During the 19th century science adopted ideas and developed theories related to the luminiferous aether and performed several experiments in order to discover its nature. One of these experiments was the famous Michelson-Morley experiment (1887), based in earlier theories of the invisible aether (or ether). This experiment disproved the existence of an aether to early physics and after Einstein conceived the theory of relativity (and related 'four-space'), since 1904, this conception of an aether was dismissed. However modern scientific theo ...

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Etheric plane, Etheric plane - Etymology, Etheric plane - Alchemy background, Etheric plane - Rosicrucian and Esoteric Christianity conceptions, Etheric plane - New scientific conception of the Aether ether

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ghost

The nonphysical, or etheric, body of an entity that lingers in the dense world after death Ð especially when attracted

(See also: Ghost, Body Mind and Soul)

ether: Akasha. Space, the most subtle of the five elements.

See: akasha, tattva.

(See also: Ether, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

etheric plane

The whole, or any one, layer or level of the etheric realm. The planes differ in respect to the achievement or development status required of the spirits who are advanced to them

(See also: Etheric plane, Body Mind and Soul)

 Akasha:

ether

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etheral

Of the intangible celestial spheres; the non-physical space of universe; heavenly; spiritual in nature

(See also: Etheral, Body Mind and Soul)

gatekeeper

An ethereal being serving as presider during communicative contact between a sensitive and etheric discarnates

(See also: Gatekeeper, Body Mind and Soul)

etheric release: Form of energy work whose principle is that restricting emotional expression can cause malfunctions in one's physical body.

(See also: Etheric release, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

psychic surgery (etheric surgery): means of healing tissue, or removing diseased tissue, with bare hands or common instruments, painlessly and uninjuriously.

Practitioners are called psychic surgeons or etheric surgeons. Some claim that they operate only on an individual's etheric body or perispirit.

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ethers

The cosmic energies in the Universe and beyond. Limited use with ordinary meaning simply "not of earth's atmosphere" or "beyond earth's atmosphere."

(See also: Ethers, Body Mind and Soul)

excarnate

Divested of fleshly body. In a state of etherealness

(See also: Excarnate, Body Mind and Soul)

Akasha:  Ether or space.

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Ether (Ancient Greek). With the ancients the divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe, the "garment" of the Supreme Deity, Zeus, or Jupiter. With the moderns, Ether, for the meaning of which in physics and chemistry see Webster’s Dictionary or any other. In esotericism Ether is the third principle of the Kosmic Septenary; the Earth being the lowest, then the Astral light, Ether and Akasa (phonetically Akasha) the highest.

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vehicle

That body which is carrier of a spirit. More frequently used in referring to ethereal body than to physical body

(See also: Vehicle, Body Mind and Soul)

merkabah

An etheric-like vehicle used for astal travel

(See also: Merkabah, Body Mind and Soul)

receive

To attract vibrations or energy from physical or etheric entities

(See also: Receive, Body Mind and Soul)

Zeus (Ancient Greek). The "Father of the gods". Zeus-Zen is Ether, there fore Jupiter was called Pater Ether by some Latin races.

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The Seven-fold constituition of Man Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings teach that man is a complex being who possesses: A Dense Body, which is the visible instrument he uses here in this world to fetch and carry (the body we ordinarily think of as the whole man); A Vital Body, which is made of Ether and pervades the visible body as ether permeates allother forms, except that human beings specialize a greater amount of the universal ether than other forms (that ethereal body is our instrument for spe ...

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ghost

The nonphysical, or etheric, body of an entity that lingers in the dense world after death – especially when attracted

(See also: Ghost, Body Mind and Soul)

light trance

State of consciousness in which an etheric world intelligence is allowed to interpenetrate one's body and use it for physical phenomena

(See also: Light trance, Body Mind and Soul)

skrying

To travel into the etheric world or to project a part of the body into other planes, by will (do not confuse with scrying)

(See also: Skrying, Body Mind and Soul)