Spiritual Realms, Evolution in the World, and the Role of the Psychic Being

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People are generally skeptical
about the existence of beings

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outside our normal experience of
life in the world.

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At the same time, there is an
incredible interest in other

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beings, and the search for life
forms in the universe occupies

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the minds of many people.
People frequently report

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encounters with other beings,
whether they are called gods,

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celestial beings, angels,
demons, asuras, rakshasas,

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ghosts, apparitions, or alien
beings.

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There are reports worldwide
about the existence of these

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beings, and many highly revered
texts recount visitations,

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meetings, and teachings provided
by otherworldly beings.

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The Bible has numerous tales of
angels interacting with human

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beings.
The ancient Greeks and Romans

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describe the interaction of
various beings designated as

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gods who interacted with and
intervened in the lives of men.

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They also referred to ghosts,
shades of men that survived in

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an incorporeal existence.
Tibetan texts describe various

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beings in their worlds of
residence, as also can be found

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in texts of India.
Scriptural texts from all

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corners of the world provide
information on ethereal beings,

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subtle presences, etcetera.
The Titaria Upanishad provides

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an insightful description of the
levels of bliss Ananda

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attainable by various beings and
in chapter 8 of the Brahmananda

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Wali, the seer describes these
beings and the ascending level

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of subtle existence that they
occupy above the human world.

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The chapter also notes quote the
spirit who is here in a man and

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the spirit who is there in the
sun.

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It is one spirit and there is no
other.

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End Quote.
Human beings perceive beings

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that provide sensory input to us
within a certain limited range

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of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Vibrations below and above this

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range are generally
imperceptible to us, although we

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know both that they exist as we
can measure some of them, and

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that some beings on the planet
can actually see or hear at

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levels outside our own ability
to perceive with various

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instruments.
Scientists have found living

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beings at the microscopic level
that we could not directly know

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without access to these
instruments.

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At a certain point, the
existence of vibratory ranges

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outside the human field and the
known fact that beings exist in

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those other ranges make it clear
that as Hamlet relates to

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Horatio in Shakespeare's famous
play quote, there are more

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things in heaven and earth
Horatio than are dreamt of in

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your philosophy.
End Quote.

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Those ranges that represent
vibratory levels above the human

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are known as spiritual levels.
The evolution of consciousness

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slowly begins to extend the
range into levels currently

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beyond our level of perception,
just as the vital range extended

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beyond the physical and the
mental range extended beyond the

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physical and the vital levels.
Beings that exist currently at

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those levels in some cases are
able to interact with human

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beings and in other cases may
try to take possession of the

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physical existence of an
individual.

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Rishis, seers and sages have
indicated, based on their

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experience and interactions,
that one of the lures of

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existence within the earth plane
is the evolutionary potential.

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It seems the beings on other
planes are static beings not

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able to progress and develop.
This development includes the

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extension of awareness into more
subtle spiritual ranges.

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In the meantime, beings who
exist at those levels would need

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to take birth in the world to
actively participate in this

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evolutionary development.
The psychic being is the divine

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essence that acts in the world
and provides the central

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evolutionary impetus to carry
out the divine intention in the

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world.
While the spiritual realms are

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experienced above the being, the
psychic is experienced deep

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within, behind the heart center.
A disciple inquires, Quote, What

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is the difference between
spiritual and psychic?

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End Quote, the Mother responds.
It is not the same thing.

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The psychic is the being
organized by the Divine

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Presence, and it belongs to the
earth.

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I am not Speaking of the
universe, only of the earth.

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It is only upon earth that you
will find the psychic being.

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The rest of the universe is
formed in quite a different way.

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The universe contains all the
domains higher than the

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physical.
There is a global physical

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comprising the mental, the
vital, et cetera, and all the

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domains above the mental are
domains of the spiritual order,

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domains which are for us domains
of the spirit.

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And it is this spirit which
little by little progressively

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materializes itself to arrive at
matter as we conceive it.

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The beings of the Overmind, for
instance, and all the beings of

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the higher regions have no
psychic being.

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The angels have no psychic
being.

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It is only upon earth that the
psychic life begins, and it is

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just the process by which the
Divine has awakened material

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life to the necessity of
rejoining its divine origin.

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Without the psychic, matter
would never have awakened from

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its inconscience.
It would never have aspired for

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the life of its origin, the
spiritual life.

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Therefore, the psychic being in
the human being is the

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manifestation of spiritual
aspiration.

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But there is a spiritual life
independent of the psychic.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Aurobindo and the

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Mother.
The psychic being soul its

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nature, mission and evolution.
Section 1.

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Meaning and Nature of the
Psychic Being, pages 36 to 37.