Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Five Subtle Bodies in Regards to the Astral Plane and of Astral Projection

Regardless of how this may sound it is true that we are multidimensional beings. The mind is not the brain. These Subtle bodies are the bodies referred to as energies separate of substance. They are intelligent though independent of any structure, cerebral cortex, or spine and they are a very big part of us.
Really quick lets get the fundamentals out of the way. Like the above sentence says; The mind is not the brain. For example if your brain were taken out of your skull we would not see your thoughts in there. No we would see the mechanism that allows you to utilize your bodies other parts. The conductor of impulses that are carried throughout your body.

Things that the brain works with like nerves and movements are a separate function. These are very different from your personal thoughts and views. These are two very different things all coming from the 'One Organ' we call your brain. So, in essence the brain has two bodies. There is the motor skills and the mental functions.
Then there are two different kinds of feelings. If you push a needle in your big toe you will feel pain. Then if you are left behind by your girl/boy friend you feel sad. Yet both are not emotions as pain is often referred to as a state of mind. However you acquire pain strictly through physical means or contact.
These are the bodies to which we refer to when we are speaking about or explaining Astral Projection and or the Astral Plane. This is the best and only way I know to explain this without getting all technical and fancy with wording. Now with Metaphysics out of the way lets begin.

The physical body The body consisting of dense matter. The Dense Physical Body. Your elbow and nose. Your hands and feet. Pretty self explanatory the body that you are born with and eventually grow out of.
The Ethereal Body Which is ghost like in form and nature. It is visible to the naked eye. Its look is very much like we see in fairy tales and ghost stories portrayed on television. White and transparent just enough to see through. If you look directly into a bright light-bulb and then look away you will see a left over stained like spot briefly. That is the vision of the Ethereal body.

The Astral body Emotional, feeling, will and the cumulative power of purpose. In dreams when we fly, we are experiencing the lower Astral plane. Basically this is the Advanced & Awake Ethereal Body. It is important here to state that this is the way we see ourselves in our own mind and not what we really are or how we look from the eyes of others.

The Mental Body Concrete in mind, direct actuality. Hard Matter of science. The here and now reality that is given to our natural senses. Mater is latin for Mother and Matter which is where the English word comes from. So the Mental Body is the primary thoughts that are consistent only with the physical body but can and does eventually cry out and reason for more.

The Causal Body Abstract in mind, indirect essence. More for an artistic sense of thought. Speculative in nature but effective. CREATIVITY. Fun with thought and freedom of expression.
The goal of Astral Projection is to come alive or "Wake Up" in your Astral body. To come alive and become conscious of your Astral body means leaving your Mental body in a sense. You take the essence of it with you but are not subject to the same laws and rules that tie you to it.
The laws of the Astral Plane are strong and new. Altogether different from what you are familiar with or used to. The physics of this world do not apply in the same way that they do in this world. For this reason before you enter you must become alive awake and aware of all these bodies so that they can be of use to you and you have access to them while you are outside of your physical body.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Humanistic Astrology, the butterfly effect and ... - Examiner

