dave_a_mbs
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I've had only two or three occasions in which people I regressed could identify levels of the spirit world. In this sense, the spirit world is the state of awareness in which the ptient is either able to contact other spirits, or is aware of being a spirit, having died and gone into a different state of existence. I do not believe that the "spirit world" is a place, so much as a condition.
In general the situation in which levels seem important is one in which I suggest that they take their regressed awareness into a part of the spirit world in which they have access to "the place that all knowledge is kept" - which I often call a "Library". The purpose of this is to have access to the "Cosmic Consciousness" (or Mind of God if you prefer) so that they can gain new information. However, the metaphor of a Library generally allows people to look up their "Book of Life" - a metaphor by which their path through the world is available. Then they can write new goals and values in it etc, which is the essential action that provides the therapy they seek.
One a very few occasions Ihave had people tell me that they are separated from the "nicer part" of the spirit world by a fence or the equivalent. I interpreted this as the gate between Upper and Lower Astral. One person escribed a "waiting room" in which she found herself. She said that there was a bell on the desk, buit nobody came when she banged it. A youngster walked through and walked through a doorway which closed, so she could not follow.
To get through to the other side I generally ask something like, "Are you willing to devote the benefits of your life to the good of all beings everywhere?" The woman in the waiting room thought a moment and said, "Yes," and then a few moments later, "Oh, there's a door in the wall that I hadn't seen before. It just opened up." She walked through it and was immediately in the Upper Astral, where she could get to the Library and resolve her issues.
Most of us who have done any kind of retrieval or therapy work in the spiritual state are aware of the spooks who get stuck in the Mental world - the earthbound ones who haunt places, attach to other people as entities, or who just seem to wander around being miserable. This seems to be a distinctly different modality than our normal material world, but it intersects the material world.
And we are all involved in the physical level at present. That seems sufficiently evident.
I suggest that these are very basic divisions that can be fairly well described by attitude. There is excellent theoretical evidence, as well as the experiences of those who do yoga, that higher states occur. (Yoga is from Sanskrit "yug" = "to yoke", "to join" or "to unite". Hence any psychic trancework is de facto yoga.) This is based on the levels of rejection of contingencies by which we limit ourselves. Thus, those who attain a greater degree of selflessness, so that they are no longer at odds with anything, seem to have acess to a world in which there is only continuity by which all elements of reaity are connected to all other elements, experienced by us here in the everyday world as sarvastarka samadhi - the samadhi without contradictions. Many yogis (including psychics, meditators, etc who practice the same discipline under different names) experience this state as "moments in heaven".
At the next level there seems only to be existence, non-contingent and undifferentiated, as is experienced in nirvastarka samadhi, the samadhi of empty oneness (which is a poor description, since the actual state can't really be described in everyday terms). This is less often experienced because most people who have no training tend to get caught up in seeking the "heaven" experience again, where they can watch the pretty colors and blinky lights, hear the angels singing, and generally bliss out. The value of training, at least in this respect, is primarily to understand that there is more, and not to get sidetracked.
While these are very pragmatic working levels, familiar to most formal yogis as well as informal practitioners who happen to be doing the same thing (which is why I call them yogis as well). I'd never thought of them as levels of heaven, but that's as good a metaphor as any, I suppose. I'd be interested in how these experiences fit the more orthodox or classical ideas.
dave
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