The astral plains is a sort of out-of-body experience that you can control. When you begin on the astral plains, you start out with a lot of your imagination helping you, but it becomes more physical as you go.

To begin, I'd like you to close your eyes and follow your breathing. Become fully at peace or as close to it as possible, then choose a sort of scene. Choose a landscape, such as forest or a town. Mine is an oasis in a desert(sp?). Now, leave a large plot of unused land in the center of the scene and begin picturing a home there. Let it come naturally, and anything you dislike about the home can be changed. This is important, but I will continue on it later.

After doing this, step in the front door of your home. If it helps you to know, my astral home is a large temple in an oasis, where you have to walk through large gates right infront the doors that lead inside the home. Step inside and begin building your first room, or walk into a room you are extremely comfortable in and begin shifting it to your liking.

If you do not like, say a lamp, in the room, then remove it or change it. This is important because though this is your safe place, you are on the astral realm with other people and spirits, which means that it can lead to intruders. If you have a stray object that you do not wish to have in your home, it can cause invaders to enter. This is not good, though they are very rarely harmful.

After building the outside and atleast one room, I'd like you to describe in a post your favorite room or the outside. You will start to notice that it's not so much the purpose of the items in your home, but more that you are used to them always being there. This is important as well, because if you can remember the signifigance of a certain item, you will likely remember seeing it more and more and know when things are in place.

So far, this is all the exercises for this subject.