II Where does astral projection occur?

The next question is where astral projection occurs, by what it can be triggered, how it can be specifically induced, and so on. Here we find quite a great variety, which is to be expected for such a fundamental experience that relates to the relationship between consciousness and the physical body – after all, structures that are close to the roots of our being should also be found in many everyday experiences.

II 1. The spontaneous astral projection

Spontaneous astral projection is unplanned, unwanted and in some cases unconscious. It occurs quite frequently.

II 1. a) Sleep

During sleep, the astral body detaches itself from the physical body to some extent, which can be experienced as a flight dream.

There is also the possibility to wake up in a dream and still continue dreaming – this is then an unplanned dream journey. From this state one can switch from the perception of the inner images to the perception of the outer images and perceive one's own surroundings with the eyes still closed. From there it is only a small step to astral projection, that is, to leaving one's own body.

The motionlessness of the sleeping person is an aspect of astral projection: the captain has temporarily left the ship.

II 1. b) Fainting

One can understand a fainting as a"spontaneous sleep". In fainting, too, the astral body has left the physical body, and, as in sleep, the waking consciousness is shut off.

Fainting has two types of causes. The first type of cause is a physical impairment such as a severe blow to the head or a major blood loss; the second type of cause is an overload of the processing capacity of the waking consciousness due to a shock, a great fear, or the like – when the waking consciousness is overloaded, it shuts down … input overkill …

In case of fainting there are also two possibilities in another respect. In the first form the waking consciousness and the ability to remember ends completely at the beginning of the fainting and returns only after the end of the fainting – then mostly the classical question"Where am I?" is asked. In the second form, one remains largely conscious and experiences, for example, how the body becomes stiff and one can suddenly see oneself from the outside, but one is no longer able to move and direct one's own body – at the end of the fainting, one then returns to one's body and is able to act again.

II 1. c) Seizure

There are so-called seizures in some diseases and physical disorders. One variant of seizure is that the body of the person suddenly becomes stiff and sometimes begins to twitch, and if the person was standing before, he falls over.

Here, too, the astral body leaves the physica