Astral Travel – What is an O.B.E.? (Part 1)
Page 1 of 5
The first and most common difficulty in Meditation is the inability to maintain a state of non-thinking, an obstacle that leads many people to give up from their very first session. On this path, I am teaching you Meditation in mental silence so that you can understand how important non-thinking is during practice. The questions are many and always the same: “How do I maintain non-thinking? How do I stop thinking throughout the entire Meditation?” First of all, non-thinking must be trained daily; it won’t improve on its own. Meditation is the best and most effective technique to train the mind in mental silence, so that you can decide when silence should be present instead of spending your life being controlled by your thoughts. Pursuing mental silence, especially during practice, is essential for the evolution of your sensory faculties: without non-thought, you wouldn’t be able to develop your sixth sense, understand what your Soul has to reveal, or comprehend what God is and how to communicate with Him. The most common misconception is believing that communication with your Soul or with God can only happen through words; in reality, continuous thinking distances us from the awareness of the Soul and from true, pure communication with God, which does not occur through words, but through a deeper, more psychic connection.
Thought is the number one enemy of Spiritual Awakening: you might think that’s an exaggeration, that the worst enemies are negative entities or dark forces, yet they act precisely through thought, because thought is the best weapon to make a person falter; it’s the most used method to trap anyone in anti-spirituality. Thoughts, expecially continuous ones, are the hook that the Low uses to keep us stuck at a low vibration, ensuring we focus on anything but spiritual evolution. The Low exploits our thoughts to distract us, making us think about anything during the day just to prevent us from raising our Consciousness. It’s fair to say we are bombarded with thoughts because every day, at every moment, we have a thousand things to think about, leaving us with no time to reflect on our spiritual path or how to work toward fully awakening our extra-sensory abilities, as well as seeking answers to all our questions about life and our existence. Why do we exist? Why are we living this life? We don’t make time to look for answers, yet we have all the time we want to spend it in front of the TV or going out with friends drinking and talking about nothing.
The Low knows very well how to trick us, it wasn’t born yesterday; compared to it, we are much more naïve. So we let ourselves be deceived by daily thoughts that have no other purpose than to distract us from the only true thought that could help us discover who we are: spirituality. Of course, simply thinking about spirituality wouldn’t be enough to Awaken us, because to succeed we must practice, and no book or theoretical lesson will ever replace practice; every lesson serves to make you reflect on who you are and why you are here, but it’s meditation that gives you, deep within, the answer to every single question, even those you hadn’t asked yet. Before practicing meditation consistently, I too had no idea how important non-thought was, because I underestimated it, believing that everything couldn’t possibly revolve around it: how could the simple act of thinking keep me so far from evolution? Why should the most natural action in the world, which is thinking, distance me from spiritual growth? The reason is far more complex than it seems, and I only understood it after beginning to practice, because before that I didn’t have the tools or abilities to realize it.
Page 2 of 5
Thoughts are heavily manipulated, often induced by intelligences far shrewder than us, that know exactly how to act and how not to be detected. Take the Low for instance: it’s capable of making us think what it wants, and since we believe those thoughts are ours, we listen to them. So the problem is not the faculty of thinking itself, but all those thoughts we fail to recognize as external, which unfortunately are not ours but imposed on us without anyone noticing anything because they are “just thoughts”, yet the only force capable of shaping our lives as they please, while making us believe they are our own personal decisions.
Thoughts are a major obstacle to our evolution, and recognizing them is very complicated: we cannot try to fight them head-on, because they would win! The solution is to lower all thoughts so that our sensory faculties—or rather our Sixth Sense—can stand out and make itself felt. The Sixth Sense does not speak in words, so it will be easier to recognize it if we quiet all other thoughts, the vast majority of which are just time-wasters created by the Low to keep us away from evolution. The Sixth Sense, which is the means by which our Higher Self can act in this physical plane, does not communicate through speech, but makes itself felt through perceptions and sensations, which must not be confused with thoughts and feelings that can be influenced from the outside to make us believe something false and push us off track. You may already have experienced perceptions about certain people you felt were negative for you even though they had done nothing to make you think so, but later on they proved to be exactly as you perceived: negative or with bad intentions toward you. Yet, many times you may have struggled to tell whether that sensation was right or just a bad initial judgment, so you didn’t listen to it and later regretted it. This happens because of a weak Sixth Sense, as it has never been trained in your life; meanwhile, thoughts are very strong, because you have never seriously practiced mental silence. That is why true sensations dictated by the Sixth Sense are so hard to recognize and so easy to confuse with induced thoughts.
In order to develop the sixth sense and train mental silence, one must follow the practice of Meditation, the only technique capable of evolving you spiritually while lowering the influence of the Low over you. If there were another easier and quicker solution,we would have already put it into practice, all of us, and we would already be free from the Low and completely out of the Matrix. Instead, here we are, where most people deceive themselves, thinking they don’t need to meditate because their thoughts are “already evolved”, but they don’t realize that these are exactly the thoughts of the Low tricking them. Understanding and accepting that your thinking has been shaped by the Low is very difficult; you are asked to go against your very own thoughts, how could that be simple? Yet if you stay in silence for some time every day, you notice that something more “yours”, more true and more positive, grows within you, making you feel good, calming your anxieties, your thoughts, and your obsessions, and beginning to shape your life in a better way. At first, you don’t understand it; something good happens, but you think it’s just a coincidence. Yet the more you continue to meditate, the more positive events occur throughout your day, from small but constant ones to the bigger ones that leave a mark.
