duuude you gotta study this shit first. You don't know what the astral realm is? How long have we been friends?! Where do you think you travel in your dreams?
This is from my book Awakening Your Divine Ka
Astral Body: (1) exact etheric double of the physical body which leaves the body while we sleep and travels in the astral and higher planes; (2) connected to the body at all times with a silver cord in the third chakra, or solar plexus. (3) While we sleep, the astral body contains our consciousness and goes into other realms to act out and heal karmic patterns, clear the subconscious, learn from higher beings, create the future, heal the past, interact with other humans, and explore. (4) When we are awake, the astral body is blended with the physical body and brings psychic protection to the body and aura if it is in healthy condition.
Astral Planes: (1) nonphysical realms of consciousness corresponding to the physical world but not of it. (2) Lower-astral planes are referred to as 'bardos' in buddhism, or the dark underworld. hell, and hades in western society. They consist of parasitic entities, denied aspects of human consciousness, thoughtform entities (thoughtforms that have become self-aware and self-sustaining), and projections created by negative emotions. The realm of 'bogey men,' monsters, and your wort-feared agendas. (3) When emotions are held onto and believed to be based in truth instead of being seen simply as emotions, they become negative. Examples: phobias, revenge, lust and sexual fantasies devoid of love and spirit connection; repressed and justified fear, anger, rage, hate, blame, self-pitying victimhood, control, and greed. These energies, as well as physical abuse, rape, drugs, alcohol, indulgence in negative thinking, past-life murder or suicide, and absence of spiritual connectedness, pull humans into the lower-astral planes. (4) There are also higher-astral planes that correspond to the physical world such as the geometric plane, causal plane, interlinking communication network, past and future etheric double of all physical existence and experience, and the Akashic Records. These realms are generally accessed during sleep by the astral body. (5) the dark polarity of the fourth and fifth dimensions. The beings on these realms impulse humans via their own vices, negative thoughtforms, repressed emotions, and denied or unhealed shadow sides.
Here's how the book Between The Gates defines dreaming:
Normal Dreaming: Dreams are the most common, fragmented, and unreliable means of experiencing inner worlds because they depend on inner energies working to the surface of the operator's consciousness remembering them in some meaningful way on awakening. Normal dreams, however, are a valuable tool for taking the next step, directed dreaming, for reaching the inner worlds. Inner dreaming, in fact, may be passed over entirely, and lucid dreaming directly experienced in some instances.
Directed Dreaming: Directed dreaming in nearly identical to pathworking, only the story is not described in detail. Instead, the dreamer imagines a particular setting, or possibly a scene from an unfinished previous dream, while going to sleep. At the same time, the dreamer gives verbal affirmations of the intention to dream about this particular subject. This is a very useful method for use in problem solving.
Do more research on your own. It's time to evolve, bros!
