Astral Projection Podcast

In my years of having out-of-body experiences I have participated in many what are often called ‘astral rescues’. Some people when they die remain stuck in a sort of trauma loop and replay time after time what happened to them until another being can get through to them to help them out of their self-made world. Some people don’t even realise they have died, often because their death has been sudden and unexpected, the following experience is one of these. I am dreaming I am in my cellar, I have recently cleared out this space and made it into a sacred space where I meditate and play my sound therapy instruments, my energy is there. However, although I call it a dream, it doesn’t really feel like a dream, I think I am already out-of-body but not very aware at first. Then I suddenly feel an energy behind me, it feels like heavy energy, and I have a hard time turning around. I try to say ‘What’s this all about?’ but it is difficult to get the words out I make a real effort then wake myself up while saying the words. I go back to sleep and find myself back in the cellar, this time I am aware and know I am out-of-body. I see a young woman with pigtails, she wants me to follow her. I go with her and fly through the little window that goes to the garden. I fly to the left and I feel a being near me who is trying to distract me from what I am doing, I push it away with a flick of my hand and arm. I find myself in a place with a young man in front of me, the name ‘Murphy’ comes to my mind, he has been killed in a bike accident but doesn’t know he has died. I try to explain so he can move on. Around him I see several dead relatives and I try to tell him to look around, that he is among people who have already died. He then points out a pizza bar where his friends are working, he tells me that his friends own the pizza place and he says ‘They are not dead so how can I be.’ I go over to the pizza bar, and the couple tell me they aren’t doing any business, they are making pizza that is not being eaten. I tell the young man to think about that, ‘Why is no one eating the pizza?’ I tell him it’s because no one in this place has a physical body so no one needs to eat, I tell him the pizza place and the couple running it are thought forms and not really there, just projections. This seems to convince him to look at the anomalies and become more aware. I don’t remember any more but I believe that once the young man started to question what was around him this helped him move on and maybe his relatives waiting for him could finally reach him. It is interesting that a being tried to stop me, there are beings that don’t want people to do this type of ‘astral work’ I believe that as more people are lifted out of their trauma so there is more light and a little less confusion. It’s possible that this being may have been the heavy energy I felt at first, this heavy negative energy can be quite scary, they use ‘scare tactics’, if this doesn’t work they may try to distract you in other ways. However, I stress, I am speaking from my own experience which may or may not be the same as other people. There is a lot of negative energy in our world at the moment, there is also a lot of positive, though we often don’t hear about it, the astral is no different, and just as we need more light here on Earth, so we need more light in the astral. Every little helps. Imagine all the negative energy that is constantly produced if someone is reliving their trauma, time and time again, stuck in a ‘trauma loop’ in the lower astral planes. I believe many people do this type of astral work even if they are not aware, every success story brings in a little more light. Thanks for reading/listening!

In an OBE a few years ago now, I remember that I was in a house, it wasn’t a modern house, more like from the fifties, I was flying near to the ceiling observing. It was sooooo real as real as it is sitting here typing. From my present point of focus in 2025 I was a future me flying near the ceiling observing a past event. Of course in the big scheme of things all is present, there is no past or future, only in our minds, but for the sake of human on Earth in my particular timeline we’ll continue. What happened in that OBE isn’t what I wish to discuss here but rather a thought I had recently while sitting in my own kitchen here in 2025. I thought that maybe there could be another me, a future me, floating near to the ceiling observing me in 2025, why not if it happened once why not again. In the OBE from the fifties I had to understand something, that OBE was necessary for me to understand something about that life in order to heal it. The thing that struck me most about the experience was just how real it felt, as real as me sitting in my own kitchen thinking well here I am this feels real too lol. The feeling of something being real is of course relative, I have experienced many OBEs where things seemed more than real and coming back to the physical seems like coming back to a flat cartoon world where loads of crazy stuff happens.Indeed it does feel like we are stuck in a loop repeating the same things, on the surface it appears that there is progress, but when we look at things honestly the progress we see externally is for the major part, technical. Advances in communication, in modern appliances etc etc, real advances  in how we live are not so evident. There is still war, excesses in some places and lack in another, the world seems as out of harmony as ever, the craziness and chaos continues. I think we need to spiral out of this loop and the first step is realising it is a loop, we are in our own version of groundhog day, if you remember the fiilm. However, I do believe like groundhog day little advances are being made, I do feel there is a lot more light coming into our world than has been, thanks to many spiritual groups and individuals who are working on helping to raise the vibration of our world, of Earth. OBEs are a wonderful way of realising there is so much more to who we are, but if there’s one thing I have learnt from my experiences is the need to also be firmly grounded on Earth, grounded in the energy of the Earth, and not simply working from our higher chakras. We need to connect our higher self to our humanness.  Thanks for reading/listening!

