Weightless As a Down Pillow, I Traveled Beyond

I traveled from my bed to immeasurable heights, I could not contain the speed, and it was so fast that I felt the air pressure virtually twitching my face. Though it seemed uncontrollable, I managed to glide over the sea before flying home.

This is a story about my own experience, an out-of-body experience that happened several years ago. Precisely, until now I have not found the exact answer despite endless search. I hope somebody after reading this article would come forward and enlighten me as to what this all about.

I heard and read a lot of this thing called astral body as a component part of a person's body. I have also learned some people in the verge of death, travels but all these stories did not give light to the obscurity of my apprehension about astral body or what they call, psycho-spiritual subtle body.

Was it really my astral body that traveled? Or was it just my mind or causal body? I was not dying nor dreaming as I was still at the stage of transition from wake to sleep neither did I take a drug or anything.

As advised by a friend, the proper way to relax is to focus on our extremities and release the tension and stress from the toes upward. One Sunday afternoon in an effort to get a nap (because I am not used to it), I did what was advised. I focused on my toes and abandoned any thoughts, nearly in a meditative state.

As I opened my arms to unwind my whole consistency, I felt a sudden release of something of myself as though something was unlocked and I felt I was ejected. The feeling was as though I was unlatched from my body.

It's grueling to describe; I couldn't find the right words to account for such an out-of-body experience, to what religious philosophers call astral projection or autoscopy to neurologists. Indeed, it was exceedingly strange, very unusual!

I found myself above, ascending, almost touching the ceiling and cautioned myself, apprehensive that I could be injured on impact. Amazingly, I was able to pass through it perfectly unharmed. I did not even feel the touch of the matter. I asked myself, why? Have I died and now a ghost?

On my way up, bust-size images in individual frames appeared, flashing rapidly, one by one at my left side as if trying to catch up with me. The speed was uncontrollable. The force was tremendous that I felt I was being suctioned into a vacuum.

I was fast-flying in space upwards higher and higher until I reached a certain altitude that no matter how I pushed myself up, I couldn't get any farther.

The desire to discover what lies farther beyond also grew deeper as I was soaring up at that extremely bothering speed. Excitement filled my heart, hoping to reach heaven if there is any and meet Jesus face to face. Regrettably, I was not able to transcend beyond a nimbus- like cloud formation.

Frustrated, I realized I must come back and join my body before it's too late. I faced downward, in a wink of an eye; I found myself descending to where I came from and mind you, with the same velocity and atmospheric pressure as I flew up. I was absolutely not in control.

I saw not the roof but the floor of my room from up there, fearful I might be impaired when I fall; I looked upward and experienced once again the same irrepressible flight. I just wished for the second time the fog would give way and let me in. Guess what happened. I know you know the answer. Once more, I was barred by that peculiar hazy spatial arrangement. Maybe it was not my time yet.

On my way back, I was amazed! I could not feel the intense pressure anymore. I managed to wander a little and gleefully slid towards my right; I saw a terrain and a beautiful body of water. The feeling was wonderful. It was awesome to be in control and fly freely as a bird.

While heading down to the beach I viewed a small vessel at the middle of the sea and white figures of a child and an adult strolling along the seashore. They look as if they are moving monuments or chalk-like living structures in plain white color.

Finally, I decided to come back worried that I might not be able to join my body and be at that state forever, floating and wandering lonely as a cloud. As I approached, I sensed danger of falling hard on the floor but, felt nothing. I didn't even feel the touch of it.

I was weightless as a down pillow and realized I was even lighter than an eider down. After I came to myself, I pondered; wondering whether I was asleep or just dreaming, nonetheless, grateful that I am still alive.

Bewildered? Yes, indeed! Who wouldn't be? I cannot fathom exactly how and why it happened. Everything is clear in my mind I could still picture every detail of my journey beyond. It was such an experience and maybe, a once in a lifetime insight at the threshold of the unknown.

No matter how I tried, the said experience never happened again. How I wish I could fly again and discover what lies farther beyond.


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