Other Domains and Worlds Exist Beyond the Limits of Our Waking Awareness

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When we reflect deeply on the
development of life and mind out

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of matter, it becomes clear that
they are not able to manifest in

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matter if they do not already
exist in their own right and in

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their own domain.
Seers and Mystics have described

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vital worlds.
Tayar de Chardin described a

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mental sphere, which he called
the Nuosphere, which encompassed

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the mental force in its own
right.

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Similar to the ionosphere or the
biosphere, the newosphere

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created a range of its own
vibratory level within which the

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actions of mentality could take
place.

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For those who undertake the
inner exploration, these worlds

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tend to open up and become
perceptible, if not to the outer

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senses, then to the more subtle
senses that are available.

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Either to the mind through
direct perception, through the

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touches on the nervous or vital
envelope that are felt but not

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clearly seen, and through states
such as dream or trance where

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the outer waking consciousness
recedes and other experiences

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can then occur.
CG Jung's work made it clear

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that there is a domain where
archetypal images reside and

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that provides these images to
those who escape the blindered

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confines of the outer waking
consciousness.

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He called this the collective
unconscious as it was

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experienced by our being outside
the normal waking state.

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We can appreciate this
possibility when we reflect on

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the fact that when we live in
the external world during the

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day with the sun shining upon
our lives, we lose sight of the

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vast universal creation that
abides outside our solar system.

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But when the sun recedes with
the advent of night, we have the

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opportunity, if we turn our gaze
upward, to see a portion of the

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vast range of universal
existence that far exceeds our

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planetary existence.
The waking mental consciousness,

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fixated on the impulses provided
by the external senses, does not

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attend to the vast field of
consciousness that exists beyond

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its normal frame.
Only when it withdraws and one

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becomes receptive to other
experiences does the awareness

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of these other domains arise and
begin to reach our notice

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through some means or other.
As we see in our waking

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experience, the vital or mental
domains are populated with

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beings who have their own
agenda, their own force, and who

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may be either benign or
malignant in relation to our

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experience of them.
Care must be taken when

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exploring or interacting with
these subtler domains as we tend

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not to understand what it is we
are truly seeing and relating to

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our own vibratory pattern and
receptivity tends to condition

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much of what we come into
contact with.

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So to the extent we harbor
desires, lusts, ambitions,

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greed, et cetera, or aspiration,
goodwill, compassion, et cetera,

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we attract just those forces to
us who vibrate on a similar

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level, Shiorobindo notes quote.
The physical is not the only

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world.
There are others that we become

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aware of through dream records,
through the subtle senses,

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through influences and contacts,
through imagination, intuition

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and vision.
There are worlds of a larger,

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subtler life than ours, vital
worlds, worlds in which mind

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builds its own forms and
figures, mental worlds, psychic

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worlds which are the soul's
home, others above with which we

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have little contact.
In each of us there is a mental

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plane of consciousness, a
psychic, a vital, a subtle

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physical, as well as the gross
physical and material plane.

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The same planes are repeated in
the consciousness of general

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nature.
It is when we enter or contact

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these other planes that we come
into connection with the world's

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above the physical.
In sleep we leave the physical

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body, only a subcontinent
residue remaining, and enter all

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planes and all sorts of worlds.
In each we see scenes, meet

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beings, share in happenings,
come across formations,

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influences, suggestions which
belong to these planes.

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Even when we are awake, part of
us moves in these planes, but

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their activity goes on behind
the veil.

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Our waking minds are not aware
of it.

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Dreams are often only incoherent
constructions of our

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subcontinent, but others are
records, often much mixed and

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distorted, or transcripts of
experiences in these supra

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physical planes.
When we do sadhna, this kind of

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dream becomes very common.
Then subconscious dreams cease

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to predominate.
The forces and beings of the

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vital world have a great
influence on human beings.

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The vital world is on one side a
world of beauty.

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The poet, artist, musician are
in close contact with it.

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It is also a world of powers and
passions, lusts and desires.

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Our own lusts and desires and
passions and ambitions can put

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us into connection with the
vital worlds and their forces

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and beings.
It is again a world of things

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dark, dangerous and horrible.
Nightmares, like exes, are

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contacts with this side of the
vital plane.

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Its influences are also the
source of much in men that is

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demoniac, dirty, cruel and base.
End Quote reference Sri

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Aurobindo and the Mother, The
hidden Forces of Life, Chapter

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6.
Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary

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Forces, pages 141 to 142.