59. Life with the Astral Body

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LIX

Following Life Through the Astral Body

Lecture based Questions:

1. When does a new incarnation officially begin?

When the Kindel Archangel activates the life graph, then your life officially begins. This is after you have had a very thorough meeting with your divine guidance counselor. After you have both agreed on the possible futures to enhance your spiritual development, you make your final assent on family, place, and opportunities. The Kindel sets the graph in motion, and your physical conception takes place.

What happens to the Astral Body then?

The Astral Body is the same whether your are in physical life or not. However, the memory of your past identity is usually wiped from the AB to prevent identity confusion. Sometimes, however, you need to feel confused or displaced for karmic reasons, so the cleansing is only partial or not at all.

2. Is there anything that the Astral Body carries through lifetimes and in between?

Yes, the character remains constant and always developing throughout all of your incarnations and phases. The character is your measuring rod for your spiritual maturity. It demonstrates your depth, virtue, perceptiveness, empathy, and latitude. Character determines which choices you will make under certain conditions, and therefore Joseph Murphy said, “Character is destiny.” He meant that your character determines your decisions, which in turn shape your future.

Aside from character, the AB is slow to change, so from one incarnation to another, the AB looks and behaves in the same general manner, barring enlightenments, learning new behaviors, and healing old wounds.

The physical body mimics the AB. So during a variety of lifetimes, your physical self will always look like yourself white, brown, Asian, black, short, tall, ugly, beautiful, female, male, etc. Each different form still will bear your core features.

3. Can the Astral Body exist at higher and lower levels of the Astral World at the same time?

No. Where you are is who you are in emotional wisdom, peacefulness, empathy, and virtue. You cannot rise higher than your consciousness.

It sometimes happens that a person who is working as a missionary will go down to the lower Astral Realms to contact those poor folks who could use some help. Sometimes all it takes is a fresh, energetic person to lift a depressed soul out of his private hell. There are many such missionaries who merely visit these people. In doing so, they open the way for angelic help to change the situation.

4. Can we tell on the Astral Dimension whether or not someone is having an incarnation?

Not to look at, usually, unless you engage him/her in conversation. Although the AB does change subtly in response to emotional situations, it remains basically stable.

5. Does prana exist in the fourth dimension?

No. Prana is a physical energy.

There is emotional energy a-plenty in the Astral World. You can see it, taste it, hear it, feel it, smell it, and touch it. Be careful about your feelings! Nothing is hidden there.

6. Can you eat cake in the Astral World?

Oh yeah. I’ve dreamed a fabulous chocolate cake, and eaten the whole thing. When I woke up, I felt satisfied for an entire day. Didn’t want to eat another bite.

Many of our food choices are emotional. Our desire for these foods is obvious in the Astral World. Thought forms in the Astral aura and little beasties who feed off of our desire help to shape what we want to eat, or buy, or fuck, or read, etc.

You can fabricate any food you like in the Astral World, and it will taste more flavorful than anything you can have here.

7. Meditation Exercise: Astral Shower

Every day, we accumulate negative energy that clings to our astral selves. It behooves us once in a while to direct the attention to cleansing the astral body and freeing it from any negative attachments. This can prevent illness and allow blessing to more easily enter the heart chakra.

• Envision yourself standing near a beautiful waterfall of golden water. It is very tall, yet the waters fall gently into a shallow pool, which you can wade into. The sides are built of precious gems that glow with a lovely light.

• Step into the pool and approach the sparkling waterfall. Be aware of encrustations clinging to your body, making you feel heavy. They weigh down on your back and shoulders. They drag at your feet. They stain your arms and legs. They pierce your flesh and cause wounds and dents in your body.

• Stand in front of the waterfall and say, “Divine Waters of cleansing and healing, thank you for washing away all worry, fear, criticism, crankiness, weariness, resistance, regret, ire, and grudge. I surrender them to Infinite Divine Wisdom, and God shows me how to react with nobility, patience, nurturing, and understanding.”

• Step into the golden shower. Feel the encrustations loosening their hold on you, then falling away and dissolving in Divine Light. They are blessed and will be recycled for constructive purposes. The wounds and indentations become filled with golden Light. They heal and you can see that your body is perfect and glowing with Divine Blessing.

• Say, “In Divine Mind, I am whole, lively, and blessed, now and always, in the loving hands of the Almighty Spirit.”

