Ballabene's OBE and Astral Pages

Questions:

Is it possible that another spirit/core occupies my physical body while I am "traveling" through the "astral world"?

It's not possible that a spirit occupies your body while you are away on astral travel. You have the same protection as you have in sleep - while asleep to a certain degree your body is left alone as well, because you have no control about your consciousness; nevertheless you are not endangered.

Why does the room and house I was originally in change?

Because you have no physical sight. Because of the fact that you rolled out of your body, you have the impression to be still close to the physical body. But it is not this way - perhaps you are close to the physical but nevertheless in an other dimension (or how you may call that). Instead still moving in the material surrounding, as you have the vivid impression, you move in an astral reproduction of your room, a kind of astral layer which penetrates the physical counterpart.

Why does the outside area change?

The outside area changes because you are moving in an astral counterpart as told above. But I want to point at an additional and interesting fact:
Your outside area does not change continually but it changes in steps. Everytime you pass a border your surrounding changes in the range of "only a bit" up to "dramatically". Let me just explain what I understand by the term "border". A border is a location which prevents you to have a sight of the coming, like a door, the hook of a wall or a building, a street crossing etc. This changing by steps seems to be the result of a psychic law. Using this law you even can realize a wish for arriving at a special place by means of imaging this location after the border in front of you. Thereby you have a chance to approach your desired location.

Do astral people ignore me?

Why, if I am astral travelling and none should be able to be aware of my presence, are people aware of me...but not quick to give me information.....even when I am polite and start with an "excuse me"?

I did not understand your question quite well, I fear, but let me suppose you mean the astral people there.
There are different astral planes:

In the worlds of the deceased these people would react immediately if you speak to them, I had never such problems at these planes.

Further are existing such planes like "dream planes" or "near earth planes", as I like it to call them (no terminology is existing relating to that). These planes are crowded by people who are astral travelling unconsciously. They all are absent minded. They have their own dream like thoughts. If you speak to them and if they react, then they usually make you to an actor of their inner dream movie and you get an answer that seems confusing.

I recommend you to observe this aspect for the next time you are experiencing your OBE. I would appreciate your report of your experience at this respect in order to be less subjective in my "Astral Pages" and to serve with wide spread experiences.

Additional to my respond I recommend you to read the article: Dream Planes

Astral mirror.

...But what surprised me and scared me is when I looked in the mirror. What I saw was a being that looked similar to myself however it looked like what I believe an alien would look like. ( If you have ever seen The movie cocoon, it looked like the aliens in that.) It was mysteriously beautiful but looked sad. If I had anything else to compare it too Id probably say that it looked sick. I have a strange phobia for aliens --dont ask-- anyway thats why I was frightened I then jumped back in my body and woke up.

Is what I experienced natural? What should your astral being look like in the mirror? And any advice you might have would be helpful.

What you saw is natural - in an astral mirror you can see whatever your subconscious likes at that moment. To explore: next time when looking into the astral mirror change the vision of your face by will.

Regard: what is a mirror in the physical sense? - it's an object that reflects light (light understood as photons). In the astral world you have no objects which can reflect anything in the physical sense - any reflection is constructed by imagination. In the astral world you have no photons and no light in the physical sense - thus there is nothing which can be reflected. Everything there on astral plane is an expression of the collective and individual consciousness and light is an expression of (inner) power which is inherent to the plane or your state (which attract each other and therefore are identically). From the latter point of view your astral projection was a great success!

Fascinating old streets ...

OBE Letter 359:
....It fascinated me when it happened because the street seemed to be very old and just simply another place, almost like looking into another dimension.

Yes, that is the fantastic in astral projecting and makes it to a great adventure, much more interesting than a movie, because you can decide the direction of walk and you don't know what there would be at the next hook - and everything is clear and radiating a kind of emotion which makes every building saturated and penetrated with individuality (the source is the inhabitant) and its history and purpose - every stone is telling you a lot....

Psychological rules

OBE Letter 360:
You mention a few times on your site about the dangers that are "possible" with an ethereal OBE. I am curious to get specifics on what exactly these dangers are so that I can watch for them. Don't get me wrong I totally plan on being calm and controlled if/when I achieve an OBE, but on your site you don't give specifics on what the dangers are. So that if I AM in danger I will know it and not confuse it with being "frightened". I have a little fear of the unknown, but I am fully aware and confident I can overcome any fear I have with my curiosity and commitment. If you could get back to me I would appreciate it.

