Etheric Body

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 7 years before Jul 20, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

This was on Pavlina's Forum:

Lucidd's Question:

What is the difference in each plane? Has anyone projected into each of there? And is there something higher than the causal? 

MiBeloved's Response:

The definitions vary according the sect.

In general the causal place is the level from which this manifested world arose so from the view point of physics, this would be the place of dark matter and the place of anti-matter.

There could be something higher than the causal plane but that reality would be non-perceptible to anything on this side of the existential divide. Indian (India) books list a spiritual world which is higher than the causal plane. It is sometimes called brahman, parambrahman, akshara dhama, vaikuntha and shivaloka.

The etheric plane is the plane which the subtle body assumes as soon as the physical body dies. In other words, it might be said to be the ghost world. This etheric plane is part of the astral world, which really means that the etheric is a state that the astral body assumes as soon as the physical body dies.

The astral planes are many and therefore the astral body might change in vibration in order to synchronize in a particular dimension.

Think of the status of the physical body when it is under the influence of alcohol and when it is free of that influence. In both cases it is the same body but the state of mind and the operation of the body varies in each state. Similarly, the same astral body might be experienced differently according to the astral level it is synchronized into.

Try to do a search for the Theosophical Society because they are the ones who brought the term etheric body in common usage.