June 7, 2024
Occult Beings and Entities In This and Other Worlds or Planes Can Impact Human Life
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YouTube reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Ch. 5 Occult Forces, pp 108-109 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/occult-beings-and-entities-in-this-and-other-worlds-or-planes-can-impact-human-life/
Santosh has been studying Sri Aurobindo's writings since 1971 and has a daily blog at http://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com and podcast located at https://anchor.fm/santosh-krinsky
He is author of 20 books and is editor-in-chief at Lotus Press. He is president of Institute for Wholistic Education, a non-profit focused on integrating spirituality into daily life.
Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are all available on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871
More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net
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00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,440
Scientists are now beginning to
speak of an infinite number of
2
00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:10,320
universes, each with their own
beings and existence, many of
3
00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:15,840
which are very closely related
to and possibly interacting with
4
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,040
the universe within which we
live.
5
00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,200
Separately, we are beginning to
appreciate that our limited
6
00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,960
field of perception does not
encompass all possible ranges of
7
00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,920
existence, and that there are
living beings that exist in
8
00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,960
ranges below or above those we
can ourselves directly
9
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,280
experience in our own
experience.
10
00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,760
Through the development of
powerful microscopes, for
11
00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:46,360
instance, we were able to
observe living bacteria which a
12
00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,400
few short centuries ago were not
even recognized as a reality in
13
00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,040
our world.
These are entities which reside
14
00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,520
in the same world with us, have
impacts on our health and
15
00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:04,560
well-being, and yet have been
invisible to us until the recent
16
00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,080
development of new observational
tools.
17
00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,240
What other entities reside in
our world that are invisible to
18
00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:18,080
us, we cannot yet say.
As we open up to these points,
19
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,480
it becomes obvious to us that
there are other worlds, domains,
20
00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,760
or planes of existence occupied
by living beings.
21
00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,360
Many people have had the
experience of something they
22
00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,600
considered to be unusual or even
supernatural, such as the action
23
00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,760
of ghosts, poltergeists,
spectres, gods, angels or
24
00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,880
demons, et cetera.
We do not have a perfect
25
00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,640
understanding of these things,
so we either try to dismiss them
26
00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:54,520
out of hand or call them some
kind of illusion, hallucination,
27
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,720
or subterfuge.
Yet the experiences are so
28
00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,320
widespread and pervasive,
stretching across time and
29
00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,640
distance around the globe, that
it is impossible to close our
30
00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,640
eyes to the existence of such
things, whatever we may call
31
00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,280
them, and however me we may want
to interpret them.
32
00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,960
In Hamlet, Shakespeare's lead
character expressed something of
33
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,280
this when he advised his friend
Horatio that he had met with the
34
00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,360
ghost of his father and been
instructed by that ghost about
35
00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,400
the method of his demise.
He noted to Horatio that many
36
00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,080
things exist beyond the frame of
the knowledge and methodologies
37
00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,480
of the time.
Human beings act as hostile
38
00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,280
forces to many beings in the
world, while we act as
39
00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,840
beneficent beings towards a
number of others.
40
00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,400
We can observe now that
bacteria, for instance, can
41
00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,960
cause disease or can
symbiotically support us when
42
00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,760
certain types of bacteria
populate our intestines and aid
43
00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,920
us in digesting our food.
We can thus easily appreciate
44
00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:11,600
that other beings or entities
may influence ourselves and our
45
00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,320
world and may play either a
positive or a negative role in
46
00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,480
our lives.
People have also experienced
47
00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:25,200
entering into other domains,
plains or worlds and acting and
48
00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200
interacting in those regions.
Clearly, the world's that are
49
00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,480
most closely aligned with our
own create opportunities for
50
00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,920
conscious beings to move in
either direction and interact in
51
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:43,360
those alternative domains, the
Mother writes.
52
00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,080
Quote Last week I spoke of the
threshold of occultism.
53
00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,480
So a question is put to me about
this occult world, that is to
54
00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,000
say, the world invisible to
ordinary physical eyes, and I am
55
00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,360
asked for explanations or
comments on the beings who live
56
00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,160
in those worlds which are
invisible to ordinary eyes.
57
00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,280
I am even told that I speak very
often of negative entities, that
58
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is to say, of hostile formations
of small beings formed from the
59
00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,560
disintegration of human beings
after their death, the
60
00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,560
disintegration of the vital or
mental being at death.
61
00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,520
But that I have never spoken of
the great beings, the
62
00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,600
magnificent beings or positive
entities which help the
63
00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,000
evolution.
I believe I have spoken to you
64
00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,440
about these quite often, but
still I have been asked once
65
00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:45,200
again for explanations.
Well, the occult world is not
66
00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,320
one single region where
everything is mixed, which only
67
00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,640
becomes a cult because we can't
see it.
68
00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,760
The occult world is a graduation
of regions, one could perhaps
69
00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:01,720
say of more and more ethereal or
subtle regions anyway, those
70
00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,960
farther and farther removed in
their nature from the physical
71
00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,560
materiality we ordinarily see.
And each one of these domains is
72
00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,400
a world in itself, having its
forms and inhabited by beings
73
00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,080
with a density, one might say,
analogous to that of the domain
74
00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,800
in which they live.
Just as in the physical world we
75
00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,760
are of the same materiality as
the physical world, so in the
76
00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,320
vital world, in the mental
world, in the overmind world and
77
00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,680
in the Super mental world and in
many others infinite others,
78
00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,400
there are beings which have a
form whose substance is similar
79
00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,200
to the one of that world.
This means that if you are able
80
00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,920
to enter consciously into that
world with the part of your
81
00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,280
being which corresponds to that
domain, you can move there quite
82
00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,840
objectively as in the material
world.
