Astral Projection

Leaving the body on purpose. Monroe built an institute; the CIA, files show, sent students.

Out-of-body experience, institutionalized: Robert Monroe's 'Journeys Out of the Body' (1971) named the phenomenon, and his institute's Hemi-Sync program drew — per the declassified Gateway file — Army intelligence officers as students, with the resulting 1983 assessment treating the technique as an engineering problem. Laboratory OBE research (Blackmore, Ehrsson's rubber-body illusions) explains the experience neurologically without touching the veridical-perception claims (targets read from ceilings), which remain anecdote. Connects Gateway, the silver-cord lore of older traditions, and the remote-viewing program next door at Fort Meade.