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I had a pretty scarry experience. I want to ask what everyone thinks.
We were doing a astro meditation leaving the body type thing. We were being led by our Master/teacher talked threw the process.Anyway we were suppose to surround ourselves with white light. Bringing our chakars together. I am sure some of you have tried it. Everything was going fine until We were to leave the room and raise above the building. Immediately everything turned purple there were snake skins close up and moving,wrapped around each other,crossing,tails. I could see the scales they were so close and a bright green. I immediately tried to change back to the white light. It didn't work. I got scarred and opened my eyes and tried to follow. It was all purple again. I am scarred to try this again. Has anyone else had a bad experience in this type of meditation. I am not sure i want to mess with it again.Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Otoharo!

I have no idea! For an air person, leaving the body is a natural thing. My first time was before I knew reiki. I had read about Edgar Cacy. and how he left his body. I decided to copy him. I told myself what to do and when I realized I was over my house, I said, "OK, Cut it!" and I was back in my body.

finality

Dear posylady,

Wow! Some spend years trying to get that kind of experience with meditating and such. So visually. Sounds like you got jumped in.

Such experiences can be scary especially when it's your first go at one so gripping. From your post it seems that your new experince anxiety caused you to latched onto the snake thing in effort the catagorize the freaky visual experience. Pperhaps were seeing sacred geometry in motion or something along those lines. It does not sound like you were having an the preliminaries of a OOBE by reading your post. Sounds more like you were seeing your energetic insides.

While getting onto meditation mode next I would humbly suggest that you set yourself to avoid reacting emotionally to what you see. You need only observe so be a passive observer.

Namaste,
Michael

Years ago, when I was a kid, teen anyway, I read up on oobe and astral travel.

So a few times, I woke to find I couldn't move. Sleep paralysis I think its called.

One time I had the feeling of being very high up, a map of Ireland was below me, looked like one of those satelite jobs. It was kind of misty around the edges of m periperal sight. I was scared and there was someone with me who asked where I wanted to go, and I said home, I want to go home. I could have gone anywhere, I suppose, but then I woke up in my bed. Just before that I heard the voice say Beunos dias, I think. and the feeling of light dissapointment, but supporting..

Another time, sleep paralisis again, and I felt that someone was trying to pull me out of my body, kind of aggresive like. I resisted and got the impression of hands in the air and the 'thought/feeling' angry like 'then stay there!'

Another time, I had a vivid dream where these devils/imps dancing on a hilltop. They didn't see me but I hid in a wood log cabin. They tried to get in, and rushed around the cabin, and there was this big rushing wind. Floors were shaking; the walls, I remember calling out Christ three times, then I woke up.

I'd suggest that if you were to try this again, to call on a divinity you love to act as protector and guide.

It must be someone you have a spiritual connection to. It has to feel real to you. And regardless of outcome or anything else, try and just feel love to the exclusion of everything. this may be difficult but don't push yourself too hard,

Treat yourself to something nice like a facial. You sound like you went through the horrors.

The meditation is called Microcosmic Orbit Meditation a form of Taoist meditation. I haven't tried it since. Not sure if I want to. But my reiki teacher talked us threw it her voice along with the feeling that goes into it make it fairly easy. I have suggested that she make some c.d.'s. She is thinking about it. One of the guys said he was in space looking back at the earth, floating. I was afraid to say what I saw. Thought they would think me posseted or something.LOL. Heck I was starting to think maybe I was!
Thank you for your help, you made me feel better about myself! I am currently in classes for reiki master teacher and it gets more interesting everyday. My teacher is fantastic! I am very fortunate.

Dear posylady,

A few intuitive thoughts came to mind from your post: The Microcosmic Orbit Meditation is geared towards work within your energetic bodies I thought. Not astral or OOBE traveling. I would question that.

Your mentioned in your post:
" I was afraid to say what I saw. Thought they would think me posseted or something".

I would take an inner look at what helped you react like that. From your post it sounds like you were fearful from the experience but willing to risk being posessed instead of sharing what you experienced. Almost like the playground bully Nelson Mundt from the Simpson's was waiting in the wings to make fun of you : " HhA-HA... your'e posessed."
It could be that inner anxiety was at work a bit.

Namaste,
michael

You are right the Microcosmic Orbit Meditation is what we are working on now. I don't have a reason I wrote that other than it is stuck in my mine from reading it for class. Should of been advanced color meditation sorry. I don't think I was as scarred as I was shocked at seeing something like this now that I think about it. No I didn't feel free to discuss in front of several people I didn't know and had only seen a few times in my class. I wasn't afraid of them laughing at me, just what they would think and how they would judge me for the rest of class. So I chose to keep it to myself.