The psychological impact of the astral world
The inhabitants of the lower parts of the astral sphere, the islands of untruth have an extreme psychological focus on Earth and reinforce the dualistic fear-based world views that prevail there in the collective mind.
A lot of so called “spiritual information” comes from these islands of falsehood, to which you may ask “how does that work?” Suppose there is a sect leader on Earth who, like many other sect leaders, proclaims a certain doctrine, and in doing so, underlines it with the message, “I am special, I have a ‘direct line up’ and know and see more than you do. You better do what I say, and you will be saved.” After this person dies, they continue to proclaim these “truths” and gather followers. Death does not usually cause people to change their opinions or behavior. Thus, an island of falsehood is created in the astral sphere. However, because his energy is still close to the earthly level, this “teacher” can emit his influence on people who are sensitive enough to pick it up. When they do pick up his messages, they can easily mistake them for the truth. After all, the information comes from “the other side.”
The ideas proclaimed by such an astral guru reinforce the existing fear and duality on Earth. The receiver of such information, who is already anxious himself or has strong judgments about right and wrong thinks, “You see? I am right. It has been confirmed by a higher source.”
This is a clear example of astral influence, but it can also take place more subtly and unconsciously. Many people sometimes suffer from “intrusions,” or unpleasant, violent thoughts that drift in from the astral sphere that scare them. What happens is that the lower astral world resonates with negative or aggressive thoughts you have and greatly magnifies them. The trick is to recognize those intrusions as non-genuine, like noises you hear from the street, but ignore. You let them be and move away from them.
The main problem with the lower astral world is that the inhabitants of the islands of untruth have a common interest in inhibiting human evolution. After all, evolution leads to man’s deeper connection with his soul, expressing his freedom and light. To those on the islands of untruth, this would mean that they would no longer be nourished and would slowly begin to disappear. Indeed, eventually the entire astral sphere will disappear, insofar as it is the result of losing contact with the soul. A unity consciousness will then awaken on Earth—a world without borders, a world without war, a world of harmony among men, and harmony between man and nature.
Many inhabitants of the astral sphere believe that the end of it will be the end of them. Like many people on Earth, they believe in their own finitude and want to avoid it. They realize, sometimes consciously, sometimes instinctively, that the astral sphere is fed by lower energies produced by humans. So, they try to maintain duality on Earth, and that includes struggle and suffering. They see this as their salvation. The forces of light and love are their enemies. After all, light and love ensure their downfall. The central idea perpetuated by such astral forces is “the battle of good against evil,” pure duality. Paradoxically, they present themselves as “leaders of good” and under this guise provide humanity with “advice” that is often moralistic, incantatory, prophetic, and threatening in tone.
The myth of the battle between light and darkness
There is an ancient belief that the forces of light are battling the forces of darkness, which is the ultimate duality, good vs evil. Consider, for example, the idea of monotheistic religions that teach God and Satan are engaged in a fierce battle over human souls. In fact, there is no such battle. That is a myth. Light does not fight darkness. Where there is light, darkness simply no longer exists. Darkness is the absence of light. People can fight against Christ, who teaches, “love your enemies,” but Christ does not fight back against them. Love does not fight hate. It transforms hate.
An imaginary battle of hate against love, of darkness against light does exist. The inhabitants of the islands of falsehood believe firmly in this form of duality. They see all who believe in the inner unity and love of the universe as a threat. They see themselves as the forces of light fighting against darkness. They proclaim the myth of the battle of light against darkness. Ultimately, they are fighting against themselves. Whenever and wherever people believe in this struggle, they are influenced by the astral world.
How do these influences work? See below.
1) Lower emotions
Analyze the emotions of a crowd during a lynching in which a mass of people ruthlessly and hysterically rages against a victim who has been branded a sinner. Those who participate in such a bloody massacre are driven by an aggressive, animalistic emotion. Astral energies intervene and amplify these emotions. Sometimes this energy is so powerful that it takes control of a large area of a country’s population resulting in pogroms (large-scale persecutions) or war. When such a situation is finally over and a person is free of this influence, they often say, “I don’t know what possessed me.”
2) Unconscious influence via hitchhikers
Many people are not properly grounded, that is, they do not fully occupy their aura, which is a space intended just for them. This creates “holes” in their aura which are an opening or dwelling place for astral entities to enter. Such entities are a source of negative feelings and thoughts. The fact that you have one of these “holes” indicates that you have a limited idea of yourself. You maybe condemn a part of yourself, suppress it and therefore limit your ability to be in contact with your soul, joy, and inspiration.
