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  Astral World
The astral world is between the elemental realm and the mental realm.
The astral world's seven dimensions correspond to the seven divisions of matter: the solid, liquid, gaseous, etheric, super-etheric, subatomic, and atomic, and these are thought to play a most important part in the immediate destiny of humans.
The progression through the divisions of the astral world is thought to be the result of the rearrangement of the matter of the astral body at physical death that occurs because of ignorance.
www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/astral_world.html   (863 words)

  
  Llewellyn Encyclopedia: The Astral World
That is because that world is made up of an energy that is invisible to us, owing to the fact that it is vibrating at a higher rate than the energy that comprises the material world.
The sixth division of the astral world is so much like the physical world that those first entering it may not even remember that, biologically and materially speaking, they are ill and in bed.
At the first and highest level of the astral world, the souls work for noble purposes and they are free to travel to lower realms if necessary for their work.
www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /article/218   (1476 words)

  
  Astral plane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The astral plane, also called the astral world or desire world, is a plane of existence according to esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings and New Age thought.
The desire world is also said to be the abode of deceased persons, for some time subsequent to the event of death and, as it interpenetrates the physical world, these entities, the "dead", very often stay for a long while among their still living friends.
In the higher regions of the desire world, the confusion of tongues gives place to a universal mode of expression which absolutely prevents misunderstandings of meaning: thoughts take a definite form and color perceptible to all, and this thought-symbol emits a certain tone, which conveys the meaning to the one to whom they are addressed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astral_plane   (1270 words)

  
 Astral World Overview
When your astral body separates from your physical body during sleep, a state of trance, or by influence of drugs, or in a case by accident, it takes with it the capacity of sensation, and only upon returning to the physical body can pain be felt.
Because of the rearrangement of the astral body's astral matter, only the grossest matter of the astral body is visible, since it is the kind of matter that the thick outer sheath is composed of.
Astral manifestations on its 7x7 sub-planes can be and likely are, present on the exact point of space that you are occupying at this very moment of time on the material plane.
www.rickrichards.com /astral/Astral4.html   (2327 words)

  
 The Astral Reality
The term "astral plane" is variously used in New Age, occult, and theosphical thought to designate the reality corresponding to the next most subtle body or vehicle beyond the etheric body, which one experiences in astral travel and so on.
The Lower Astral or Epithymatic Plane is also the region of lower desires and "earth-bound" spirits; human entities who have died but are still unable to break free of their former material attachments.
Human and animal bodies grow and develop on the model of their antetypal Doubles, whereas the Astral Light is born from the terrene emanations, grows and develops after its prototypal parent, and in its treacherous waves everything from the upper planes and from the lower solid plane, the earth,...is reflected reversed.
www.kheper.net /esotericism/astral.html   (2926 words)

  
 Revised_Astral_Lecture
The Astral world affects us through the action of thought-forms which are, in turn, guided by the conscious and non-conscious desires of their creator.
The Astral world is a bridge between the everyday world of form and various forms of consciousness.
Personal process work and astral healing work are the keys to healing toxic thought-forms, transforming them into opportunities for growth rather than letting them run our lives.
www.deanramsden.com /Revised_Astral_Lecture.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Is there a spirit world where the departed "souls" reside?
In the astral, one is forced or coaxed into believing that one has to do this or that in order to rid oneself of astral debts in order to attain liberation from the astral rebirths.
When he or she is stuck in-between the earth and astral world, he or she is called a "lost soul".
The so-called "natural laws" that operate in the astral world are actually "laws" dictated by the archons of the usurping Evil god.
www.cyberspaceorbit.com /spirit_world.htm   (2638 words)

  
 The Virtual Reality of the Sleep World
However, very few of the astral residents are even aware that they require sleep because the type of sleep that exists in the astral world is very foreign to the process of sleep in the physical world.
Astral beings lack the knowledge about sleeping and dreaming in the astral world because the process is so subtle and different that only the most aware ones realize that they do sleep.
Astral beings are also given a boost of energy in the sleep world in return for all the energy that was stripped from them upon entering the sleep world.
www.xeeatwelve.com /articles/sleep_world.html   (4699 words)

  
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The physical world possesses three dimensions: length, width and height; in the astral world it exists more other: the fourth dimension, that consists of the fact of the objects be transparent and we could also observe their interior qualities.
The astral term is used because its matter is brilliant as the stars, or still because some believed that the astral world was in the distant regions  of the stars.
The crust that is not usually seen or lives together with the inhabitants of the astral world, during some time conserves a rudimentary memory of the personality of his old owner, and sometimes communicates with médiuns, being accepted as the true being that inhabited that condemned crust to the decomposition.
www.rosecrossonline.org /theastralworld.htm   (1774 words)