Dreams and OBEs are inextricably linked, when we are working on ourselves, delving into our depths, some things come up continuously over the years and you don’t really fully understand the symbolism. For years in OBEs and dreams I’ve found myself in an old villa, I would say Italian. An old stone building, overgrown and forgotten, but it is more the garden that is of interest, it is overgrown and there is a small rectangular pool, this pool has also appeared in experiences in my parents garden, a place in the astral I use as a sort of base camp. I have always called it my sacred garden. The pool is not modern but one you might find in an old Italian villa, made of stone, the water is greenish with algae, sometimes it is empty. In the experiences I always want to swim in it, though it is a bit small for proper swimming. I am reading a boot at the moment called ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer, yesterday it described how an elderly lady wished to return to her former home after many years, it was run down etc. There was also a part describing how the author had bought a house with a pond that needed cleaning, this could have triggered my dream, or maybe the universe conspired to create a series of feelings and events within me. Even recurring dreams are often a little different each time, sometimes showing how progress is being made, the dream may show you this progress with small signs. It is certainly worth working with dreams as I’m convinced much of our healing can be done in dreams and OBEs of course. Who knows what we have avoided having to deal with in life thanks to our dreams. A rather neglected area of our humanness I think. Anyway in the dream I had in the early hours of this particular morning there was progress in the old Italian villa saga. I am in my village in England, in the road where I was born and brought up. Originally we lived in a different house in the road and then we moved next door but one. In the dream I realise they are renovating the first house we lived in. I go round to the garden and the pool is there, they are renovating this as well, I am so happy as finally I will get to swim in it. There are a team of workers there, they are very nice and ask me what I want to do with the pool. What size do I want it? I’ve never wanted a big pool really just big enough for me to swim in it. Too big is too much maintenance and would take up too much space. When the pools were all closed a few years ago I set up a pool in my garden and swam using an elastic harness it worked a treat until winter arrived and the water was freezing so I ended up just doing cold dips. I miss my pool in the garden lol. Anyway my husband was there saying it only had to be small, but his small wasn’t the same as what I meant by small, could have symbolised a voice of restriction? The workmen are asking me what I want. I tell them it has to be long and wide enough for me to be able to swim with my elastic harness and I lay down to see my height and arm reach if doing front crawl also width for breaststroke. I then leave, a worker offers to help me up a steep step I say ‘I can manage myself but I’ll accept your help’ He gave an air of confidence and security. So now it is interesting that now the overgrown stone pool is being renovated so I can swim in it. It is also symbolic that the pool was in the garden of our first house, where I was born. The day before this dream was the 1st May, we were in spring, symbolic of new beginnings and rebirth, and I had spent most of day working in the garden. Although this podcast is called the astral projection podcast I do think it is important to stress the importance of not focusing simply on the astral realms as the goal, there are many wonderful, thought-provoking, opportunities for growth that can be experienced beyond the astral realms and also through dreaming. If we restrict our journeying to only the astral realms we are once again acting in a limited belief system like on Earth at the present time. I think we should look to always expand not just in our travels in other dimensions but also within the physical body we are presently focused in. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to the Astral Projection Podcast, it’s been a long time since my last episode, where has the time gone? I really do believe that time is moving faster here in the physical plane, I can’t seem to fit in all the things I used to. In reality, time doesn’t exist, it is just something we use in order to get some sort of order in, what we perceive as, our ‘linear lives’. I have been very busy doing several courses, getting into sound therapy, reading a lot of books and of course continuing with my out-of-body experiences. However, I have missed doing my podcast so here I am. One of the courses I’ve been doing is about shamanism, I’ve always had an interest in this and many of my OBEs have definitely had a shamanic feel about them, I had a guide for a while called Shaman George, plus a bear, a wolf and a dragon as part of my ‘army’ so to speak. I thought today we could look at a few of the benefits you can enjoy when practicing astral projection/OBEs, some people may start researching and practicing it out of curiosity but the benefits of experiencing out-of-body experiences go far beyond satisfying curiosity. I always have more of a personal/spiritual growth attitude towards it, I have gained spiritual insight into many situations and experienced myself as existing far beyond the physical body grounded on Earth. 1. Exploration of the Astral Realms: One of the benefits of astral projection is obviously the opportunity to explore the astral realms. These dimensions are extremely varied, basically if you can imagine it you have the possibility of meeting it, or exploring it, the astral offers a landscape for the exploration of consciousness that transcends the limitations of the physical world. You may have encounters with other beings, visit realms that are beautiful beyond description, there are also realms that are not so inviting, the lower planes which are of a very low vibration and I do not recommend visiting these. I have been in these lower realms on several occasions but always with guides and I have never actively planned to go there. Exploration of the astral certainly opens your mind as you realise that there is much more to life than meets the eye. Astral projection transcends the limitations of time and space. Travelers may experience non-linear perceptions of time or visit locations that are distant in physical terms. This unique aspect of astral projection allows us to gain insights into the interconnectedness of past, present, and future. 2. Heightened Spiritual Awareness: Astral projection is often associated with heightened spiritual awareness. As we focus away from our physical body, we may experience a sense of oneness with the universe, we can tap into a collective consciousness that goes beyond individual identity, once in the astral we become a lot more knowledgeable than we are in the physical, our consciousness expands. This expanded awareness can often lead to profound spiritual insights and can give us a deepened sense of purpose when returning to our physical bodies. Access to Higher Wisdom: During astral projection experiences, we may encounter entities or guides that offer insights, teachings, and guidance. This access to higher wisdom can provide answers to existential questions, offer solutions to life challenges, and deepen one’s understanding of the greater mysteries of existence. 3. Self-Discovery and Personal Growth: Astral projection for me has been, and continues to be, a powerful tool for self-discovery and personal growth. As we navigate the astral realms, we may encounter symbolic representations of our subconscious mind, unresolved emotions, or aspects of ourselves that are not readily apparent in everyday life. Our higher self may create different scenarios in order to help us work through our issues. Through our astral adventures we can gain many personal insights, healing, and a greater sense of self-awareness, 4. Overcoming Fear of Death: Astral projection involves a temporary focus of consciousness away from the physical body, providing us with a unique perspective on the nature of life and death. Experiencing consciousness outside the confines of the body can lead to a profound shift in how you view death, as you realise that consciousness exists independently of the physical form. 5. Healing on the Energetic Level: Astral projection can help you heal on an energetic level, our issues, whatever they may be, are stored energetically, they are present in the energy body before they manifest in the physical body. In an OBE a while ago I was doing Reiki on my sleeping body, it was a fascinating experience. Healing in the astral is often depicted by images and sensations, words can be clumsy and not convey as much as an image or feeling. You may find yourself within a scene, which leads to insights, or you may be led to understanding by a series of actions, or events. These experiences can have

