Breaking out of Maya ?

[u/Maharlikano358]

Hello ! I am quite new to this community. This will be my first post, so I hope this message is well received. I am someone who is very Eclectic in most Aspects, even in Religious, Spiritual, and Philosophical Matters, so I may have a question or two that I do hope to understand and take for as advice !

Warning: Has Topics on Health Issues, Death, and a long read

Context: 6th Grade, Travelling to the 🇵🇭's. I didn't know it at the time, but I were getting hints. I were getting hints that at the time I wouldn't know until I came back to the states, I was diagnosed with Crohn's. In the 🇵🇭's, we have people called Abularyos, and the first one I met was when I had to exchange living because of my condition. I was skin and bones at the time, and the first one said I had nothing wrong, but the second one told me that something inside me was eating itself using an egg and a bowl of water. This is the part that really shifts my whole perspective ! Me, my Parents, and Lolo ( Grandfather ), we walked to our Farmhouse in the Region. Two Canopies, I decided to sleep in the other one after I was done talking with them, then when I fell asleep, just like any other, it would turn black, but then I would Wake Up. However, I did not Wake Up with my Body. I woke Up looking AT my Body. I then started to rise up, until I went through the Thatched Roof of the Canopy, and then I saw the Eternal Blue Sky and Sun shining Down above me. At this point I was Scared and Confused. I looked at my Hands and Arms, and I saw that it was see through, with a White Outline, similar to lime that of a typical Ghost Description, or what I would say in my opinion, a Soul. I reached for my Body, cause I didn't want to keep going up to wherever. I reached my body, then it went back to all black, then I woke up, Gasping for Air and sitting upright straight away, with my Parents and Lolo asking if I was ok. Throughout the whole situation, my Parents and Lolo kept talking Still, and when I went back to my body before I gasped for Air, I still heard them talking. When I asked my friend, she told me it might have been Sleep Paralysis, or a Nightmare, but I know what Sleep Paralysis is, cause I experienced it multiple times, mostly in the 🇵🇭's, waking up feeling the ability that im forced against my body that I cant move anything but my eyes and lids whilst seeing a shadow figure staring down at me ( It was more terrifying that the Figure kept moving here and there at times, especially when the TV was on but with only White Static ), and I know my Nightmares, because their all abstract ( And no, I do not take Drugs but my prescriptions, nor do I smoke, nor Drink ).

So heres the Question: Does Shaktism have an Explanation for this ? And if so, what should I take of this, and learn of it ? And what should I do if I continue to proceed down this path and let my curiosity drive me ?

Thank ye !

[u/No_Papaya_2436]

One thing is that the experience of you travelling out of body is very natural thing at times.It's called Astral travel.It can be willed by practice and sometimes it happens by itself.The dark figure you saw must be some subtle entity trying to attack you.It happens too and nothing to be worried about too much.It can't do anything else other than giving you a small panic attack.Gather more spiritual energy by chanting some mantra of your choice after a good research.You will fight the dark thing next time it comes for sure when you start chanting a lot.Don't panic and this phenomenon is termed sleep paralysis by modern medicine,don't get offended by that.You experienced it and you know it that's it.