Actually in Astral Dynamics pg35-37 Robert talks about etheric projection a bit. And at
http://[/urlhttp://www.geocities.com/whapahoe/OutOfBody.html[url] I found this
“During mental projection and astral projection you are able to travel through solid objects, but are not able to act directly upon them or to move them (if they are in the physical world). This is not true during etheric projection. Whether it is simply subconscious expectation, or whether it is a true etheric projection which in theory means that part of your physical body has been relocated with your projection (the etheric or vital part) may be difficult to determine. Etheric projections generally travel at or very near the physical world. There are even cases reported (very, very rare ones) in which the entire physical body is transferred to another location (teleportation), or cases in which the physical body exists and acts in two separate places at once (bilocation)!”
Which reminds me that in Dion’s book she describes how her teachers body when he performed etheric projection only weighed a few kilos and could easily be lifted with one hand.
At
http://http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/astral.htmlhttp:// I found
“ETHERIC PROJECTION - This is where the Consciousness, the Astral body& the etheric body separate together from the physical body. The ectoplasm of the Etheric body can been seen other. The physical body is reduced to a state of near catalepsy during the projection and must be protected from sudden shock or disturbance as there is a rare occurrence of physical death.”
So it seems this does not involve a mind split copy of the etheric body, but the actual separation of the etheric body from the physical body. In astral dynamics it is discussed how this is unlikely and unnatural and Robert gives his own theory on it.
Does anyone have any experience with etheric projection or know much about it? Seems a pretty interesting ability.