A0490: Why is man not fully conscious of himself during an astral journey?

Man is always fully conscious with partial consciousness where he directs his attention. By this we mean the following: If man had only one consciousness, he would be fully conscious at all times, no matter what he was doing. This also means that no matter how boring an activity was, you would always be fully conscious and perform the boring activity with all your attention. But you are human beings with many subconsciousnesses at the moment, which we have often discussed, and each subconsciousness is you as a person. Each subconsciousness decides just like the other subconsciousnesses and only the speed with which each subconsciousness comes to the same decision varies according to how much consciousness a subconsciousness receives. 

All subconsciousnesses have a task and the subconsciousness in the sixth energy body has the greatest consciousness. The writer used to call this partial consciousness the so-called day consciousness. It is not properly defined in this way, but we often use this term because it is easier to understand. The so-called day consciousness is a part of the subconsciousness in the sixth energy body. This subconsciousness also houses the ego-consciousness, which you always mistakenly call the subconsciousness, but which, as the ego-consciousness, constantly distracts you with thoughts. We have already explained to you what these subconsciousnesses are responsible for. 

Consciousnesses build on each other, so that consciousnesses can also be separated from each other. When you are doing boring activities, your subconsciousness will split and you will focus one part of your consciousness on the boring activity and another part of your consciousness on something else. All parts of the consciousnesses are fully aware, but your so-called day consciousness can no longer correctly interpret all the impressions of the parts of the consciousnesses, because this so-called day consciousness has been split and is therefore no longer correctly aware. If you undertake something extremely interesting directly after the boring activity, then the previously split-off parts of the so-called day consciousness will work as one again and you will then be highly concentrated and you will be fully aware of it. If the activity becomes less exciting and you are no longer concentrating so hard, one part of your so-called day consciousness will occupy itself with the activity and another part, which splits off from the so-called day consciousness, will think about something else. 

This is how you can imagine the change of the parts of your consciousness. When you are ready to go on an astral journey, it depends on how much of your so-called day consciousness you can mobilise to become more conscious on an astral plane. The partial consciousnesses of you are always on the astral planes of the earthly astral planes and you focus much of your consciousness into your body during the day. This is not correctly described, but we will assume for better understanding that you appear very conscious in your body during the day, although all partial consciousnesses are more likely to be found on the astral planes. 

When you start an astral journey out of the dream, then on the sixth astral plane of your earthly energy field, in the sixth partial consciousness of you, more and more consciousnesses gather so that you become more and more conscious. Nothing will detach itself from your physical body, because your partial consciousnesses do not reside in the body, but on the earthly-astral planes. The partial consciousnesses inhabit the earthly body, but they are not at home there, therefore nothing has to detach from this body during sleep or during an astral journey, because you are actually always present on the astral planes with the partial consciousnesses. You only have to manage that your sixth subconsciousness receives more and more consciousness shares, then you will also become more and more conscious on the astral plane. 

Only a few people are able to attain full daytime consciousness on the astral plane and these people can then also explore the astral planes of the earth or travel to the spiritual world. 

We hope we have been able to present the mystery of astral travel a little more clearly, because we will still tell you a lot about consciousness and about the earthly astral planes, which will still be very important for your forthcoming official first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species.