The out-of-body experience (also known as astral travel or astral projection) is one of the most fascinating abilities we have; yet there are a number of paranormal phenomena (psychic phenomena) associated with the OBE that are equally worth investigating and studying. Below, I describe some of them.

Clairvoyance

When you have visual perceptions of something that do not belong to the physical dimension, you are called clairvoyant.

Someone with pronounced clairvoyance has the ability to see spirits, the aura of people, the energy of places, and objects that are not physical in nature.

The most common types of clairvoyant activities are:

• Seeing spirits, sometimes even in broad daylight while fully awake
• Seeing the energy of chakras
• Seeing the energy of plants
• Seeing the aura of people or objects

Sometimes these visions can occur while falling asleep, in a hypnagogic state. This is called hypnagogic clairvoyance.

Clairaudience

This is similar to clairvoyance, but in this case it refers to your auditory perceptions. It occurs when you hear sounds that come from other dimensions, that is, not from a physical source.

You may hear sounds or voices as if someone were talking to you or you were overhearing a conversation. These words may be clear or indistinguishable, as when you are in a public place where you hear people talking but cannot understand what they are saying.

You may hear sounds or voices as if someone were talking to you or you were overhearing a conversation. These words may be clear and you understand what is being said, or they may be indistinguishable, similar to a public place where you hear people talking but do not understand what they are saying.

In many cases, these auditory perceptions occur in the hypnagogic state, meaning the person hears sounds or voices while falling asleep. It can also occur upon waking up, in the hypnopompic state, but the former is much more common.

Please note that this is something quite different from a mental disorder. If it is a psychic ability or a paranormal phenomenon, it occurs only in these moments, and the person experiencing it leads a normal life.

Waking misalignment of astral body

This is characterized by sensations resulting from a slight separation of your nonphysical, astral body from your physical body. This may trigger a temporary reduction of attention to the physical reality around you, delayed reflexes. You may feel that you cannot perceive or control your body as usual, or experience a feeling as if you were walking on clouds.

When you wake up in the morning, you may experience sensations resulting from a slight separation of your astral body from your physical body. Astral projectors often feel this state of slight non-alignment as a result of the looseness of their astral bodies. Experienced astral projectors should be able to understand what is going on and be able to work their energy bodies to interrupt this state when it occurs at an inappropriate time.

Those who are sensitive to the energy of people, places, and spirits may experience this in an unhealthy way. This is something that can be adjusted through specific energy techniques, such as VELO, which stands for Voluntary Energetic Longitudinal Oscillation.

Enlightenment

This is a state of expansion of consciousness or cosmoconsciousness in which you experience a level of lucidity or clarity that is markedly higher than usual. People also report a sense of connectedness with the entire universe and a deep sense of equilibrium. This phenomenon has been recognized throughout history and is known by many names, including samadhi, satori, nirvana, ecstasy, cosmic consciousness, and mystical experience.

Sleep paralysis

This common phenomenon occurs when your astral body is detaching from or returning to the physical body. The sensation is one of an inability to move the body. There are many myths about the sleep paralysis.

Although this may sound intrinsically unpleasant and scary, it is a benign and natural phenomenon that can even facilitate a lucid and positive out-of-body experience. Have you ever experienced it?

The more you understand what is going on and master your energy body, the more you will be able to control it. This means you can quickly get out of it or even enjoy it and eventually use it to astral project.

Intuition

Intuition is an ability characterized by grasping ideas without the normal process of rational thought.

If you believe you experience intuition, it is quite important that you maintain your judgment and self-criticism to evaluate the quality of the information you receive. The most beneficial type of intuition is the one you have when you are in astral projection, since in this state you are able to acquire more advanced ideas and even access knowledge you had before you were born.

Psychometry

Psychometry has been extensively studied by scientists from several countries. One of the reasons it has captured so much interest is that some make use of it for police investigations and spying.

This so-called paranormal phenomenon entails the capacity to “read” information that is carried in the energy of a particular object or place. For example, someone with sufficiently refined psychometric powers can take an object in their hands, such as a watch that belongs to a person unknown to them, and describe the basic characteristics of the watch’s owner simply by having contact with the physical object. You can do it via deep coupling and sensing of the energy that gravitates around said object.

Past life recollection

The technical name for this phenomenon is retrocognition. It entails the capacity to access memories of events experienced in past lives or in the periods in-between lives.

There is much you can learned from this phenomenon. For instance, by remembering decisions you made or trais of personality you had in a previous life, which you consider were a mistake, you will know what not to repeat in this lifetime.

On a different perspective, if you happen to recall your most recent period between lives, that is, just just prior to being born, you may remember what you planned to do in this lifetime and verify if you are aligned with your life purpose or are off track.

Premonition

Precognition or premonition is the condition in which you have a glimpse into a situation that will occur in the future. It is common to have premonitions while you are dreaming. If you ever have dreams that are actually a precognition, in the vast majority of the cases you will wake up knowing that dream is different from other regular dreams and there is truth in it. Premonitions can also occur while you are in the normal waking state, or even during out-of-body experiences.

It is important to clarify that with precognition, nothing is 100% certain. Some things have a greater probability of happening, while others are less probable and, consequently, may change more readily. But, in theory, most events can be changed or influenced to some extent.

Déjà vu

A common phenomenon, the déjà vu (“already seen” in French) occurs when you go to a place for the first time and feels you had been there before.

The out-of-body experience is a significant components behind this phenomenon. Often you may visit places while out of the body, but only remember it later, once you see the place in your regular waking life.

Having said that, I would like to emphasize that someone who is mentally or neuronally very tired may have the impression of having lived through certain situations twice. However, the déjà vu is an actual paranormal psychic phenomenon and has nothing to do with these cases.

Those who have pseudo-déjà vus tend to have them repeated times in a short period of time, let’s say of some days or over few weeks. The real déjà vu is a much less frequent type of experience.

Final thoughts

When you train yourself to control the out-of-body experience, you are automatically increasing your self-awareness and developing your capacity to perceive and manage these phenomena, which are derived, in one way or another, from conscious astral projections.

When well understood, these so called paranormal psychic phenomena can bring a greater sense of wisdom and confidence, along with increased well-being, as they evidence the existence of other planes of life.

If you have perceptions of these varieties of phenomena and do not know how to control them or feel afraid of them, you should look for substantiated information on them and develop your energetic control. This will make you knowledgeable of what you are experiencing, help you analyze them accurately, and be able to benefit from them. The training I recommend is IAC’s Consciousness Development Program.

Nanci Trivellato, 2005

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