| THE CAUSAL PLANE |
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| The causal plane is above the astral plane and contains what is known as the time track. The time track is another way of saying that this is the region where the energy fields reside that represent our past and future experiences in the lower worlds. |
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| Whenever we consciously recall a past experience, we are accessing the energy field of that experience. We call it a memory. Some experiences generate stronger energy fields than others, which is why we remember some things better than others. All energy fields of the past experiences we can no longer consciously recall still exist on the causal plane; collectively we call them the subconscious. Instinct is another word used for past experiences, skills, or behaviors that we can access without conscious recall. |
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| Our future experiences also reside on the causal plane; hence the name time track. However, these future experiences are only possibilities, not certainties. They are energy fields that would be experienced if our state of consciousness remained the same in the future as it is today, or if our development continued in the exact same manner as in the past. If we change our state of consciousness or the direction of our unfoldment, our future experiences change also. That's why it can be misleading to "read the future," i.e., access the potential future energy fields by clairvoyance or any other method. Our future will change whenever we, the creator of the energy fields in our lives, change. |
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| If we rely on a reading of the future that is based on our current state of consciousness, we might find the reading confirmed if we haven't changed much by the time the predicted events take place. If we have changed significantly, we may be disappointed and regard the reader as a charlatan, simply because he or she predicted a future that no longer applies to us. Personally, I think it's better to pursue continual change. If my aim is spiritual growth, how else could it happen except by constantly changing my state of consciousness? Therefore, I've decided not to be too concerned with the reading of my future. Instead, I place my future into the hands of the Inner Master as the agent of Divine Spirit, for only Spirit knows what experiences are best for my spiritual unfoldment as well as for the good of the whole. |
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| When we incarnate into a new body, our past life recall for the most part is wiped out so that we can start with a somewhat fresh slate. Since the energy fields of all our past experiences still exist, though, we often find ourselves under the influence of forces we can't explain in terms of our current life. I've found it helpful in several instances to go back on the time track to find out about a past life or past lives that might be influencing events in this life. Trying to understand the actual mechanism of the time track would overwhelm the human mind. Imagine the simultaneous existence of all the energy fields of all experiences you've ever had or ever will have. It would be highly confusing, to say the least. Therefore, my feeling is when we encounter the time track during a spiritual experience, it is usually in a symbolic form that makes sense to us. |
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One symbolic way the time track appeared to me was as a long wooden box about 2 feet high, that stretched from horizon to horizon on a coppery surface under an orange sky. (Orange or copper is the predominant color on the causal plane.) The box contained thousands of wood-framed slides, each representing a significant event in one of my past or future lives. With the help of the Inner Master I have repeatedly been able to move in the direction of the past and pull out a relevant slide depicting the life I was interested in. |
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| Looking at the slide intently, I am eventually drawn into the picture and begin re-experiencing the actual event depicted. Often a certain amount of historical information comes with the experience in the form of a telepathic transmission. With this method I was able to determine that my strong feelings about Egypt stemmed from a life as an architect there about 3,000 years ago. I found myself walking past a government building in Alexandria and remembering that I had designed and built it. |
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| Another way the time track appeared to me was as a long corridor hung with pictures, like in a gallery. Each picture had a little plaque beneath it with a caption about the life involved. Diving in the soul body into the picture had the same effect as entering a slide - the scene became real. In this way I was able to determine a life in Greece in a house on a cliff where I once lived with my wife and servants. The experience was confirmed by the person doing the same exercise along with me, who had been my wife back then. |
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| A rather humorous incident happened to me in 1972. The Dalai Lama came to visit the small Tibetan community in the town where I grew up, so I decided to go see him. Back then, the Dalai Lama wasn't as famous as he is now, which meant there were only about 50 or 60 people there, including the Tibetans. We all crowded into a small room to listen to the Dalai Lama speak. After his talk and a brief meditation, we were allowed to file past him to shake his hand. Everyone in line ahead of me and behind me shook his hand and received a few words or a small blessing. But when my turn came, the Dalai Lama shook my hand and began to laugh. He laughed and laughed and couldn't stop himself. Soon all the monks of his entourage were laughing at me too. Too bewildered and shy to ask why the holy man was laughing his head off at me, I moved on. |
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| For years afterward I wondered about that encounter. Was I really that funny-looking? True, I wore long hair, a beard, and the hippie uniform while the Dalai Lama was in robes and shaven-headed, but in those days all young folks looked like I did. It couldn't have been that, or else he would have laughed at a dozen other dudes too. It had to be something else; but what? |
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Thirty years later I told the story to a friend, and she suggested I meet the Dalai Lama on the time track and ask him about it. Smack! Why didn't I think of that? Anyway, I made a telepathic appointment with the Dalai Lama and met him in my spiritual exercise at the box of slides on the causal plane. He walked about 20 steps into the past and pulled out a slide. I fell into it and found myself in Tibet in the year 1775. I was a maroon-robed monk named Adlan Toh (or something similar), very tall, with a head of bristly black hair, studying under the Dalai Lama of the time at the Potala Palace. When I came back and asked the current Dalai Lama about the laughing incident, he grinned and said, "Why, you looked so different!" Well, that was certainly true. |
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| All the descriptions above seem to cover the subjective, or microcosmic, aspect of the causal plane. Those are the things that go on inside us. How about the macrocosmic aspect of the causal plane? Are there landscapes and houses there? Do people live there as they do in the physical and astral planes? |
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| I believe they do. One time, I had the experience of ascending in a golden column of light through all the planes to the soul plane. Looking out of the light at the surroundings, I saw houses and landscapes and cities on all lower planes, including the causal and mental planes. The ones on the causal and mental planes looked rather misty and ephemeral, not as distinct as those on the astral plane. It made me think that just as the astral world is far finer and less substantial than the physical world, so are the causal and mental worlds much finer and less substantial than the astral plane. This could account for the wispy appearance of the objects there. |
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| Having said that, the presence of Golden Wisdom Temples on the causal and mental planes is evidence to me that the houses and landscapes on those planes appear solid enough to the souls fully adjusted to their finer vibrations. |
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