Astrology is an art, science, craft and some would say, a spiritual study of the heavenly bodies. Its fundamental principles greatly predate those of modern science.
The astrological chart, called a horoscope, delineates the positions of celestial objects relative to a particular time and place. However, Astrology is like a living and growing tree with many different branches that represent the many different astrological traditions and schools of thought.
Though every tradition is based on a horoscope that delineates the positions of celestial objects relative to time and space, each tradition has its own unique focus and delineation. Most professional astrologers are versed but not always proficient in all astrological traditions.
Almost every professional astrologer, after completing a thorough study of the language, syntax and mechanics of the astrological technique, will find they resonate to a specific school of astrological thought. This becomes their area of interest and they continue their astrological education by focusing on its unique delineation. This tradition will then be used in their professional work.
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Humanistic Astrology
Many modern astrologers resonate to psychological astrology, specifically the humanistic and developmental astrology of Dane Rudhyar.
Humanistic astrology is a branch of astrology that is focuses on understanding human potential. It is a psychological astrology that not only seeks to use astrological methods for personality evaluation, but to use an individual's horoscope as a guide for individual development.
This astrology answers our human need for self-understanding, it fits in with the general idea of human potential and with the traditional psychology's defined developmental stages. Humanistic astrology stresses growth and increased awareness.
Dane Rudhyar, one of the founding Fathers of Humanistic astrology, believed the birth chart revealed the purpose of the life and the key to one's destiny. He believed the personal horoscope is like a "seed-plan" that shows a person's unique path of development. And just like the packet containing seeds depicts a picture of the plant that the enclosed seeds may eventually become, so the horoscope symbolizes the kind of adult an individual has the potential to become.
A humanistic astrologer holds that the birth chart indicates psychological predispositions that influence the way we see things and how we react to them. In other words, the birth chart indicates an individual's behavior as influenced by the individual's own perception of experience and not necessarily by object reality of that experience.
For example, a traditional astrology cook-book might say that Saturn conjunct the Moon in the Fourth House indicates a difficult early life and the likelihood of a parent who was not very nurturing. A humanistic astrologer would not disagree with the quality of the subjective emotions or psychological effects of this combination on the individual, but would emphasize that the cause of the psychological effects was the individual’s perception of early life, not necessarily the reality of that early life.
According to humanistic astrology, the chart does not describe objective reality as much as it describes the individual’s subjective experience of the objective reality.
For a humanistic astrologer the birth chart provides insight into the client's internal conflicts, and the transits and progression say when these conflicts will surface to be healed. To the humanistic astrologer the planetary movements do not predict specific events rather they indicate the nature, meaning, and duration of various developmental periods and the best way to navigate the challenges and opportunities that will be presented.
Excerpt from ~ The Birth of Psychological Astrology by Glenn Perry, Ph.D.

".....By the 1960's Rudhyar's project of reformulating astrology received new impetus from the humanistic movement in psychology. Humanistic psychology, as embodied in the writings of Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and others, had arisen in response to the bleak pessimism inherent in the Freudian psychoanalytic view and the robot conception of human potential implied in behaviorism. Both psychoanalysis and behaviorism were deterministic in that they conceived of personality as the effect of causes external to the person himselfâ€"i.e., genetics, parents, environmental conditions, and so on. Humanistic psychologists countered this trend by developing models which could account for the apparent purposiveness and growth-seeking behavior of human beings.
Rather than portray the individual as caught in an interminable struggle between instinctual drives and the inhibiting influence of society (psychoanalysis), or fragment the person into a multitude of conditioned behaviors as seen from an external vantage point (behaviorism), humanists perceived the individual as a unified organism made up of autonomous drives and functions which could be differentiated from one another and integrated into a functional whole greater than the sum of its parts.
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The Butterfly Effect
The butterfly effect , a metaphor for Chaos Theory, theorizes that a change in something seemingly innocuous, such as a flap of a butterfly's wings, may have unexpected larger consequences in the future.
As in the butterfly effect, the study of astrology reveals that even small differences in initial conditions ~ such as the environment one grows up in ~ will yield widely diverging lives. This happens even though the chart of a birth itself is deterministic ~ meaning that future behavior is fully determined by the date, time and location of birth ~ but the birth chart alone does not take into account the seemingly innocuous or random events of each individual life ~ such as parents, culture, friends, teachers, relocation or any number of random variables that cause chaos in the horoscopes deterministic patterns. (Mark Twain's "The prince and the Pauper" is the story of two boys who were born on the same day and in the same location but begin life in very different circumstances)
Perception
In other words, the deterministic nature of astrology does not predict the circumstances of the life that will be lived ~ only the subjective experience of those circumstances. Nor do transits and progressions predict specific events, only when the subjective perceptions will be sparked and brought forward, giving the individual opportunity to acknowledge and change these perceptions and modify their behavior. 
I am primarily a humanistic astrologer and believe that perception is all important ~ if you can change your perception you can change your life.
As fate and freewill intermingle with the storms of chaos in our lives, we are given the opportunity to change the set of our sails. A conscious and aware individual, one who knows and understands their unique challenges, strengths, motivations and gifts, is better able to survive the random storms of life and navigate ~ be the captain of ~ their own destiny.