This OBE is a good example about how we can connect to others during OBEs. I had gone up to the attic to sleep at about 2am due to my husband’s snoring. In the early hours of the morning I had the following OBE. I am out-of-body and fly through the window only to suddenly hear my husband come in the room telling me not to go off flying. It’s not the first time I’ve had this sort of experience. Anyway as I hover outside the window I tell him that it’s perfectly fine why doesn’t he try it too. I go back into the room and take his hands so I am facing him outstretched arms holding both hands. I tell him to jump up in the air and that he will float so he does, then I persuade him to fly out the window with me, so we do, all the time in the same position, me in front of him holding his outstretched hands. I say, ‘There that’s not so bad is it?’ Then I say, ‘Make sure you remember this in the morning,’ I keep emphasizing, ‘Remember this in the morning.’ So in the morning while having breakfast I asked him if he had any dreams the night before, then he suddenly became enthusiastic as he recounted a dream he had. The outline of the dream is this, he was shopping for an anti-gravity device which would enable him to fly, he found one in a shop and bought it at a bargain price. The device consisted of a piece of wood that you held out in front using both hands. As he demonstrated the position I saw that it was the same one as we had used in my OBE, he said he used the device first to float then to fly. So his mind had interpreted our flying OBE into a dream about an anti-gravity device, I’ve been called a lot of things but an anti-gravity device is a new one lol. Well I suppose Ali does mean wings in Italian. This is not the first time I have met my husband out-of-body but it is the first time he has actually remembered something similar to what happened. Often I am usually flying off out of the house trying to persuade him that he can fly too. This experience has implications also regarding how we can help people even when we are asleep, and I’m not talking about helping people have out-of-body experiences but rather by giving people support. Of course, with family the connection is very strong so probably it is easier to have an influence, same with close friends, however, this doesn’t mean helping others is not impossible, given that we have their permission. The best way when out-of-body is to ask your higher self the best way to help someone with whatever problem they have, you may get shown something in a kind of vision, who knows if your higher self considers it appropriate you may even have an encounter like I did with my husband where he brought it all back as a dream. This is one reason why we must not discount dreams as not very important, we may get messages from our guides through them, even loved ones on the other side, who knows someone somewhere might be trying to teach us to fly.

From May 2016 I just love that OBE feeling, detaching from the physical is great way to get rid of stress. I become conscious after the exit, as sometimes happens, and I’m flying down the road in our neighbourhood. I look down at what I’m wearing and for some reason I’m dressed in a short black jacket and I’m carrying a wooden chair, both the jacket and the chair are heavy so I throw down the chair and take off the jacket. I think these items are symbolic of something weighing me down in the physical. Anyway once those items are discarded I become lighter, I am so happy to be OBE and experience the lightness that comes with detachment from the physical. I’m a bit too exhuberant so I calm myself down as too much emotion in the astral can cut short an experience. Checking out local areas has never interested me and I hadn’t set any intentions before sleeping which is a shame as I could have tried healing my knee, I have been experiencing some mild pain there lately. I let my higher self decide for me and it gets dark, not scary dark though, I fly very quickly just above some trees, the trees seem familiar from other experiences, it starts to get lighter and I see a young man with red hair walking on a mountainside, he’s on a trekking expedition to the top of the mountain. I stop and go up to him, he’s enjoying his walk, at the top of the mountain there’s a castle with a tremendous view. I tell him that I would have loved to accompany him but I’m out-of-body and I know my time is limited, my alarm clock will go off soon and then I’d miss the view. I tell him I’ll fly up to the top. So I fly up to the top of the mountain, go through a door into the castle, there are other people there, (no one is bothered by my flying, (in some places people are bothered by seeing someone flying and you have to tone yourself down a bit), I fly up to the highest point in the castle, I’m still inside, there’s a window through which I can see the sea, I always like views over the sea but a lady tells me that is not the spectacular view to be experienced. I then realise that the view is inside the castle and as I look down what I see is truly breathtaking but not visually, it’s breathtaking in its depth and ‘enormity of feeling’, it reminds me of Koestler’s description of what Freud calls ‘oceanic feeling’: (though this expression was originally coined by Romain Rolland). “that expansion of awareness which one experiences on occasion in an empty cathedral when eternity is looking through the window of time, and in which the self seems to dissolve like a grain of salt in a lot of water.” Aware that my alarm clock will be going off soon I leave the castle, to get out I have to go through a kind of TV screen, then through another door, others are entering as I leave. At this point I check in with my higher self to see if I can help out anywhere but it isn’t meant to be. I stay where I am, it’s truely a lovely place, different styled houses and each ecologically friendly, information enters my mind that this is where sustainable housing, farming etc is developed for the Earth before arriving as a physical concept. I receive the impression that I am looking at ideas from Earth’s future as seen from my present point as Ali Wylie on my timeline. I see a celebration going on with lots of different kinds of food carried in different containers, there’s lots of colour and happiness, they are celebrating how they have found the solution to food problems on the Earth, now everyone will have enough good healthy food. I think the spectacular view within the castle is showing how the beauty and depth we carry inside is so much more meaningful than anything we may see or experience on the outside, in our exterior worlds, this of course is nothing new in spiritual circles, but these reminders are sometimes necessary to keep us on the right path. Happy travels!

I often talk about the importance of the mind in out of body experiences, firstly to set intention, and focus on that intention and while actually out of body to remain objective and in control. I have also spoken a lot about the heart and how it can act as a strong catalyst to bring about an OBE, as if you have a strong desire to connect to the beyond this desire can pull you into the beyond, it is not just ‘want’ it is something more. It is more like an extremely strong longing to connect to something you know is present somewhere within you, the path to that something is through your heart. Combining these two aspects of who we are can create a powerful technique. Unfortunately we are used to separating everything, how we perceive the world, each other, the parts of our body, we don’t seem to be very good at unity, at least at the moment though things are changing. The heart is very powerful, I felt its power once in an OBE where I could see and feel my heart chakra like a glowing engine full of power. Imagine being able to harness this power. We all have a heart so we all have this incredible power house, we only have to learn how to ignite it. Our mind is also a powerful tool if we can learn to focus and not let it wander into the past and future beating ourselves up about the past and worrying about the future. Our point of power is the present and it is only from there that we can act. Focusing our mind on our intention to experience an OBE while feeling a strong desire to connect to the beyond is powerful and it does require effort. The desire must be felt, it must not be the idea of a desire, I have called this ‘spiritual longing’ in the past, as mentioned earlier, it is a longing to reconnect to who you truly are, to your higher self, to the divine. I don’t really like to call this a technique as the desire to reconnect to the divine is something not to be turned on and off, only to be used when we want to experience out of body travel. We should carry that feeling in our hearts as we carry on our everyday lives, who knows doing this may also have a positive effect on how we live too. We have been taught over the years to perceive the world in a particular way, we live with blinkers on without seeing wider possibilities of life on Earth. Opening ourselves up, feeling that spiritual longing, that desire to connect to the divine, combined with the power of our minds, could take us many places including on incredible out-of-body experiences. Spiritual longing is a strong desire to experience who we truly are without the blinkers of our physical reality, one of the ways to do this is through out-of-body experiences. In one of my OBEs I experienced myself as the universe, I was everything, all was present, all was peaceful, it was incredible and defies description. So let’s nurture our hearts and learn to control our minds, uniting the two, indeed uniting all our bits, so to speak. A strong desire to grow beyond this physical reality can only take you one place and that is beyond the blinkers.

