Unsure of the nature of this experience
By Alexander on Thursday, 13 December 2012
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Early this morning, after I awoke, I laid in my bed and prayed, relaxed myself through breathing, and began to chant Om Mani Padme Hum in my heart, which I've been working with for a few weeks. I eventually reached a point of vibrations in my body and knew this was a point where I could will a conscious departure from the body. In a moment I was in a dream landscape but awake. I jumped and flew but curbed my excitement and came to the ground to sit and continue chanting the mantra. Then, my consciousness returned to my body on the bed.

I've had a few of these quick dream-glimpses, all similar in nature. What is happening here? I feel like I'm entering a dream that I may or may not have just been having. Is this right? How do I sustain and deepen these experiences?
Those are preliminary conscious experiences leading to direct, cognizant investigations within the internal planes. To extend, prolong and deepen these experiences, you must continue with meditation and work not to identify with the received impressions. This will be even more challenging, because internal impressions are much more subtle and the mind is much more difficult to control in those states.

The gateway that will lead you to your destination, however, is restraint, discipline and non-attachment. Let the experiences come, and do not become over-excited. With practice you will maintain a state of equanimity in those states, so that you will learn to navigate the astral realm just as you may ride a bike within your physical existence. Meditation and self-remembering is the key.
Benedictus
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Thank you for your advice, I can better see the work cut out for me now.
Alexander
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