Plasma, Merkaba & the Dark Occult In higher stages of spiritual development, beyond that of present-day humanity, spiritual beings can produce an orb of energy from their own essence. This orb can then be separated from their body and used as a vehicle through which they may project themselves. The closest modern description of this phenomenon would be the creation of a "Merkaba." The Merkaba is essentially a vehicle formed from a being's own life essence, allowing it to enter and operate within the natural world. Its closest material image would be a form of living, emergent plasma, concentrated and projected outward from a living organism. This is not plasma that is the product of a machine, this is a living plasma-like substance emerging from a living being that is a direct extension of that being. Today, dark occultists seek to imitate this process through their experiments with plasma, particularly by using advanced technologies to artificially generate plasma and subsequently incarnate certain lower spiritual entities into it. Our task is to discern the difference between artificial forces produced by machines and living forces that arise from spirit and manifest through the human being. These two fundamentally different qualities of substance are increasingly conflated in our modern culture.