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Occult Beings and Entities In This and Other Worlds or Planes Can Impact Human Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Scientists are now beginning to speak of an infinite number of
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  universes, each with their own beings and existence, many of
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  which are very closely related to and possibly interacting with
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  the universe within which we live.
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  Separately, we are beginning to appreciate that our limited
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  field of perception does not encompass all possible ranges of
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  existence, and that there are living beings that exist in
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  ranges below or above those we can ourselves directly
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  experience in our own experience.
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  Through the development of powerful microscopes, for
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  instance, we were able to observe living bacteria which a
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  few short centuries ago were not even recognized as a reality in
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  our world. These are entities which reside
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  in the same world with us, have impacts on our health and
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  well-being, and yet have been invisible to us until the recent
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  development of new observational tools.
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  What other entities reside in our world that are invisible to
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  us, we cannot yet say. As we open up to these points,
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  it becomes obvious to us that there are other worlds, domains,
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  or planes of existence occupied by living beings.
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  Many people have had the experience of something they
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  considered to be unusual or even supernatural, such as the action
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  of ghosts, poltergeists, spectres, gods, angels or
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  demons, et cetera. We do not have a perfect
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  understanding of these things, so we either try to dismiss them
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  out of hand or call them some kind of illusion, hallucination,
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  or subterfuge. Yet the experiences are so
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  widespread and pervasive, stretching across time and
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  distance around the globe, that it is impossible to close our
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  eyes to the existence of such things, whatever we may call
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  them, and however me we may want to interpret them.
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  In Hamlet, Shakespeare's lead character expressed something of
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  this when he advised his friend Horatio that he had met with the
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  ghost of his father and been instructed by that ghost about
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  the method of his demise. He noted to Horatio that many
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  things exist beyond the frame of the knowledge and methodologies
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  of the time. Human beings act as hostile
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  forces to many beings in the world, while we act as
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  beneficent beings towards a number of others.
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  We can observe now that bacteria, for instance, can
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  cause disease or can symbiotically support us when
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  certain types of bacteria populate our intestines and aid
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  us in digesting our food. We can thus easily appreciate
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  that other beings or entities may influence ourselves and our
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  world and may play either a positive or a negative role in
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  our lives. People have also experienced
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  entering into other domains, plains or worlds and acting and
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  interacting in those regions. Clearly, the world's that are
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  most closely aligned with our own create opportunities for
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  conscious beings to move in either direction and interact in
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  those alternative domains, the Mother writes.
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  Quote Last week I spoke of the threshold of occultism.
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  So a question is put to me about this occult world, that is to
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  say, the world invisible to ordinary physical eyes, and I am
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  asked for explanations or comments on the beings who live
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  in those worlds which are invisible to ordinary eyes.
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  I am even told that I speak very often of negative entities, that
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  is to say, of hostile formations of small beings formed from the
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  disintegration of human beings after their death, the
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  disintegration of the vital or mental being at death.
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  But that I have never spoken of the great beings, the
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  magnificent beings or positive entities which help the
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  evolution. I believe I have spoken to you
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  about these quite often, but still I have been asked once
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  again for explanations. Well, the occult world is not
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  one single region where everything is mixed, which only
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  becomes a cult because we can't see it.
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  The occult world is a graduation of regions, one could perhaps
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  say of more and more ethereal or subtle regions anyway, those
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  farther and farther removed in their nature from the physical
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  materiality we ordinarily see. And each one of these domains is
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  a world in itself, having its forms and inhabited by beings
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  with a density, one might say, analogous to that of the domain
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  in which they live. Just as in the physical world we
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  are of the same materiality as the physical world, so in the
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  vital world, in the mental world, in the overmind world and
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  in the Super mental world and in many others infinite others,
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  there are beings which have a form whose substance is similar
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  to the one of that world. This means that if you are able
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  to enter consciously into that world with the part of your
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  being which corresponds to that domain, you can move there quite
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  objectively as in the material world.
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  End Quote reference Shrioro Bindu and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of Life Chapter 5.
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  Occult Forces pages one O 8 to one O 9.