Lesson 14: Vibrations and Energy Work

I know that according to the syllabus that I published at the start of this class, this lesson was supposed to be another evaluation and commentary on those evaluations that you turned in, but I decided to change this up a little bit.

So, as I promised, we will be talking about the Vibrational theory of the planes, energy work and the Chakras.

Before I start in on the discussion of the vibrational theory that I have, let me get you to look at this graphic first:

Now, some explanation of this graphic. The green line is an arbitrary one that I think is the "threshold" for attaining the Astral Plane, either in OOBE or in death. The blue lines are the times from death to birth. The red line are the personal vibration that everyone's soul has as they go through life. The horizontal line is the subjective time passed, you can probably think of it in terms of years. The vertical line is the line that equates to an arbitrary vibrational level in cycles per minute.

First, you have to start with the supposition that reincarnation is a fact. We will only deal with a human incarnation only for these purposes.

Okay, at the beginning of the incarnation cycle, the person in question has a vibrational level of 0. We will assume this since we don't have information on what happens before life begins. So, our person begins with 0 and through their life increases up to about vibrational level 10. That is way under our Astral threshold, so they go through their life without ever achieving AP. They then die and spend some time on the AP evaluating their life. They try their life again, at the same level of 10 that they had when they died from their last life.

This cycle goes on and on, each life increasing their vibrational level by some until they can achieve AP spontaneously without training at the end of their cycle of incarnation.

Of special note, the time between their third and fourth life is relatively short, due to having to come back immediately because of a "family" crisis. You will also note that in the 4th life, they don't increase very much. Also in the last lifetime, there is a jump in this soul's vibrational level. This could be due to any number of things. Mostly what I associate this with, however, is either all the lessons from all the previous lifetimes coming to fruition, or some other event, like self-actualization occurring.

Now, do you have to come back to this plane once this vibrational level hits? You can. You may still have lessons to learn, and the best place to learn them is here. Sometimes, those who have attained a high level of existence, or those who have learned all the lessons necessary to not have to come back, choose to return here for one reason or another. People like Jesus of Nazareth, Buddha, the Dahlia Lama and others could have voluntarily come here to teach, and there are many others who come back simply to be with those they love.

This chart, however, is misleading somewhat. It shows a constant, gradual progression over time. This is not always the case. You can go in fits and starts, so we will look at one life isolated from this chart.

As you can see, this graph jumps all over the place. However, the overall progress is upward. Our fictional person has some pretty interesting things happening in his lifetime. When the chart is going up, that is progress and wisdom being gained, through a variety of manners. It could be school, it could be work, hardship or anything else. However, as you see, in late middle-age, the graph goes down. This could be due to plans he made to get revenge came to fruition, it could be because he became petty in his older life, it could be that a relative messed him over and now he's an embittered old man. But the upswing at the end could state that he is coming closer to the deity of his choice and becoming kinder, especially to his grandchildren, and so on.

These vibrations are not carved in stone. Just as your choices make more worlds with the Might-Have-Beens, so too your choices mandate what "rate" your vibrational level is at.

Most times, however, these vibrational changes don't take effect until the body dies. It is a special person who can consciously change vibrational rates while still alive.

You can sense the approximate vibrational rate someone is at by things like aura reading and so on. You will definitely be able to see it on the Astral plane. These will give you a clue to how "old" the soul is and how far along in their progress they are.

All this vibrational rate does, ultimately, is give the person a starting point for the next lifetime. If their rate is low, and it can go lower than 0, they will have a lot to overcome when they start their life. And just because you have a high vibrational rate does not mean that you will have a lifetime of luxury and idleness. Part of being alive is learning by experiencing. So, of necessity, you would have to experience things from other perspectives. Like living a lifetime in a body that is not the sex you think of as yours when you see yourself on the Astral Plane.

(As an aside, what I mean from that last statement is this. Souls have general sexual characteristics. It is not that they actually have a sex, but a feel to them that tells you that this androgynous ball of light is "female" and that one is "male" and so on. In order to experience life fully, a "male" soul may have to spend a lifetime or two as a female.)

