Our family may or may not be the same as our astral family. When I first began to receive telepathic communications I had no idea where they were coming from. They were not mystical, were not threatening but they did get my attention. That was way back in the early 1970. When something arouses my interest I usually research it. I did it with telepathy, kept a diary, read a lot, and within ten years I had a body of work that to me appeared logical, explained the astral, defined telepathy as the universal means of communication and defined its speed. In time I was able to identify the telepathic callers who are now in the astral. A large number of people who for one reason or other achieved fame while on earth spoke about their lives here and now there. People like Jesus, Gandhi, Mohammed, Hitler, Moses, etc... Each spoke of his/her subsequent lives on earth and from this I was able to deduce that we usually come to earth once in a thousand years, the other time we live over there.
They say one cannot prove negatives.