Aula Animus

What’s Aula animus?

Aula Animus,or The Spirit Court, is a network of otherkin who regularly astral travel or participate in spirit work. We formed a community to come together and experience an enriching, spiritual life together as well as navigate the daily workings of being human. We promote a positive, accepting environment and welcome any type of ‘kin and spirit worker! 

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What’s Aula animus?

Aula Animus,or The Spirit Court, is a network of otherkin who regularly astral travel or participate in spirit work. We formed a community to come together and experience an enriching, spiritual life together as well as navigate the daily workings of being human. We promote a positive, accepting environment and welcome any type of ‘kin and spirit worker! 

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Aula Animus,or The Spirit Court, is a network of otherkin who regularly astral travel or participate in spirit work. We formed a community to come together and experience an enriching, spiritual life together as well as navigate the daily workings of being human. We promote a positive, accepting environment and welcome any type of ‘kin and spirit worker! 

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Aula Animus,or The Spirit Court, is a network of otherkin who regularly astral travel or participate in spirit work. We formed a community to come together and experience an enriching, spiritual life together as well as navigate the daily workings of being human. We promote a positive, accepting environment and welcome any type of ‘kin and spirit worker! 

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Everyone has their own methods, but I thought beginners would be interested in trying to use mine. 

Five steps to begin your journey

Step 1:

⍟ Relax. Calm your breath, calm your heart, calm your thoughts. You don’t need to have a blank mind, you just need to have the same mental activity as if you were bored during a long car travel. You know when you start to see what you imagine in flashes? When you read a book and see the scene? Like that.

Step 2:

⍟ Now take a random image in your mind. Can you keep it in front of your eyes? How long does it stay? How well do you remember it? Once you feel like you can keep the image and play with it as if you were playing a VR game, you can go on. 

Step 3:

⍟ I need you to visualize the easiest way for you to enter the astral plane. My favorite way is to imagine a door with many details and to implant my intention in it by imagining words/sigils etc being engraved in it. Doesn’t have to be specific, or to be an intention at all. Then, I open it and there is a world in front of me (see next step). 

OR there are also other ways. I also like to take a music and use it to build my environment, or to imagine my palm being pressed against the bark of a tree/wall. I’ve heard people imagining walking through mirrors, jumping in a hole, and even using pop culture items like the Star Gate or a Tardis. It’s your mind, you do what you want with it. 

Step 4:

⍟ Once you have the “world” in front of you, I want you to focus on your other senses. You don’t have to, you can use your eyes only, but you’ll have more troubles maintaining your concentration. Focus on whichever sense feels dominant other than your sight. For me, it’s touch, thus I focus on how my astral body feels. Is the weather warm? Is the ground grass or marble?  

For other people, it can be hearing or scenting etc. Some might even have a dominant sense that is not sight! Usually, the sense that manifests the more in your dreams is your dominant one. Raise your awareness sense after sense, in the other that feels more natural. 

Step 5:

⍟ Once you feel your new world, you can begin to explore it! You might want to visualize a barrier/ward and to draw sigils for protection and invisibility on your astral (and physical) body before you do, just to be sure.

I will cover how to build your own astral “house” (which can be used as a mental palace, a meditation area, a temple, a resort area etc) and what dangers you can encounter in there, how to protect yourself, and what you can do in a general way in parts 2 and 3.

I guess maybe @insaneastraldragon​ would wanna be mentioned here - my personal friend. I remember teaching him how to set up his shields, and then he went and made a fucking dragon. The student always surpasses the teacher, sigh…

I know of people who have written astral travel posts. You can always ask them these questions. 

@spiritvexer​ ; @theawakenedstate​ ; @duskenpath​ ; @visardistofelphame​ ; @sopherielspeaks​ ; @thiscrookedcrown​ ; @chaosjelly​ ; @thetwistedrope​ ; @hecaatia​ ; @astral-club​

I do have a [tag for “astral”] on my blog that has a lot of posts. Maybe not some of the more specific ones regarding planes and denizens, but, you know. Stuff.

