Astral Projection, a learning tool — Spotify from the CEC Library

Let us discuss how to use astral projection for our evolution. Perhaps the listener wonders why astral projection can help us grow and evolve. What is astral projection? A female listener asks: "Good afternoon, I am from Campinas. I once heard someone say that our physical body is a major obstacle to learning. Could you talk more about that? If we are in astral projection, could we learn various things on the other plane and bring them back here? What would this learning be like?"

This physical body of ours is a vehicle that carries consciousness. At this moment while I am speaking, my consciousness is in the physical body, which is why I am able to speak. When you go to sleep, when you lie down, when you disable the physical body in some way, consciousness—which has nothing to do with spirit, although we commonly confuse it with spirit—moves first into the astral body. Thus, when the physical body is put to sleep, consciousness needs to continue manifesting and moves into the astral body.

In the astral body, you may be lucid or not, depending on how this process is occurring. Let us suppose that you learned how to have astral projections. Our physical body is sequential: if you want to go from here to the corner over there, you will have to follow a sequential process. You cannot disappear here and appear there; you have to walk, drive, ride a bicycle, or use some other means. Things occur in sequence; that is, something must have occurred before another thing can occur afterward.

In the astral body, the process is different. If you are in the astral vehicle, it is extremely fast; time is different, and you can be lying in your bed and travel, for example, to China, another country, Europe, or anywhere else, at a speed that makes it impossible to count time. When performing this type of activity, you may be in an environment closer to Earth. For example, imagine that you are at home: you leave your body, remain in your home, and see everything there, including the people, furniture, and even the spirits that inhabit the place.

The space for understanding and knowledge is much greater. Therefore, you will be able to learn many more things. Imagine that you are here now and can go to any state in Brazil at this moment. You go there and can observe what is happening in a certain location with maximum clarity because, if you are working on astral projection and evolving in the process of understanding and developing this type of consciential activity, you will see with a clarity that is not possible even in the physical body. You will be able to see everything that is happening and return.

This is excellent because you can go anywhere and learn anything. If you can do this in the astral body, within a more physical environment, you can also do it in other environments. For example, have you ever imagined submerging yourself in water or leaving planet Earth's atmosphere? These are situations in different environments, but they are still physical. There are, however, other spiritual dimensions through which you will be able to travel.

This is knowledge that does not outsource spirituality. Have you ever imagined, for example, that you have a family member who died and that you can go there to talk with that person? That would be very good. You meet your uncle, aunt, or father who has already passed away, and you can go there and say: "Look, Dad, how are things over there? Shall we have a chat?" Talking with him would be possible, with complete certainty.

We came to this world and became trapped in the physical body. Imagine that you are a spirit who suddenly enters the physical body and begins to live in a state of restriction. Thus, you travel the entire physical path within a space of limitless ignorance because we learn nothing. We surround ourselves with laws, rules, and conditioning and then wait for someone to help us, as though a miracle were necessary for us to be happy.

When you can gain a greater understanding of everything through lucid astral projections, you will be able to eliminate many things that serve no purpose in our evolution or growth, including in our relationships with people. We will begin to perceive a space that, I believe, is where we can practice love. We can practice love only if we have great discernment for it; otherwise, what we will practice are rules and conditioning. Astral projection gives you a space for that.

There is another question: "I always hear you mention the subject of astral projection, and I would like you, if possible, to explain how it works, because I know the subject only superficially. After all, what is the advantage of leaving the body? Would it not be more productive if we did not need to sleep? Do we lose six to eight hours a day?" In fact, it is not exactly that interval. Some people need to sleep much more in order to rest; others need ten or twelve hours. This is related to the circulation of energy, the capacity for recovery, and the individual's evolutionary level.

What is the advantage of astral projection? How does it work, and why leave the body? You could remain awake all the time without needing to sleep, but there is an important detail: our body is a physical vehicle that wears down. If there is no recovery period, the situation becomes physically complicated. I am referring to our current condition. But there is another detail: taking in and assimilating knowledge anywhere you wish. Astral projection allows you, for example, to go to a museum anywhere in the world and access the knowledge connected with that place. Perhaps you wonder: could I go inside the pyramid in Egypt? Of course, you will be able to do that. Do you think that is very absurd? No, it is not absurd. You truly will be able to do things you cannot even imagine in relation to everything that exists.

Astral projection must be developed through work, just like hypnosis. A person takes a hypnosis course, leaves, and already considers themselves a hypnologist. No, they are not yet a hypnologist. They learned the techniques, but they will need to work hard and practice hypnosis daily to become a confident, assured hypnologist with mastery of everything they learned.

Astral projection is no different; you will need to travel the path by walking it, not merely observing what someone else does and saying, "Now I know." You need to practice it. In astral projection, you will have experiences that, at first, will be sporadic, and the level of lucidity may be fragmented. You see very well, but you mix the perception with dreams and everything else. In the beginning, you cannot bring back the facts exactly as they are; you end up mixing them with your own emotional interpretations, which leaves things somewhat tangled. You remember that you saw something, but you do not have complete clarity. These are individual processes. That is why we give great importance to the emotional part.

We have to be better than we are. Being better than we are requires work. It is not like this: I am here on Earth, I reincarnate, and I evolve. No: you are here on Earth, you reincarnate, but you do not evolve; you do not evolve at all. But in each life, something different is learned. So it will take you hundreds of thousands of reincarnations to take one step because that is what happens to us.

We are here on Earth reincarnating, and most of the population still has its consciousness in the emotional chakras. We still have serious differences and fight over utterly unnecessary things. We practice behaviors that already existed two or three thousand years ago; we repeat them continuously, and this repetition is transferred from father to child, seemingly without end. When we speak of astral projection, we seek new paths and question certain things. We want to understand life as it truly is, abandon the ego and all our insecurities, and devote ourselves to knowing the universe, to everything that exists. This is the meaning of life: to be much better than we are.

This requires courage; evolving is not so simple because it demands effort. I hear some people say: "Gosh, Moisés Esagüi, I am practicing astral projection once a week." I practiced astral projection after my first lucid projection, and I am deeply grateful every day to my spiritual helpers. I had my first astral projection experience with 100% lucidity because I saw and felt everything in a way that was inexplicable to me, while still a seven-year-old child. My life changed completely; I never again wanted to stop having this type of experience.

Every night after it happened, I, still a child, did not really know how to produce the projection. I reproduced exactly everything that had occurred that day in the bedroom; that was exactly what I did. I remember that I slept in a hammock, that an item of clothing was hanging from the little hammock hook, and that I lay down in it. I did everything the same way. And, incredibly, this desire made me replicate countless astral projections.

The result is that you realize how far we are from being better. We need to work very hard to improve. We give importance to silly things that have nothing to do with growth. We criticize behaviors and judge people; we use ourselves as the standard for deciding whether someone else is better, which is very primitive. Common sense is humanity's great standard for everything that exists. This is something we should meditate on. Common sense needs to be developed in each of us.