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Those Who Observe and Reflect Can Recognise the Higher Planes and Worlds of Existence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Modern day scientists, researchers and philosophers are
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  beginning to explore the mysteries of life and as they do
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  so they are beginning to recognize the existence of
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  domains, planes, worlds and universes that the external mind
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  of humanity has avoided or at least resisted.
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  Now scientists speak of parallel universes, anti universes,
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  quantum states in which all possible outcomes exist until we
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  actually observe a specific one and bring it into actuality.
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  It has long been known that vibrations outside the specific
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  range of our perceptions nevertheless can and do impact
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  our lives. Anyone who has suffered a
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  sunburn has had a direct experience of this fact.
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  These impacts are not solely related to physical forces but
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  also affect our emotions and our minds.
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  The effects of the moon cycles and seasonal changes are now
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  well established factors in dealing with emotional and
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  mental changes we experience. Some scientists have determined
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  that matter is not just energy, as Einstein showed in his famous
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  equation E equals MC squared, but is actually a form of
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  consciousness. We can no longer simply dismiss
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  the idea of multiple planes of existence.
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  This provides support to all those individuals throughout
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  history who have had supra sensory experiences of other
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  worlds were beings. What used to be dismissed out of
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  hand as crazy talk is now the stuff of scientific research and
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  validation. As a result, serious study of
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  manuscripts such as the Tibetan Book of the Dead have become
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  part of the forward-looking elements of humanity as we work
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  on gaining a greater understanding of our lives, our
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  existence and the universe within which we exist, Sri
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  Aurobindo writes Quote. All our spiritual and psychic
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  experience bears affirmative witness, brings us always a
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  constant and in its main principles an invariable
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  evidence of the existence of higher worlds, freer planes of
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  existence. Not having bound ourselves down
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  like so much of modern thought, to the dogma that only physical
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  experience or experience based upon the physical sense is true,
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  the analysis of physical experience by the reason alone
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  at verifiable, and all else only result of physical experience
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  and physical existence, and anything beyond this an error,
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  self delusion and hallucination. We are free to accept this
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  evidence and to admit the reality of these planes.
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  We see that they are practically different harmonies from the
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  harmony of the physical universe.
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  They occupy, as the word plane suggests, a different level in
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  the scale of being, and adopt A different system and ordering of
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  its principles. We need not inquire for our
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  present purpose whether they coincide in time and space with
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  our own world, or move in a different field of space and in
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  another stream of time. In either case it is in a more
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  subtle substance and with other movements.
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  All that directly concerns us is to know whether they are
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  different universes, each complete in itself and in no way
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  meeting, inter crossing or affecting the others, or are
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  rather different scales of 1 graded and interwoven system of
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  being parts, therefore of one complex universal system.
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  The fact that they can enter into the field of our mental
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  consciousness would naturally suggest the validity of the
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  second alternative, but it would not by itself be altogether
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  conclusive. But what we find is that these
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  higher planes are actually at every moment acting upon and in
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  communication with our own plane of being, although this action
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  is naturally not present to our ordinary waking or outer
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  consciousness, because that is for the most part limited to a
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  reception and utilization of the contacts of the physical world.
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  But the moment we either go back into our subliminal being or
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  enlarge our waking consciousness beyond the scope of the physical
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  contacts, we become aware of something of this higher action.
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  We find even that the human being can project himself
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  partially into these higher planes under certain conditions,
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  even while in the body. A fortiori must he be able to do
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  it when out of the body, and to do it then completely, since
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  there is no longer the disabling condition of the physical life
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  bound down to the body. The consequences of this
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  relation and this power of transference are of immense
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  importance. On the one side they immediately
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  justify, at any rate as an actual possibility, the ancient
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  tradition of at least a temporary sojourn of the human
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  conscious being in other worlds than the physical after the
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  dissolution of the physical body.
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  On the other side, they open to us the possibility of an action
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  of the higher planes on the material existence which can
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  liberate the powers they represent, the powers of life,
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  mind and spirit for the evolutionary intention inherent
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  within nature by the very fact of their embodiment and matter.
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  End Quote Reference Shriorobindo and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 6.
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  Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary Forces, pages 142 to 144.