This article is about the psychic technique; for information about the musical band, see Astral Projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is a controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences (OOBEs) achieved either consciously or via lucid dreaming, deep meditation, or use of psychotropics. Proponents of astral projection maintain that their consciousness or soul has transferred into an astral body (or "double"), which moves in tandem with the physical body in a parallel world known as the astral plane.

Astral projection is often associated with the occult and the New Age movement.

Schools of thought

There are two general schools of thought on the nature of astral projection; these can broadly be defined as the mystical model and the phasing model.

Mystical model

The mystical model includes a large variety of belief systems and astral maps, but they are tied together by their belief that astral projection takes place outside of the actual physical body. A more subtle energy body is believed to carry the consciousness outside of the physical body, and as one progresses to more advanced levels of the astral plane, more subtle bodies are realized and consciousness is transferred in turn to each of them. (Other mystical models assume only one subtle body.) The subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of an energetic connection which usually takes the appearance of a silver cord 'plugging' into the chakras like an umbilical cord.

Phasing model

The phasing model, which was defined by Robert Monroe, contains

Kinds of projection

Astral projection

The traveller finds him- or herself in an apparently real domain, analagous to the "other worlds" experienced by traditional peoples, which have no parallel to any physical setting or to consensus reality, described by New Agers and brainwaves of both of the brains' hemispheres or lobes. This is said to work by altering brain waves using sounds, together with meditative instruction, listened to on headphones. The process based on a concept referred to as binaural beats.

An exhaustive reference, which includes techniques and types of out-of-body experiences and related phenomena, is the 1,200+ page Projectiology by Dr. Waldo Vieira, MD (ISBN 8586019585), which has over 1,907 bibliographic entries from sources in 18 languages on the topic.

Astral projection



and the Bible

The Bible describes people as being "in the spirit" while receiving prophecy (eg. , , Revelation , , , ). Many biblical scholars attribute this to being in a dream-like state or trance. The terminology of the mystical model of astral projection is also found in :

"Remember — before the silver cord is severed,

or the golden bowl is broken;

before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,

or the wheel broken at the well,

and the dust returns to the ground it came from,

and the spirit returns to God who gave it."

See also

• Esotericism
• Metaphysics
• Mysticism
• Occultism
• Personal reality
• Protoscience
• Pseudoscience
• Parapsychology
• Sleep paralysis
• Hynaogia
• Tattva vision
• Teleportation
• Trance channelling
• Yoga Nidra

Major proponents

• Robert Monroe
• Sylvan Muldoon
• Ingo Swann
• Robert Bruce
• J.H Brennan
• Robert Peterson

References and Further Reading

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• Cosmic Voyages

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