Progression through planes realms into the afterlife

Planes and Dimensions



When we shed the outer garment that is our physical body, we move into finer vibrational zones of the Astral Plane. This sphere of existence consists of a lower, middle, and higher Astral, although each plane actually contains many dimensions of varying vibratory rates. After physical death, most of us reportedly “wake up” in our astral body, living in the specific astral plane in which substance is vibrating at the same rate as the substance of our astral body. This is sometimes called our home frequency. During our lives on Earth and beyond we determine our vibratory rate by our thoughts, attitudes and spiritual understanding. Fear and resentment produce low vibrations, while love produces very high vibrations. Orthodox closed-mindedness (whether religious, scientific or political) produces low vibrations. Attachments to worldly things creates low vibrations, while calm detachment in the Eastern tradition produces high vibrations.

The Unseen Realms

The Realms of Spirit
The Lower Astral Planes are described as a dark, dismal world reminiscent of the Christian purgatory or hell. After dying, some people, because of the low vibration of their thoughts, are pulled toward and trapped near the physical plane in a state of confusion. There being no sense of time nor space in the worlds of spirit, they might reside here for years or even centuries of Earth time, totally bewildered, not even aware that they have died.

The Middle Astral Planes are pleasant realms where 60-70 percent of us wake up to be rehabilitated after our earthly education in “the school of hard knocks.”

The Higher Astral Planes are wonderful realms called Heaven by Christians, or the Summerland by spiritualists. About ten percent of the human population arrive at this level after “death”.

The Mental-Causal Planes are a realm of divine inspiration, free of earthly desires and conflict. The beings in these dimensions inspire many of the artistic and technical breakthroughs on Earth by sending silent messages to its inhabitants.

The astral planes are much like Earth, though more mental, less physical. In the spirit worlds thoughts create reality, so as thousands of people leave Earth and enter the astral planes, the worlds in those subtler planes take on an Earth-like appearance. Many messages we receive from “the other side” describe concert halls, museums, hospitals, schools and homes much like those on Earth, all set amongst flower-strewn meadows, mountains, and rivers that are like the landscapes on Earth, but more magnificent.

While the ultimate destiny of every soul lies in the “higher” or subtler planes in and beyond the celestial frequencies, a typical lifetime on Earth as a non-spiritual or moderately spiritual person drags our soul down to low frequencies. After physical death, our soul, being somewhat “acclimatized” to the Earth plane, would feel out of place in the higher realms, so the astral planes provide a buffer zone between a dense Earth plane rife with deception, fear and violence, and the higher, subtle realms of pure love, Light and wisdom. The astral planes provide very pleasant surroundings for resting before moving on. However, not everyone moves on right away. Some departed souls enjoy the astral planes so much that they choose to stay for centuries. Others choose to return to Earth to experience another lifetime in a new body - a process known as re-incarnation.

It has long been known that a new arrival in the spirit worlds, after a life on Earth with a typical western spiritual education, is initially lost and bewildered by the almost unimaginable series of new and strange experiences. Often there is an overriding sadness regarding the loved ones left behind. Such grief is completely natural - on both sides of the veil - but the new arrival must get on with the business of starting a new life. Excessive and prolonged grief by family members left behind on Earth presents a tie that tends to hinder the new arrival from concentrating on the job of starting a whole new life. It literally pulls the spirit of the newly deceased into low frequencies near the Earth and holds it there.

New arrivals have the opportunity to get to know people-in-spirit from all stages of human history and to meet unfamiliar, intelligent beings of non earthly origin. How readily a newcomer can accept the many new and unusual things, is a factor in determining how quickly he or she may move on to the subtler dimensions. There is no real need to eat food. The astral body absorbs everything it needs for its health and well-being from its surroundings. There is no need for sex as there is no pregnancy in spirit. Still, sex as well as eating can be enjoyed in the astral planes by those who made it a major part of their lives while on Earth. Eventually they will find more important things to do.