Safety

[Astral Projection Warnings]

[Dying in the Astral] (an ask)

[Soul Shattering]

[Surviving the Astral]

[Tips for Staying Safe Astrally]

General

[About Astral Projection and Exercises]

[Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experience] (this is an entire book on astral stuff and OBEs; external link)

[Astral FAQ]

[Astral Guide: Starter Pack]

[Astral Links and Guides] (a huge masterpost with a crapton of links on astral travel; it is a blog page, not a post)

[Astral Projection]

[Astral Projection for Beginners]

[Astral Travel]

[Astral Travel] (an ask)

[Astral Travel 101] (external resource but so good)

[Astral Travel vs Astral Projection]

[Astral Travel with a Short Attention Span]

[Beginner’s Astral: Healing]

[Beginner’s Guide to Astral Projection]

[The Dynamics of Astral Travel]

[Signs of Astral Travelling]

Senses 

[Astral Travel: Clairvoyance]

[Astral Travel: Why Clairvoyance Isn’t Everything]

[Physical and Astral Senses]

How to

[Astral Projection 101]

[Astral Projection Techniques]

[Astral Projection Walkthrough]

[Astral Travel]

[Beginning Astral Travel]

[A Few Ways to Achieve Astral Projection Through Meditation]

[Giant Working Astral Post] (drug mention)

[My Methods of Astral Travel]

[Techniques for Astral Travel]

[A Way to Astral Project]

[Ways of Astral Travel]

Tips

[Are You Overcomplicating Astral Travel?]

[Astral Travel Tips]

[Beginners Tips to Astral Projection] (an ask)

[Practical Tips for Astral Travel]

[Preparations for Travel and Returning] (an ask)

[Tips for Crossing Over, Being Safe and Coming Back]

Astral Spaces

[Build Your Astral Place]

[Creation of the ‘Astral Temple’, or, Visiting your Personal Astral Space]

[Tips for Building Mind Spaces]

[Why You Need to Ward Your Inner Spaces]

Body Modifications

[Astral Advice]

[Creating Astral Body Mods]

Attack and Defense

[Astral Weaponry Thoughts]

[A Guide to Astral Ass-Kicking]

[How to Survive and Win an Astral Fight] (WordPress link)

[Protection in the Astral] (an ask)

These are Frequently Asked Questions I get about astral. Please check this guide before asking me questions concerning astralling! This will be updated regularly, as I receive more questions.

What is the astral?

Note that this is MY definition: I consider the astral to be absolutely everything; our plane of existence, spirits’ planes of existence, pop culture realms, etc. The astral is everywhere and everything.

How does astral travel work?

When you travel, a small portion of your consciousness leaves your body.

This consciousness manifests as its own body on the astral, or it could “awaken” in an astral body you already have. In travel, you do not see/hear/feel/think as clearly as you do during projection, simply because only a portion of your consciousness has left your body.

What is astral travel versus astral projection versus OBE?

Note, again, these are MY definitions:

In astral travel, a PORTION of your consciousness leaves your body and is able to explore other realms.

In Astral Projection, nearly your entire consciousness leaves your body. Astral projection is much harder to achieve than travel. This is the “gold standard” of astral travel, where you see/hear/feel/think with complete or almost complete clarity.

In an OBE, Out-of-Body-Experience, your consciousness FULLY leave your body. As of right now, I do not believe this is possible without a near-death experience, or actual death.

What are some ways to astral travel?

Meditate.

Guided meditations

Trance

Have a spirit you know and trust “pull” you into the astral.

(Visualization) Imagine a door. Imagine/focus on what is on the other side of the door. Walk through it.

(Visualization) Imagine an X (pool, mirror, etc). Imagine/focus on what is on the other side of X. Walk through it.

