Astral projection is an entertaining and harmless pastime that can seem profound, and in some cases even life-changing. Though astral projection practitioners insist their experiences are real, their evidence is all anecdotal - just as a person who takes peyote or LSD may be truly convinced that they interacted with God, dead people, or angels while in their altered state. But it's not surprising that many people who try astral projection have similar experiences - after all, that's what the term "guided imagery" is: when an authority (such as a psychologist or astral travel teacher) tells a person what they should expect from the experience.Īccording to researcher Susan Blackmore, author of "Beyond the Body: An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences," people who experience astral travel "have been found to score higher on measures of hypnotizability and, in several surveys, on measures of absorption, measure of a person's ability to pay complete attention to something and to become immersed in it, even if it is not real, like a film, play, or imagined event." Out-of-body experiencers are more imaginative, suggestible, and fantasy-prone than average, though have low levels of drug and alcohol use, and no obvious signs of psychopathology or mental illness. Practitioners of astral travel insist that the experience must be real because it seems so vivid, and because some of the experiences are similar, even for people from different cultures. The absence of these individuals during life-or-death situations is revealing. Astral projectors, like psychics, would be invaluable to police during mass shooting and hostage situations, describing exactly how many suspects there are, where in the building they can be found, and other crucial details. People whose consciousnesses can fly and move through walls would save lives during natural disasters such as earthquakes, easily moving through rubble and collapsed buildings to locate survivors and direct rescue workers to them. There would be no need to send humans into very dangerous conditions - such as nuclear disasters - to determine what the situation is. If proven, astral travel would be incredibly useful to the world.
We need not resort to such artificial tests, since the real world provides countless opportunities for astral projection to be demonstrated beyond any doubt. Either the descriptions match or they don't. Scientifically testing the validity of astral travel should be quite simple for example, you might hide 10 unknown objects at different locations and then ask a person to project their consciousness to each place and describe exactly what's there. Proving the existence of psychic powers, astral projection or alternative dimensions would earn the dissenting scientists a place in the history books, if not a Nobel Prize.
However, in science those who disprove dominant theories are rewarded, not punished. Why hasn't astral projection been proven scientifically? Some claim it's because mainstream scientists are closed-minded and refuse to even look at evidence that doesn't fit their narrow worldview.
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