The Element of Water on
the Physical, Astral, Mental, and Akashic Planes
(C) William R. Mistele,
2022
Note: See also my essay
on water: http://williammistele.com/waternotesforjudith.pdf
Note: I will do a short
video in a few days on facebook for meditating on water on the four planes. This
is the seventh session of my on-line class on the water element. I am slowly working
through all five elements. See my facebook timeline.
Introduction
The method is simple.
Just imagine water inside your body or around yourself. For example, begin by focusing
on your feet. Imagine cool water rather than blood is flowing through your feet
and your whole body.
As we explore water in ourselves through
direct, first-hand experience, we can also look ahead into the future and
imagine various ways in which human beings can evolve. I call that line of
study—spiritual anthropology.
Water in the Physical Plane
If I imagine cool water
flowing through my feet and my body, I notice right away various sensations. The
water is soothing, calming, purifying, relaxing, renewing, and healing.
It takes some effort on my part to pursue this
meditation. But after a few years (or decades) the simple meditation has noticeable
effects. It is like an internal Tylenol. It gets rid of or lessons headaches,
eye strain, muscle tension, etc. With time, it also is easy to associate the
sensations of water in my body to water in nature such as lakes, streams, oceans,
and the magnetosphere of the planet.
There are also metaphysical implications to
this practice. In spiritual anthropology, we ask in regard to religions and wisdom
or spiritual traditions, “What do they say they are doing? What can you notice
they are doing?
“What are their practices and how much time
do they spend on them? What are the observable results of what they practice? Is
there anything that can be extracted from this tradition that is universal in
nature? That is, you can take something they do and teach it to anybody without
having to refer back to their doctrines, beliefs, philosophies, or the historical
era in which it arose?”
I have not observed anyone doing the above simple
water meditation outside of hermetic magical traditions. The most interesting thing
I have learned is that men’s bodies are too hot. Not being taught how to
produce the water vibration in one’s body, men do not know how to completely
relax at will and experience peace and serenity such as an absolute sense of inner
pace that is in harmony with the universe.
The result is that men are far more connected
to fire and electricity. And so we have all sorts of inventions that make life
better based on fire and electricity; but we lack the empathy, love, and instant
inner connection soul to soul and heart to heart with others that arises from
the water element.
I like to suggest that if men or women could
bring into their consciousness this vibration of water, they could hold another
person’s hand. And if that person relaxes, he or she would fall into a state of
bliss.
The only thing even remotely similar to this
experience of bliss comes from sex. The element of water is in sex but it does
not enter consciousness in a way that leads to the transformation of the self.
It does not lead to a peace that is in harmony with the universe. Or, put
another way, it takes some training to get sex to go in that direction.
Water in the Astral Plane
The astral body is
similar to the physical body. For example:
Astral body: The astral
body pertains to the realm of the soul, to feelings and emotions. The astral
body is in the shape of the physical body but is made of a subtler substance.
It is receptive and responsive in the present moment to who you are with and
the situation you are in. The depth and variety of feelings expressed through
the astral body are what enables us to feel fully alive.
Astral Plane: The astral plane surrounds and
penetrates the physical world. Sometimes referred to as the “other side,” the
“world beyond,” or “the next world,” the astral plane contains many realms and
kingdoms.
According to firsthand accounts,
the astral plane can be visited through astral projection, psychic perception,
meditation, lucid dreaming, near death and out of
body experiences, and other means.
The astral plane offers elemental energies that nurture our souls the
way food, water, and sunlight provide energy that keeps our bodies alive in the
physical world. Without the benevolent support of the astral plane, when people
die there would be nothing left of us since there would be nothing to sustain
the soul when it is not attached to a physical body.
The astral plane operates by different laws
than the physical world. Matter in our world has shape, weight, chemistry, and
density. A rock can exist for billions of years in the same form as do some
meteorites you can find lying around on the ground. And this dense matter of
the physical world stores immense amounts of energy. Ten pounds of uranium can
destroy a city. No one goes around destroying cities on the astral plane.
Our physical world is governed by linear time
producing history where one event follows another. Work hard. Produce material
and cultural wealth and what you accomplish enriches the world. At the same
time, the physical world is characterized by limitations that we strive to
overcome in order to survive and to succeed in our endeavors.
