Illusions of a Banquet

Astral Travel with Robert Temple

Robert Temple is author of many books including A New Science of Heaven, The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago, Oracles of the Dead: Ancient Techniques for Predicting the Future, Open to Suggestion: The Uses and Abuses of Hypnosis, and The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery & Invention.

Here he explains that for ten years prior to his astral visits to the Bardo planes, he experienced nightly journeys in which he appeared to be receiving data from a space probe exploring the galaxy for new moons and planets. Eventually, he encountered both a spirit guide and a guardian who accompanied him on nightly voyages into the afterlife. This has continued for thirty years, up to the present day.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:55 Probing the galaxy
00:10:05 The guide and the guardian
00:22:31 Three afterlife regions
00:31:37 People in the middle region
00:44:33 Improbable but real experiences
00:49:11 Higher levels of the middle world
01:03:00 Communicating with plasma beings
01:12:52 A robotic intelligence
01:20:33 Conclusion

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(Recorded on March 19, 2025)

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