astral body
/ˈæstɹəl ˈbɑːɾi/
astral body noun: 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.
Noun
astral body (plural astral bodies)
- 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 - "I kept the Jewel within my great safe, whence none could extract it; not even Queen Tera herself with her astral body."1903, Bram Stoker, chapter 15, in The Jewel of Seven Stars
- "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."
Examples of astral body in a sentence
- It is as easy for me to use my astral body as this physical one."1912, Fergus Hume, chapter 20, in A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance:
- I am not ready to ridicule the claim of the Yogi adepts, that they are able to project some kind of astral body, and to communicate with one another from distant places.1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] , book 6:
Forms of astral body
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Questions about astral body
- What does astral body mean?
- Astral body means 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.
- How do you use astral body in a sentence?
- It is as easy for me to use my astral body as this physical one."
- What part of speech is astral body?
- Astral body is a noun.
- How do you pronounce astral body?
- Astral body is pronounced /ˈæstɹəl ˈbɑːɾi/ (US).
- What is the plural of astral body?
- The plural of astral body is astral bodies.
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