You may have to start out in the ghetto or the slums of a bad part of town, and part of your learning process may be how you pull yourself out of it. It may even be that you must stay at that level of society to learn the lesson that "drugs do not equal happiness" or that "contentment with life comes from within". And so on. There are many lessons to be learned, and just because an "old" soul is in a bad situation does not mean that there are not good reasons for them being there.

Want an example? Okay.

We will take the example of our fictitious man, and we will give you his story, and see if you can spot the life lessons in it. I will write this from the first person perspective.

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I was born in Evanston Illinois in 1968. Born male to my mother and father, I lived a typical life with my parents for a long time. I grew and when I was two, we moved to Memphis. At one point during that time, my mother had an appendix attack, and my grandfather and grandmother came and got me to take me back to Nashville TN while my mother recovered.

In Memphis, I learned a lot. How to eat on the stairs, backwards, how to be a friend, how to ride a bike, that pools REALLY don't go all the way through the Earth, typical stuff. And my grandparents would come down quite often to see us.

Time passed and my father got a better job in Nashville. So we moved to where his work was, and I was raised by my grandmother since my mother worked. I learned from her a lot of things, that sometimes people have colors around them, not to eat a pencil, how to sew and so on. I also found that I liked the feel of certain fabrics against my skin. More than that, I liked to "dress up" and pretend for a while. My mother especially liked for me to do that since she wanted a daughter. We used to laugh and laugh.

Well, about age 7, my sister was born. A more whiney and bratty child you never wanted to see. Man, she got on my nerves all the time. Mom now had no time to play with me, and I couldn't "dress up" anymore, since Mom now had a girl she could do the "dolly" thing with. I missed that.

However, my grandmother kept keeping me. I used to go over to her house after school (on the bus) and she and I would spend a lot of time together. We would talk, and she would tell stories, and I would visit her older friends in the area, since their own grandchildren weren't home. Grandma had a lot of books on religion, Edgar Casey, New Age material, magick, and many other subjects like that. We would talk about life and death, angels, telepathy, unicorns, dragons and many other fantastic things. Sometimes my sister was there, and boy was that a pain. I only ever dressed up once. My grandma was having a garage sale, and I asked her to get my aunt's majorette uniform off the rack for me. I took it back to her room and put it on. Well, it didn't fit. My grandmother saw me and she was enchanted. She called my mother and my mom made such a fuss over how "cute" I looked that I was embarrassed to pieces. I literally tried to hide in my grandma's closet.

Time passed and my mother had two more children. All girls. So now I had three sisters, all two years apart, and they were all pains, well, one was. The second and third sisters were kind of cute, and my mother had the last when I was away at scout camp. I never talked to anyone about the "dress up" although I would sometimes steel clothing from my mother, sisters, aunt, grandmother or whomever, and wear it for a while. I had always wanted to be tied up as well, but that wasn't something you spoke about at all.

My mother raised me Christian, and we joined a fundamental sect of Christianity when I was 11 (although most of the Christian population thinks we are actually a cult). Church became my life, and I did everything with the Church. Being young, I didn't have that many duties, but those I did get I took seriously. Like passing out the Sacrament, and setting it up for later, and finally blessing it so that it became the body and blood of Christ. If you had asked me at that point, I would have told you that this was going to be my life forever.

Because the Church had acknowledged psychic powers in it's ranks, I continued my studies of them. I read everything I could get to see what I was doing and how it operated. Many times I would discuss this with the church leaders, and I would get gently rebuffed as this stuff was from Satan, not God. So I became confused. Add to that the crucible of Puberty, the need for autoeroticism (which is THE worst sin I could have possibly committed), the cross-dressing impulses I STILL felt and needed, school, my parent's divorce, my sisters being sisters, me suddenly being the "man" of the family (at 15), karate lessons, and the death of my dog, I was really getting lost.

I went to a psychologist for a while, and he did help me some. I told him everything except the cross-dressing and the tying up. He helped me immensely, except where my first sister was concerned. She and I continued to go at it hammer and tongs. It was almost like she was perfectly designed to punch my piss-off buttons every time I met her. I would try to talk to her, and within moments, she and I would be arguing. Unlike my other two sisters and I, whom I loved and got along with perfectly.

