Hello Everyone and welcome,
Today’s episode is the Introduction to my book ‘Astral Dancer’ I have decided to make the audio version public albeit within my Patreon community. It would be a shame not to share it considering the amount of time and effort it took me to record it. The first part of the book is narrated by myself and Danny, Danny is another me, another life, for the sake of our timeline he is a past life. The voice of Danny is AI, I wanted to keep the audio, let’s say ‘cost effective’ so I had no option but to go down this path.
If you like the introduction then I’ll be adding a chapter a week in my Patreon community, you find me at:
https://www.patreon.com/aliwings
‘Astral Dancer’ – Astral Projection Stories
Healing and Adventure from the Beyond – by Aliwings and Danny
Revised Edition Copyright © 2021 by Alison Wylie
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To:
My family in Italy – Giovanni, Francesca, James and Lucy (the family dog now passed) plus Robin (the present furry friend), the various family tribes in the UK, and all the family pets, both living on Earth and in Pet Paradise.
A special dedication to all inner explorers, to your courage and tenacity.
Thanks to gina from parrallel vision (Pixabay) for contributing to the book cover.
Ali here, if you are interested in out-of-body experiences or astral projection you may like to visit my podcast site, here you’ll find episodes about my experiences, techniques, plus general help and advice.
I also have a newsletter you can sign up to if you’d like to stay in touch, I have included an outline of what I consider to be the astral projection process which you can access once you have signed up.
Website: https://astralprojectionpodcast.com/
I hope you enjoy this book; it has been a real roller coaster ride for me, but I certainly wouldn’t change it for the world. I believe many people have these experiences but are often afraid to talk about them for fear of ridicule, the more quality information that is out in the world the better. I hope this book helps people to realise that they are not alone in their ‘weirdness’. If you like what you read, I would appreciate a review on Amazon, you will be helping me in my mission to spread the word. Thanks!
(Ali)
This is the second edition of Astral Dancer. The dreams and astral adventures remain the same, apart from a little editing. I have only added this foreword and added a new chapter at the end discussing the implications of my experiences. After rereading this book recently, I have realised it goes deeper than I originally thought, with connections on many levels. Previously I had written a novel though it was never published, one day about 20 years ago I sat at the kitchen table and started writing what came into my head. Around the same time, I started having a lot of dreams and astral adventures, some of which are described in ‘Astral Dancer’. It was as if the novel, called ‘The Photograph’, were the catalyst for an incredible adventure into self, crossing time and space.
In ‘The Photograph’, the protagonist, Toni, is a teenager who wants to make a difference and help troubled children in difficult situations. She also had a difficult childhood, but I won’t go into details and spoil the story in case you wish to read it. Can a fictional character make a difference? At first I thought it would be by donating money from the sale of the book to a children’s charity but I realise now it went a lot deeper than that. It is interesting that while writing this in a bar with a coffee, ‘Killing Me Softly’ by Roberta Flack comes on the radio, I havealways loved this song and often in my mind when listening to this song I would see Toni, a synchronicity which has sent shivers up and down my spine. I digress slightly but I just had to mention it as the synchronicities have been many.
Toni has made, and continues to make, a difference, but how is this possible? How can a character born from my imagination effect so deeply the lives of other children who have suffered? It is difficult to explain but I will try. ‘Astral Dancer’ and ‘The Photograph’ are in a sort of time loop. Originally in the latter book, in one particular chapter, I had written in a lot about the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, then I was a little concerned with copyright laws so in the end I changed this part to include ‘Astral Dancer’ to avoid any possible complications. Maybe it was always meant to have been this way but it could never have happened until both books had been completed. Toni reads ‘Astral Dancer’ and it gives her the courage to face her fears. But without Toni, the book would never have happened in the first place hence the time loop, all made possible as everything is NOW, there is no past nor future. We live in an apparent linear fashion to make sense of our lives. However, all is in the NOW and is accessible to us. It is difficult to get our physical minds round this concept as we want beginnings and endings, we want everything in a linear fashion.
Toni made a difference as she put things in motion. On some level, she was a part of me, helping me free myself from fears I was carrying from other selves and other lives. So without her courage, all the healing astral adventures I have had since would not have been possible, the healing of children that I have done in the astral would never have happened. Therefore, Toni is making a difference in a way that I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams. When I wrote the first words of ‘The Photograph’, who would have thought where those words would have taken me.
“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.” Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
There is another twist to all this – there was another parallel happening in the physical. I cannot tell this story as it is not mine to tell but ‘The Photograph’ is also symbolic of the experiences of someone I met after finishing the book. I no longer have contact with this person but, in some way, it was all connected. You will have to trust me on this one as I cannot go into detail. It was an incredible time with so many different levels interacting with each other.
A significant outcome of ‘The Photograph’/‘Astral Dancer’ link is how it shows the importance of healing our inner child, our joy within. Fear stifles our joy. We can choose to heal our inner child whenever we want to though it may not be an easy journey. It is, however, a continual process, our inner child needs nurturing, it needs space. You can’t simply make the connection and then let it go, it needs to be constantly nourished.
Only now, having reread both books, have the implications of my adventures started to surface in my mind, how much they are interconnected. It is possible I will never fully understand, at least while I am focused in my human brain. However, maybe one day, with expanded consciousness, I will be able to see the whole picture.
Introduction
I am a housewife and mother. I would describe myself as quite normal, although there are some members of my family who might disagree! I have simply trained myself to be consciously present during some of what I do while sleeping. We are all capable of the same and much more.
