Associations to the word «Astral»

ASTRAL, adjective. Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.

ASTRAL, adjective. (biology) Relating to an aster.

ASTRAL, adjective. (parapsychology) (theosophy) Relating to a supposed supersensible substance taking the form of an aura discernible to certain gifted individuals.

ASTRAL BODY, noun. (parapsychology) (theosophy) A ghost-like replica of one's physical body which supposedly inhabits or is somehow associated with the physical body, conceived as 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.

ASTRAL LAMP, noun. An Argand lamp constructed so that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped oil reservoir.

ASTRAL PLANE, noun. (parapsychology) (Theosophy) A supernatural plane of existence, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.

ASTRAL PLANE, noun. (computing) (slang) (humorous) A Unicode plane (range spanning 65536 code points) above the Basic Multilingual Plane

ASTRAL PROJECTION, noun. (uncountable) (parapsychology) (theosophy) The supposed ability to deliberately detach one's mind, or a ghost-like replica of one's body (one's astral body), from one's physical body and to send it to distant places or into alternate realities or into people's dreams.

ASTRAL PROJECTION, noun. (countable) (parapsychology) (theosophy) An instance of using this ability.

ASTRAL SPIRIT, noun. One of numerous beings formerly believed to live among the heavenly bodies, variously seen as fallen angels or the spirits of dead men.

ASTRAL SPIRITS, noun. Plural of astral spirit

ASTRAL, adjective. Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light".