(Tia offers a method for astral travel that is set up as a more formal procedure for getting out of the body. Utilizing a number of candles, breathing exercises and fasting is designed to place the person in a setting that will bring on a separation of the astral body.) 

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Tia: okay, second dissertation…..

Russ: okay.

Tia: astral travel.

Russ: okay.

Tia: okay, this is a hybrid between the one from last week and the one that we have on the Internet, okay?

Russ: all right.

Tia: okay, it follows a fasting process of only a day, no food, no proteins at all. You have a darkened room with candles…..you make a little bit of a ceremony out of this. You start off at the North point and light the North candle and then the East candle, the South candle and the West candle and you have them on the edges of a circle. You say a little prayer to each candle, a blessing of whatever feels comfortable for the individual. You lie down on your surface that you have for traveling. You take five long, deep breaths of about two to three seconds in length so you go (she breathes deeply in) and then you would exhale (she exhales) and you would do five of these and you would do them in the sitting position. Then, you would lie down and you would say a little blessing or prayer, again whatever you feel comfortable with and you would then take ten long, deep breaths. Again about two to three seconds each. Then you would close your eyes. You would meditate within yourself, try to clear your mind so that your mind is blank. Then, when your mind is blank, you will think to yourself, "my body is getting lighter and lighter, I am getting lighter and lighter, I am getting lighter and lighter". You would think this over and over again in your head. Do it approximately 20 times, approximately because we don’t want you to go, "I’m getting lighter and lighter one, I’m getting lighter and lighter two", approximately. If you do 30 or 40, that’s fine, that’s great. Then, you would again shut down the internal dialogue and let your mind go blank. At this point you should start to feel lighter and lighter. You will feel your body or you should feel your body floating free. Continue thinking of nothing. You will raise up out of your body, or you should, and you will feel yourself free of your body. Just let yourself float, wherever you go you go, whatever you see you see, that’s all that matters at this point. Maintain this as long as you can, no time limits are set on this. Now returning back to your body, very simple you will think, "return, return to my body, return to my body" and you will repeat that until you feel yourself aware of your body. Then, you would get up and using your fingertips, starting at the North candle you extinguish each candle giving them a blessing as you do so. Again, whatever type of blessing that you are comfortable with you use and you would do it for each candle as you extinguish the candle. Now it might be handy as the candles should be your only light source to have a candle outside the circle, preferably a nice big, bright one and that is your light candle and also your beacon for when you come back if you visualize yourself coming back. That is your beacon candle. And of course, when all the candles are extinguished, it is also your light source. Now having done this, you may wish to repeat it the following night but I suggest that you give it a rest of a day and have a meal of substance to replace the things that you have lost through fasting for the 24 hours. Whenever I say a day, I mean 24 hours or 23 hours, 58 minutes and however many seconds it is. Okay, now moving along to more important matters…..

Russ: uh-huh.