1600-1700Late Latinastralis, from Latinastrum ‘star’, from Greekastron; ➔ ASTRO-
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A mahogany breakfast table sold at £200; an astral glazed pine cupboard £200 and a marble top washstand £180.
As with astral travel, some talk of being linked to their physical bodies by a filmy cord.
But even these alienated loners can benefit from this book: See the section on astral love.
Classic dissociative phenomena include out-of-the-body experiences, astral travel, near-death- and rebirth-type experiences.
Man has three bodies, the physical, the astral and the causal which overlie and interpenetrate each other.
Occultists and some clairvoyants claim that this is the astral body.
The astral body, also known as the emotional body, reflects most of the auric colouring.
The astral telepath would die in any case when exterminatus arrived.
1relating to ideas and experiences connected with the mind and spirit rather than the body: out-of-body experiences and astral travel2relating to the stars