Hey Sean, Thanks for the compliments! I feel what you are going through. It sounds like you are about to have a profound breakthrough in your spiritual growth. In order for you to go deeper, you need to open yourself up to what things within you are 'holding' you back. The #1 grounder spiritually speaking, is a 'fear of death'. We may say that we believe in a Soul, but does that belief stem from our 'intellectual understanding' or does it go deeper than that? Do we 'feel and know' that what we truly are IS NOT THE PHYSICAL BODY, but that we are PURE ENERGY, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS? In order to move past the body, one needs Fluidity. To be able to remain focused and centered within our energetic presence, despite what the Organic vessel or mechanisms may tell us, the emotions or thoughts it may project, the fears, doubts it feels. You are used to being your body so long that to separate from it is a form of death. Realize that you will still exist even though you are separating from the very thing you've found comfort in. Because you are moving closer into your Energy Consciousness, your 'True Self' is realizing just how 'close' you are and it wants desperately to awaken and be free once more. This freedom doesn't mean that your Soul will leave your body, because in part, it will always be 'anchored' to it until the physical body fully dies. What it means is that it is expanding, and become multi-dimensional, so it can in part, separate from the physical body or move through other dimensions of existence beyond where the physical body exists. This is where you are moving to. In these other places, there is 'no' physical body, but because you are used to processing reality through your body and not your 'soul', the body thinks its going to die, because it cannot go where you want to. Realize the body isn't you and it will still be alive even though you will be somewhere else. In an Out of Body Experience, your Body still functions, despite the fact that your Consciousness is existing in another space and time. Your body doesn't need you to be 'present' to exist. The fear of death is only a 'gag-reflex'. Only when we see the body as who and what we are, do we feel the sensation of death and why the body resists allowing the soul to move freely. Like an Anaconda, it squeezes even tighter. What you should do is practice the Death Scenario. It is a 'secret' or 'hidden' technique practiced in many monasteries by monks and sages alike. The idea is to lay down and see yourself on your last moments of live, as vividly as you can. You see your loved ones, by your side, you say your good byes, you 'feel' the inevitability of it, you prepare your body mentally, you surrender your last breath and close your eyes and release. You feel the blackness, the darkness, which isn't a morbid darkness, just the absence of 'visual stimulation' from your eyes. You feel yourself drift away from your body, your rise upwards, you see your body, cold and motionless below you. You move through the walls of the place you are in and drift into the sky. You can see everyone around you like little ants, like they appear when peering out of an airplane window. They slowly merge together, the lights and shapes around you conjoining to form the landscape of continents and eventually the earth, like a floating marble resting in the midst of space, you hover beyond it, seeing it as a whole, as a collective, as just another object in space, and you are free from it. You feel and sense around you and the entire expanse of space comes into your perception. The Universe is open to you. It is all apart of you and you apart of it. Where do you want to go? At this point, you are in a psychic, energetic state of mind that you can now project your Mind if you so choose to and move to experience other places in the Universe or peer your mind around Earth if you wished. There are other things to consider that may alter the effectiveness of your projection, such as the level of believe you have in what you are doing and whether or not your are in a state of non-thought, where your brain doesn't start to doubt the experience and say, 'this is not real', and side-track you. The first few times, just return back into your body by moving back into the Earth and with an 'Inhale', breathe yourself back into your body and then become aware of your surroundings, like you were 'resurrected'. Then if you so choose, after a few rounds, project yourself elsewhere and then return to the body when you are ready. This will train your body that you are first of all, not it, you are only part of it, and that you can move about freely without any drastic effects on it, because you are always able to come back to it. So there won't be any reason for fear of death and when you do feel that panic when you are meditating, you'll be able to move past the discomfort and move your mind to a deeper state or a different dimensional frequency. The more you do it, the more you will be able to move to different frequencies at will and the body and brain will have been trained enough to not resist you because it will realize you are separate from it, and its existence is not dependent on you remaining tethered to it... Then you will be able to move deeper in to meditation and intensify the psychic state you are entering in your meditations, which is causing the buildup of energy you are experiencing, which will allow you to do a great many paranormal things, and effectively achieve the profound breakthrough you are soon to experience... Keep at it. Have no expectations and what your heart yearns for will be revealed to you.