My 2 cents.....I agree that its not good to let shadow man intimidate or otherwise manipulate you with fear, and he's probably mostly a part of yourself. But its also true that fear does have a purpose in the scheme of things, a lot of the things that people are afraid of are actually dangerous. If you take an attitude that your heart or mind can't be injured as long as you embrace a mindset of reckless bravery, eventually you'll pay for that.
Some people think that astral projection is unhealthy, that if you practice it you cultivate a kind of psychic schizophrenia, where your sense of where your thought body is gets decoupled from where your body is. And in that condition, supposedly, you become more vulnerable to being hassled by influences like the shadow guy. I don't know if that is true. I'd say I know for a fact that the standard New Age dogma about astral projection as a path of spiritual attainment is largely bullshit. If you feel uncomfortable about it, those feelings are probably as trustworthy as anyone else's on the subject, and might be worth paying some attention to. Sometimes a fear or other negative emotion changes into something more constructive or positive if you stop trying to tell it what it is and listen a little bit to what it wants to tell you.
The first time I astral projected it gave me the creeps, though I can't say that's because the experience itself was unhealthy. It could be because the things I could see and hear in that condition are creepy, and those things are likely there all the time anyway whether I am aware of them or not. Subsequent experiences have each been a bit different, its largely involuntary for me and there didn't seem to be a reason to do the same thing twice.
I think there's something to be said with being acquainted with and comfortable with your dark side, hiding and pretending nothing, to the extent that you can do that without feeding it.
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