Travel in Spiritual Worlds.pdf

In the name of Allah

A complete guide on Astral Travels.

Gathered, Edited and Converted into PDF version by Right.

Source: SpiritualTravel.org

Table of Contents:

Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………... 3

The Geography of Spiritual Travel or Soul Travel …………………………………………………………..………… 16

The Travel Analogy in Spiritual Travel ……………………………………………………………………………………… 19

LEAVING THE BODY ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 20

SPIRITUAL TRAVEL VERSUS DREAMS ………………………………………………………..……………………………. 28

SACRED LIGHT & SACRED SOUND ……………………………………………………………………………………..…… 30

PSYCHIC STATES, The Vast Reality of the Psychic Worlds ………………………….………………………….… 46

WESTERN TRADITIONS, Spiritual Travel in Christianity and Judaism ………………………………………. 59

THE FLUID SELF, Changing Identities in Spiritual Travel …………………………..……………………………. 63

RETURNING TO THE PHYSICAL BODY ……………………………………………………….…………………………... 65

NEAR‐DEATH EXPERIENCE ………………………………………………………………………………………..…………… 65

SPIRITUAL NAVIGATION …………………………………………………….…………………………………………..……… 84

SPIRITUAL MATTER ………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………... 95

SPIRITUAL TRAVEL TECHNIQUES ……………………………………………………………………………………..…… 98

SHAMANISM FOR NON‐INDIANS ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 108

AFTER‐DEATH EXPERIENCE …………………………………………………………………..………………………………. 109

SPIRITUAL TRAVEL AND DEATH ………………………………………………………………………………………….… 118

BEYOND SPIRITUAL TRAVEL …………………………………………………………………………………………….….. 119

CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………….. 123

Introduction

Spiritual Travel

A Spiritual Approach to Out-Of-Body Experience

This site introduces the concept of spiritual travel . Spiritual travel is a

form of out-of-body experience done voluntarily to achieve a spiritual

goal. In order to have an out-of-body experience, the soul or

consciousness of the individual must temporarily leave the physical

body. During out-of-body experience, the physical senses shut down.

When this occurs, an entirely new world opens up to the individual.

Spiritual travel is a special type of out-of-body experience where the

individual's awareness is heightened, and he or she is able to make

decisions and direct the experience.

The spectrum of experience afforded by spiritual travel is very broad and

can include a wide variety of psychic and spiritual states. In most cases,

the spiritual traveler is able to clearly remember the experiences and

learn from them.

Spiritual travel is sometimes called transcendent or ecstatic experience

because it deals with the "inner" senses rather than the physical senses. It

also deals with states of being seemingly independent of the physical

world.

The Purpose of Spiritual Travel

The goal of spiritual travel is mystical or transcendent religious

experience. The reason for an interest in spiritual travel is that it

provides a unique means of approaching these distant and extraordinary

states of religious awareness. It does this by exposing the spiritual seeker

to a series of lessons about the nature of identity, and the freedom of the

soul to travel in various non-physical environments. These lessons

gradually introduce the spiritual traveler to a variety of psychic and

spiritual states containing increasing degrees of individual freedom, and

spiritual awareness. In addition, spiritual travel provides an inner

laboratory where the seeker can experiment with techniques and

methods of moving through the more limited psychic states of awareness

and into these distant spiritual realms.

Near-Death Experience as a Limited Form of Spiritual Travel

One common form of spiritual travel seen in the modern West is near-

death experience. The concept of near-death experience was developed

by Dr. Raymond Moody Jr. in his book Life After Life in 1975. In near-

death experience, a person comes close to death due to sickness or

injury, and the person's soul temporarily leaves the physical body. In the

early stages of a near-death experience, the spiritual traveler usually

views his or her lifeless body and the surrounding physical environment

from a short distance away. This is usually followed by a shift of

awareness to a non-physical environment in the later stages of the

experience where the traveler encounters a spiritual guide or "being of

light". Near-death experience is a limited form of spiritual travel in three

respects.

