Alia bint Saleh bin Saad Al-Qarni
Associate Professor, Creed and Contemporary Doctrines Department of Islamic Studies/Faculty of Sciences and Arts in Balqarn
Issue 90 | Pages:55-70 | September 2022 | https://doi.org/10.54940/si79049634 | PDF

Abstract

The concept of astral projection revolves around the assumption of an out-of-body state, assuming an astral aura separate from the physical body capable of traveling outside of it, and realizing a person's ability to leave their body and travel through the ether to anywhere it wants. Also, the source of knowledge for the astral projection experimenters is the person himself, with the connection of the subjective mind with the cosmic mind as they claim, which prompted them to deify the self, and call for intellectual liberation without being bound by the constants of religion, as the experimenters of astral projection entered the field of training, which made propaganda strengthen in glorifying experience, and advocacy to it, and concocting psychological and health benefits for those who applied it. Proponents of astral projection seek to link the experiment with what they claim to be scientific theories in an attempt to link them to a scientific document, which gives it an empirical scientific character that is actually a theory that is nothing more than hypotheses that have not been proven to be true and have no scientific basis. Astral projection in Islamic law is nothing but remnants of atheistic oriental philosophies, and it is based on principles that contradict the principles of belief in general, including the unification of divinity, lordship, names and attributes, and the pillars of faith in general. As the experience of astral projection contradicts the correct belief in terms of what should be believed in miracles, by allowing the miracle to take place at the hands of the experimenter, which is a form of the sanctification and deification of the self. It is more than an illusion and a myth, so it is necessary to impose institutional control over courses in general and courses in the fields of atheistic philosophies in particular, and to impose censorship and blocking sites that promote the astral projection experience, and to raise social awareness of the seriousness of these atheistic trends to the individual and society.

Keywords

Projection, astral, aura, energy, doctrine.

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