Magick is basically the combination of intuitive practice, diligent research, and self -knowledge. The study of magick can and is both external and most of all, internal. You must know yourself and your mind. You must seek your powers. Within every one lies power, the power to strive for what we want. Magick is only a small part of the “Craft”. The ability to perform magick is almost a side effect of knowing yourself and knowing the techniques. Once on your correct personal path, the less you need to do any spells. At the same time, your ability to do those spells (if needed) is magnified greatly. This is because once you are in touch with your power; then you are on the path where things come to you, as they are needed, usually before.

With knowing your mentality, you can bring yourself to many different dimensions, such as Astral Projecting. In my personal opinion, the first step to Astral Traveling is having the ability to control your dreams (Lucid Dreaming). You need to advance your dream techniques to where you realize that you are dreaming so that you can control the dream. Once you realize that you are dreaming you will find that you can control where you want to go and what you want to do. Basically you need to be conscious during your dream. Once you have concurred this method, you are ready to start the astral process.

Astral Projecting means to leave your physical body, and bring your astral body to a different dimension. Have you ever started to daze off and felt like you were falling, but never landed? Have you ever felt like you were floating? This is the beginning of your astral body leaving the physical body. Have you ever jumped or woke suddenly to a dream? This is your astral body re-entering your physical body. An OBE (out of body experience) is the human consciousness separating from the human body and traveling in a discorporate form in the physical world… a departure of the mind from the physical body. OBE’s may be a type of dream, but they are extraordinary experiences. I also want you to keep in mind; astral projection is not a belief (although if you are purposely trying to project, you must believe), it is a medically proven fact, we are able to leave our physical mind. “Survey evidence favors the theory that OBE’s could arise” (Lucidity-Institute). Another idea is that OBE”s are hallucinations, but this requires an explanation of why so many people have the same delusion!

To those who want to project: You must be completely calm and relaxed as if you would in meditation. Imagine your self floating or flying. Remember to concentrate. You will eventually feel a gravitational pull, or vibrations. You may also hear humming, or loud strange noises unknown to you. Remain calm… all is normal. You shall feel your astral body float, or pull from your physical body. You may float to your ceiling for instance, and see your physical body sleep. After you have entered the astral planes, your imagination will bring you where you want to be, your imagination will allow you to see only what you want to see. Remember, you are not in a gravitational world, only if you think of the astral planes as the physical world, will it be gravitational. Also, if you feel feared or lost, just think of your physical body, and you will return perfectly normal. Astral Projecting can either be disturbing, or a relief from reality. Often after traveling to this dimension you wonder, what is reality?