You know it is difficult to convey; because let us say the astral realm could be represented as a painting.. Lets say you and I look at the painting and say it is the astral realm; you see the higher levels are already there in the painting– So, if I am more advanced then you, and I look at the same painting, I simply see more than you do in that same image– Where as you, are caught in the only ways you know how to look at that image–
Like lets say one person may get caught on thinking of the castle in the painting; but another person, will not notice the castle; they will notice the colors as they relate to each other– The person seeing the castle, will be stuck dealing with issues that arise from seeing a castle; the person who sees it in pure colors, will be able to deal with the same thing differently, and yet with its own issues that come from associating with it as colors–
It is like looking at a person; a person can be seen as an individual and you deal with that individual– You can also say they are collection of cells, and deal with it as a community– We could say these are both different places within the astral; however, the higher planes will be the views between these two different views that keep you from seeing it as a whole–
You know, it is the very idea of needing to move from one place to another to see more; that is the level of the astral–