Astral projection (or astral travel) is the translation of any form of out of body experience (OOBE), which implies the existence of "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling abroad. Astral projection or astral travel means the body leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane.

The idea of astral travel is rooted in the common world religious accounts of the afterlife, in which consciousness "or a journey of the soul or" recovery "is described in such terms as" ... out of body experience in which the spiritual traveler leaves the physical body and travels in his subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into the "higher" kingdoms. "Therefore, arising from experience with death, and as often as reported spontaneously experience in cooperation with sleep and dreams, illness, surgeries, drug experiences, sleep paralysis and forms of meditation.

In addition, sometimes for the sake of trying, but can be considered necessary, or as a result, some forms of spiritual practice. It may include "Journey to the higher spheres, called astral planes, but is commonly used to describe the impression that" out of body "in everyday life, not even seeing the body of one of the outside and above. This can be represented as apparitional experience, is expected to meet with a group DoppelgangeR, some living person is also considered in another place at the same time.

Through the 1960's and 70-s study reported a percentage of 8% to almost 50% (in some groups) of respondents who say they had such experience. The subjective nature of experience allows us to explain that is not dependent on the availability of "astral" body and the plane. There is a little further, anecdotal evidence to support the idea that people can actually "leave the body."