A deliberate out-of-body experience, in which one feels that one’s spiritual or “astral” self leaves the body. Bố goes to great lengths in his attempts to project and leave his body, and he remembers playing a prank on an astrally-projecting friend back in Việt Nam, dressing him up so that his soul could not identify the right body to which it needed to return.
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Astral Projection Term Timeline in The Best We Could Do
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Chapter 3: Home, The Holding Pen
...she is lost on her tricycle, never to make it home. Bố is interested in astral projection , and even has some funny stories about it from Việt Nam. So he “practice[s]...
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