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Universal Traveler

Who can say how many wonderful stories could be told by the myriads of souls who inhabit this earth life? The thousands of lifetimes experienced by each are memorable in their singularity. My beloved friends, you yourselves have known many exciting moments and days of high drama. This is the path of physical living—to hang precipitously in the balance of life and death on a daily basis and in this precarious position to learn to turn the world on a thought and to change the meaning of your existence from one of fearful survival to mastery over the very universe itself. Do not regret any moment of it or any time spent in what you felt were wasted hours. Each precious second is recorded and shared with others so that the feast of blessing may ripple outward in the Network of Light through these tales of discovery, maturity, wisdom, and courage. The way may seem dark and unknown, but there are always loving, invisible hands waiting to be invoked for help and guidance.

I remember a certain spirit who committed murderous acts even up to his fourth degree of initiation. Yet he managed to become our first Christ even then. You cannot judge or be judged in this existence. If you do condemn others, the energy falls back to you without fail so that you will understand the blessings attached to tragedy, the compulsions attached to desire and rage, the mechanics of the body’s relationship to its emotions. There can be no greater glory than slogging through the torment of daily regularity while maintaining the inner disciplines of persistence, consistency, humor, and faith.

In the Astral Plane, or, the Fourth Dimension there are some possibilities that are not available to the vibrations of the physical dimension. It is a relatively lively place, full of activity and quick to respond to the thoughts and feelings of a person. Our Astral Bodies are experiencing wonderful adventures in addition to our physical activities. Knowing this empowers us to control the quality of our reactions, thoughts, and behaviors.

POINT OF VIEW—The Astral Body may observe itself from inside and outside while still being intact. Without moving, one may contact, converse with, and look at any person one desires. The clarity and strength of the contact depends on one’s ability to focus.

LOCATION—To know a place is necessary for the ability to get there. Each life-group or clan has a native area in the lower Astral World that the members automatically gravitate toward until the 1DI. Thereafter, guides show us other places and higher experiences so that we can take ourselves to them unaided. The speed and mode of our travel is related to experience and Light consciousness.

SENSATION—Feelings can be felt, heard, and smelled. Their beauty or unpleasantness depends on their inherent quality. Free from the demands of the digestive system, the Astral Body still enjoys the flavors and textures of food. Some people continue to eat as a habit in between lifetimes. Others enjoy it only rarely if at all. We carry our emotions either on the Astral Body itself or in the auric field. The sexual pleasures are also entertained by some on a regular basis. Sounds are accompanied by thought forms and colors that add a dimension of meaning. Music has the ability to traverse the Third and Fourth Dimensions.

ELEMENTALS—Our habitual thoughts and feelings accumulate energy until they become life forms. As we continue to nourish them with the same thoughts and feelings, they become sentient beings. These are our astral children and we are karmically responsible for their fate. They generate a cycle of emotional symbiosis that can either be positive or negative. Their appearance depends on their strength, quality, and maturity. They accompany us through lifetimes and in between until we learn to give them over to the angels for training and divine companionship.

RECREATION & LEARNING—Great halls of learning are available to all at many high and low levels of the Astral World. The knowledge one may learn is highly specialized and targets a useful skill needed in the present physical incarnation or in the one to come. These skills range from science to art to healing to nurturing—every technique invented and about to be innovated. The children born in the world today have already done extensive training in computers, technical arts, and adaptability. Magnificent resorts and fantastic places are available for people who need some emotional healing and renewal.

LOVED ONES AND HELPERS—Are accessible by thinking about them. To think of a person is to contact them or to travel to them. Again, the speed and effectiveness of these contacts depends on skill, focus, and experience.

ANGELS—Angels and members of the Hierarchy are as invisible to astral eyes as they are to physical eyes. It requires the same meditative state to contact your Guardian Angel from your Astral Body as in your physical life.

NATURE SPIRITS—On the other hand, our siblings in the Devic Kingdom are astral beings just as we are, and they can be seen and interacted with the same as people. However, many nature beings are hostile to members of humanity because of their destructive work against nature. The more loving friendships we can forge with them the better for all. These follow a separate path from ours and do not have identical initiations.

ANIMALS—Pets and other animals usually spend their astral time in a place called The Great Playground Out Yonder. They live by karmic rules the same as we do and climb the spiritual ladder of enlightenment as well. Actually, if you are categorizing entities by their spiritual evolution, animals are nearly even to humans (older animal souls are higher than young human souls). They are developing along a separate path from our own, although sometimes (rarely) either of us might step through the boundaries and taste the experiences of the other path. We share this planet to learn companionship and understanding. If there is a strong emotional attachment, an animal or a person may visit each other or accompany each other for an extended time (even lifetimes).

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To think it is to feel it.

To feel it is to believe it.

To believe it is to manifest it.

We are creators in the universe, as are all forms of life.