Astral worlds are typically clean, pure and well organized. All planets are inhabited at the higher levels and within these higher planes of existence are lakes, forests, rivers, and oceans. There are no pests or predators. Climate is always spring like. New arrivals are usually drawn to an astral family of people with whom they are compatible - spiritually and mentally. In the astral planes we have true freedom.

Moving on up
As people move upward from the middle to the higher planes, their astral bodies become lighter, subtler, and of higher-frequency substance. When they reach the rapid vibrations of the mental-causal planes, their astral bodies disappear. The mental body is not really a body at all and can be described as a glowing mass of energy. Some people who advance into the mental-causal planes lose their interest in the affairs of Earth and move onto bigger realities. Other people return frequently to the astral planes, donning astral bodies as they descend, so that they can be involved in earthly projects such as the awakening of humanity.

Life in the lower stages of the astral world duplicate in every detail our lives on earth. Were it no so, the shock for the many who are uninstructed and ignorant would be more than they could stand. And so it has to be accomplished by very easy stages. The next stage of life resembles this current physical world. That is why so many in the astral planes are unaware they have passed beyond the physical.

Here essentially it is a world of thought, where thought is reality. And, being a thought world, thought moulds every expression of its life and its activity. Being so near to the earth plane, and peopled by men and women who are naturally still very material in their outlook on life, the expression of the thought is very gross and so, they tend to think in terms of physical things.
They cannot think of life apart from its physical aspects. There has never filtered into their consciousness any understanding of a life apart from the purely physical. They cannot visualise spiritual activities and, because they cannot visualise them, they have no place in their scheme of things. But there are degrees of astral life, for gradually as awakening comes, the grossness slowly but surely becomes more refined, and life, they begin to see, is something beyond its material aspect. When spiritual realisation dawns they are ‘dead’ to the astral world and they begin to live in the world of spirit. There are many deaths and many births within the many mansions (dimensions) of the Father.

The Lower Astral Plane is for the uninstructed and the ignorant - those who are unaware of the existence of spiritual realities - who can’t visualise anything beyond the purely physical. The astral world is not divided into watertight compartments.

You do not climb from one sphere into another; you grow - you evolve. The lower gives way to the higher. You ‘die’ and are born again and again. You do not lose the astral body in quite the same way that you lose the material body. It becomes rarefied and refined as the lower drops away. Death really means transformation and resurrection - the rising of the higher out of the lower.

Your ‘dead’ relatives are closer than you know. They know your secrets, the unspoken desires of your minds, your wishes, your hopes and your fears. And all the while they bring their influence to bear on you, to guide you so that you may be able to extract from your earthly lives the experiences so necessary for the growth of your souls. They are not vague, shadowy, nebulous beings, but real men and women who love you still and who are in reality closer to you than ever they have been before.

There is no parliament in the spirit world because there is no need to make laws to regulate the lives of the people who dwell there. The natural law takes care of people in the spirit world because they are confronted with it in a form which is inescapable. Because they no longer have physical bodies; the problem of physical life does not concern them. They are now expressing themselves in spiritual form and the natural law is in operation. There is no need for any intermediary.

In the halls or buildings of learning there are collections of varying kinds, of objects relating to earthly life throughout history, and also collections of interesting forms of spiritual life. For example, flowers that have not bloomed on earth and many other phases of natural life unknown to the third dimension.

Gifts, talents and faculties which people had on earth do not end with death. Death brings them greater freedom and the extended opportunities to express those talents.

Telepathy is the common method of communicating with each other. But it is possible for those who know how, to reach and address vast numbers, even when they are not themselves present.

There are no newspapers in our earthly sense, because there is no necessity to chronicle happenings, as we do on Earth. Information is constantly being dispensed to those who should have it by the ones whose occupation it is to spread these facts. There are people engaged on the task of disseminating these thoughts. They are specially trained for it.

