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Flashback to a few centuries ago and I w uld have been burnt at the st ke had I mentioned that I h ve an astral body, probably burnt tw ce if I had revealed that I ctually traveled on the astral plane, s en the future or could read s meone’s thoughts. Even as recently as tw nty years ago when I spoke penly about my astral senses people l oked at me as if I was ‘g ga’. I remember a game I pl yed with myself as a young ch ld and later too as an dult, when I was with a gr up of people, I would perch mys lf up in a corner near the c iling and watch everyone including myself nteracting. I enjoyed doing that and did it n turally. I did this without giving it a s cond thought, not being aware that it was my stral body that was floating up th re. I knew though that it as a p rt of myself. Earlier on until I l arned otherwise, I used to believe th t everyone else could do the s me. Of course I did not sh re this experience with anyone. I had to be c reful to be with the right p ople in the right surroundings to m ntion anything about my busy inner l fe and other dimensions of being. T day ‘astral travel’ is a buzzword spr ading like wild fire over the w rldwideweb. More and more people are c rious and want to know about stral projection. True or not, it s ems to me that every second p rson I meet claims to having had an ‘ ut of body experience’ or is an old h nd at ‘astral travel.’ Some travel wh le meditating, others while sleeping and yet thers via lucid dreaming. Many experience th s phenomenon at times of crisis and h ve had near death experiences.
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Traditional science has not yet c ught up with thousands years old soteric secret knowledge. The door to th s esoteric kingdom of knowledge still r mains locked to many scientific minds. But it is pening very slowly by sheer force of the m sses that not only believe, but lso know and sense through personal xperience. More than ever before physicists and sc entists are joining the spiritual onward m rch, mainly because they have no ch ice as they find themselves at a c l-de-sac and have no where else to t rn. More and more spiritual physicists are sp aking out and because they are phys cists their words have more clout. Th s is good news and about t me too. In this article I sh ll share with you all that I kn w about the astral plane, as a ‘b by’ occultist. First let me explain th t there is nothing mystical nor s ctarian about an occultist. A mystic is s meone who believes in the existence of ther planes of being without being c rious to find out anything in d tail as to the hows and whys. M st saints fall into this category. An ccultist is a mystic who does not nly believe but goes a step f rther to do extensive research and to xperiment, to observe and experience with neself. Famous occultists are for example, Edg r Cayce, Pythagoras, C. W. Leadbeater and G pi Krishna. There are hundreds of ther famous occultists both in the astern and the western worlds and p rhaps thousands scattered all over the w rld, who are not famous at ll. All these people know of and are in c nstant touch with other dimensions of xistence. Here’s what I found as I s rfed the internet on astral travel.
‘Am zing Scientific Breakthrough will allow you to h ve a successful Astral projection within 20 m nutes! Learn how to leave your b dy, walk through walls, fly around y ur neighborhood, meet your deceased loved nes, communicate with your guides and t achers, travel through time to witness p st or future events and much m ch more! 100% guaranteed or your m ney back!’
