body and in dreams. Who's responsible for giving these symbols, these teachings you speak of? If you go out of the body you'll find that you're not alone, there are other beings over there. They have been mentioned in different religions and spiritual teachings. They are either spiritual beings that have awakened in light or evil entities that have awakened in darkness. Some of those that have awakened spiritually are known in some religions as "angels." Some started out as beings like people, who walked the path to enlightenment and were therefore able to change and become spiritual beings, others are monads who are spiritual in their very nature. The point of the esoteric work is to change from being ordinary people into spiritual beings. What is the astral plane and how is it different from the physical world? The astral plane is another dimension of this life. It's one of two planes of the fifth dimension, the other is higher and is called the mental plane. The astral world is of the emotions, the mental is of mind. The fourth dimension is time. The fifth dimension is beyond time -- it's eternity. Everything that we see here has its counterpart there. It's the same world, it's just another dimension of this one, and that's why it looks like this. When you project things from the subconscious, you see your own self created world. You may conclude that the astral plane looks very different from the physical world, but that's