By Benjamin Radford — 2017
Many people claim to have had some kind of out-of-body experience. However, there's no evidence that people who think they've experienced astral travel have actually gone anywhere.
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A popular “club drug” promises to open a scientific window on the strange world of out-of-body experiences, researchers say.
Astral projection refers to an out-of-body-experience (OBE) during which the astral body leaves the physical body and travels to the astral plane.
An out-of-body experience occurs when a person temporarily feels like their spirit or soul has left their physical body. It’s often the unintentional result of an accident or near-death experience.
It's like having a lucid dream while you're awake.
Believers say astral projection is an out-of-body experience you can control.
Some camera work, some stroking, and next thing you know you're out of your own body.
By providing wrong but matching views and feelings, scientists mentally "teleport" people outside their own bodies.