I have a number of otherwise intelligent friends who actually believe in astra projection. But then, I live in CA. At any rate, I’ve decided it’s not worth arguing with them about it anymore. I usually just smile and try to change the subject.
That explains a lot. I’d be a bit more down on liberals if I lived around those loonies. My exposure to liberalism has always been the skeptical kind. It’s the conservatives into all the woo, with the MLM tools that get rid of toxins.
Not trying to make this political or anything. Just saying knowing people into this stuff makes me understand where you are coming from a bit better.
(And I know I’m making an assumption that these people are liberal based on your location. Apologies if that’s wrong.)
Hahahaha, I can’t stop laughing! There is no possible way that Astral Projection is in anyone’s “grasp”! As everyone knows, to qualify as a True Projection, one must travel well beyond arm’s reach. Anything less is simply Astral Leakage.
Hey, I engaged in “lucid dreaming” and “astral projection” when I was a teenager. If you are imaginative and are good at visualizing, it can really seem that you are leaving your body. Weird, wild stuff. Nothing truly veridical came of these experience, of course. But it certainly was trippy and fun!
Any time one of my loony friends starts a sentence with something like “So I was astral projecting last night”, I cut them off with “No you weren’t. How’s the local sports team?”
What is astral projection, anyway? I mean, I know what it’s supposed to be, but what is it actually? Bullshit, obviously, but it must be something besides that. Is it lucid dreaming? Self-hypnosis? What is the process that gives people the illusion of traveling outside their bodies?