Mom was still raising me to be a good boy, but she didn't have all the skills needed. She has a lot to work out too, mentally that is. She hated my dad with everything she had, and never passed up an opportunity to put him down and belittle him to us. She would interrogate us when we would come home from visiting him as to what was said, who said it, how it was said, the exact text of the conversation, what we were doing while we were talking, and so on. I'm sure you know what I mean.

So, I'm 18, getting ready to go out and administer to the sick and needy and save their souls on my churches orders (although I have to pay for this privilege), and I instead decide to join the Military. In many ways, this was the turning point of my life.

I cut off contact with my family (I have always been a person who preferred solitude to company) due to the demands of the Military, my friends became the other people in my unit, and I lived the Military life.

It was during this time that I had many things happen to me, all within two months. I found that the psychological games that the military played were not nearly as bad as I had been fearing. It was the physical demands that killed me. I discovered that I had quite a number of physical problems that I did not previously know about, even though I still didn't "officially" know about them, I only inferred them from problems I was having in Basic Training. I also had the major crisis of conscience that led to me leaving the church I had been raised in.

Which was, truthfully, a relief. I no longer had to perform in certain ways just because it was decreed by someone else. Although, truthfully, the Military was almost as bad. I practiced many of the things that I had learned on my own, things my grandma taught me, and I did my job. But one of the physical problems I had was my weight. I couldn't loose it, and I eventually got thrown out.

Well, time went along and I had a lot of problems. I had (kind of) offended my friends by not staying in contact with them, but I have never been a letter-writer. My mother and my sisters were upset because I was no longer the "man" of the family any longer (meaning I was not doing what I was supposed to be doing by the tenets of the cult they were part of). My father was continuing to be an asshole to me and my sisters, so I had little contact with him by choice.

I kept looking for someone permanent to be with, looking all over the place. I slowly built a picture of who I wanted, intelligent, good sense of humor, age didn't matter, appearance didn't matter, kind, into metaphysics and interested in learning, strong sense of spirituality, but not a fanatic.

Eventually I found her, and, wonder of wonders, she was also into B&D as well as encouraging me in the Cross-dressing. I was shocked, floored, thrilled, apprehensive, scared, joyous. and so many other things I can't begin to describe it. Her patience was amazing. Several of the personality problems that I had been suffering from for quite some time (like depression and feelings of being a failure) started getting worked out.

Now, my life is really on track. I still have some problems that I have to work on, but things are going much better, and I'm grateful.

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So, given the above story, can you spot the life-lessons that he has to learn? And before anyone thinks that this is MY story, it is not. It is the story of a really close friend, and I have his permission to put this here. I have been working with him in many aspects of the Craft and metaphysics for a long time now. Part of his therapy is telling this story and not getting the standard reactions of "EW!!!! Get away from me!!!" from others. He wrote every word of this himself and I simply put it in here.

Yes, this is a true story.

There is also an example of this kind of vibrational "grading" in Past Lives, Future Lives by Dr. Bruce Goldberg, there is an example of a man who had some compulsive disorders that he needed worked out, and through hypnosis it was discovered that he would be responsible for the death of a city due to his incompetence. Dr. Goldberg uses a few tools he has to bring this gentleman to a hypnotic state and explore some MHBs with him and figure out how to get him to a higher vibrational level and prevent the crisis.

In brief, the key to this theory is study and learning. Not just book-knowledge but wisdom. Improving the self through continually striving to be in a better position in your life. That is what will bring your spiritual level up.

Now, if we have these vibrational states, and they are at 0 to start, are there negative vibrational states? I think there are. I can only assume that they are along the lines of plants or animals, or at the extreme, mineral states of life. Scientists know that every piece of matter has some kind of vibration to it, and has something of a "life" through this vibration. We don't understand their experiences, and we automatically assume that they are non-aware of us and the world around them, but without being them, we will never know, right?

So, my thought is that we advance from mineral, to plant, to animal, to mammal to human, and possibly on up to dragon to unicorn and on. Although this scale is only a supposition. It is a tool to get us to understand the concepts discussed herein.

