These misty, blue shells are also seen in graveyards, floating around the burial site as ghosts.
As the physical body dies, it leaves an etheric shell. Many of the inhabitants of this world are passing through, or drifting around, casting off base desires, on the way to their final resting place: devachan or ‘place of the gods’.Ī psychic’s connection to the astral plane accounts for ghostly apparitions and phenomena during séances. He revealed an insight into the afterlife that drew upon Hindu concepts. such as astral animals, victims of untimely deaths, fairies, black magicians, vampires and werewolves. Leadbeater described an astral plane (aka kamaloka) teeming with inhabitants living and nonliving. Yet, if you are expecting to meet a few angels and the odd phantom, you may be surprised. With the use of astral projection, scrying (such as gazing in a mirror or crystal ball) or with the guidance of an adept teacher, you can enter this world. The astral world is said to be the spiritual realm, where we pass to after we die. If we reach out with our minds into these realms, we can sometimes see the creatures that live in them.Īs I said, what we see is what is projected at us by these creatures, because they are not solid like us and can project into our minds what they want us to see, or what we think we are seeing.The astral body can detach from the physical body, allowing a journey to the astral plane. The problem is that all these realms – etheric and astral are attached to us and are influencing us all the time. Now, there are creatures of all sorts that can be in any of these realms. There are 8 in all, but are almost impossible to see. It can easily be seen by anyone who trains themselves to see into it.īut the astral realms are of higher frequency. That etheric realm is everywhere but it is just a bit higher in frequency than our physical realm. We have a ‘physical body.’ Attached to our physical body is a sort of cloud that stretches out for a bit. We could say that the etheric realms are connected to physicality but the astral realms – or dimensions – are spiritual (non-physical) in nature.Īt our death the physical body and the etheric connection also dies but our spirit, connected to the astral realms lasts for ever.
So, the astral realms are the very important dimensions that exist permanently but the etheric realms just link the astral realms to our physical body. Information from the astral realms passes into the etheric realms and then into our body (or mind). The astral realms are permanent dimensions, first created by God, and each one contains, individually, all the information that we require to make us who we are. When we ‘die’, the etheric mist gradually dissolves. The etheric realms are a sort of mist that surrounds the body and are actually there to help incorporate the information from the astral realms into our physical body.
What’s the difference between the Etheric and the Astral realm?