Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable parapsychology theosophy English) The supposed ability to deliberately detach one's mind, or a ghost-like replica of one's body (one's astral body), from one's physical body and to send it to distant places or into alternate reality or into people's dreams. 2 (context countable parapsychology theosophy English) An instance of using this ability.
Wikipedia
Astral projection (or astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE), a supposed form of telepathy, that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an " astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside of it throughout the universe where it interacts with other astral bodies and is capable of implanting ideas into other people's minds.
The idea of astral travel is rooted in esotericism and occultism, and was promoted by 19th century Theosophists—philosophers who explored the mystical and preternatural origins of the natural world. It is sometimes reported in association with dreams, and forms of meditation. Some individuals have reported perceptions similar to descriptions of astral projection that were induced through various hallucinogenic and hypnotic means (including self-hypnosis). There is no scientific evidence that there is a consciousness or soul which is separate from normal neural activity or that one can consciously leave the body and make observations. Claims of scientific evidence of astral projection are pseudoscientific.
Astral Projection is an electronic musical group producing psychedelic trance and goa trance music based in Israel. Its current members are Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter. Although the majority of their releases have been done through their own record company, Trust in Trance Records (which later merged with Phonokol), they have also released records with other labels including Transient. In addition to an extensive discography, the group has an extensive worldwide touring schedule.
Usage examples of "astral projection".
All the books about astral projection were on loan - it was a popular subject - but one of the staff had been reading Out of the Body, and had yielded it to Rose.
He'd read Uhlander's first few books and conducted a correspondence with him, which eventually had centred on the subject of OOBE, out-of-body-experiences, or what was also known as astral projection.
The phenomenon of astral projection was based on the theory that two entities existed in each human being: a physical body of flesh, and an astral or etheric body —.
Or if the window to yesterday had worked for her, she would have stepped into yesterday, and the dislocation involved in becoming part of the impossible would have triggered an astral projection.
The phenomenon has been called out-of-body experience, remote-viewing, astral projection, even soul-travel.
I only appear that way by using an advanced form of astral projection.
What I did discover is that the type of astral projection they perform leaves a psychic residue, a kind of ghost image.
Many of the Eastern mystics can do this at will, and slow their heart beats down to the minimum level for astral projection.
He had studied it from without and traveled its halls by astral projection.
It was merely her astral projection, a specter of herself that she could instantaneously shoot to other places.
They do not travel between planes by astral projection, as they have no souls.