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 The
Astral Senses
All
occultists know that man has other senses than
the ordinary five, although but few men have developed
them sufficiently well to use them effectively.
These super-physical senses are known to the occultists
as "the astral senses." The term "Astral,"
is derived from the Greek word "astra,"
meaning "star." It is used to indicate
those planes of being immediately above the physical
plane. The astral senses are really the counterparts
of the physical senses of man, and are connected
with the astral body of the person just as the
physical senses are connected with the physical
body.
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Persons
who have developed the use of their astral
senses are able to receive the sense impressions
of the astral plane just as clearly as they
receive those of the physical plane by means
of the physical senses.
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The
ordinary person has but occasional flashes of
astral sensing, and as a rule is not able to experience
the phenomenon at will. The trained occultist,
on the contrary, is able to shift from one set
of senses to the other, by a simple act or effort
of will, whenever he may wish to do so. Advanced
occultists are often able to function on both
physical and astral planes at the same time, though
they do not often desire to do so. To vision astrally,
the trained occultist merely shifts his sensory
mechanism from physical to astral, or vice versa.
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