>>28016
Your welcome, I am adding some extra tidbits of info that I remembered from my neophyte years because they could help you further.
Etheric body and astral body is quite a "blanket term". What you need to know that you have an energy body which operates beyond the physical. Every metaphysical study and tradition sees it differently and it's quite easy to get lost in the details, but it becomes obvious once your energetic sight opens and you can see it.
Humans have an energy field aka aura. The aura has "Layers" depending which energies of yours are dominant. The auric field of a mundane person wildly differs from a spiritual person's aura. The auric field changes depending on your mood and practice also. See pic related to get the gist of it.
In your case what is currently "happening" is that you are trying to "expand" your "Astral Body" which is according to this image is layer 4. Don't take this image too seriously, but look at it to get a basic idea how your energy field could look like.
Every person has all their auric layer active by default, but their activity and how dominant is their energy changes as they get older and develop spiritually further. The color and appearance of your auric field depends which dominant energies you are trying to use.
In the beginning your astral body rests in your physical body because you wish to live on the physical plane since your physical birth. Being able to leave your physical body is supposed to be quite infrequent especially if you don't have a spiritually well developed background. You are only "supposed" to leave your physical body behind when you die if you are a mundane. Because of this your astral body is not developed for "travel" yet.
Those people who have OBE out of nowhere usually have something going on for them. They are either under too much stress, close to death or some divine intervention causes it. While some people had such an active spiritual background in their previous lives that they cannot help themselves but go for a stroll whenever they are asleep. I heard too many stories relating to the development of the astral body. It can happen in many ways
Those people who do diligent spiritual practice will develop a quite potent and energetically active astral/spiritual body that they can use to acquire further teachings from their etheric masters.
While those who don't have any spiritual or religious affiliations will have to "break out" of their physical shell. Which means the appearance of the first manifestations of the astral body might look quite horrendous and unstable at the start. There are reasons for the first manifestation of this growth process which are usually governed either by your own subconscious limitations or by other more complex laws of the energetic anatomy of the human body and soul, but I will not get into complex theory for now.
What you need to know that the appearance changes depending on your psyche. They can appear as wings, hands, tentacles, mouths, claws or even as robotic arms too. Practicing visualization, mindfulness meditation, one pointed meditation and void meditation can help to achieve a higher mental control over your emotional or mental states. What you need to watch out for is to make sure you don't let your fears and feelings overtake you whenever you think you "fucked something up". This process you are going through will be like puberty. It's like being first in the class to have random erections and no one knows what is happening. It is a natural process, if you do actual practices be it yoga or anything that involves energy work like Tai Chi then this process can become smoother. Otherwise it's trial and error. Never push yourself too hard and don't let yourself overtaken by fears and negative energies when these things manifest either. And if the physical symptoms last too long or become unbearable you can visit a doctor too. It's not always the doctor or the medication that helps, but the mere fact that you let your mind fall back into it's stable mundane foundation. Once you calm down the the energetic activity of your psyche/energy body will settle down the same way. Just don't let panic overtake you especially if you experiment with different spiritual techniques.
In the old fringe days everyone was bragging how they grew wings, so it wasn't anything strange for me. Some people grow tails, horns and halos too. They are the result of the energy field activating and "growing outside" your physical body. The tails, wings and horns change shape later on if you take spiritual practice seriously and don't get fooled by appearances, but some people get spooked by it or start larping as demons or whatever.
I am so glad the otherkin communities died down. They are rare as emo girls nowadays
The horns can appear as flowers and the wings can appear as branches too if your mind is closely attuned to nature and ancient symbolism.
>>28014
>How does he knows the wings are "demon" wings and won't have feathers?
This is usually a subconscious thing. First of all, humans are mammals, the only mammals that have wings are bats and flying squirrels. Which means if you have a mammalian energy field then your wings will be batlike which is "demonlike" in popular culture. Angels are not birds. Those "feathers" are a subconscious interpretation. They are bright and colorful energies that carry their body around. If you look up "biblically accurate" angel depictions then you will see they don't look like Renaissance era depictions of the angels. Those feathers are not the same feathers as the ones birds have.
>>28016
>I believe that was the impression I got at the time, but my memories are a bit fuzzy so I could've been wrong.
Don't worry about it. The subconscious tries to interpret these first manifestations and you will remember as the closest thing your mind was able to grab onto. This is merely spiritual puberty and these things happen and change as you develop further or completely go away if you completely fall back into your mundane lifestyle.
Once you can move your wings or astral hands at will you might be able to start a slight breeze as you move it, it can make heat or other physical sensations too if you touch other parts of your body with it. Experiment with it and don't panic when something goes wrong.