In Theosophy, Steiner suggested that human beings unite a physical body of a nature common to ( and that ultimately returns to ) the inorganic world ; a life body ( also called the etheric body ), in common with all living creatures ( including plants ); a bearer of sentience or consciousness ( also called the astral body ), in common with all animals ; and the ego, which anchors the faculty of self-awareness unique to human beings.

Sikhism believes in the concept of a human Soul ( Self ( spirituality ) or consciousness or spirit or astral body ).

In The Two Doctors, the Doctor engages in astral projection, but warns that if he is disturbed while doing so, his mind could become severed from his body and he could die.

** velis – astral body

The difference between the dvēsele ( soul ) and velis ( the astral body ) is a fine one.

While hiding from Apaches in a cave, he appears to die ; leaving his inanimate body behind, he is mysteriously transported by a form of astral projection to the planet Mars, where he finds himself re-embodied in a form identical to his earthly one.

Astral projection is often experienced as the spirit or astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the spirit world or astral plane.

It lasted about three hours and included everything from a typical " astral projection ," complete with silver cord and duplicate body, to free-floating flying, and finally to a mystical experience.

* manaḥ-javah: Moving the body wherever thought goes ( teleportation / astral projection )

Astral projection ( or astral travel ) is an interpretation of out-of-body experience ( OBE ) that assumes the existence of an " astral body " separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it.

Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane.

The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the consciousness ' or soul's journey or " ascent " is described in such terms as " an ... out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his / her subtle body ( or dreambody or astral body ) into ‘ higher ’ realms.

One such Arabic grimoire devoted to astral magic, the 12th century Ghâyat al-Hakîm fi ' l-sihr, was later translated into Latin and circulated in Europe during the 13th century under the name of the Picatrix.

Cyclops and Cable later encountered her psionic ghost on the astral plane, apparently stripped of all her powers.

Neo-Theosophy, as developed by Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, and later Alice Bailey, makes the astral finer than the etheric plane but " denser " than the mental plane.

Two days later he revives on his funeral-pyre and tells others of his journey in the afterlife, including an account of reincarnation and the celestial spheres of the astral plane.

This creature was later identified in 2nd edition as an astral dreadnought.

University professor of various qualifications, whose experiments in astral projection transported Angie, and later the psyche and memories of Jim, into the medieval period.

His ability is originally described as astral projection, but later discovered to be the projection of his consciousness into an unknown energy form with a specialized control of the electromagnetic spectrum.

It is believed in Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky that each religion ( including Theosophy ) has its own individual Heaven in various regions of the upper astral plane that fits the description of that Heaven that is given in each religion, which a soul that has been good in their previous life on Earth will go to.

Levi's idea of the astral was to have much influence in the English-speaking world through the teachings of The Golden Dawn, but it was also taken up by Helena Blavatsky and discussed in the key work of Theosophy, The Secret Doctrine.

Story elements that do not show up in the film include astral projection, telepathy, a séance, and the term " Summerland " ( the name for a simplified Heaven in Theosophy, and for Heaven in general in earth-based religions such as Wicca ).

Theosophy also teaches that when the physical body dies the etheric body is left behind and the soul forms into an astral body on the astral plane.

In Theosophy, the astral double or perispirit or kamarupa after death, before its disintegration is identified with the eidolon.

In Blavatskyian Theosophy it is called by the Vedantic name sthula sarira-" gross body "-and distinguished from the linga sarira, the " subtle body " or astral double.

The consensus of the Parapsychological Association is that certain types of psychic phenomena such as psychokinesis, telepathy, and astral projection are well established.

The area of the upper astral plane of Earth in the upper atmosphere where the various Heavens are located is called Summerland ( Theosophists believe Hell is located in the lower astral plane of Earth which extends downward from the surface of the earth down to its center ).

The process of mitosis is facilitated by a subgroup of microtubules known as astral microtubules, defined as a microtubule originating from the centrosome that does not connect to a kinetochore.

The maintenance of astral microtubules is dependent on the integrity of centrosome.

The second dream sequence is an astral environment with a backdrop of stars ", remembers Heinrichs.

There also exists within the West African Vodun tradition the zombi astral, which is a part of the human soul that is captured by a bokor and used to enhance the bokor's power.

The zombi astral is typically kept inside a bottle which the bokor can sell to clients for luck, healing or business success.

An analysis by Martti Haavio is that Vipunen is not physically large, but his familiar animal ( astral form ) is a whale.

Medieval necromancy is believed to be a synthesis of astral magic derived from Arabic influences and exorcism derived from Christian and Jewish teachings.

The astral sign, accompanied by auspices ( favorable, unfavorable or neutral ), determines if the character is more or less born under a lucky star regarding his vocation.

A magician's capability is defined by his Concentration Level ( which depends on his characteristics, his bonus astral and experience ) which determines Magick's Level ( MKL, the ' k ' of Magick is emphasized by C & S ).

* Emotional or astral body ( vehicle of desires and emotions )

These were ; 1 ) the astral vehicle which was the immortal vehicle of the Soul and 2 ) the spiritual ( pneuma ) vehicle, aligned with the vital breath, which he considered mortal.

However the common person only has a kamarupa, body of desire or " lunar astral body ," a body related to animal emotions, passions and desires, while the true human emotional vehicle is the solar astral body, which can be crystallised through Tantric sex.

Individuals that are trained in the use of the astral vehicle can separate their consciousness in the astral vehicle from the physical body at will.

Individuals that are trained in the use of the astral vehicle can separate their consciousness in the astral vehicle from the physical body at will.

Therefore on that plane language does not matter in the least ; but helpers working in the astral world, who have not yet the power to use the mental vehicle.

The " astral body " is a vehicle evolved from a work of transmutation upon the etheric body ( the two superior ethers, not to be confounded with the " desire body " since during astral projection the desire body molds itself readily into this prepared matrix and, when the individual returns to the physical body, the effort of will whereby he enters automatically dissolves the intimate connection between the desire body and the astral or soul body.

The physical form is the result of the harmonious co-working on the physical plane of forces and faculties streaming through their astral vehicle or linga-sarira, the pattern or model of the physical body.

So there is a physical body that is the vehicle of consciousness on the dense matter of the physical plane ; an etheric body, which is formed by the etheric matter found on subtler counterpart of the physical plane ; an astral body that corresponds to the astral plane ; a mental body which belongs to the lower mental plane, and a causal body, or vehicle of the individual soul, which is located at the level of the higher mental or Causal plane.

: During the Ancient Moon round, human beings underwent the animal stage, endowed with a physical, an etheric, and an astral vehicle.