Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus elaborated on Plato's description of the starry nature of the human psyche. The idea is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an ecstatic, mystical or out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in their body of light into 'higher' realms." The concept derives from the philosophy of Plato: the word 'astral' means 'of the stars' thus the astral plane consists of the Seven Heavens of the classical planets. Other terms used for this body include body of glory, spirit-body, radiant body, luciform body, augoeides ('radiant'), astroeides (' starry or sidereal body'), and celestial body. The body of light, sometimes called the 'astral body' or the 'subtle body,' is a "quasi material" aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, posited by a number of philosophers, and elaborated on according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings.
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