First, it occurs spontaneously as a result of a medical crisis rather than

voluntarily as part of a spiritual search. Second, though the individual

seems to exercise some control over out-of-body movements in the

physical environment, the more religious and other-worldly elements of

the experience are usually controlled by some outside force such as a

guide. This guide directs the near-death experience without any request

or permission from the traveler who has little power over what occurs.

Third, near-death experience while many times uplifting and life-

changing is usually limited to a series of repeating states or stages, and is

not as broad or wide-ranging as spiritual travel experience.

Fortunately, it is not necessary for an individual to undergo a near-death

experience (medical crisis) to have a spiritual travel experience.

Spiritual travel is a tool for the spiritual seeker. An individual can

engage in a spiritual practice designed to induce spiritual travel

experiences . It is possible for the advanced spiritual traveler to control

the contents of a spiritual travel experience.

This site includes:

• Discussion and analysis of spiritual travel experience

• The relationship of spiritual travel to dreams

• Spiritual travel experiences from the bible, and a variety

of literary sources

• Spiritual travel experiences from personal sources

• Techniques and methods to induce spiritual travel

experience

• The importance of religious symbols in spiritual travel

• The relationship of spiritual travel to death and dying,

and near-death experience

• References to books on the subjects of mysticism and

spiritual travel

Attempts to describe the value of spiritual travel in abstract terms seem

destined to failure. Phrases like "spiritual freedom" and "increased

awareness" sound vague and diffuse. However, I believe when one reads

the many firsthand accounts of spiritual travel experience listed at this

site, the meaning of these phrases becomes much more clear and

concrete. I challenge the reader to read on, and learn more about one of

the great mysteries of life - the phenomenon of spiritual travel.

Surfing the Mantric Wave

Mantras are a common method used to reach destinations during spiritual travel. Mantras in

my limited experience are a somewhat advanced form of spiritual travel suited to those who

are capable of traveling in a disembodied state (without bodily sensations or body image).

Practicing mantras during spiritual travel has the effect of moving the soul through different

inner spaces much like a surfer rides a wave. They provide a definite sense of continuous

forward movement with the mantric vibration or current acting as the basis of propulsion.

The author will attempt to describe elements of travel by mantra but as with most deeper

experience, the words simply fail to convey the experience.

One curious thing about travel by mantra is that though the mantra is being silently chanted

by a single voice (the practitioner's inner voice), the mantric sounds often seem "larger" and

more all pervading than sounds a single voice could normally produce. Instead, they sound as

if they are being intoned by a chorus of voices. This creates the sense that the traveler is not

riding the mantric wave or current alone. The wave therefore seems more like a bus than a

single passenger car with many beings riding together through a common environment

experiencing the same scenery.

In my experience, mantric spaces usually have no horizon and as such are more like moving

through an underwater environment than moving through a normal atmosphere. The spaces

have different textures, densities, and emotional qualities which create varying background

sensations that permeate the space. These qualities naturally also determine the sensations of

those traveling through the space.

The visual component may also vary but a complex visual field of changing patterns and

colored lines (sometimes in 3-D) is one class of imagery that is familiar to me.

The author has experimented with different mantras but the one that seemed to work best was

the one that had been practiced for many hours in normal meditation. Much positive

emotional and spiritual energy had been poured into this sound during meditation, and the

mantra seemed to function like a battery storing the spiritual energy. As a charged religious

symbol , it therefore had the power to move me into and through radically altered states of

consciousness when other less familiar mantras had much less effect when practiced while

out of the body.

My intuitive sense is that those who are more familiar with disembodied states of light and

energy use mantras the way we in the physical world use vehicles to take them to many

destinations in the inner worlds. However, mantras are used to traverse dimensions in the

psychic and spiritual worlds rather than streets and highways in the physical world. Many of

these mantric roads are ancient pathways created by spiritual explorers eons ago.

Another function of mantras somewhat unrelated to spiritual travel is that mantras can link

individuals with gurus, entities, and gods. The empowered mantra given to a disciple during a

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