In the advancing stages leading to the beginning of the path, the aspirant becomes spiritually prepared for being entrusted with free use of the forces of the inner world of the astral bodies. The Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba described one's use of astral projection: Modern Indians who have vouched for astral projection include Paramahansa Yogananda who witnessed Swami Pranabananda doing a miracle through a possible astral projection. Similar ideas such as the Liṅga Śarīra are found in ancient Hindu scriptures such as, the YogaVashishta-Maharamayana of Valmiki. In some Inuit groups, people with special capabilities, known as angakkuq, are said to travel to (mythological) remote places, and report their experiences and matters important to their fellows or the entire community that would be unavailable to people with normal capabilities, such as how to stop bad luck in hunting or cure a sick person.
The yaskomo of the Waiwai is believed to be able to perform a soul flight that can serve several functions such as healing, flying to the sky to consult cosmological beings (the moon or the brother of the moon) to get a name for a new-born baby, flying to the cave of peccaries' mountains to ask the father of peccaries for abundance of game, or flying deep down in a river to get the help of other beings. For example, ancient Egyptian teachings present the soul ( ba) as having the ability to hover outside the physical body via the ka, or subtle body. Similar concepts of soul travel appear in various other religious traditions. This image is based on an original found in The Book of the Dead.
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