  
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The physical world, as compared with the astral world, is a world of results; while the astral world is to the physical world as a world of causes.
The astral remains of very sensual and evil persons survive in the astral light, and seek to perpetuate their existence by preying upon the living; and this accounts for many cases of what can only be described as obsession.
The astral light is the mother of the physical, just as the spirit is the mother of the akasa or, inversely, the physical is merely the concretion of the astral, just as the akasa is the veil or concretion of the highest spiritual.
www.theosociety.org /pasadena/gdpmanu/astral/astral.htm   (7591 words)

  
 Astral World OBE Astral Body Soul Atman Spirit Cosmic Spirit
Astral beings retain the same appearance which they possessed in youth in their previous earthly sojourn; occasionally an astral being chooses, like myself, to retain his old age appearance." Master, emanating the very essence of youth, chuckled merrily.
Astral beings enjoy the ethereal music of the spheres and are entranced by the sight of all creation as exhaustless expressions of changing light.
Astral desires are thus connected with an astral being's power to precipitate all objects and experiences as forms of light or as condensed thoughts or dreams.
kalchakra.tripod.com /id40.html   (6826 words)

  
 Astral Travel by David Cherubim
In this Astral Light are all physical phenomena contained in their formative astral state of being, and it is from this Light that manifestation is made possible on earth; for it is the link between spirit and matter, and it is the subtle transmitter on earth of the influences derived from the higher worlds.
Thus Kether is the Spiritual World, Tiphareth is the Mental World, Yesod is the Astral World, and Malkuth is the Physical World.
The Spiritual World is the highest, being the purest in nature or the primordial cause, whereas the three worlds which emanate from it are less divine in nature and are in fact reflections, on a descending scale, of the first world.
thelemicgoldendawn.tripod.com /astral.htm   (9043 words)

  
 Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena -- Global Library Online
The dimensions of our astral world are considerable, and we are able to determine them with some approach to accuracy from the fact that our astral world touches that of the moon at perigee, but does not reach it at apogee; but naturally the contact is confined to the highest type of astral matter.
Similarly, descending into the astral plane he forms his astral or desire-body out of its matter, though still retaining all the other bodies, and on his still further descent to this lowest plane of all the physical body is formed according to the etheric mould supplied by the Lords of Karma.
Though the astral aura from the brilliancy of its flashes of colour may often be more conspicuous, the nerve-ether and the etheric double are really of a much denser order of matter, being within the limits of the physical plane, though invisible to ordinary sight.
www.global.org /Pub/CWL_Astral_Plane.asp   (4166 words)

  
 What Exactly is Astral Projection?
Astral Projection is not actually projecting to the Astral plane as such, because as humans we are already multi-dimensional beings, continually and concurrently existing in the Astral and Spiritual worlds at an infinite number of levels of Energy.
Astral Projection is therefore a projection of Consciousness beyond the confines of the physical body, thus becoming consciously aware of the Astral worlds thereby assuming control over the Astral Body already residing there.
Astral Projection can be defined as a projection of Consciousness beyond the confines of the five physical senses to assume control of the Astral Body, the Soul, which then becomes the principle centre of conscious awareness and the vehicle of travel while interacting with the Astral worlds.
www.mindpowernews.com /AstralProjection.htm   (2993 words)

  
 Astral Projection, Travel & Magick
The astral world, or astral plane as its sometimes called, is an important place for Witches to become acquainted with.
Astral projection is best defined as the art of sending consciousness out at will to a location away from the physical body.
Astral magick is defined as the changes you cause to happen, both in the astral and in the physical, as a result of your workings in the astral world.
www.starfirescircle.com /astral.html   (1993 words)

  
 Meher Baba: The World Of The Astral   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The astral world is not a portion of the subtle world.
However, in between the gross and the subtle worlds there are seven sheaths which form the so-called world of the astral, and this serves as a link between these two worlds.
All experiences in the world of the astral, experienced through the medium of the astral body are as insignificant as dreams.
www.avatarmeherbaba.org /erics/astral.html   (220 words)

  
 Yogi Philosophy - The Astral World
These astral senses function on the lower astral plane—the plane next removed from the physical plane—and the phenomena of clairvoyance is produced by the use of these astral senses, as we have described in the Sixth Lesson.
The Astral Body is always connected with the physical body (during the life of the latter) by a thin silk-like, astral thread, which maintains the communication between the two.
To the psychic or astral vision, places are seen to be filled with this thought-stuff, varying in character and appearance with the quality and nature of the original thought which produced them.
www.oldandsold.com /articles26/yogi-10.shtml   (2751 words)

  
 Spirit Online   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Astral body is thought to be 'a replica of the physical body (the gross body), but of a more subtle and tenous substance, penetrating every nerve, fibre and cell of the physical organism, and constantly in a supersensitive state of vibration and pulsation' [Gay74].
The astral world consists of astral matter, and all physical objects have a replica in the astral.
Ectoplasm is considered to be the materialization of the astral body and is described as 'matter which is invisible and impalpable in its primary state, but assuming the state of a vapour, liquid or solid, according to its stage of condensation' [Gay74].
www.spiritonline.com /files/messages/15/327.html?0   (996 words)

