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Vital and Mental Life Forms Interact With Us in the Material World · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We scour the Galaxy for signs of intelligent life elsewhere.
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  The reality is that unless an extraterrestrial race has found
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  a way to circumvent the constant of the speed of light through
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  some method of folding space or creating wormholes that truncate
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  the distance to be travelled, setting up a multi thousand year
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  multi generational Starship to visit other solar systems, or
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  possibly finding a way to travel safely at speeds far in excess
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  of the speed of light. It is not likely nor feasible
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  that such extraterrestrial beings residing in other
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  planetary systems in other parts of the Galaxy or further away in
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  other galaxies will be able to visit us.
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  Reports of UFO phenomena should be investigated not only as to
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  whether there has been interstellar travel by an
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  extraterrestrial race or new discoveries by humanity that
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  lead to harnessing of powers that exhibit these forms of
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  motion, but also whether such things are potentially evidence
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  of mental or vital beings manifesting the capability of
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  solidifying vibrations into forms that can be observed and
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  interact with our physical reality.
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  Another point often overlooked is that consciousness may
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  actually move faster than light and is not bound by distance.
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  We have always been wedded in our thinking about physical
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  beings transporting themselves in physical vehicles across
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  galactic or intergalactic distances.
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  However, we may also consider that beings project
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  consciousness and when they reach a proposed destination,
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  they use elements they find there to build the locally
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  needed physical bodies and vehicles.
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  We have found clues of other life forms right here where we
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  are, but we largely disregard the significance of the clues we
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  have received. We tend to disregard the fact
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  that with the extended ability to observe microscopic levels,
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  we have an indeed discovered that life exists at the single
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  cell level. This, however, is not
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  necessarily the most significant clue we have.
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  We now understand that there are ranges of vibration to which our
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  senses are not accessible. As we explore further, we begin
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  to see that there are vital forces, mental forces and
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  spiritual forces active, which influence and act upon us even
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  though we cannot directly perceive them.
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  Many people bring back reports of beings that interact with
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  them through dreams, trance, out of body experiences,
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  extraordinary experiences, near death experiences, et cetera,
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  which correlate with what we know of the energetic forces
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  that we can identify. It is not a very big leap to
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  accept that the forces we experience are in many cases
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  expressions of fully conscious, intentional beings who are
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  acting out of their own motives and self-interest, or at the
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  very least playing their defined role in the manifestation of the
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  divine action in the universe, Sri Aurobindo writes quote.
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  But the contacts do not stop here, for there is also an
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  opening of our mind and life parts to a great range of
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  subjective, objective experiences in which these
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  planes present themselves no longer as extensions of
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  subjective being and consciousness, but as worlds.
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  For the experiences there are organized as they are in our own
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  world, but on a different plan, with a different process and law
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  of action, and in a substance which belongs to a superphysical
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  nature. This organization includes, as
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  on on earth, the existence of beings who have or take forms,
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  manifest themselves, or are naturally manifested in an
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  embodying substance, but a substance other than ours, a
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  subtle substance tangible only to subtle sense, a superphysical
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  form, matter. These worlds and beings may have
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  nothing to do with ourselves and our life.
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  They may exercise no action upon us.
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  But often also they enter into secret communication with Earth
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  existence, obey or embody, and are the intermediaries and
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  instruments of the cosmic powers and influences of which we have
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  a subjective experience or themselves act.
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  By their own initiation upon the terrestrial world's life and
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  motives and happenings. It is possible to receive help
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  or guidance or harm or misguidance from these beings.
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  It is possible even to become subject to their influence, to
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  be possessed by their invasion or domination, to be
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  instrumentalized by them for their good or evil purpose.
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  At times the progress of earthly life seems to be a vast field of
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  battle between superphysical forces of either character,
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  those that strive to uplift, encourage and illumine, and
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  those that strive to deflect, depress or prevent or even
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  shatter our upward evolution or the soul's self-expression in
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  the material universe. Some of these beings, powers or
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  forces are such that we think of them as divine.
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  They are luminous, benignant, or powerfully helpful.
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  There are others that are Titanic, gigantic or demoniac,
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  inordinate influences, instigators or creators, often
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  of vast and formidable inner upheavals or of actions that
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  overpass the normal human measure.
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  There may also be an awareness of influences, presences, beings
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  that do not seem to belong to other worlds beyond us, but are
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  here as a hidden element behind the veil in terrestrial nature.
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  As contact with the superphysical is possible, a
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  contact can also take place, subjective or objective, or at
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  least objectivized, between our own consciousness and the
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  consciousness of other once embodied beings who have passed
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  into a super physical status in these other regions of
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  existence. It is possible also to pass
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  beyond a subjective contact or a subtle sense perception, and in
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  certain subliminal states of consciousness to enter actually
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  into other worlds and know something of their secrets.
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  It is the more objective order of otherworldly experience that
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  sees most the imagination of mankind and the past.
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  But it was put by popular belief into a gross objective statement
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  which unduly assimilated these phenomena to those of the
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  physical world with which we are familiar.
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  For it is the normal tendency of our mind to turn everything into
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  forms or symbols proper to its own kind and terms of
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  experience. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 6
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  Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary Forces, pages 137 to 139.