Tag: Astral Body

Have you ever had a thought in your mind asking yourself, Who am I? Am I just this body or something bigger than what I think I am?  We have different layers within our body similar to this nested nutcracker. Our physical body is the outermost cover which we have physical experience using our five senses. Small, taste, touch, see and hear.  Within this body lies another body known as the Astral body and it has the same sense experience like the physical one. Sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell but these are internal senses.  You may ask how do we know for sure.  Suppose when you are dreaming or imagining something, let's say I am imagining eating ice cream. I can still see myself eating ice cream and I can feel the chill on my tongue and the breeze of the outside air touching my skin and the dog barking. Even though I didn't experience it physically, I can still feel all of it. All these are the inner senses of the astral body. 

We use the process of illusion to create reality, not that we create illusion. Illusion is a process through which we create the experience of reality. Therefore, at this time our whole world is real. That’s why, if you have to find the truth in this real world, we look to somebody in the real world. We say, “That guy has an open, enlightened being, he has got open consciousness,” little realizing we are making it up. We’re making the master up, because if everything is being projected by us, how can the master be a separate thing?

The sense perceptions exist independently of the physical body, and those, when embedded in the physical body, enable the physical organs of sense perceptions, to function. When we are looking out from these eyes of ours, we’re actually using the sense perception of the inner eye and using the physical eye to have physical experience. If we want to close the physical eye, we must open the inner eye. Then we can still keep on seeing. There you’ll see with the inner eye without using the outer eye at all. And that is meant by seeing something within yourself...that means not something that is being seen with the physical eyes but something that can be seen with the inner eyes.