My wife pointed out that trying to force nature to conform to this scale, or any tool like it, is ultimately putting a limit on the IS. It could be that we have to advance far enough in THIS life so that next life we have the honor of being allowed to become a tree for a while. So it could go any way. This is nothing more than a way to grade yourself, like the A B C D F grading system in school.

Now, while we are on the topic of energy and vibrations, we need to go over a few points with energy work and the Astral Plane.

From my experience, the Astral Plane is composed of energy. It's the same substance that the scientists of the turn of the 20th century called the "ether". Basically, from what I understand, it is energy that has NO form. See, in most states of matter, there is form and energy. You have a child, she has energy in her, and she has substance. The sun is made up of nothing but energy that has a substance and so on. However, in electricity, x-rays, psychic energy, while the energy has a definite effect, there seems no way to contain that energy, bottle it, save it, shape it, look at it and so on. So this is substance-less energy.

This is the same energy that your soul is made up of, this substanceless energy. That energy has a definite effect, and most people who think about these things will readily admit that this energy exists. However, there is no way to measure the vibrational level of a soul because no instruments have yet been made that will allow you to do this.

This is the energy of all life, from a plant, to a rock, to a lake, to the Earth, to you and me, to a Dragon. In Star Wars, they called this energy the Force. Well, on the Astral Plane, you can not only see this energy, you can measure it, play with it, and do everything to this energy that you can to a stone.

When the rules change and you are made up of this same energy, and you are existing on the same plane as this energy, manipulating it becomes easier. Note, I said easier, not easy. There will still be some work to do if you want to make use of this energy.

When doing meditations, drawing energy from the elements, casting a Circle, chanting to cast a spell, you are drawing on this energy from the Astral Plane, or from something else, like from the elements themselves.

I'm going to assume that since you are here, that all of you know about the elements and what they feel like and also how to do a basic ritual and cast a spell. I will assume that you know this because to explain it for those who don't know would take too long. So, let's look at Energy work and the Astral Plane.

As you know, there are several sources of energy to pull from, but the most consistent source of energy of this type is from the elements themselves. Pull from the Earth, and you feel calm and collected and centered, pull from Fire, and you feel hot and supercharged. But you also know that in certain cases, pulling energy from some sources is very hard. Like pulling energy from the Earth in the middle of Winter. However, you can pull Earth energy in winter on the Astral Plane.

Here's how this works. The Astral Plane is all times and all places combined. There is no distance because distance and time became immaterial once you went to the Astral Plane, right? Well, if that's true, you can pull Earth energy from the Southern Hemisphere even though you are in the dead of Winter in your home. You can pull the energy of the wild and untamed Ocean even though you live near Death Valley. You can pull the Fire essence even though you are in a tropical rainforest and so on. Because every living thing, and I'm counting minerals as living, gives off this energy just by it being alive. Life creates this energy. If this energy did not drain off naturally, this universe we know would be chaotic.

So where does this energy go? The Astral plane is your answer. It drains naturally back to the Astral Plane, where it is used for a variety of reasons, channeled back here to us to be used in the elements and other means, and then it drains back into the Astral Plane. The theory that says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed holds true here too. It's like the rain cycle of our planet. And you can see and manipulate this energy here, but it is far easier to do when on the Astral Plane.

You don't even have to go to the otherworlds to do it. All you have to do is project our of your body and stay in this reality to be able to see and do all of this.

Why am I telling you this? Several reasons. First, you will feel tired and drained when you project often at night. You can recharge yourself from the Astral Plane if you know how to do it. Second, you will probably be leaving part of your energy behind when you project. Third, you can do spells on the Astral Plane so much easier than here and now and last, because this is the theoretical section of the class. I have given you most of the basics and intermediate work, now it's time for the purely theoretical and mystical "advanced" sections.

Congratulations on making it this far. From here on out you will have to do a couple of things. First take my words with a grain of salt and make your own determinations as to whether or not I am telling the truth, and second believe that I have experienced or talked to those who have done this for themselves. I have no way to prove any of this, so most of this will seem like I need an "I-love-me" coat and a room with verrrrry soft walls. You have to trust me.

