Some Thoughts on Astral Dynamics

I’ve been slowly picking through Robert Bruce’s book, Astral Dynamics.  The perspective it is giving me on subtle energy work is very helpful.  Bruce uses simplified and easy language to talk about each of the Chakras and other subtle body structures.  

More than anything its been giving me a greater interest in qi gong, chi, Reiki, Tai Chi and other bodies of knowlege regarding the use and cultivation of energies.   

I used to lean toward a pure self-hypnosis explaination of people’s ”miracles” and feelings of interactions with subtle energies.  Healing for example, one could see as a person’s own belief that heals them not an objective subtle energy.  In other words, Mark 10:25 of the KJV Bible, after healing Bartimeaus, Jesus says:

Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

Or Mathew 9:20-22 in which a woman KNOWS that if she can only touch the hem of Jesus’ garment she will be healed.  To which Jesus says: “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you whole.”

I still think that belief of the recipient is in play, however that does not mean that subtle energies do NOT exist. Perhaps one must be “open” enough to feel and interact with the subtle energies.  Bruce calls the subtle energies subjective so subtle energies depend on person perceiving them.