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Practical Astral projection - Yram

The shapes of lesser importance created in a haphazard way, without any definite consistency, dissolve fairly easily under the influence of will. We must never be too trustful of appearances. If they belong to groups it may be that we are not so strong as the people who have created them and may be ill-used by them. It is better not to take any notice of such forces.

Under the influence of thought certain shapes dissolve and leave not a trace, just like alcohol does when allowed to evaporate in the air. Others have far more resistance, and we are obliged to have a kind of struggle with them before they will go. In certain cases I noticed that a liquid residue was left behind, a thick, blackish kind of amorphous protoplasm. Sometimes it was a residue symbolic of broken glass.

After a few experiments it is easy to distinguish between thought-forms and living beings who are already developed. In the majority of cases thought forms are less vibrant, less active than beings in evolution. Their magnetism is far less powerful.

During these studies I one day had occasion to dissolve the astral form of a dog. Only the head remained, and I saw a child come towards me and tell me that it was really a dog. The intense nature of the life which animated this head made me understand my mistake at once.

When we dissolve a thought-form, the first thing we notice is a slowing down in the whirling movement of its atoms. The shape loses definition and seems to go out of focus. The dimensions change, the image grows smaller and loses cohesion, and finally disappears.