The etheric body or subtle body and operations with it. Seven subtle bodies of man

Ten years ago I said the phrase: “If children played with matryoshka dolls, then the problem of cellulite would not be so acute!”
First she said it, and then she realized how deep the meaning of this statement is.

After all, by dismantling the nesting doll, the child would load into his subconscious a model of thinking that a person has content, that it is multifaceted, that a person is not just a shell. It would be easier to explain to a growing child that a person has not only physical body. He would understand this process as natural, as the only correct and holistic one. It is this integrity that is extremely important in understanding the world. Everything in the world, any process, phenomenon, has seven aspects. This is the law.

All human bodies are a single whole. It is impossible to separate them only because medicine, for example, does not know how to treat the etheric, astral, mental and other subtle bodies, but deals only with problems of the physical. But this does not make the other six bodies free from problems. That is why medicine is called imperfect, ineffective, because the causes of diseases lie precisely in the subtle, mental and other bodies. Without healing (cleaning) the subtle bodies, it is impossible to completely get rid of diseases.

Sometimes, when examining a patient, I see where the disease begins and warn the patient about it. It is a pity that sometimes people do not have responsibility for their lives and health. But today I didn’t want to talk about that.
Let's finally figure out what these Seven Bodies are and where they “suddenly” came from.

I will say right away that they have always been there. You've probably heard, and maybe even seen, ghosts. This is the etheric body of the restless soul.
Perhaps you have ever seen in some photograph the blue outline of a living and healthy person? This is the etheric body.

Also, everyone already knows that a person has an aura - this is a reflection of all his bodies. The colors in the aura are a mixture of the colors of his bodies, the boundaries of which in the aura also merge and it is impossible to separate them.

Seven bodies accompany the physical body of a person throughout his life. They live and die with you. Everything - seven, except one - karmic - it is preserved by the Universe for the transfer of the karmic task.

So let's start with the aura.
Together, a person’s subtle bodies form his aura. After special training, many people begin to see the aura in all its diversity of colors. In addition, today there are special cameras with which anyone can photograph their aura in color.

True, cameras take pictures of all the subtle bodies of a person at once, without making any distinction between them. However, these differences are very important.
Each subtle body has its own name and performs a specific function. Moreover, in different sources there are several variants of the names of the same subtle bodies. For consistency, we will have to select only one of them.

Etheric body

The first subtle body is the etheric or energetic body of a person. This body is an exact copy of the physical body. It exactly repeats its silhouette, going beyond it by 3-5 cm.

This subtle body has the same structure as the physical body, including its organs and parts. It consists of a special type of matter called ether. Ether occupies an intermediate position between the dense matter that makes up our world and even more subtle types of matter than ethereal matter.

The bodies of many entities are made of ether, references to which we find in fairy tales and mystical literature. These are ghosts, brownies, various kinds of underground inhabitants - gnomes, trolls, etc. Whether they exist in reality or not, a person who has developed the appropriate vision can tell. But will we believe his stories?

In principle, any person, if desired, can see the bluish haze of the etheric body around his fingers if he looks at them with an unfocused gaze on a white background. In addition, the well-known Kirlian effect allows you to photograph the etheric body.

The color of the etheric body, as perceived by psychics, varies from light blue to gray. U sensitive person it has a bluish tint; in an athletic, physically strong person, gray tones predominate in the etheric body.

The etheric body forms the so-called energy matrix of the human body, to which the organs of our physical body correspond. People with highly sensitive vision see all organs of the human body as if they consist of flickering gray light.

Distortions that arise in the human energy body lead first to disorder and then to degeneration of the organs of our physical body (i.e. disease). Bioenergetics specialists feel with their hands the distortions of the energy body and make corrections to it. In case of correct influence, after the correction of the energy body, healing of the physical organ occurs.

In the same body there are various energy flows, including those same “wonderful meridians” that are affected by acupuncture and acupressure.

Since the etheric body completely repeats the physical body, it is sometimes called the etheric double of a person.

The human etheric body weighs about 5-7 grams. This was established by American researchers during an experiment where a person died while lying on very sensitive scales (completely voluntarily). During this not very ordinary experiment, it was found that after death a person’s weight decreases precisely by these 5 grams.

After the death of a person, all subtle bodies leave our physical body. But only the “transitional” ethereal body has weight; the rest of the bodies are too incorporeal. After the death of a person, the etheric body also dies, but not immediately, but on the 9th day after death. Then it also decomposes, being close to the decomposing physical body. This is precisely why people sometimes encounter ghosts in cemeteries in the evening - these are their ethereal counterparts wandering around buried bodies.

Some people are able to leave their physical body in the etheric body (the so-called etheric projection), remaining conscious and remembering their sensations. G. D'Urville's book “The Ghost of the Living” describes experiments during which people in etheric bodies left their physical bodies and performed pre-agreed actions - stood on sensitive scales, illuminated photographic plates, closed bell contacts, walked through walls, etc.

At this time, the physical body was in the chair completely motionless. What’s interesting is that it completely lost sensitivity - it could be pricked, cut, burned, and the person would not react. Those. Without the etheric body, our entire system of receptors, nerves and other elements of the physical body does not work - there is no life in it.

Astral body

The next one, the astral body (or body of emotions), consists of more subtle matter than etheric matter.

This body extends 5-10 centimeters beyond the boundaries of the physical body. It does not have such a clear form as the etheric one. It represents continuously shimmering colored clots of energy. I don't have emotional person this body is quite uniform and discharged. In a very emotional person, these multi-colored clumps are thicker and denser. Moreover, outbursts of negative emotions manifest themselves as clots of “heavy” and dark colors- burgundy red, brown, gray, black, etc.

If a person is emotional, but easy-going, then the clots of negative energies in the emotional body dissolve relatively quickly. But if a person has lingering negative emotions such as constant resentment towards people or life, or constant aggressiveness towards life or other people (communists, democrats, Jews, boss, ex-husband etc.), then such emotions create long-term clots of negative emotional energy. These clots subsequently have a negative impact on health.

By the colors of the astral body, clairvoyants can easily determine what emotions are inherent in a given person.

Astral energies create the whole so-called astral plane, on which the entities of the astral plane live. For example, to form events we use the help of egregors, which are created from the energies of the astral and the next, mental planes.

In addition to egregors, many completely independent entities live on the astral plane, also from the fairy-tale and mystical repertoire.

In addition, all the entities and objects you create in your dreams live on the astral plane. Moreover, the more vivid dream you saw, the longer it persists on the astral plane. Since the theme of most dreams is eroticism, sex or fear, you can imagine what events are constantly developing on this plane. We can see some semblance of the events taking place there in Western porn films, horror films and cool action films.

The Astral Plane has several levels (or floors). The lower floors, as you might guess, are the very “hell” in which souls with a full “vessel of karma” experience various troubles.

