First of all
because his story was incredibly outrageous but I dont think he'd lie to me about it. He might have been tripping or something when he did it (never clarified)..but he is also well-versed in some occult stuff and didnt astral project by mistake. He had a limited edition of the Crowley book that he gave me but I havent read it. He also had the Egyptian Book of the Dead and read it all etc..so he's legit on a lot of stuff like that.
So he astral projected with the express intent to infiltrate the Akashic records to get inside the "mainframe" for lack of a better word.
He got to a heavenly type realm and there was a gate with a guardian in front of it. He said it had a blue hue to it and said it identified itself as a Lipiken (?). The entity told him he was not supposed to be there, AT ALL, and that he would face serious resistance to get all the way through (past the 7 gates). My brother proceeded anyway and snuck his way past the first gate.
Then he eventually got to the second gate..in a similar looking atmosphere. When he got there he had a slight feeling of dread. There was another Lipiken there of the same hue but slightly darker shade of blue. The guardian of the gate told him he was not supposed to be there and if my brother tried to advance again, my bro would be met with strong resistance by him. My brother, being determined to get all the way through (probably cuz he thought it was cool as fukk that he was there in the first place), tried to get by anyway and essentially dueled the entity..or at least tried. The guardian ninja'd him up somethin serious, like far beyond grandmaster level (my mother is a brown belt and my bro did martial arts as well (unsure of level)..he ended up getting his whole body sliced up in that realm and kicked the fukk out of there..he said he felt like he was in a cage with a tiger. He got snapped out back into reality immediately and when he looked at his body there were the same slice marks everywhere but his face and blood started seeping up through his skin.