What is the energy body?

The tantric tradition says there are seven layers of energetic body. I don’t know if that’s true. But I do know that there are at least two, because I can feel them with my hands.

Physical and energetic

In the tantric tradition, the body is understood to be physical and energetic, and there are seven layers of energy body.

And I don’t know if that is true, but I do know that I have two energetic bodies because I can feel one with my hand about five centimetres from my body and another about fifty centimetres away—and when I gently caress my energy body I have lots of very nice orgasmic sensations across my whole body even though I’m not touching myself physically.

You can feel them

The energy bodies are the energetic layers that surround the physical body. What they are, I think, is beyond me. That they exist is my experience—as much as I can feel the breeze, I can feel the magnetic sensation.

And with practice, we can not just feel them with our hand, but we can expand out into them. And each has a slightly different quality of awareness, of Consciousness.

Different qualities of awareness

A little bit like when I’m watching a movie, I have a different form of self-awareness compared to right now when I’m talking to you, or when I’m meditating: I have a different quality of awareness.

As I expand out with my attention into the different layers of my energy body, I’m still aware of my separation, but I have more and more of a diminished sense of self. And when you can really expand out into the fifth and sixth energy body, that’s where Consciousness feels much more like astral projection or astral travel.

Practical application

For me, when I facilitate, I’m often in my second or third body. I have a feeling of stepping aside and being moved, and I can feel lots of things, perceive things that I can’t when I’m just located in my physical body.

That’s the best answer I can give in a practical sense, of what the energy bodies are.