, Kabbalistic, Hermetic, and Alchemical texts under different names and numbers, but share the same essential qualities and functions overall. In our journey of development we take on characteristics and ‘bodies’ of various vibrations, and on our ‘return’ we shed these bodies in exchange for increasingly subtle bodies and worlds of Light. We incarnate through various stages of increasing density and matter, into the present world, in order to gain the experiences that will allow us to go from ‘potential beings’ into Self Actualized, or Self Created Beings. The working assumption is that we as conscious beings originate in the Ain Soph Aur, or Limitless Mind of God. In short, any systematic outline of the interior body-world of humanity can be applied, as long as it has concise, easy to visualize symbols for the various planes of consciousness. The theoretical background behind this experiment is strictly kabbalistic, and is applicable to either the traditional Tree of Life (Golden Dawn), the revised Tree of Life as applied to the Portae Lucis material, 1) or the Palaces as outlined in the Sepher Zohar. It can be carried out by either experienced ‘traveler’ or beginner with equal ease, and possibly, similar results. It is designed for those who would like to have an ‘out of body experience’ but lack either the necessary visualization skills required of so many of the present techniques, or who have had violent experiences leaving their body, and would like a more gentle approach to the astral planes.
The majority of the experiments occurred at night, before going to sleep, and about half the time, in the morning upon waking, while still in a borderline state. During that time, no additional ritual methods were performed, either for personal development, or in a group, in order to asses the value of the technique as it stood alone. The following experiment was carried out over a three month period, from December 1996 to February 1997. It is also simple, direct, and does not require an extensive amount of visualization or creative imaging. For those who have little or no knowledge of traditional 10-12 th century Merkavah doctrines, or no interest in learning the necessary signs, symbols, and invocations for Golden Dawn style techniques and their ‘spin offs’, yet want a Hermetic approach to their inner world, there is a solution. While a wide variety of approaches has been formulated to assist the disciples of these diverse schools, much of their techniques require an extensive amount of preparatory teachings and/or ritual assistance. The projection of consciousness has been an integral part of kabbalistic teachings, from the Merkavah (Chariot) Riders and their journeys to the starry Palaces ( Hekelot) of the invisible world, to Traveling in Spirit Visions with the early adepts of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 19 th can early 20 th centuries. Director of Research, ORA Project, The Philosophers of Nature (PON)
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