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This type of vision is to be expected rather than the more dramatic vision recorded by Seabrook,
where an element of possession entered into the experiment.
This type of 'astral' projection is strictly speaking 'mental' projection. There are three basic forms of
projection, often confused one with the other. These are (to use horribly approximate terms):
1
. Mental Projection, concerned mainly with exploratory acts of skrying or the using of symbolic
doors as an aid to understanding a particular part of the astral plane. This is 'projection-by-symbol'.
2
. Astral Projection (proper) in which the astral body (or Second Body to use Robert Monroe's term)
(5) is able to move a distance from the physical body and accurately report what it sees on the physical
plane, facts that could not have otherwise have been ascertained by the apparently sleeping
practitioner. There is little restriction on the distance the astral body can travel.
3
. Etheric Projection, in which the physical body is reduced to a state resembling catalepsy (the
breathing in fact becomes very shallow and may cease altogether for some time). Meanwhile, more of
the basic 'etheric' substance (6) is extruded from the body and accompanies the consciousness a
limited distance from the body.
Of these three types of projection, the second type is most often referred to, but sometimes phenomena
such as the so-called 'silver cord' (which is strictly an 'etheric' phenomenon) is incorporated in
descriptions of 'astral' projection. Likewise the visions accompanying the mental projection, that is,
the results of skrying, are often categorised as 'astral' projections. Although this may seem a mere
pedantic quibble, it is useful to set out exactly what is meant before discussing the practicalities of
projection.
This brings us to the techniques of astral projection (our second category above). There are a number
of these outlined in modern works on projection, (7) but of the techniques set forth several have not
before appeared in print and are extremely effective if persevered in every day over three or four
weeks.
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5] Robert Monroe, Journeys out of the Body. Corgi, London, 1974.
6] A rather vague term indicating the 'life substance' responsible for the maintenance of the body, and
sometimes referred to as ectoplasm, more particularly in spiritualist circles.
[7] These include: Battersby, H. P. Man Outside Himself. University Books, New York, 1969; Butler,
W. E. The Magician. Aquarian Books, London, 1963; Fox, O. Astral Projection. University Books,
New York, 1962; Muldoon, S. and Carrington, H. The Projection of the Astral Body. Rider and Co,
London, 1963.
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