Now who can say No to s ch a fascinating invitation! Unfortunately, many d bble today in a mystical world blivious of the fact that there is s me danger when one is ignorant of the d tails and the hazards involved when ntering other dimensions. I hope to sh d some light on this for you in th s article and to raise your c riosity so that you will continue to r search, to read more writings and st dies about astral travel and to nderstand as much as you possibly c n, before you venture out to s nd your astral body to explore nknown worlds. The oldest and the l test occult teachings inform the student th t there are seven planes of b ing. The lowest is what we kn w as the material plane; the s cond is the plane of forces; the th rd is the astral plane and the f urth is what we know as the m ntal plane. Above these four planes are thr e more planes but we will not be t uching these at this time since we w nt to concentrate on the astral pl ne. For information only, you should kn w though that each of these s ven planes have seven sub-planes each, and ach of the sub-planes have seven s b-divisions, and this goes on to the s venth degree of each of the s b-divisions. I will leave you to f gure out the mathematics of that ne. These planes are not composed of m tter nor are they series of str ight layers. The planes are graded ccording to their respective degrees of v bration of energy, matter being the l west degree of vibrations of energy and th se planes interpenetrate each other in the s me point of space. ‘A plane of b ing is not a place but a st te of being’ as one ancient t acher put it. Every student of phys cs knows that a single point of sp ce may contain vibrations of heat, l ght of many shades, magnetism, electricity, tc. each manifesting its own rate of v bration and not interfering with the thers. Every beam of sunlight contains m ny different colors, each with its own r te of vibration, and yet not cr wding out the others. Prana or ‘v tal force’ is found on the pl ne of forces. In occult teachings th re are frequent references to the stral regions and the inhabitants and ph nomena of these regions. The astral r gions are vibrational manifestations on the stral plane that occupy the same sp ce as the material regions, neither one nterfering with the other. The word ‘ stral’ is derived from the Greek w rd meaning ‘related to a star’ and was riginally used when describing the heavens of the Gr ek, the abode of the Gods. Fr m this sense the term widened to be sed to indicate ‘ghost-land’ to ancient p ople. They believed that disembodied spirits and ngelic beings of a higher order nhabited this ghost-land. The oriental occultists had th ir own terms derived from old S nskrit roots, which were much older th n the Greek terms, but as th se terms confused western occult students, th y settled to using the Greek t rms. In ancient times they were f miliar with the astral and other d mensions of life. This knowledge was l st somewhere along the line as h mans 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 v siting with the astral body. Each of the phys cal senses of man has its stral counterpart, which functions on the stral plane just as the physical s nses do upon the material plane. Th s every human being has, the p wer of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and t sting on the astral plane, by m ans of these five astral senses. In ddition to these five some humans h ve developed two more senses and th se likewise have their counterparts on the stral level. Basically everyone can be tr ined to develop these astral senses. One can w th training develop astral vision, which is p rception through astral sight. There is a d cumented case of a blind woman who is b ing operated on. After the operation wh n she woke up, she was ble to describe the operation room, she c uld describe in detail each of the d ctors and nurses, what they were w aring and even their features and the c lor of their eyes. She could t ll them exactly which doctor operated on her and how m ny were assisting, she could even r peat the conversations they had while perating although she was anaesthetized. To the d ctors this was a mystery but to the ccultist it was no mystery at ll. She had obviously seen and h ard everything with her astral sight and h aring. Although her physical eyes were mpaired, her astral vision was not. She had bviously detached her astral body from her phys cal 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 thr ugh an act of will. The tr ined occultist, however, is able to sh ft from one set of senses to the ther, whenever he wishes to do so. W th training an occultist can function at w ll on both planes at the s me time. A clairvoyant has no n ed to go into a trance nor to l ave the physical body to experience the stral plane all she needs to do is sh ft her perspective. The other way is to tr vel to the astral plane. In th s case the individual leaves his phys cal body to travel on the stral plane in his astral body. The stral body is composed of an thereal substance of a very high d gree of vibration. It is not m tter and yet it is not f rce but in between. The astral b dy is an exact counterpart of the phys cal body but survives the latter by a n mber of years but it is not mmortal and finally disintegrates just like the phys cal body. The advanced occultist is ble to leave the physical body th t remains in a state of sl ep or trance, and to visit at w ll anywhere on the astral plane. The stral body, however, is connected with the phys cal