The Hidden Dangers of Soul Travel, Out-of-Body Experiences, and Occult Deception
Soul Travel Exposed: A Biblical Warning Against Astral Projection, Out-of-Body Practices, and Occult Deception
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Soul Travel Exposed: A Biblical Warning Against Astral Projection, Out-of-Body Practices, and Occult Deception
Soul travel is often presented as a harmless spiritual experience, a way to leave the body, explore higher realms, gain hidden knowledge, or experience spiritual enlightenment. It may also be called astral projection, astral travel, out-of-body travel, soul wandering, spiritual journeying, or consciousness travel.
But behind the peaceful language is a dangerous occult practice that teaches people to seek spiritual experiences outside the boundaries of God’s Word. For Christians, this is not innocent curiosity. It is a spiritual doorway.
The Bible never instructs believers to attempt to leave their bodies, travel through spiritual dimensions, contact hidden realms, seek spirit guides, or gain revelation through altered states of consciousness. God calls His people to walk by the Holy Spirit, test every spirit, remain sober-minded, and reject occult practices.
Where Did Soul Travel Come From?
The idea of the soul or spirit leaving the body is ancient and appears in many mystical, occult, pagan, shamanic, and New Age systems. Throughout history, different cultures have practiced forms of spirit travel, trance journeys, vision quests, dream travel, and communication with unseen realms.
In modern times, the phrase “Soul Travel” is especially connected to Eckankar, a modern spiritual movement introduced publicly in the 1960s by Paul Twitchell. Eckankar teaches that Soul is eternal and can travel beyond the physical body into higher spiritual planes. This teaching blends ideas similar to Eastern mysticism, reincarnation, karma, inner sound and light, and out-of-body spiritual exploration.
Astral projection, another related term, became widely used in occult and Theosophical circles. It teaches that a person has an “astral body” or subtle body that can leave the physical body and travel through the astral realm.
While these ideas may sound spiritual, they are not biblical. They are rooted in occultism, mysticism, and the pursuit of hidden knowledge outside of Christ.
Who Founded Soul Travel?
Soul travel as a concept does not have one single founder because forms of spirit travel appear in ancient occult and mystical traditions. However, the modern religious teaching called “Soul Travel” is strongly associated with Paul Twitchell, the founder of Eckankar.
Paul Twitchell presented Soul Travel as a path to spiritual freedom and God-realization. Yet the God of the Bible never teaches that believers must travel through spiritual planes to know Him. Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” — John 14:6.
The Christian does not need soul travel. The Christian needs Jesus Christ, repentance, the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, and obedience.
What Is Soul Travel Used For?
People use soul travel or astral projection for many reasons, including:
- Seeking hidden spiritual knowledge
- Trying to visit heavenly or spiritual realms
- Attempting to communicate with spirits or guides
- Escaping pain, trauma, grief, or depression
- Seeking supernatural power or experiences
- Trying to spy spiritually on people or places
- Exploring dreams, altered states, or the astral realm
- Seeking enlightenment apart from Jesus Christ
- Trying to prove that life exists beyond the body
Some people are drawn to it because they want peace. Others want control, power, healing, mystery, or answers. But Satan often disguises bondage as enlightenment.
Second Corinthians 11:14 warns, “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
Not every spiritual experience comes from God. A person can have a real spiritual encounter and still be deceived if that encounter does not line up with the Word of God.
Why Would Someone Get Involved in Soul Travel?
Many people become involved in soul travel because they are spiritually hungry but lack biblical grounding. They may have trauma, fear of death, grief, curiosity, or a desire to understand the unseen realm.
Others become involved through New Age books, meditation, hypnosis, lucid dreaming, yoga, occult teachers, online videos, Eckankar teachings, psychic practices, or guided out-of-body exercises.
A person may say, “I just wanted to experience God.” But God has already revealed how we are to come to Him—through Jesus Christ, not through occult techniques.
Hebrews 4:16 says, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace…” We come by faith in Christ, not by leaving the body, chanting sounds, entering trance states, or traveling into spiritual planes.
Why Is Soul Travel Against God’s Word?
Soul travel violates God’s Word because it seeks spiritual knowledge, power, and experience through forbidden spiritual methods.
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 warns against occult practices, divination, witchcraft, enchantments, consulting spirits, and seeking hidden spiritual knowledge through forbidden means. God calls these practices an abomination.
Soul travel also encourages altered states of consciousness, spiritual passivity, and contact with unseen realms. The Bible commands believers to be sober and vigilant.
First Peter 5:8 says, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Soul travel is dangerous because it trains a person to open themselves spiritually without biblical protection, discernment, or submission to Jesus Christ.
