Dyskusja:Badanie astralnego świata duszy wcielonej

Research into the astral world of the incarnate soul (U-117)

(1) The astral world, also known as the astral, is a subtle dimension of reality parallel to the physical and etheric worlds, known in the East as kamaloka. It is inhabited by various astral, or kama beings, and creates unlimited possibilities for travel to various lands and spheres beyond the physical body. Astral projection (travelling out of the body), popular in esoteric and mystical circles, i.e. transferring consciousness to the astral body, known in yoga and tantra as kamarupa, the body of emotions and passions, is possible with appropriate training. To achieve this state, one must learn relaxation and concentration techniques leading to the separation of consciousness from the body to “coming out of oneself”. In the astral world, one can encounter both beautiful and dangerous beings and creatures, which is why it is worth familiarising oneself with methods of protection against undesirable influences and attacks by evil demonic beings. Exploring this fascinating dimension, one can gain metaphysical knowledge, meet other beings, astral spirits, and demons, and even visit different and advanced civilisations. To sum up, the astral as a psychic world is full of extraordinary possibilities, which can be accessed through the practice of astral projection and supernatural travel.

(2) To fully understand the vast possibilities the astral world offers, we must first learn its emotional nature. We must learn what the astral, the world of kamalokah, really is, and how it is connected to human consciousness. We must also learn how to safely and consciously transfer our perception to this space, which is clearly four-dimensional. The foundation of spiritual knowledge will allow us to take steps in our journeys out of the body confidently. The astral, otherwise known as the astral plane, is a dimension of existence invisible to ordinary senses but cognisable to the eyes of the soul, including the lower Self. The astral is strongly connected with human consciousness, our emotions and emotional thoughts, and feelings and imagination. The astral world can be imagined as an ocean of energy or a plane of vibrations surrounding or better penetrating physical matter. Thanks to this nature of existence, we can experience passions, dream, create images in our minds and travel deep inside ourselves. The astral is, therefore, connected with subtle aspects of the human psyche; it is the world in which our emotional and passionate bodies live and our dreams take place. Although physically invisible, for people practising astral projections, it is as real as the physical world.

(3) Many yogic, tantric or Taoist techniques allow consciously transferring perception to the astral plane, i.e., to the kamarupah body and the kamalokah world. They always require a state of deep relaxation, concentration, and the ability to control the state of mind, the emotional and passionate mind. The most popular methods of this astral projection include inducing a state between wakefulness and sleep, a state on the border between wakefulness and sleep, visualising one’s astral body, and maintaining alert awareness during the transition phases from wakefulness to sleep. Regular meditation and contemplation practices and studying the content and meaning of dreams help master these skills. Astral travel usually begins with a sense of separation from the body and floating above it. Despite the fascinating possibilities of out-of-body travel, reasonable safety measures should be taken in the astral. Above all, it is worth setting a clear intention and goal before each journey to avoid drifting uncontrollably in astral spaces. In addition, it is good to ask for protection and support from good living spiritual guides, true divine gurus, and masters of spiritual life. Carefully monitoring your thoughts and intentions will help to avoid going into places marked by fear or negative emotions, and therefore avoiding demonic areas of the astral. Fears and anxieties are the greatest obstacles to out-of-body astral travel. Surrounded by fear, we drift more easily in the lower astral spheres, so we must neutralise all fears in advance with affirmations and the call for angelic spiritual care. To be safe on the astral plane, we must deeply believe that nothing threatens us and emanate strong positive and protective energy.

(4) We often forget that the astral appears in the dreamlike dimension of our dreams. However, ordinary dreams usually have a more spontaneous and chaotic character, often related to what we do during the day, while typical astral experiences are characterised by much greater awareness and control. Nevertheless, both of these states are related because during our sleep, there is also a certain “relaxation” of the mind-body connection, and sometimes also, the etheric shell exits into the etheric world, similar to the earthly one. Astral dreams are in an environment and space that is not similar to the material or physical-etheric world. Dreams and dreams often contain elements of astral experiences, especially if we work on developing our dreamlike awareness. However, dreams can happen in connection with the perception or memory of the physical plane, emotions and life events, which is very realistic, so we are not in a typical astral space but in the space of the matrix of the physical world created by pure elementals, i.e. the elements of nature, in our etheric world. In astral travel, we are often accompanied by some beings, spirits or demons, but very rarely by angels or trusted deceased people. Many of the astral beings want to lead over our consciousness, supposedly protecting the traveller from getting lost in unknown areas. These figures often symbolise our lower self, old dark connections, helping us to go down the path to dark regions called Ahrimanic or asuric or merely to lighter greys, which are known as Luciferian or apasmaric (leviathan) worlds, as if watery, viscous or liquid. If someone seeks spiritual masters or guides of the path, masters of spiritual development in the world of astral travels, then they will basically be deceived and confused and often possessed by the forces of darkness. The astral world is a mythical land to which every psychopomp travels to the world of the dead, spirits and demons.

(5) Traveling freely outside the physical body, we can visit the farthest corners of the astral reality, but we must remember that the lowest sphere of the astral world is very dark and gloomy and demonic, and just being in the astral world does not necessarily help a person in their spiritual development. This opens up many fascinating possibilities of encounters and discoveries for astral travellers, but everyone should learn about what places and beings can appear on the path of experiences in this world, so often considered deceptive and delusional. As a world or sub-sphere of the lower subtle reality, the astral consists of many layers and vibrational levels, as if from many shades of light or grey and dark. The more subtle the level, the brighter and more beautiful it is, and the closer to the formless unity, although earlier, we will notice specific sub-spheres of the mental world, manasaloka. In astral travel, we can traverse both the brighter spheres of light and the lower ones, which are marked by illusion and desire, aggression and passions, or even strange desires, darkness and gloom. Often, the symbolism of these worlds reflects the state of our interior so that we learn that we are reaching spheres with similar qualities to those we have inside ourselves to a large extent. We can also visit astral equivalents of places known to us from the physical world, but one should not confuse the etheric sphere with the astral world nor these two lower worlds with the heavens.

(6) Some astral travellers share accounts of encounters with extraterrestrials and visits to the astral cities of cosmic civilisations, usually demonic in nature. Although it is difficult to verify these experiences using metaphysical or psychometric methods, the symbolism of these visions may contain profound knowledge and wisdom about the world and the state of a given category of beings, to which perhaps a person living as an earthly person and practising astral travel somehow belongs because of their karma. All of these may be metaphorical images of past and future stages of human consciousness; after all, it is often the case that before a person reaches some hell or the world of fortune-telling spirits, they receive knowledge about where they are going and what will happen to them on their further journey after death. Despite many benefits and interesting cognitive experiences, astral projection also brings certain challenges and problems that we, as travellers, must deal with. Sometimes, you can encounter disturbing images and feelings in the astral. Dark thoughts and emotions can take a symbolic form or take us to some unpleasant place from which it is difficult to leave. The key is maintaining distance and awareness that these are only illusions and delusions, and Light dispels darkness and gloom. The astral plane is a land of thoughts and desires, a land of passions and demonic civilisations, and cities of demons, which, like bad people, can be deceptively nice to us for some time and even helpful. It is easy to lose yourself in illusions and consider their reality, easy to be deceived by energy vampires and cannibals, such beings who will feed us with sensations and impressions to then use us as a tool for their dark purposes or to satisfy astral desires. That is why it is important to maintain distance, avoid dependencies and coolly analyse experiences after returning to the physical body.

Udâna: Message of the Himalaya Master No. 117; First Edition: Toruń 1983.