This body is said to be the emotional level of the spiritual plane. It extends two to three feet out from the physical body. This is the layer where spiritual ecstasy is experienced. This could be what yogis refer to as samadhi, a state of bliss. It is reached through meditation. Here, light and love is in everything, no matter what state of duality it is in. It is a feeling of oneness with the creator, the emotional aspect of this experience of oneness with God-Self. It is a state of unconditional love.

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Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer say in their book Opening To Channel (1987) that the brow chakra is the place where channeling is actually happening, where information is coming through. In Amrut Laya (The Stateless State) (1998), Shri Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj says this is what he calls the causal body and that it is similar to a place of sleep, a place of repose and "being in his real nature for the spirit."

This is the celestial body, according to Barbara Brennan in Hands Of Light (1988), and has the appearance of many light filled rainbow rays flowing outward. The chakras are not seen at all because there is very bright white light at the core of the layer that the rays emerge from.

Genevieve Lewis Paulson calls this the Monadic Body (or Soul Level) in Kundalini And The Chakras (1991). She says that Monad is Greek for "unit." The monadic body "expresses the unity of the polarities and allows the soul to express itself in the physical body." She goes on to say that when the monadic body is developed, "your sense of I AMness or soul awareness is so strong that the 'I' can merge with the divine, be one with all and experience both states (the I and the Thou)."

Ted Andrews in How To See & Read The Aura (2000), agrees again with Genevieve Lewis Paulson that this is the monadic layer of the auric field.

I personally have experienced, during a very deep meditation moment, these rays of light described by Barbara Brennan in Hands Of Light (1988) and this very stable point of unconditional love, long before I had read about this layer of the aura. It was the trigger that made me get serious about being on a spiritual path. It was beginner's luck perhaps, for it happened on the third day of meditating in my life! From then on, the search to find out what and who I am was on fire. (I would say that this is a perfect example of a spontaneous awakening of the kundalini energy, unexpected and coming to the inexperienced meditator.)

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in Meditation: The Art Of Ecstasy (1976), speaks of this layer as if it is the last layer. (There are many differences from one teacher or writer to the next who differ on how many layers there are). He says this is the last layer for he goes on to say that everything after this layer is "bodilessness." The two breaths in this layer of the auric field, however, are the polarities of existence and nonexistence.

Joshua David Stone, Ph.D., says in Soul Psychology: Keys To Ascension (1994), "The atmic body...is associated with spiritual will."