From remote viewing and astral travel to distance healing and angelic frequencies, the modalities that human spiritual traditions have cultivated across millennia are not scattered anomalies; they are sequential steps on a single cosmological spectrum, each corresponding to a precise stage of civilisational consciousness. This piece maps that spectrum, drawing on the frameworks of Dr Steven Greer and the pioneering astral travel work of Jade Shaw, and asks what it means for how we understand our own practice right now.
The Invisible Curriculum
There is a curious pattern running through the history of human spiritual practice. The abilities that mystics, healers, and seers have cultivated across thousands of years, for example, remote viewing, energy healing, out-of-body travel, and the capacity to influence matter and minds at a distance, have almost universally been treated as exceptional, even miraculous. Yet when you map these modalities against the framework of civilisational consciousness explored in our previous piece, something remarkable emerges. They are not miraculous at all. They are sequential. They are, in essence, a curriculum. And they correspond, with striking precision, to the stages every advanced civilisation in the cosmos has already passed through.
Here at Lightnet, we explore many of these modalities directly, from angelic healing to astral travel, and it is from that lived perspective that this map takes on its full meaning.
The Spectrum Begins With Perception
At the accessible end of the spectrum sit the practices of expanded perception: remote viewing, precognition, and clairvoyance. These are the capabilities that intelligence agencies quietly researched for decades, acknowledging in classified programmes what many traditions had never doubted. The ability to perceive distant places, future events, or past occurrences is not a supernatural gift reserved for the few. It is an early expression of consciousness beginning to recognise its own unbounded nature.
These modalities correspond to the earliest stages of civilisational awakening, the territory between our current level zero and the emergence of a genuinely peaceful level one civilisation. They are available now, to anyone willing to quiet the noise sufficiently to hear what consciousness already knows.
Astral Travel: Crossing the First Threshold
Midway along the spectrum sits astral projection, or the out-of-body experience, and it is here that the map becomes particularly alive. Researcher and teacher Jade Shaw, whose rigorous, scientifically grounded work has brought this practice to a global audience, describes the out-of-body experience as a transpersonal state in which awareness projects beyond the physical body, accessing places, people, and dimensions beyond the ordinary constraints of space and time.
What Shaw’s work makes clear, and what Greer’s cosmological framework quietly confirms, is that astral travel is not an escape from reality. It is an expansion into a greater one. The subtle bodies that navigate non-physical realities during an OBE are precisely the vehicles through which higher civilisations traverse the near-astral and transdimensional layers of the cosmos. When an advanced civilisation phases its craft beyond the speed of light, it is traversing the same territory that a practised astral traveller enters through the mind-awake, body-asleep state.
In civilisational terms, astral travel maps to the level two and level three transition: the point at which a planet begins to understand that consciousness and physical science are not separate disciplines, and that the non-physical dimensions are as navigable as any ocean.
Healing at a Distance: The Heart Leads
Energy healing, and particularly healing transmitted across distance, occupies the next band of the spectrum. The heart generates its own powerful electromagnetic field and has, as Greer notes, tens of thousands of neurons of its own. When that field is coherent, intentional, and directed with love, it affects outcomes in ways that strictly materialist science has struggled to account for, though the peer-reviewed research into remote prayer and intention-based healing has been quietly accumulating for decades.
Distance healing modalities sit at the level three to four range of civilisational development: the stage at which the integration of consciousness and technology begins in earnest, and where the innate healing capacities of aware individuals start to find their technological corollaries in civilisations further along the path.
Angelic Healing: A Celestial Frequency
Then there is angelic healing, a modality that draws directly on the celestial frequencies Greer associates with level six civilisations and above.
Level six, in Greer’s framework, is the threshold at which a civilisation has one per cent of its population established in God consciousness, a state so refined and luminous that the beings operating from it have, across human history, been consistently perceived as angels. They navigate the cosmos in craft of extraordinary refinement, physical beings whose very presence radiates at a frequency humanity has always recognised as celestial. But the healing transmissions they carry are indistinguishable from what our deepest spiritual traditions describe as divine.
Angelic healing as a practice is, in this light, a direct interface with that frequency. It does not merely invoke a poetic metaphor. It is drawing on a real spectrum of consciousness that has a precise location in the cosmological order, one that civilisations far in advance of our own have inhabited for longer than our recorded history.
This is why angelic healing carries a quality that feels categorically different from other modalities. It is not simply more powerful. It is operating at a different octave of reality altogether.
Materialisation, Bilocation, and the Upper Reaches
Beyond these, the upper end of the spectrum includes capacities that most traditions reserve for the most advanced masters: materialisation of physical objects, bilocation, and what Greer describes as trilocation, the ability to be genuinely present in multiple places simultaneously. In individual human terms, these are extraordinarily rare. In civilisational terms, they are routinised technology at levels five through eight, built on the same principles but made systematic and reliable through generations of conscious scientific development.
The accounts of enlightened masters who could manifest objects, appear to multiple students at once, or dematerialise and re-emerge elsewhere are not legends. They are early human data points on a spectrum that advanced civilisations have mapped in full.
Why This Matters Now
Understanding this spectrum changes the way we relate to our own practice. The modality you are drawn to is not arbitrary. It reflects where your consciousness is naturally oriented, and perhaps where it has been before, across lifetimes and dimensions that ordinary waking awareness has not yet remembered. And there is no right or wrong modality, none better or worse than the others. The gift of your frequency is the perfect one for you, and we all have our parts to play in the conscious field.
That, in itself, is the larger point. Every healing session, every astral journey, every moment of expanded perception is not just personal development; it is a contribution to the collective work of helping a level-zero civilisation find its footing, cross the threshold, and begin the long, beautiful ascent toward the stars.
Every healing session, every astral journey, every moment of expanded perception is a contribution to that field. Consciousness is non-local. What you develop here does not stay here.
The curriculum has always been right in front of us. We are simply learning, slowly and together, to read it.
Join the Conversation
Which modality on this spectrum have you experienced or been drawn to, and does mapping it to a stage of civilisational consciousness change how you understand its purpose? If healing, perception, and interdimensional travel are part of a single unfolding curriculum, what does that suggest about the role of your own spiritual practice in the larger story of where humanity is headed? Share your experiences below.
