Levels of the Tao

There are at least seven main planes that make up the Tao.

These levels and planes are, for the most part, a way for each fragmentation ot the Tao (us) to move through and eventually rejoin and complete the Tao.

Part of that process and movement is living and experiencing each of those different levels and the nuances in that level.

Eventually, all the fragmentations will eventually recollect and once again become a whole. In that process of recollection, the Tao experiences every different type of possible life and emotional experience of every fragment. Through this process, the Tao as a whole learns, grows, experiences every possibility. This process allows us, as well as the Tao, to learn and progress.

The different levels of the Tao include:

• The Physical Plane (Earth) - Level 1
• The Astral Plane (Heaven) - Level 2
• The Mid-causal Plane - Level 3
• The Casaul Plane - Level 4
• The Mental Plane - Level 5
• The Messianic Plane - Level 6
• The Buddhaic Plane - Level 7
• The Tao - All Planes

Humanity

The Earth, the animals, the plants, and humans, all are fragments of the Tao. In that fragmentation, part of the spiritual energy of the Tao became a part of who we are.

Besides breaking into fragments, a process was developed and created that could help us learn, grow, and improve....eventually moving forward through the different levels of the Tao to return "home".

You

You are made up with a physical body and an energy body.  Your physical body, your energy body, and the Higher Self share a unique relationship.  This relationship allows the soul and the mental aspect of the human body to be able to communicate.  However, the higher self can also give guidance that it feels is necessary to the soul without the human or physical person realizing that the instructions are needed.

Your physical body obviously includes your mind and body, such as your skin, bones, organs, blood vessels, nerves, etc. 

Your energy body is composed of energy points known as chakra's and is housed inside your physical body. The body of energy that houses the chakras is at times called the spiritual body.

You also have a “Higher Self” which is connected with that energy body. The Higher Self is the sum of all your lives experiences from other incarnation on the physical plane.  It is the sum of all the past “you’s” and is located on the higher self plane, which is part of the astral plane.   The higher self is your fragments counterpart on the astral plane and the sum of the lives experiences of the past.  These higher souls have insight and learning that will help you learn beyond their experiences and to also explain the past. 

The energy body and your higher self of course are very closely related.  They work very much as a single unit, but separate. The higher self can automatically help produce the feelings, sensations, information, and insight that the soul desires.  It is the part that can prompt and guide you to make choices that are more in line with the tasks and experiences you want and need in your life.

Spiritual energy and physical energy is not the same.  They can be related, but are not the same.  Your physical mind and body does not and cannot recall or visualize the energy body.  It does not feel it, nor does it really understand it. Therefore, different systems of helping the mind accept the spiritual aspects or energies are taught by different teachers.  No matter how many autopsies a person does, for example, they will never find an energy body. It does not physically exist in the body.  But energy flows through the body and it helps one to understand the relationship between the energy body and the physical body because it can help one gain insight.  And it therefore becomes part of your reality.  You have created it and therefore are able to gain its benefits.  One could devise another system, but what use would it be?  It is better to keep things simple, easily understood, and therefore more useful.

The energy body is a subtle anatomy, or you may prefer to think of it as a spiritual anatomy of the body.  The basic concept is that each living person at each visit to a life has a separate energy anatomy that is distinct from what is called the physical body.  The effect of this energy body is to give life to the physical.

Question:         How does the energy body and the physical body relate?
Answer:            It, the energy body, is affected by the physical body.  The physical body is also affected by the energy body.  In other words, the two are by nature intertwined and only death causes separation.  What happens to one affects the other.

Question:         What does the energy body look like?
Answer:            It looks as you would imagine.  In other words, your mind does not relate to the plane on which the energy body is associated with.  By its nature it is part of the lower astral.

Question:         Is there then a difference between a person’s higher self and the energy body?
Answer:            Yes there is.  At death, those who expect a heaven or a hell, experience such.  But not through their higher selves, which understand the true nature of their life’s experiences.  It is the energy body’s experiences or experiences that dwell in the lower astral levels and as they gain awareness may migrate upwards to eventually join their higher selves.

Question:          Is the higher self different from the energy body?  If so, how does the higher self relate to the energy body?
Answer:            First, you should understand that the energy body is a spiritual body or an unseen energy field or as you would say a subtle and distinct different aspect of the human form.  You can call it an energy body.  It relates to the higher self, the same as a life experience does.  The higher self is made up of many experiences of lifetimes.  As it gains experience, it gains knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.  As it desires to increase that understanding, it allows part of it to gain that experience in a life and then return to itself so that it’s self may experience that growth.  Therefore, one may say that an energy body is similar to a fragment, but an energy body in its first experience with life, is the original entity fragment, and has no higher self as of yet, but after the first life experience, part of the energy body remains as a higher self and part is sent to experience a life.  As more lives are experienced, more energy bodies are accumulated.  You may think, and this accounts for the higher self’s increase of knowledge and wisdom.  Also, at the later stages of lives, smaller energy fragments are sent as an energy body and more energy is retained by the higher self, which can therefore influence your earthly life, because it is a stronger energy force than ever before.  That is why in the older life stages, they seem to intuitively know about things.  This knowledge is transmitted by a strong higher self. 

Question:          How do people affect change in their personalities or abilities or attributes?
Answer:            Desire starts the process.  What allows the change to proceed?  Is it not visualization or creating the image of the completed change, therefore reinforcing the desire?  And is that not creating your own reality?

So how you visualize yourself is how your soul then perceives itself. 

The Soul

Questions:       What is a soul? 
Answer:            Your energies. 

Question:         What does this entail? 
Answer:           Your life forces, your mental abilities, your aspirations and desires.