| In the course of studying astral projection and lucid | | | | better; however, the only one who can help you best |
| dreaming or any other astral subject, you might have | | | | is yourself. To understand the dimensions of the soul, |
| come across several contradictory views and | | | | you have to study them from the depths of your self. |
| wondered which of them might be correct. Before | | | | You cannot attempt to understand the astral on the |
| continuing further, you must realize that experiences | | | | basis of physical laws or earthly limitations. You simply |
| such as astral projection and lucid dreaming must be | | | | cannot do on earth the things that you do in your astral |
| understood at a personal level. Moreover, the world is | | | | body on the astral planes. Similarly, you cannot take |
| now so overloaded with myriad religions, belief | | | | your scientific devices to the astral planes with the |
| systems, philosophies, and so on that it is quite natural | | | | hope of conducting experiments and reaching |
| to have several different ways of expounding or | | | | conclusions there. |
| dealing with the same topics. | | | | Subjectivity Is The Key To Understanding |
| You, the student, ought to choose the best one for | | | | Observing objectively simply doesn't work in the astral |
| you. After all, astral projection and lucid dreaming are | | | | realm, where each and every one of your thoughts |
| processes that have been observed and studied from | | | | gets materialized in no time. As soon as you step onto |
| times immemorial. Although there are different ways to | | | | the astral plane, you will meet the contents of your |
| explain them, the experience itself has several | | | | skull-the materialized version of your thoughts, beliefs, |
| common denominators. In other words, people all over | | | | and philosophies. |
| the world project the same way and have the same | | | | Besides, people have brief and spontaneous astral |
| method of having lucid dreams. | | | | experiences, and they believe to be true what they |
| Changing Astral Planes | | | | have seen. For example, you might see hell if you |
| Of course, the astral planes have been described in | | | | believe in it, and then you might claim what you have |
| myriad ways. If you have never visited the astral plane | | | | seen to be the absolute truth. This need not be the |
| consciously, you might wonder what the astral planes | | | | truth for a person who doesn't believe in hell. What's |
| "really" are like. In fact, the astral plane looks different | | | | more, if you change your belief patterns about hell, you |
| to different people. That's because your experiences | | | | might find that it has ceased to exist for you. |
| in the astral depend upon your personal beliefs. If you | | | | People who have had astral experiences might also |
| find it difficult to believe any description of the astral, | | | | not remember their experience in all its details. They |
| you can just ignore it. The astral planes, after all, are | | | | might forget vital aspects of it or they might ignore |
| shaped as per your thought systems. Your belief | | | | certain details of it because it doesn't conform to their |
| systems are the glasses through which you perceive | | | | thought patterns. They might also modify their |
| the astral. If you change your belief system, you will | | | | experiences on the basis of their beliefs. |
| find that the astral planes have changed as per your | | | | If you want to study these topics, you must first have |
| beliefs. | | | | an open mind. Learn to question your own beliefs and |
| Why Science Cannot Help | | | | change them. Life is flexible and changes rapidly as |
| Science, unfortunately, cannot help you out. That's | | | | per the way your perceive it and as per the way you |
| because science doesn't study from within; it | | | | think. |
| perceives from without. Psychology can help you | | | | |