Phew where does the time go, can’t believe it’s now the other side of Christmas and the days are getting longer. My OBEs went to sleep for a while now they seem to have woken up a bit. They are rather short but it is good to be out. In the first I leave my body and find myself in my garden in England I look around and fly to the end of the garden and look over to the left. There is something new and kind of new settlement, though not permanent in the sense of buildings etc and I see lots of blue lights. I am very happy as I feel there has been progress, something has evolved. The ‘people’ I say people but I don’t see anyone at first, I just get a feeling, however, the feeling that I get is that they are self-sufficient, they no longer rely on external things, not for survival of for spirituality. Everything they need is contained within. They even carry their own shelter with them, someone comes over and demonstrates how they can easily create a kind of igloo type shelter around them. A few nights later I have the following experience. It’s so good to be out and about, I love the feeling you get when you’re out there, it’s difficult to describe, a feeling of lightness, of freedom, so good to have a break from gravity lol. It’s not just that though, it’s a break from the predictability of the 3D reality. I am dreaming I am in my old bedroom in England, I am dreaming that I want to have an OBE, I am in bed. At which point I start to feel the signs that I am about to have an OBE and I become lucid, I let the gentle fizz run through my body and I get up out of it. I believe I am already in the astral probably in an astral version of my bedroom, I am lucid and it is not a lucid dream, it feels different, definitely has the OBE feel about it. I look at the window with the intent to fly through but it is all boarded up, and I feel it would take a lot of effort to go through. I decide instead to explore the house to see what wonders lie within. I float out of the room and see a figure in front of me a white, almost transparent lady, as I go towards her she kind of puffs away. I go down the stairs and I see my dad in the hall, though he has no substance, (my dad passed a while ago) I feel the figure of my dad is  residue energy, he too disappears. I fly out of a window into the garden, how wonderful it is, the garden is permeated with a joyful energy. I look up there are some autumn leaves blowing in the wind, the leaves turn into birds, it is magical. I don’t remember anymore, and soon wake up. So cool to be out and about again, though I do feel that even if we may not remember what we do at night, there is always something going on. In the last weeks I feel I have been going very deep, maybe too deep to bring anything back to be processed by the human brain. In the next OBE I am in a dream and I am very high up in a building, I get the urge to fly through the window, at that moment I become lucid and as I fly through the window I realise I am in the astral. It feels so good, I am flying very fast over a lake, I look around to decide which direction I feel like flying towards. I am sooo full of energy and I throw off my clothes to feel the energy sensations against my skin. I feel this is symbolic of throwing off earthy type energies. It feels so good I could cry, all the time I feel my energy rising. I decide to fly towards some mountains, there is a small settlement and I find myself there with a young man, I feel we know each other quite well, I tell him how I am almost bursting with energy. We walk around the settlement to the other side I see a woman maybe Chinese, then suddenly I realise a volcano has erupted and we are close to the flow the lava, the young man says he’s never been so close to lava before. Then a strange thing happens and he sort of drops into the lava, all remains is his head on top of the lava flow and I pick it up though it is not really a human shape head and it is small and inanimate. Someone says to me, ‘it’s a good job you picked up his head’. The settlement isn’t stable as I see some cliffs fall into the water a distance away and now there is the threat of a tidal wave. I know I can fly and I am just about to take off to go to higher ground and an asian looking guy grabs my arm, he is trying to help me, to stop me from being swept away by the water, he doesn’t know I can fly. Momentarily the danger passes and he lets go of my arm, at which point I head towards higher ground. I wake up.  I seem to be getting my night time focus back instead of falling into deep sleeps where I remember very little. Maybe this has to do with the days getting longer and with spring just around the corner. The wood pigeons are getting more vocal which I love, it’s a bird that has followed many of us through life though we may not have always been fully aware of its presence as I feel it is

Early this particular morning I decided to practice active listening as I have mentioned in other episodes, I put on a track to focus on and chilled into the music but not too much as to lose my focus. In the end I did go to sleep though. I’m dreaming I’m observing a kind of white corridor there are people walking down it, they are in a sorry state, some can’t even walk properly and one guy who is in a pretty bad way picks up and someone worse off than him and carries the person on his back Then, still as an observer I’m in another white corridor and below me are 3 children who are shabbily dressed and a bit dirty. I tell them from above that we have to get out of this place, at which point I realise I am dreaming, and I tell them we can go to the astral together. I set my intention and shoot up into the air intending to make an exit to the astral in the ceiling, but I can’t get through, I try again and make a round hole in the ceiling with my head, then the ceiling sort of screws round on itself so the hole becomes an oval hole. I don’t go through it as I realise that there is no ceiling above me now and I shoot up into the astral. I find myself in a lush green forest, it is so green, something white is coming towards me and as it gets closer there is a lot of writing on it though I don’t understand any of it, but I get the feeling that I have to save the world. I stand in the forest I am some sort of warrior and there is another warrior with me, we are waiting for others to join us. I have a sword and dressed in black, a bit like a samurai. I don’t remember any more than that. The thing that stands out is just how green the forest is. A samurai saving the world sounds like some sort of video game lol. Anyway even though short I am happy I managed to get out as it always gives me a feeling of something bigger, when I am back in my body after an OBE it always amazes me just how focused we are in this 3D reality, so focused that it is too easy to believe that this is the only reality and that our dramas are the only dramas. I’m sure there was a time when we were more in tune, when we saw so much more than the funnelled down version of the world that we see now, it is as if we live with horse blinkers on. It’s time to get rid of the blinkers and open our minds to something bigger, something deeper.

