| Peter Novak writes in The Division of Consciousness, | | | | the chair where I was meditating. Another woman I |
| "Half the world believes in Judeo-Christian-Muslim | | | | know left her body and looked back towards her |
| heaven-or-hell scenario, an afterlife containing a | | | | physical body. She saw her body, but it was in a |
| judgment followed by an eternal reward or | | | | totally different position than her physical body she |
| punishment, while the other half believes in the | | | | had just left. I believe it was the etheric body that |
| Hindu-Buddhist-Taoist reincarnation scenario, in which | | | | she was seeing. In the astral, we see the astral |
| people are continually reborn into new bodies, | | | | counterparts of the physical, but I think we can also |
| forever forgetting their past lives and identities." | | | | see our etheric shell. |
| Having processed nine Past Lives through hypnotic | | | | People who are sickly have reported more out of |
| regression with a Certified Past Life therapist, I will | | | | body experiences (O.O.B.Es). I think this is because |
| dispute the statement that, "we forever forget our | | | | the etheric is weak and the astral is able to separate |
| Past Lives." As a result of doing the regression work, | | | | more easily. Both our physical and etheric bodies are |
| I am now aware that many aspects of my previous | | | | magnetic in nature and influence the pull of the astral. |
| lives filtered into my conscious mind beginning at age | | | | When objects are moved, I think it is more from the |
| three. However, I quickly learned from my mother's | | | | influence of the etheric body, rather than the astral |
| admonishment, "Now, Dorothy don't get carried | | | | which does not share the same vibrations as objects |
| way," that talking about my memories of 'previous' | | | | in the physical. The etheric is of a higher vibration |
| experiences was forbidden. Two of my Past Lives | | | | than the physical, but lower than the astral. |
| have been written about extensively. There have | | | | Astral |
| also been several well documented past life | | | | The astral body is aligned with the physical and is of |
| memories, which have been published--Across Time | | | | a lower vibration when it is attached. To unattach, |
| and Space, Jenny Cockell, Looking for Carol | | | | the frequencies must be raised. The astral body can |
| Beckworth, Commander Robert Snow, Thomas | | | | transcend various levels in the astral plane. It reacts |
| Andrews Voyage Into History: Titanic Secrets | | | | to thoughts and can see the astral counterpart of |
| Revealed Thru The Eyes of Her Builder, William | | | | the physical world. It cannot affect physical objects |
| Barnes, The Return of the Revolutionaries, Walter | | | | because they do not share the same vibrations. The |
| Semkiw, Somebody Else's Yesterday, Jeffrey Keene, | | | | astral body can transcend time and space. There is a |
| Marilyn Monroe Returns--The Healing of a Soul, Adrian | | | | feeling of separation when consciously projecting |
| Finklestein, MD. | | | | from the body. People have reported feeling a |
| Eastern philosophies posits that the human has not | | | | rushing, vibrating, roaring, crackling and popping (to |
| only the physical body, but a series of overlapping, | | | | name a few). When in the astral, our filter is |
| multidimensional bodies. These bodies are variously | | | | removed and we are able to see, hear and feel |
| described according to different traditions, but | | | | more. This is commonly where the consciousness |
| essentially they include the etheric/ electromagnetic | | | | resides upon death. |
| body (seat of the chakras), the astral/emotional | | | | Mental |
| body (the basic formative dimension for emotions as | | | | The mental body is where remote viewing happens. |
| polarized expressions), the mental body (the sphere | | | | When you achieve bi-location during remote viewing, |
| of abstract knowledge and concrete thinking, the | | | | there is no feeling of separation as with astral |
| realm of Forms). The last is the causal body (seat of | | | | projection. There is also no visual distortion as there |
| the Soul, the timeless, spiritualized agent behind | | | | sometimes is with astral projection (depending on |
| sequential human incarnations). | | | | where you are at on the astral plane). My first |
| Physical | | | | "projection" was a mental one. I went straight from |
| This is self explanatory. The physical body has the | | | | the physical to the mental body which explains why |
| lowest vibrations and is attached to the etheric and | | | | there were no vibrations. I just involuntarily "popped" |
| the astral. | | | | out and was several feet away. I also think the |
| Etheric | | | | mental body is often independent of our physical one. |
| The etheric body can leave the physical. I think its | | | | Unlike astral projection, when I separate, I detach |
| role is a "life energy" body. When the body goes to | | | | from the body and travel accordingly. In the mental, |
| sleep, the etheric expands, the chakras open, and we | | | | one just shows up somewhere and have done |
| receive energy and restore our depleted supply. This | | | | nothing to travel there. The mental body does not |
| is why it is also referred to as the vitality sheath or | | | | contain the thought "junk" of the astral. One may be |
| health body. When I'm tired and drained, I can lay | | | | able to see partial thoughts formed in the astral (as in |
| down for half an hour, enter a trance like state and | | | | a partially built ship), but not in the mental. When I |
| wake up feeling totally refreshed. This is not the | | | | wake up in the mental, I am usually nowhere near |
| projection of the astral body, but a charging of the | | | | my body and have no sensation of a body of any |
| etheric. If the etheric projected a great deal, our | | | | kind. The mental body also transcends time and |
| bodies would feel drained, not refreshed, upon return. | | | | space. Advanced remote viewers, using their mental |
| When I astral project, my etheric is doing its job of | | | | body, communicate telepathically. |
| replenishing my body, and when I come back, I am | | | | Causal: |
| refreshed. The two are independent. | | | | Seat of the Soul, the timeless, spiritualized agent |
| When people experience "duality" a.k.a mind splitting | | | | behind sequential human incarnations. |
| (where the consciousness resides at two locations) I | | | | Documented evidence of past lives, reincarnation and |
| believe one part of the consciousness is in the | | | | healing |
| etheric and another one is in the astral. | | | | "Many Lives, Many Masters," Weiss, MD |
| Not everyone sees the 'silver cord.' I have seen this | | | | "Through Time Into Healing," Weiss, MD |
| cord. It has been suggested that the cord is related | | | | Only Love is Real," Weiss, MD |
| to etheric projection, not astral. If the cord was | | | | "Messages from the Masters" Weiss, MD |
| associated with just astral projection, then we would | | | | "Care of the Soul, "Thomas Moore |
| see it every time we astrally projected. | | | | "Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief |
| I remember leaving my body and I looked back | | | | in Afterlife, Past Lives and Living with Purpose," Ellie |
| towards my physical body. I saw my body sitting in | | | | Kaplan Spitz and Brian L. |