This book is about my experiences in the Astral, it is not about technique or explanations concerning the structure of the astral planes, I’m not interested in technicalities. I go with the flow and rely on intuition, which never fails me. ‘In-tuition’ comes from a higher source, a source deep within our being. What is important for me is being in the right astral place at the right astral time, from this inner space, so much is possible. I can assist both people incarnated on Earth, and those having difficulty crossing over from physical to spiritual life – “Take me where I need to be” is the phrase I often use when I find myself out-of-body.
It is not possible for me to write a book about my astral adventures without a brief history of how it all started. My first conscious out-of-body experience (OBE for short) was spontaneous. This means I wasn’t actually trying to do it, though I was trying to lucid dream. In an OBE, a part of you appears to exit the physical body. You are consciously aware of the situation and you may also wake up already in the astral. A lucid dream, on the other hand, is a dream in which your mind is fully awake and you know that you are dreaming. This is not a book about the technical side of OBEs so we’ll leave it there.
My first exit was very simple; I didn’t even leave the room. I had read about OBEs so, when I found myself floating above my body, I knew exactly what was happening. The morning after this experience I was ecstatic; I wanted to shout from the rooftops, but who would have listened? Who would have taken me seriously? Some time after this first experience I went to a bookshop and found ‘Adventures Beyond the Body’ by William Buhlman, I discovered that the author had an OBE forum on the Internet, so I logged in. There I found kind, understanding people who listened and gave me advice and insights into my experiences. To have OBEs and not share them is like making a birthday cake, lighting the candles and not inviting anyone else to celebrate with you. Out-of-body experiences can, occasionally, be scary if you are not aware of what’s happening, sharing helps us realise that what happens is normal and we are in fact not crazy.
When the William Buhlman discussion arena closed a group of us didn’t want to give up what we had found so precious and, thanks to a great guy called Rick, we stayed together. Our forum was called ‘Project Radiant Light’, PRL. PRL was not just concerned with OBEs, we considered ourselves a spiritual community, ready to hold out a hand to all who needed it. PRL was about spiritual support; it was about laughing and, at times, crying together, sharing and ‘having someone to talk to’. Our forum was based on respect for fellow members, in the knowledge that we are all part of the great human family. When social media exploded there were the inevitable changes as internet communication started to move away from the forum set up, however some of us remained in touch.
Sometimes our world seems full of darkness, of destruction, of so much we don’t want. The news bombards us with all the terrible events that happen around the world. This is only the surface, there is so much good that we don’t hear about. There are many spiritual groups around the globe – good things ARE happening. Maybe it is time, as individuals, to focus more on the positive. I’m not saying ignore the suffering, instead to try to hold in our minds what is good in our lives and in the world.
There are also many astral projection/out-of-body experience groups on the internet and a lot of people have started teaching it. In my opinion, care should be taken when choosing a teacher to help you, there is a lot of misinformation around concerning this subject and it is not something to be taken lightly. If a person suffers from depression or is not of a ‘stable’ state of mind, I advise against it. This is because the astral is thought and feeling sensitive, this means that what you think or what you feel are reflected back at you, like attracts like. My advice is to approach astral projection and out-of-body experiences with personal growth in mind, the desire to grow spiritually. OBEs can be fun of course and there are times when you need a holiday from the physical, however, in my opinion, making the decision to follow this path is a decision not to be made flippantly.
I would like to express my thanks to a kind and generous lady who always supported myself and many others in our journeys. Her name was Sandy and I met her on what was the William Buhlman discussion forum, she has now made her journey into the beyond and is greatly missed. She was always ready with words of wisdom, reassurance and encouragement; she made a difference in so many lives.
‘Astral Dancer’ is divided into two parts. The first describes my contact with a past life through dreams and out-of-body experiences, and the second, further dream scenarios and astral adventures. I use various terms that the reader may or may not be familiar with, these are defined below, some from a personal viewpoint.
Astral Projection – is often used as a general term to describe these experiences though it literally means projecting in the astral plane as opposed to the etheric plane, the mental plane etc.
OBE – Out-of-body experience, many people define this term in different ways. For simplicity, I have used it in the general sense to describe all experiences where there is a detachment of consciousness from the physical body. Where the consciousness is focused away from the physical body.
To OBE – the expression OBE is often used as a verb.
Mind Awake/Body Asleep – a condition where the physical body is asleep but the mind is awake and aware. The physical eyes are closed yet vision is possible as you are not actually seeing through them. At this point, you still feel as if you are inside the body.
Neg – used to describe negative energy, used as a noun.
Higher Self (HS) – An inner infinite source of wisdom. A part of us that appears separate from the physical, though it is not, we have constant access to this source of strength and wisdom, and we are often guided by our Higher Self through feelings and intuitions. Our Higher Selves appear in dreams and astral experiences as either male or female, regardless of our own gender.
My Sacred Garden – When I leave my body I often find myself in my parents’ garden. As a child, I spent many wonderful hours here. My parents’ house and the garden represent my whole self, all of me, from here I can reach past, present and future selves. I love this place. It has come to symbolise my inner being, the lush green grass, the roses and the apple tree at the bottom, I consider it the garden of my soul.
I try as much as I can to use the present tense. Our minds spend so much time wandering in the past and in the future, yet we really only know the present. The dreams and OBEs are expressed in the present (as much as they can be) because this is how they were lived and experienced, in that present, in that ‘now’. They generally have a title and/or date and are indicated by an asterisk at the beginning and end.
The first part of this book is narrated by two people, myself (Ali) and another me, his name is Danny. The style of writing is simple and straightforward, I am an uncomplicated person and this is reflected in how I write. I will delay your reading no longer, so sit back, open your mind and let your imagination carry you along. Enjoy!
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