Okay, casting spells can have a HUGE effect on the Astral Plane. The rules are such that your Will determines all, and the energy to cast the spell with is laying around (almost literally) on the Astral Plane. This is how I do ALL of my big spell-work. I travel Astrally to my Astral Temple, and start envisioning what I want to happen to me in the real world as working. The energy flows into me easily from the environment around me, and when I have enough and my intent is very clear in my head, I let the spell go to start doing what a spell does when one sends it off.

Ever wonder what agency makes a spell work? Well, here it is. It's the will of the practitioner that is overcoming the resistance of others on the Astral Plane. Everything has a presence on the Astral Plane, if only by virtue that the energy needed to make the Astral Plane is coming from those same things. As such, there is some residual will from them on the Astral Plane. Part disbelief and part Idon'twanttosee-ishness. Overcoming that is fairly easy, and you should have practice with it by now. So, setting up a spell on the Astral Plane to do what you want here is easy as well. Go through all the steps you would normally go through to cast a Circle, and start the spell, but instead of doing it in a physical reality, do it in your Astral Temple. You will be shocked at how much easier it is, and how much more consistent your results are. The only drawback to this is you can't do an accurate divination right after it's cast to see if the spell will work, because the Astral Plane will give you any kind of omen or answer you want to see.

Okay, that us from here affecting the Astral Plane, but is the reverse true? Can we pull from the Astral Plane to effect things here? Well, it seems like you already answered that question, but I'll take a shot at it.

I don't know much about this system that I'm going to talk to you about that 20 minutes of research couldn't teach you as well, however, I am going to share what I DO know, and you will have to do the more in-depth research on the subject of Chakras.

According to the sources I used, a document that was available on AOL and the Magician's Manual lesson 5, we have 7 chakras in our body. I have counted more than that, and I arrange them differently, but hey, this is someone else's op pinion here. Those 7 are, in ascending order, the Muladhara, the scadhisthara, the manipura, the anahata, the vishuddha, the ajna and the sahassara. They relate to the gonads, the navel, the solar plexus, the heart, the throat, the third eye and the top of your head. It is through these centers that all energy is channeled because these are the wells that connect directly to the Astral Plane.

There are different uses for these centers. According to those references I used, the root chakra, or the muladhara, is the center for psychic smell. It is when this center is open that you gain the ability to smell things that only exist on the Astral Plane, or that exist in another part of the plane you are on. Each of these centers has a specific set of effects on the Astral Plane. In order they are; Psychic smell/sex, psychic taste, psychic sight, psychic touch/emotions, psychic hearing/communication, other psychic abilities like telepathy/thought, and finally Astral Projection and enlightenment.

Each of these centers also relates to a gland in your body. So if you are feeling drained or run down, or if you have some kind of physical problem, you only have to envision a tornado of energy that extends from these chakras, each glowing a different color (and I don't know what they are) and spin them faster, or make those tornados bigger. These energy points should be about 4-8 inches tall, and should be about 3 inches across at the biggest point. It should narrow from the widest area down to a point approx 1/2 inch across against your body, and you should have another one open in the opposite side of your body. The vortex on the front side of the body takes energy in, and the one on the back side of your body expels negative, or used, energy from you.

You can use these chakras to energize yourself and to gather more energy into you in case you need it for one reason or another. To energize yourself, imagine a conduit of some sort leading from the Astral Plane, or the element of your choice and see it flowing into your heart chakra. Draw as much as you wish to pull, and then sever that tie to it.

You can convert this metaphysical energy from what it is to physical energy, just like what you would get from eating a meal. I have done this in the past. All you have to do is in your body, see that metaphysical energy filling the batteries of your metaphysical energies, cut off the flow, force the energy from those metaphysical batteries into the physical batteries (since the energy for either of these comes from food, the reverse is also true) and then refill the metaphysical batteries from the Astral Plane again.

I am telling you this because you will need this energy from time to time. Either you were too busy traipsing around the Astral Plane to get much rest the night before, or you drained yourself too much doing something and you need to write an IOU to your body, or what have you.

There are other energy points on your body that you can project or receive energy through. There is a set on your elbows, in the palms of your hands, at your knees, and on the soles of your feet. Which explains why walking barefoot outside has such therapeutic properties.

