Astral Travel: Your Guide to the Secrets of Out-Of-The-Body Experiences [Paperback]

Yvonne Frost (Author), Gavin Frost (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1985

In this uniquely practical guide, you will learn how to differentiate between astral travel and conventional dreaming, and how to control and monitor the experience so that you can enjoy personal fulfillment and increased awareness.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser (June 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877283362
• ISBN-13: 978-0877283362
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Effective, but with questionable ethics, September 13, 2004

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Satori (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Astral Travel: Your Guide to the Secrets of Out-Of-The-Body Experiences (Paperback)

While this book is certainly informative and contains effective techniques for astral travel, I became a bit concerned by some of the contradictory messages it contains.

For example, at the beginning of the book the authors stress that there is nothing to be afraid of about astral travel and that it is completely "safe." Yet later in the book they outline techniques one can use to "possess" other people. One can conclude that if it is possible for you to do this to another without their consent, then it is possible for others to do it to you as well.

Another red flag for me was the authors' highly questionable ethics. In the chapter "Selfish Uses of Astral Travel," the authors state that astral travel should only be used for love and promoting the higher good, but then proceed to devote an entire chapter on how to screw people over on the astral plane. They provide detailed techniques for possessing others, spying on the private thoughts and lives of others, and ways you can manipulate the thoughts and perceptions of people while you are on the astral. I found the authors to be disingenous for this reason. This was compounded by their admonition against prayer as a "negative force" that "ruins the spiritual landscape."

In summary, the book is an effective how-to manual, but the honest reader may find its ethical compass missing.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An EXCELLENT Book, August 23, 2000

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This review is from: Astral Travel: Your Guide to the Secrets of Out-Of-The-Body Experiences (Paperback)

This book is Gavin & Yvonne Frost's Astral Travel course bound in one volume. Through the methods they present, I learned to astral travel myself. They even cover astral time travel and how to do that. This book is easy to read. One thing to remember is to be patient with yourself when learning. It took me 6 months of practice with the Frost's methods before I was successful...and it was wonderful when I achieved success.

25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A beginners guide, yet vastly incomplete, June 11, 2004

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Chris - See all my reviews

This review is from: Astral Travel: Your Guide to the Secrets of Out-Of-The-Body Experiences (Paperback)

This book was one of the first I came across when searching for answers to some spontaneous astral experiences I had a few years back. Whilst it assisted in terms of affirming the actual existence of the astral plane, it did not contain the content to do much more.

Most of the content in the book was unfortunately confounding and entangled, and did not present an accurate overall picture of what the astral plane is. Additionally, one gets the feeling, even without any substantial occult knowledge, that in the attempt to describe the nature of the plane and its workings, the authors have undertaken an overly ambitious endeavour, given that that their own understanding of the plane seems at best incipient and at worst, terribly incomplete. The outcome of this to the reader, is a misleading hotch-potch of subjective information that is better off avoided if you are seriously seeking to understand either your own experiences or the hidden world in general.

Because the cultivation of an authentic understanding of the astral plane is but a small fraction of an immense, potentially life-long study of the esoteric truths that permeate life, those who are drawn to this should note that any worthwhile study requires the aid of an ethical and profoundly knowledgeable author, and preferably an organization that can assist a student in their development in the same way. Despite the plethora of misleading books, materials and other information on this subject that abounds like weeds in the fields, there is fortunately such an author and also a number of correlating schools of study available, for those who are serious about understanding this and other related subjects.

The Author I recommend is Samael Aun Weor. A deeply ethical man and probably the greatest occultist of recent history, Samael Aun Weor is a South American authority, whose astonishing experience with the esoteric world have been detailed in over sixty books, which only in recent times have been translated from his native Spanish to English. In the writings of Samael Aun Weor, one finds explicit information on the most effective methods on how to experience a successful astral projection, what the astral plane is and how the astral plane fits in within the esoteric world on the whole. Unmatched discourses on all subjects that go hand in hand with the legitimate development of occult understanding are also available; all of these books contain the most practical and potent methods to facilitate bona fide experiences that one can find.

Titles in the works of Samael Aun Weor that include practical methods for astral projection are many and varied, and common to most of his works, is the synthesization of vast amounts of information which is of varying levels of complexity. A good starting point for those interested in understanding dreams and the astral realm is the book - Dream Yoga: Writings on Dreams and Astral Travel (available at Amazon). If anyone wishes to follow up this author in any other way, a recommended website which contains high quality information is gnosis-usa.com. Be advised however, that "interpretive movements" of his work also exist which unfortunately discompose his original teachings.