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Perhaps we should take scale into consideration. If your body, or astral body, is composed of "material" vibrating at a certain wavelength, and this frequency is increased, it may reverberate into the whole structure. The effect you experience of these vibrations may be how they are perceived in the macrocosm of your body, while the microcosmic vibrations would be far to fast to actually experience.
A couple of reasons this doesn't work for 'string theory' vibrations:

There are a vast number of particles in a body, and the 'string' vibration isn't coherent across them. The vibrations don't accumulate to produce a larger vibration, they cancel out.

The scale is still way, way wrong. If a smaller coherent vibration were two, or three, or four, or some other small multiple of the natural frequency of a larger body, it could produce a lower vibration. But this mostly breaks down even by the time we get to double digits, and we're talking about factors of 100000000000000000000000000000000000.

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If understanding could be likened to a large building, the hard science approach is to build that building one nut, one bolt, one brick at a time without much consideration for the complete blueprint. I take the opposite direction, start with the big picture, and the details will emerge after.
This only works if you know enough details to have a general idea what you're dealing with. If you set out to build a 100000000000000000000000000000000000 meter high building while worrying about the nuts, bolts, and bricks later, this isn't even sane.

Gaining a general idea what you're dealing with is a process of bringing your hypotheses into focus with the information available. If you decide stuff from the top down, then you just have a fantasy. You can't fill in the details later because the details don't fit. A top down theory of planetary orbits based on Platonic solids isn't ever going to work, for example, however elegant it may seem in concept. That building will never, ever stand up.

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The idea that the universe is composed of ranges of frequency in ascending vibration is a simple and eloquent concept.
I agree that its a concept that keeps talking. I don't think it sounds very eloquent though, once you've done a cursory checking of details. It seems ridiculous to confuse 1 meter with 100000000000000000000000000000000000 meters when designing a building, because everyone understands what this means. But I think the things that are being said about frequencies are every bit as ridiculous if you understand more what those statements mean.

It seems to me that the idea of spiritual frequencies mostly started as a radio-tuning metaphor, back when Theosophy and 'Spiritualism' were still going strong and radios were cutting edge technology. Then people never moved on to better metaphors because we failed to develop any. (Much of quantum mechanics, where we get some of our other metaphors, is over 100 years old now also.) I agree that radio is a useful metaphor, better than nothing at all. But in most ways spiritual growth really isn't very much like adjusting the size of a capacitor attached to a big antenna, and there is no way to fill in details that will make it very much like that.

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The physical world is solidified thought. It is a symbolic representation of that which is inner, or immaterial. In terms of vibration, the lower the frequency the more solid or structured the representation. You can imagine these immaterial planes as being vast networks of possibilities, only a few of which have become crystallized into physical form within our time-stream. The "matter" of such realms, if you wish to call it that, would behave very differently than the matter of its physical symbol.
I think this is mostly nonsense, and that it seems plausible to you only because you're missing details as important as the difference between 1 and 100000000000000000000000000000000000. Not that I can do any better, or that we should stop trying. But I think that realizing that you can't just make stuff up and expect to to be true is a crucially important part of the process.