How many of us have shaken the hand of a person and known he or she was bad news? How many of us have known when someone was watching us intently from a distance? How about suddenly knowing that something awful has happened to us or someone close to us?

Most of us have all had these experiences, however most don't understand that these types of things are us interacting on an astral level with our surroundings.

Most think of an astral experience as a full blown Out of body experience. Where the core or spirit rises out of the body and you see the physical world in that ghostly form. Or where the body is close to dying and you enter into what most would term as a near death experience.

There are other accounts of fantastic voyages being made to strange new realms and environments. where the traveller encounters different beings of friend and foe. Where you can and interact with different energies that make up the whole location you are in.

These are all aspects of Astral travel however most people don't understand or realize that in fact you already are astral just in a form that we call Solid. These other cases though not rare are not the normal interaction that most of us have with what we call being astral. In trying to not confuse the reader I will keep to a type of dual difference between astral and solid states of being.

When you close your eyes you other sense become stronger. You stop relying on your sight and empower everything else to make up for you lack of vision. This is one good aspect to think of in reference to Astral interaction. When you heighten one sense to a level that is beyond normal you are actually entering into a type of astral interaction. this is also undergone when you focus on one sound and try to strengthen that so you can hear it better. There are other combinations that I am sure you can think of.

Now think of closing down most of your physical senses your others will come in and compensate for that. You might start feeling not on a physical level but an spiritual or energy one. A warmth that is coming from everything in your room or location you are in. This is the first step to understanding an astral type of experience. Knowing that everything has an energy signiture which you can read or at least feel.

Normally however you do not start this process cold turkey like I have just described but you use your physicality to move into these states of being in order to do these readings.

For example physical touch is most commonly associated with Psychometry this is done by first touching an object and then naturally or a psychic that is trained will focus on the core energy of the object in order to read its history or energy make up.

Pictures have often been used to help give readings on another. Like with the psychometry the visual effect helps advance a the reading of the energy of the person or location that the picture is presenting.

You see physical interaction makes a direct doorway to interacting on the spiritual. Further development in various ways which favor our gifts and natural abilities in these areas will let the seeker move farther into a more advanced state of astral interaction. Most of us are not however always flying around in an O.B.E. we are simply astrally interacting on various basic scales.