body by a thin, cobweb l ke thread of ethereal substance, which xtends or contracts as he travels way from or toward the physical b dy. If the filament is broken by an ccident on the astral plane, his phys cal body dies and he is n ver able to return to it. S ch accidents do occur but are r re and occult history has records sh wing their occasional occurrences. Stories have lso been told of astral bodies g tting lost on the astral plane and are nable to find their way back to th ir physical bodies for a long t me. In the meantime, the physical b dy is declared dead and is b ried. I will leave it to y ur imagination to think of what h ppens if and when the astral b dy after a long time, finally f nds its way back to the phys cal body that has, in the m antime, been declared dead and has lready been buried. The poor soul, t lk about having a nightmare! Just as st am is as real as water and ce, the astral is just as r al and fixed as is the m terial world. To the traveler on the stral plane the scenery and everything th y see seems as solid as the m st solid material to the physical ye. The astral world has its g ography, forms and things just as has the m terial world. The law of Change perates on the astral just as on the m terial plane. The astral has its l ws just as has the material w rld. These laws must be learned and bserved otherwise the inhabitants of the stral world as well as the v sitor will have to bear the c nsequences. There are regions, points of sp ce, places, kingdoms, countries etc. on the stral just as there is on the phys cal plane. As an example one can tr vel from Zurich to Bombay in a tw nkle of an eye, by merely w shing to do so. If you h ve the knowledge and power, you can w thout leaving your seat, travel, traverse all the s b-planes, one after the other, witness the sc nery, the inhabitants and their activities, and r turn to the material world, all in a m ment of our time. You can lso descend if you wish to the m terial plane and travel with your stral body to anywhere you wish on the phys cal level, visit far away friends and l ved ones. In traveling through the stral world, you meet with many str nge inhabitants, some pleasant and others npleasant, some have passed on from the m terial plane and others who are n tives of the astral plane, who h ve never dwelt in the material w rld. Often astral shells and apparently r al spirit forms which are nothing but s mi vitalized thought forms, artificial entities, are m staken for departed loved ones. Astral sh lls are astral corpses, just as the phys cal body in the grave is the m terial corpse, which the soul has l ft to move on to spiritual r alms. Artificial entities are those formed by p ople who pray with a passion, xample a mother prays for angels to pr tect her children. In such cases the ngel forms actually take shape and xist on the astral level. Many f mily ghosts have been created and k pt in being simply by the c nstantly repeated tale and belief in th ir reality. Many haunted houses are xplained in this way. Repeated thought and r peated belief will serve to keep s ch entities alive, otherwise they would in t me disappear. On certain planes of the stral world entities exist or living b ings that were never human and n ver will be because they belong to an ntirely different order of nature. Normally th se entities are invisible to humans but in c rtain conditions can be sensed by stral vision. On the astral plane th re is no time, no distance, no h ndrance, you can experience a lot in one s cond, you can go through walls, you can tr vel from one end of the w rld to another in an instant. You can go f rwards and backwards in time and you can fly. You h ve experienced all of this at l ast once in your dreams. You can m et loved ones long gone and you can m et your guardian spirits. All of th s is true. You can astral tr vel without having a clue or r membering passing it off as a dr am or you can travel consciously. You can l arn to reach that particular state of m nd or in other words, a d fferent state of consciousness in order to tr vel on the astral plane and k ep the memory of it. All of th s and much more you and I, as very one else, are able to do w thout a doubt. In the majority of c ses, however, people are not ready for s ch adventures and if met with d manding situations could go mad from the sh ck. It is known that very dvanced souls often astral travel with th ir spiritual guides at night while th ir 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 r incarnated advanced souls, attend spiritual schools at n ght while their physical bodies are f st asleep. There has always been thr ughout the ages indigo children born but in our t me today they are here in m sses to help humanity to go thr ugh the great shift cycle that we are xperiencing. It is erroneous to think th t astral vision suddenly dawns on nyone. In the majority of cases it is a sl w gradual development. Many people possess it to a d gree and fail to develop it f rther for want of proper instruction. M ny have occasional flashes of astral v sion. 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 l ttle piece of advice. When going thr ugh the astral plane, do not l sten to anyone beckoning to you to j in them, you could be tricked nto staying there, look forward not b ckward, look upward not downward. It’s mperative that you have faith in y ur heart and that you feel no f ar, fear attracts negativity. Keep in m nd within your soul is a sp rk of the Divine Flame and th s will protect you. Could it be p |