By contrast, the astral plane has no planting
and no harvesting, no sex and no reproduction. The soul is sustained by an energy
field that encompasses the planet. If you imagine something, then unlike in our
world, there is no delay between what you imagine and what manifests.
Time and space as well are different. If you
wish to be somewhere then you are there. No need for horse, boat, bus, or
plane. In the physical world you will meet people with whom you have nothing in
common. This does not happen on the astral plane. People associate with others
who are of a similar vibration.
The astral plane is
like a sea of energy that we are all immersed within. It supports every
feeling, every personality, every culture, every religion, and every path of
life. And it stores a nearly incomprehensible spectrum of sensations, feelings,
and ecstasies, many of which are outside of the human imagination.
You can be an adept at lucid dreaming where
you wake up in your dreams each night. And in your lucid dreaming you can also shift
from personal dreaming to moving among the kingdoms of the astral plane. And
yet all the explorers of human history have only made brief excursions into
these mysterious astral realms.
When I focus on water being
inside of and around my astral body, I immediately sense its vibration qualities
are kindness, gentleness, tenderness, and affection. It is giving and produces
pure, 100% empathy.
There is a sense that “what is within you is
within me; I am within and a part of you.” Some people tell me, “My partner and
I share the same soul.” It is that kind of deep, “natural” feeling of
connection to another. Obviously, if you can produce such feelings in yourself
at will then in effect you annihilate loneliness and the sense of separation
that haunts mankind down through the ages.
You can try the above exercise and discover
for yourself the astral vibration of water. What I notice is that this
experience of an inner connection to others is simply not known in our world
religions, in our societies, and psychology. They do not teach it at Harvard or
Cambridge. And you will notice that all the Nobel Prize winners for literature
do not have the faintest awareness of its existence.
And yet this is the vibration of water itself
on the astral plane. I am not contacting the mermaid realm, any magical kingdoms,
realms of lineage masters, or “mansions of the soul” in the astral plane. Practice
hermetic magic for a few years and you can create in yourself or simply find
what is already present in your own astral body—“an innocence that is never
lost and a love that has no end to its giving.”
See also the Sea of Love
Meditation and the Beautiful Park Meditation which are typical of astral water.
The Sea of Love
Meditation is in the earlier link:
http://williammistele.com/waternotesforjudith.pdf
The Beautiful Park
Meditation is in the essay:
http://williammistele.com/astralplane2.pdf
Water in the Mental Plane
The vibration of water on the astral plane
produces an empathy in which you feel what other’s feel. It some cases, it is
like the empath’s astral body flows through another person so that the empath
feels exactly what the other person is feeling. The empath in effect adopts the
other’s feelings as if they are his or her own.
Mental plane empathy is different. You “understand”
what others are going through. It is the “If you were in their situation, how
would you feel?”
People who read my books sometimes write and
say to me, “You are the only one who understands me” or “It is like you are
inside of my head” or “You know me better than anyone else.” Sometimes when I
read someone’s aura the person says, “You are insanely accurate” meaning they
do not understand how I could know certain things about them.
With mental empathy, you understand what
makes others feel alive. You can imitate this by sometimes asking others about
what activity is the most exciting for them. As they respond, they light up. They
imagine doing something that fills them with energy, with enthusiasm, and
passion.
Graphic imagination is another quality of the
vibration of water on the mental plane. With graphic imagination, you place
yourself in another situation or the future as if you are there right now
walking around and talking to people.
Corporations and engineers design nuclear reactors.
They review statistics and probabilities that project the percent of failure
for their systems. They say, “It is one chance in a thousand that the reactor will
melt down.”
But they lack graphic imagination. They do not
“perceive” the future as if they are there. It is nearly impossible for a
nuclear physicist or engineer or corporate CEO to imagine the actual situation
of a reactor melting down. And so they do not develop a Plan B, a backup plan for
when disaster happens. Is there any better way to account for the colossal incompetence
of a Chernobyl or Fukushima?
A third quality of the mental water vibration
is being able to “see” another person’s better self. Some people do not just “see” the person in front of them. They
also “see” the person’s future self or the “better self” that the individual
can become.
