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by Reginald Bakeley


  It is important to realize that the “floating” location where we placed the aetheric plane in our visualization is just one of an infinite number of places to visualize the plane. As you learn more about the aetheric plane, you will more easily understand the omnipresence of this place.

  Technically speaking, the aetheric plane is above, below, beside, and beyond our world, existing in all places at once, boundless and invisible, or at least invisible to you for now. The aetheric plane is experienced through a shift in consciousness brought on by meditation and visualization, and it is right here, within us, now. With practice, you will catch a glimpse of the aetheric plane, and before you know it, you will see it clearly.

  “What Good Is the Aetheric Plane?”

  This is a valid question, especially today, when time is a valuable commodity and so much of it is required for the study of aether and mentalism.

  Here is your answer: Think back to every extraordinary story you have ever heard, every anecdote or legend that in volved unusual beings or abilities. Recall every example of haunting, supernatural strength, déjà vu, or extrasensory perception. Do you know what common element is shared by all those stories, what factor lies behind the fantastic feats or occurrences described? If you haven't guessed it yet, know this: It is the aetheric plane.

  All things tangible and intangible in this world—beings, objects, forces, thoughts, and emotions—are manifest on the aetheric plane in very substantial ways. There, a thought can be as mighty as a hurricane wind, destroying cities and ruining ecosystems. One person's emotion can profoundly affect another person's movement. A sound can build a civilization. An image can start a fire. All things are part of a common system, shared language understood by those tapped in to the power of the aetheric plane.

  That said, the aetheric plane is not a place that can be known easily. Years of practice and study are required of aspirants to mentalism. The payoffs of this study are extraordinary. For if aether and the aetheric plane are part of a language, then those who speak that language fluently are no less than masters of reality.

  Now can you see the good in learning of such a place?

  THE NATURE OF AETHER

  Some well-meaning aspirants to mentalism ask me, “What is aether made of ?” Better for them to ask, “What isn't made of aether?” Answering the second question is much easier than answering the first.

  Aether is all around us and within us as well. It surrounds and imbues our bodies, our atmospheres, and everything in between. Beneath the surface of our thoughts, our feelings, and our movements, aether lies. It is as alive as anything in the world, for in fact it constitutes everything in this world and beyond.

  To explain something to a material person, one must use material terms. With this in mind, it is best to think of aether as a fluid, one that inhabits all space. This fluid is infinitely malleable and can change its color and density, so that it may look and feel like anything imaginable. Furthermore, the way one person perceives aether is quite of ten very different from the way another person does. A slippery substance indeed.

  But aether is more than just a substance. It is also a force, like wind or ocean currents, like magnetism or infatuation. It is a force that can be gentler than a loving thought or more powerful than an apocalyptic storm, depending on how it is used.

  In its natural state—or perhaps I should say in our natural state—aether is in visible and intangible. I stress that it is our natural state, the state of body and mind most people are in every day of their lives, that prevents us from seeing, touching, and otherwise actively experiencing aether.

  The natural state of mankind is so called because of its connection to the “natural” material world and material awareness. The practice of mentalism elevates the physical and mental states of man to a higher level, from a natural state to a supernatural state, as it were, of aetheric awareness. Mentalism creates a shift in consciousness that opens our mind to the aetheric plane.

  If you are at all familiar with the tenets of science, I am sure several alarms are now ringing in your mind. This talk of aether surely sounds too fantastic and unbelievable to be real. Everything we are taught about science refutes the theory of the aetheric plane, yet it is not scientists who bring us knowledge of aether, but mentalists. These men and women are pioneers in the newest and yet most ancient science: mentalism.

  Whereas scientists and their hangers-on cannot see aether, trained mentalists see the stuff easily. As a mentalist, the world is your workshop as well as your playground. As a trained manipulator of a ether—and hence of reality itself—the mentalist is one of the custodians of the world. To the mentalist, aether is the only thing of importance, because it is the basic substance of all substances.

  Through strict practice of meditation and visualization, mentalists are able to manipulate aether to their will, each according to his or her level of expertise. Beginning mentalists are capable only of small feats of aether manipulation; those that continue their training eventually master marvels undreamed of by modern man. As you advance in your studies of aether and mentalism, your expertise will grow as well.

  Everyone on earth has the potential to become a mentalist, but few follow the path. In matters of consciousness, mankind is a sleeping, dreaming bunch. Mentalism offers an awakening, an opening of eyes. Unfortunately, this awakening is a process that takes time and great effort, given the materialistic worldview we are born into.

  When you finally see aether clearly and accept its place in your view of the cosmos, you will see the inter connectedness of all things. This is the goal of mentalism.

  Aether as a Substance

  Aether is a material that can assume any shape, texture, color, or density. As a substance, it is much finer than the air we breathe, finer than any element on the periodic table, finer even than any thought ever to pass through our minds.

  Travelers to the aetheric plane find that this other world is composed of “doubles” of the places and beings found in our world. The things on the aetheric plane are ghostly in nature. It is as if the finest sheet of spider silk settled on all things on this earth, took the shape of what it touched, and floated away, all forms intact.

  This is not to say that aether is a static material. No, it is constantly changing according to the will of mentalists practicing their skills. To the mentalist, aether is like a clay that can be sculpted by sheer willpower. Through intense concentration on a segment of the aetheric plane, a mentalist controls the form and feeling of the aether. And because aether embodies all things—objects, feelings, thoughts, actions—the mentalist who can manipulate aether thus controls these things as well.

  Exercise 4: The Sculptor's Studio

  This visualization exercise illustrates the richness and depth of the aetheric plane. First, just read the following description so you can understand the potential of aether and aetheric manipulation. Later, you may want to visualize the scene and manipulate the aether in other ways. When you are ready to try this exercise as a true visualization, begin with at least ten minutes of breath meditation to relax you and clear your mind of jumbled thoughts of the everyday world. As with the other exercises in this book, you can have a friend read you the following description of the sculptor's studio while you visualize it.

  If aether can be described as a substance much like clay, the mentalist can be described as a sculptor. Think of a busy sculptor's studio, one with huge masses of wet, malleable clay placed on tables throughout. Try to picture the studio as fully as you can, with many details. Take a while to connect with this imaginary place you are visualizing.

  With this image set in your mind's eye, begin to change objects in the studio, one by one, to clay. The table the sculptor works at, for instance, changes, in your visualization, from wood and metal to clay. The studio floor becomes slick and permeable, ready to be molded. The walls, the windows, and the ceiling—all clay.

  Now imagine the clothes of the sculptor changing to clay. The sculptor c
an form them into whatever costume he desires.

  His flesh and bones and skin, his entire body, also shifts, to clay. Just as aether makes the whole of the aetheric plane, so clay composes all in this sculptor's studio.

  All these things that are now clay can be approached by the sculptor, and each can be molded according to his desires. He may mold one of his hands into the form of a bird, detach it, and cause it to fly away. His other hand may be molded into the shape of a knife, and, without kiln or sunlight or even heat, the sculptor can harden this shape to the density of a knife much like one you or I would use to chop vegetables. With this knife he can slice through other pieces of aether, which, if your imagination has continued in the vein we began at the onset of this exercise, comprises now not only the physical objects in the studio. but

 

 

 


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