Deliberate astral projection usually occurs from a lying position. It is easier to do it from a position laying on the back on a hard surface. Sometimes astral projection occurs during the night when the physical body is sleeping, which really means that it occurs and then one becomes aware that it has occurred. That is not deliberate astral projection. That is the normal way in which the psychic nature conducts it.

In deliberate astral projection, the yogi is conscious of the separation but in most cases of astral projection, the person becomes conscious only after the separation has occurred which means that he or she is not able to observe how the separation system works.

For the astral body to find itself waking up as the physical body, after a separation, that astral form has to resynchronize into the physical one, which means that it has to decrease its vibrational rate. Conversely, for it to separate from the physical one, the astral body has to increase its vibrational rate. Usually this slowing down and speeding up occurs by the operation of the psychic kundalini mechanism with or without the conscious observation of the person concerned.

This might seem surprising and unbelievable that you have no control over these systems but let us remember that for the most part the heart beat and lung rate in the physical body is conducted without our permission. There are systems on the psychic side which operate in a similar way.

What I am saying is that these systems are not usually conducted with the permission or observation or assistance of the core-self. The various psychic components in the psyche are hard wired already by nature to take power from the core-self, hence these psychic accessories do not have to ask permission of the self to get power from the self or to complete their impulsive operations.

Suppose you purchase a house which has a pre-set pre-programmed lighting system which turns the lights on at 6 pm and off at 6 am. There will be no switch for you to operate those lights. You will be paying the utilities bill but you will not have a way to control how those lights are using the electric power which you are billed for. In the same way the psychic nature has set up the body to operate without your permission.

Does this sound unreasonable?

Do you think I am making this up?

It is rare that one will astral project from a sitting position during meditation. If however one is really wanting to astral projection and to observe how nature separates the subtle body, one should do meditation laying down on the back on a hard surface with a dark colored cloth over the eyes.

While sitting in easy pose this morning, on a couch, the astral body astral projected. I was meditating for some time, and then that stopped, then there was a blank space of consciousness where there was nothing and then I found myself in the subtle body somewhere in Canada. The place had snow everywhere but in the astral world, the snow had no temperature to it. It was in an unpopulated area, where there were no trees. These places are called the tundra, since trees cannot deal the cold weather there. Even on the astral side there were no trees. Suddenly there was a snow leopard which was tracking the scent of a dead animal. I watched it as it found one dead body of an eagle-like bird which was already partially eaten by another scavenger. Then about 1000 feet from that dead body, there was another eagle but that dead body was not touched by any other predator.

As soon as the snow leopard found that second carcass, two dogs appeared from nowhere. At first the ears of the snow leopard went up in alarm, then it ran away to the north further into the tundra, the dogs pursued it in a hot chased.

I could read the mind of the snow leopard which considered that if it was one dog, it might take the creature down but since it is two it could not take a chance to challenge both of them.

At this point as the leopard was thinking of this, I realized that I was in the astral world. In other words, at first even though I was there, I did not objectively realize that I was just in the astral body. Sometimes one finds oneself in another dimension and does not realize that one is in such a place, one just feels that one should be in that place and should function under whatever conditions are there. That is similar to our position now in these bodies, where most of us have no idea of any past life and we feel that this is the only life there is and that was no yesterday and that yesterday has no relevance, and only what we are doing at this time has importance.

When I realized that I was in the astral world and that the astral body separated of its own accord without my desire and came to that dimension, I made a mental note of it, so that I would remember to write about it, when I would return to the physical body.

But then in my mind this physical existence was not the reference, so the reference was some other experiences I was having during the meditation session.

This means that point of reference is always there in these experiences and one should know how the mind uses various direct and indirect point of references.