There are three energy channels within the human being:

1. The sympathetic (Ida)
2. The Parasympathetic (Pingala)
3. The central nervous system (Sushumna)

The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems constitute the autonomous nervous function, and that is beyond the conscious control of man. The central nervous system, CNS, consists of the spinal cord where the life energy or kundalini power is stored. In the Sanskrit terminology these three channels or nadis are even called Ida, Pingala and Sushumna. They constitute the connection of the human being with the four-dimensional (astral) and five-dimensional (causal) and the rest of the five-to-ten-dimensional spiritual planes.

Ida and Pingala (the autonomous nervous system) connects the human being with the subtle astral and causal planes while Sushumna is immaterial. Sushumna is of invisible spiritual nature. Its primary energy leads beyond the superior regions of sensory matter. Sushumna can be considered as the synthesis of Ida and Pingala.

When the soul, the soul atom is transcended or elevated beyond the influence of the sensory world, of Ida and Pingala, then it has reached its original, natural state, the so-called absolute consciousness. When we meditate and have some wish, no matter of what nature, our mind identifies itself instantaneously with the wish and takes us to the higher or lower qualitative regions of the sensory world (the creation). Both the higher and the lower sensory regions (the subtle, astral regions) are under the influence of the negative sensory power. Everything created or manifested in matter, form, constitutes a hinder, barrier for the soul in its way back to its original source.

What is going to happen if during your meditation you follow either the left (negative, Ida)- or the right (positive, Pingala) way? You are going to see light, images and beings of light of various intensity. You are going to be emotionally affected and you will get stuck in the lowest, intermediate or higher levels of the astral plane, all depending on your own level of consciousness. This is what is happening under different forms of meditation. One can see various images, have various experiences, see different so-called angels which manifest themselves. Such ´experiences have never been accepted by the spiritual teachers who descended from the five-dimensional spiritual plane. These masters stand above Maya, the sensory world, illusion, the limited, the changeable, the transient.

It is better not to meditate at all than to meditate the wrong way

To meditate in order to fulfill wishes and desires of various nature consists a trap and a dead-end for the soul. The astral plane is under the total control of the negative sensory power and is open and accessible for anyone seeking satisfaction one way or another. Self-educated, self-initiated “masters” or ”teachers” are teaching knowledge and experience originating here. This ”knowledge” is based on sensory experiences of astral nature, irrespective of what these self-made masters or teachers try to lull those around them into. If you want to reach and “travel” within the astral plane, you don´t even need a master. Your own qualities and your own power will take you wherever you want. Anyhow, you will wind up in the claws of the negative power. You are going to loose your free will, your consciousness and you ability to distinguish, the control of you life and you will continue to be bound to the treadmill of continuous rebirth and death.