Thread by @poonamdut

Kundalini, Chakras, Bodies

Body 2: The Etheric Body

This second body will be known from the outside now. If you know the first body from the inside, then you will become aware of the second body from the outside.
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From outside first body you can never know second body, but from inside it you can see outside of second body. Every body has two dimensions: outer & inner. Just like a wall has two sides - one looking outward, the other looking inward - every body has a boundary, a wall.

When you come to know the first body from the inside, you become aware of the second body from the outside.
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You are now in between: inside the first body and outside the second. This second body, the etheric body, is like condensed smoke. You can pass through it without any hindrance, but it is not transparent; you cannot look into it from the outside.
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The first body is solid. The second body is just like the first as far as shape is concerned, but it is not solid.
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When the first body dies, the second remains alive for thirteen days. It travels with you. Then, after thirteen days, it too is dead. It disperses, evaporates. If you come to know the second body while first is still alive, you can be aware of this happening.
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The second body can go out of your body. Sometimes in meditation this second body goes up or down, & you have a feeling that gravitation has no pull over you; you have left the earth. But when you open your eyes, you are on ground, and you know that you were there all the time.

This feeling that you have risen comes because of the second body, not the first. For the second body there is no gravitation, so the moment you know the second you feel a certain freedom that was unknown to the physical body. Now you can go outside of your body and come back.

This is the 2nd step if you want to know the experiences of your 2nd body. The method is not difficult. Just wish to be outside your body & you're outside it. The wish itself is the fulfillment. For the second body no effort has to be made as there is no gravitational pull.

The difficulty for the first body is because of the gravitational force. If I want to come to your house, I will have to fight with the gravitational force. But if there is no gravitation, then the simple desire will be enough. The thing will happen.
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The etheric body is the body that is put to work in hypnosis. The first body is not involved in hypnosis; it is the second body. That is why a person with perfect vision can go blind. If the hypnotist says that you have gone blind, you become blind just by believing it.

It is the etheric body that has been influenced; the suggestion goes to the etheric body. If you are in a deep trance, your second body can be influenced. A person who is alright can be paralyzed just by suggesting to him that "you are paralyzed."
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A hypnotist must not use any language that creates doubt. If he says, "It appears that you have gone blind," it will not work. He must be absolutely certain about it. Only then will the suggestion work.
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So in the second body just say: "I am outside the body." Just wish to be outside it, and you will be outside it. Ordinary sleep belongs to the first body. It is the first body - exhausted by the day's labor, work, tension - relaxing.
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In hypnosis, it is the second body that is put to sleep. If it is put to sleep, you can work with it.
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When you get any disease, seventy-five percent of it comes from the second body and spreads to the first. The second body is so suggestible that first year medical students always catch the same disease that is being studied. They begin to have the symptoms.
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If headache is being discussed, unknowingly everyone goes inside and begins to ask, "Do I have a headache? Do I have these symptoms?" Because going inward affects the etheric body, the suggestion is caught and a headache is projected, created.
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Pain of childbirth is not of the first body; it is of the second. So through hypnosis, childbirth can be made absolutely painless - just by suggestion. There are primitive societies in which women do not feel labor pains because the possibility has never entered their minds.

But every type of civilization creates common suggestions that then become part and parcel of everybody's expectations.
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Under hypnosis there is no pain. Even surgery can be done under hypnosis without any pain because if 2nd body gets the suggestion that there will be no pain then there isn't. In my view, every type of pain, & pleasure comes from 2nd body and spreads to the first.
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So if the suggestion changes, the same thing that has been painful can become pleasurable, and vice versa.
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Change the suggestion, change the etheric mind, & everything will be changed. Just wish totally & it will happen. Totality is the only difference between wish & will. When you have wished something totally, completely, with your whole mind, it becomes willpower.
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If you wish totally to go outside of your physiological body, you can go outside it. Then there is a possibility of knowing the second body from within, otherwise not.
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When you go outside your physical body, you are no longer in between: inside the first and outside the second. Now you are inside the second. The first body is not.
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Now you can become aware of your second body from the inside, just as you became aware of your first body from the inside. Be aware of its inner workings, its inner mechanism, the inner life.
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The first time you try it is difficult, but after that you will always be within two bodies: the first and the second. Your point of attention will now be in two realms, two dimensions.
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