Awakened Soul,
You may find this article interesting to read:
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc557.htmA couple of excerpts:
One evening I got a phone call from a gentleman who had worked in the Air Force and also with Kelly Johnson at Lockheed Skunkworks. He had called ostensibly to offer to be one of the CSETI military witnesses to UFO events - but his larger purpose was to get my feedback on an experience which he had in the early to mid 1960s. At that time he was studying a tradition which helped people to have so-called out of body or astral projection experiences. This is when the subtle or astral body leaves the physical body and flies off somewhere. One day, his teacher told him that he was ready to have such an experience fairly soon, and that evening he indeed had his first OBE (out of body experience). But what happened really surprised him. After many disclaimers on his part to the effect that he was an altogether sane and rational person, and apologizing in advance for going into something so strange and bizarre, he related the following: As soon as he left his physical body, he shot up through the ceiling of his house, into the space above - and then slammed into the side of an extraterrestrial spacecraft hovering somewhere high in our atmosphere. As he did so, he literally rocked the spacecraft (remember this is in his astral body) and popped into the craft, whereupon he saw some ET s at a console who looked over at him, saw him, and had an expression as if to say, ‘My God, why don't you watch where you are going!'
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Still, it is important to keep in mind that the cosmos contains many levels of existence. There are CIV (conscious-intelligent visual) /astral and causal worlds and beings which are not ET. And yet there are ET s which some or much of the time interface with and utilize aspects of the physical cosmos which are in those subtle realms. (See "Extraterrestrials and the New Cosmology" by Steven M. Greer M.D.)
All the best,
Nick