If someone passes on who is known to many people by a certain name, it may be convenient for him to keep that name as long as it is necessary for him or her to be so identified. That may take hundreds or even thousands of years. But once you have passed beyond the magnetic field of the earth, your name does not matter because you are then known for the individual that you truly are. Once you have passed the stage of earthly association and reached the span of spiritual life to which you are thus entitled, you emit a light, an aura, a radiation, which indicates who and what you are.

There is nothing in our world of matter with which you can compare the life of the spirit, where you are free from the body of matter, with liberty to go where you will, to see your thoughts take shape and to follow out the desires of your heart. This is the world where the artist finds all his dreams come true, where the painter and the poet realise their ambition, where genius has full power of expression, where the repressions of Earth are swept away and all gifts and talents are used in the service of one another. There are vast halls or buildings dedicated to all the arts, and literature has its place among them. It is possible to obtain knowledge of any subject in which you are interested.

On the other side there are no clumsy words to express inspiration, but where thought is the living language and reveals itself with lightning rapidity. This is the world with no money worries, no competition, no unemployment, no slums, no selfishness, an only one religion - that of love.

Flowers such as you have never seen, colours such as your eye has never beheld, scenes and forests. Birds, plants, streams and mountains - the astral plane has them all - in magnificent splendour! We have nothing on Earth to compare them with! And you will be able to enjoy it all.

After physical ‘death’
When we die and shed the physical body, we normally live on in the quantum realm for a few days. The Quantum realm is a sort of midway house between the physical and astral realms where we can prepare for the next stage in our transition.

We still possess a body of form and structure nearly identical to our physical body, but it’s lighter, subtler and more vibrant. This after-death interlude is supposed to be a gentle, relaxed time during which we get acclimated to our newfound freedom and lightness of being, and we tie up loose ends of our recent lifetime before moving on to the higher frequencies of the Astral Realms. We might journey back to the earh plane to visit friends and loved ones at their bedside, when their minds are in that half-awakened state in which they are consciously attuned to the spirit worlds, so that they can see our smiling face and hear our thoughts. Then, after a few days in the quantum realm, we move smoothly into the astral worlds and settle into a life of bliss, enjoyment and good service.

The Lower Astral Realm
While the quantum realm is supposed to be a gentle, relaxed area for everyone who leaves the Earth, it has developed dismal pockets of darkness and negativity where some people get stuck for a while before moving on to the the higher astral worlds. Some refer to this level as the Lower Astral. These pockets of darkness exist mainly due to humanity’s fear of death, a result of spiritual ignorance and misunderstanding. They boil over and spill back onto the Earth to stir up more negativity and they present an obstacle to many people leaving the Earth and looking for paradise.

Formation of darkness
As we approach death, we are supposed to be aware of the paradise that awaits us, and our thoughts and feelings of anticipation can then give us an inner joy and peacefulness which we carry along into the quantum realm at the moment of death. Most people make their transitions in that peaceful way. If all people died in that fashion—anticipating the beauty that awaited them—the quantum realm would be a place of delightful expectancy. Instead, some people on their death beds are wrought by uncertainty, remorse, and fear. Many people don’t believe there is an afterlife. They think that when they die, that’s the end. They regret leaving loved ones behind whom they’ll never see again. They desperately want to stay on the Earth, and their desperation sometimes reaches the level of panic. They regret that they didn’t accomplish more while they were alive. The troubled feelings present an obstacle on the road to paradise.

Most people on their deathbed have vivid dreams and visions of departed loved ones who approach them, beckoning them home, and those visions are supposed to be reassuring. Individuals who don’t believe in afterlife are usually confused and often terrified by the sight of “dead people” in their presence. Some newly deceased people struggle intensely to escape the people in spirit who have come to help them find paradise. They struggle to stay attached to Earth and their living loved ones. Sometimes these confused, troubled individuals without physical bodies remain attached to a residence on Earth, refusing to leave—trapped by their own fears and mis-understandings. Their energies can sometimes be sensed by those still in physical form. Occasionally this energy manifests as a whispy, ghostly apparition, and some people have reported seeing these “ghosts” as they wander obsessively in and around the house. Sometimes these entities are drawn into the pockets of darkness in the quantum realm which are inhabited by other confused individuals.

