Astral Explained

Astral may refer to:

Concepts of the non-physical

• Astral body, a subtle body posited by many religious philosophers
• Astral journey (or astral trip), the same as having an out-of-body experience
• Astral plane (AKA astral world), a plane of existence postulated by classical (particularly neo-Platonic), medieval, oriental and esoteric philosophies and mystery religions
• Astral projection, a controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences
• A ghost or spirit

Entertainment

• Astral, a gaming set
• Astral (band), a dream pop band
• Astral (film), a British horror film
• The Astral (novel), a book by Kate Christensen
• Astral (wrestler) (born 1989), Mexican Mini-Estrella professional wrestler
• Astral Weeks, a 1968 album by Van Morrison
• Astral, a character in the anime and manga series Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
• Princess Astral, lead character in the cancelled sitcom The Other Kingdom

Companies

• Astral (company), an Indian building materials and equipment company
• Astral Aviation, a cargo airline based in Nairobi, Kenya
• Astral Media, a Canadian media corporation
• Astral Telecom, a Romanian company
• Astral Tequila, a tequila owned by Diageo
• Astral Oil Works, American producers of Astral Oil

Other

• Astral Apartments, a historic apartment building in Brooklyn, New York
• Astral character, a Unicode concept
• Astral microtubules, a sub population of microtubules
• Astral propagation model a US Navy underwater sound propagation loss model
• Astral (1923 automobile), a British car of the 1920s
• Swing Astral, a German paraglider design

See also

• • • Astralwerks, an American-based record label
• Astro (disambiguation)