Astral Encounter Analysed
Dreams and astral projection experiences may be valuable to a yogi if these perceptions render clarity about the situation of consciousness in the various bodies. These include the consciousness of the physical form, that of the subtle body in various dimensions, that of the causal form, that of seemingly bodily-less states and any other supernatural or spiritual state.
Now that the physical system which is known as me is sixty-seven + years (67+), something naturally occurs which is that I frequently meet with childhood and young adult friends whom I have not communicated with in decades. It is common that as soon as the physical system reaches sixty (60) years, persons from one’s childhood days are experienced in dreams and astral projection. It may even be that one is contacted by such persons through social media and email. Before the digital surge, this happened psychically by increase thinking of such persons if they were too distant to contact physically.
I inform that this happens because when facing terminal diseases of the body, one subconsciously thinks about death and about the people whom one was with when one formed as an embryo previously. That is an instinct in the psyche.
I was in an astral environment on October 25, 2018, where three friends from my teen years assembled. Each astral body was like that of the teen physical form we used years ago. I noticed this and looked down at the arms of my body. The other friends, three of them, thought of things which we did as a group at that time. They had blank stares as their mental focus was into their intellects, retrieving memories and thinking of what we did at that time.
My subtle body had the feel of exactly how the physical/astral combination felt at the time when it was fourteen (14) years of age. Within the body, it felt like when one gets a new properly fitted pair of shoes. I immediately shifted forward in time to the present physical body getting information about how my elderly physical body currently feels. In comparison it felt like old worn shoes which have soles which exposes the bottom of the feet to surfaces and which have laces which could not be properly strapped.
As I did this, one friend produced a beer. He wanted us to drink as we did in our youth when it was trendy for teen aged boys to do what their elders instructed them not to do. However we had pressing issues on the physical side and so the astral meeting soon ended with the astral bodies departing in a split second to resynchronize into our elderly physical bodies which were sleeping in various locations.
The indication of this experience is that when one is faced with old age, one has this tendency to meet with friends from the long lost past, so that one can again take another embryo in a situation where one would go to school with chums from the past.
Is this what a yogi should do?
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The indication is absolutely appropriate and adequate under normal circumstances, and for all intended purposes. Furthermore, there is no need for anyone to alter the natural course of life, not any more than one should modify any other process that is developed, maintained and carried out since time immemorial by the subtler natural energies and forces, namely the life force and its intrinsic ramifications throughout the bodily forms.
The yogi or anyone should undertake to act in contradiction to the life force only if it is their determination to upset the natural and normal cycle which is fated to happen again and again just as waves are to come crushing on the shore repeatedly and for evermore. That will be the case so long as the status-quo and the environment are maintained.
As a tendency one may indeed, avoid being "suicidal", by seeing to the preservation of life (-cycles) and therefore allowing for the manifestations of re-rooting through the establishment of desires, starting in the subtle reality. A key element of this is through association (and or obligations).
Because it is the very fear of death that is extending in this manner, as it has become a deep seated and compulsive instinct of the life force. That permeates the psyche of the living entities (to include animal forms, naturally).
How is one to develop a deeper understanding of the distinction between the subtle material nature, life force and the self. And then to actualize that concept.
