30/09/2026
Has anyone had this experience? | Everyone talks about the beauty of astral projection. The freedom. The boundlessness. Floating above your body, traversing dimensions, touching something beyond the physical.
Nobody talks about what’s waiting for you there.
What Is Astral Projection?
Astral projection or an Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) is the phenomenon where consciousness separates from the physical body and travels independently. It’s been documented across virtually every spiritual tradition on earth: in Kabbalistic texts, Sufi mysticism, Tibetan dream yoga, and indigenous shamanic practice. The experience typically begins with sleep paralysis, a vibrational frequency that rises through the body, and then separation.
The CIA Knew This
What most people don’t know is that the CIA took astral projection seriously enough to weaponise it.
Project Stargate, the US government’s classified programme spanning the 1970s through the 1990s trained operatives in Remote Viewing and OBE techniques for intelligence gathering. The programme documented cases of operators projecting into classified Soviet facilities, military installations, and locations impossible to access physically.
What the declassified files don’t foreground is what happened to some of those operators. Reports exist of individuals who projected for too long, who encountered something during the process that didn’t let go. Some never returned to baseline psychological function. Some died. The official explanations were always mundane. The pattern, for those paying attention, was not.
Your Body Is Not Locked When You Leave It
Here’s what the wellness influencers selling astral projection courses won’t tell you.
When your consciousness leaves your body, your body becomes a vacancy. An open door in a neighbourhood that isn’t entirely safe. The dimensional membrane you’re breaking through, it works both ways. You move out. Other things can move in.
Ancient traditions understood this intuitively. This is precisely why shamans didn’t project alone. Why Tibetan monks trained for years before attempting certain practices. Why Kabbalistic texts frame certain spiritual ascents as requiring a vessel of immense purity and protection. The warnings were encoded into the system. Modern pop-spirituality stripped them out because they don’t sell well.
What I Experienced
I have to be honest with you, because this is not theoretical for me.
After I began exploring projection practices, my environment changed. Things falling with no physical cause. Something touching my feet in the dark.
Then one night, while i was projecting, a figure appeared. Burnt in appearance. Not metaphorically, literally the texture and colour of something that had been through fire. It grabbed my arm. Not to frighten me. To take something. To come back with me, or to pull me further out so there was space to fill.
I fought. I fought for what felt like far longer than any clock would measure. And I came back.
I am not someone who catastrophises. I am a doctor and a scientist. I work in evidence and mechanism. What I experienced that night doesn’t fit neatly into any framework I was trained in, and I’ve spent considerable time since trying to understand it through every lens I have access to, scientific and esoteric both.
The Dimensional Gates Don’t Swing Only One Way
Every genuine mystical tradition that engages with non-ordinary states of consciousness has a concept of guardians, gatekeepers, or adversarial entities. These aren’t metaphors for psychological shadow work. They are described with a specificity and consistency across cultures and centuries.
When you project, you are not just travelling. You are announcing your presence in domains where consciousness operates differently than it does in the physical.
The paranormal activity that follows is not coincidence. It is consequence. A signal that the membrane has been thinned, that something has located you, that the return journey needs to be treated with the same gravity as the departure.
This Isn’t a Reason to Stop. It’s a Reason to Prepare.
I’m not writing this to close the door on these practices. I’m writing it because the door has to be approached correctly.
If you are exploring astral projection, know your energy. Build your shield first. Understand protection practices before you attempt projection. Don’t go alone, and don’t go without intention. The traditions that preserved these methods for millennia did so within structures of protection, lineage, and accountability for good reason.
The dark side of astral projection is real. I’ve stood in it.
What you do with that information is yours to choose.
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By Quantum Awakening, see comments for sources and to support. I'm also curious to hear if anyone has had an experience like this. I have not personally had negative experiences exploring this stuff.
