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June 8, 2024

Worlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses

Worlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Ch. 5 Occult Forces, pp 109-110

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Explorers of the world came
across situations and beings

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with whom they had no prior
contact and found some of them

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to be extremely dangerous, while
others seem to be neutral or

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even positive.
Over time, as the range of

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exploration increased, more
previously unknown beings were

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encountered.
All of this has occurred within

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the range of human perception
until more recently, exploration

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took on a new meaning and
humanity began to explore outer

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space and microscopic life in
particular.

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The study, conducted under the
extraordinary magnification

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powers of the electron
microscope, propelled a new

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understanding of the life forms
that abound unseen in our

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environment.
These life forms can be either

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helpful and symbiotic to human
beings or extremely harmful to

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our existence.
As we explore outer space, we

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are beginning to see that
certain meteorites, planets,

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moons, and star systems
apparently have the building

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blocks of organic life, thus
raising the expectation that

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eventually we will discover life
forms in the physical universe

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outside our immediate Ken.
It is not certain, however, that

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all beings function on the same
biological basis or frequency

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levels that normally create the
kind of physical forms we are

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conditioned to observe.
We can appreciate that beings

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that are more subtle than
physical human beings are both

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capable of existing and of
interacting on some basis with

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human beings.
To the extent that human

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individuals are able to enter
into various other domains, such

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as some of the vital domains, as
they undertake what is generally

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known as astral travel, there is
a further opportunity for such

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interchange to occur.
The weight of reporting by

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people throughout history and
across the entire world, and

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people who have various types of
out of body experiences, near

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death experiences, and
encounters with beings or

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entities that interact with
them, leads us to conclude that

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these things are real, even if
not palpable to our external

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senses.
As we develop greater

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sensitivity, As we gain better
instrumentation in our

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scientific research.
As we gain access to new powers

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of awareness through the
evolutionary process, we can

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expect to be able to document
and support this conclusion

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based on compounded experience
over time.

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Every day, scientists are
expanding their understanding of

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the nature of existence.
The further they dive into

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matter, the more they conclude
that energy and eventually

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consciousness are the stuff of
existence and that matter is not

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actually self existent but a
formation shaped by

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consciousness through the
condensing of energy.

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Albert Einstein stated quote.
One thing I have learned in a

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long life that all our science
measured against reality is

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primitive and childlike.
We still do not know one

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thousandth of 1% of what nature
has revealed to us.

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It is entirely possible that
behind the perception of our

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senses, worlds are hidden of
which we are unaware.

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End Quote.
The mother observes quote.

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And there there are as many and
even many more things to see and

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observe than in our poor little
material world, which belongs to

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only one zone of this infinite
graduation.

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You meet all sorts of things in
these domains, and you need to

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make a study as profound,
perhaps still more profound than

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in the physical world, to be
able to know what is happening

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there, to have relations with
the beings who live there.

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It is obvious that as one goes
farther, as it were, from the

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material world, the forms and
consciousness of those beings

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are of a purity, beauty, and
perfection much higher than our

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ordinary physical forms.
It is only in the nearest vital

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world, the one which is, so to
say, mixed with our material

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life, though it lies beyond it,
and there is a zone where the

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vital is no longer mixed with
the material world.

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Of that material vital, one can
say that in some of its aspects

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it is even uglier than things
here, for it is filled with a

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bad will which is not
counterbalanced by the presence

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of the psychic being, which in
the physical world amends,

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corrects, puts, right, directs
this bad will.

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But it is rather a limited zone,
and as soon as one goes beyond

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it, one can find and meet things
that are not favorable to human

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life beings, not on the same
scale as human existence, but

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having their own beauty and
grandeur, with whom one may

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establish relations which may
become quite pleasant and even

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useful.
End Quote reference.

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Shrioro Bindu and the Mother,
The Hidden Forces of Life,

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Chapter 5.
Occult Forces, pages one O 9 to

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110.