Astral body
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Oct 6, 2026
speaker_0NARRATOR
What happened instead is the following.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Imagine that this is Weiniger's physical body and that these are his etheric and astral bodies.
speaker_0NARRATOR
They were drawn on the blackboard.
speaker_0NARRATOR
If one were to observe this astral body and its eye, one would see the most beautiful and significant things.
AcaciaHOST
Once the Rainbow Bridge was complete, I didn't immediately jump into another healing framework.
AcaciaHOST
I started practicing, meditating consistently, paying attention to the way my consciousness changed during meditation, experimenting with intuitive guidance, exploring astral body practices, paying closer attention to physical sensations, And thinking much more intentionally about how I wanted to develop psychically.
AcaciaHOST
This was different from a lot of my earlier development.
AcaciaHOST
Before, so much of my psychic journey happened spontaneously.
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AcaciaHOST
Sometimes talking was what connected all of it.
AcaciaHOST
So the practice became less that I need to become clairvoyant and more what happens when I combine the ways I naturally perceive.
AcaciaHOST
And that eventually brought me into something I hadn't really explored intentionally before, which was my relationship with my astral body.
AcaciaHOST
So one night I tried an astral body exercise.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
In such a case, a psychic who can understand him, or a medium through whom he can write or speak, is of real service to him.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
It should be observed that the reason why he cannot usually write or speak without a medium is that one state of matter can ordinarily act only upon the state next below it; and, as he now has no denser matter in his organism than that of which the Kama-rupa is composed, he finds it impossible to set up vibrations in the physical substance of the air, or to move the physical pencil without borrowing living matter of the intermediate order contained in the etheric double, by means of which an impulse can readily be transferred from the one plane to the other.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
Now, he would be unable to borrow this material from an ordinary person, because such a man's principles would be too closely linked together to be separated by any means likely to be at his command.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But the very essence of mediumship is the ready separability of the principles.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The Shade.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
When the separation of the principles is complete, the Kamaloka life of the person is over, and, as before stated, he passes into the Devachanic condition.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
But just as when he dies to this plane he leaves his physical body behind him, so when he dies to the astral plane he leaves his Kama-rupa behind him.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
If he has purged himself from all earthly desires during life, and directed all his energies into the channels of unselfish spiritual aspiration, his higher ego will be able to draw back into itself the whole of the lower manas which it put forth into incarnation.
speaker_0HOST
It behaves more like water responding to wind than stone sitting still.
speaker_0HOST
So how does a person connect to this realm? through something called the astral body.
speaker_0HOST
The astral body is a duplicate of your physical body, but made of that finer material we just talked about.
speaker_0HOST
It has your shape, your outline, your general form.
speaker_0HOST
But it's built to separate from the physical body and move on its own, independent of it.
speaker_0HOST
The way your reflection could theoretically walk off if the rules of physical mirrors didn't apply.
speaker_0HOST
And if the astral body can separate and travel, there has to be something keeping it connected to the physical body so it doesn't just wander off forever.
speaker_0HOST
That connection is called the silver cord.
speaker_3NARRATOR
If consciousness per se, or the soul, is above all direct proof at the present stage of human evolution, the vehicles through which it functions are more or less apparent to us provided they are capable of affecting the brain.
speaker_3NARRATOR
At the present stage of human evolution, this is the case only with the astral body.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The other bodies are too fine to manifest through the nervous system such characteristics as are calculated to furnish scientists with proof of their existence.
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They can only be felt and proved in and by yoga.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It is not without importance, however, to set forth the proofs of the existence of a vehicle of consciousness immediately above the physical, for it affords us a wider horizon and throws far more light on the rest of the subject.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Proofs of the astral body.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Certain normal and abnormal or morbid phenomena in man have proved the existence of this vehicle, which we will call the higher consciousness, for it is far greater than normal waking consciousness, that of the brain.
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In the somewhat rare cases in which this consciousness is expressed in the physical world, it is forced to make use of the brain.
AlexGUEST
Like, we die and our souls try to escape the earth and the moon eats us.
AlexGUEST
Unless we can develop our astral bodies enough to be able to move around.
AlexGUEST
I don't believe the moon eats us.
AlexGUEST
Just for, like, qualification.
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AlexGUEST
I mean, that'll do it.
AlexGUEST
There are some conspiracy theories that I believe are personally very true.
AlexGUEST
There's a guy, Mark Adams, he wrote a book called The Game of Saturn, where he talks about how it's pretty much understood that certain Venetian and Milan-based, I believe, Italian-based in general, nobility groups was really big on, like, we will work our astral bodies strong as fuck so we can reincarnate as our own descendants and enjoy our family wealth.
AlexGUEST
Like, I believe they probably pulled that off.