Should you believe someone who says your soul is elsewhere learning techniques while you are awake?

If you are clearly awake and talking, with no corresponding feeling yourself, while someone says your soul is elsewhere learning to draw talismans, I suggest listening without immediately accepting it as true. Someone saying this does not establish that you have already learned a set of techniques.

Experiences during dreams or meditation are different from this situation. YOYO has shared practice within dreams, and I have heard similar accounts from friends in spiritual practice, so I think some perceptions are possible. But regarding the traditional idea of the soul actually leaving the body, I have heard accounts without necessarily being able to judge every story's truth. I more often understand many experiences through the comparison of tuning a radio: you remain here while concentration lets you perceive another energy. It does not necessarily mean the entire soul has left.

It is also possible to rediscover insights from earlier experiences. However you understand it, you still need to meditate, practice, and actually learn while awake. If sending the soul to learn made you know everything, why would a person still spend time practicing? This question is meant to return people to what they can understand and learn.

Even if spiritual perceptions interest you, do not spend all day only wondering whether the deities are present or have come to chat again. After seeing an image, still examine what it teaches you and whether it has instead cost you inner peace. Caring for your life and practice first matters more than rushing to interpret every image.