One of Blavatksy's teachings involved the astral body, and its ability to transcend mere flesh and travel to new places untethered. Born into a wealthy family, she traveled much of the world, soaking up various religious beliefs along the way and then reworking them into new forms via theosophy. Theosophy gained traction in America thanks to Russian immigrant Helena Blavatsky, who helped found the Theosophical Society in 1875 in New York City. "The astral body is supposed to be able to separate from the physical and travel in the astral worlds."
Susan Blackmore, a writer, psychologist and visiting professor at the University of Plymouth in England. "The idea comes from a 19th century mystical system called theosophy which claims that we have seven bodies from the lowest physical to the highest spiritual and mental bodies," emails Dr. But its most recent resurgence in the Western world occurred in the 1800s. It's been around since ancient times, strewn throughout various cultures and religions. How handy would that be in the middle of yet another stay-at-home order?Īstral projection is anything but new. In other words, if you can harness the power of this phenomenon, you could potentially travel anywhere your imagination desires. the astral representation of Katipunan, Manila, San Francisco, etc.) It usually has many, if not most similarities, with its real-world counterparts." "Astral projection happens when the consciousness is sent to the astral form of this world (i.e. "Astral projection is when the consciousness of a human is projected outside of his body into what we call the astral world," emails Robert Rubin, a tarot card authority at Mysterium Philippines. Unanchored from its mortal flesh and blood, the astral body can supposedly do all sorts of miraculous things. In short, it's a way of describing the human consciousness or soul – or "astral body" - temporarily leaving the physical body. Western esotericism commonly uses the term astral projection to describe a purposeful OBE.
"Astral projection (AP) is an intentional OBE that usually involves the experience that the self can seem to travel far from their body – even to other countries or planets." "An out-of-body experience (OBE) is a transient experience some people have, while conscious, that their self seems to becomes separated from their body, floats above the body and looks back down at that body from an elevated location," says Jane Aspell, a cognitive researcher at Anglia Ruskin University in England, via email.
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