Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Assumption:
We have subtle bodies as well as
physical bodies. The physical body vibrates at the
frequency of matter (the World of Humanity), while
the highest two of the five subtle bodies vibrate
closer to the frequency of the Soul (the World of
Divine Truth).
Besides the flesh and bone of our physical bodies, we
consist of other energy patterns we cannot see or mea-
sure. These are called our 
subtle bodies
or 
subtle
fields
. They vibrate at frequencies
 
an octave or two
higher than those bodies condensed as matter and are
beyond the range of our senses and most detection
instrumentation. These are:
The Etheric Body
The etheric body carries the energetic template of the
body. It ensures the continuation of the patterns, har-
monies and disharmonies within the body while the body
constantly renews itself. Your body is not the same as
one year ago, for not one cell exists in your body that is
more than one year old.
The etheric body interacts with your genetic code and
holds the memory of who you are, the shape of your
nose, your height, what prejudices you hold, what you
like to eat, your strengths, your weakness, your illness
patterns, etc.
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The Emotional Body
The emotional body vibrates one octave above the
etheric field. Also known as the astral body, it suffuses
the etheric field and the bioenergetic fields of the physi-
cal body and manifests in the body as feelings.
An emotion constitutes a thought attached to a feeling
that usually results in a physical response or action.
When energy flows freely from the emotional field
through the etheric field and the physical body, every-
thing works together beautifully.
When we restrict our emotional energy through sup-
pression or repression, we create energy blocks in both
our etheric and emotional fields as well as in our physi-
cal body.
The perceptual shift required for forgiveness cannot
happen while anger and resentment are maintained in
the emotional body. Any energy stuck in the emotional
body must be cleared first.
The Mental Body
This field governs our intellectual functioning and is
responsible for memory, rational thinking, concrete
thought, and so on. Of course, there are scientists who
still maintain that thinking and other mental processing
can be explained in terms of brain biochemistry. Suf-
fice it to say that the scientists who follow the logic of
quantum physics believe that the mind goes beyond
the brain, beyond even the body. They believe that brain
and mind interact 
holographically
and that each cell
contains a blueprint of the whole. Many researchers
believe that memory resides in holographic form in an
energetic field that exists beyond the body.
Proof of this is continually showing up as a by-product
of organ replacement surgery. One celebrated story
concerns a person who received a liver transplant.
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Some months after the operation, he began having a
recurring dream that did not make sense to him. After
some investigation, he discovered that the person who
had donated the liver had dreamt the same dream for
many years. The memory of that dream was appar-
ently imbedded in the cellular structure of the liver.