My journeys in the astral have taken me to many places, some beautiful beyond words, others so real they seem more real than real, others totally defy description. There are also more gloomy places, though some say all is light and love on the other side my experiences have shown me otherwise however, it is important to remember all ends in joy….sooner or later. It is no good denying these gloomy places exist, it would be like denying a part of ourselves, humanity does carry darkness within, as history tells us, as the state of our world shows us. However, helping just one person at a time out of their astral gloominess does make a difference. We may believe that the bad things that happen are external to us and nothing at all to do with us as individuals but I believe we are all connected, we are all human, probably with many other lives. We just don’t remember in the life we are presently focused all the people we are and all the things we do or do not do in this big soup of the NOW. This world is what we have created, what we are creating, it is our responsibility and we can make a difference by trying to be the best possible version of ourselves. We can try to raise our own vibration and this will have a knock on effect on the people around us, so yes our communities are important. In turn this, I believe, will also affect the astral planes as it is here our thoughts and emotions play out, this is why at times it is such a mess lol. Our thoughts are crazy and our dramas at times off the scale, causing out of control emotions and craziness. Contributing to the wellbeing of our communities will help uplift humanity. This brings me to my new activity which I am hoping to bring to my own community, it involves drum circles. In the summer I completed a drum circle facilitator course, to tell the truth I don’t remember how I even discovered the event, but I knew I had to do it. It was amazing and I discovered how drum circles can lift people up, how they can connect people in a very deep way, I had some amazing experiences. So over the summer I have been gathering together a few second hand drums and percussion instruments, I also managed to grab a few camping chairs at a decent price to take my drum circles into nature. However, I am now stuck as I need a few slightly more expensive nesting drums, which are lighter and easier to carry around, my funds are limited so I wondered how could I raise some money for the drums. I don’t like asking for money without some sort of exchange so I decided to record my book, Astral Dancer, that I could give away by way of a thank you for eventual support for this new venture. One Monday before I went on holiday, I took the plunge, I started recording around 10 am and finished early evening. It was pretty exhausting but satisfying. Over the next few weeks I edited the audio, it took longer than I expected and a few times I wondered why I had started lol. It’s amazing how long it can take to edit just 20 minutes of audio. Anyway it is completed and ready to download for those who donate to my drum fund. I have used the voice of an AI for Danny as his part, though only about 3000 words, proved too expensive to pay someone. AIs have certainly improved a lot in the last few years, he doesn’t sound too bad. I used my podcast set up so the quality is similar to what you are presently hearing. I have worked out I need about 2500 euros for the drums, once I have reached this sum I will take down this podcast episode and the option to download as this is a one off thing for the drums. Of course I am still continuing with my astral projection stuff, how could I not lol, it has brought me much wisdom over the years and has become a part of me. So if you would like to donate to my drum fund please go to astralprojectionpodcast.com and click on the Donate to my Drum fund image or you can first go to the page that describes the project in more detail. After you have donated you should be taken back to my website where there is a link to download the Astral Dancer audiobook, it lasts about 3 and a half hours. If you have any problems accessing the download let me know via the Contact page on my site and I’ll do my best to get the audio to you. Thank you in advance! 

What a nice surprise this morning, a sign things are calming down after the summer, I also think recording a quick podcast episode recently helped get my mind focused on astral projection again. I am laying in bed and I feel the usual sensations that I am in the mind awake/body asleep state, though I don’t feel as if I am me in my bedroom here in Italy, I’m someone else but still me lol, if that makes sense. I leave my body and immediately find myself in the astral. I shoot up in the air and look down, below me is a young man, roundish face and short hair, and he is also me. I feel I have his appearance. I’m so happy to be out-of-body we look at each other, we are both happy, then I fly off. I feel that I’m looking for someone or something, there is some sort of conflict going on, not a war, more an underlying conflict that needs resolving. There is a lady sitting at a desk and she is checking people through into a sort of work tunnel. I am with a group of women who are all dressed in white robes, totally covered from head to foot I don’t see their faces. The lady at the desk has dark hair and is bigger than the women, I too am bigger. In some way the lady with dark hair represents the authorities, the ones who are keeping the women under control. I tell the women that they mustn’t go and get checked in and go down the tunnel but they don’t listen they think it is the only way they can be free. The lady with dark hair becomes aware of me and doesn’t want me there, I fly off and find myself in a glass building with the lady with dark hair. I vaguely remember flying through a window into a town but the memory isn’t clear and I don’t remember any more. I often find myself inthe mind awake/body asleep state in other bodies, sometimes a version of my own as in Ali, sometimes someone else, though I think probably another me, from another life. A week or so ago I watched the film ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, it was a bit confusing at times, a little difficult to follow if you got distracted, but I can appreciate the concept. Thousands of universes all happening at the same time with different versions of the same people, the appearance of the different versions was always the same though they were living different types of lives, with the same people, so if I were to make a correlation it could be said that each was a probable self living a possible life on a different timeline. Seth talks about probable selves, for anyone that isn’t aware Seth is an entity channeled by Jane Roberts a while ago now. The film ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ is slightly different from the film ‘Cloud Atlas’ which depicts 6 different lives of the same essence, which are completely different in appearance and personality, male and femaile, so rather that probable selves they were other lives. All rather confusing, maybe I shouldn’t bring the entertainment industry into this lol however, I do believe that our films and tv often do depict certain truths though maybe a bit distorted in order to be entertaining. You just have to look at the film ‘Matrix’ and how by many it is considered a documentary rather than fiction, but we won’t go into that. So how is all this relevant to my OBE, well the films deal with how all the probable selves, or lives, can influence each other, in both negative and positive ways, I believe this is true. In some way we are in contact with ALL of who we are, for this I often wake up in the mind awake/body asleep state of other versions of the Ali me, or other people who are not the Ali me but are other mes from other lives with a different appearance. In this way we can all help each to work through our shadows, each me has different skills and abilities which we can connect with and use to lift up the total of who we are into a higher vibration. Realising this and trying to make the connection can have a knock on effect and help wake up other yous who may still be unaware of the multiplicity of life. As individuals we can help transmute any negativity that we may have caused in other lives, or as probable selves, and this in turn will help the whole of humanity out of the tunnel we have been in for a very long time. This is how important you are.

