The Astral World Part 4-II: Healing Techniques & Spiritual Guides
Written by Thalira Wisdom Temple | Last Updated: May 11, 2025
What Are The Most Effective Astral Healing Techniques?
Beyond accessing information, one of the most valuable applications of advanced astral development is the ability to channel healing energies—both for oneself and for others.
Panchadasi describes this capacity as a natural extension of astral consciousness once the practitioner develops sufficient understanding of subtle energy mechanics and the etheric template underlying physical manifestation.
"The advanced astral traveler may learn to collect, focus, and direct the vital astral currents or vibrations, which have a revitalizing and curative effect upon the physical, astral, and mental bodies of both self and others. This power comes not from the personal will alone, but through alignment with higher universal healing forces which flow through the properly attuned astral vehicle."
What makes astral healing uniquely powerful is that it operates directly on the energetic templates that precede physical manifestation, allowing intervention at causal levels rather than merely addressing symptoms.
I've observed that successful astral healers typically develop skill in three core approaches:
This technique involves perceiving and repairing distortions in the etheric blueprint that underlies physical form.
By visualizing and energetically adjusting the geometric energy patterns in the etheric double, you help restore the original template that guides physical regeneration.
This approach is particularly effective for chronic physical conditions that have deep roots in the subtle bodies.
This approach channels specific qualities of astral energy to areas of depletion or congestion in the recipient's subtle bodies.
By drawing upon universal elemental energies (sometimes described as cosmic prana), you create a transfer that doesn't deplete your own reserves.
This method is especially valuable for energetic depletion, immune support, and vital force restoration.
This subtler technique addresses the mental and causal patterns that manifest as energy distortions in the astral and physical bodies.
By helping the recipient access and transform limiting thought-forms during an astral healing session, you facilitate deeper and more lasting changes.
This approach is particularly effective for conditions with strong psychosomatic or emotional components.
This advanced technique involves identifying and transforming energetic patterns across multiple points in the recipient's timeline.
By perceiving how certain energetic distortions formed and evolved through time, you can address root causes rather than current manifestations.
This approach is especially powerful for deeply ingrained issues with origins in early life experiences or even past incarnations.
Regardless of the specific technique employed, several universal principles govern effective astral healing work:
Core Principles of Effective Astral Healing
- Permission and Receptivity - Healing energy transfers most effectively when the recipient is open and willing
- Higher Source Connection - Drawing healing energy from universal sources rather than personal reserves prevents depletion
- Non-Interference - Working with rather than overriding the recipient's own healing intelligence
- Balanced Approach - Addressing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects simultaneously
- Detachment from Outcomes - Focusing on offering healing energy without attachment to specific results
- Energetic Hygiene - Maintaining clear boundaries and cleansing your own field before and after healing work
Panchadasi emphasizes that while astral healing abilities can produce remarkable results, they should be developed with ethical responsibility and humble recognition of their place within the broader spiritual path:
"The power to heal through astral and spiritual forces is a sacred trust, not a personal achievement. It flows not from the glorification of the personal self, but from its transcendence. The greatest healers are those who recognize themselves as channels rather than as the source of the healing power."
I've also observed that those who develop astral healing abilities naturally find themselves drawn to improve their physical plane knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and holistic health principles, as this integrated understanding enhances their effectiveness as channels for subtle healing energies.
How Do You Establish Connections With Higher Spiritual Guides?
One of the most valuable aspects of advanced astral development is the opportunity to establish direct, conscious connections with evolved spiritual intelligences who can provide guidance, protection, and acceleration of your spiritual growth.
While spontaneous encounters with guides may occur even in early astral experiences, advanced practitioners cultivate the ability to establish reliable, ongoing relationships with specific spiritual helpers.
"Upon the higher astral planes dwell many advanced souls who have passed on from physical life, and who have evolved to a high degree of spiritual unfoldment. These souls take a deep interest in the welfare and progress of those on lower planes of existence, and often devote themselves to aiding, assisting, and teaching those who are ready to be so helped."
Panchadasi describes several categories of spiritual guides that the advancing astral traveler might encounter:
| Type of Guide | Characteristics | Function | How to Recognize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guardian Guides | Often connected to you across multiple incarnations, with deep understanding of your soul's journey | Protection, general life guidance, karmic assistance | Consistent presence, profound familiarity, unconditional support |
| Teacher Guides | Specialized in specific areas of spiritual or esoteric knowledge | Transmission of specific wisdom, skills, or practices | Methodical approach, emphasis on principles rather than predictions |
| Healing Guides | Specialized in energy work, subtle anatomy, and vibrational medicine | Assist with healing work and development of healing abilities | Often appear with healing symbols or tools, emanate distinctive healing frequencies |
| Master Teachers | Highly evolved souls who may guide many people simultaneously | Transmission of higher wisdom, spiritual awakening | Extraordinary luminosity, profound wisdom, lack of ego presence |
Developing discernment about the nature and quality of encountered entities is essential, as not all beings met on the astral plane have benevolent intentions or accurate wisdom to share.
Panchadasi provides clear guidelines for establishing authentic connections with higher guides:
Before seeking guide contact, elevate your consciousness through meditation, contemplation of higher principles, and purification of motives. The vibrational state you maintain determines the level of guides you can connect with.
