A. The spiritual beings worshiped as gods by many religious groups
are impostors. They are nothing more than the disembodied spirits of
human beings who refuse to reincarnate. They remain on the astral
plane, where they exercise power over other spirits and over living
people. We call them “Theocrats,” a name also used to describe the
ancient Egyptian Pharaohs and other earthly rulers who justified
their demand for absolute political power by posing as divine
beings.
The concept that gods are impostors is the first postulate of a
theory that provides explicit answers for almost any question about
the nature of spiritual reality. Part of this theory is scientific.
It explains what the soul is made of and how it functions. It also
explains how the body, mind, and soul are inter-related and how
psychic powers operate. The rest of the theory is political. It
describes the political organization of spirits on the astral plane,
and the relationships that different factions of disembodied spirits
have with living people.
The Theocrats are violating natural laws when they refuse to
reincarnate. The souls of all living beings are constructed to
incarnate and draw energy from the physical body. This is the only
natural and efficient way in which the soul can get the vital energy
it needs to function and regenerate itself. Although the mechanics
of this process are quite complicated, we will explain them in some
detail to allow you to understand the rest of the theory.
The soul is actually an astral body, made up of a special form of
matter. This matter is composed of subatomic particles like ordinary
matter, but with different properties. Let us call this special form
of matter astral matter, and the ordinary form physical matter.
The subatomic particles that compose astral matter have different
properties from the particles that compose physical matter.
Physicists on Earth have named and described some of these
properties, such as mass, spin, and electrical charge. You also have
terms like “charm” in your vocabulary for properties the scientific
community apparently understands much less clearly.
The principal difference between astral matter and physical matter
is that all astral subatomic particles possess much less mass than
equivalent particles of physical matter. The charges and the mass
ratios of the particles of astral atoms are about the same as those
of physical atoms. In other words, the particles that compose the
nucleus of an atom of astral matter have a positive or neutral
electrical charge and their mass is greater than that of the
negatively charged particles that revolve around the nucleus.
However, the astral subatomic particles equivalent to physical
protons and neutrons are much less massive than physical electrons.
Since physicists often describe physical electrons as having
”negligible mass” compared with physical protons and neutrons, this
means that the total mass of astral atoms is extremely small.
Q. How can astral matter exist in the presence of physical matter?
Why don’t the tiny astral atoms simply get sucked in by the
gravitational attraction of the physical atoms and end up orbiting
them the way electrons do?
A. Astral subatomic particles have a different characteristic that
determines gravitational attraction. They are attracted by gravity
to each other but not to particles of physical matter. In fact, the
astral atoms and molecules that make up the soul occupy the same
space as the physical matter that makes up the body. Both kinds of
matter are mostly empty space between particles anyway, and since
there is no gravitational attraction between the two kinds of
matter, the molecules simply slip by one another. This also explains
people’s inability to see astral matter or detect it with physical
laboratory instruments.
Energy also exists in two different forms, physical energy and
astral energy. The photons that make up the two types again have
different characteristics. Under most circumstances, astral photons
do not react with physical subatomic particles. Nor do physical
photons react with astral particles. However, the exception is
important.
Q. You’re saying that light and other electromagnetic energy do not
affect astral matter. Does this mean that psychic energy is not in
the electromagnetic spectrum at all, but in a different one?
A. Yes. Advanced civilizations possess a unified field theory that
describes the relationship between the two, but we can’t describe it
to you right now. What’s important in this discussion is that
psychic or astral energy normally works only on astral matter. It
does not produce physical or chemical changes in physical matter.
The reverse is also true.
Q. How does psychokinesis work then, or does it exist at all?
A. It exists, but it’s nothing like what you now think. In fact,
your whole concept of the nature of psychic powers is a jumble of
oversimplifications and errors. Psychokinesis does not move or
change physical matter directly, but can do so by working through
the links between physical and astral matter. These links are the
“Secret of Life.”
The difference between living and non-living matter is that living
matter is linked to astral matter but non-living matter is not.
Complex organic molecules of physical matter can form a chemical
bond with similarly constructed molecules of astral matter, and the
resulting structure shows the characteristics of life: irritability
and the ability to reproduce.
This process is very complicated, and your knowledge of physics is
not adequate to understand all it completely. Here’s an attempt to
explain why astral matter can react chemically with physical matter
only within living molecules and not within simpler molecules. It
has to do with the vibrational frequencies of photons produced when
electrons of both physical and astral matter change energy levels
within complex organic molecules. These frequencies are the same
allowing physical photons to convert to astral and vice-versa.
This
happens only in certain kinds of molecules, not in all. These energy
conversions allow a sort of chemical bonding to occur if the two
molecules are similar enough.
Q. Does this mean that astral matter – in other words, the soul –
plays a part in cell division?
A. Yes, in the whole genetic process: it affects the reduplication
of DNA. It also affects many different aspects of cell metabolism.
And the breaking of the molecular bonds between physical molecules
and astral molecules causes the phenomenon commonly called “death”.
