Astral Pro­jec­tion — The process of sep­a­rat­ing your astral body from your phys­i­cal body to accom­plish travel in the astral.

The act of sep­a­rat­ing the astral body from the phys­i­cal body. Also known as Astral Travel.

Astral Projection

An out-of-body expe­ri­ence often occur­ring dur­ing sleep or a med­i­ta­tive state dur­ing which the etheric body sep­a­rates from the phys­i­cal body and trav­els over great dis­tances to another loca­tion as the result of an altered state of consciousness.

Out-of-body Expe­ri­ence

The out-of-body expe­ri­ence can be a dra­matic one. Clin­i­cally, this falls into a phe­nom­e­non called “dis­so­cia­tive expe­ri­ence or disorder.”

Often the expe­ri­ences that cre­ate this feel­ing are pow­er­fully ecsta­tic or trau­matic. In either case, the feel­ing is sim­i­lar to watch­ing one­self in a film. Basi­cally, what­ever is going on in the dream is so pow­er­ful that the dreamer is sep­a­rat­ing her­self from expe­ri­enc­ing it directly. The result is a self watch­ing the self in a moment of life. Dreams of this nature can be very reveal­ing about the self at work in the world (see Medard Boss). Lucid dream­ing can also cre­ate this feel­ing. In lucid dream­ing, the dreamer is con­scious of dream­ing and may be watch­ing her­self in the dream.

Dreams of this nature may cre­ate a feel­ing that the dreamer has pro­jected her­self into another sphere of real­ity, cre­at­ing a sense of astral pro­jec­tion. This idea has been pop­u­larised by cer­tain para­nor­mal stud­ies on per­cep­tions of reality.

Native Amer­i­can cul­tures view the out-of-body expe­ri­ence as a fuller unity of the soul with nature. As such, it is not sur­pris­ing that they hold such expe­ri­ences in high regard. It is in this sense that you can con­sider the out-of-body expe­ri­ence a brush with great power-in a world of phys­i­cal lim­i­ta­tions you sud­denly have the abil­ity to go wher­ever you wish to go. You have com­plete con­trol regard­ing your place in the universe.

Con­versely, another pos­si­ble out-of-body expe­ri­ence involves a com­plete loss of power: see­ing your­self lying on an oper­at­ing table in a hospital.