Lucid Dreaming

“Splitting”: Imagine a copy of yourself hovering above you. Notice your consciousness in your own body, then “jump” your consciousness into that copy of yourself floating above you. Proceed to go where you want.  

What are some ways to astral project?

Just….keep practicing astral travel, maybe try new methods. I highly recommend reading Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce, I have literally NEVER EVER found a more comprehensive, extremely informative, and yet still beginner-friendly and not overly complex guide to astral travel/projection.

Differentiating “true astral” from imagination?

True Astral:

will always have external interactions that are not in your own head; entities talking/living their own lives whether your imagination/consciousness directs them to or not. Entities moving independently of your will.

Spirits (good or bad) being able to follow you back home, to your physical body and interact with you there

Unexpected/Unpredictable occurrences happen

You get injured and it may hurt your astral body and maybe feel it a little physically too. Injury damages your magical abilities/astral abilities

Your astral body can die and you won’t be able to access “true astral” until you regenerate.

You can meet other humans consciously. As in, you can text your friend and meetup on the astral together, and talk about it IRL afterwards. 

Imagination:

You are in full control of everything.

What you expect to happen, will happen

Entities are like puppets or dolls; they don’t move around unless you imagine them doing so, and if/when they interact with you, it’s things you expected them to say

You will not tire, or will tire extremely slowly.

You die/get extremely hurt and nothing happens. You can regenerate at will/heal whenever and wherever you want.

You talk to your friend, then you talk to them later IRL and they have no idea what you talked about. 

Why do people always imagine common fantasy stuff when astralling? Don’t you think astral and what happens there is just your imagination and happens in your head? I mean strangely all the people who talk about astral experiences describe common fantasy stuff. I’d say if astral was real it would contain a lot of stuff people can’t even imagine, and yet everyone describes dragons, elfs, etc, that which their mind already knows, nothing out of ordinary. Isn’t this suspicious?

One reason people generally imagine common fantasy is stuff is because that’s what most people care about, and thus go to. It’s hard to care about a species that humanity has never even encountered before, isn’t it? Also, how can you visit the realm of something you have never even heard of/can’t imagine before? Astral travel needs knowledge of where you will go to, so it’s pretty hard (and probably super dangerous) to just say “take me somewhere beyond my imagination.”

There’s also the problem of perception: during astralling, the mind usually replaces things you don’t know with things you do know of, to use less energy while astralling. While you can force your brain to show “the truth”, the more the thing you are trying to look at is beyond your imagination, the more energy and effort it will take to see “the truth”.

How do you do astral laundry?

Note: Not limited to this list.

Have a companion you’re comfortable with seeing you nude do your laundry for you.

Astral travel two feet away from your earth self, take your astral clothes off, put them in your washer/dryer (with your astral self or earth self), physically run the washer/dryer (you can wash other clothes with it). Take your clothes out, travel again and put your clothes back on.

Destroy your clothes and remake clean ones.

How do past lives affect current astral shenanigans?

You might appear as one of your past life forms/bodies. Spirits from your past lives could also attempt to find you on the astral (whether malicious or friendly, so always be cautious).

How to meet spirits on the astral?

Tl;dr:

1. Be able to astral and able to distinguish between astralling/imagination.

2. Go somewhere with spirits.

How to safely meet spirits on the astral?

There is no 100% guarantee of safety when astralling.

Some suggestions are:

Have spirit guides/guardians/protective companions take you somewhere safe

Actually know where you are going and who you want to meet

How do you keep possibly malicious spirits/entities/beings from following you back home?

This is what wards in your living space/where you are when you astral are for. Wards can fuddle your energy signature from being found by spirits you don’t want to find you.

Make sure you “come back” correctly; that you walked back through your imagined door, imagined yourself falling back into your physical body, whatever.

Do a centering exercise, which will help you “pull back in” trace amounts of energy you left where you went when astralling. Do make sure your wards are up first, to make sure nothing follows the “pull” back to your physical body. If you don’t know what centering is/how to do it, check the “energy work” section of my FAQ/my energy work FAQ post.

