Crossing Barriers in the Non-Physical Realms

It is helpful to understand about the non-physical planes while still living on the physical plane. This is excellent preparation for the permanent out-of-body experience known as “death”.

The ancient texts which detailed the non-physical realms were difficult to understand as they were often written in a coded format due to state and religious persecution.

Fortunately, an increasing number of modern writers have now traversed various parts of these non-physical planes while alive and written down their experiences in easy-to-understand language for us to learn from. Kurt Lelands’s The Multidimensional Human, Robert Munroe’s Ultimate Journey, William Buhlman’s Higher Self Now, and Rudolf Steiner’s Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment are recommended reading.

Spiritual development requires us to learn the fundamental lesson that “we are more than our physical bodies”. The non-physical realms exist, but these realms are not entered using our physical body. We have various non-physical bodies which are just as much a part of us as the physical body.

Kurt Leland states that “there are many more worlds for us to experience than the one we witness with our five physical senses. In a word, we are multidimensional”.

Leland’s book is centred on the non-physical realms, but much of what he says really starts with how we conduct ourselves in the physical realm. This affects how things proceed for us in the non-physical realms. The ‘planes’ that we can encounter beyond the physical plane correspond to the non-physical bodies we use to traverse those realms.

How far we can traverse will depend on our thought-forms, as Munroe, Buhlman and others discovered. What we can learn and have revealed to us on the non-physical planes can only be revealed to us when we have reached an appropriate stage of development on the physical plane.

The key to traversing the non-physical realms is the state of our mind: the thoughts we create. There are divine barriers which ‘stop’ our soul or consciousness at a certain point. Frederic Myers stated that “no soul may travel beyond its spiritual boundaries”.

As Robert Munroe and William Buhlman say, we can’t escape our own mind, this comes with us through life and death, so when entering our future thought-responsive home, (as physicality will cease to be relevant), our current thoughts determine our new destination.

It therefore helps to conduct ourselves in an appropriate manner on the physical plane, as this affects where we end up on the non-physical plane, whether during an out-of-body venture while living, or after death. We can’t access the higher planes beyond the lower astral plane if our thought-forms are going to pollute the higher planes environment.

So, think good thoughts, and check and amend any negative thoughts instantly.

William Buhlman emphasises that we should always think at the higher-self level, not the physical ego-body level, and as we travel in the non-physical planes, to just say “Higher Self Now!” anytime we meet a roadblock on our journey. Then we can go far.

22 May 2022

[Book review: Kurt Leland – “The Multidimensional Human”]