Circa This Past Spring During My Esoteric Jihad / Yukio Mishima Phase.

Theories can be crudely organized into a family tree where each might, at least in principle, be derivable from more fundamental ones above it

Bernard Carr, Universe or Multiverse?

Emmanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish scientist and mystic, held that the soul of a man was a 'spiritual fluid' diffused throughout the body, and that the medium for its diffusion was the blood, which was thus imbued with power from the divine source. On the other hand the French occultist Eliphas Levi spoke of blood as 'the astral light made manifest in matter', the astral light in this context being the vital principle of the etheric world.

Blood was regarded by all peoples throughout history as a magic substance of tremendous psychic potency and was therefore universally hedged in by taboos. It was the sign of supreme sacrifice; it sealed covenants; it betokened both maidenly virtue and the magic power of virgins. If split on the earth blood cried aloud for vengeance...'There is scarcely any natural object with so profoundly emotional an effect as blood'.

Benjamin Walker, Beyond the Body: The Human Double and the Astral Planes

reciprocal system of theory

Eugene Thacker, After Life

Varied states of consciousness

Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775

Roberto Assagioli’s Consciousness Egg

The Self is a transpersonal center, a source of essential being, an inner counsellor guiding us to truth, meaning, and purpose. The Self is represented as a star, and appears at the top and bottom at the top of the diagram.