According to Osho, beyond the etheric body the soul is not encountered by accident: crashes, sleep states, or etheric ‘journeys’ only touch the subtle sheath. The passage beyond demands conscious, intentional awareness, moving knowingly through the chakra contact-fields that link the gross and etheric. Only deliberate inward crossing—not happenstance—opens the direct experience of the soul.
You can slip into etheric dreams by accident, but meeting your true self needs you to be awake and purposely move past the body’s connection points (chakras).