It is all too easy to forget some of the lessons we learn in the astral, this is why it is important to reflect on and write down our dreams and OBEs and on occasion reread. This summer I forgot the words of an astral traffic warden I met once in an OBE, in the UK traffic wardens are the people who fine you for parking in the wrong place. When I met her I was singing and dancing to upbeat music and she came over. I thought she was going to fine me for singing and dancing in public. However, she said that she was going to fine all the people who weren’t singing and dancing. In other words she was saying don’t forget to sing and dance in life or you may have problems. I ended the summer with a tendonitis in my left shoulder. The second half of the summer was enjoyable but a little stressful, When I’m stressed a lot of the tension goes into my shoulders usually I don’t even realise I’m doing it, dancing in the evening in the kitchen to 70s and 80s music while I’m cooking usually de-stresses my body I shake off all the days stress like my dog shakes off all the emotion we smother him with. I didn’t realise how this contributed to my wellbeing until the other evening when after boogieing a little in the kitchen there was a lot more movement in my shoulder. For half of the summer I had been too busy to partake of my kitchen disco, instead keeping all the stress in my shoulders, the body can only take so much and once home, my left shoulder had had enough and I got my ‘fine’ so to speak. The astral traffic warden experience may seem quite simple and not really one of my more memorable OBEs but the message is indeed important, don’t stop singing and dancing, allow your body the opportunity to express itself freely. Allow your self to express itself freely, in the end this is your story, you are the protagonist, only you know what you need. Remember even the simplest of out-of-body experiences can carry an important message.  

In my last episode I spoke a little about active listening, and how it can take you into the present moment. Well I decided to practise a little when I wake up during the night. I often listen to tracks when I do wake up as it helps me relax and get back to sleep. So this particular morning I wake up and put on a track called the Chakra/Brainwave Harmonizer by Jonathan and Andi Goldman, I start to listen to the music, not just hearing it and allowing myself to drop back off to sleep but actively listening to see where it takes me. After a while I realise my body has gone to sleep and I am feeling energy sensations that I recognise as the precursor to an OBE so I get up out of my body, go over to the window and fly through it. I am feeling full of energy and euphoric, my heart centre is particularly active, as I fly through the window I am surrounded by what I would describe as mist or light clouds, this is the nearest I can get to describing it. I feel so full of joy and want to connect to the Divine. Just in front of me I see a dark shadow, potentially it could have been a bit scary but I am so full of joy that I go over to it and give it a big hug, it immediately disintegrates and disappears. Some more stuff happened after but I can’t remember very well. Then I wake up. I wasn’t intending to have an OBE I just thought that I would see where active listening to this track would take me, the track starts at the Crown chakra goes down to the Root then up again and finishes on the Crown. It could be that when I had my OBE the Heart chakra track was playing, considering my heart center felt very active. It could be that I was doing some ‘shadow work’ as I did hug the shadow and it disintegrated, which is possibily demonstrating that if we hug our shadows, i.e. accept them as part of who we are and not try to hide and resist them, then our shadows will disappear. This is an example of one of the benefits of OBEs, they help us evolve, we can deal with our shadows and grow just a little bit more each time. Of course this is not the only path to evolution but it is indeed a fascinating one.

A few days ago I got back from a 6 day retreat, (drum circle retreat), on the surface this may not be connected to astral projection, however, the Universe connects everything and leads us, if we listen, to our path and to experiences that enhance our understanding of our place in the scheme of things. So this episode starts with a quote by Michael Roads “You cannot think your way into the moment. You can only think your way out of it. To listen, you have to be consciously established in the moment.” I have often spoken about the importance of the present moment and how it is our point of power, of connection with the Divine. To really be in the moment you should let go of your thinking as our thinking takes us away from the present moment into the past and future. There is an astral projection technique I call the Dream Focus Technique, where you focus on something to the exclusion of all else, if you focus for long enough the dream dissolves and you find yourself either directly in the Astral or in the mind awake/body asleep state, at least this is my own experience. To illustrate this I once left my body and decided to meditate while in the Astral. I knew I had to empty my mind of all thoughts and focus in the present moment. It wasn’t easy but I managed it and I experienced myself as the Universe, I was everything. So back to the retreat, we did an exercise where you stand in the middle of the drum circle, you have to listen to the sounds and then close your eyes, and turn to try to find your place in the circle. As I Iistened, with eyes closed, slowly turning it was as if the physical world dissolved and I had a similar feeling as the OBE mentioned before although not as intense. I was focused in the present moment as I was actively listening to the rhythm of the drum circle. I had listened myself into the present moment. The listening helps to block out thoughts and external distractions, the same as focusing in a dream dissolves the dream. I haven’t had time yet to really work on listening, the retreat was pretty intensive, I still need some time to process everything, my dreams are full of circles of rhythm and sensations. I think I need another retreat to process the first one.

