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Astral Body/ Emotional Body
The Astral body is
made up of astral forces and as discussed earlier it is gathered before
each incarnation and will be different each time. When incarnating into
the etheric body various astral forces are attracted to certain parts of
the physical body. The organs each attract a certain astral force so
depending on the astral body's makeup the organs will receive differing
amounts of required astrality. For example: if the incarnating astral
body has an abundance of Venus astral force the kidneys will be
overflowing and so they are likely to be very strong. As the Venus Force
goes into the kidneys the chi there will be transformed into kidney chi
and will likely flow strongly throughout the meridians. If this astral
body has very little Mars force the stomach will be weaker and so less
Mars Chi will be created to flow through the meridians.
While young the strong kidneys will likely be helping the weak stomach as
it will draw energy from the kidneys to function properly, but as this
person gets older, if no strengthening has been done, it will eventually
put a strain on the kidneys and all other systems.
As the meridians
are flowing with an excess of Venus and lack of Mars force they will
become out of balance with some having very little flow and others very
strong. As these two forces also relate to all the others, they will all
be affected, leading to greater unbalance. The physical body will be
affected by this unbalance leading to weakness in some areas and most
definitely poor posture. Your mental and emotional aspects are situated
in the astral body so any unbalance here will also show up in your
psychology. The astral body is the main hindrance to spiritual awakening
and is the most important body to be cleared before higher forces can be
incarnated. If you have poor posture, a weakened etheric and weak
physical parts as described above the only way for this to be cured at
its root is by healing the astral body. You can work on your posture
which will help, but as long as the imbalance resides in the Astral Body
it will continually be reflected in the physical.
If you heal the
Astral body and do no work on the etheric which has been damaged by the
years of unbalance, full healing of the physical and etheric are
unlikely to occur. This is why work on all levels is essential for fast
and steady progress. As the level of vibration
of consciousness increases there is a corresponding need for the
vibration of the etheric and physical to also increase so as to hold or
maintain the higher consciousness. If not it becomes more difficult to
stay at this new level of consciousness and will likely fluctuate
between the higher states and lower ones.
Now that we are
talking about the astral body it is important that we discuss
samskaras. Under Astral substance I mentioned that due to emotional
traumas the astral substance will crystallize. These crystallizations
are called samskaras.
An example: as a baby you were left alone and wanted your mother. She
was not there and it left you feeling insecure and alone. You cried
because of this feeling of aloneness and she still did not come. The
feeling was very painful and felt very much like heartbreak. In the
area of your heart the astral substance was pulsating with emotion and
because of this going on for an extended period the Astral substance
began to crystallize. This helped to reduce the pain. The emotion was
actually condensed into a small ball and became hard. This ball is full
of the emotion of heartbreak and aloneness but has been condensed and
enclosed. When mother finally came to the rescue it was too late. The
ball of emotion had been formed and was now crystallized. Although her
presence was able to release the emotions that had not been crystallized
it was not able to release the ball. Now that this ball was within your
astral body the feeling of merging with your mother could not be as
complete as before. You felt different. It is now a dull sense of being
alone which lies in the background of consciousness whether she is there
or not. Now when a similar instance occurs the intense emotions within
the ball are released a little which causes the emotions to intensify
and a further crystallization to occur. You grow older and have this
feeling of being alone. It is not huge but it is there. When you are in
a relationship the feelings inside the ball may be activated leading to
a fear of being abandoned by your partner. If your partner does leave
you the ball may certainly become larger still and the underlying sense
of being alone may increase. This is called a samskara and it can last a
very long time if nothing is done about it.
What is important to note about the formation of samskara’s is the
intensity of the emotions at the time. The more intense the emotions the
more likely it is that a crystallization will occur.
Samskaras can be
caused by any emotional trauma whatsoever. They do not have to be large
but the larger the trauma the larger the samskara created. After a while
the astral body is full of these samskaras and they are the very root
of mental and emotional conditioning.
The feeling of
love and peace that accompanied your mother’s presence before the
samskara's creation was due to your own light. Your light would shine
through your astral body and give you the feeling of love and peace.
This is one of the characteristics of your lightbody and higher
consciousness. The problem is that as a baby this part of your lightbody
has not fully incarnated yet and so without the mother’s presence the
light cannot ground and shine through. It seems to the baby that the
love and peace come from the mother but in truth it actually comes from
its own higher self or lightbody. Now once the samskara has been formed
this same light cannot shine through as it did before. The crystallized
astral substance blocks and distorts the light so the child can no
longer feel it as it did before. Once the astral body is full of
samskaras the light of the higher self may have trouble shining through
at all.
Samskaras cause
increased grasping of the etheric body which in turn leads to blockages
in the etheric and tension in the physical body. So now we have a state
where not only can the mix of astral forces effect the health of the
etheric and physical but samskaras also effect this in very profound
ways. The samskaras formed will depend on the original astral body as
well as the environment the child grows up in. The formation of the Ego
Structure/ Astral Crystallization is very complicated and has led to all
the personalities and mental/ emotional problems that the human race has
seen.
Now with a little
understanding of samskaras we can explore what happens at death and how
past lives can affect your present life. When someone dies with a
crystallized astral body, most of it will shatter as mentioned in astral
substance. The problem is that some of the very intense samskaras have
actually become attached to the light body of the individual. These
samskaras are like tiny seeds but they are very condensed and hold a
huge amount of emotion. These seeds are stuck to the light body and so
travel with it into the higher dimensions. While in these higher realms
the samskaras have little effect on the experience of bliss and love
which is present in these dimensions. They are simply there but cannot
really be felt. When the next incarnation on earth occurs, on the way
through the astral dimensions the samskara’s do play a role in the
collection of astral substance for the new astral body. This can be why
an unbalanced astral body is formed in the first place.
Once on earth
these samskaras from previous lives gradually incarnate and begin to
affect the new life just like they did in the past. As a baby not much
of the astral body is incarnated (it takes 28 years for full
incarnation) but if the baby has a trauma which resonates with one of
these past life samskaras it will be drawn in and activated. The
present trauma will likely make the samskara even more powerful. If this
occurs the samskara will have incarnated. It is much better that these
large samskaras are activated and incarnated later on, for if
incarnated as a baby they will certainly cause much pain and many
problems for the individual's entire life (unless cleared with the
proper techniques). This is why a good upbringing with as much love and
nurturance is so important. Think about a samskara that was built over
lifetimes, it is huge and full of intense emotions. Many of the emotions
within the samskara would have been crystallized as an adult in a past
life so when activated in a baby you have a situation where some very
powerful adult emotions are within a little innocent baby. If you think
about some of the extreme hate, anger and violence that has occurred on
this planet you will certainly see that some adult emotions do not
belong in a young child. This is where the term "bad seed" comes from.
It is not a bad soul but just a large samskara (seed) which incarnates
too early.
So the astral body becomes crystallized through emotional trauma's
creating samskaras which affect every aspect of a person’s life. They
are ever present in the background of experience and are the root of the
earthly ego. The light of the higher self is blocked and distorted by
this structure of samskaras. At death the astral body shatters but some
of the large samskaras stick to the light body and continue to the next
life. They will then gradually incarnate with the rest of the astral
body and most likely form a core part of the new ego structure in the
next life.
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