(parapsychology, theosophy, fantasy) A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.
Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.
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(computing, slang, humorous) A Unicode plane above the Basic Multilingual Plane; any plane beyond U+FFFF.
The realm of the astral plane is an intermediate realm; below is the world of matter, above is the world of pure Being.
“Because woo-woo people think astral is their word (astral projection, the astral plane, etc), ignoring that all those uses derive from the actual meaning of the word being "of/relating to the stars" lol”
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