The Planes or Dimensions …
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Thanks to spiritoceanrainfall … I am finally able to get a viewable image into the board. My thanks to that member.
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I am going to make this quite basic. Please understand that the “shape” of the dimensions is not actually in an hourglass form … but the moving upwards through them severely bottlenecks above the etheric plane and the “equator” so to speak … would be the 5th region … Sat Lok ( Lok meaning plane ) … Atma Lok … true home of Soul Itself … other names have certainly been used … and this “plane” would be Soul’s first step into the pure regions of the God Worlds … and the first region Soul Itself would be without any “external” body or sheath … for the duration that the experience lasts. This is a large part of the concept of the “Narrow Way.”
Secondly … these are very broad distinctions … for within each of these “dimensions” are many, many sub-planes that would be grouped into the more broad level. There are hundreds … if not thousands … of sub-planes that belong in the astral plane. In the Lower Psychic Worlds … no plane is a solitary area … again … so to speak.
The planes or dimensions apply to the various “sheaths” or “bodies” that are often referred to that surrounding Soul Itself in the Lower Psychic Worlds. The physical plane would apply to the physical body … next would be the astral … which would be the emotions … then the mental worlds … more often than not divided into three very general distinctions … the causal … which would be memories held from lifetime to lifetime … the mental worlds of habitual thought patterns and beliefs would be the next … or 4th … and the last plane in the mental worlds would be the etheric … which deals with symbols and the imagery that portrays them. Those would be the five Lower Psychic Worlds planes … physical, astral, causal, mental, etheric.
This is a part of “Know Thyself.” All is *not* contained within the physical body … in fact … little is. We “feel” them … and many facets … such as thought … are “focused through” the physical body … but they are neither contained nor are a real part of the physical body.
Third … most portrayals of the planes have them stacked in a pancake style … but this is is a bit misleading. These dimensions distinguish themselves one from the other by rate of vibration and all stack upon themselves in the same “space.” We are encapsulated in all of them at the same time but can be aware of only what we can experience via our ability and level of awareness. We cannot “see” the astral plane with the physical eyes but we can visually see that plane via the third eye … or the spiritual eye … with training.
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The lowest rung on the ladder … so to speak … would be the material worlds … the physical plane … the plane of matter, energy, space, time … science … the physical body … the tendency and illusion that the outer world and life is the “real” world.
The astral plane is the plane of emotions. When we feel emotions … which is almost impossible not to do while in the physical world … we are feeling it through the astral body. This is often referred to as the Anda Lok. This is the vast, vast region within which most of our dreams take place at night.
The causal plane … often referred to as the Brahmanda Lok … is the seat of our physical incarnations, memories, and karmic implications. This would be the site of the infamous Akashic Records.
The mental worlds … seat of the universal mind power … the philosophies, ethic and moral teachings tend to locate here … aesthetics …
The etheric plane … often accepted as the subconscious or unconscious areas … an area of symbols and rather primitive thought … and tends to be a very thin sheath or body between the mental areas and Soul Itself.
There is a vast void at the top of the etheric plane … guarding or obscuring the Soul Plane … which could be thought of as an “equator” between the two sets of dimensions. Above the 5th Plane … the Soul Plane … Sat Lok … Atma Lok … (many other names) … there are many pure worlds of the Pure God Worlds that do have names but are not as distinguishable as the Lower Psychic Worlds bodies. Eventually … one gets to the actual Core Creator God IT-self … at the center … although there are reportedly other “dimensions” beyond that area.
The “names” given these regions are more for the individuals ability to at least have that much “structure” within these very non-structure or no-thing or formless worlds. All these regions have to do with foundational consciousness … non-specific consciousness … the building blocks of what we call consciousness here in the Lower Psychic Worlds. Obviously … there is no shape or form. Just what *is* consciousness without form has tied up definition forever. We here in the Lower Psychic Worlds have enough trouble understanding consciousness when it “has” structure and form as distinguished by it various perceived experiences here … such as physical vs emotional vs mental vs subconscious or unconscious … etc.
While in the physical body … everything is designed to be felt as “contained” within the physical body itself … and this obscures the reality that the emotions, thoughts, etc … are very different than the physical body and all of this is not simply contained and grouped as physical experience. Many believe that emotions are just something that the body feels … when they are actually a distinct and different layer that helps to protect Soul Itself … but yes … to give emotional sentimentality to physical experience. The same would apply to the mental worlds … especially memory … for if memory were distinctly part of the physical body we would not be able to carry *any* memory forward from lifetime to lifetime. As it is … since so many of our “memories” are based out of current lifetime experiences … when the physical body “dies” … those specific conditions and situations “die” too … but the “attitude towards” or the “essence of” these situations are carried over and then redesigned into the next or following lifetime.
Lastly … please understand … that the entire grasp of “vibration” goes far beyond what is currently accepted. The entire schoolroom … and the worlds above and below … are designed to be invisible to any and all levels just above where any specific individual is. In other words … one cannot “see” or “be aware of” what is just beyond … or “higher” than they are … because that is vibrationally invisible to them. It is not just a matter of being ignorant of … whatever. One cannot *see* beyond where they are … and all must be learned … and earned … one step at a time.
Also … please understand … I did not design this. Existence is … what it is … in formed or formless variations … for a reason … and that is … for the education of Soul Itself.
A real esoteric tidbit … probably disputed by many … we have all visited the astral plane. This is the prime area where we each individually go during the nightly dream state … whether we remember our dreams or not.
More next Monday.
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