If you've got some familiarity with the mystical traditions of the world, bells will be going off in your head like crazy. You'll recognize the breakdown of the soul into the five koshas or sheaths as virtually identical to the analysis of the soul found in the ancient Egyptian tradition. And the threefold scheme of the physical, astral, and causal bodies is exactly paralleled in the ancient Greek tradition. Plutarch, a priest from the temple of Apollo at Delphi, described it explicitly in his essays.
When you start to recognize all the amazing links between different mystical traditions, you can understand why, in the first century C.E; Apollonious of Tyana expressed his opinion that India was the motherland of the mystical heart of all the world's religions!
" Okay", you may be wondering. " So I've got all these different bodies. But them-which one of them is me?"
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