(Part 2) Best products from r/AstralProjection

Yes, but it's because you believe in them that they work. You could use anything you can think of in the moment to help boost your confidence and your energy if you needed to. Whatever you choose, practice it regularly throughout the day so it's there clearly in your mind when you need it. Just like practicing with a sword to prepare for combat.

Don't practice in the bad vibes room until you have had time to purify it. There are many ways to do this and you will feel safe and comfortable. But until then, use your regular room. If you have any doubt, it will come back to you in the form of fear. Remember in vampire movies when a vampire will take the cross out of the hand of someone trying to use it to protect themselves and crush it because their faith is weak? Same thing.

Whatever you use, from whatever tradition or something you created yourself, it just needs to be something strong and positive. Think of Professor Lupin teaching Harry to use the Patronus charm (Read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl for inspiration.) It could be imagining a golden dragon but if you believe in it - it will work. There is nothing out there that can really harm you but you can become afraid which ruins the experience. Fear is what kills the experience so this is a means of working to alleviate your fear.

Saying "go away" does work. Robert Bruce has a whole book on Psychic Self Defense as it relates to AP.

Ophiel recommends practicing the Kabablistic cross not only for protection but to help energize your astral body in his book The Art and Practice of...

Also try this, as soon as you are in the astral, imagine a wave of energy at the top of your head and move it down to your feet and back up again. Do this slowly at first and then faster. Two or three seconds from top of the head to feet, then one second, then pulsing. It helps invigorate you and ward off negativity. It also helps remove any negative energy blocks from yourself that might be causing the fear or apprehension during your practice. You can do this any time actually. (Edits: fixed link and elaborated)

This is from a book that I obtained a couple of years ago that started my AP journey. I have yet to have a successful projection but that doesn't mean that it can't help anyone else in their experiences. The book is called "The Miracle of New Avatar Power" and if anyone would like any help obtaining a copy please feel free to pm me.

Hey dude, you've just described textbook sleep paralysis symptoms, which as you say share a lot of overlap with OBE exit sensations. It might feel strange but this is a normal experience and you are not in any danger, and if you so wished this could be used as a launch pad for lucid dreams and projections. This might be worth a read...Ryan Hurd is a dream and consciousness researcher who also experiences frequent bouts of sleep paralysis himself so his perspective on it is interesting.

http://dreamstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Sleep-Paralysis-Report-2010.pdf

His book "Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night" may be worth a read.

http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Paralysis-Hypnagogic-Visions-Visitors/dp/0984223916

My favorite book on OBE/AP, Explorations in Consciousness, talks about the void quite often. This is a really great book in general on the subject and provides a lot of good perspective. I read it long after discovering OBEs but found it very good for inspiration and brain-material on the subject!

Initiation into Hermetics

Self mastery and increase of energy help a lot. On the astral plane movement is very heavily based on focused will/desire

Making sure you don’t have heavy screen time helps as well

Some more things to do are make sure you eat and drink well, have some light exercise a few times a week and keep screen time as low as you can.

Here is recommended Rosalind A. McKnight's Cosmic Journeys, a lovely book about a woman's experiences traveling in purposeful sessions under the supervision of Dr. Robert Monroe.

Quite a good read, I've temporarily misplaced my copy.
Here are her reports of encounters with extraterrestrial, extra-dimensional beings & their guidance - visits to their spacecraft and their galaxies.

Highly recommended, very encouraging information.

Hitler was a huge occultist. After WWII and subsequent wars, intelligence spread to governments like Russia, Brazil, the US, etc. They would begin to incorporate astral travel, occult intelligence, and psychotropic drugs into intelligence operations. This has been happening for at lesst half a century for almost every world power. Russia was more open publicly about their scientific research, while countries like the US kept them secret under operations like MK-ULTRA, and STARGATE. I've only encountered barriers and other travelers as a child (haven't AP'd since then.) And if you are not prepared in energetically protecting yourself etc. There is no question that there are occult intelligence operations in place currently around the world.

