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astral body

[ as-truhl bod-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
Theosophy. a nonphysical body believed able to separate from an individual’s physical body at will and to survive the individual after death.

First recorded in 1685–95

For this Double, or astral body as you call it, is really the seat of the passions, emotions and desires in the psychical economy.

Then come the chakras already spoken of as the centres for the working of consciousness in the astral body.

Not only was the shaman endowed with the power of projecting his own 'astral body' into the Land of Spirits.

How it would be possible for such a pop-eyed, freckle-faced Piute as you to pack an astral body is more than I can understand.

It moves more or less freely on the astral plane, according to the development of the astral body.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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