Astral Bodies, Auras & the Balance
A unique term that is used to describe the energy field is the astral body. Although there’s a convention among many philosophers about the soul being subtly different from the astral body, when viewed from a science angle the energy field is what is understood by many as the soul and/or astral body. The difference if there’s any, we’ll see later.
Any living organism is said to have a physical body and a soul or the astral body. The physical body is the one we can observe or see, but the astral body cannot be observed, but only be felt. The astral body or the soul assumes the physical body’s shape in any organism. Another phenomenon the energy field creates is the Aura, which surrounds the physical body.
The Aura is said to be an extension of the soul (energy field) outside the physical body, normally up to a few metres. The Aura is said to be the reason for some curious phenomenon in living organisms. Like in humans, it helps detecting other people in our vicinity without us seeing or hearing them, (the feeling when someone keeps watching us without our notice). It also gives a sense of affinity or repulsion for other living beings.
In general, the relation between the physical and astral body (soul) is mutual. They both influence each other. For a soul to exist, a physical body (made of atoms and molecules) is needed to generate the field, and the soul assists the physical body to grow and maintain its integrity. A balance between the physical and the astral body is ensured, with both depending on each other for any organism’s survival.
Breakup of the Soul
For primitive single-cellular organisms, the physical body and the soul provided base level functions, to exist and finally reproduce by dividing the body and the organelles inside them. The organisms survived by maintaining their energy field by regular intake of energy as matter and expenditure of energy as biological processes, actions and behaviours. And, the organism’s survival depended on the energy balance it maintained by absorption and metabolism of matter as nutrients.
If the energy balancing process were disturbed or stopped, there would be a gradual extinguishment of the soul, and the physical body would be stopped from performing further, or to put it simply, death occurred.
When single-cellular organisms replicated, the division of physical body ensured that the parent organism split into 2 new organisms with 2 similar physical bodies. So, the same can be expected from the soul too, to split into 2 similar souls. But, the process is a wee bit complicated than we think.
When the cell gives birth to 2 similar cells sharing the same genetic materials inside them (DNA or RNA), the parent’s physical body divides its own organelles into 2 shares and provides them to the 2 new offsprings. The soul being dependent upon the atoms and molecules making up the physical body, when the body is split and its original structure ruptured; the first (parent’s) soul can’t be maintained the same way after the offspring’s birth. The parent cell’s organelles making up its offsprings, can’t express the same soul of the parent, since they only have fifty percent of their parent’s original body each.
So, in a way, the parent soul dies when it divides forming 2 new cells. Every time a single-cellular organism splits, its genomes and organelles are divided equally between the offsprings, and as a result, their parent soul dies. In time, let’s say, after 7 or 8 generations, the first cell’s expression in the offsprings will be less than one percent and the soul of the very first cell will be remembered no more!