All this is interrelated to a degree that many don't think of simply because of the nature of everything. THIS BODY IS NOT OUR TRUE BODY. It is a suit of clothes and it is only a covering for our soul, which *is* us.

Understand that basic principal, and you will find that Astral Projection is as easy as breathing.

Okay, let's move on to one last technique of Astral Projection that I have mentioned several times, but not elaborated on yet. This one I think everyone will have a good time doing and using.

The technique that I speak of is remote viewing. It's not what it is actually called, but this is what I call this technique. It is the ability to project your thoughts to other places, rather than your entire soul. It's as though you were watching a movie of a foreign land, rather than going there yourself.

When I use this technique, for me, it's like daydreaming. I see the environment that I want to be in around me, I think of what may be there, I visualize the people and the surroundings. For me, and this may be unique to myself, I also see my body there. From a starting point, I start moving to another location, usually by walking or flying. I cover the distance I want to go in any other manner that I choose, and when I get to my destination, I let the pictures I am seeing provide the information on what is there.

For example: I want to go to the Gateway to the Midwest in St. Louis. I have seen the outside of the Arch many times, so I start by meditating on that arch, and building an image of it in my mind. I look at the area around me as though I was seeing everything from the third person, and I was looking over my own shoulder. I see the steps going up to the arch, I see the entrance to the arch, I see the waterfront near the arch, and I turn my body and move off to the Arch itself.

Here, I stop controlling this vision that I have created. I know I am at the Arch, and that I will see what is actually there, and I start seeing things I would not have thought to create, like the flag at half-staff because someone in the Missouri government died, the guard being an Asian-American, the "wet paint" signs in the atrium and so on. I trust that what I am seeing is correct and accurate. I do what I wanted to do and I get out.

With this technique, I am conscious all the time. I can hear the TV and the Phone, but I ignore them. I can still feel my feet and my legs, but I am also ignoring them. I know that I am there, and while I see the environment around me, usually I don't feel the pavement beneath my feet, or feel the sun beating down on my head. The advantage to this is that others don't see me or react to me unless they themselves are only on the Astral Plane.

Coming back to my body is simply a matter of opening my eyes and standing up. This technique is the simplest for me to do, because I have a problem falling into a trance deep enough to allow complete projection out of my body. I see and interact with the Astral Plane as much as anyone else does, but I never go unconscious to do it, so there is no need to force myself to be awake on the Astral plane.

This is what I have been calling "remote viewing" all this time. This technique is one of the easiest to master, and one of the most deceptive out there. You can see anything on the Astral plane because it reflects your thoughts to you, so you have to consciously NOT think of anything and allow whatever is going to happen, actually happen. You can't think of a pink bunny rabbit because you will create it in your mind and see it, so it becomes a trick of *knowing* that you can't think of the pink bunny rabbit without actually *thinking* about the pink bunny rabbit. It's a delicate skill to master.

Remember when I was speaking about the "pre-echo" of your thoughts, where you have a split second of knowing that a thought will come welling out of your subconscious before it does? That was in preparation for using it here. It's the same skill.

So, that's it. I have taught you all the techniques and all the truths I know about the Astral Plane. But this class is not done. There is much theoretical exploration to do, and many things I want to share with you on these subjects. I have some more theories, some of them half-baked, and others based on solid happenings and so on.

All this will be shared with you in the next 5 lessons. In lessons 21 and 22, we will review everything we have gone over in these lessons, and I will elaborate as necessary. Lesson 23 is the exam, and lesson 24 relates to all of this, as it is an in-depth examination of the book "Illusions" by Richard Bach. He wrote it to be fiction, but in many regards, I think he was more accurate than he knew.

There is no assignment this time. This is because there is not really anything to assign you to. So, continue to practice your meditations, think of questions, work at this and experiment on the Astral plane. Send in reports as though you were a reporter assigned to explore the wilds of a new land and post them to the e-mail list.

This is not the end of these lessons, only a beginning.

If you want to, and only if you want to, as you read the story of the gentleman I cite above, see if you can find the life lessons and the areas he needs to work on during this lifetime and e-mail them to me or the list if you feel so inclined.

Daven

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