Is there anything called soul travel as practice by Eckankar or other school of thought?
Thank you for your question. Yes, there is something called soul travel. It’s associated with confusing beliefs about souls disconnecting from the body and traveling around, observing, becoming ghosts, reincarnating — beliefs that are ancient and based in superstition. The process is along the lines that intent, or meditation, or drugs can allow the soul to detach, that it remains attached to the body only through a thin silver cord, that it can travel great distances — to other planets as well — and as long as the cord is attached the soul will return to the body but if it breaks it won’t return. Eckankar focuses on teaching this technique and other meditation practices promote it as well — after all, who wouldn’t want to be able to fly off and observe all manner of interesting things? It’s a mind game deception. Our minds are powerful as well as directable. We do have the ability to direct our mind and a conscious connection so that it may seem we have left our body. Mind can det
