Ebook: The Techniques of Astral Projection: Denouement after Fifty Years

"INTRODUCTION

IN every period of man's history some people have claimed to
have had an experience that to others was pure fantasy--they
claimed to have left their physical bodies in a second body (a non-
physical one which they variously called the "Astral", "Etheric",
"Spirit", "Spiritual", "Soul", "Four-dimensional", etc. Body)
and declared that they thought, felt, saw, heard, and acted in it.
These out-of-the-body experiences are popularly called astral pro-
jections on the assumption that an objective "Astral Body" was,
in fact, projected from, or released by, the familiar physical body.
St Paul (2 Cor. xii, 2.) mentioned a case of this kind and many
reputable people, including Roman Catholic Saints and Quakers,
have had such experiences...."