Formulate a clear, sincere request for contact with guides appropriate to your current stage of development and specific learning needs. Specify that you seek only guides working in alignment with universal love and wisdom.
Maintain a balance of alert awareness and relaxed receptivity, neither grasping nor blocking. Allow initial contact to develop gradually, which may begin as subtle impressions, symbolic images, or a distinctive energetic presence.
Apply tests of discernment to any entity claiming to be a guide: do they respect your free will, emanate unconditional love, maintain consistency, offer verifiable information, encourage critical thinking, and enhance your inner peace?
Develop the connection through regular contact, implementing guidance received, expressing gratitude, and gradually deepening trust based on the demonstrated quality and results of the relationship over time.
Important Warning on Discernment
Remember that evolved guides never seek to control, flatter, or create dependency. They respect your free will completely, never demand worship or unquestioning obedience, and support your development of self-reliance. Any entity that does not demonstrate these qualities should be approached with caution or avoided entirely, regardless of impressive appearances or claims.
The most valuable guide relationships develop gradually and organically rather than through dramatic encounters. True guides are recognized more by the quality of their wisdom and the effect of their presence on your consciousness than by extraordinary appearances or fantastical claims.
"The inner planes are inhabited by entities of many degrees of development, not all of whom are qualified to provide reliable guidance. The same faculty of discernment that serves you in physical life becomes even more essential in astral experience. The true guide elevates your understanding rather than merely satisfying curiosity, and empowers your development rather than creating dependency."
As your relationship with authentic guides deepens, you may be invited to participate in what esoteric traditions call inner plane schools or mystery temples—organized teaching centers on higher astral or mental planes where systematic spiritual training occurs.
How Do You Develop Astral Temples and Spiritual Workspaces?
Advanced astral practitioners often create dedicated spiritual workspaces on the astral plane—sanctuaries for meditation, healing work, teaching, and communion with higher intelligences.
These astral temples serve as energetic containers that can be accessed repeatedly, hold specific vibrational qualities, and function as meeting places for collaboration with other conscious entities.
"The trained occultist learns to establish and maintain what may be called 'astral centers' or thought-environment centers, in which he may reside while functioning on the astral plane. He is thus able to materialize a suitable environment, just as in physical life he establishes a physical environment in harmony with his tastes and desires."
Unlike physical temples constrained by material limitations, astral temples can incorporate architectural and energetic features that would be impossible in the physical world, with forms and functions specifically designed to facilitate higher consciousness.
Creating and maintaining an effective astral temple involves several key stages:
Define the primary purpose of your temple (meditation, healing, teaching, research, etc.) and envision its core qualities: geometric structure, color harmonies, symbolic elements, and energetic properties. Allow this vision to evolve organically over multiple meditations.
Identify an appropriate "location" in the astral geography that resonates with your temple's purpose. This may be represented as a mountain plateau, forest clearing, underwater sanctuary, or even a position among the stars, depending on the energetic qualities needed.
During astral projection, create the fundamental structure through concentrated visualization and energetic molding. Begin with the core space and gradually add detail. Focus first on the energetic qualities and geometric proportions before adding aesthetic elements.
Establish energetic boundaries that maintain the temple's integrity and limit access to those who resonate with its purpose. Install symbolic guardians or protection mechanisms appropriate to your spiritual tradition. Set the vibrational keynote that defines the space.
Return frequently to your temple to refine and strengthen its structure, especially in the early stages of its creation. Each visit reinforces its permanence on the astral level and deepens your connection to it, eventually allowing instant access through focused intention.
Beyond serving as personal sanctuaries, well-developed astral temples often naturally attract other entities with complementary purposes, creating centers for collaborative spiritual work and exchange.
The internal architecture and features of astral temples typically incorporate sacred geometry and spiritual symbolism relevant to their function:
Often feature crystalline structures, flowing water elements, and specialized chambers attuned to different aspects of healing work.
May include vibrational instruments, color therapy chambers, and regenerative energy pools.
Frequently incorporate sacred geometry patterns that amplify and organize healing energies.
Typically include libraries of akashic records, teaching amphitheaters, and contemplation alcoves.
Often structured with progressive levels representing stages of understanding.
May feature symbolic representations of universal principles and cosmic laws.
Designed for inner alchemy and spiritual initiation processes.
Often include chambers representing elemental forces and stations for different phases of transformation.
May incorporate symbolic death and rebirth spaces for facilitating profound shifts in consciousness.
Focused on connection with higher intelligences and spiritual hierarchies.
Often feature central altars, convergence points for cosmic energies, and specialized acoustics for vibrational attunement.
May include symbolic gateways to higher dimensional states beyond the astral.
Panchadasi notes that while the creation of astral temples begins as a seemingly imaginal process, these structures gradually acquire greater permanence and objective reality on the astral plane as they are consistently reinforced:
"What begins as a creation of the individual mind, when sufficiently energized and repeatedly accessed, eventually establishes itself as an objective reality within the plastic medium of the astral light. The advanced adept finds that their temple can be accessed by others even in their absence, and maintains its essential structure and function independent of their continued attention."
Many spiritual traditions describe ancient mystery temples that have been maintained on the inner planes for centuries or even millennia, serving as centers of initiation and training for generations of seekers.
As your astral temple develops, it becomes not merely a workspace but an external reflection of your inner spiritual development—evolving in complexity, refinement, and power as your own consciousness expands.