The human being is a spiritual being who, in his descent into matter, has been dressed in different and increasingly dense bodies until he is “imprisoned” in a physical body where his confusion is such that he no longer remembers that his true essential nature is divine, eternal and immortal .
When we talk about dimensional spaces, planes of existence, spiritual kingdoms or beyond, we tend to look up and look at the sky as if all this were very far from here, in other worlds or in very remote and inaccessible places, but what it is true that Everything is right here with us and at this precise moment only in different vibrational bands . This means that what we usually perceive as real through the senses is only a small part of the true multidimensional reality in which we live.
It could be said that we are like one of those little goldfish whose vision of the world has gone from the immensity of the ocean in which he lived, to the small space that houses the four glass walls that make up his fishbowl. In other words, when we incarnate, we also decided to move to a small globe from where we barely managed to "see" anything. But in the same way that from our perspective it is obvious to us to appreciate the existence of a reality greater than that perceived by the fish in its fishbowl, our physical reality is also contained in other spheres of reality of greater inclusive dimensions and superimposed on each other .
The physical plane is therefore our small and beautiful bubble in which we live oblivious to a greater reality, being the sky, the stars, the mountains and the oceans that surround us with our four glass walls. We know that the universe extends far beyond our planet, our solar system and our galaxy, but in any case we still think that physical reality is the only possible reality. This is especially true for those who grant exclusive credibility to what their senses can capture, thus discarding any other option that does not pass through this filter; but the truth is that in addition to the dimension corresponding to the physical plane that is where our spirit is projected with the sole purpose of acquiring knowledge through experience, there are other dimensional areas in which our emotional, mental, intellectual aspects are found, creative, emotional and spiritual ... to mention only a few, as attributes of a multiple Being that lives in different planes of existence at the same time.
The multidimensionality of Being explains such singular phenomena as the one that most of the testimonies that have experienced an NDE (Near Death Experience), in which a clinical death occurs (cardiorespiratory arrest and cessation of brain activity), do not they only observed with absolute detachment their body lying on the operating room table, but they were able to describe with amazing precision everything that happened around them (including the emotional state of those present). This demonstrates that our mind does not reside in the brain but does so in a different dimension from the physical one, although it is to this organ where all the stimuli that are transmitted immediately to the body will stop.
For most spiritual traditions, the body is the " vehicle of the soul ", an instrument at the service of the Being through which it can express itself on Earth. This qualification is correct with the caveat that the body, for what it represents, becomes something much more valuable than a mere instrument of experiential experimentation. And it is that when the soul occupies a body and encourages it to life, it does not lodge in the head or in the heart as is usually believed but occupies the body as a whole. The soul is present in every inch of skin, in every hair, in every organ and in every cell of our organism, with which, the body is much more than just a wrap. The body is the entity that contains the presence of the divine, it is the living personification of the spirit, and since there are several dimensions in which we are simultaneously, our participation in each of them can only be made effective through its corresponding diversity of bodies .
It follows that the human being can be considered sevenfold in his internal constitution ; that is, in addition to the physical body that is with which we manifest in the physical world in the form of a word or action, we have an etheric or vital body that encourages life; an astral body that contains all our emotional dimension; a mental body that allows us to reason, learn, analyze and discern; a superior causal or mental body from which springs the will that allows us to initiate any activity; a Christic or Buddhist body with which we access the highest summits of Wisdom; and an atmic body that houses the purest essence of the divine. These are the seven bodies that the Being occupies simultaneously here and now only in different degrees of intensity.
We easily recognize the use of our four lower bodies (the physical, the vital, the emotional and the mental) in our daily work such as when we work, study, walk, talk, practice some sport, etc. . But it is when we act from the heart, when we love and feel loved, when something deeply moves us and reaches us to the soul, when we sense the truth of things, or when we simply feel happy, blessed and in peace; when the upper bodies that make up the individual monad in which our spirit or Higher Self is found intervene .
We can live our life allowing the energies that come from the highest spheres to emerge at every moment, or settle for those linked to our egoic personality. The degree of participation that we want to give to each of our subtle bodies depends on us; However, because consciousness always remains anchored to the denser body we occupy, it is understandable that it is often so difficult to recognize this divine, eternal and immortal primordial nature that is our own.
Meditation allows us to transcend the lower bodies and access certain levels of greater reality, which is very useful to try to know oneself, as well as to anticipate an experience that sooner or later we will all end up experiencing; death. And it is that dying is nothing more than the act of progressive detachment of each of the different bodies or vehicles that we use to develop in the respective planes of existence in which we live, this being the way in which our conscious being can move successively to these other more subtle, truthful and expansive spheres of reality from which we come.
Author: Ricard Barrufet Santolària
from the book : " Plans of Existence, Dimensions of Consciousness"
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