Manners/social etiquette/social skills in the astral?

Obviously those will vary a LOT based on where you go. I literally can’t write a comprehensive guide as the astral is home to a limitless number of cultures.

But some things to keep in mind are:

Don’t fight every single thing you see ever. Don’t try and provoke fights with every single thing ever. Retribution is a thing and the majority of spirits have the advantage when fighting in the astral.

Just because something looks scary doesn’t mean it’s out to get you.

Observe the culture, maybe talk with some of the nicer (and not trickster) locals who can tell you the Do’s and Don’ts of their culture.

Heeeeeeey people keep talking about different places in the astral and are they alternate locations all on the same plane or are there alternate astral planes with alternate inhabitants?

There are alternate astral planes with their own inhabitants, and alternate locations on the same plane.

Example of the former: We are on earth. Heaven exists on its own plane of the universe.

Example of the latter: We are on Earth. An alternate location on our plane of existence would be Venus.

Is it possible for entities/other people to drag you into the astral (forcefully or not)?

Absolutely, both people and entities can bring you to the astral. And they can do it forcefully or consensually (consensually obviously takes a lot less energy). 

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This is a basic energy work practice technique i developed to help familiarize yourself with the way certain emotions and feelings look when doing energy work/out of body work. -J

Start by getting in a comfortable position to meditate in. Relax and do what ever you do to reach a meditative/trance state so you can go out of body and/or visualize a white candle burning in front of you. There should be nothing else around you almost like you’re in a void. I call this place my astral void space.

Really “see” and feel every part of this candle from the warmth it’s giving off to the way the wax feels. Hold it in your hands, or watch it in front of you. Do anything with the candle that will give you a good feel for its resting energy/base energy.

Then inside yourself bring up a strong emotion you can easily conjure up. feel it rise inside you and let the emotion and all the feelings it brings wash over you. Then project the energy/feeling from the emotion onto the candle to notice how it changes. Feel the way the warmth from the flame, the color of the light, the color of the wax change in front of your from your emotions.

Repeat step 3 with different emotions and sensations to see the way it changes the candle in your mind’s eye. Go back and forth between emotions and feelings to see if there is consistency in the way you see/perceive different energies.

For example:

The way my candle changes for feelings of being sad is the candle turns to a navy blue in color and the energy it gives off looks like a thin web of color. the candle light gives off a light blue glow and is very dim.

A happy excited energy is a mellow yellow color with a large flickering flame. The candle wax looks translucent letting the light from the flame pass through it.

My personal method of astral travel.

Get some sleep prior so that you don’t accidentally doze off

Wear comfortable clothing

Turn off or dim the lights in your room as much as possible, although this can still be performed in a fully lit room if you want

Lay down in a comfortable position - I usually lay flat on my back in bed with something covering my eyes as to not let any light slip through

Choose a soundtrack or playlist consisting of ambient music and binaural beats (this is my favorite - to be listened to with headphones for the best results)

The music and binaural beats help to get you to a relaxed, meditative, trance-like state without consciously trying too hard

Once you reach that state, you should feel somewhat of a “body high” or a tingly sensation all over your body

At this point, try to visualize the room you’re in and your surroundings as if you were actually standing there looking around and not laying down in a bed

When you can do this successfully, it’s time to actually travel elsewhere: visualize yourself walking around your room, and eventually ending up somewhere totally different - I always “fly” or “float” to my destination but how you get there is up to you - I personally like to go to space, but you can literally go anywhere you want

I would recommend creating an “astral sanctuary” or “astral temple” when you reach your destination - this is basically your home base for when you decide to astral travel back to that place

This requires more visualization to actually manifest something that was not there before - your sanctuary can be as low-key or extravagant as you want

Practice placing items and altering the surroundings in your astral sanctuary 

Once your sanctuary is created and you have a safe place to return to, it’s time to explore your surroundings - this can take as long as you want, there’s no time limit just so long as you’re responsible with it and aren’t missing out on any real-life priorities or appointments 

To re-enter your body, you must try to “snap out of it” and visualize traveling back to your physical body - I always end up repeatedly saying something like “it’s time to go home now” until I feel like I am becoming more conscious and aware of myself 

You might be pretty exhausted after astral traveling, so it’s a good idea to have some water and a snack on hand for when you return 

What’s Aula animus?