If you start your OBEs you enter a world which is ruled by psychologic features. In your case you would enter the state and remember: "Alfred has told me that..". And whups, this event or thing or what ever it should be would sit on your neck - you have attracted it by your own imagination!! For that reason it is wise to let it run its natural way and not to interfere.

Soul organs

OBE Letter 418:
I'm blind, and haven't experienced a total o. b. yet, but do have false awakenings quite often. My question is: Would I be able to see if and when I do "leave" my physical body? I was sighted for most of my life, and dream in full color. I'm not sure if that will help though. Does the soul leave blindness behind when it wanders?

Hi Susan,
false awakening is a kind of OBE, though yet unconscious. If you are in false awakening you can astral project by looking through your forehead - it works better than looking with the eyes - this values for everyone. There is no doubt that you will see. When OBEing you will see. It seems to be clear that your soul is not used to blindness but is seeing.

For the soul the ability of seeing or not seeing is no fact of body defect, because a soul does not have organs like the physical body - a loaming soul body for instance is loaming for psychical reasons or because the soul has become used so (but in this case this will change in a short time) and the soul never loams because of a defect of the feet.

There is only one version of OBE, namely leaving the physical with the etheric body, in which everyone, not you alone, is veiled in blackness, at least up to a certain distance to the body. After an individual different distance sight is coming by itself.

Was this my guide or a good minded spirit?

OBE Letter 463:
The first time I tried it, having gained the use of my astral eyes, I found a man in a hood next to the bed; he asked if I wanted to come out but I panicked at the sight of him. Do you think this was my guide?

As to the man in the hood - it's impossible to classify such a spirit, because the appearance is of of minor importance and can be easily changed by a spirit. To come to a conclusion you have to come to a telepathic/empathic contact with the spirit (that's the only way how to qualify a spirit).

Different kinds of astral sight perception

OBE Letter 467:
Different or similar kinds of astral sight may be used in OBEs. But such variable kinds of sight must not be used in OBEs and mostly are not used, because many features in OBEs are based in physical world imitation (for instance having and moving with legs, our appearance - we could have the appearance of balls as well - and so on).

Some different kinds of astral sight are:
seeing a far distant object near by
seeing structures in unusual clear contrast of its substructures
seeing through walls or through the ground (seeing there lower astral planes or locations)
facing a non present person
may be there are still some additional forms, which do not come to my thoughts at that moment.

Of course there are as well different forms of thought and emotion reception as well.

Unable to pass a door or window glass

OBE Letter 468:
....when I exit my body I try to leave the house and find that I am unable to, I will float around the room, and "feel" my way around, once I tried to exit out my bed room window, I could feel the coldness of the window, and it felt solid to me, yet I was expecting to glide right through but was unable. Is this normal?

If you have a "dense" astral body - there is meant an astral body filled and surrounded by etheric matter (which belongs to the physical body and is the basis for mediumistic phenomena) - well, if you have such a dense body you can not pass walls, the door, the window etc. There is a trick: open the window or the door in the conventional way. A second hint: do not jump out of the window - very often this has an awakening effect (because of the fear of falling down) and this would break your OBE.

Already awake but still having a fading away perception

OBE Letter 468:
One last thing I wanted to mention, once while attempting to leave the body I was jolted awake by my dog jumping onto the bed, I opened my eyes to see a (portal?) floating right in front of me, inside was the most beautiful landscape I have ever seen, vibrant colors, waterfall, lush greenery, it was Beautiful!! As I awakened it slowly faded away, have you ever heard of this type of experience before?

Yes I have heard and experienced that the astral excursion is fading away slowly while being "back awake". This fading away kind of astral presence can be:

A body feeling of being still at the astral place (you mostly see blackness but still have the feeling of being bodily present at the previous astral location). When you avoid moving you can be able to restart your astral excursion by intensifying this feeling.

A fading sight, as you have it described (in your case it was tunnel like, as I got the impression, but it can be as well in form of fading colors and become more and more foggy).

An acoustic echo. You are awake but still hear the birds singing, or you hear some voices (do not mix this state with "voice hearing").

What is magic power?

Magic power is no witchcraft but is the ability to influence the cosmic flow of destiny qualities (in yoga called Tattwa) by means of inner purity, mental and action control and by means of auric light radiation.

Why to atemmpt AP, I have no sense for scary astral travels!

Most of the OBEs are beautiful, some ones are adventurous. This depends of your inner vibrations. In common no one has such astral travels, if he or she is not ready - or said in other terms: strong enough, because to let the traveler master some hindrances is wanted by the guides, in order to make the OBEer stronger and wiser.

Alfred Ballabene, Vienna, Austria, Europe, 2000