I've read into astral projections at least as much as I have any other hokey, psychic phenomenon and in the end it just seems completely full of it.

I share your thoughts more than you know, but after doing the relaxation technique and getting a startling all-over-body vibration and a loud ringing noise which scared the @$%& out of me, I believe. At least to a moderate degree. None of this seems to conflict with my timespace beliefs