Astral Projection: Difference between revisions

* After getting caught by the police, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[976-EVIL]]'' uses his [[One Phone Call]] and receives this power from the title phone number to continue his wrongdoings.

 

* Prue from ''[[Charmed]]'' develops this as a power in the second season although it's treated more like [[Me's a Crowd|cloning]].

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] did this once on ''[[The Weird Al Show]]''. Once he achieved it, all he did was go watch TV for a while before returning to his body.

 

== Literature ==

* Is a central theme in [[James Herbert]]'s ''Nobody True.''

* The telepathically-gifted on [[Darkover]] do this a lot; there's a [[Spirit World|psychic plane]] called the Overworld where they do various kinds of work (and occasionally engage in mortal combat...)

* Seems to be ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'''s primary method of traveling to Barsoom.

 

* [[Older Than Print]]: Iron Crutch Li, one of the Chinese Eight Immortals, was once a handsome man with the power of astral projection. He told his apprentice to wait seven days before cremating his body, but when the apprentice had to go visit his dying mother he had to cremate his master's body early, leaving his master with no choice but to enter the body of a recently deceased old cripple.

 

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has spells that allowed Astral Travel, usually with a "silver cord" of infinite length that connected the wandering soul to its body; it made the soul virtually indestructible unless the cord was broken, which only very few beings or objects could do.

* Astral travel exists in ''[[Shadowrun]]'', but there's also "decking," when a character with the proper cyber implants sends his consciousness onto the Internet.

 

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