It is safe to say that the lower floors of the astral plane are precisely the lower (1-2) floors of the Subtle World. The entire astral plane occupies 5-6 floors in the Subtle World. Those. the upper floors of the astral plane belong to the 5-6th level of the entire Subtle World.

A person has the opportunity to consciously enter this plane in the astral body and observe what happens there. The events taking place there were most fully described by the famous popularizer of esoteric knowledge, Charles Leadbeater, in his book “The Astral Plane”. Similar experiments are described in sufficient detail in the works of other authors.

After the death of a person, his astral body also dies, but only on the 40th day. The rest, more subtle bodies, can remain on the astral plane if they are held there by the load of the “vessel of karma”.

Mental body

The third human body is called the mental body. This is the body of human thoughts and knowledge. It is very developed among scientists, researchers and people interested in some field of knowledge (history, architecture, botany, etc.). And it is weakly manifested in people engaged in physical labor.

The mental body extends beyond the physical body by 10-20 cm and generally follows its contours.

It consists of even more subtle energy - the energy of the mental plane. On this plane also live fabulous entities that do not have a stable shape and size. The structure of the mental plane is described in some detail in the work of Charles Leadbeater “The Mental Plan”.
In particular, the egregors we previously discussed live and feed on the energies of the astral and mental planes.

The mental plane occupies the 7th-8th floors of the Subtle World.

The mental body has a bright yellow emanating from the human head and spreading to the entire body. When a person thinks intensely, the mental body expands and becomes more vibrant.

The mental body also contains clots of energy that reflect our beliefs and stable thoughts. These clots are called thought forms.

Thought forms can only consist of the energy of the mental body - if our beliefs are not accompanied by emotions. And if beliefs are combined with emotions, then the thought form is formed by the energies of the mental and emotional planes. Accordingly, if we have a persistent negative belief (for example, about our government or close relatives), and it is accompanied by completely unkind emotions, then the corresponding thought form is colored with dirty colors of the emotional body.

A thought pattern can be fuzzy if our knowledge or beliefs are unclear or imprecise. Conversely, it is completely clearly defined if our beliefs are stable and complete.

After a person dies, his mental body also dies - along with the knowledge he has accumulated. It dies, according to some information, on the 90th day after the death of a person.

All three considered human subtle bodies belong to our material world, are born and die along with a person.

Karmic body

The next, fourth body of a person belongs to his immortal component and passes from life to life of a person during his reincarnations. This is the so-called causal or karmic body - the body of the soul, which contains the reasons for all human actions and information about possible future actions of a person.

Clairvoyants see the karmic body in the form of a cloud of multi-colored clots of subtle energy, protruding 20-30 cm beyond the physical body. These clumps resemble the clumps of the body of emotions, but they are more blurred and light (pink) colors predominate in them.

It seems to us that this body is our own “caretaker”, which is engaged in “educating” a person in accordance with the requirements of the Higher powers.

Since the karmic body is located in close proximity to the body of emotions and the body of knowledge, it has full ability to control our thoughts, beliefs and actual actions. And, having noticed violations, take measures to correct our erroneous emotions or beliefs.

After the death of a person, his karmic body does not die, but, together with the rest of the more subtle bodies, is sent to some floor of the Subtle World. The floor, as we have already indicated, is determined by the amount of information about our positive deeds and mistakes accumulated during our life. Or, in other words, according to the fullness of the “vessel of karma”.

Intuitive body

The fifth human body has various names. Some authors define it as an intuitive (or buddhic) body - an energy body that concentrates higher unconscious processes.

B. Brennan calls it the etheric determining body. This body is the matrix on which our etheric (first) body is built. If we have a failure in the etheric body, then it is restored exactly according to the template, which is our fifth body.

Clairvoyants see it as a dark blue oval extending 50-60 cm. beyond the boundaries of the physical body. Inside this oval there is an emptiness that completely coincides with our etheric body. Those. the etheric (first) body fills this void, and thereby its shape and size are determined.

As you understand, it is easy for the fifth human body to both restore and distort our etheric body - if desired, of course.

Heavenly body

The next, sixth body, was named a celestial body.

It extends 60-80 cm beyond our physical body. Clairvoyants see it as multi-colored rays of flame emanating from a person’s physical body.

At the level of this body, a person experiences high feelings - spiritual ecstasy, experienced as a result of prayer or meditation.

Kether body

The seventh body of man is the highest, atmic, or ketheric body of man (from the Kabbalistic term “keter” - crown, crown).

It extends to a distance of 80-100cm. beyond the boundaries of the physical body. In people with high energy levels it may be even greater.

Outwardly, it looks like a golden egg that contains all previous human bodies. External surface eggs have a protective film 1-2 centimeters thick. This film is durable, flexible and prevents penetration external influences per person.

Inside the golden egg, clairvoyants can observe the main energy flow connecting the tops of the egg and passing through the human spine. On the surface of this egg you can sometimes see colored hoops of light, corresponding to bright events in previous life person.

This body provides communication with the Higher Mind, receives from it necessary for a person information and transmits the necessary information there.

The human life program is stored in this body. In other words, these are the obligations that the human soul assumed when heading to earth for its next reincarnation.

Our fourth (karmic) body reads this program and compares it with the person’s real actions and thoughts. And when there is a discrepancy, he begins to “educate” us.

This is what a person looks like in all the complexity of his body structure. However, its “design” does not end there. In the structure of human bodies there is one more element (more precisely, many elements), without considering which we cannot do if we have a strong desire to understand how the world and man work.
Next, you should familiarize yourself with information about chakras. (see articles in the “Chakras” Collection).

You've probably heard that each of us, in addition to the physical body, has other bodies? This is true. They are called the seven subtle bodies of man and six of them cannot be seen. Where are the 7 human bodies? What function and role do the 7 subtle human bodies perform? In this article you will find answers to your questions.

There are 7 human bodies located around the physical body, including the physical body itself, which create the aura. Some people believe that the 7 subtle bodies of a person are similar to the structure of an onion - under one layer there is another. However, this is a slightly erroneous opinion and with seven human bodies everything is different. As you move from one layer of the aura, you never lose touch with the previous one. The only truth is that there are bodies that are easier to feel, and there are bodies that are very hidden, and a person must practice a lot to “make friends” with them.

To understand in more detail the 7 subtle human bodies, you can divide them as follows. There are three bodies physical type, three bodies of the spiritual type and the astral body, which is the bridge between these two groups. The lower three subtle bodies work with energy on the physical plane, while the higher three take care of the spiritual realms.

Each of the 7 human bodies differs in the frequency of its vibration. The higher the vibration, the further it is located from the physical shell. Also, each of the 7 human bodies has its own shape, structure, color, density and location relative to other shells.

