1) Human astral perception is a mix of things projected from inside your own consciousness and things projected from outside. One way to think of it is to imagine that your aura is a transparent screen; you're projecting images on the inside of the screen, the universe is projecting different images on the outside of the screen, and you see all of it muddled together. That's how dreams can be a mix of symbolism from your own life and images from the astral cosmos.
2) They can't. That's what heaven and hell are: the experience of the astral plane after death, as good or as bad as your mental state at death and your karma more generally make them. Reincarnation provides the meat parachute to get you out of it.
3) Personal spiritual development changes the level of the astral plane to which you resonate, and thus gets you to the better neighborhoods of the astral. You can't think clearly on the lower astral because that's part of the experience of the lower astral -- it's far enough from the mental plane that thoughts are muddled and confused.
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Date: 2023-05-01 06:13 pm (UTC)2) They can't. That's what heaven and hell are: the experience of the astral plane after death, as good or as bad as your mental state at death and your karma more generally make them. Reincarnation provides the meat parachute to get you out of it.
3) Personal spiritual development changes the level of the astral plane to which you resonate, and thus gets you to the better neighborhoods of the astral. You can't think clearly on the lower astral because that's part of the experience of the lower astral -- it's far enough from the mental plane that thoughts are muddled and confused.