For example, a man may consider that masculine energy is superior to the feminine, or that in order to be a “real man,” he must suppress his feminine side. If he believes that the feminine is inferior, he will push it away to the point it becomes completely inaccessible to him, which creates a hole in his aura where his feminine energy could flow but does not.
He does not allow it to incarnate in him and find ground. An astral energy can take advantage of this entry point and radiate feelings and thoughts in accordance with the man’s limiting belief. This astral influence magnifies the man’s limited idea. The feminine is seen not only as inferior or nonessential, but as bad, dangerous, something to be controlled and fought against. The duality in the man’s thinking is reinforced and the natural bond of love between the masculine and feminine is undermined. This seriously affects his relationships with women. He behaves disrespectfully toward women, is not able to process his feelings properly, and can become aggressive and depressed.
3) Influence through clairvoyance
Humans who are bothered by ideas of terrible natural disasters happening to them are being influenced by the exact same kind of thinking that has its roots in the astral world. It is possible for a traveler in the astral sphere to perceive these ideas as objective reality. In addition, fears imagined and magnified by the astral sphere are perceived by clairvoyants on Earth, who interpret these representations of fear as an actual picture of the future. A cycle of fear is thus created. Passing along this kind of information from a lower astral sphere is what clairvoyants have inundated us with throughout the ages, but their predictions about disasters and “end of time calamities” never come true. However, many people take those predictions seriously and become fearful as a result, thus feeding the astral world as it feeds them and completing the circle.
4) Influence through channeling and guides
There are many people in this world who believe they are spiritual teachers, or an incarnation of Jesus or some other well-known personality. Sometimes they are so unbalanced that they end up in a mental institution. If they don’t break free from this delusion during their Earthly life, they can continue their “teachings,” and gather followers after they die. They create their own island of falsehood. Because these islands are usually close to Earth, they are easily picked up by people channeling information.
Anyone who bothers to check channeled information about Jesus (Jeshua) will quickly discover that the channeled information about his life is always different. According to one source, he died on the cross, according to another, he did not. According to one, he married Mary Magdalene, according to another, he did not. These different fabricated stories stem from all the “Jeshuas” in the astral sphere that surrounds Earth, and they actually believe they are him.
How do you recognize the truth? It’s quite simple. Truth frees, truth expands consciousness and truth is love. Truth makes you aware of your inner unity, the richness and beauty of life.
Untruth works with fear. Astral sources detect your fears and amplify them, transforming semi-conscious fears into permanent dualistic beliefs, hindering inner growth.
For example, many people fear having no control over their own lives. An astral channeled source or guide will say, “you have no control over your life, it’s true, humanity is being manipulated by dark forces behind the scenes.” The first thing many people think when their fears are confirmed is, “You see, I’ve always known this, I’ve always felt this deep inside.” As a result, everything they think revolves around those dark powers, while the process that can really lead to growth, facing one’s own fears, is never entertained. Because this kind of information emanates from lower astral sources, fear becomes frozen in a dualistic worldview; good versus bad, light versus dark. This causes one’s inner growth, which always comes from going inward to transform fear, to be blocked.
People are led to believe via these types of guides that they have acquired deep esoteric knowledge and that the masses are naive and ignorant, thus increasing the belief in duality amongst fellow human beings.
How to deal with astral energies
Astral energies have power over us only if we give them power. When we believe in duality, and in the battle of light against darkness, we deny our inner oneness. By denying our inner unity, we identify with something we are not and create a hole in our aura. Thus, there is a place for an astral entity to enter, which does nothing but validate our fear and confirm our belief in duality.
We free ourselves from astral energies by taking three steps.
1) Choose beauty
Beauty is a mystery. Why do we enjoy music, a beautiful landscape, a beautiful flower, or a work of art so much? We don’t know exactly. Often beauty is not considered important. What is most important to us in life is usually money, career, and prestige. But beauty does matter. Beauty is nourishment for the soul; indeed, it is the awareness of one’s own soul. To experience beauty is to experience your soul, it is a memory of your soul. You are the beauty you see.
People tend to seek complicated and arduous ways to elevate themselves spiritually. But there is an amazingly straightforward way to elevate yourself—open yourself to beauty and enjoy it. Dwell for a moment on a beautiful flower, a sunrise, take time to listen to music, look up at the night sky and behold the stars. Take it in. Life will become so much more inspiring, and inwardly you will feel richer.
