Fig. #2. The diagram above is a good representation of seven of the nine planes that govern the physical realms of lower, Middle Earth. It is important to note that at the center of The Earth Experience lies the Astral Plane of Common Reality. The Astral Plane of Common Reality is governed by the combination of sidereal Time governing Sidereal space--as such, man's present is modified by his past just as much as his present is modified and limited by his future. Within the Astral Plane of Common Reality, Man is locked in a moment of time--it is the movement of the moment of time within which Man is locked that allows for the three relative points of view--the past, the present, and the future. The true nature of the space within which Man plays his games is largely undefined--while Man can move somewhat freely in space, the movement is also somewhat limited, with respect to other Life-forms that he shares that space with.

With respect to the TwinSpecies: Human (often called Man), it is the most important of all the planes of existence, because it is the basic stage upon which Man plays his games. It is the reality wherein Man experiences his awake dreams... it is residence for the sleeper that lies within us.

The next level upward is the Alfa Plane. This is the level of individuality. It is within this level of experience that each individual comes to know who he is with respect to his environment... with respect to others around him. The interplay between the two realities (the Astral Plane of Common Reality and the Alfa Plane) is so intertwined that it is not possible to truly know exactly where one begins and the other leaves off.

The best that can be said is that while an individual's InnerWorld experiences occur upon the Alfa level, the individual's OuterWorld experiences occur upon the level of Common Reality. It can be said that because the Alfa level is the level wherein individuality resides, from each's point of view, it has only one resident--the individual, himself.

Equally as true, the level of Common Reality is populated by all the peoples of the Earth. If another is to be touched, physically, it must be done upon the level of Common Reality. If the individual is to truly find himself, it must be done upon the Alfa level. If an individual is to free himself from the trap of Maya, he must learn a way to allow the two levels to freely interact as each follows the governing principles of Understanding, Forgiveness, and Love.

While the Alfa level knows a past, a present, and a future, the awareness of same is not of the same quality as experienced upon The Astral Plane of Common reality--the difference is largely a matter of mobility with respect to the individual's level of awareness. Furthermore, while the Alfa level knows time, it knows not space--Space does not exist upon the Alfa level of experience.

The next level is the Emotional Plane. It is upon this level of experience that Man feels his internal chemical changes--his emotions--although most would argue that it is the physical body that feels the emotions.

As man's Ba seeks to communicate to his Ka, via the Emotional Interchange Interface, it is upon this level that the communication will be received--the communication will come as a feeling that has thoughts attached to it. It is interesting to note that while most of the process of communication, and thereby awareness lies upon the Mental Planes, The Psychosomatic Effects Of Language takes place upon this plane.

The next level is the level of the individual's Ba. It is that part of Man that survives the individual's death process and enters the In-between-Time. It is upon this level of experience that most of the individual's common dreams occur. Strangely enough, it is upon this level of awareness that the first Lucid Dream takes place. Lucid Dreaming is when an individual who is upon the Astral Plane of Common Reality lies down to sleep. During that sleep experience, the individual transfers his controlling awareness from his Ka, his physical body, who is quietly sleeping, to his Ba. The actual transfer takes place upon the individual's Alfa plane of awareness.

It is important to note that in each individual, the normal interactive relationship between the Alfa Plane and the Beta Plane is so intertwined, no experience is possible on any planes of awareness without data being constantly neoned between them.

It would be valid to say that one's Ba, residing upon the Beta Plane is, indeed, one's Higher Self. The link that binds the two levels of experience is, basically, the root of the individual's Emotional Interchange Interface.

The individual's Emotional Interchange Interface is, validly, often confused with the individual's Karmic chord... and the individual's Silver Cord that binds the many layers of an individual together.

It is because of an individual's Emotional Interchange Interface that man's language between levels is constant. The individual's Karmic Chord, on the other hand, is ganged to and is thereby operated by the specifics of the individual's Blood mendella--the force that prevents other Life-forms from entering and taking possession of the various bodies that belong to the individual. Still, the individual's silver Cord is that which binds the different bodies of different frequencies to the same individual, according to the modifications of the individual's Blood Mendella, limited only by how the powers of the Ankh restricts traveling within each individual's Karma.

The next level upward is the individual's Mental Plane. It is said that this is the Plane upon which all individuals of a species are linked together. It is also said that it is upon this Plane of Experience that each individual carries the connection between his brain and his mind.

Most important, when the individual goes through the death process upon the Astral Plane of Common Reality, the process of dying is said to be the process of disconnecting the individual's Alfa Plane from the individual's Mental Plane. This is because the individual's Alfa Plane is where the individual's physical body's controls reside. It is also the level wherein all the individual's knowledge resides... as a matter of fact, everything that was the individual that has to be left behind to decay with the physical body resides upon this level--the Alfa Plane of Experience.

More and more, as the individual's Alfa levels are disconnected, the individual's physical body begins to shut down, as the controls are stopped. Equally, more and more, as those Alfa controls are shut off, the controls are transferred to the individual's Ba which resides upon a much higher plane--the Beta Plane of experience.

Also, as more and more of the Alfa's controls are transferred to the Ba's level of experience, more and more the individual drifts in and out of a seeming dream level. It is when the individual's Alfa controls begin transferring to the Ba's level that the individual enters the In Between time--the mechanism that controls the process resides upon the individual's Mental Plane.

In most cases, although not in all cases, the only pain is the pain of fear... the lack of understanding of what is happening as the process progresses onward... the fear of the unknown.

Strangely enough, it is not the individual's actual belief-system, or the individual's religion that causes most of the pain that is encountered during the death process. It is a combination of what the individual thinks of himself for doing what it is that he has done, and the thought of having to leave behind the attachments of people, places and things that are still important to him... the thought of not being able to continue... of not being ready to let the moment that was his life go.

Equally as strange, once an individual has reached that point of the process of dying, they already know, because of the experiences that they are already having, that death is not the end of life. It is simply that they have not had enough time to become attached to the illusions which come to them from their next life.

Until the individual again reincarnates into his next experience... until the memory of living upon the Beta Plane of existence is wiped away by the process of being born again upon the level of the Alfa, it is the Ba that continues to live... much in the same way as life was when it was the Ka upon the Alfa level that was having all the experiences... with only a few differences, depending upon the individual's Karma.

Once the process of birthing begins, the individual very much experiences what can only be explained as another death process--except that the new death process that is going on upon the Beta level of awareness is, in truth, the birth process of entering into the new mother's womb--the individual is in the process of covering his illusions in a new coat of skin.

One Magi has often stated that death and birth are truly the cosmic lift that connects the two sides, the two starting points, and the two ending points of the same passage way that leads to and from the Beta Plane of Experience and to and from the Alfa level of experience via the Mental plane's control mechanisms.

The next level upward is the Thada Plane of Experience. It is truly the seed from which comes the Astral body that allows travel to all points of the Universe, depending upon an individual's Karma.

It is upon this level of awareness that each traveler agrees to place himself under the limitations that will allow him to enter the lower realms of physical Earth. It is upon this level that each individual must encounter the Royal Steering Currents that govern the affairs of Middle Earth.

Among the many possible Royal Steering Currents that will make and shape the future experiences of each are: The Alliance Of The Rule, The Powers Of The Ankh, The Magic Circle, and The Broken Cross.

Finally, we come upon the last level of the physical realm--the Spiritual Plane of existence. It is upon this level that each will shed all remaining attachments to the experiences of Middle Earth. If an individual is allowed to travel... to Astrate, the BaKa's Ba does all the actual traveling to and from all the Astral Levels. The experiences are communicated to the individual's lower bodies via the trickle down effect.