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