Realms of Existence

Dictionaries define "Psyche" as:

The spirit or soul.

Radio and TV signals fill the room we are in right now, and if our eyes and ears were built a little differently, we would actually be able to see and hear them, just the way we can see sunbeams streaming through the window onto the furniture and hear the cat purring on our lap. If we could "see" the radio and TV signals all around us, we would be overwhelmed by the many songs, the personalities, and the comedies, dramas, news programs, and action movies all competing for our attention.

As it is, the radio and TV signals vary in vibration or frequency, so that each signal remains distinct even though they’re all jumbled together in the same space. That way, the electronic circuits within a TV or radio can tune-in to a single signal, allowing us to hear only one program sent by only one station. The signals are separated from each other by frequency, so they can’t overwhelm us.

The room we're in is also filled with countless realms of existence beyond the physical world—all teeming with life—and again, if our eyes and ears could see and hear those nonphysical realms, the room would be incomprehensibly crowded, and we would be completely overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of the many entities here among us.

Likewise, the many realms of existence all inhabit the same space, but each realm remains distinct by its vibration. We can learn to tune-in to some of these many realms through meditation, in which we learn to adjust the vibration of our consciousness.

before developing such technologies, it is helpful first to understand the nature of the various realms. It’s not an easy task, since the various realms of existence are virtually infinite in number and variety. Through the centuries, different schools of esoteric thought and different religions have tried to classify them in different ways. Hinduism, Judaism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and more modern institutions such as Eckankar and The Monroe Institute, all have their own systems to classify the various realms.

I have explored many of these systems:

The physical realm

is composed of comparatively dense, slowly vibrating matter and energies. Our own vast physical universe with its many stars and galaxies is little more than a handful of sand along an endless, cosmic beach.

The quantum realm

is a buffer zone between the physical and astral worlds. From our perspective here on Earth, it is a place to tie up loose ends after we die and prepare to move on to paradise. It has also become a rather troubled place.

The astral realm

is a place of form and structure much like our own physical world, though the structures and activities in the astral realm are more malleable—adapting more smoothly to the thoughts and intentions of the astral residents, who include most people who once had lived here on Earth.

The ethereal realm

is a formless world, consisting of pure consciousness of its ethereal inhabitants, who exchange information more efficiently and in greater quantity than the supercomputers of our world.

God, or the source, is at the center of all this. In fact, it is the pure Light emitted by God which manifests as everything in every realm of existence.

As mentioned, all these realms exist in the same space, and they remain separate and distinct by the vibration or frequency of consciousness which forms each realm.