{"id":2920,"date":"2025-11-16T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/two-times-i-almost-left-my-body\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:57:04","slug":"two-times-i-almost-left-my-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/two-times-i-almost-left-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Times I Almost Left My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t do traditional meditation now<br>\nI basically sit in surrender to the Absolute<\/p>\n<p>but decades ago I did Transcendental Meditation<br>\nfor many years<\/p>\n<p>until the k energy became overstimulated<br>\nfrom regular meditation for 10 minutes or more<\/p>\n<p>back then, two times I felt myself beginning<br>\nto leave my body through the crown of my head<\/p>\n<p>right up the kundalini pathway and to where<br>\nI had no idea<\/p>\n<p>both times, frightened, I pulled out of meditation<br>\nnot wanting to do what I thought was astral travel<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d heard about cases where people got lost<br>\nin the astral planes and never got back<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d heard about cases when a person who<br>\nastral traveled and came<\/p>\n<p>back to his body saw some kind of<br>\nnegative entity trying to occupy it<\/p>\n<p>because of these cases, I freaked out<br>\nnot wanting to chance those things<\/p>\n<p>even though those cases may not have<br>\nbeen factual<\/p>\n<p>supposedly many have astral traveled<br>\nwithout such things happening to them<\/p>\n<p>in retrospect, I should have just gone<br>\nwith those strange to me experiences<\/p>\n<p>I know now I wouldn&#8217;t have left my body<br>\nI would have experienced incredible<\/p>\n<p>expansions of my consciousness<br>\nand maybe a taste of cosmic consciousness<\/p>\n<p>as Gopi Krishna did when he had the same<br>\nrising out of the body experience<\/p>\n<p>though his path after that was perilous<br>\nhis k energy went up the wrong channel, pingala<\/p>\n<p>eventually he got his k energy up the right channel<br>\nsushumna and attained cosmic consciousness<\/p>\n<p>and spent the rest of his remaining years on earth<br>\nliving a blissful, enlightened life<\/p>\n<p>while I still live with a k awakening uncompleted<br>\nand have not attained the blissful, enlightened life.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t do traditional meditation now I basically sit in surrender to the Absolute but decades ago I did Transcendental Meditation for many years until the k energy became overstimulated from regular meditation for 10 minutes or more back then, two times I felt myself beginning to leave my body through the crown of my&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/two-times-i-almost-left-my-body\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}