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I feel the other way around. Basically there's no real reason to believe in leaving the body as you can easily, empirically disprove it yourself. In my view, if they follow the same process and one doesn't hold more possibilities than the other, they're most likely an experience in the mind alone. Certain drugs can induce the feeling of leaving the body, which I think points to it being psychological/neurochemical in nature.

But would you agree that whether it be the "astral" or your "mind" that they both equally stem from the same energy and God-consciousness?

I mean, I think they are the same, but that they both are just consciousness interacting with itself in the closed system inside your skull. In my view, and I think there's good evidence to believe this, the brain is a meat computer and not connected to some sort of ether, energy, or god.