So, below are the 7 subtle human bodies

First layer. Physical body

Our physical body is considered the most primitive among the 7 subtle human bodies. However, without it our existence would be impossible and we would not be able to take lessons on this planet without a physical shell. Why is the physical body considered the subtle body? - you ask. Because it also has its own vibration level. Because the same sacred, inexplicable things happen in it as at higher levels. Job human brain cannot be called a process of the “material world”.

The etheric body is the body with the lowest vibration frequency and is located as close as possible to the physical shell. It has big influence on the physical body and is responsible for the flow of energies in it. A person’s health, longevity, amount of vitality and enthusiasm depend on a person’s etheric body.

Through the etheric body a person communicates with the invisible forces of the universe. The etheric body is a bridge connecting the rough material “skin” with the external transcendental world. In addition, he guides a person to higher frequency etheric bodies, of which he has 5 more.

Second layer. Etheric body

Why was the human etheric body called that way? Because ether is a transitional state from matter to energy and vice versa. The human etheric body is an electromagnetic layer located at a distance of 1.5-2 cm from the physical body. Electromagnetic devices capture it as a bluish or light gray layer of “loose” and flickering energy. In ancient scriptures, the human etheric body is often referred to as a vehicle for chi or prana energy. Sages of different schools in different words wrote about the same thing.

In words modern science, then the etheric body can be called the human matrix, which consists of network communication channels through which energy circulates, just as current or information flows through electrical wires. This is very complex circuit, because it stores all the data about the human body, from the functioning of its organs to the chemical composition of the blood. The ethereal body can safely be called medical card person.

The etheric body repeats its form after the physical body, so if a person has diseases, injuries, blocks or any other ailments, the etheric body will definitely reflect them on itself. As was said earlier, the etheric body is a connector and conductor between the visible and the invisible, therefore, in healthy body a sufficient amount of cosmic energy enters, but the unhealthy (physically or mentally) does not, because the blocks do not allow the energy to flow in the right direction.

Third layer. Astral or emotional body

We want to dispel a little these stereotypes about the astral plane and the human astral body. Good news: the exit to the astral plane is much closer than you think. And the key to it is your third subtle body, the human astral body. Everyone has it, the only difference is that someone’s astral body is activated and functions at 100%, while someone else has not been able to set it up in the right way.

The first mention of the human astral body is in the Indian Upanishads. Helena Blavatsky often mentioned the human astral body in her works, sometimes calling it the emotional body. It so happened that over time, the concepts of the astral body, the desire body and the emotional body of a person became synonymous. We can say that this is indeed the case.

The human astral body is located at a distance of 10-100 cm from the physical body. Unlike the human etheric body, which is responsible for connecting the physical body with the surrounding energies and is the basic conductor, the human astral body is responsible for energy exchange with other people, entities, phenomena, events , emotions, desires. The human astral body is an instrument with which a person translates all his plans into reality. This is why the astral body is sometimes called the emotional body.

A person's astral body is considered his aura, and it can have a color. Color varies depending on psycho emotional state person, and its spectrum begins with black (negative emotions) and ends with white (complete internal harmony). The color of the astral body can be different - in the Anahata region, for example, green, and in the Manipura region - red at the same time. Devices have already been invented that can take pictures of a person’s astral body and specialists will be able to decipher what this or that color means. As a rule, pastel colors always symbolize calmness, while bright or too dark colors always symbolize aggression or negativity. The color of the astral body can change throughout the day depending on your mood.

Activation of the astral body directly depends on the emotional state of a person and his desires and dreams. If a person is purposeful, he has set clear goals for himself, both everyday and grandiose ones, his astral body works actively. It receives energy from space, it interacts with other people, usually as goal-oriented as he himself, and tells him what to do in a given situation. If a person does not know or does not want to know what to do, his astral body “goes out” and the energies of other sources do not penetrate to him. Selfish, destructive desires have a negative impact on the human astral body, since they cause great harm to the environment and its energy. People with a negative thinking point have a bad effect on the astral body of a person. Also, excessive worries or prolonged use of narcotic and alcoholic substances that destroy the nervous system at the physical level have a bad effect.

To establish incorrect operation the astral body of a person, it is necessary to begin with the desire to be useful to others. Service is like a healing balm for the astral body. The energy exchange between people is activated and the person who does good to others receives from them even more than he gives. This is one of the most powerful practices for activating the astral body.

Secondly, it will be useful to perform regular meditation aimed at tracking the internal emotions that are projected onto the astral body. Harmonization, calming, normalizing certain desires or emotions will balance the work of the astral body and give you peace and tranquility throughout the day.

For those people who have no problems with the astral body and they feel that it works correctly, it is recommended to perform practices during dreams - astral travel. When the physical body is asleep, the human soul has the opportunity to leave it, enter the astral body and head to other layers of the Universe. Some people choose to perform these practices with the help of hallucinogenic substances, but do not forget that they can cause much more harm than benefit.

All shamans of the world have the ability to see and connect to both their own and someone else’s astral body. Without this skill, they would not be able to heal people, since access to a person’s “information field” lies through his astral body, the aura. The professionalism and phenomenon of shamans lies in the fact that they know how to see and penetrate the astral body without harming it. In addition, they have perfect control of their astral body not only during sleep, but also during wakefulness. Therefore, you can often hear stories that the same shaman person was seen in different places. There is nothing surprising - he used his astral body to move through space.

Mental blocks are most often located in or in the Nadi channels. There are three Nadi channels - Pingala (right channel), Ida (left channel) and Sushumna (central channel). All three pass through the seven chakras of a person, from Muladhara to Sahasrara. If the Nadis and chakras are clean, then the human etheric body conducts cosmic energy along the entire length of these channels and centers, as a result of which the person feels healthy, strong, cheerful, happy, full of strength and desire to live and create. Such people can be seen from afar; neither electrical appliances nor clairvoyant people are needed for this. Those whose energy flows correctly through the etheric body spread their rays to everything around them.

However, most people have fears, unpleasant memories, mental disorders, unprocessed grievances, psychosomatic illnesses and many other “anchors” that keep them at the lowest frequencies. Blocks can also appear when a person is minding his own business, when he is not satisfied with current events in his life, when he deliberately wishes harm to others or engages in destructive activities. The etheric body immediately displays all this data and, as a conductor, does not work correctly.

What to do to bring the etheric body to work correctly? This requires careful work on yourself and your inner self. First of all, you need to find the problems that worry you. These may be the most intimate, secret and inexplicable facts, or they may be banal fears of society. When you figure out what is stopping you from living, you can find a way to solve these problems and adjust your etheric body in the right way. Listen to the etheric body - it will tell you how to act. Roughly speaking, if you even just make a request to the Universe, the etheric body will convey its answer to you by any means. Be careful.