Wherever there is beauty, there is a higher vibration—there is the soul, there is your true self.
2) Choose unconditional love
There are people who hurt their fellow human beings and cause them a lot of pain. You can believe that these people are bad, must be fought against, and that you are right to be extremely angry with them. Or you can say, these are people who were severely damaged as children, people who need love to gradually return to a normal state.
If you choose to go along with mass consciousness and choose to fight and rage, you are choosing to suppress something in yourself—the angel in you, who loves unconditionally, the Christ in you, who tells you to love your enemies.
To choose to love your enemies and to be open to compassion and understanding, is a deep choice for yourself, for your deepest core. Your real self is a source of unconditional love. Within you lives a deep desire to lovingly heal all those damaged people who are so violent and so full of hate. Your inner eye sees the wounded child in them.
Choose to love. First, that means to choose to love yourself. Look honestly at the fearful part of yourself and accept it with understanding and compassion. It is a part of you, but it is not your boss. By consciously embracing it, you free yourself from the astral forces that are using your fear to manipulate you. It is your fear and when you realize this, you won’t allow it to flow into the world where it can manipulate others. To love yourself is to take responsibility for your fears.
3) Choose truth
Truth is not something that can be proven; only in mathematics is proof possible. Truth, however, can be shown; truth can be lived and experienced. What is truth? My definition of it is that unity exists in everything, and love transcends time and space. Ultimately, something that cannot be put into words.
Trust that reality will always bring you into harmony with the truth. You never have to convince other people of your truth, don’t worry about that, leave that to reality. When you express your opinion, you can do so openly and quietly with respect and love for the other person. Only words carried by love can touch and move the heart of another.
Finally, what is unity consciousness?
Above, I talked about unity consciousness. But what does that actually mean? What is Oneness? “We are one” is something totally different from “we are the same.” The unity of which I speak is in fact the opposite. We are all different, we are all unique. Unity includes multiplicity and plurality, and by embracing the uniqueness in yourself, you participate in that unity.
Think of your body. It is a unit, yet all the parts or organs are different, and each has its own function in the service of the whole. They form an organic unity. Everything is different, everything has a different function and is a unique part of the greater whole.
This unity consciousness does not lead to uniformity. On the contrary, it leads to embracing diversity. The paradox is that the very suppression of this unity consciousness leads to uniformity. It is precisely unity consciousness that allows each person to flourish in their own unique way and make their own unique contribution to the beauty of the whole that is humanity. In contrast, the denial of our underlying unity leads to pigeonholing people, ideas, and philosophies which suppresses our unique way of expressing ourselves.
Unity consciousness has two aspects that reflect each other, the awareness that inwardly we are one, and thus can lovingly accept everything in ourselves (dark and light), and the awareness that outwardly we are one, the entire universe around us is one and connected.
Both aspects are deeply connected. If we adhere to a dualistic ideology about the outer world, dividing it into boxes such as “good and evil,” we will suppress and condemn things within ourselves. By doing so, we will perceive the world around us in a disturbed way. This will influence our behavior and contribute to the creation of a discordant society. For example, if a man suppresses the feminine in himself, he will also begin to suppress women around him. If many men do this, a society will be created where the feminine is systematically suppressed with all the consequences that implies—creation of hierarchy, control, violence, and disharmony with nature.
Unity consciousness sounds lofty, but it begins with something remarkably simple and obvious—self-acceptance. As long as we do not accept ourselves as we are, and suppress or condemn certain parts of ourselves, we remain incomplete. This leads to a disturbed dualistic worldview and to spiritual stagnation. This spiritual stasis often persists after death. When we die, there are many changes, but we take ourselves with us to the other side, and that includes all of our beliefs as well. If we have an incomplete self-image, we create a world on the other side that reflects that in the astral world. The astral world influences the Earth in such a way that it tries to sustain itself by empowering duality on Earth.
Ultimately, unity consciousness is the same as unconditional love. As soon as love becomes conditional, there is duality, and we lose touch with unity consciousness.
Unconditional love is first of all unconditional love for us, we condemn nothing in ourselves, suppress nothing. We look at the darkness within ourselves and embrace it with love and understanding. By becoming whole, we experience the unity and wholeness of the world around us.
This enlightening experience makes the astral world, and all others forces that maintain duality, disappear. Then, people can take on their natural role in the universe and on Earth—that of star children.
Gerrit Gielen
Edited by Suzy Conway
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