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composed then effectively dissolves back into the physical/etheric body. It turns back into the raw energy from which it was made. This raw energy is instantly reabsorbed back into the vitality storage areas of the etheric body. It is believed that the astral body is simply enmeshed within the physical body during its waking state, and that it is released to pursue an out-of-body astral existence whenever its physical body sleeps. Some people even claim that the astral body is capable of becoming misaligned with its physical counterpart while in the full waking state. The reasons stated for astral-body misalignment are many, but usually involve improper or too-abrupt reentry. Some psychics and healers actually blame a patient for having OBEs at too early a stage of development, even though this may be spontaneous and totally beyond the patient's control. I think this line of reasoning has spawned a blanket excuse — astral-body misalignment — that is used whenever a psychic or healer cannot work out what is actually wrong with his patient. A more reasonable blanket explanation would be bioenergetic conflicts involving the etheric/physical interface. My reasoning here is that any subtle-body problem capable of affecting the physical body must logically stem from the etheric body. This is the closest subtle body to the physical body, energetically speaking, and therefore has the greatest effect on it. 123