Sometime in the early 2000s - The early experiences
Though I have yet to dig up the few journal scribblings which exist on my past astral experiences, I will try my best to detail them from memory.
First, I will share a little background. I came into all of this much by accident when I was around 15-16 years old, which is about 15 years ago. I had heard of astral travel before, but had never attempted it with any success. My mother had passed on stories of our interesting family history in occult studies, which included OBE experiences. My great aunt was very much interested in Theosophy, Edgar Cayce and other popular New Age topics in the 60s. She was known to hold gatherings at her home in south Chicagoland, where people from all over the midwest would come to practice astral travel. My uncle was a gifted astral traveler, and there are family stories about him traveling out of body to mischievously wake people up in the middle of the night by visiting them in their bedrooms.
My first personal experience was spontaneous, and happened much the typical way. A lucid awareness came to me while I lay in bed. Suddenly, I felt awake in a dream and was in the middle of my bedroom. The feeling of freedom was something special, and would surely change the way I viewed reality from that point on. I made the willful decision to go outside, through my bedroom wall.
The view was spectacular. I could see my house and the details of the landscape outside as I floated about. I made the conscious decision to look up. The theatre of the night sky was breathtaking. As I gazed upon it, I floated closer and closer to it. There were innumerable amounts of stars, and they were more brilliant than ever before. I floated closer and closer, the scene was something like in Star Wars when they go into hyperdrive. The starry points of light became stretched as I went up into them. With a blur, I was back in my body, which was humming and buzzing like never before. Fully awake, I marveled at what had just happened.
Another experience that sticks out - I had just started a new job at the local park district. Naturally, I wanted everything to go well. Another spontaneous astral experience helped me make this happen. As I was sleeping, I suddenly found myself in the lucid state of awareness. I willfully traveled to the main lobby of my new place of employment. The whole time I felt another presence there assisting me, like a guardian angel. This presence instructed me, without words, on how to bless this new place of employment and my time there. I began to spin. As I spun, golden, glistening points of light came off of me and covered the area. I knew that this would help empower me and bless the building and our new chapter together.
From there, the same astral experience morphed into something else. The guiding presence began to instruct me on the chakras. Beginning at the root chakra, it showed me every chakra's corresponding color. The most amazing part of this was that when it "showed" me the color, it didn't just show me the color. I
became the color. One by one, from the root chakra and up to the crown. I
knew each color like never before. I knew its actual vibratory state of being. I
was each color, and I understood the spiritual and esoteric significance of each one.
About 95% of the subsequent astral experiences I've had since those early days have all been spontaneous. Also, the vast majority of them seem to be accompanied by a guiding presence, although I feel that the guardian being has changed from time to time. The being always has a sense of wanting to urgently show me something special. It is always saying, "Hey! Look at this! Isn't this marvelous?!"
I choose to call these experiences "astral experiences" because that is the most accurate term for it in my mind. This is because I don't always find myself actually leaving my physical body and within the physical location of where I'm at. Sometimes I will just be suddenly somewhere else, like I am becoming aware of other vibratory realities. It is very much like tuning into another frequency range. It is always accompanied by the intense buzzing, which I suppose is the awareness of my etheric body. Unfortunately, I have declined to partake in a lot of possible experiences just because I was not ready for the intensity of it all. There have been many times where it beckoned me and began, but I willfully brought myself back into my body out of fear of the unknown. Also, I think the astral realms can be sketchy neighborhoods at times, and I will elaborate on those experiences in the future.
Bless!
Note: Just for kicks, I shared the location of where these early experiences happened.