Protection on the Astral plains

I am curious as to whether astral travelling and remote viewing are the same thing or overlap etc...?

i agree with friendly/unfriendy example to a certain extent.. yet i also thing everything is fluid.. something can start out unfriendly... yet depending on your energy, strength how you engage it.. in my experience sometimes beings/entities with scary, evil seeming shells were actually not that at all... as in, they're sometimes a ruse to keep all but the most curious and adventuresome of souls away.

as far as the "evil only has the power you give it".. might be a bit extreme, yet, i believe there is a maybe a piece of the truth within that.. in that, "how do you react to it?"... cerbral psychic versions of the martial arts come to mind, letting it flow throw, using the other's power to trip it off balance, finding a more common ground what have you....

i think maybe the concept that basically, the more you polarize your energies/thoughts (black and white/good evil) the stronger your adversaries will be, the higher the chance to encounter the extremes.. also, the more you acknowledge the similarities, the more that you swim in the gray and try and build bridges, the less chance of attack.

Raindog,

I didn't communicate well what I was trying to share.

I'm not suggesting we replace Good and Evil *with* Order and Chaos, I am sharing that Good and Evil are such relative terms based on human values that they loose meaning in most spiritual contexts.

The greatest dichotomy is that which exists between Order and Chaos. But that is not to say one is bad, and the other is good. Both are necessary. Trouble only comes about when the balance between them grows too large for too long. As with anything in the natural world, it is all about balance.

The gray area I refer to is this place where I believe people are referring to Friendly and Unfriendly. And the reasons for encountering Friendly or Unfriendly Spirits may be understood some times, but not others. Or Spirits who exhibit one quality one day may/may not exhibit the same quality the next. Which probably has to do more with our personal relationships with the Spirit worlds and how we listen and respond to (or don't) the information we are given.

Also, Spirits are known to challenge and test. Again, this is not Friendly or Unfriendly, but just necessary.

Naomi
www.intuitivepath.org

hipotetically if you astro travel and cut someone's silver cord, they never return into their body....well how about travelling with scisors or the thought of having some with you???just a thought...

The distinction between good and evil is the power you give either. they are one and the same. every action has an equal and opposite reaction and every reaction is an action in itself that causes its own reaction and so forth into infinity. I think the only real distinction between dualisms (as i try not to appear hypocritical) is that they are completely opposite. ie they cannot be described is a sentence together because that would draw comminatlity between them. as far as good vs. evil. light vs. dark. up vs. down etc goes. i prefer tangible vs. intangible. (and i find that quite funny because they are both described.......in words no less)

i myself have never really done or tried to do any astral travel, never really thought it to be necesary. but i did encounter a mysterious traveler, (awake and aware) who told me that he had stolen his body from such a traveler. he told me that since then he had had visions of a warrior watching him as if planning an attack. he said he had seen this warrior twice and upon the third visit they would do battle. One of my friends recently dicovered that his present body was not his own, but rather had been donated to him by a soul who had decided that he would make better use of it. strangely he also (prior to his discovery) has had dreams of this warrior. which makes me wonder if the first case (the thief) was fighting the origonal occupant of his body or some other sort of guardian or something.

ANYWAYS the point is that from my own dualistic explorations in the physical realm i have discovered a great deal about the freeflowing universe that sems to constitute the astral realm. In my experience it is not neccesary and often not healthy to Project unless summoned to do so (call it the divine voice or whatever you want).

I heard a story of the Windego. the windego is a native american spirit that comsumes travelers who are lost in the woods and turns them upon their companions. there is actually documented events where people become ill with "Windego psychosis" after being lost in the woods. the most notable thing abou the windego is that it is almost strictly canabalistic in nature. the act of eating another human is the milestone/ acceptance of the windego spirit. After this the Windego is restless and crave more human flesh until the vessel (person/victim) is destroyed. Beware astral travelers. the windego is very strong. should you for some reason become lost in your travels stay fast. the warrior will guide you but you will get hungry.