The challenge of humanity today is to spread the word of spiritual reality as quickly and as widely as possible, to wash away the fear of death which feeds the pockets of darkness in the quantum realm. It is time to restore the quantum realm to its intended state of gentle anticipation—a place of smooth and happy transition from a lifetime on Earth into the paradise of the astral worlds.

The Astral Realm is a world of form much like the Earth, though astral structures are easier to affect with thought and intention. Compared to our dense and heavy physical world, the astral world seems wispy and ethereal to us, but not to astral residents. Their world seems as solid and real to them as ours seems to us.

The astral realm contains many, many divisions of varying vibratory rates. The astral contains a “fourth level,” or mid-astral dimension, and the “fifth level,” or higher astral dimension. The lower the vibration, the denser the substance. After we have shed our physical body, most of us reportedly “wake up” in our astral body living in the astral region where substance is vibrating at a rate compatible to the substance of our astral body. This is sometimes called our home frequency. This frequency resonates with our own personal note - our personal frequency of vibration. Like attracts like, and we are drawn to the level of vibrational reality that exactly matches our own.

During our lives on Earth and beyond, we determine our vibratory rate by our thoughts, attitudes and spiritual understanding. Fear and resentment produce low vibrations, while love and reverence produce high vibrations. Devotion to a community raises the vibration, while isolation and separation lower it. Learning with an open mind raises the vibrations, while orthodox closed-mindedness and the resulting prejudice (whether religious, scientific or political) lower them. Attachments to worldly things create low vibrations, while calm detachment in the Eastern tradition produces high vibrations.

The astral realm is much like Earth, though more mental, less physical. In the spirit world thoughts create reality, so as thousands of people leave Earth and enter the astral planes, the worlds in those subtler planes take on an Earth-like appearance in resonance to the vibrational level of their thoughts and beliefs.

The astral realm is a buffer zone between a dense Earth plane rife with deception, fear and violence, and the higher, subtle realms of pure love, Light and wisdom. People in the astral realm can rest up and enjoy paradise to its fullest before deciding what to do next. Some people will reincarnate quickly to learn more of life’s lessons or to take on special missions in the physical realm. Others will work with an ethereal guide to learn how to purify the mind and, in so doing, raise the vibration of their consciousness so they can ascend to higher levels in the astral realm, and eventually find ultimate freedom in the ethereal realm.

Not everyone moves on right away, however. Some departed souls enjoy the astral planes so much that they choose to stay for centuries of our earth time. Others return to Earth for one reason or another to experience another lifetime in a new body.

Some residents live in thought-construct castles, fortresses or beautiful mansions, others in tents or teepees, whatever makes them comfortable. How readily a newcomer can accept the many new and unusual things is one factor determining how quickly he or she can move on to the subtler dimensions.

The astral body absorbs everything it needs for its health and well-being from its surroundings. There is no real need to eat, as astral residents acquire their nourishment through the loving energy of The Source, an energy which permeates through all levels of creation. Still, astral residents can eat if they have the desire, and most people newly arrived from Earth carry that desire with them. There is no need for sex, as there is no pregnancy in spirit, but sex can be enjoyed in the astral realm by those who made it a major part of their lives while on Earth. Eventually there will be more important things to do than following terrestrial patterns

 

Hi!


I loved this piece so much I joined the forum to ask where it came from. I love all things metaphysical and have since the age of twenty when I read all the Rampa books. There's always a lot of controversy surrounding Lobsang, and heaven knows where he got all the info, but in the years since the initial reading, I've had to come to the conclusion that his source contains pure metaphysics.

Greetings to all...

 

Thankyou for posting thi beautiful piece here.

Welcome Silbee

 

Thank you: - )


It's nice to among some like minded people...

