I came to realize something huge in my opinion. Why do astral artifacts turn out as round bowls, lotus flowers, tulips or other flowers? This came to me slowly as I was studying AI. All of these formations are manifestions of finding the optimal truth using "gradient descent". When the 1500s Hatha Yoga Pradipika mentions the heart chakra lotus having 16 petals I knew this is what they are talking about. The things described directly refer to the astral formations inside the body as seen by people at the time. 16 levels of the galaxy, same as what we mapped earlier on 8kun. When finding the most effective method for passing through them, the result looks like a bowl with 16 petals, one for each level you have to pass. Depending on the "search method" or esoteric teaching used, the process creates different kinds of "flowers" as it reaches the optimal solution at the bottom.

What is the large white spike seen in vampires? It's the result of the opposite method: "hill climbing"

Look it up. The book I'm reading is really good at explaining but I'm not sure about other sources, they all feel kind of difficult to grasp from my view. But everyone has their own entry point. I guess to most people this may seem more like a coincidence but when I came to see it, it connected me from my current thinking directly into being able to understand what the yogis are talking about, it bridged that "esoteric distance" when you don't know if the person is just making it up or talking nonsense or actually knows something. In this case they do know.