Q. How does this tie in with the idea that the body supplies the
energy to nourish the soul?
A. Some of the electromagnetic energy generated chemically by the
cell’s metabolic processes is converted into astral energy by the
links between the physical and astral molecules. This energy flows
into the astral matter that composes the soul, powering its various
functions and providing the raw material for regeneration of its
astral matter. In other words, some electro-magnetic energy is
converted into astral energy, passed into the soul, and converted
into astral matter there to perform cellular growth and repairs.
The astral plane is actually higher on an ecological energy chain
than the Earth plane, which means it receives less total usable
energy. Plants convert solar energy into chemical energy. When
animals eat the plants, they absorb this energy and use most of it
in growth, repair of tissues, moving around, and other activities.
However, some of it is also converted into astral energy and passed
into the soul.
Since each of these energy conversion processes is
less than completely efficient, each link in the energy chain has
access to less total energy than the one below it.
Q. The impression of the human soul I get from this is that it’s
exactly the same size and shape as the body, linked to it
cell-by-cell and molecule-by-molecule. This is very different from
my previous concept, which was that it is attached to the body at
only one point through the traditional “silver cord.” Please
explain.
A. Human beings actually have two souls, not one. So do all other
animals; but plants have only one. The soul we’ve been talking about
so far is a primitive structure, an astral body that is merely an
analog of the physical body. It is alive in the sense that it is
made up of molecules of living astral matter, but it is not
sentient. It has a nervous system but not a mind. The true soul, the
one you were just talking about, is a separate structure of astral
matter.
Using the term “somatic soul” for the primitive soul linked
cell-by-cell to the body and “astral soul” for the other will make
it easier to discuss this subject. The astral soul is a body of
astral matter linked to the somatic soul’s nervous system by what
you call the silver cord. This is structured like a segment of plant
root with feeder roots at both ends. The feeders at one end tap into
the somatic soul’s nervous system; those at the other end tap into
the astral soul’s nervous system.
Energy flows into the astral soul
from the somatic soul and indirectly from the body through this
cord. Energy flowing through the silver cord is the astral soul’s
only truly efficient source of nourishment.
Q. This makes sense. I take it, then, that the silver cord breaks
when the body dies, leaving the astral soul free.
A. Correct. Remember, though, that the astral soul loses its best
source of energy when it separates from the body. By contrast, when
the body dies, the somatic soul does not also separate and live on
independently. It simply decomposes when the body decomposes.
Remember, it’s very closely linked to the body with chemical bonds.
Q. I conclude from this that a new somatic soul is created during
the embryological development of every new human being.
A. Correct. In fact, a cell of living physical matter can’t divide
unless the astral cell linked to it also divides. Living cells and
molecules can exist only in pairs, one physical, and one astral.
This is why many complex organic molecules undergo chemical
reactions differently in living cells from the way they do in a test
tube.
Q. I assume, then, that reincarnation occurs when an existing astral
soul attaches itself to the developing somatic soul of a fetus.
You’ve also given a reason why the astral soul needs to reincarnate:
to link itself to a source of vital energy and nourishment. Where in
the process of embryological development does this occur?
A. There are two very different reincarnation processes. The
commonest occurs even before conception. Sexual activity often
attracts a nearby spirit and causes a temporary attachment to a
woman’s somatic soul at the genital chakra. (The same attachment can
happen to a man, but it generally lasts only a few minutes, because
the attachment point in a male’s somatic soul is vestigial, whereas
the female’s is fully functional.)
The attachment can last up to
about twenty-four hours; and if conception occurs during this time,
some of the hormonal secretions that accompany the process cause the
woman’s nervous system to send energy to her somatic soul that keeps
the attachment intact through the entire pregnancy.
Late in
pregnancy, when the somatic soul of the fetus becomes sufficiently
developed, another hormonal change causes the mother’s genital
chakra to reject the link to the attached soul, which then remains
attached only to the fetus.
Q. I think this information might also explain why students of sex
magic in both the East and the West have written so much about the
relationship between the female menstrual cycle and various psychic
and spiritual phenomena. Most of them have noticed that kundalini
energies vary significantly in both quantity and nature at various
points during the cycle, and that there is also a connection to
mediumship and even possession.
A. Yes, this information can help magicians work out better
theoretical explanations for the mechanisms of such phenomena. At
present, the theories they use to explain their observed data are
among the most complex and mystical hypotheses you’ll find in occult
books. This same concept should also be useful to people trying to
explain some of the phenomena described by
Whitley Strieber
in
Communion: women experiencing phantom pregnancies after “UFO
abduction” experiences, etc.
To get back to our discussion of the mechanisms of reincarnation,
the primitive, involuntary form of reincarnation occurs in many of
the more intelligent types of “lower animals,” and it happens
spontaneously to any human soul at a relatively low state of psychic
development who happens to come close to a couple having
intercourse. Although it allows the soul to survive death, it has
serious disadvantages for both mother and child.
