The link above goes to an interesting blog post by John Michael Greer on certain esoteric ideas concerning astral bodies, etc. I also asked JMG some questions, which (for reasons of simplicity), I reproduce below, together with JMG´s responses.
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What is a mystical experience of God or the Divine? Is it a temporary experience of planes higher than the mental?
Is there some way, according to occult tradition, to reach planes higher than the mental already today, by some higher form of initiation?
If humans would disappear as a species before we evolve all the necessary sheaths and bodies, what would happen? Would the next intelligent species have to start all over again?
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Tidlösa, mystical experiences of a god aren’t something you do, they’re something the god does. The god can manifest on the lower mental or upper astral planes in order to communicate to you — if it’s the lower mental it’s the kind of mystical experience that’s described in terms of formless light and knowing, if it’s the upper astral it’s got parasensory forms the mystic can see and hear and feel. As for reaching planes higher than the mental, nope — what you can do is interact with beings who exist on those planes, and can reach down to yours. The generic term for those interactions is “religion.”
The traditional lore has it that the human species came into existence because there were souls who needed this particular (and peculiar) kind of body and nervous system in order to pass through this evolutionary stage, and will continue to exist until the souls who need that form have all passed through it. We don’t remain human all through the process of spiritual evolution — our human lives are the ones in which we develop our mental sheaths and bring them to the brink of becoming mental bodies. Then each of us, individually, goes on.
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