The Reality of Worlds of Existence Other than the Physical World

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We have a strong bias in favor
of accepting things that we can

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perceive with our physical
senses, and we tend to

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disbelieve or discount anything
that is not directly physically

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available to our experience.
Yet if we reflect on the

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totality of our life experience,
it becomes clear that there are

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many experiences innumerable
forces and powers.

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That are not susceptible to
direct sense perception, yet are

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able to be determined as real.
We cannot see electricity or

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gravity, for instance, but we
can experience their effects and

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we can measure their power and
harness the effects.

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Similarly, there are many things
which occur within us which

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cannot be perceived by the
physical senses, yet are

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patently real to us.
When we get a new idea or

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inspiration, when we experience
an emotion, we sense them

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directly with the mind, not the
external sense organs.

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They arise somehow from
somewhere and thus imply a

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reality that is other than that
of the physical world we are

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rooted in, whether in a state of
dream or an out of body

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experience.
Or some abstracted state of

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trance, or a mystical state of
some sort.

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We experience things which are
real and meaningful, yet which

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defy direct perception by the
physical senses.

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How many times in our lives do
we have such experiences and

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gain some new insight or
understanding, yet discount the

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reality of those experiences in
some way?

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Just as electricity and gravity
can be known through their

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effects, such experiences also
make themselves known through

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their effects, Sriorobindo
observes Quote.

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The physical is not the only
world.

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There are others that we become
aware of through dream records,

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through the subtle senses,
through influences and contacts,

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through imagination, intuition,
and vision.

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There are worlds of a larger,
subtler life than ours.

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Vital worlds, worlds in which
mind builds its own forms and

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figures, mental worlds, psychic
worlds which are the souls,

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home, others above, with which
we have little contact.

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In each of us there is a mental
plane of consciousness, A

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psychic, A vital, A subtle
physical, as well as the gross

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physical and material plane.
The same planes are repeated in

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the consciousness of general
nature.

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It is when we enter into or
contact these other planes that

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we come into connection with the
worlds above the physical.

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In sleep we leave the physical
body only a subconscient residue

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remaining, and enter all planes
and all sorts of worlds.

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In each we see scenes.
Meet beings share in happenings,

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come across formations,
influences, suggestions which

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belong to these planes.
Even when we are awake, part of

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us moves in these planes, but
their activity goes on behind

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the veil.
Our waking minds are not aware

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of it.
End Quote Reference Sriorobindo

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and the mother our many selves
practical yogic psychology.

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Chapter 2.
Planes and Parts of the Being,

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page 12.