God does not tell us to empty our minds. He tells us to renew our minds.
Romans 12:2 says, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
God does not tell us to travel outside the body. He tells us to walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16 says, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
God does not tell us to pursue spirit guides. He gives us the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13 says the Spirit of truth will guide believers into all truth.
How Can Soul Travel Hurt a Christian?
When a Christian dabbles in soul travel, they may believe they are only exploring spirituality, but they are stepping outside the covering of God’s Word. This can open doors to demonic deception and oppression.
Possible spiritual consequences include:
- Confusion and deception
The person may believe every spiritual encounter is from God, even when it contradicts Scripture. - Opening doors to familiar spirits
Spirit guides, beings of light, deceased loved ones, or “masters” may appear, but these can be familiar spirits masquerading as truth. - Spiritual oppression
After occult involvement, people may experience fear, nightmares, voices, torment, heaviness, anxiety, sleep paralysis, or a sense of being watched. - False revelation
The person may begin trusting visions, dreams, sensations, and experiences more than the Bible. - Pride and spiritual elitism
Soul travel can make people feel spiritually advanced, chosen, or enlightened, while moving them away from humility and obedience to Christ. - Fear, torment, and bondage
What begins as curiosity can become spiritual harassment, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and demonic visitations. - Separation from biblical truth
A Christian may drift into New Age teachings, reincarnation, karma, spirit guides, meditation, energy work, and other occult practices.
First John 4:1 warns, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God…”
What Curses Can Come on a Christian Through Soul Travel?
When Christians participate in occult practices, they may give legal rights to demonic spirits through disobedience, agreement, curiosity, or ignorance. These are not always immediate, but over time the fruit can become visible.
Possible curses and spiritual consequences may include:
- Curse of occult bondage
- Curse of divination and false revelation
- Curse of spiritual confusion
- Curse of fear and torment
- Curse of nightmares and night attacks
- Curse of familiar spirits
- Curse of deception and false light
- Curse of spiritual pride
- Curse of rebellion against God’s Word
- Curse of double-mindedness
- Curse of mental torment and intrusive thoughts
- Curse of passivity and spiritual vulnerability
- Generational occult doors passed to children
- Open doors to witchcraft, psychic power, and New Age practices
Galatians 3:13 tells us that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. But believers must repent, renounce, and close the doors they opened.
Scriptures Warning Against Soul Travel and Occult Practices
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 — God forbids divination, witchcraft, enchantments, consulting spirits, and occult practices.
Leviticus 19:31 — “Regard not them that have familiar spirits…”
Isaiah 8:19 — God rebukes people for seeking familiar spirits instead of seeking Him.
1 Peter 5:8 — Be sober and vigilant because the devil seeks whom he may devour.
1 John 4:1 — Test the spirits.
Colossians 2:8 — Beware of philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men.
2 Corinthians 11:14 — Satan transforms himself into an angel of light.
John 14:6 — Jesus is the only way to the Father.
Acts 19:18–19 — Those involved in occult practices confessed and burned their occult books.
What Should a Christian Do If They Practiced Soul Travel?
If you have practiced soul travel, astral projection, guided out-of-body exercises, Eckankar, spirit travel, or any related practice, do not panic—but do repent.
Renounce the practice out loud. Ask Jesus Christ to forgive you. Break agreement with every spirit, guide, teacher, realm, portal, initiation, mantra, sound, meditation, and occult covenant connected to it.
A simple prayer:
“Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I repent for participating in soul travel, astral projection, out-of-body practices, spirit travel, and every occult practice connected to hidden knowledge and forbidden spiritual experiences. I renounce every spirit guide, false light, astral realm, demonic teacher, familiar spirit, and counterfeit revelation. I close every door I opened through curiosity, ignorance, rebellion, trauma, or deception. I ask You to cleanse me by the blood of Jesus Christ. I command every demonic spirit that entered through these practices to leave me now in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit, fill every place that was occupied by darkness and lead me into truth. Amen.”
Final Warning
Soul travel is not a harmless spiritual adventure. It is a deceptive occult doorway that can lead Christians into confusion, demonic oppression, false revelation, and spiritual bondage.
You do not need to leave your body to find God. You need to surrender fully to Jesus Christ.
Jesus is not hidden in an astral realm. He is revealed in the Word of God, by the Holy Spirit, through repentance, faith, obedience, and truth.
If you have been involved in soul travel, astral projection, New Age practices, witchcraft, divination, or occult practices, you may need deliverance.
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https://www.touchofgod.org/post/the-seven-biblical-curses-listed-in-the-bible
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Teresa Morin
President and Founder of Touch of God Int’l Ministries of Healing and Deliverance
Ordained Minister, Public Speaker
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