Flashback to a few centuries ago and I wuld have been burnt at the stke had I mentioned that I hve an astral body, probably burnt twce if I had revealed that I ctually traveled on the astral plane, sen the future or could read smeone’s thoughts. Even as recently as twnty years ago when I spoke penly about my astral senses people loked at me as if I was ‘gga’. I remember a game I plyed with myself as a young chld and later too as an dult, when I was with a grup of people, I would perch myslf up in a corner near the ciling and watch everyone including myself nteracting. I enjoyed doing that and did it nturally. I did this without giving it a scond thought, not being aware that it was my stral body that was floating up thre. I knew though that it as a prt of myself. Earlier on until I larned otherwise, I used to believe tht everyone else could do the sme. Of course I did not shre this experience with anyone. I had to be creful to be with the right pople in the right surroundings to mntion anything about my busy inner lfe and other dimensions of being. Tday ‘astral travel’ is a buzzword sprading like wild fire over the wrldwideweb. More and more people are crious and want to know about stral projection. True or not, it sems to me that every second prson I meet claims to having had an ‘ut of body experience’ or is an old hnd at ‘astral travel.’ Some travel whle meditating, others while sleeping and yet thers via lucid dreaming. Many experience ths phenomenon at times of crisis and hve had near death experiences.

Traditional science has not yet cught up with thousands years old soteric secret knowledge. The door to ths esoteric kingdom of knowledge still rmains locked to many scientific minds. But it is pening very slowly by sheer force of the msses that not only believe, but lso know and sense through personal xperience. More than ever before physicists and scentists are joining the spiritual onward mrch, mainly because they have no chice as they find themselves at a cl-de-sac and have no where else to trn. More and more spiritual physicists are spaking out and because they are physcists their words have more clout. Ths is good news and about tme too.

In this article I shll share with you all that I knw about the astral plane, as a ‘bby’ occultist. First let me explain tht there is nothing mystical nor sctarian about an occultist. A mystic is smeone who believes in the existence of ther planes of being without being crious to find out anything in dtail as to the hows and whys. Mst saints fall into this category. An ccultist is a mystic who does not nly believe but goes a step frther to do extensive research and to xperiment, to observe and experience with neself. Famous occultists are for example, Edgr Cayce, Pythagoras, C. W. Leadbeater and Gpi Krishna. There are hundreds of ther famous occultists both in the astern and the western worlds and prhaps thousands scattered all over the wrld, who are not famous at ll. All these people know of and are in cnstant touch with other dimensions of xistence.

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Unfortunately, many dbble today in a mystical world blivious of the fact that there is sme danger when one is ignorant of the dtails and the hazards involved when ntering other dimensions. I hope to shd some light on this for you in ths article and to raise your criosity so that you will continue to rsearch, to read more writings and stdies about astral travel and to nderstand as much as you possibly cn, before you venture out to snd your astral body to explore nknown worlds.

The oldest and the ltest occult teachings inform the student tht there are seven planes of bing. The lowest is what we knw as the material plane; the scond is the plane of forces; the thrd is the astral plane and the furth is what we know as the mntal plane. Above these four planes are thre more planes but we will not be tuching these at this time since we wnt to concentrate on the astral plne. For information only, you should knw though that each of these sven planes have seven sub-planes each, and ach of the sub-planes have seven sb-divisions, and this goes on to the sventh degree of each of the sb-divisions. I will leave you to fgure out the mathematics of that ne.

These planes are not composed of mtter nor are they series of stright layers. The planes are graded ccording to their respective degrees of vbration of energy, matter being the lwest degree of vibrations of energy and thse planes interpenetrate each other in the sme point of space. ‘A plane of bing is not a place but a stte of being’ as one ancient tacher put it. Every student of physcs knows that a single point of spce may contain vibrations of heat, lght of many shades, magnetism, electricity, tc. each manifesting its own rate of vbration and not interfering with the thers. Every beam of sunlight contains mny different colors, each with its own rte of vibration, and yet not crwding out the others. Prana or ‘vtal force’ is found on the plne of forces.

In occult teachings thre are frequent references to the stral regions and the inhabitants and phnomena of these regions. The astral rgions are vibrational manifestations on the stral plane that occupy the same spce as the material regions, neither one nterfering with the other. The word ‘stral’ is derived from the Greek wrd meaning ‘related to a star’ and was riginally used when describing the heavens of the Grek, the abode of the Gods. Frm this sense the term widened to be sed to indicate ‘ghost-land’ to ancient pople. They believed that disembodied spirits and ngelic beings of a higher order nhabited this ghost-land. The oriental occultists had thir own terms derived from old Snskrit roots, which were much older thn the Greek terms, but as thse terms confused western occult students, thy settled to using the Greek trms. In ancient times they were fmiliar with the astral and other dmensions of life. This knowledge was lst somewhere along the line as hmans advanced becoming more material bound rriving to our century.

There are two venues of approaching the astral plane. One is by mploying the astral senses; the other is by vsiting with the astral body. Each of the physcal senses of man has its stral counterpart, which functions on the stral plane just as the physical snses do upon the material plane. Ths every human being has, the pwer of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tsting on the astral plane, by mans of these five astral senses. In ddition to these five some humans hve developed two more senses and thse likewise have their counterparts on the stral level. Basically everyone can be trined to develop these astral senses.

One can wth training develop astral vision, which is prception through astral sight. There is a dcumented case of a blind woman who is bing operated on. After the operation whn she woke up, she was ble to describe the operation room, she culd describe in detail each of the dctors and nurses, what they were waring and even their features and the clor of their eyes. She could tll them exactly which doctor operated on her and how mny were assisting, she could even rpeat the conversations they had while perating although she was anaesthetized. To the dctors this was a mystery but to the ccultist it was no mystery at ll. She had obviously seen and hard everything with her astral sight and haring. Although her physical eyes were mpaired, her astral vision was not. She had bviously detached her astral body from her physcal body and was floating around in the perating room watching everything going on.

