The Spellcaster's Source Hoodoo and Voodoo Witchcraft Blog of Talia Felix

A while back on an occult books group, someone was looking for books in Latin about Astral Projection. Immediately I knew I'd not seen that term in any book old enough to be from the era of Latin writing. This led me to investigate when exactly was the first use of the term "astral projection" and its appearance in English. Using Google Books, I saw little use of the phrase before the 1890s; though Atkinson's account of "Dream Psychomancy" bears some semblance to the phenomenon : One morning in December, 1836, he had the following dream, or, he would prefer to call it, revelation. He found himself suddenly at the gate of Major N. M.'s avenue, many miles from his home. Close to him was a group of persons, one of whom was a woman with a basket on her arm, the rest men, four of whom were tenants of his own, while the others were unknown to him. Some of the strangers seemed to be murderously assaulting H. W., one of his tenants, and he interfered. ...