University of Life Archives
SURROUNDING AND INTERPENETRATING the force field of planet Earth are seven astral planes. In terms of vibrational frequency, they are situated between the third dimensional physical plane and the etheric or Christ realms.
The first two astral planes, the lowest, are areas of darkness. Souls are in complete ignorance of God. Some may be in a state of misery and confusion, not knowing how to seek the light. Some may be Earthbound souls, still attached to physical life. Their desires correspond to the lowest that man expresses on Earth, such as violence, sexual promiscuity, drug and alcohol addiction, and a desire to express power over others, such as through astral possession and obsession.
The third and fourth astral planes comprise souls whose consciousness is comparable to that of most people on Earth. Awareness is that of material matter, and/or the first step of evolving into spiritual desire. The thoughts and feelings would be similar to those of the average, spiritually unawakened person on Earth, ranging from altruistic and loving to selfish and material.
The three higher astral realms — the fifth, the sixth and the seventh — are comprised of souls who are spiritually awakened, as described in more detail below.
The combined size of the astral planes, compared to the physical plane, attests to the difficulty and the challenge of coordinating Earth and astral planes. On September 5, 1975, Sananda revealed this astounding fact to Nada-Yolanda: “The size of the astral planes is one hundred times greater than the size and the problems that are faced upon the Earth, and these are monumental enough to consider.”
In addition to our interdimensional teamwork with ascended masters on the etheric realms, we light workers coordinate also with awakened souls in the three higher astral planes. The following excerpts are from our University of Life course One God, One Life (two-volume set, $10 + shipping). They describe some of the expressions and the functions of the higher astral realms.
Fifth Astral Plane
The fifth, the sixth and the seventh astral realms are comprised of souls dedicated to spiritual evolution. An awakened light worker on Earth would go to the fifth or the sixth astral plane immediately upon his or her transition. Highly evolved souls with idealistic, altruistic missions, even if not consciously awakened to the spiritual program and the higher Self, may pass on to these realms. Sincere religious individuals breaking through into higher consciousness also would be prepared for activities here.
An important function of many on these planes is healing and transmutation of the soul record. For with the quest for spiritual advancement comes a desire to know and to heal past mistakes.
On June 5, 1968, Nada-Yolanda received insight into the activities in an area of the fifth astral plane where new arrivals make their adjustment after the transition. She had this intunement while in contact with her sister of this lifetime, Leonora, who passed on in 1950:
“She took me into the hospital or reception area on the fifth plane of the astral where she works. She is under the auspices of the Fifth Ray forces who work not only at healing, but at integrating the levels of the astral with Earth and at introducing the higher etheric plane teachers and ideas to those areas below the etheric. In other words, the integration is a transition point of all three realms: Earth, astral and etheric.
“The area is like a huge hall or temple, reminiscent of the old Egyptian temples or structures: quite open, airy and brilliantly colored. Each of the arrivals is wrapped in Egyptian fashion, like a mummy, in a cocoon of protective aura and wrappings. Leonora told me this resembles that fashion because the Egyptians were much aware of and psychically intuned with actual astral plane functions; they prepared their dead for what they expected they would experience after the transition.
“Individuals are not lying down, as in hospital beds, but are propped up in rows along the walls, leaving the center of the hall for manifestations of light, fountains of color rays, and a type of movie projector that is probably 3-D so the person can experience healing ideas or can see or connect with the past. This is done to awaken them gradually, softly, without shock, and to teach them.
“Many do not know immediately that they are on the other side of the veil. Music plays at all times to gradually adjust the soul to the environment and the new teachings that are to come upon them at the first moment of awareness. Many sleep for a long time. But where Leonora is stationed, it is not for undetermined lengths of time. For she works on a slightly higher plane, with those who are more advanced souls than in the lower astrals where unawakened and even negative souls are making their adjustments.
“The halls are arranged like wards in a hospital. The person is placed with those of like evolvement, particularly religious backgrounds, so that the same treatments (lights, colors, films, music) are used for a group, rather than for each one individually according to his personal karma. This is group therapy here. She is in charge of one such hall, but not of the entire operation.”
Sixth Astral Plane
On October 24, 1975, Leonora showed Yolanda the entry area into the sixth astral plane: “They readjust and teach all who come into the sixth plane to cleanse their astral bodies and to anchor into their light forms. . . . I believe this is the plane where Jesus would have spent the three days in the tomb. It is the final resting and reviewing place for spiritual workers to clean up and close off any karmic, akashic threads that would limit or interfere with their light-body, I Am Self functioning. No thought or feeling can be left that in any sense is less than divine law and love.
“As I have visited there and have observed the way it functions, it appears to be a temple-hospital. Everything is clean, clear, white marble and uncluttered. It seems the souls are close to perfection. There is almost a hushed silence, such as in a cloistered nunnery or monastery, where most work is done in silence. There are not activity and work involved except as they concern contemplating, changing, transmuting the last remnants of error or pain into peace and harmony.
“The review is done mostly in the person’s consciousness. But it seems to be aided at times by ‘nurses,’ who seem to be more like friendly attendants and librarians. In fact, librarian is a good term, since they seem to be in charge of pulling out the akashic records and playing them for the individual via a filming technique. By reviewing and reliving the scenes, the sixth-plane ‘patient’ makes notes of what he knows has to be adjusted.
“At this stage there are not the agony, the wonder and the severe realization of previously unthought-about or unrecognized actions and ideas to be rectified. For the most part people on the sixth astral plane generally know what needs to be done to change the akashic record. They just need time and techniques to complete the closing-off of the past. By this time they really have done all that could be done, but mortal thoughts and emotions may not have been totally eliminated. Those could be holding back the progress into the seventh-plane doorway to the etheric.
