Belief or theory that a person's spiritual awareness can temporarily detach itself from the physical body, remaining connected by what is called the "silver cord," and experience things in other locations, time frames or dimensional planes. Some refer to this as "Astral Projection" or "Mind Projection."

The conscious mind/astral body traveling through ordinary or non-ordinary reality without the restrictions of the body.

The experience, whether spontaneous or induced, of traveling through the astral realm in the form of the astral body.

Separation of the Astral Body from the phyical and visiting other locations. This mainly happens unconsciously in sleep, but some adepts can consciously control and direct the movement of the astral, whether in the sleeping or the waking state.

The next step after astral projection, astral travel allows a dreamer to travel to a different locality while being aware that he/she is not in his/her physical body.

See Astral Projection under Out-of--Body Experience.