Every time you practice, even if you can’t maintain perfect non-thought, you’ll notice how good meditation makes you feel, to the point that you won’t want to stop. At the same time, you’ll start to notice how insistent the Low is, planting some of the most absurd thoughts in you just to make you stop practicing or to ruin your session. Why so much effort to keep you from staying in mental silence for just half an hour, when it already has you completely in its grip for the other 24 hours of the day? Why, if you wat to stay silent, must something or someone force you to think?
Page 3 of 5
And yet, only if you decide to practice will you realize how true it is that something, against your will, tries to make you think even when all you want is a short break. If you have nothing to think about, it will throw at you any kind of fantasy or imagination to distract you, keeping you from staying focused on meditation. If you don’t meditate, you can’t notice it, so you believe none of this is real; but once you start practicing meditation in mental silence, you realize how thoughts appear out of nowhere, thoughts you never had before, with the sole purpose of filling your mind and distracting you from the true goal of meditation: silencing your thoughts so your sixth sense can rise in volume.
Only through meditation can you realize how much thought is manipulated by something or someone you had never noticed before, but which, thanks to meditation, you can now become aware of. This is because, while you try to meditate, even without blindly believing in the existence of the Low, if you only attempt to maintain non-thought for too long, thoughts and fantasies will begin to appear that you never had before, all just to distract you. Why don’t you have the right to remain, even for a single minute, in absolute silence? In fact, it’s not about hours, it’s about lasting just one minute completely in silence: try it and you will understand the difficulty. It’s normal: even a single minute of absolute silence will raise the volume of your sixth sense, so imagine what an entire meditation session in non-thought can do. It may seem like a lot, yet it’s just half an hour a day: what’s the big deal? For the Low it’s a huge obstacle, because if you were to meditate for a whole half hour every day, taking it as a healthy daily habit, it would become much more complicated for it to influence your life and your decisions. That’s why it works hard to make you choose to do anything but meditate, to waste your time with trivial matters rather than take just half an hour a day to sit down and meditate, but it always gives you time for watching TV, chatting, or watching series on the internet. If you practice you will realize how important it is, but unfortunately if you don’t practice you will never understand the reasons why it should be done, not knowing the benefits it has to offer. The Low works to keep you from starting a meditation, aware that if you practiced it constantly you would evolve your sixth sense to such a level that it would then become impossible for it to keep you under its control. This is why the first step to take is to learn non-thought during Meditation, so that the volume of the Low lowers, while that of your psychic abilities rises.
The difficulty is there, and it will remain for quite some time: don’t expect that overnight you’ll master absolute non-thought lasting 24 hours just because you decided you wanted to! But you can truly improve a lot through daily and consistent practice, learning to choose when to stay in mental silence and for how long. Mental silence is extremely useful because it teaches you to decide what to think and when to think it, focusing all your attention on a single point instead of being distracted by a thousand problems you don’t want to give energy to, but that keep stealing it against your will. Think of when you want to work on a project but you are overwhelmed by countless worries, you waste time and are unable to figure out how to move forward; or when you’re searching for creative inspiration but can’t find it because your mind is too crowded with other thoughts; or when you want to study for an exam but can’t understand what you’re reading because you’re anxious or preoccupied with something else. Mental silence isn’t just about silencing, but also about teaching you how, when, and what to think—by your own choice—rather than being at the mercy of the endless stream of thoughts that slip into your mind and keep you from doing anything. Being able to control your thoughts is incredibly powerful because it allows you to focus on what truly matters to you, without losing all that time you could otherwise use to do something else.
Page 4 of 5
Just like with artistic inspiration: it comes on its own because you don’t know how to control it, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if it arrived every time you decided, in great quantities, precise and directed toward the goal you wanted to reach, instead of circling around and always showing up at the most inconvenient and untimely moment? How many times has inspiration come to you when you had no paper and pen at hand, or while you were working and couldn’t stop to write it down? Or worse, at 4:00 in the morning, forcing you to choose between sleeping or getting up to jot down the idea. This is just one of the many reasons why learning to tame your own thoughts is so important. Mental silence during meditation allows you to become more focused in your personal, emotional, and professional life. It makes you more attentive, aware, lucid, and active: everyone wants a partner who is present and notices how they feel, and why not, even what they’re thinking; because meditation also makes you more empathetic and telepathic, especially with the people you love. This is a huge advantage, because the other person will notice it, and even if they don’t understand why you’re more attentive, they will appreciate this new side of you. Your greater ability to notice things—even the smallest changes—will make you more interesting in their eyes, different from the rest. All of this happens when you learn non-thought through meditation, so it won’t happen if you keep thinking the way you always have. You already know where your old habits lead, but you don’t yet know where mental silence will take you—and it’s time to find out.