“The use of color and music is one of the techniques and therapies most popular at this time. I have seen where the person steps into a colored liquid bath, which seems to pour down over the astral body like a shower. In some cases, it also seems to bubble up from the ground, while the person stands in the light and ‘water-color’ of this beam-shower. It is hard to know what the substance is, but it is healing therapy that may take some time to complete. As the person bathes in this, his thoughts and feelings become rehabilitated.
“Now that we understand that certain colors affect certain divine characteristics (such as blue for faith, white for love, and so forth) and that those divine characteristics affect certain bodily functions (faith, the brain; love, the heart; and so on), I can see in this sixth astral plane that the liquid-color-light directly affects and strengthens whatever is weak in the astral body.
“For it is absolutely necessary that the astral body be perfect before the person permanently can use the light body. There can be no area that is weak. Because of the powers inherent in the light-body consciousness and vibration, it would be dangerous for anyone with any weaknesses, or incomplete resolutions to divine law and love, to function in that range of power and energy.”
Seventh Astral Plane
The seventh astral plane is the doorway between astral and etheric planes. Souls here spend ninety percent of their time in the light body, the superconscious state, and are deeply applying cosmic laws. But in order to pass into etheric expression, they must understand the Hierarchal Board (spiritual government of our solar system) and the role of Sananda. Summalt, who was Jesus’ disciple Peter, is the doorkeeper here. He approves each soul entering the etheric realms, or heaven, and teaches him about the Hierarchy and Sananda. This is the mystical meaning of Peter’s having “the keys to the kingdom of heaven.”
Astral Guides & Teachers
The above descriptions are only a glimpse into a few areas of higher astral activity. Light workers are stationed here for many purposes and works. These include teaching those on lower astral levels, transmitting light energies into the Earth plane, and coordinating with the hierarchal space program. Some remain here for a time, or accept assignments as guides and teachers in lower astral planes. Others progress into the etheric, or reincarnate on Earth to enact a spiritual mission or to balance karma.
Souls on higher astral planes are more advanced in consciousness than most in physical incarnation. So, as part of their growth and service, some act as guides and teachers to those on Earth. Many of them work silently, influencing thoughts and emotions of those on the physical and thus affecting events here. A few communicate spiritual teachings through Earth channels.
Since these teachers are not yet in Christ consciousness at all times, their knowledge is not as complete as that of etheric masters, and in some cases the information may not be totally pure. But many such teachers provide a solid foundation of cosmic principles for students on Earth.
The following are some interesting tidbits about the astral planes, channeled via Nada-Yolanda unless otherwise indicated.
Moon Is a Way Station
“These [Apollo] astronauts are chosen to land on the moon, to walk among the remnants of past civilizations and memories, and to carry with them the auric vibratory rates of those who sojourn there in the astral bodies. Yes, it is true that there are certain levels of the astrals who occupy the moon, and use it as a way station to get to the Earth for their incarnations, to revive their memory banks and to lift off from their astral life into embodiment onto other higher astral planes; but, more importantly, to aid in their return to the Earth before their birth into the physical. They wait there for their birthing process.
“Therefore, those astronauts who are traveling across the face of the moon during these explorations are touching upon, and are touched by, the astral bodies who are waiting birth into the physical forms being prepared for them on the Earth in the coming age, and particularly preparing during this time for life on Earth in the Golden Age of Aquarius. Some of these are directly my own disciples and children of light who will assist me in my return, or the Second Coming.” — Sananda; April 24, 1972
Each Planet Has Separate Astral Planes
“Each planet has its own astral planes, which are not connected to those of any other planet.” [The etheric or Christ realms interpenetrate the entire solar system and are shared equally by all planets.] — 1000 Keys to the Truth
Lower Astral Planes to Be Dissolved
“The gates between the astral and the physical will be slammed shut [over a span of time in these Latter Days]. That means, therefore, that you will have to incarnate from the etheric or from the higher astral levels that are close to the etheric development. You will not be able to communicate with those lower astral forms and forces who now are so attached to, and developing their own, progression through possession, obsession and disturbances into the Earth planet as it now is functioning. . . .
“This has to be a final experience and demonstration in order to remove those lower astral planes, workers and forces who have been for too long the influencing factors over Earth plane consciousness and Earth plane activity in these many eons of time, dating from the period when the Cains and the Abels were at war with one another.” — Sananda; May 18, 1972
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“We must dissolve the lower astral planes and we must raise the Earth planet third dimensional frequency into the fourth dimensional frequency so the Earth planet and the etheric planet are then closer in coordination and more open to each other for communication than hitherto has been known since those days when the Elder race was incarnated upon the Earth in the full light body or expression as the sons of God.” — Sananda; May 20, 1972
Interplanetary Orientation of Astrals
“In stepping down our frequencies from these higher etheric levels, we have sent forth into these astral environs under temporary sojourn certain teachers of our Federation of Planets, who have taken upon themselves the task to reawaken souls within your astral planes to this reality of reunification with the sister planets of our solar system. I say the sojourn is temporary, for they can only maintain these astral materializations for short ranges of time, as you determine it, but within a cycle that allows them to inject these thought patterns in these classes of orientation.” — Rebekah of Venus via Phillel; February 15, 2012
Photos: (1) Earth and Large Magellanic Cloud; collage by author. (2) Nada-Yolanda (Pauline Sharpe) and her sister, Leonora, 1949; Mark-Age Archives. (3) Blue Light © by Hartmut Jager. (4) Astral Trainer © by Hartmut Jager. (5) Earthrise, as seen from the moon by Apollo 8 in 1968.
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