Next, you need to realize that working with your inner self requires concrete actions. For some it will be a reset excess weight, for some – reconciliation with relatives. Some will need to give up a job they hate, while others will need to finally get a job somewhere. The etheric body is not the ephemeral shell that unusual people talk about. This is just a reflection of a person’s life activity, and the more holistic and purposeful a person is, the stronger and clearer his etheric body is and the more benefits it brings him.

Don't forget that you will have to educate yourself. The etheric body requires a person to understand its structure, and the more information savvy a person is, the easier he will cope with his problems. It is not so important from which sources you begin your education - from Hindu, Slavic or Chinese teachings, all will equally smoothly lead you to your path of self-realization.

When you start working with a person’s etheric body, be prepared for the fact that your nervous system may fail. Mood swings, tantrums, emotional burnout or an inexplicable rise - these are signs that you have activated your Nadi channels and prana energy has flowed through them through the etheric body. Be patient and do not cause mental harm to others.

Fourth layer. Mental body or intellectual

At the level of the astral body, a person experiences emotions, and at the level of the mental body, thoughts arise. Any thought processes, learning, subconscious and conscious are first born in the mental body of a person, and then reach the physical. Moreover, absolutely any information remains in the mental body forever. Thought forms, which are already a secondary product of the thinking process, are associated with three subtle human bodies: the astral body, mental body and karmic body. They are inextricable and fully responsible for human behavior in society. At the astral level, an emotion arises, at the mental level, a thought is born from it, and at the level of the karmic body, the thought takes shape and is carried out by a person.

A person’s mental body can be cleansed by controlling nutrition and sleep patterns. The simpler, healthier and easier your diet is, the more active your brain will work, the more information you will be able to perceive and process. The mental body will fill up faster. Proper sleep in sufficient quantity, regular physical exercise They will also increase the tone of the body and there will be more strength to fill the mental body with new information and clear ingrained stereotypes.

Do not forget that the higher the vibrations of your mental body, the more subtle and high-quality knowledge will come to you from the outside. Be prepared for new teachings, new incredible knowledge, for adventures that did not happen to you until you began to work with your mental body.

Fifth layer. Causal or karmic body

We have already written earlier on our website that all a person’s actions, emotions and thoughts are stored in his energy field. Each action has its own layer. For emotions and feelings there is an astral body, for thoughts and storage of information - a mental body, and for performing an action and storing this action in the memory of the Universe - a causal body. Every human action, even non-action, has some reason and purpose. Moreover, every action is followed by the result and the cause of the following incidents. That is, anything, from simple walking to the construction of a ship, has a reason, meaning, purpose. Where do people get certain desires to act in one way or another? How can we explain that some people succeed in making their dreams come true, while others fail? Why are some of us born into rich families and others into poor ones?

The answers to these and other questions are found in the human karmic body or the human causal body. It, like a real information field, retains the memory of all the actions of a given soul in all its rebirths. That is why this body is called the karmic body of man. Ancient Indian scriptures paid much attention to the concept of karma. Karma is the totality of all the completed deeds of the soul and the result of what he receives in return. Karma is the universal law of cause and effect, extremely fair, according to which all living beings receive what they deserve and according to which the energy balance of the world or Samsara is maintained. A person’s karmic body can tell us who a person was in a past life or five lives before it. A person’s karmic body remembers all his good and bad deeds, the causal body can tell why this person was born in precisely such conditions and even knows what awaits him ahead. A person’s karmic or causal body is not a magic ball for predictions; it can simply calculate what a person deserves for his efforts.

Unlike the astral body, for example, the human karmic body does not have clear boundaries and there are no electrical devices in the world that can capture its shape and size. The color of the karmic body is also unknown. However, they say that it is the karmic body that the soul takes with it after death and carries it through the centuries throughout its worldly existence. The ancient yogis set themselves the goal of burning karma - that is, getting rid of the karmic body. To do this, they performed serious austerities, meditated for months, and led a monastic lifestyle. They believed that if they could get rid of karma, they would forever leave Samsara (the circle of death and rebirth) and go to Nirvana, the Absolute, Brahman, etc.

A person can work with his physical, etheric, astral, mental bodies, performing certain practices, but as for the karmic body, things are different here. All a person can do to “improve” his karmic body is to start following the Dharma. Dharma is the personal duty of each individual, intended only for him and proper to be fulfilled in order to maintain the universal balance. It is believed that those who live according to Dharma burn out their negative karma and accumulate positive ones. Positive karma makes it possible to be born in the next life in a more favorable conditions, on the divine planets, possessing various siddhis. Anyone who does not observe the Dharma will be born in the next life in the body of an animal, plant or even lower in the evolutionary plane of a being to undergo all the lessons again.

It is believed that the karma of the genus is stored in the karmic or causal body of a person. In many religious movements it is repeatedly mentioned that the karma of one person is passed on to his descendants in several generations and, for example, grandchildren or great-grandchildren may be responsible for a serious crime committed. To learn about such curses, you need to learn to see a person’s karmic body, connect to it, read information from it and know how to correct certain sins of others. Be careful and avoid charlatans who may connect to your karmic body, but can cause even greater harm. The best thing to do is find your teacher and understand that learning takes time.

If you are aware of your Dharma, live righteously and do not commit sins, your karmic body will begin to be cleansed of the memory of past negative deeds. You will gain knowledge about how to recover from diseases that have been tormenting you for a long time, and if you manage to get rid of them, you will gain access to how to heal other people.

Sixth layer. Buddhic or intuitive body

Man is the most complex creation of the Universe, if we consider him on the energy plane. It seems to us that we consist only of bones and blood, but in reality there are at least 7 subtle planes, 7 shells, on each of which there are critical processes our life activity.

Each of the seven subtle bodies of a person has its own vibration frequency, and the further the shell is located from the body, the higher its vibration. The penultimate of the subtlest human bodies is the buddhic body, also called the human intuitive body. Previous bodies, for example, the mental or karmic body, are responsible for very real events in life - for thoughts, actions, deeds. They store information about the activities of the soul and go with it on further journeys after the death of the bodily shell. However, at the level of a person’s buddhic body, flashes of intuition, premonitions, instincts, the so-called “sixth sense” occur. Information is exclusively here and now. Science is accustomed to giving the phenomenon of intuition a subconscious origin, considering it the result of brain activity. However, people who have at least some connection to spiritual teachings are accustomed to interpreting the emergence of intuition differently. They believe that it originates in the buddhic body, in the intuitive body of man.

The very name “buddhic” comes from the Sanskrit term “buddhi”, which means the inner mind, the organ that allows one to comprehend God, comprehend the ideas and thoughts of a living being. Unlike other subtle bodies, a person’s buddhic body or a person’s intuitive body allows him to completely go beyond the limits of his physical shell and mind, and enter the information field of the Universe. It is often called the Akashic Records.