This is a deep question, which I've asked and been down a very deep rabbit hole.
If you are serious about knowing the answer you are in for an interesting time.
It turns out you are shifting parallel universes all the time anyway in waking life.
A good intro to this is information from "higher levels" that understand the nature of reality.
BASHAR is a good starting point, but they have removed all the good videos where he explains parallel worlds from you tube, only a few are left.
Here is one: https://www.qwaym.com/bashar-illuminati-parallel-earths-2/

The other main source is "Seth" channelled by Jane Roberts.
This goes right into immense detail about parallel worlds, science is barely catching up to this, so it's essential reading.
Be warned though, most can't handle the "deepness" of parallel worlds and dense text by Seth.
The book "Seth Speaks" by Jane Roberts goes into high detail about parallel worlds.
Although if you want the whole picture it's best to read the earlier Seth books.

https://www.amazon.com/Seth-Speaks-Jane-Roberts/dp/0553255924/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1HR4V2U27KX6M&keywords=seth+speaks&qid=1566305738&s=books&sprefix=seth+s%2Caps%2C286&sr=1-7

It's called the nimitta. When you achieve single pointed focus in your meditation and can maintain that focus with absolutely no effort whatsoever, a bright light comes from seemingly nowhere behind closed eyelids. If you start focusing on that light without using any effort, you can allow that light to absorb you and fill everything in existence. It's really advanced meditation stuff and if you are interested in it, I would recommend the book The Mind Illuminated which is a meditation guide that clearly explains how to develop your meditation practice to reach that kind of focus.

I buy mine on amazon and I've gotten mixed results with it, but it's always been actual mugwort. This is the one I usually get: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YWCWTPG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00

Maybe I just got lucky. I am interested in finding a local supplier just to see if there is a difference in quality to what I get online.

Here is a book written by a man who detailed his first-hand astral projection experiences. In one of his experiences, he projected into a woman's house. He later met this woman and was able to describe the interior of her house to her in perfect detail. Granted, this is only one man's account but the book is a fascinating read nonetheless.

I don’t think you realize just how big a question the “astral mechanics” portion of your question really is!

My recommendation: download this book from Amazon. It’s the best nuts and bolts how to book I’ve ever read.
https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Body-D-Scott-Rogo-ebook/dp/B00316UNCU/ref=nodl_

If you like old fashioned books made of the corpses of dead trees, you can find it even cheaper.

I’m not sure “friends” is the right word. I have made allies on the astral planes, but we don’t go to Astral nightclubs or out drinking!

I’m married with a daughter, but I’m a loner by nature. I think that’s why I enjoy projecting into the future, deep space, and especially the far future. You have to be someone who can psychologically handle be completely and utterly alone. So, I don’t tend to make friends wherever I go like some people - my wife for example.

Good video by Jurgen Ziewe. I also recommend reading the corresponding book:

https://www.amazon.com/Vistas-Infinity-Enjoy-Life-When/dp/1326353381

Adventures beyond the Body is the best I have found.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OQF3MU/

I use the Between Worlds one from Monroe Institute. It works really well. I go into a deep meditative state very quickly.

After looking through crystal pyramids on Amazon, i mostly found just regular crystal pyramids. Since you said "trippy", are you referring to something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00MOTTDB2/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1501679469&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=crystal+pyramids&dpPl=1&dpID=41yVGH3zXML&ref=plSrch

All planes differ due to your vibration state/level of awareness. I think I personally have only been to the lower planes(Near Earth/Near Time.) Generally everything looks like you would expect but some things are abnormal.

In 2007 I had an experience, felt the vibrations, relaxed, rolled out of my body and drifted straight towards and out the window landing two stories down into the grass(My bedroom was'nt in a multi-story home). To me, the grass was vivid and green. It was dark where my body was but in this reality plane , it was dayish, foggy. I could feel the moisture on the blades of grass touching my hands, I could smell the grass. I looked up, and all the houses around my neighborhood had 20 foot chain link fences around the entirety of the property. I stated to myself "odd.." I took off up into the air, and all of surrounding houses blocks away had the same. At the end of each street there were these large machines, they were operating though made no noise. I went to inspect one but before I got to close i was whisked back to my body.

I concur with danwasinjapan, read Robert Monroe's books. If you want a more scientific look on Astrial travel, etc check out "my Big Toe" by Thomas Campbell. https://www.amazon.com/My-Big-TOE-Complete-Trilogy/dp/0972509461

I only have the paperback and kindle versions. The Kindle version isn't bad but if I recall correctly the formatting is pretty weird. Maybe they've updated it by now, idk. But I would start there. Here's the link.

Leaving the Body: A practical guide to astral projection By D. Scott Rogo

https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Body-D-Scott-Rogo-ebook/dp/B00316UNCU/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=Z3OBX6SE1SSW&keywords=leaving+the+body+by+d.+scott+rogo&qid=1558438929&s=gateway&sprefix=leaving+the+body%2Caps%2C249&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

here’s the kindle