Astral projection or astral travel is an interpretation of out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an astral body separates from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it. Astral projection or travel is 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 journey is described in as an out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her astral body into the planes or world. It is also associated with near death experiences, or practice of meditation.
It is sometimes attempted out of curiosity, or may be believed in forms of spiritual practice. It may involve travel to higher realms called astral planes but is commonly used to describe any sensation of being out of the body in the everyday world, even seeing one's body from outside or above. It may be in the form of an apparitional experience, an encounter with some living person or spirit, also seen somewhere else at the same time.
Astral Projection Spy - The Amazing Truth Revealed
By Amos Amsterdam
One of the most interesting components of the research done into the out of body experience phenomena was the U.S military study into using astral projection as a spying technique on foreign countries and other miscellaneous enemies. As far fetched as it sounds, the CIA conducted an experiment in remote viewing, or "seeing at a distance" that employed a series of highly regarded psychic spies, as well as ordinary military intelligence as a way to peek both at the possibilities of using ESP in warfare, as well as of course, seeing what the other guys were REALLY doing over "there"...
After about a decade or so, the "official" lab was closed, and it's results were released to congressional oversight and review. The operation was called "Star-gate" and any