The multiverse is a stage. It's where things happen. It's what people are supposed to see. The astral is not, it is in between.
Terms and concepts like space, distance, time, movement, body, and even plane itself are relative to this strange mental realm — they exist only as perceptions, not as reality. This means that although a body'll find references to distances or measurements (for example) in this work, on the Astral Plane there is no such thing. Even the term "Astral Plane" is a technical misnomer. The first chapter called "The Spaces Between: Astral Space and Time" will attempt to explain all this — but a body should try to remember it while reading all the rest as well. For ease of understanding — for terrestrial beings have difficulty in comprehending a truly non- terrestrial setting - sometimes incorrect or inappropriate terms such as "up" and "down" are used to describe the Astral Plane. A canny reader will pick up on these references and recognize them for what they are.
Take two thin sticks and spread them about a foot apart. Then, brings them within six inches of each other — about half the distance they previously were apart. After that, move them to half the distance again — three inches apart — and then again, and again, until they almost touch. Then imagine half the space that separates the sticks, and then half that, and again and again until the distance is virtually infinitesimally small. The sticks will never actually touch, because as they move together, they must first cross half the distance, and then half the remaining space, and then half that, and so on into infinity. See, between everything, there is a space - in some cases a space so small that it can only be imagined and never seen. The Astral Plane is somewhere within that space. How can that be? How can anything — let alone a whole infinite plane — fit into literally no space? Simple. The Astral's not a place. It has nothing to do with space at all. It's a realm of the mind. That's why even though there is no distance to measure or space to occupy, it appears that there is. It's all a matter of perspective — or rather, perception. The mind sees distance, feels space around it, and perceives what it thinks is a plane. This is because no matter where a body goes, he's on a plane, right? Wrong. A person can leave the planes. When he's not on a plane, he's on the Astral. The Astral is not like the Beastlands or the Plane of Ooze. It's certainly not like the Prime Material. In fact, it's not really a plane at all. It's not a plane, it has no space — it is the absence of space, the absence of a plane. It is the void between all true spaces.
You see, the astral plane connects all of everything. But it itself does not exist. It is a nonspacial nonplane that is between everywhere. And in this code I will teach you what it means and how you could use the nothing that is between everything.
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