astral travel

Out-of-body voyage

Astral travel is the supposed ability to separate one's consciousness or spirit from the physical body and journey through other planes of existence.

Also called astral projection or out-of-body experience, it appears in various spiritual traditions and New Age practices: She claimed to visit distant places through astral travel.

Practitioners describe floating above their sleeping bodies or traversing otherworldly realms.

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mode of travel

astral travelwalking

Locomotion on foot

driving · flying · swimming · commuting · locomotion

epistemological status

astral travelphysical reality

The material universe

waking life · empirical observation · scientific measurement · objective reality · the here and now

state of consciousness

astral travelembodiment

Concrete manifestation of idea

groundedness · physical presence

Family

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