The buddhic or intuitive body of a person is considered that invisible layer where brilliant ideas, thoughts are born, decisions are made big problems and insights come. Clairvoyants work through the intuitive body. The better tuned a person’s buddhic body is to receiving information, the better a person is oriented in life, the more ideas and goals he has, the better his interests, the more truth he knows and sees.

It is believed that the one who wants to know his true purpose, must throw away all conventions and turn to his buddhic body. It is the buddhic or intuitive body of a person that will tell him what to do and what profession to choose, whether to be close to a particular person or leave him, to build a house in this place or go in search of another refuge. Intuition is an information wave, it is always active, it all depends on how much a person’s buddhic or intuitive body is tuned to receive it.

Intuition is very important for people who are engaged in creative activities. Any artist, writer or musician will tell you that there are moments when the “muse” comes and creating becomes easy, quick and enjoyable. Most likely, at such moments the buddhic body is activated; it resonates with information environment and projects it onto a person and his activities. To develop intuition and increase the activity of a person's buddhic or intuitive body, it is necessary to perform some simple practices. One such practice is refusal constant desire give a logical explanation for everything. Turn off your mind and try to look at the situation through the eyes of a child, devoid of stereotypes. Your intuitive body will tell you what happened. Be prepared for completely inexplicable things to happen to you. This is fine.

Next, learn to trust your own guesses and listen to your inner voice. If you are haunted by an inexplicable feeling of anxiety, this may be the voice of a person’s intuitive body. If everyone around you tells you the same thing, and you stubbornly do your own thing, knowing that you are right, this means that you are in in a good way words follow the lead of your buddhic body and intuition, which comes from the universal information field. The buddhic or intuitive body of a person gives commands and clues in the form of dreams. People call it prophetic dreams. In order not to miss a single detail, just keep a small diary for yourself, in which you write down everything that you dreamed, saw, or found unusual. All events will later weave into one unbreakable thread, just trust the buddhic body.

The Ajna chakra or third eye is a symbol of a person's buddhic or intuitive body. If pineal gland activated if a person skillfully uses the information stored in the information field, if he knows and uses the fact that the material visible world is just a drop in big ocean Universe, he becomes friendly with his buddhic body and it begins to supply the person with truly sacred knowledge, which he can subsequently pass on as teachings to future generations. A person with an activated buddhic body is able to lead thousands of people.

If you managed to awaken your buddhic body and tune it in the right way, the quality of your life will increase noticeably: those issues that previously required you to think for a long time will now be resolved in a matter of seconds. By interacting with your buddhic or intuitive body, you will get rid of the concept of “risk”, because now you will inextricably connect every moment of your existence with the manifestation of Divine Energy.

Seventh layer. Atmanic body

There is critically little information in the public domain about the human atmic body: who first spoke about it, who was the first to mention it in their writings, and so on. Modern scholars of Hinduism have agreed that the Vedas and Upanishads note the existence of seven subtle human bodies. Each of them has its own clear location and function. The atmic body of man is the highest, most powerful, subtlest of the seven bodies. In this article we have selected useful information about the atmic body of man, collected from many different sources.

As you know, each of the seven subtle bodies of a person has its own specific function and connects the soul, and then the body, with one or another level of vibration. For example, the etheric body contains information about a person’s health, his mental state, and the karmic body remembers all the actions of the soul and will tell what awaits it ahead, according to its actions. The atmic body of a person stands above all other bodies and connects the previous six with the Absolute, with God. Many names can be given to this boundless expanse, which is all that exists.

The name of the human atmic body comes from the Sanskrit term “atma”. This is a complex concept that requires a long explanation, but if you try to put it in a few words, then atma is the state of the soul that has realized itself. Atma is the merging of a being with the Absolute, enlightenment. The atmic body of a person received this name because it is with the help of it that a person gains full awareness, peace, and with the atmic body he cognizes God.

According to many spiritual movements, the self-realization of an individual lies in the destruction of the ego, in burning karma and in connecting with the Absolute. To do this, people perform various practices, do yoga, worship various deities, perform austerities and generally build their lifestyle according to this great goal. The atmic body of man is the key to the door of God, and to reach it one must know one's own Self, which includes the seven subtle bodies.

The atmic body of a person broadcasts the soul’s appeal to God and vice versa. The purer the other six bodies, the faster the transition of this information in both directions occurs. When a person prays, turns to God, meditates on him, or performs selfless acts, sacrificing himself, it is the atmic body that transmits his benefits to the higher layers of space. As a rule, reward, although it is not the meaning of such a person’s activity, does not take long to arrive. Energy exchange occurs and through the atmic body a person receives goodness a hundred times stronger than he gives.

Only a few can maintain constant active activity of the atmic body. This requires constant concentration, staying in the here and now, inner peace and utmost awareness. Meditation allows you to increase concentration, both during the process itself and throughout the day after practice. The human atmic body is tuned to receive energy and at such moments many note an inexplicable surge of strength, groundless joy and inspiration. When the atmic body is at its maximum activity, a person may experience ecstasy, visions, hallucinations and see prophecies.

For most people, the atmic body is in a state of sleep. Blocks are present on the physical level, in the etheric body, in the astral body, which no longer allows the atmic body to function correctly. A person has seven chakras and three subtle Nadi channels through which energy flows. If in some area there are blocks in the form of fears, unpleasant memories, attachments, the influence of the ego, and so on, the energy circulates incorrectly, which is reflected on the physical shell in the form of diseases. A person remains at the level of deciding his own household needs and there can be no need or talk about the development of the atmic body.

Therefore, in order to gain access to your own atmic body and learn to work with it, you need to start with the very first body - the physical one. The advice here is extremely simple: work on your own weaknesses and bad habits, normalizing sleep, work and rest patterns, proper communication, nutrition and living conditions. Very important role education plays a role.

After the physical body is “adjusted”, you can move on to the next stage and work with your own emotions. Remember that activating the atmic body and working with it can take not only many months, but also years. Examples include monks, wise elders and shamans, who achieved wisdom only after decades of persistent effort.

When a person has managed to set up the work of the physical, etheric, and astral bodies, he moves on to practices aimed at specific matters, for which the mental and karmic bodies are responsible. Practice at these stages consists of mental work on your knowledge and behavior. Purity of thoughts and deeds is the basis for moving further to the atmic body of a person.

The two highest, subtlest layers - the buddhic and atmic bodies will be available to those who have learned the previous lessons and completed them with dignity. The human buddhic body is responsible for intuition, creativity, unconditional discoveries and ideas. At this level a person draws his inspiration for life and work. When he realized that everything that surrounds him is God, he creates and creates in his name, he gives every second of his existence to him and is grateful for it. That’s when the atmic body of a person opens. God sees that man has realized and comprehended its secrets and begins to bestow him with the joy of being.

