We keenly kept up our practices of concentration, awareness, alchemy, mantras, self-observation, analysis of the egos and meditation as taught by Samael and were very disciplined with them, as we stayed in the study centre, we had access to the practice room which helped us, we slept on cushions not on beds as these could easily be put aside all used by the students for their exercises, so that no room was lost to a bedroom.

During one of the practices I sat on cushions with a candle, but had a strange experience that as I looked at the candle I realised that my eyelids were closed and that I was seeing in a different way, as soon as I realised this my vision returned to normal and I opened my eyes.

I increased my attempts to become aware of being in the astral plane by becoming aware of dreaming, for this although I would often spontaneously wake up in a dream, I trained myself the technique called the jump, where you question something that looks unusual, or just question where you are and take a jump to check whether you’re in the physical world or in the astral plane, in the physical plane we obviously can't float, but in the astral we can.

I had seen how my flesh was flexible when out of the body, and how I could stretch it, so I used this as a more discreet way of checking whether I was in the physical world or the astral plane, by pulling my finger to check where I was, it became quite an effective technique to use.

Using these techniques I was able to become aware that I was in the astral plane about every other night consistently, some experiences were clear and some were vague.

I often found that I couldn’t sustain myself over there, I would fly back to my body quickly, and so I held onto objects there and often moved around securing myself by holding on to whatever I could find of astral matter.

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Practices and Exercises