  
 Myswizard » The Astral Plane
The astral plane, also called the astral world or desire world, is a plane of existence according to various philosophies and belief systems.
Heindel states that in the lower regions of the desire world the whole body of each being may be seen, but in the highest regions only the head seems to remain.
On the one hand, the idea of an astral plane can be regarded as an extension to Descartes’ dualism where the physical world is strictly separated from the world of thought and consciousness.
www.myswizard.com /2005/12/18/the-astral-plane   (1002 words)

  
 Astral Places
The astral extends into the inner world of the soul, and to the beyond worlds of the metaplanes.
The astral world is wherever you are, and all the places that you aren't.
In all truth, the Astral Places datadoc is here for the runner that wants to know the sort of places that he can expect to confront an enemy, those places where toxics run wild, and the one-in-a-million clubs that cater solely to the magical crowd.
members.aol.com /thermog2/shadowrun/mmits/astral/index.html   (561 words)

  
 Modern Theosophy: The Astral Plane
Nor are the creatures of these worlds unimportant because minute, for upon a knowledge of the habits and condition of some of those microbes depends our ability to preserve health, and in many cases life itself.
Most of us, then, are awake on the astral plane during the sleep of the physical body, and yet we are generally very little awake to the plane, and are consequently conscious of our surroundings there only vaguely, if at all.
So abundant and so manifold is this life of the astral plane that at first it is absolutely bewildering to the neophyte; and even for the more practised investigator it is no easy task to attempt to classify and to catalogue it.
www.katinkahesselink.net /other/astralplane.html   (2044 words)

  
 Glossary: astral
This is because of two remarkable characteristics of the astral world: (1) many of its inhabitants can rapidly change their form, and cast glamour over those with whom they choose to sport; (2) objects are seen from all sides at once.
There are three types of inhabitants in the astral world: human, non-human and artificial.
People from all around the world have in their folklore tales of fairies, ghosts, hauntings, and things that go bump in the night.
www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/glossary/astral.html   (508 words)

  
 Astral Voyage - Astral Projection - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Someone had mentioned that there are several astral worlds to explore.
For example, once in the astral, I picked up a lipstick and drew something on the bathroom mirror, but it was not there in the physical.
And if you astral project, and stay near the lower astral worlds, you are bound to run into them.
www.astralvoyage.com /projection/FAQ_updated.html   (4095 words)

  
 Welcome to the Astral World - Your Home for Paranormal and Unexplained Mysteries
I would like to give a special thanks to T Stokes for his continuous contributions to The Astral World.
The Astral World's New Paranormal Directory - I've redone the directory section.
The Astral World has just grown significantly but it's up to you to keep it going!
www.theastralworld.com   (485 words)

  
 The Astral World -- Ad Astra
Therefore, the Astral Gauntlet functions somewhat differently; in any place with high mental activity and structured thought, the Astral Gauntlet is lower, while in areas with very little intellectual activity the Astral Gauntlet would be high.
Incidentally, the Astral World is very nearly as oppressed by Technocratic dominion as the Umbral World; this oppression by warped reason takes many forms, including discouragement of clear or relevant thought, encouragement of academia and rhetoric, or simple crude mind-dulling with television and fast-food.
Also positioned quite high on the Astral Spires, the Infernos are seen as being lower, as if nested in "negative spires" that descend downward into the Abyss; this "negative Astral World" is known as the Qlippoth.
www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/horserider/828/pathspg/spirit/B-Astral.htm   (2823 words)

  
 Esoteric Cosmology: Lecture IX: The Astral World
In the astral world, the aim appears as the cause — proving that the aim and the cause are identical, acting in an inverse sense according to the sphere of life in which we are functioning.
Thus it is only in the astral world that man learns true self knowledge in contemplating the images of his passions in the animal forms which hurl, themselves upon him.
The soul living in the astral body must learn to break free from the forces of the physical organs and acquire a new organism for existence in the astral world.
wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/Dates/19060602p01.html   (2204 words)

  
 Astral Travel
The gentleman of the previous case, was able to astral travel because he got up and leave the bed without thinking, reasoning or mental analysis, there were neither fears, nor prejudices.
It is necessary to remember that in the Astral World people see exactly the same things they see in the physical world and that is why they strongly believe that they are in physical body.
Being aware of the astral world, Juan returned to the enclosure and spoke to his friends like this: "I am telling you my friends that all of us are in astral body...
www.anael.org /english/astral   (1938 words)

  
 Astral projection, Techniques for astral projection, Lucid dreaming, Free course
The astral body remains linked to the physical body by the silver cord, which is also known as the thread of life and, in the east, as Antakarana.
If you can't float, obviously you are in the physical world, but if you can, that means that up to that moment you were dreaming and now you are conscious and you are in the astral world.
John was able to ask himself this question in the astral world because during his daily life, moment by moment, he always asked himself the same question.
english.divinaciencia.com /astral_i.php   (2169 words)

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