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Experiencing and Understanding Infinite Worlds of Experience · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Scientists nowadays are Speaking of infinite numbers of parallel
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  universes, each one carrying out some different choice that can
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  be worked out. Not every world is based on the
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  same set of factors and choices as the world we currently
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  inhabit. There are also realms that are
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  not physical in the sense of the materiality of the existence,
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  but which are much more fluid, vital domains or worlds of
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  mental formations that exist in a space of pure mentality, et
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  cetera. Many people have a hard time
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  separating themselves sufficiently from the solidity
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  and reality of the physical world to understand,
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  acknowledge, and eventually relate to other worlds or
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  domains. Yet we are clearly moving in the
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  direction of gaining these insights, both on the scientific
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  side, on the psychological side, and among those who practice the
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  science of consciousness through yogic sadhna.
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  Over the last couple of 100 years, the Western science of
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  psychology took up the study of dreams and through the extensive
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  work carried out by Freud, links and connections were made
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  between dream events and various experiences in the world, past
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  traumas or events, etcetera. However, this did not exhaust
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  the subject and the work of CG. Jung went further to determine
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  that some dreams related to what he called a collective
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  unconscious, which is a separate domain shared by the mental
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  vital space of humanity, not specifically related to an
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  individual's trauma or event background.
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  Some people reported various forms of prophetic dreams and
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  others reported entering into other realms or worlds and
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  interacting there. Some people visited what has
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  been called the Akashic Record and found the history of
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  humanity, past, present and future available to them for
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  review in the time they were there.
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  Others have received detailed teachings from gurus, teachers,
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  or guides while in a type of dream state while not in the
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  physical presence of those teachers.
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  There is such an enormous number of potential experiences and
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  they defy realistic description to those who have not had those
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  experiences. Thus, the only way to truly
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  understand these other states of awareness or other planes or
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  domains is to consciously take up the study and begin to focus
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  on and relate to the experiences one has and correlate them to
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  those related by others or to other experiences one has
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  oneself. In the end, the only true
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  knowledge in this realm is knowledge through direct
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  experience and through identity with the experienced state.
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  When an individual takes up this type of review, it is important
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  to recognize that much of the validity of the understanding
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  must be based on the foundation provided by the individual who
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  is experiencing and reporting. That is why an inner development
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  is needed to ensure that the results reported are not tainted
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  by desire, greed, fear, vanity or any other vital movement that
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  can skew the results. The mother notes quote.
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  So it is difficult to speak of all these worlds, these
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  innumerable worlds, in a few minutes.
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  It is a knowledge which needs a lived experience of many years,
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  thoroughly systematic, and which requires, as I said, an inner
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  preparation absolutely indispensable to make it
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  harmless. We all get the chance to have a
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  little contact, very partial, very superficial, with these
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  worlds in our dreams, and the study of dreams itself already
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  demands much time and care, and in itself may constitute a
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  preparation for a deeper study of the invisible worlds.
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  End Quote reference Shrioro Bindu and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 5 Occult Forces, page 111.