Staying here and now is the basis for the proper functioning of the atmic body.

There are many hypotheses about the structure of a person, his soul, aura, chakras. Many believe that a person, in addition to his body, has 6 more. These are subtle bodies. They cannot be seen. What kind of matter is this? What are they needed for? How to develop subtle bodies? What does their development give? This article will tell you how they protect and protect people.

If we consider Christianity, it is assumed that people consist of body, spirit and soul. In the East, esotericists talk about the presence of 7 “subtle” bodies and more. These fields surround the physical shell and penetrate it through. These shapes create an aura. Energy bodies are located one after another, but moving deeper, the connection between them is not lost. To know oneself, a person needs to make a lot of effort.

Conventionally, these thin shells are divided into several categories:

physical (3);
spiritual (3);
astral (1).

It is believed that the astral is a connecting link with the previous types. Physical ones are responsible for energy on the physical plane, and spiritual ones are about higher spiritual matters.

They are characterized by their vibration frequency, the stronger the further from the material essence. The shells have their own purpose, color, density, and are located in a certain place.

Physical body

Our physical essence is considered to be the simplest in structure and function. But without it it would be impossible to live on planet Earth and learn new things. The physical is also a subtle body, because it vibrates, like other invisible shells. It leaks complex processes, for example, the brain functions, thoughts mature, this cannot be explained and attributed to ordinary processes.

The second body is the etheric

Ether is an intermediate element between matter and energy, which is why the second subtle body of man is called ethereal. It is assumed that it is located 1.5 cm from the material body and is an electromagnetic circuit. The etheric body is blue or gray. Ancient scientists believed that this shell transmitted chi energy.

This is the next body after the physical one. It is very closely connected with the first body. The main thing that the etheric shell is responsible for is the energy flowing inside us. The general state of a person’s vital forces and health depend on the state of the etheric body.

Through the etheric shell, human interaction with the universe occurs. This cannot be seen, the threads of communication are not visible. The second is a kind of bridge that connects the earthly essence with invisible forces outside world. It is also a link with other subtle bodies.

From the point of view of science, the ethereal is a matrix in which energy moves through communication channels, just as a flow of electrons is transmitted through wires. This network is very complex, it contains all the data about the physical body, the work of all organs, chemical composition blood.

The etheric shell is a human medical database. This shell is exactly the same in shape as the physical body. All injuries and illnesses are displayed in it. If a person is physically healthy, then he receives the maximum energy of the universe; if there are diseases and ailments, the flow is blocked. And the energy supply is limited.

As a rule, blocks are located in a person’s chakras or in the Nadi channels. There are three known channels of Nadi:

Pingala (right channel);
Ida (left channel);
Sushumna (central channel).

They pass through all 7 human chakras. If the chakras and channels are clean, then cosmic energy easily penetrates the ethereal shell and spreads throughout the body. As a result of this, a person is cheerful, full of energy, glows from within and spreads his positive vibes to others.

Chakras and their location

7th chakra (sahasrara) - in the crown area;
6th chakra (ajna) - on the forehead, between the eyebrows;
5th chakra (vishudha) - throat area (thyroid gland);
4th chakra (anahata) – near the heart, along the central line;
3rd chakra (manipura) - in the navel area;
2nd chakra (svadhisthana) - in the pubic area;
1st chakra (muladhara) - perineal area.

When a person is often in a bad mood, does not forgive insults, accumulates negative emotions, his etheric body does not absorb energy and is at the lowest level of its functionality. If a person is not happy with what he is doing, if he is not doing his job, this also negatively affects the etheric shell, and it begins to work incorrectly. To be effective, you need to carefully work on yourself, your inner self.

Find the grievances and problems that oppress you, find out the origin and get rid of them. Ask the Universe and it will help you find the right way through the etheric shell. The main thing is to learn to understand her signals. The etheric link is a reflection of human life; you cannot stand still, isolate yourself in your problems and negative emotions. You need to fight with yourself, it’s difficult, but quite possible. Be patient and learn to understand yourself, and the prana energy through the Nadi channels will not keep you waiting.

Third body - emotional (astral)

The third shell is considered a kind of exit to the astral plane. All people living on the planet have it. But it doesn’t work for everyone, only people who have known themselves and learned to control their minds turn to their astral plane and interact with it. This essence was first discovered by Indian sages. Over time, scientists have proven that the astral and emotional are one and the same, as is the shell of desires.

The astral sphere is located 10–100 cm relative to the first. It organizes the energy exchange of a person with other people, desires, and emotions. The astral body helps a person realize his desires and aspirations. It is an aura and has color. This is a whole range from black - negative, to white - positive. The color of the aura changes depending on psychological state person. Different parts of the body are highlighted in different shades.

In scientific laboratories there are special devices that can take photos of a person’s astral body and decipher them. Soft, warm pastel colors mean harmony and peace, bright colors mean aggression, dark colors mean depression, oppression. Depending on the mood, the colors of the shell change over a short period of time, an hour, a day.

The activity of the astral plane depends on the person, his aspirations, and tasks. In the case when a specific goal is set, and a person is determined to win, to achieve it, the astral shell opens up to 100 percent. She receives maximum cosmic energy, actively interacts with other, equally purposeful people, and helps choose the right direction.

When a person is inactive, he has no desires, no aspirations, the emotional body goes out, and no additional energy enters it. If a person's desires are negative character, aimed only at satisfying one’s own needs, without taking into account the opinions of others, causing harm to others, this has a bad effect on the astral plane. Very bad influence Alcohol and drugs affect the emotional shell, as they harm the physical body of a person.

In order for the astral to function correctly and receive maximum positive energy, it is important to do good, strive to be useful, and radiate positive emotions. After all, by doing good to others, a person receives much more affirmative impulses in return. To become more active, people must meditate and learn to control their emotions, desires, and needs. This will invigorate your spirit and energize you for the whole day. Many have learned to interact correctly with their third shell and are in complete harmony with it. It will be useful for them to make astral travel during sleep. During sleep, a person sleeps, and his soul passes into the astral shell and visits other worlds.

Clairvoyants and prophets have long learned to contact both their own astral plane and someone else’s. This ability helps them find the causes of pain and illness in other people. The path to this information passes through the astral shell. Shamans, gaining access to the astral plane of another person, only take the necessary information without causing damage. They also develop their ability to move through the layers of the universe thanks to the astral plane.

The fourth body is mental (intellectual)

Located 10–20 cm from the previous one. And it completely follows the contour of the physical. It has a rich yellow color, starts from the head and spreads throughout the body. During moments of mental activity, the mental becomes wider and brighter. During mental process in the intellectual shell there are not large clots energies are thought forms; they show a person’s thoughts and beliefs.