Introduction I am not a monk tucked away in some quiet corner of the world where no one will disturb me, I am not someone who meditates every day, though I probably should. I usually manage to go to bed early and listen to some binaural beats, sometimes I even make it through to the end without falling asleep. I live in Italy, a pretty chaotic country for someone who was born and brought up in a quiet English village. I learnt to astral project when I had young kids so I needed techniques that I could do when I had time. My kids used to start school around 8.00am and finish around 1.00pm and that includes Saturdays. If I was going to do any communing with my self in the realms of the present moment it had to be within those times, in between all the other things I had to do. This doesn’t include, of course, the 3-month summer holidays, during which quietly communing with my self was possible only at night. I sometimes wonder how I ever managed to teach myself how to leave my body, little kids just don’t relate to ‘just sit there quietly for 20 minutes while I go and do my OBE training.’ Of course my kids grew up but the interruptions didn’t stop. I always look back at what I did, indeed what I continue to do, for astral projection is a work in progress. I continually work at it for there is always progress to be made and slacking off means fewer OBEs. I want to be brief and to the point because busy people with jobs and families need a simple, straightforward technique which can be practised anywhere and at any time. Basically, it is a system which uses normal dreams as a springboard to expand your consciousness. 1.    We All Sleep In the past when I slept was the only time I could practise any Astral Projection techniques. It was the only time really when I was completely relaxed and not usually interrupted. We all sleep so we can all use this time. If you wake up several times during the night, each time is an opportunity to practise staying awake while you fall asleep. Your consciousness must be gently present through the whole process, don’t concentrate too hard or your body will never fall asleep. However, this isn’t the technique I wanted to discuss. When I was teaching myself to OBE often exhaustion would set in, and I would fall asleep. This problem led me to look at dreams. 2.    Do You Remember Your Dreams? This is fundamental. If you don’t remember your dreams the first thing you have to do is develop your dream recall. This OBE technique relies on something we all do every night whether you remember or not. Memory is important for dreams and out-of-body experiences alike. So, to remember your dreams and develop your recall ability, it is essential to start writing down your dreams and any feelings or sensations you have during the night. This gives the message to your subconscious that you want to remember what you do at night. You may also use affirmations before you go to sleep and each time you wake up, for example, ‘I remember my dreams,’ over and over again. Take a little time each morning, just after you wake up, to sink back a little to that zone between waking and sleeping, let your dreams come floating back into your mind. If you’re new to OBEs it may be a good idea to surround yourself with Light before you go to sleep. Many people recommend this to keep away unwanted entities. To tell the truth I don’t go through this process because it has become automatic. I am fairly confident when I’m out-of-body, I have had a quite a few scary moments and overcome them. After all the negative energy I’ve blasted with Love and Light most of the annoying entities probably run a mile when they see me coming! 3.    Lost in Dreams/Lost in Life? Our consciousness is often lost in dreams, just as sometimes our consciousness is lost in life. Too often we get swept along by the chaos. Are we really consciously present in our lives 100% of the time. I know I’m not. How many times during the day do we drift off to the past or to the future, we play past events through our minds and sometimes worry about the future. How much time do we actually spend focused in the present? It is great practice to stay focused when all around us seems in chaos. Many people have said that our point of power is the present and how right they are. So, if we are not present in our lives how can we be present when we sleep, how can we be conscious in our dreams when we are not always conscious in life? 4.    Get Conscious in Life Often, we do things in an automated way because we are used to it, we have learnt how to do it so we don’t have to think about it anymore. So now we must teach ourselves to be conscious, to wake up while the body sleeps, to wake up within the chaotic life of our dreams. We must teach ourselves to be conscious within the chaos, the chaos of our physical life and our dream life. Training ourselves to be more aware in daily life will reflect in our

Lately I have been thinking about the many different places I have visited in the astral, some are wondrous and beautiful beyond words, others carry a heavy dreary type of energy and the people there feel oppressed in some way. As I mentioned in my last podcast episode I asked some people why they were living in such cramped dreary conditions when on Earth many people who have had near death experiences say that it is all light and love. As I explained I didn’t get an answer. However, maybe I did get my answer but it took time to form in my mind. Sometimes things have to be pondered and rolled over in your mind to truly understand, maybe while we are pondering things we get downloads from our guides to help us understand. At the same time fully understanding everything with our human mind I believe is an impossible task and not even necessary, I feel our intuition is probably one of our greatest tools. These places I find myself in are consensus realities, a reality that is formed because all the people in it believe in it, they create it with their thoughts, the astral is thought and feeling sensitive and like attracts like so it does make sense that people with the similar energy, thoughts and emotions should be like magnets to each other and form a reality. This of course would be true for the happier places too, even places based around a particular religion. So the separation that we experience on Earth continues. Ironically my pondering brought me back to Earth, we too live in a consensus reality, I could even ask myself the same question as I asked those people in the OBE, ‘Why do we live the way we live?’ Do we ever question the way we live, or is it so engrained in our belief system that we think this is the only reality? When we are born I’m sure we perceive the world in a different way though few of us remember, things that might have been natural for us as young children may have been programmed out of us by our system. I used to teach English in a nursery school, I remember a little girl who had drawn colours around her mother, it looked very much like an aura, the girl was 3 and this was obviously how she saw her mother. The main teacher, I was a sort of assistant, saw the picture and told the girl off saying that people didn’t have colours round them. I remember this teacher as being a bit severe, even I was a bit wary of her lol. If we are told often enough as children that something doesnt exist then we will with time block it as we feel that we are not normal. So really is our world any different from the consensus realities I visit in the astral, it may be a slowed down version, as being such a dense environment energetically things take longer to materialise. Can we too change our world by simply changing how we think and how we feel and by being more focused in the present moment rather than allowing our minds to wander into the past and the future. Imagine if our thoughts were audible, imagine the noise. In a book I’m reading at the moment called Pan and Me: Metaphysical Adventures with the Spirit of Nature by Michael Roads. This excerpt did make me laugh: “Please do not feel offended, but your approach to our level of reality has all the sounds of an aircraft leaving one of your airports. You live in a very noisy frame of reality. What you consider to be silence to us is the horrendous thunder of billions of people’s thinking gone mad.” Now that really is something to ponder. Happy travels, Ali.

I was quite happy about these 2 OBEs as they happened in a room I have never OBE’d from, place seems to be important for me I generally only leave my body in rooms I am familiar with, not always but generally this is the case. I am dreaming but suddenly wake up in my body as in the dream I feel the energy sensations and this alerts my mind, I go over to the window, the blinds on the window are white and quite thick, physically that is, I donb’t know why but I think to myself that they may be difficult to get through, however, I get through OK. I come out in a town, it is a bit dark and dreary, the town has just been through a war, and the people are busy trying to build up the town again. There are still a few tanks around that don’t seem to realise that the war has ended though they don’t seem to be doing any damage. I avoid the tanks and find myself with a group of people who are trying to rebuild the sewage system of the town. The energy is heavy. I then picked up and carried along by a strong force, it feels so good I am flying so fast, I see stars in front and a bright light, it feels wonderful. I am back in my body and I get out again. I say to my highr self, ‘take me where I need to be’ and I find myself in a town with rather cramped living conditions. I am in one of the apartments talking to 2 people, they know they are dead and I tell them I am out-of-body. (Having recently listened to a podcast where people were discussing the afterlife, and I use this term in a very loose sense as it is really just a ‘continuelife’ after we die but for ease of explanation here I’ll use afterlife, there was something on my mind. The discussion during the episode was around reported near death experiences and a lady who channels a well-known person. I don’t want to mention names as this isn’t meant as a criticism I am simply trying to understand. The main theme of the podcast episode was that when we die we all go to a marvellous place full of light and love. Given that many of my experiences are sometimes very far from this concept and I meet people who need help moving on, or people living in astral cities which leave a lot to be desired, this concept of the afterlife all being light and love for everyone doesn’t quite ring true. I cannot deny my experiences, I have had many all around this theme of people being stuck in the lower realms and I know others who do similar work in the astral. These thoughts were in my mind in this OBE.) So back to the town where people were living in cramped conditions, I am in the apartment with the 2 people who know they are dead and I ask them why they are living in such a place, on Earth people are talking about the afterlife being all light and love yet they were living in this place. Unfortunately I don’t remember anything else. So what explanation can I offer myself. Maybe the people on the podcast are only looking at one aspect of the afterlife and aren’t aware of all the more, let’s say, dreary aspects, or they want people to be positive about the afterlife so when they die they die with positive expectations, which of course does help. The higher your vibration when you die the better. Maybe the truth has to be bent for the good of some people who may be intimidated simply by knowing about the lower astral realms. We are all indeed held in light and love, there are always happy endings but if all our darkness disappears on death why do I and so may others find ourselves retrieving people from the lower astral? I am still pondering this. Happy travels!