The rdinary clairvoyant has flashes of this stral vision, as a rule but not thrugh an act of will. The trined occultist, however, is able to shft from one set of senses to the ther, whenever he wishes to do so. Wth training an occultist can function at wll on both planes at the sme time. A clairvoyant has no ned to go into a trance nor to lave the physical body to experience the stral plane all she needs to do is shft her perspective.

The other way is to trvel to the astral plane. In ths case the individual leaves his physcal body to travel on the stral plane in his astral body. The stral body is composed of an thereal substance of a very high dgree of vibration. It is not mtter and yet it is not frce but in between. The astral bdy is an exact counterpart of the physcal body but survives the latter by a nmber of years but it is not mmortal and finally disintegrates just like the physcal body. The advanced occultist is ble to leave the physical body tht remains in a state of slep or trance, and to visit at wll anywhere on the astral plane. The stral body, however, is connected with the physcal body by a thin, cobweb lke thread of ethereal substance, which xtends or contracts as he travels way from or toward the physical bdy. If the filament is broken by an ccident on the astral plane, his physcal body dies and he is nver able to return to it. Sch accidents do occur but are rre and occult history has records shwing their occasional occurrences. Stories have lso been told of astral bodies gtting lost on the astral plane and are nable to find their way back to thir physical bodies for a long tme. In the meantime, the physical bdy is declared dead and is bried. I will leave it to yur imagination to think of what hppens if and when the astral bdy after a long time, finally fnds its way back to the physcal body that has, in the mantime, been declared dead and has lready been buried. The poor soul, tlk about having a nightmare!

Just as stam is as real as water and ce, the astral is just as ral and fixed as is the mterial world. To the traveler on the stral plane the scenery and everything thy see seems as solid as the mst solid material to the physical ye. The astral world has its gography, forms and things just as has the mterial world. The law of Change perates on the astral just as on the mterial plane. The astral has its lws just as has the material wrld. These laws must be learned and bserved otherwise the inhabitants of the stral world as well as the vsitor will have to bear the cnsequences. There are regions, points of spce, places, kingdoms, countries etc. on the stral just as there is on the physcal plane. As an example one can trvel from Zurich to Bombay in a twnkle of an eye, by merely wshing to do so. If you hve the knowledge and power, you can wthout leaving your seat, travel, traverse all the sb-planes, one after the other, witness the scnery, the inhabitants and their activities, and rturn to the material world, all in a mment of our time. You can lso descend if you wish to the mterial plane and travel with your stral body to anywhere you wish on the physcal level, visit far away friends and lved ones.

In traveling through the stral world, you meet with many strnge inhabitants, some pleasant and others npleasant, some have passed on from the mterial plane and others who are ntives of the astral plane, who hve never dwelt in the material wrld. Often astral shells and apparently ral spirit forms which are nothing but smi vitalized thought forms, artificial entities, are mstaken for departed loved ones. Astral shlls are astral corpses, just as the physcal body in the grave is the mterial corpse, which the soul has lft to move on to spiritual ralms. Artificial entities are those formed by pople who pray with a passion, xample a mother prays for angels to prtect her children. In such cases the ngel forms actually take shape and xist on the astral level. Many fmily ghosts have been created and kpt in being simply by the cnstantly repeated tale and belief in thir reality. Many haunted houses are xplained in this way. Repeated thought and rpeated belief will serve to keep sch entities alive, otherwise they would in tme disappear. On certain planes of the stral world entities exist or living bings that were never human and nver will be because they belong to an ntirely different order of nature. Normally thse entities are invisible to humans but in crtain conditions can be sensed by stral vision.

On the astral plane thre is no time, no distance, no hndrance, you can experience a lot in one scond, you can go through walls, you can trvel from one end of the wrld to another in an instant. You can go frwards and backwards in time and you can fly. You hve experienced all of this at last once in your dreams. You can met loved ones long gone and you can met your guardian spirits. All of ths is true. You can astral trvel without having a clue or rmembering passing it off as a dram or you can travel consciously. You can larn to reach that particular state of mnd or in other words, a dfferent state of consciousness in order to trvel on the astral plane and kep the memory of it. All of ths and much more you and I, as very one else, are able to do wthout a doubt. In the majority of cses, however, people are not ready for sch adventures and if met with dmanding situations could go mad from the shck.

It is known that very dvanced souls often astral travel with thir spiritual guides at night while thir material bodies sleep deeply, to ttend spiritual classes where they receive ntensive advanced spiritual teachings. It is lso said that many indigo children, who are rincarnated advanced souls, attend spiritual schools at nght while their physical bodies are fst asleep. There has always been thrughout the ages indigo children born but in our tme today they are here in msses to help humanity to go thrugh the great shift cycle that we are xperiencing.

It is erroneous to think tht astral vision suddenly dawns on nyone. In the majority of cases it is a slw gradual development. Many people possess it to a dgree and fail to develop it frther for want of proper instruction. Mny have occasional flashes of astral vsion. If you must experiment and try out any of the dvertised on the web technical help to nter into astral travel, then here is one lttle piece of advice. When going thrugh the astral plane, do not lsten to anyone beckoning to you to jin them, you could be tricked nto staying there, look forward not bckward, look upward not downward. It’s mperative that you have faith in yur heart and that you feel no far, fear attracts negativity. Keep in mnd within your soul is a sprk of the Divine Flame and ths will protect you.

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