If there is only inference without emotions, then the energy of thought forms consists of an intellectual shell. In the case when there is the presence of emotions, then the energy consists of both the mental and emotional body. The clearer a person imagines his ideas and thoughts and is clearly convinced that he is right, the brighter the outline of his thought forms. In case of death, the mental disappears after 3 months.

The mental, astral and etheric are born together with the physical and disappear in the event of its death. Relates to the material world.

The fifth body is karmic (casual)

This is a complex structure that carries all the information about actions and transmits it into space. Everything a person does can be justified. Even the absence of an action is not without reason. Casual contains information about possible human movements in the future. It is a multi-colored cloud of various lumps of energy. Located 20–30 cm from the physical one. Energy clots are not clearly expressed and do not have a clear outline compared to lumps in the emotional body. After the death of the material body, the karmic one does not die, it is reincarnated along with other bodies.

To improve their karma, they comprehend the teachings of Dharma and follow it. This is an individual goal for each person, which is achieved in the process of life. If you exist according to the laws of Dharma, negative energy is destroyed and only positive energy enters. A person who violates the Dharma will be reborn in the next life in the body of another organism lower in evolutionary terms in order to go through all the stages from scratch.

The sixth body is buddhic (intuitive)

This is a thin shell that collects complex higher unconscious processes. Scientists call it the defining etheric field. This is a complex structure along which the second body is organized. In the case when connections in the etheric shell are destroyed, data for restoration is taken from the sixth. Intuitive has a dark blue color. It has the shape of an oval and is located at a distance of 50–60 cm from the material.

The buddhic body contains a lacuna within itself, which exactly repeats the etheric body. And this organizes the ego's shape and size. Responsible for the birth of brilliant thoughts and insights. It is important to trust yourself, listen to your intuition and the Universe will tell you what to do. The Ajna chakra, or third eye, is a symbol. It does not disappear with the death of a person, but transfers the accumulated energy into space.

The seventh body is atmanic

The most complex human body. Little is known about him. But this is considered to be the thinnest shell. Atma is the state of the soul when it was able to know itself. The Atmanic transmits messages from the human soul to God and receives answers. With harmonious development, internal coherence and complete calm are achieved.

To gain access to the seventh link, the first, material link is developed. Then the next thing, that is, learning to own all previous bodies. The atmanic one has an oval shape and is located at a distance of 80–90 cm from the first. It is a golden egg in which all the bodies are collected. There is a film on the surface of the egg that prevents the influence of bad energy.

Solar and Galactic bodies

Solar - develops as a result of the circulation of human astral fields to the astral of the Solar system. This is the eighth link. It is studied by astrologers. The solar symbol carries information about a person’s birthday. How the stars and planets were located.
Galactic - consists of the work of a person’s astral field with the astral plane of the Galaxy. This is the ninth body.

All subtle fields are closely interconnected with each other. They have a strong influence on shaping a person’s destiny and path. Thinking about good things, a person is charged with positive emotions, receives the energy of the Universe, which spreads throughout all layers, programming them for good luck and success. A person finds himself in the center of positive vibrations, gives joy, goodness, the world reciprocates his feelings.

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An ordinary person has access to the experience of the physical body, an ordinary yogi has the experience of the subtle body, an enlightened yogi gains the experience of the Divine. God is one in everything and everything resides in him, and so is the physical body of a person, of which there are many, but for a simplified understanding we roughly divide them into 7-9 subtle bodies.

1. Physical body serves as an adaptation to existence in the conditions of a given planet and habitat. It serves as a tool and means of acquiring life experience, to perform the necessary actions in space when a person fulfills his personal, earthly and cosmic program on the physical plane. Physical the human body is a biological organism, which is the totality of all its constituent organs, which have various functions. These functions enable the soul to express itself on the physical plane as part of a larger organism. The physical body is nourished by nine major chakras.

2. Etheric body is the carrier and conductor of life force (Prana). The vitality, endurance, and resistance of the physical body to infections are determined by the energy level of the etheric body. Hunger, thirst, satiety, drowsiness, fatigue, vigor - this is the influence and manifestation of the energy of the etheric body.

The etheric body has one main purpose: to revive and energize the physical body and integrate it into the energy body of the Earth and the solar system. This is a bundle of energy flows, lines of power and Light. Cosmic forces flow through these energy lines, just as blood flows through veins and arteries. This constant individual - human, planetary and solar - circulation of vital forces through the etheric bodies of forms is the basis of all manifested life and the expression of the essential indissolubility of universal life. The etheric body completely repeats the physical body, sometimes it is called the etheric double of a person. It is believed that the etheric body also dies on the 9th day after a person’s death.

3. Astral body. The area of vibration of this body convincingly manifests itself in the energies of passions, emotions, and desires. The astral body or desire body (sometimes also called the emotional body) is a consequence of the interaction between desire and the central Self, the result of which manifests itself as emotion. The right hemisphere coordinates the activity of the human emotional body, forming from the energy of the etheric body the energy of the emotional body based on interaction energy meridians left half of the body. the astral body dies only on the 40th day. In occultism this is called the second death.

On air and astral bodies, according to ancient and modern spirit seers, ninety percent of the causes and ill health of a person are hidden.

4. Mental body– this is the body of thoughts, logic and knowledge of a person in the process. The mental body also contains clots of energy that reflect our beliefs and stable thoughts. These clots are called thought forms. Heraclitus told us that “the power of thinking is outside the body,” that is, that thinking is not based at all on the physiological functions of the protein bodily organization, although as an information process occurring in the body it is associated with function. The immediate material structure, the functioning of which gives rise to thought as an information image, is the field formation of the biosystem. Complex subtle bodies not only ensures all the functioning of the body at the physiological and mental levels, not only serves as a repository of information, but is also a tool of thinking. The brain is a reading device that allows you to draw information from the human biofield system and the information field of the Universe. It only reflects the unfolding of a mental act taking place in a different dimensional area: the brain does not think, because mental process moved outside this body. Remember!!! The brain is not an organ of thought, feelings, consciousness and memory, but it is what connects consciousness, feelings, thoughts and memory with real life, makes it listen to real needs and makes them capable of useful action.

The brain has nothing to do with consciousness. He perceives information from the sphere of consciousness and forms it into a sequence of influences on nerve centers, and they - on the muscles of one or another organ of the physical body. What we call instinct today is the basic set of functions of the human brain. The sphere of consciousness carries out all intellectual and emotional processes in a person’s being. and decision-making is carried out outside our brain, outside our physical body, they are carried out in another dimension - in the sphere of consciousness, and only the consequence of the thinking process is processed - its result.

The human brain is a control system for the physical body and a channel for communication between the physical body and human consciousness.

The left hemisphere coordinates the activity of the human mental body, forming from the energy of the etheric body the energy of the human mental body based on the interaction of the energy meridians of the right half of the body. This body dies after the death of a person on the 90th day.

