On the other hand, in young children this dissociation is quick and
intense. Therefore if you apply your vision to a baby falling
asleep, you will be able to see the upper complex leaving the lower
one quite clearly. To put it simply, it is strikingly easy to see your
baby getting out of its body (which is far from being the case
with adults).
Babies are remarkably good at astral travelling. As soon as they
fall asleep they zoom into the space. Due to the intense light that
pervades their astral body, it is not very difficult to follow them
clairvoyantly in the first stages of their journey, just after they
have left their physical body. Each time your baby falls asleep, be
very tuned in and... see!
I remember a one-year-old toddler I was minding who used to
confuse me all the time. I would put him to sleep, which is never
very easy at that age. I would then tiptoe out of his room, hoping
he would not wake up too quickly. Often, as soon as I had collapsed
in an armchair (minding toddlers is a hard job), I would see him
walking in through the lounge room door. There would be a second
of “Oh, no! Not again!”, and then I would realize that it was not
the child's physical body but his astral body. Relief! It meant the
toddler was still sound asleep in his cot. It is actually quite common
for babies to pop in and say hello just after falling asleep, in the
very first stage of their astral travelling. And then you either
lose them or follow them far away, depending on your own talents
as a traveller.
It is quite rare to see an adult's astral body so clearly and quickly
after they fall asleep. The person would have to be remarkably
trained and their subtle bodies very developed, constructed and
‘crystallised’. Apart from initiates, the separation of the astral
body of adults during sleep is usually much more gradual and
somewhat hazy.
19.5 Your baby as a meditation teacher
By definition, the physical body is made of physical matter and
therefore subject to gravity. Gravity is an essential characteristic
of the physical layer. When you come back from a journey far
into astral and spiritual planes, feeling this gravity is a sign that
you are approaching the physical layer. You start feeling heavy,
and you know you are not far from the physical world. You just
have to let yourself fall a bit more and you are back into your
physical body.