I just wanted to share my thoughts on these three subjects, because I have experienced all three, and there seems to be some confusion. All these ideas are based on my personal experience. I am not going to cite any references for factual statements, because you can just look them up yourself, to see if what I am saying is true, or to disprove me.

Astral Projection:

Astral projection is your astral self leaving the body. This is not your soul. Your astral body is your consciousness. Have you ever had a dream where the setting was very realistic and present? Example: your neighborhood at night. If you dream you are flying around your neighborhood at night, and no one can see you, you are probably astral projecting. As far as doing it deliberately, the difference between conscious, deliberate AP and WILD'ing is this, while doing an AP, you are awake. Whenever I come back to my body, I just get up and walk around. But, any dream can lead into AP, which makes it confusing. I get the feeling that LD's are less likely to lead into AP, because you are in your own mind more so than a regular dream, so you are less likely to go out of body.

With astral projection, you can view the physical plane, and/or the astral plane.

Astral projection is safe, but there are some things to keep in mind when you do it.

The most important thing is to ground yourself. I only recently learned of this very important concept. Grounding yourself is connecting yourself to the earth energy as opposed to cosmic energy. Your root chakra is the foundational chakra, and in that sense is the most important one. Some good ways to ground yourself is to focus on your feet. Press down into the earth with your feet when you stand. Feel the energy flowing up through your feet into your root chakra. Visualize your feet growing roots down into the earth. Have good strong posture, like a tree. Petrified wood, and simple stones (not crystals) are good for grounding. Eating roots like potatoes and ginger are also good for grounding. Focus your astral self being completely inside of you. If you feel like you are floating away, you probably are, so just come back down to earth.

I did astral projection to excess, and had no concept of grounding for years and years. I was floating halfway out of my body for years, which made me feel spacey and disoriented. You should ground throughout the day, and before and after any astral projection session.

Astral projection was always a difficult skill for me, but I think it helped my lucid dreaming.

When you astral project, ask your spirit guides to protect you, and to show you what you need to see. It's good to have some type of intent, purpose, or question. Doing it just to see if you can is like walking to see if you can. Ok, so you are walking, but you are going nowhere. One great exercise that yielded intense results is to try and do it on the physical plane. In other words, just get up, and walk out your front door, only leave your body in bed.

Remote Viewing

Remote Viewing has been proven to be partially accurate by the U.S. government. They have done a lot of experiments with this. Remote viewing is done with your eyes open, sitting at a table, with a pencil and paper in front of you. The idea is to see physical shapes. Suspect Zero is an awesome movie about this.

Remote viewing is focused on the physical plane.

Dreams, and Lucid Dreaming

I believe some dreams are simply from our own minds, revealing innermost desires, or random thoughts, while others are spiritual messages, and others can be clairvoyant, seeing into the future.

Lucid dreaming is fun, and generally takes place within the mind, but sometimes they can become spiritual.

This is all my personal take on this. I will not argue with anyone if you disagree, because I am not trying to convince anyone of my beliefs. Things like this are deeply personal, and must be experienced by the self. Feel free to post disagreements or questions or whatever. I do not pretend to be a guru or master of any of these skills. I would say my skill in all three of these areas is about intermediate. There is so much to learn.

Have fun and enjoy life. Keep grounding.

Nomad