<P> In the advancing stages leading to the beginning of the path, the aspirant becomes spiritually prepared for being entrusted with free use of the forces of the inner world of the astral bodies . He may then undertake astral journeys in his astral body, leaving the physical body in sleep or wakefulness . The astral journeys that are taken unconsciously are much less important than those undertaken with full consciousness and as a result of deliberate volition . This implies conscious use of the astral body . Conscious separation of the astral body from the outer vehicle of the gross body has its own value in making the soul feel its distinction from the gross body and in arriving at fuller control of the gross body . One can, at will, put on and take off the external gross body as if it were a cloak, and use the astral body for experiencing the inner world of the astral and for undertaking journeys through it, if and when necessary...The ability to undertake astral journeys therefore involves considerable expansion of one's scope for experience . It brings opportunities for promoting one's own spiritual advancement, which begins with the involution of consciousness . </P> <P> Astral projection is one of the Siddhis considered achievable by yoga practitioners through self - disciplined practice . In the epic The Mahabharata Drona leaves his physical body to see if his son is alive . </P> <P> In Japanese mythology, an ikiryō (生霊) (also read shōryō, seirei, or ikisudama) is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body . Traditionally, if someone holds a sufficient grudge against another person, it is believed that a part or the whole of their soul can temporarily leave their body and appear before the target of their hate in order to curse or otherwise harm them, similar to an evil eye . Souls are also believed to leave a living body when the body is extremely sick or comatose; such ikiryō are not malevolent . </P> <P> In some Inuit groups, people with special capabilities are said to travel to (mythological) remote places, and report their experiences and things important to their fellows or the entire community; how to stop bad luck in hunting, cure a sick person etc., things unavailable to people with normal capabilities . </P>

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