Dossiers A Better Life The Psionic Predator, by Charles Cosimano | Page 77

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House haunting
I'm sure by now you've run into the gazillion things out there on astral projection, but by
now you've also probably noticed something. No one seems to do anything worthwhile
with it. They just go floating around willy-nilly, visiting other planes of space,
conversing with who-knows-what and never finding any real use for the stuff.
Well, there are some really fun things that you can do with astral projection and your
Uncle Chuckie, the fountain of all blessings, is going to tell you how.
Back in the 19th century, long before I was born, (and no, the rumors are not true, I did
not poison Socrates. Plato did that!) a book was published, a very long and dreadfully
boring book entitled Phantasms of the Living. And in spite of the fact that it is as boring
as virtue itself to read, became a massive seller if only because of its delightful title.
The book was a collection of stories of people who had been visited by the astral
bodies of people they knew. And that is pretty much all it is and the stories tend to all
sound the same after a while. "I was standing the kitchen washing dishes and Uncle
Harry appeared out of thin air. I was so shocked I dropped the plate."
Ok, that sounds pretty damned boring to read over and over again, but look at it this
way. Think of all the fun Uncle Harry had when his niece dropped her prize china and it
shattered all over the freshly scrubbed floor! Sure, it scared her nigh unto half to death,
but he laughed all the way back to his physical body, or he would have had he not been
a good Victorian and believed that laughing was sinful.
The trick to all this is to be able to get your astral body to be visible to other people
and/or be able to cause physical effects with it. In other words, do the same sort of
stuff ghosts do.