All during her pregnancy the mother suffers serious psychic energy
imbalances, which can cause her both mental and physical illness.
These are usually more uncomfortable than they are dangerous, but
the damage suffered by the attached astral soul is often much more
serious. Signals intended for the mother’s astral soul are also
transmitted into the attached soul, and they usually scramble the
contents of its astral mind quite badly.
For this reason, few people
who reincarnate by this method show the typical characteristics of
the twice born: past-life memories, precocious intellectual or
psychic development, etc.
Q. What happens if an existing astral soul doesn’t link to the
mother’s somatic soul? Does this cause an early miscarriage? Recent
medical evidence shows that about half of all pregnancies terminate
spontaneously within a week or two after conception; since an early
miscarriage of this type closely resembles normal menstruation, the
woman isn’t aware she was ever pregnant.
A. This has nothing to do with reincarnation, but has purely
physical causes. Every human being has to have an astral soul. If an
existing astral soul is not already attached to the mother, the
fetus starts generating an astral soul of its own late in pregnancy.
At this point, two things can happen. Either a late reincarnation
can occur, or the baby is born with a completely new soul,
spontaneously created during its embryonic development.
The people the Hindus call “twice born” are those in which an astral
soul at a reasonably high state of development has incarnated
shortly before or after birth, a process that keeps the infant from
developing its own new soul. On the average, people with twice-born
souls have a head start over those with new souls or souls received
through early reincarnation. The astral soul of a twice-born person
transfers memories into the physical mind during infancy and
childhood that “teach it how to learn.” This is equivalent to
raising the person’s effective intelligence and creativity.
Energy to nourish the soul flows from the body through the somatic
soul to the astral soul, but there are smaller energy flows both
ways that convey information.
The astral souls of the twice born
give them a head start by feeding valuable information into the
physical mind.
Q. Why do the Theocrats refuse to reincarnate?
A. Remember Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” saying, “Better to
reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”? The Theocrats are spirits with
great knowledge and psychic power. They are a sort of ruling class
on the astral plane, and they don’t want to give up their power and
privilege by reincarnating. Highly advanced souls who aren’t
Theocrats reincarnate and take the chance that their soul can
properly educate their new mind, and that their next reincarnation
will be a pleasant and valuable one. But it still involves taking a
chance: the body might have hidden flaws that they don’t detect
before incarnating, or the child’s earthly environment can take an
unforeseen turn for the worse.
Also, the late reincarnation process itself is as traumatic as the
physical ordeals of giving birth or being born. This trauma erases
many of the memories stored in the astral soul and damages the
programming that governs the astral soul’s functioning. The
Theocrats are too selfish and egotistical to take these chances,
even though the alternative is extremely immoral.
Another reason why Theocrats don’t want to reincarnate is that human
beings have two minds as well as two souls. One mind is in the
physical body’s brain, the other is in the astral soul, and both
have separate consciousness. Normally, the astral mind is conscious
while the body sleeps and unconscious while the physical mind is
awake. The two are conscious simultaneously only during certain
states of altered consciousness. This “time-sharing” is humiliating
for the astral mind’s ego, which considers itself superior to that
of the physical mind. Theocrats want total consciousness for their
astral ego, in addition to power over other spirits.
This brings us to one of the most important things we have to tell
you in this whole series of communications.
The nourishment that
disembodied spirits receive from living people as radiant psychic
energy is not enough to sustain them by itself. This is why all
non-Theocratic spirits reincarnate within ten to fifty years after
physical death: if they don’t, the astral soul starts to degenerate
because of a sort of malnutrition. The astral matter that makes up
its tissues can’t regenerate itself properly and reverse the effects
of entropy. So the choice is reincarnation or illness, insanity, and
death.
The Theocrats have found an alternative to this, but it is an evil
one: cannibalism. They use their telepathic powers to hypnotize
spirits less highly developed than they are; then they attach the
silver cord to them just as if the other astral soul were the
somatic soul of an infant.
They can draw out enough energy this way
to sustain themselves on the astral plane indefinitely, but the
process destroys the other spirit.
Q. This is very frightening. Can they do this to just any other
spirit, and can they do it to an astral soul incarnated in a body?
A. Fortunately, no to both. If they could, neither you nor we would
be here talking about it. The Theocrats would have eaten up all of
us just to get rid of us. They claim to be gods, but their powers
are actually quite limited. Some of them are both more knowledgeable
and psychically more powerful than most of the rest of us, living
and disembodied, but they are far from omnipotent.
They can’t damage an embodied soul or override its conscious will,
and they usually can’t capture and devour disembodied souls who
resist them, except for the weak and untrained ones that mediums
call “lost souls.” And even the majority of lost souls are capable
of random psychokinetic bursts that allow them to flee the Theocrats
when threatened.
The Theocrats obtain victims by posing as gods and
persuading religious believers to enter their bands by promising
them "eternal bliss in Heaven."