Reviewed three subtle human bodies along with the physical body belong to our material world, are born and die along with a person.

5. Causal body or causal (karmic) . This is the body of our actions, ideas and perceptions, it is expressed in our intellect. It is this body that is our own “caretaker”, which is engaged in the “education” of a person in accordance with the requirements of the Higher powers.

Since the causal body is located in close proximity to the body of emotions and the body of knowledge, it has full potential, beliefs and actual actions. And, having noticed violations, take measures to correct our erroneous emotions or beliefs. The emotional (astral) and mental body, interacting with each other, form energy next body– causal or causal body.

6. Buddhic body or intuitive – the spiritual principle or body of consciousness (soul), which expresses itself in a person’s insight.

This intuitive energy body concentrates higher unconscious processes. It is also called the “body of values” of a person, a body that is the result of the interaction of a person’s astral-mental body with the astral-mental body of the area. It is not for nothing that many peoples have the belief that a person should live and die where he was born. The buddhic body and the energy of the area prescribe for a person to perform a certain task necessary for the given area.

7. Atmanic body – the body of ideals, the divine principle, the spark of God or the body of the Spirit.

The Earth, due to its role in the solar system, asymmetrical structure, global climatic and tectonic processes, also has its own astral-mental charge. The interaction of this charge with the astral-mental field of a person forms the 7th body based on the interaction of all channels and extra-meridial points.

This body provides communication with the Higher Mind, receives from it the information necessary for a person and transmits the necessary information there

8. Solar body is formed due to the interaction of the astral-mental field of a person with the astral-mental field of the Solar system. It is most fully studied by astrology, and it is astrological patterns, with the exception of the influence of stars and constellations, that determine the interaction of human energy with the planets. It is the planets, their influence at birth, their location in the sky that form the energy of the eighth body, as well as the energy potentials of the corresponding human organs.

9. Galactic body is formed due to the interaction of the astral-mental field of a person with the astral-mental field of the Galaxy.

The eighth and ninth bodies have the highest structure of human subtle bodies and fields.

As has already been said, matter manifests itself in a person in the energies of various ranges of vibrations: from the more “coarse”, visible physical body to the more “subtle” and completely “refined” vibrations of the invisible higher Triad of man.

Each of the bodies has its own reserve of power - energy of a certain quality and level of “density”, “subtlety” of vibrations. A person must be able to keep the physical and subtle bodies in harmony, unity and purity. All subtle bodies permeate the physical body just as water permeates a sponge. Possessing their own reserve of strength (energy), they can function independently of the physical body and are not mechanically connected to it.

U ordinary person function poorly thin bodies only because we feed them incorrectly. By eating only rough food, we clog and ruin our entire bodies. Nutrition with subtle energies contributes to the growth of the functioning of not only subtle bodies, but also the entire person as a whole. To achieve success on the path of spiritual growth, it is very important to eat only that food that is suitable for the entire complex of human bodies.

A warning to all: and remember that the intangible world of thought controls and governs the physical world.

The paradox of the modern stage of development of science is that the more scientists try to move away from the “remnants of the past,” the closer they come to them. The hypothesis that the physical body should not be considered the only component of a person has long been considered by the most reputable researchers. The subtle human bodies, their forms and structure, invisible to our eyes, came to the attention of scientists back in the middle of the twentieth century.

What is the subtle body?

Subtle bodies refer to systems controlled by energy centers - chakras . It is quite difficult to explain these rather abstract concepts to the unprepared in a few words. Some philosophical movements and Eastern religions consider subtle bodies to be human guides in other worlds, where they are perceived in the same way as the physical body in the reality around us.

The essences of the subtle world, the classification of which will be presented below, are divided by esotericists into 2 groups. Some of them are immortal and travel with us from one life to another. The second is mortal, like the physical body, which is subject to decay after its own death. The concept of subtle bodies should not be confused with the concept of the soul. According to esotericists, the soul is consciousness, the “I”, which persists after physical death.

7 subtle human bodies

Non-physical shells – essences of the subtle world, To classification, left to us by ancient teachings, distinguishes 7 energy systems:

Etheric body(energy center - Svadhisthana chakra ). It is considered the closest to the physical shell of all the subtle bodies. Many people are able to see the etheric component not only of living beings, but also of inanimate objects. The etheric body is responsible for the circulatory and genitourinary system of the human material shell. It is responsible for immunity and thermoregulation of the body. The shell itself needs protection. The essential component can be damaged by an incorrect lifestyle and negative emotions. One of the simplest and most accessible ways to support your body is to play sports.

Astral body(energy center - Manipura chakra ). Responsible for our well-being in the astral world. If this body is not damaged or destroyed, the person is well protected from negative energetic influences, better known as “damage”, “evil eye”, “curse”, etc. People with a healthy astral shell are able to influence others. In addition, there are special teachings, thanks to which a person gets the opportunity to travel in the subtle world. However, if the traveler makes a mistake, he risks not returning to the physical world.
Mental body(energy center - Anahata chakra ). Thin invisible human body, their forms and structure must be studied in order to maintain their health. Each of our intangible substances requires its own nutrition. To the mental body knowledge and search for truth are necessary. For most people, mental activity ends after receiving a profession. And some people stop studying after school. The mental essence of those who do not strive for any new knowledge gradually atrophies. Like any organ of the physical shell, it turns into a rudiment. Having not received mental progress in this life, the soul is forced to once again return to the world it just left or descend to a lower level of development.

Karmic body(energy center - Vishuddha chakra ). The expressions “bad karma” and “good karma” are familiar to many people. In fact, karma cannot be good or bad. This is the totality of our actions committed in past lives. The task of a new incarnation is not to receive punishment for “bad karma.” The soul returns to correct mistakes.
(energy center - Ajna chakra ). Subtle bodies human beings, their forms, purpose and structure cannot always be understood and explained. The buddhic body receives its development only when a person develops his psychic abilities. Both the improvement process itself and its goal are important. If you strive to become a clairvoyant just to earn money and become famous, your actions will be considered selfish, and your buddhic essence will not receive the desired development.

Spiritual body (energy center - Sahasrara chakra ). This body can be developed in several ways, the main ones of which are serving God, fighting evil on a subtle level, and spiritual teaching. This essence is revealed on the seventh, most high level human development on earth.

Absolute body(energy center - chakra Atman ). The body is developed in those who are called messiahs and great teachers, such as Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. The shell is filled with absolute energy that comes from the Absolute (as God, the highest essence, is sometimes called). The body can exceed the physical shell in size.

The subtle human bodies, their shapes and structure have not yet been fully studied by modern scientists. The equipment of the new millennium is not so advanced as to perceive spiritual substance. Skeptics are accustomed to believing only in what can be perceived by the senses. However, even people far from religion, mysticism and philosophy admit that there are worlds and dimensions invisible to us.