I love your artwork and the story today, @therealpaul, thanks for sharing.
I've always been fascinated with the concept of astral projection; though I'm pretty skeptical about its actual existence, the thought that we can leave our bodies and go see other places is really neat. I want to believe. I even tried for a few seconds to honestly give your remote viewing challenge a shot... but I couldn't even bring myself to pretend to sense anything. I suppose I am just not metaphysically inclined.
For a more attainable goal, I'm more of a lucid dreaming sort of person. As I was telling @NoNamesLeftToUse The Writer/Artist Himself the other day, however, I can't seem to accomplish even that. It seems that my brain is too tethered to reality. I've tried multiple techniques over the years, with no success.
I got a few books long ago on how to astral travel, all of the techniques that would supposedly allow me out of the physical, but the the very idea I think is prohibiting to the rational mind. By intentionally 'leaving' our physical bodies we would be practicing our own deaths, learning how to pass away gracefully I suppose. That's probably what kept me from going through all of the exercises that were suggested in the books; plain old fear of death. I did have some lucid flying dreams when I was a child, but it's been a long time.
One way to naturally gain access to those levels of consciousness is to keep a dream diary- it compels a union between conscious and subconscious mind, and establishes internal relationships so to speak, so that the dream world becomes more familiar and comfortable. I haven't kept a dream diary in a long time either! In that dream body, everything is about instincts and emotions unless we are able to bring a bit of the conscious mind with us in the out-of-body experience, so that we might better remember the dream, but also so that we might actually become aware that we are dreaming during the dream, bringing some lucidity back into space-time physical world using the conscious level of the mind.
It's all fascinating stuff, maybe someday I'll learn how to incorporate it into life, and maybe do some soul traveling!
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