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00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,000
End Quote reference Shrioro
Bindu and the Mother.
84
00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,880
The Hidden Forces of Life
Chapter 5.
85
00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,840
Occult Forces pages one O 8 to
one O 9.
00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,440
Scientists are now beginning to
speak of an infinite number of
2
00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:10,320
universes, each with their own
beings and existence, many of
3
00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:15,840
which are very closely related
to and possibly interacting with
4
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,040
the universe within which we
live.
5
00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,200
Separately, we are beginning to
appreciate that our limited
6
00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,960
field of perception does not
encompass all possible ranges of
7
00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,920
existence, and that there are
living beings that exist in
8
00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,960
ranges below or above those we
can ourselves directly
9
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,280
experience in our own
experience.
10
00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,760
Through the development of
powerful microscopes, for
11
00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:46,360
instance, we were able to
observe living bacteria which a
12
00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,400
few short centuries ago were not
even recognized as a reality in
13
00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,040
our world.
These are entities which reside
14
00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,520
in the same world with us, have
impacts on our health and
15
00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:04,560
well-being, and yet have been
invisible to us until the recent
16
00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,080
development of new observational
tools.
17
00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,240
What other entities reside in
our world that are invisible to
18
00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:18,080
us, we cannot yet say.
As we open up to these points,
19
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,480
it becomes obvious to us that
there are other worlds, domains,
20
00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,760
or planes of existence occupied
by living beings.
21
00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,360
Many people have had the
experience of something they
22
00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,600
considered to be unusual or even
supernatural, such as the action
23
00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,760
of ghosts, poltergeists,
spectres, gods, angels or
24
00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,880
demons, et cetera.
We do not have a perfect
25
00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,640
understanding of these things,
so we either try to dismiss them
26
00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:54,520
out of hand or call them some
kind of illusion, hallucination,
27
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,720
or subterfuge.
Yet the experiences are so
28
00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,320
widespread and pervasive,
stretching across time and
29
00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,640
distance around the globe, that
it is impossible to close our
30
00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,640
eyes to the existence of such
things, whatever we may call
31
00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,280
them, and however me we may want
to interpret them.
32
00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,960
In Hamlet, Shakespeare's lead
character expressed something of
33
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,280
this when he advised his friend
Horatio that he had met with the
34
00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,360
ghost of his father and been
instructed by that ghost about
35
00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,400
the method of his demise.
He noted to Horatio that many
36
00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,080
things exist beyond the frame of
the knowledge and methodologies
37
00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,480
of the time.
Human beings act as hostile
38
00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,280
forces to many beings in the
world, while we act as
39
00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,840
beneficent beings towards a
number of others.
40
00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,400
We can observe now that
bacteria, for instance, can
41
00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,960
cause disease or can
symbiotically support us when
42
00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,760
certain types of bacteria
populate our intestines and aid
43
00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,920
us in digesting our food.
We can thus easily appreciate
44
00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:11,600
that other beings or entities
may influence ourselves and our
45
00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,320
world and may play either a
positive or a negative role in
46
00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,480
our lives.
People have also experienced
47
00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:25,200
entering into other domains,
plains or worlds and acting and
48
00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200
interacting in those regions.
Clearly, the world's that are
49
00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,480
most closely aligned with our
own create opportunities for
50
00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,920
conscious beings to move in
either direction and interact in
51
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:43,360
those alternative domains, the
Mother writes.
52
00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:49,080
Quote Last week I spoke of the
threshold of occultism.
53
00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,480
So a question is put to me about
this occult world, that is to
54
00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,000
say, the world invisible to
ordinary physical eyes, and I am
55
00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,360
asked for explanations or
comments on the beings who live
56
00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,160
in those worlds which are
invisible to ordinary eyes.
57
00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,280
I am even told that I speak very
often of negative entities, that
58
00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:15,080
is to say, of hostile formations
of small beings formed from the
59
00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,560
disintegration of human beings
after their death, the
60
00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,560
disintegration of the vital or
mental being at death.
61
00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,520
But that I have never spoken of
the great beings, the
62
00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,600
magnificent beings or positive
entities which help the
63
00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,000
evolution.
I believe I have spoken to you
64
00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,440
about these quite often, but
still I have been asked once
65
00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:45,200
again for explanations.
Well, the occult world is not
66
00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,320
one single region where
everything is mixed, which only
67
00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,640
becomes a cult because we can't
see it.
68
00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,760
The occult world is a graduation
of regions, one could perhaps
69
00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:01,720
say of more and more ethereal or
subtle regions anyway, those
70
00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,960
farther and farther removed in
their nature from the physical
71
00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,560
materiality we ordinarily see.
And each one of these domains is
72
00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,400
a world in itself, having its
forms and inhabited by beings
73
00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,080
with a density, one might say,
analogous to that of the domain
74
00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,800
in which they live.
Just as in the physical world we
75
00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,760
are of the same materiality as
the physical world, so in the
76
00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,320
vital world, in the mental
world, in the overmind world and
77
00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,680
in the Super mental world and in
many others infinite others,
78
00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,400
there are beings which have a
form whose substance is similar
79
00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,200
to the one of that world.
This means that if you are able
80
00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,920
to enter consciously into that
world with the part of your
81
00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,280
being which corresponds to that
domain, you can move there quite
82
00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,840
objectively as in the material
world.
83
00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,000
End Quote reference Shrioro
Bindu and the Mother.
84
00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,880
The Hidden Forces of Life
Chapter 5.
85
00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,840
Occult Forces pages one O 8 to
one O 9.