Astral projection

As a soul journey, the process of reincarnation or samsara, or the out of body experience is in some religions, especially Hinduism and Buddhism, respectively. Partially spoken in this context of a " astral body ", which leaves the body.

The word " soul travel " or similar expressions are also used in the literature of ethnography and anthropology: cultures with shamanistic features often know a motive that is so designated. For example, it is believed in some Eskimo groups, that some people with special abilities that shaman in distant areas "travel", and can communicate with important experiences that are inaccessible to people with normal abilities. These are, for example, causes of unsuccessful hunts, bad weather or other important in daily life, information.

The cultures, which are called shamanic, are not uniform. Even the term " shamanism " is sometimes controversial.

In the new religion Eckankar beyond the term is also used for a deliberate shift of attention from the current experience to imagination (similar to that known from the psychology process of dissociation).

Credentials

  • Mihály Hoppál, Péter Hajdú (ed.): Urali Nepek. Nyelvrokonaink kultúrája és hagyományai. Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, ISBN 963 13 0900 2, Az Urali Nepek hiedelemvilága és a samanizmus, pp. 211-233 ( The title means: " Uralic peoples culture and traditions of our linguistic relatives. ", The chapter title means: " Uralic peoples belief system, and shamanism ").
  • I. Kleivan, B. Sun: Eskimos: Greenland and Canada. In: Iconography of religions, section VIII, " Arctic Peoples ", fascicle 2 Institute of Religious Iconography • State University Groningen EJ Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1985, ISBN 90-04-07160-1.
  • Daniel Merkur: Becoming Half Hidden: Shamanism and Initiation among the Inuit. In: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis / Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1985.

Swell

  • Esoteric
  • Shamanism
Saṃsāra Dissociation (psychology)
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