Having sketched in, however slimly the background of our picture we have to now attempt to complete the figures to describe the dwellers of the astral plane. The immense assortment of these beings makes it extremely hard to arrange and tabulate them. Maybe the most convenient technique will be to divide them into 3 great classes, the human the non human and the artificial. those who have yet a physical body, and those who have not. The Adept and his students. Those belonging to this class The human dwellers of the astral plane fall by nature into 2 groups, the living and the dead to speak more precisely, commonly employ as a vehicle not the astral body at all, but the mind body, which is compiled of the matter of the 4 lower or rupa levels of the plane next above. Then advantage of this vehicle is that it allows instant passage from the mental plane to the astral and back, and allows of the utilization at all times of the greater power and keener sense of its own plane. The mind body isn't naturally visible to astral sight at all, and therefore the student who works in it learns to assemble round himself a temporary veil of astral matter if in the course of his work he wishes to become perceptible to the dwellers of the lower plane in order to help them more expeditiously. This temporary body is commonly formed for the student by his Master on the first occasion, and he is then instructed and aided till he can form it for himself easily and expeditiously. If a man is born with psychic powers it's simply the result of efforts made during a former incarnation, which might have been of the noblest and most unselfish character, or on the other hand might have been ignorant and ill directed or even totally unworthy. The last decade has seen a steady drumroll of reports like these, portraying an uptick in emotional ineptitude and recklessness in our families and our collective lives. These years have chronicled surging rage and despair, whether in the quiet loneliness of latchkey kids left with a TV for a babysitter, or in the pain of children abandoned or abused in the ugly intimacy of marital violence. A spreading emotional malaise can be read in numbers showing a jump in depression around the world, and in the reminders of a surging tide of aggression teens with guns in schools, freeway mishaps ending in shootings, disgruntled ex-employees massacring former fellow workers. Emotional abuse and post traumatic stress all entered the common lexicon over the last decade