Apotheose

This reminds me of a great Boxing quote which reads — “weight matters more than small guys would admit and less than big guys want to be true”. Things like these tend to be faker than what a guru would want you to believe and truer than what a skeptic would assume to be true. An individual experience could be true as well as a collective experience could be a result of a mass hypnotic state, as Neirong eloquently expressed. Generalizing it could lead us to inaccuracy. If I were to guess, I’d say it would be easier (= more common) to experience a hallucination, or even a true apparition of a more condensed astral body, than an actual sight of a physical presence composed of atoms and molecules which interact with its surroundings. And I’d also guess that the chances of it being a lie or an illusion would be very high, in general. However, being a student of the Art for some time, I can recall a handful of occasions where I dealt with real and disquieting surprise when I found some of my rock solid disbeliefs shattered. So, I don’t doubt the possibility of such things as teleportations being real and doable, however, it’s important to take everything which is extracted from the internet with a grain of salt, including what I just said. Lying is easy and costs nothing. So it’s better to only believe that which you can empirically experience in your personal studies or which is confirmed by a personal reliable source, like a frater/soror who practices the same exercises or explores the esoteric under the same organization as you do.

Interesting. I have never heard a testimonial of an actual teleportation from a personal reliable source, but I have no means to doubt it at all. The only thing I’ve heard of was an astral projection (that supposedly turned physical — at least apparently) in which a Yogi projected his astral body onto another place (in another continent). The person with whom he needed to talk literally saw him with details and allegedly it wasn’t a part of a dream. In these cases, the “original” body doesn’t cease to exist, it just projects its astral correspondence through space and time and, sometimes, it appears (or “turns”) real to the addressee. But, the fact that it “turned” physical could be just a matter of perception from the other part, I don’t know.

Is there really such a thing as spirit possession which would lead to psychosis? From my experience and studies, all I have ever seen regarding this matter is the possibility of wrecking the correct flow of energy through your body as a biproduct of misuse of mystical practices like Yoga and/or practice of occult rituals which focus only in specific chakras — like some South American magical rituals that focus only on the 1st and 2nd chakras, causing imbalance and, therefore, psychological confusion and erratic behavior on the long run. I have no reason to doubt your testimonial, however it’s plausible to mention that, sometimes, concepts like possession or curse are a consequence of a generational exposure to fear based religious beliefs and dogma. I am no expert in any of this, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of it being only a psychological dissociation due to the lack of energetic coherence in your body — which could possibly be mitigated through correct mystical practices and working on the self-esteem and self-image on the day to day life (= living consciously instead of on autopilot mode).