When you have OBEs you can receive a lot of guidance about your life about our world and what goes on in it. Really you receive the guidance also if you don’t have OBEs but as we are so involved in physical life we don’t notice the messages so much. Having conscious OBEs while sleeping is a great way of maximising our time, during the day we may not be able to dedicate a great deal of time to our evolution but we can really focus on it while we sleep. The messages we receive OBE I believe have more impact on a surface level as the act of simply being out-of-body tends to give the messages more strength so they stay with us. Not sure if that makes sense. When OBE at least in my case I seem to be more detached from the physical, less involved, particularly less emotionally involved, so things seem clearer. Many of the messages are repetitive but I believe this is because we learn through repetition, I hope in the end we will learn from the repetitive events that humanity continually presents itself with, history is just repetition, the technolgy improves but the basic problems remain. Anyway a message that continually presents itself to me is the number of friends we are generally not aware of. At times I meet people in the Astral who I have known over many lives, as my consciousness is expanded when out-of-body I remember these friendships, but when I re-enter the feeling seems to take a back seat as I once again become focused in this identity. It is so good to meet up with these people when OBE there is a strong feeling of love and understanding. I think this message is especially important for people who are listening to this podcast who may feel a bit isolated in their immediate community simply because they are interested in or have out-of-body experiences. Sometimes we think it would have been easier if we had been born into a community which supported our experiences and beliefs instead of writing them off as crazy. However, I believe we chose to be spread out, you cannot help people to evolve in their thinking if you live in a community which holds the same beliefs as you do. You need to infiltrate the masses and gently get them interested in the world beyond our present 3D one. So I believe we chose to spread out. Now Internet has provided us with the means to connect wherever we are in the world, this is one of the positive things about it, it can bring people together. Who knows we may even meet people here on Earth who we have known for many lifetimes though we may not be aware of it in our 3D reality. There is one guy who makes an appearance occasionally in my OBEs, I have probably mentioned him before he looks like Gandalf and I love meeting him, we have known each other for so long, may even be another me or my higher self, but it doesn’t matter who he is as much as the feeling I have when he pops up. Complete love and understanding, a wonderful feeling!

Yesterday evening I went to my yoga class, on Wednesdays we do breathing, chants, and Yoga Nidra. While doing Yoga Nidra I felt energy sensations which were very pleasant. In the early hours of this morning I was, I suppose, dreaming that I was asleep in my old bedroom in England. I say I suppose as this often happens to me, being aware that I am asleep in my old bedroom. Houses I feel are very significant in dreams and OBEs often symbolically so. I have come to believe that my house in England represents a place where all of me can be reached, like a kind of portal. I was dragged down through a hole in the wall once to face a big cloud of negative energy so another life could be healed. I also find myself in other houses all have different feelings. Anyway, I am mind awake body asleep in my old bedroom in England and I feel the same energy sensations as the evening before at yoga. Immediately I recognise them as the precursor to an OBE, and I get up out of my body, one of my sisters is there and I tell her I’m out-of-body and just off to fly round the garden. My mum is there too, but downstairs, the house is sort of transparent and I can see her and I tell her I’m off into the garden. I feel my mum and sister could represent parts of me. My sister opens the window for me, even though I could have flown through it. I fly into the garden it feels so good as it has been a few weeks since I was out flying. I climb over the fence into a neighbours garden as I want to try a new direction. Ahead of me is a grassy pathway, it is very green and I follow it flying low. I try to focus my mind and use it to draw the the horizon to me rather than fly across the countryside. It takes a lot of effort. After this things get a bit blurry, there is more but I only remember snippets so it doesn’t really make sense. It was so good being out again, what really woke me up was recognising the energy sensations, they triggered my mind into action. So I would say that although meditation and other similar activities are not necessary to having successful OBEs they can indeed help.   Happy travels, Ali

Hello Everyone! Hope you are all well. Just getting back into the swing of things after a trip to the UK and several bank holidays back to back in Italy. It’s incredible how sometimes we may have an OBE then it completely disappears from our mind only to pop up again later on in the day. Recently I was reading a post about a friend’s OBE and I suddenly remembered that I had had one in the early hours of that day. The feeling suddenly came back to me, that feeling of being focused away from the physical body flying free. Not that I don’t like being in my physical body, but I have to admit I do get a feeling of relief, as I enjoy being a bit lighter, the human body can at times feel rather dense. I was in a place with other people who were out-of-body too, one was called Amadeus, we were chatting, but I don’t really remember what about. It was one of those experiences which was more real than real. It just felt so good to be in that place, wherever it was. Experiencing out-of-body experiences I would say helps you cope with life on Earth as you realise the trials and tribulations that we experience here are not the be all and end all. While chatting to the people I mentioned earlier, although we did mention Earth at one point, it was without emotional involvement as if it was simply something that was happening, yet we felt a bit distant from it. Ironically, I would say that OBEs often bring you back in a full circle, they bring you back to Earth to live fully as a human being. You start to go inside to discover who you truly are, you have many adventures, discover past lives, deal with negative energy, help people out where you can, talk to trees and plants, encounter all sorts of magical beings, ride dragons and meet shamans, plus sooooo much more, then you come back to who you are on Earth and realise that also humanity is a part of who you are, and has given you many experiences that you could have not have had in any other place. It had to be Earth.