Aula Animus,or The Spirit Court, is a network of otherkin who regularly astral travel or participate in spirit work. We formed a community to come together and experience an enriching, spiritual life together as well as navigate the daily workings of being human. We promote a positive, accepting environment and welcome any type of ‘kin and spirit worker! 

If you’re interested, please submit the following application here. 

Name/Nickname/Alias:

Age:

Pronouns:

Kintype/Therian/Fictionkintype:

Discord Username:

Clearest ‘Kin based Memory:

Do you practice witchcraft? If so, what type?

Triggers, if any:

:

If you had to rate your experience level with astral travel, what would it be?

Do you have any spirit companions? If not, are you open to spirit communication?

How can Aula Animus help you? 2-3 sentences:

Group Rules Weekly Activities

About Us

Questions?

Come and join us in our new server! You will need to verify yourself to see the channel!

What is astral projection?

Astral projection is also known as an out of body experience. Astral projection can take place whether you are sleeping or awake. It is done when your conscious mind leaves your physical body on earth to a different dimension while staying connected by a silver cord. The cord makes it possible to come back to your earthly self. It enables your spirit body to explore the astral realm.  It is said that Astral Projection helps you become your truest and highest self. Astral Projecting is the floating and lifting of your physical being through the use of your astral body. 

Practices to Help with Astral Travel

Relax and Practice Proper Breathing techniques

Spiritually cleanse

Practice visualization 

Counting up or down while focusing your breathing

Improve your concentration 

Deep breathing exercises 

Become Aware and Mindful

Grounding

Shielding and Protection 

Intent

Spiritual and Physical Protection

Work on your inner energies 

Meditate 

Astral Plane

A place where angels, spirits, deities, and other cosmic beings reside. It is a place where ones astral body travels through. It may also be recognized as the “emotional plane,” because the astral plane reacts to our emotions, thoughts, and desires. 

The Silver Cord

The silver cord anchor’s ones astral body to their physical body. The silver cord allows you to find your way back to the physical realm. It is described as being strong, almost indestructible, yet soft and elastic that can stretch and flex to make sure that the astral body is truly tethered to the physical one.

Risks of Astral Projection

Exhaustion 

Obscuring your focus causing obsession with the astral plane

Demonic Possession - A greatly debated topic, the truth of which is unknown.

You may become lost or disconnected from the cord - Some argue that you cannot severe the cord, some believe that becoming disconnected from the cord will cause death. 

Conclusion: The dangers of astral projection are extremely controversial, be sure to do proper research and follow your gut! 

Astral Travel Tips

Look after your mental and physical health.

Only travel when you have peace of mind, never when anxious or angry. 

Release all fear, do not project if you are fearful of the astral plane.

STUDY

Record your experiences

Protect yourself by a visualization of pure white light

Wear loose fitting clothing and project in a warm room. 

PRACTICE

Experiment with different methods

Signs you are astral projecting

You’re feeling a sort of numbness or buzzing in your skin

You’re hearing all sorts of strange sounds, like going through all sorts of random radio stations really fast

Your body is frozen and you can only move your eyes (“sleep paralysis”)

You’re feeling or hearing other people or animals in your room

Your body turns all liquidy like water and parts of you start floating

Your mind is spacing in and out of sleep

Sources: operationmeditation.com, howtolucid.com, wudzink.com, felipephotons.com 

This is a basic guide to astral travel, do your own research before attempting astral travel! Be safe!

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