After a good middle-of-the night session with Powell’s book The Astral Body, I returned to bed and at once felt in contact with my Higher Self. I felt lightness, clarity and well-being. I was encouraged to shift my attention, and entered the vision space.
I see brilliant bands of color at
the edges of my energy field. Orange and deep blue, then yellow, crimson and
green. A purple band towards the outside and a lighter, translucent refulgence
around it.
I have the sense of rising above both my physical and my astral bodies.
Now I am high up inside an immense bubble or dome of light. I realize with some surprise that the tiny object far below me – as if glimpsed from an airplane – is my physical body, with a second body floating above it. I feel am entirely liberated from the tug of feelings and desires. I am instructed that I am now in my mental body. Its form, when separated from the astral body, is that of a point of light.
To understand the role ofkama (desire) I am allowed to see the effect of
descending into the astral body and removing the sphere of light that encloses
the whole scene. I’m struck by the urgent, ravening quality of all the things
that come through. Would-be human visitors include women filled with sexual
desire; some may be thought-forms I have generated, others seem to have
independent existence. Many other thought-forms press for attention, as do
discarnate entities.
I resolve to practice continuity of consciousness and pursue this teaching experience.
I fall into a dream for a few moments. I find myself, very realistically, back in a restaurant I used to frequent in an earlier period of my life.
For much of the night, I am conscious of learning and studying. I read complex but very clear material on the nature of the subtle bodies that I feel sure I will be able to reproduce. I’m determined to bring as much back through the filters into “brain knowledge” as possible.
I have the sense of rising above both my physical and my astral bodies.
Now I am high up inside an immense bubble or dome of light. I realize with some surprise that the tiny object far below me – as if glimpsed from an airplane – is my physical body, with a second body floating above it. I feel am entirely liberated from the tug of feelings and desires. I am instructed that I am now in my mental body. Its form, when separated from the astral body, is that of a point of light.
To understand the role of
I resolve to practice continuity of consciousness and pursue this teaching experience.
I fall into a dream for a few moments. I find myself, very realistically, back in a restaurant I used to frequent in an earlier period of my life.
For much of the night, I am conscious of learning and studying. I read complex but very clear material on the nature of the subtle bodies that I feel sure I will be able to reproduce. I’m determined to bring as much back through the filters into “brain knowledge” as possible.
- from my journal for December 28, 1995.
I enjoy opening old journals at random and seeing what was I was doing, in one world or another, in earlier phases of life. Here, nearly thirty years ago, I am road-testing Theosophist descriptions of the multiple vehicles of consciousness by traveling beyond my body and the astral plane, in a succession of subtle bodies. Dreaming is not a spectator sport. I drew on similar experiences in Dreamgates, my book for frequent fliers.
"Bilocation at St. Martin de Londres". Journal drawing by Robert Moss
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