 

wow, this is amazing. I am just amazed by this piece of writing. I love it! Pure genius!

 

It sounds like the Rosicrusan cosmo-conception. Me like-y... Me like-y very much

 

is there anymore info on this article? The author? more like it???

 

I like what I read.

 

seems you are much interested in the sipirituality..have u ever checked out sufism?

 

Islam? no way... I'm an strong, intelligent, independent woman... i'm not worth any less than a man. I believe men and women are equal...

From Wikipedia: [Sufism is] a science whose objective is the reparation of the heart and turning it away from all else but God.

All else but "God"? Sounds like Islam, Catholicism and Christianity... all oppressive.
I refuse to wear anything to hide my body. I love my body and I love showing it off because I'm beautiful.

NO THANK YOU!

 

hey hey, calm down!!! i didnt recommend you to convert! you dont have to be a muslim to check something out...
what else, the definition in that wiki stuff isvery dissatisfactory and false as well...
sufism does not make one a nun or a priest, its a practising of sipiritual lifeway, uplifting soul, gathering love of god that extends to the love of all creatures.... i am a sufi, but live as any ordinary person, ı dont lock myself indoors or in mosques..lol
dont be so appalled...its nothing got to do with the twintowers case, or Osama bin Laden(lol-its suspicious whether he really did it also), or beslan or any sort of violence...as to your body, of course everyone loves his body, that reply is very amusing...(but to be frank, if thats you in the picture, i cant say you are VERY beautiful, lets say beautiful)
i regret asking that to you....

 

I've never trusted Islam too much... the idea that women are slaves to men and must hide their beauty, that women have less rights...

 

this was my post to her in islam forum. so i paste it here as a reply to you...
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Originally Posted by XBloodyNailPolishX
Hold on... if I understand correctly:
ISLAM
Women are required to cover themselves and hide their beauty.
Women must be accompanied by a man at all times.
Women can't choose who they marry.
Women are punished for being raped.
Women are only meant to raise children and cook.

first sentence...true(due to many beneficical reasons- we may discuss with you privately if u like, for i hate jerks stirring things up when i am on a sincere talk)(but not as the way talibans order,lol.one neednt close her face and hands...its not written in Koran. its interpretation of some sects...and no type of clothing is specified...only rule is not to wear very tight and transparent clothing ,which catches the sexual attention of men)
second sentence, partly true...not always...on long journeys for instance,so as to avoid the disturbance of any ill-willed men,or any unexpected case with which she may not deal easily...
third sentence, thats absolutely false...my prophet has said that one father should let his daughter marry whom she chooses... he must be muslim of course ( due to the protection of the lady that she might be forced to convert or be abused by a nonmuslim- but of course that does not certainly mean that some ignorant ,"said to be" muslims may not abuse her!!!)
fourth sentence, completely false, not raped women, women who behave like whores are punished!!! i know a muslim marrying a raped woman in order to protect her from being abused by others again

last sentence, partly true...yes their main issue is to take care of the family, it is a selfevident fact that women are best in nurturing and training, not only of the children but of her husband also, carrying out some of the family responsibilities...for the phsychologic health of the family there is a lot to do by women, because they are above men in affection, care etc etc...they can even "train" their husbands, really... but this does not mean they are locked at home!!!they can work, they can earn money, travel etc etc... the first wife of my prophet was a noble woman in Mekka, and also a rich merchant...
there are teacher ladies and nurses in my family...
but as the mangement of household issues may tire a lady, they dont prefer working in heavyjobs... but there are many lawyers, doctors, artists(regarding islamic rules of course)even woman police...
so, what u know about us is not very realistiic...it seems that u only hear the way of those extremists, those taliban, who can never be the represantatives of islam...the rest silent quantity, are people as normal as anyone can be...be sure...
and it is a fact that there is poverty, misery presently, and i believe it to be a cathalysor (!) to push them to be themselves again, not lasy, easy humans...inshaallah...
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good post