Dimensions, planes, and astral travel theory:
Before i start i would like to make it clear that this post is almost entirely UPG (Unverified Personal Gnosis) mostly formulated from first hand experience, extensive reading of others’ experiences, and some things spirits have shared with me. After spending some time in the astral and traveling out of body I wanted to come to some way to describe and talk about my experiences.
This is all just a collection of my thoughts on how astral travel and like practices might work that I’ve developed to make talking about these things easier. Take it as you will.
Dimensions and planes:
When heading out of body, where exactly are you going and what part of you is it that is traveling there? This is one of the most fundamental questions that need to be answered when you start going out of body.
What I have come to learn is that we are multi-dimensional beings. We don’t just exist on in the physical dimension, but we are on one plane. For this post I’m going to refer to the plane of existence we are on as the “earthly plane.” This plane, like us, passes through a more than just this physical dimension (the 3rd dimension / 3D for short).
Plane can passes through many different dimensions as well as other planes. This overlap between some planes make them easier to get to. For example, some Faerie realms/planes pass through and/or run parallel to our own. Which is why cultures here on the earthly plane tend to have lots of interactions with Faeries and their lore.
Beings can exist on only few dimensions of a plane or even just one. We are lucky enough to have aspects of our being that can traverse these other dimensions of our realm and other planes far out in the universe. In my experience lots of spirits tend to dwell in higher dimensions on our plane that we consider to be mythical as well as some that are seemingly made up entirely. These spirits tend to stick to their higher dimension and avoid this 3D because energies and rules here are far more rigid, but occasionally they will dip down here for a little fun. Our psychical senses can be a thrill for spirits that can manifest here.
This post is meant to just be the basics of my view on dimensions and planes, so I’ll go into further detail on the specifics in other posts.
Here is a simple 2D diagram to help explain what i mean:
It is by no means an accurate diagram of where these planes or located or anything about them. This is merely a tool to explain this theory and what i mean when I say they move upwards through dimensions as well as how they cross and pass close to other planes. Not all planes are perfectly uniform and straight like in my diagram. They are warped by everything on them.
Astral travel and the Astral self:
We as beings have multiple “bodies” or parts of our selves that are based on and can travel through these other dimensions. These other dimensional aspects of our person are also when gives us our “psychic” senses since they are constantly perceiving these dimensions when our psychical senses are not.
These bodies are all connected by what I call a “soul cord” since when I look at it, I can sometimes see it tying a person to their astral body as well as other parts of them self. The soul cord acts as an umbilical cord connecting all aspects of ourselves to our soul or higher selves. I believe that it is this higher self/soul aspect of who we are that is the collective experiences of all our lives we have lived.
One of these bodies is our astral body, and it is the body most people use when traveling outside of their physical form. Our astral self as it’s name suggests dwells mostly on the astral plane. The astral is a MASSIVE plane that expanses many different dimensions and planes. It’s why lots of creatures on the astral are very foreign to us as 3D earthly beings.
The astral is like a massive ocean connecting a bunch of other planes of existence and our astral body is the boat we use to let our consciousness travel it, and like the ocean with out a good map you end up wondering aimlessly until you collide with something. This is what happens to a lot of first time time astral travelers. They go out and hope they find something but more often then not they just end up swimming through the astral and stumbling across stray beings that might of help them. It’s this type of blind exploration that makes the astral something some people fear traveling across.
Under most normal circumstances nothing bad will happen to a person on the astral and even if something does go wrong it is extremely unlikely to come back to you here and have any impact. Almost everything on the astral is there with a purpose minding it’s own business, and if you have one too and don’t mess with things you don’t understand you will be perfectly fine.
Almost everyone experiences astral travel differently, so it’s best to find a way that works for you. It took me a long time to get out of body, but it first happened intentionally when I got a trusted spirit to help pull my astral body away from my physical body.
Moving between dimensions and planes (basics):
As I said above, astral travel/projection are one method of traveling between dimensions & planes but they are not the only ones. There are many ways of getting to other planes and not all of them give you access to the same places. Some planes have strict “doorways” in and out that you will have to figure out yourself or be invited by someone else to use.
Proximity to a plane plays a role in how easily you can move between them. Planes that intersect tend to be fairly simple to astral project too with enough know how. The astral plane is massive, it connects many planes and passes through most dimensions (as far as I understand) so my diagram version of the astral does not do it’s size justice.
The dominant types of energies in a person’s system will also dictate where they end up when they start traveling out of body. I find that without focusing on a place to go I either end up in a void layer/plane or some watery plane for this reason.
In my experience, what dimensions a plane is on/passing through will change the rules or laws of that plane mostly in regards to things like the way the energies on that dimension move and are expressed. The higher up you go the more abstract things get. I’ve also noticed that methods of communication spirits might use tends to change depending on what dimension their from/on. For example, I find that spirits on the upper 4th to 5th dimensions tend to use empathic or telepathic forms of communication where spirits close to the lower 4th and 3rd dimension tend to be more verbal.