What is dark side astral traveling?

If you haven't' listened to my latest podcast, where I interviewed Michael Rider, who is an energy researcher, I learned a lot over the years, just from watching his youtube channel, which, I highly recommend, if you want to know more about working with energy.  I hope you guys, enjoyed the interview.  I'm going to try to touch more basis about it here.  I think; if you are not prepared, to do this astral traveling, is wise to do your homework, or research rather first, then when you feel that you are ready, you can dig deeper, and you can try astral traveling, sometimes you can almost astral traveling at will, or sometimes, it takes years of practice.  it is also wise, to seek out a mentor, someone you trust, with not only knowledge but also with the experiences, then that way, you might learn quicker and better, also by practicing, it takes practice.  Just as if you are learning a new language, or instrument, I know from being a pianist, it took years, and years of private lessons, and some college courses, which won't do any good, if you don't practice, but it is good, to have that musical background, that will help you become a better musician, its the same as with astral traveling, or any kind of energy or spirit work, that you might feel drawn to, for me as a spirit medium, I feel drawn to do both of them, spirit work, and astral travel.   I think that is you have psychic abilities, to see or hear spirit world, then your astral traveling experiences might be much better, so if you can hear spirit world, then you might receive a message, rather then seeing it, on the other hand, if you can see the spirit world, then you might see what type of message that the spirits are trying to convey to you.  I do apologize for being late with this particular blog, as I was just thinking, why not write about the episodes, so this one is the first one for, future blogs, that way, as I said in my podcast group, Haunted Real Connections, that way it will be easier for one to read about the topic, I'm trying to put on the podcast and also may gain better understanding where, I'm coming from with the topic, sometimes I feel led to write or talk about something, a lot has happened since the last episode, the world has lost a great basketball player, and some nine others on that horrible copter crash, my heart and prayers go out to their families and fans.  Just so you all know; energy never dies, and it will transform to something else, in another realm or dimension, that's the beauty of death, the sad part, is that we might not see their vessel, which is our human body right, and that energy from within the vessel, will never die.  Sorry, I felt compelled to write that.  Since, I'm talking about energy, thought to bring that up.  When you try to focus on astral traveling too much, that is when it won't happen right away, I think if we think less of it, it will just happen.  The dark side of astral traveling, to me, is not the Star Wars version, dark side has cookies, that's a joke, we did on the show, anyways, the dark side of astral travel, would be to soul travel without any form of spiritual protection, and that we might run into darker entities on the way, would we become more vulnerable, I would say yes, so it is always wise, to not only meditate before astral traveling but to also prepare yourself, not only your body but also your spirit, your soul.  You can picture, a white light, to guard you as you prepare for astral travel.  Sometimes, I forget to do this, spirit protection, but I know its there, my energy protection shield, it surrounds your entire aura, it should be strong enough, where nothing can penetrate it, you can imagine many shields, like a brick wall, or you can use your imagination, that's the beauty part. I was taught, imagination is the KEY!  Astral travel is a sometimes dangerous form of soul travel, in which a human soul leaves the body and freely moves about. Astral travel, is similar to, out of body experiences, or (OBE).     I'm sure, most of you had heard of what, OBE means, so I won't go into greater detail, but it is like your weightless, and you sense that you had died, least I do, that is my first thought, as I was saying on the show.    One thing, I noticed, whenever I had an astral traveling experience when I wake up, I would feel drained, and would often feel drained for the rest of the entire day.  My latest, astral traveling experience, was pretty creepy but cool, I remembered being on top of a tall bridge, made of rocks, then I saw this lady that motioned me to follow her, she had long flowing hair, and was about my height, and I'm not very tall, I'm about five foot to be exact, so it was that vivid, and there was pitch darkness all around us, that's all that, I remember from that last astral travel experience. I hope you guys, enjoy this blog, and there will be more, thanks for your patience.