[Richard T]

Hello NancyV.

I found your post quite interesting.

You said:

found it more and more difficult to return to everyday life,...

The ability to easily visit the astral at will was removed from humanity at large to prevent exactly this. In Atlantean times, this was usual and normal. They were working on a different body building program so to speak.

If people were not prevented from consciously travelling in astral form, they would spend all their time there. In higher sector of the astral, forms are much more harmonious than they are in matter. Even sexuality is more interesting if you consider that the forms are perfect and more energized. People would lose interest in their material experience. And they had to be in the experience to face opposition without proof.

You also say:

None of the beings I encountered in other dimensions were at all superior to man. None of the beings on this earth plane from other dimensions, times or planets are superior to man.

I totally agree with you. None are.

And then you say:

I cannot say that man is superior to them either

Fair enough.
What I would say though is that man has ascendency over the dead. And those you meet in the astral are the dead.

Why? Because in the astral, there is no connection with the planes where reside the systemic hierarchies that connect with the mortal to allow thoughts.

In the astral, there are souls. Souls are memories. During incarnation, that soul reconnects with, not only a physical reality, but with the cosmic counterpart who is the real identity of behind consciousness.

The Astral is a world that is moving opposite to the realms of light. The connection with universal networks was severed in the process. This is why there is death. The souls get trapped in a world from which they cannot access their light. But they are shown a light and made to believe that this light is god and that they will one day enter it. When in reality that light is a gigantic vessel they cannot approach.

It is only in incarnation that they can reconnect to their light to one day 'ascend'. I am using that term because it seems popular.

So, technically speaking the living have ascendancy over the astral intelligences because the living are connected to a ray of consciousness that proceeds from what we call life, the spirit, a force that has the key that cannot be found in the astral.