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Astral projection (also known as astral travel, soul journey, soul wandering, spiritual journey, spiritual travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience (OBE) [1] [2] that assumes the existence of a subtle body, known as the astral body or body of light, through which consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout ...
A 19th-century illustration of Robert Blair's poem The Grave, depicting the soul leaving the body. The theosophist Arthur Powell (1927) was an early author to advocate the subtle body theory of OBEs. [84] Sylvan Muldoon (1936) embraced the concept of an etheric body to explain the OBE experience. [85]
Ikiryō (生霊) from the 1776 book Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Ikiryō (生霊, lit. "living ghost"), also known as shōryō (しょうりょう), seirei (せいれい), or ikisudama (いきすだま), [1] is a disembodied spirit or ghost in Japanese popular belief and fiction that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across ...
The astral body is a subtle body posited by many philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the mental body, composed of a subtle material. [1] In many recensions the concept ultimately derives from the philosophy of Plato though the same or similar ideas have existed all over the world well before Plato's time: it is related to an astral plane, which consists of the planetary ...
The "free soul" is said to leave the body and journey to the spirit world during trance-like states, sleep, delirium, death, and insanity. [ 14 ] The duality is also seen in the healing traditions of Austronesian shamans, where illnesses are regarded as a " soul loss " and thus to heal the sick, one must "return" the "free soul" (which may have ...
According to Daily Mail, video captured by CCTV shows a spirit leaving the body of the passenger who was killed in the accident. Daily Mail also reports a girl named Manee died while a man named ...
At Ōkubo-ji in Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, if a makura-kozō stands near one's pillow while asleep, one could no longer move one's own body, so people are warned against sleeping there. [8] There are also examples of temple makuragaeshi that are said to be wonder workers that the temple itself is dedicated to as the principal object of worship.
Decomposing human remains have been found wrapped in a sleeping bag and left out on the sidewalk for trash collection in Manhattan, New York City police said Saturday. The grisly discovery ...