IMAGINATION—a tool of the Astral-Emotional Plane

Here is a short excerpt taken from a book that highlights the benefits and dangers of the Astral Plane. It was offered by the Wise to help us unravel some wrong conceptions of this plane of consciousness acquired over the last century. Just as in the physical world we are aware of the beauty that exists here, and its dangers, so it is in the astral world. Those who are familiar with the wisdom teachings will appreciate the ideas offered here.

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“Imagination, as a skill with its own frequency, is close to the frequency of mental discernment. So imagination is a function of the astral plane at its highest level where emotional energies interface and intermingle with the mental energies that guide your daily life – eating, sleeping, working, getting the children to school, etc. (In Eastern Teachings, the frequency is known as Kāma-manas – the desire-mind)

We call these frequencies the concrete mental range which intermingles with the higher astral frequencies – what is desired, what it is you want, what it is that brings a pleasure response, what it is that brings pain. It will probably come as no surprise to those reading this that at some point in time your desire for what you want becomes spiritual aspiration.

This might sound good, perfect, and forward moving. But it is not necessarily so. If not guided by soul contact then aspiration can become a living manifestation of all those books and stories about the righteous who in essence cause great suffering to those around them, depending upon how much power they have. This is not the positive kind of aspiration referred to. But it is and can be a stage in the process of aspiration that turns desire to spiritual growth – desire meaning what you want, what you want to have, what you want to be, what you want to have exist, e.g., world peace or a loving extended family. The desire and want that you experience, those that drove your decisions when you were a child, will evolve as you mature.

At some point, you know that your desire, the wants that drive your decisions, become what would commonly be recognized as spiritual aspiration. You realise that there is something beyond this dense physical daily life that you live. You recognize the possibility, the probability, the actuality of your guiding soul and the existence of beings from higher dimensions. You then wish to contact your soul because you have been told that your soul is the key to guidance that leads to entry and communication with the higher frequencies and the Beings who live there.

You aspire. And your decisions become based on that aspiration. This is the use that is intended for the astral plane. It is not intended to function as a place of storage, as a closet for your desires and wants in the dense physical world, but rather as a pathway that is conducive to your aspiration for reaching higher frequencies, reaching your soul and communicating with the beings who inhabit these higher frequencies. The astral frequency range is a pathway and traveling that pathway is a period of transition on the spiritual path of ascent.

That is what the astral plane is intended to be. It is a place of travel when you are out of your physical body in sleep, or nowadays, by intention. When you do this travel, be aware that while much of the astral plane can be educational and useful, not everything is in your best interest and there are places where it is dangerous to go. The dangers have been more than adequately covered for decades. The educational and useful aspects of this frequency range of the astral plane are yet to be fully explored with respect and alert curiosity, rather than fear.

The astral plane can be useful in arriving at an empathetic understanding that can bring much needed unity to the human family. On the astral plane, you will find and touch general desires of the masses, general fears of the masses. Fear of having one’s children kidnapped, fear of not having a job, fear of failure, fear of loss, fear of death. If you want to know what it is like to live in a place of war and bombardment, you will find those fears and desires in the astral realm, and the desire for quiet, the desire for peace, the desire that your home can be rebuilt, the desire that if you leave your home and country because of the bombing, you will find a place of welcome for yourself and your family.

You can find education on the astral plane if you open your awareness to conditions and realities that are driving people in other circumstances. You might discover the chance to empathetically walk in someone else’s shoes, a chance to understand what is going through another human being’s emotional reality. That is one educational aspect of the astral plane. That experience, that awareness can spur your own spiritual growth and your own willingness to spread light through the dangerous areas of the astral plane as it were, and to spread the light of information and knowledge into your world, into your family, into your neighborhood, into your work place. That can be one of the most useful aspects of the astral plane – letting yourself become aware of what other people in other countries, in other social classes are dealing with in their daily lives.”

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The key for us to remember in our journey back to Source is that we are traveling through the astral/emotional plane, traveling through it just as we are travelling through the physical plane on our return journey to Source.