astral bodies

Noun

astral body (plural astral bodies)

1. A ghost-like replica of one's physical body which supposedly inhabits or is somehow associated with the physical body, conceived as a subtle body composed of some sort of ethereal material or as being non-physical and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body to travel to other places or to other realms of existence.
   • "I suppose I am not talking to you at all. You are in Thibet with Shere Ali. This is your astral body, and if I were near enough, I could poke my fingers right through you, as you sit there, telling me you are an Edinburgh doctor, forsooth."
     "Quite right, Mr. Griggs. At the present moment my body...1882, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 13, in Mr. Isaacs