There is no karma involved in astral travel otherwise all of you would be building heaps of karma every day. Astral travel is for the soul that needs to experience periods of freedom away from the ‘entrapment’. It can be done consciously if one trains one’s mind to remove its hold, but it is done without conscious will and without conscious physical memory by every single one every single day. Astral travel is done not out of curiosity. As your body rests, physical rest, it now gives permission to the Mind to let go of the reins completely. This is what the Soul is looking for. This letting go of the reins opens up the ‘prison doors’. Every prisoner needs to go out for a breath of fresh air. That is what your Soul is doing. But where does the Soul go? The Soul goes to its right plane of evolution in the Spirit realms. And when it goes there, what does it do? It energises itself anew with the purity of the Light that is denied to it in ‘entrapment’. You need food and water for the physical to continue its work and the soul requires its Light Energy to continue its work. During your period of travelling into the Spirit realms, you meet up with others who are also doing the same. Haven’t some of you had an experience of receiving a message that a dear one, far away from you has passed on and you are not surprised? Within you, you tell yourself, ‘I knew this. How did I know this?’   On an astral journey you were told by the released Spirit of the one who passed on, that ‘I have left my body’. There is no grief or pain. There is acceptance at the natural course of events. And that is why you say ‘I knew this’.  Because your Soul did know this. Do you have to be asleep in order to travel astrally? Not at all. You can be sitting here, listening and a part of you can move away when a ‘call’ comes. How many mothers have experienced this ‘call’? Somehow out of the blue you are certain that your child needs you. The Soul of the child called out to the Soul of the mother and a part of that mother’s soul flew there.