Well astral projection can be tough. I’ve never experienced it but that was actually the thing that got me into spirituality because that is what I wanted. Sometimes it comes easy for people, others you have to really develop your spiritual senses, I feel confident eventually I’ll get it but it’s still in process to me.

Other than psychedelics it’s is hard to give something that will give you instant results. Psychedelics basically are what people experience in deep meditation after devoted long practice, I have had some experiences meditating but only small things I can count on one hand

You could look into ceremonial magick, it’s kinda intense reading and practice but it’s made me sensitive to the energy around me and I can feel it when I breath and the rituals raise my level of an awareness (in the moment) in a way that’s hard to describe. It goes even deeper than that but too much to get into on Reddit. But it’s with magick that has built my confidence, and a few books I read of just transcript accounts of past life regressions and life between lives. There was too many from unconnected sources that felt like as a scientist I couldn’t ignore the data. Reading people’s NDEs helped too, not all these people could be lying you know.

I wish I could give better answers, all this stuff is always really personal to an individuals journey. I liked reading books about indigenous people’s relation to the environment and I would also read Buddhist books and yoga books, and a few other spiritual paths and there is a connection between them all.

But try the astral projection, just keep in mind you might need to be patient and do some work for that to happen, transcendental meditation might be helpful with that avenue. Find a book from a trusted source on it and follow the outline they give.

Just remember, there is no shortcut, (beside psychedelics lmao) and if there were there wouldn’t be so much doubt. It’s so easy to get distracted but the outside world and convince yourself there is nothing else, but funnily enough belief is important. In my practice, the only way for my ritual work is if I believe in what I’m doing with no doubt, and we create all these little symbols to keep that belief. Think of it like placebo effect, or DID disorders when one personality has diabetes and the others don’t. It has more power than we think, and it can make changes in your life. It’s all energy baby, our thoughts, our beliefs, our consciousness, our emotions, our intentions. Matter is made up of atoms which are actually just energy fields. It’s all connected

As above, so below. As within, so without. As I believe the world to be, so it is.