The secret of non-thought during meditation lies in concentration. Once again, I repeat that fighting thoughts with force would be counterproductive, because they would win. Instead, you can gradually tame them through daily practice, training them to become more aligned with your will rather than you having to adapt to them as you always have. A clear example is starting a beautiful day in a bad mood, all because of a single thought that then triggers many other negative ones. You may have a wonderful day ahead, you meet kind people and experience pleasant events, yet your negative thoughts prevent you from enjoying it, making everything seem dark. So you adapt your day to your mood—or better, to your thoughts. But if you learned to organize your thoughts according to your will, you could transform the day for the better because instead of ruining a good event or a positive beginning due to your thoughts, you could change them, making them more positive and suited to the day you are living. Therefore, instead of letting your thoughts afflict you, you can choose to stop them, to pause them for as long as needed, and enjoy what is happening without letting it slip away. Then you will realize that those same thoughts, which once seemed so important, will have lost all their weight in just one day, giving you the chance to understand what you would have missed if you had listened to them.
To learn mental silence during the day, you must first truly master it during Meditation, otherwise you will never fully understand it, even if you fool yourself into thinking you have. Non-thought is not only useful for staying more focused during the day, but it also prevents the Low from manipulating your thoughts and desires, making you believe they are your own. During the practice of Meditation, try to focus on what you are doing, thus on your breath, on the chakra, and on the desire to evolve. Stay concentrated on the motivation that pushes you to sit in half lotus and choose to meditate: focus on that intention to remain motivated, throughout the entire meditation. Focus on this desire rather than getting lost in a thousand thoughts that are futile at that moment. Explain to yourself that it’s not the time to think about anything else, that you only have half an hour to evolve and must not waste it on thinking or imagining, because you have the whole day for that and in this one half hour you must manage to remain in mental silence despite the strong temptations.
Page 5 of 5
The greatest challenge will be staying motivated to remain in non-thought, because while you are meditating you will feel a strong urge to think about something else just to pass the time.You only have half an hour to evolve, so explain to yourself that it is the only chance you have to make progress and that you must not throw it away. If you convince yourself, it will be much easier to maintain the state of mental silence. Non-thought is not synonymous with absence, but rather means being fully present in the moment without being carried away by the thoughts in your mind.
Every time you get lost in thoughts, don’t get angry; that would only make things worse. Instead, stay calm and remind yourself that you need to focus on the chakra and not think about anything else. Learn to recognize which thoughts to stop first: the ones that bring you back to remembering something from the past, imagining something fanciful, humming a song you like, thinking about the person you love or your children, or reasoning about household chores you should be doing. Stop them all, because during meditation, which lasts only half an hour, you must not think about any of this. You are not being asked to stop loving the person who makes your heart beat, or to stop taking care of your children; you are simply being asked not to think about them during the daily half hour you should devote entirely to meditation. If you learn to dedicate this entire half hour each day solely to yourself, you will begin to command your life to revolve around you, rather than the other way around. During meditation, often remind yourself to focus only on pranic breathing and on the chakra you are meditating on, and if it helps, you can say it in words to yourself, “focus on the chakra,” then silence yourself again. You cannot eliminate all thoughts at once, but you can gradually select and stop them, starting with those that take you far from what you are doing in the present, until one day you can control them all completely. So, if there are too many thoughts, repeat to yourself that you must focus only on the chakra, so that thoughts cannot distract you, and then try to remain focused on the chakra without having to repeat it in words too many times. In this way, little by little, you will quiet every kind of thought and your attention will stay alert and focused on what is rising within you: your sixth sense.
Obviously, over time you will need to learn to stay focused during meditation without having to repeat it in words, but this thought helps you refocus and bring your attention back to what you are doing. It cannot be compared to a heavier thought, such as thinking about household chores while you are meditating: it’s still a thought, but it serves to remind you what you are doing in the moment and what you should be focusing on, while thinking about household chores only serves to distract you and pull you away from what you are doing, bringing you back to a low vibration. Therefore, you can use thought to focus better on the chakra, but you must avoid letting it become a kind of mantra, ending up “thinking” about the chakra instead of truly feeling it. Always remember that the chakra must be physically perceived, not just imagined; this is why we use our fingers, which must touch the skin of the chakra so that the physical sensation reminds us what we need to do and exactly where we need to focus; it’s something that simply imagining the chakra’s location would not allow. That said, learning non-thought will not be easy, nor immediate, but with daily and consistent practice you will notice improvements that over time will become increasingly steady and pronounced. By practicing every day, you will improve greatly until, without even realizing it, you will reach the point where you are much better at maintaining non-thought and concentration both during practice and throughout your day. Do not feel anxious about evolving in a rush, but at the same time, do not be too slow in deciding to start practicing; the sooner you begin your journey, the sooner you will see the progress you have long dreamed of. Remember that to improve non-thought you must breathe prana, which will give you great help in relaxing and calming both your mind and all its mechanisms of thought. Breathe prana and relax, and in this way it will be much easier to learn mental silence.
End of page 8 of 8. If you enjoyed the article, leave a comment below describing your feelings while reading or practicing of the proposed technique.