Yet, many of us cannot grasp this innate capacity for non-physical
exploration, which is all but second nature to liberated awareness.
This is simply the practice; to liberate awareness from the selflimiting beliefs and perceptions we impose on it. We have to learn
how we learned about how we perceive the world and then
carefully proceed to unlearn that which no longer serves a purpose
for our personal freedom.
One of the main reasons we struggle with astral projection is that
we have become so used to intellectually scrutinising everything
we learn. In typical modern society, we tend to study every topic's
foreground, asking every question that appears on the mind's
surface-level relating it to everything we already proudly
understand about physical existence; we are rarely concerned
about the background - understanding things critically and
fundamentally. For some people, they do this to a terrifying extent.
For example, if you ask them, "What is the Sun?" they will answer
with frightening confidence something like, "The Sun is a star
which is made up of hot plasma caused by nuclear fusion
reactions." On a superficial scientific layer, this is true, yet it is far
from a description that would best suit the Sun’s infinitely far more
profound reality. Sadly, for this type of individual, all they see
when they look up at the Sun is a description in their mind, never
stopping for one moment to gaze at its beauty which sings more
words than any scientific description could offer. I am not saying
such definitions or beliefs are bad or wrong to hold; I'm saying that
if you don't understand that it's not reflective of the actual essence
of the Sun, for example, then you have not realised a deeper
dimension of life that goes transcendentally beyond any sort of
shabby description.
There are so many different examples of this type of defective
way of perceiving the world. I commonly see it when people
become interested in out of body travel. For instance, when
someone discovers the concept of astral projection, they usually ask