Hi K

Yes, that kind of medicine seems to be an obstacle to different spiritual exercises.

But if one needs to take them, one should, as it would be an even greater obstacle for a person to have a severe chemical unbalance that goes untreated. Much like pain medication would be a obstacle for the spiritual work, but not taking them if you have serious injured would be worse.

Of course, no kind of medication should be taking if it is not necessary, and keep in mind that the spiritual work can help a person to get of antidepressants.

Mattias

I am glad that I found this forum. That was exactly my question. When you say it is an obstacle - does it mean that OBE can still be achieved, but with more effort? I've been having OBE since I was a child, but did not know what it was. Recently, my depression worsened and I kept getting OBEs almost every night, multiple times a night. I was scared and thought I was going crazy. I started on anti-depressant 2 weeks ago. I visited a psychologist and told her about the experiences I kept getting. She encouraged me to learn more about it and gave me a book Adventures Beyond the Body. I was stunned and overwhelmed. What the autor discribed as his first OBE was exactly what keeps happening to me.

I am very intrigued and want to explore this area of unknown. However, I haven't had an OBE since I started on antideressant. I want to practice and induce the OBE, but I am concerned whether antidepressant completely blocks that ability.

 I will appreciate any advice you can provide.

Thank you,

Veranda

Hello Veranda,

I think that your own experience is telling you something!

I once had a terrible fear about something and that fear lead me to being depressed and it felt horrible, I couldn't do anything except feel very heavy and down. It was the fear for me that took me into depression and the reason for the fear was worry, I couldn't stop worrying about this certain situation and then it snow balled from there.

Our psychology has different aspects to it which include the subconscious elements of fear, pride, envy, etc etc and these different aspects manifests in our thoughts and emotions and take our internal energies from us and in the case of fear if it keeps manifesting consistently enough it can grow and turn into depression. If you can uncover the reason for the fear you can over come it by not going along with all its small feelings and thoughts which will then stop the depression from setting in, it's like these subconscious elements go in a series or are related to each other in a chain or linked type of manner.

These subconscious elements really do affect us adversely and to find out more about them and how to understand them the Self knowledge course held here is a really good way to get the info to start the process of getting rid of them.

I never tried antidepressants personally to really know if they affect the astral practices but I can understand how they would affect the obe experience from happening if they were being taken from a interlectual view point, the funny thing was that once I got over the fear and worry of the situation that caused the depression I've never felt that way since and hey I haven't had any side effects from getting over them with self knowledge either!

All the best
Steve

Well i have came to the conclusion, depressants wont stop the ability to astral project. As a natual projector , you either have the ability or you don't. So mine have not stoped my ability ...maybe more of enhanced it.