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Friday, April 2, 2010

Personal Horoscopes

One of the most ancient philosophies' is Astrology and it is still going strong today. It all began many thousands of years ago with the ancient Greeks. They evolved the belief that the position of the sun and the planets had an effect on a person's life and future events. The actual word "astrology" is Greek and means "Science of the stars."

Looking into our past it is known that people used the sun and moon positions in the sky and the appearance of certain constellations as time clocks for planting crops and predicting weather. Nomadic tribes used to use the constellations of the skies for navigation which went on to be used by many civilizations.

Thanks to William Lilly, a famous astrologer in the 17th century, made the practice much more acceptable by calling it "Christian Astrology". He wrote a book with that name which was highly received and hugely popular. Mr Lilly caused a lot of controversy in 1666 by predicting the Great Fire of London some 14 years before it happened. When the fire happened people believed he was responsible but there was no evidence to support this. He was tried for the offence in Parliament but was found innocent.

A persons personal horoscope chart is related to their birth time, date and year. Because there are 12 parts to the year which are each named after a constellation which is in the sky at the time. Every horoscope has both positive and negative aspects. To customise your horoscope it depends exactly where your birth day and time falls and under what sign.

The twelve horoscope signs are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. A lot of people read their own horoscopes for the day from local newspapers but they can be quite vague and not really tailored for every person. To get the best reading you need to have an individual chart created with is based on your actual time of birth, place of birth and month and year. Other countries have horoscopes like the Chinese. Chinese horoscopes use methods based on animals which are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, monkey, boar or pig, horse, sheep, rooster and the dog. The Chinese horoscope has been used for centuries but its origin is unclear.

Consulting your horoscope should be taken as a bit of fun. People who run their lives according to their horoscopes are disillusioned and should stop taking it so seriously. Yes getting a unique chart created is one thing but to live your day to day live according to them is ludicrous. Reading about someone's sign is a guide to what they are like could be used to help you improve relations. But regardless of what horoscopes say, it's what you do with your life now that counts.

The Power of Love Astrology

A lot of people believe that all the answers to their love questions are found in the stars. Love astrology is more than just that. In fact, horoscopes about love and relationships are just the icing of the cake because there is really a lot more to love and relationships than just the sheer compatibility of the zodiacs. There are many secrets out there to influence your love life, if you only know how to read between the lines.
In reality, your romantic relationship potential is bigger than you think. Yes you can understand it using a love horoscope, but a real and live astrologer can give you a more accurate and powerful document (a so-called Astrology Love Guide) that will show you more about love and relationships. An astrology love guide is different from love horoscopes because it will tell you how you can actually influence a potential partner to fall in love with you. It will give you strategies and tips on how to boost your natural compatibility chemistry with that person. This means that after you have had this piece of knowledge, you will be more than ready to change your love life instantly, for good.

So what is this love astrology secret and how does it work?
We can trace the answer back to as far as ancient history - it is believed that Babylonian astrologers were the first one who created the infamous Astrology Love Guide. It was considered as their "Magic Bullet" in casting love spells to their prospect lovers and make them fall in love. Their deep astrological wisdom and methods are not known by the traditional astrologers during their time.

It all began more than five thousand years ago, when the first astrologers found out how astrological traits served as the psychological building blocks of how a person thinks, feels, sees, and reacts to the world. They examined and revealed that a Pisces is most likely to be emotional, an Aries is most likely to be adventurous, and a Taurus to be most likely attracted to beauty, and so on.

You might be wondering where all this is going and what is its relevance with love astrology. Well, let us say that you had the capability to understand the unique combination of a person's attributes and you can read into his or her behavior, and consequently infer what that person longs for and can be seduced with, wouldn't you be powerful (to some extent)?

The wisdom that you can gain from love astrology is like having the code for cracking a safe. Once you know it, things will really be very easy. If you know the things that will attract and keep that person that you want, you won't be having relationship problems ever again!