Alright some of you may not have heard of Etheric Projection at all and still have "Astral" Projected when in fact you have only "Etheric" Projected.We have 3 bodys, Material, Etheric, Astral. Etheric is the plane that is closest to the Material plane which is why they seem identical, Astral is above Etheric and takes more energy to actually do and in some cases you can totally bypass the Etheric however that stage where you are "above" your body, thats Etheric so remember that. You may think well Material and Etheric are identical then that means if we move something or such in the Etheric it will happen in the Material right? Nope. It takes much more energy to effect the Material. If you do happen to move something or such in the Etheric plane it would only last for a short period of time in the Etheric plane and not the Material because the Material plane influences the Etheric not the other way around however you CAN be seen in the Material plane when in the Etheric in SOME cases I.E more energy usage. Got any questions I'll answer them to the best of my knowledge!
some of what you just said contradicts a lot of what I have read
Quote from: IceCold_K82 on November 03, 2008, 16:06:58
some of what you just said contradicts a lot of what I have read
Like what for instance?
I'm guessing that you are new to this subject, so please read some material from Robert Bruce (most of his work is online and free) and others, if you are so inclined towards the theory and terminology.
Best way to learn the stuff is by doing it. But my personal opinion is one should concentrate on one's spiritual development , astral projection is merely a step forward in that direction.
Quote from: AlterEgo4045 on November 03, 2008, 15:41:14
Alright some of you may not have heard of Etheric Projection at all and still have "Astral" Projected when in fact you have only "Etheric" Projected.
how precisely are you differentiating the 'astral' and the 'etheric' from one another? and where are you getting your definitions for each? aren't we just redefining words here?
i often prefer just using the term 'energy body'.
I am aware that the older texts talk about us having a variety of bodies- but I'd like to think that what we know about reality has opened our eyes to the idea, at least, that what someone calls a 'body' is a specific point in a range of possible existence- that just as you have matter, you too have atoms, and just as you have atoms you have particles- and that when you break down 'beingness' you see the almost infinite range in which that existence can be expressed- not only are you dense (like in the material) but you are also made of waves (like in the etheric/astral) and taking it one step further, you are also that 'quantum gap', that state of potentiality that sounds a lot like the mental plane or dimension. So the use of body only meals that we need to express the medium, the perceptile mechanism that our point of view, that our conscious awareness moves in.
So astral and etheric are just degrees of separation from our everyday awareness of reality- in my view, anyway.
And yes, I prefer energy body also.