They
look at someone and imagine what this person would be like if his problems were
solved, his conflicts resolved, and his purposes clear. They imagine his
motivation and inspiration fully operational so he is self-assured, free of
doubt, and
has made the best choices. In
other words, they see the individual as being highly successful in every way
appropriate for him or her.
Often when you look at someone in this way, there is an observable
effect on the other person. For one, the other person may get the feeling that
you are in touch with what is deep inside of him. And it is clearer to the
other person when he is choosing his best course of action. You are being
supportive and also reminding someone that they can be better.
Some
who can see others in this way often see the other person in the present and in
the future in the same moment. If you imagine yourself to be in the future
talking right now with someone’s future self, then when you suggest to the
person what he may become your words have more force. You are not speaking hypothetically
but rather of something that is 100% real to you.
This
too is an aspect of “graphic imagination.” You are not using just your mind. The
water vibration enables you to imagine with your whole being that you are in
the future situation.
You can take this further. You can see the
other’s better self as if that self is more real than the person who is in
front of you right now. In this case, you help bring through the traits of his
evolved self. In other words, you are able to focus on what is exciting to
others, what makes them feel more alive, and bring those things to the
forefront so they energize and uplift another’s life.
I love your eyes
So quiet and
peaceful
A place to let
go and forget who I am
Until I awaken
to the sound of waves breaking
And the scent of
the sea
I see the man I
am meant to be
Walking toward
me
Your eyes dream
him into being.
Mental empathy also appears
in love relationships. A spirit of Venus put it this way, “In regard to
relationships, you would not be getting your money’s worth, would you? Unless
you feel to some extent you are within your lover living her life along with
her.”
This above is the astral plane empathy of “feeling
in and a part of another person, feeling you are sharing the same soul” combined
with the mental plane clarity of active imagination that continuously creates
and renews the sense of oneness.
Astral empathy feels what other’s feel so
easily that it usually ignores the other person’s mind. Astral empathy, being
so direct, lacks curiosity. A lot of extremely gifted empaths have never said
to me, “I want to get to know you better? I want to understand who you are?” And
so the astral empath can completely miss when another person feels anguish or
despair, which are states of mind. Focused as they are in the present moment, they
can miss the issues of life that may weigh upon others or the deep purposes
they are seeking to fulfill.’
Water on the Akashic
Plane
Why is it I never hear
from any tradition that “The earth will be filled with love as water covers the
seas.” Gaia, the planet earth itself, is alive. She says, “Every lover desires
another to feel what she feels.”
Gaia, operating on an akashic level, feels
one with all living beings. She feels within them and a part of them,
supporting them, guiding, inspiring, and uplifting them. She supports all paths
of life and seeks to fulfill life in every conceivable way.
This is the vibration of the water element on
the akashic level. It is something to find yourself and to identify with. We all
have been given a limited amount of energy. This energy is something to learn
to appreciate. We are to understand its limitations, how to take care of it, and
also how to increate it in positive ways.
Connecting to water on the akashic plane goes
further. It is one way of identifying with Divine Providence or finding Divine
Providence within yourself. It enables you to experience a divine level of
purity and also to speak to others with a divine voice. Since you seek to fulfill
other’s lives in every way, you can inspire them and unite them to work on
behalf of the whole.
Without the physical vibration of water, men
are irritable, restless, and excessively competitive. They are burning up inside.
They take risks that threaten their own and other’s existence solely for the
sake of their egotistical striving for power and glory.
Without the astral water, they are cursed by
extroversion. They have no inner connection to others. They do not conserve and
protect life. They use others to further their own wills.
Without mental water, fire and electricity are
overdeveloped in science, technology, and in society. We possess a vast array
of electrical and electronic inventions. And yet a Putin, an Ayatollah, a Xi
Jingping, or a Kim Jong Un can put most of the human race back into the stone
age within thirty-five minutes with a few well-placed nuclear air bursts.
These dictators have cosmic powers of fire at
their command. But without water, no one knows how to calm them down and align
them with the matrix of life that nurtures and preserves rather than dominates
and destroys. Akashic water fully authorizes us to act, to intervene, to dream
of, and to create a better world.
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