The Astral Light

About this book

The astral light appears in occult literature as an invisible medium carrying impressions, influences and traces of human thought. This study treats it as a key to experiences that ordinary physical explanations seem unable to contain.

Ideas associated with Éliphas Lévi and later Theosophists give the subject much of its vocabulary. The supposed substance has no established scientific basis, yet it became an influential way to connect dreams, clairvoyance and magic within one theory. The book is useful for following that chain of associations, from a speculative cosmic principle to claims about events in an individual mind.