Astral Projection

Astral Projection (also known as Astral Travel) is an interpretation of an out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an astral body separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it. Astral Projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body in order to travel in the astral plane.

Religion and Astral Projection
Astral Projection is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife, in which the consciousness is described as leaving the physical body to travel to higher realms. It is therefore associated with near death experiences, (NDEs), reincarnation, and is frequently reported as spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness, surgical operations, drug experiences, sleep paralysis, and in forms of meditation.

Through the 1960s and 1070s, surveys reported percentages ranging from 8 percent to as many as 50 percent of respondents reporting that they had experienced astral travel.