I have seen people within the ap community giving some pretty poor advice to those trying to learn ap. I'd like to talk about this poor advice, so people can hopefully avoid these traps.

1. "VIBRATIONS...."

• I hear people talk about vibrations in regards to ap all the time. Generally it is explained as so, "the first step in projection is the VIBRATIONAL stage, after this step you can then leave your body." Well I believe that there are a few problems with this piece of information. One problem is that there are different "vibrational stage" associations. People associate the "vibrational stage" with different things. One association is with meditating till you start to feel actual vibrations. They also associate more rightly the "vibrational stage" as well, with the sensations you sometimes get when you are in the middle of actual separation. The first vibrational stage association which is actually just deep meditation. It is not likely to help or have any relation at all with full projection. Just because you got all numb and feel tingly and feel vibrations does not mean you got close to projection. The second association is something that only happens occasionally, and mainly when you are more awake body wise than you should be in your projection. Most projectors I find do not experience any sensation before they separate.

2.Diet

• What diet or health decisions you make is another silly piece of advice people in the ap community often give. No, you are not going to project more effectively just because you became vegan. No, you are not going to have any affect on your projection ability by changing your health. The body has little relation with projection.

3.Meditate

• Another piece of useless advice people in the community give to those struggling with ap is to just meditate.. I have seen the result of this one. Hours spent on just meditating, and no actual progress on projection.

4.You got "close"

• Lastly, I can't stand when people talk about advice on how they managed to get really "close" to projection. You CANNOT get "close" to an astral projection. You cannot practice astral projection without actually projecting. There is no such thing as almost projecting, you either project or you don't. Projection when it occurs happens fast and doesn't require intense effort to separate. In fact, you could say when you are ready to separate you are already out. Anyways, hope this helps people out. Also feel free to ask me questions.