This is the last of the Your Energy Bodies series. It was only meant to give you a heads-up that you are more than you think you are. That you are a complex being worthy of love and respect. If you want to learn more about your energy bodies, and according to some, there are seven of them instead of only the five I covered, please research to your heart’s content. Expansion on the spiritual path comes in many forms, and one thing often leads to something even greater. I encourage you to continue to learn in whatever manner you feel guided.

Now, on to the Ethereal Energy Body. This is where it gets interesting. Multi-dimensions? Yes, please. Your ethereal energy body is what connects you to everything in space-time. This part of you can allow you to go back in time and forward. This is where there really is no forward and no back. It’s all happening at the same time. Layer upon layer, dimensions overlapping. Your Ethereal energy body can surf it all. Quantum physics at its finest.

This is the realm of the highly gifted metaphysician. The ones who can “see” underground and what’s on the moon’s dark side. The ones who can walk in different dimensions. Your ethereal body allows you to do all that and more. This part of you allows you to peek into other dimensions while you’re asleep. This can happen during lucid dreaming. The kind of dreams that seem so real you believe you are awake and living them.

While we all have an Ethereal Energy Body, which works fine, we don’t use it as often. Why? We are grounded in the mundane things of life, and that energy frequency is too low for the ethereal body to do anything substantial. This is why it’s the assistant of the psychically powerful. For those of us who can’t spend all day in meditation for hours, we can only get on the required wavelength for a short time and get glimpses of things. Images, sounds, and feelings we can take, contemplate, and learn from. For most of us, that’s enough. For some of us, it’s only the beginning.

While I am a shaman, I spend very little time working with my Ethereal Energy Body. It’s something I plan to change in the coming year. Even shamans need to keep expanding. My most profound experience working with my energy body was last year. Like everyone else, I have my issues. One of them was realizing that due to the trauma in my life, parts of my soul were missing. I have been retrieving them with the help of my friends. One of my returned pieces left me when I was little, around eight years old. She was angry, I mean teeth-gritting, red-faced, furious. She wouldn’t talk to me, wouldn’t let go of the anger, and refused to integrate back into the main part of my soul. For several days, I tried to work with her to see what I could do to help her and, in doing so, help myself. She was having none of it. I asked my guides what to do. They told me to swap dimensions.

My first thought was, “Huh?”

My second thought was, “How the hell do I do that?”

My guides then told me to swap that part of myself with the exact same part of me in another dimension. When I heard that, I thought they were crazy. I couldn’t conceive of doing such a thing. The first thing that came to my mind was the Butterfly Effect. The thought of doing that seemed simple, but what if it caused a ripple effect throughout both dimensions? My guides told me to calm down. I wasn’t going to destroy the universe with it. It would be a perfectly even energy exchange down to the smallest detail. It would cause no disruption and create peace in both dimensions. I said, “Sign me up.” There was no way my little ball of fiery soul would ever calm down. There had to be a way to make us both happy.

It was explained to me that my little soul piece was mired in the energy of the anger and needed more time to process it than I, at my current level, could give her and still progress. In other words, if she stayed, we would both be unhappy. She would drag us both down energetically. It was in her best interest and the overall outlook of the rest of me that we do the swap. I didn’t want to, after all, the piece of soul is mine, in this dimension. She broke off after taking some sort of energy hit for me and was now angrier than a riled-up hornet’s nest. It didn’t seem right for me to shove her into another dimension, take in her counterpart, and go on my merry way. My guides assured me it was what was best for her.

The day came when I would say goodbye to my little pissed-off soul. She was ready to go. I went into a meditative state and asked my guides to take me where I needed to go. I was soon standing in front of a mirror, looking at a reflection of myself. It was me, but not me. I asked my mirror self if she wanted to do this, and she said, “None of us are going to be happy if we don’t do this.” Then, I remembered that she had a part of her soul that would be happier with me. While my soul was growling and yelling, her soul had always been crying. It was driving her nuts. We exchanged the pieces of our soul. I felt the intense anger leave me and received what felt cool and soothing instead. Both of my selves took a deep breath, said goodbye, and the connection between us closed.

When I opened my eyes, I felt calmer. The new piece of me had merged into the main part of my soul with no issues. The resonance was perfect. I hadn’t thought about it, but having the pissed-off part of me inside felt like I was having a mild case of heartburn all the time. Now that she was gone, that ache was gone as well. I asked my guides how I was doing in the other dimension with her new piece, and they said she was doing great as well.

Since then, I have spoken to myself in other dimensions to say hello, but only to speak to the ones who are positive in nature. I have negative versions of myself and do not wish to tangle with them. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Our Ethereal Energy Body connects us to many other dimensions, realms, and realities. As with all work with energy bodies, go slow, be smart, and be kind.