The phenomenon of consciousness seemingly separating from the physical organism to navigate external space represents one of the most enduring subjects in the history of psychology, metaphysics, and neuroscience. Known popularly as astral projection, this subjective state challenges traditional Cartesian assumptions regarding mind-brain identity and continues to fuel scientific investigations into multisensory bodily self-consciousness. By bridging historical esoteric doctrine with modern empirical models of neurobiology, researchers are increasingly able to deconstruct how anomalies in bodily integration generate the vivid sensation of an incorporeal self traveling across perceived environments.<\/p>\n
Astral projection<\/strong> refers to an intentional or spontaneous altered state of consciousness during which an individual subjectively experiences their center of awareness, perception, and self-identity as dissociating from and operating independently of their physical anatomical frame. In parapsychological, esoteric, and occult frameworks, this state is believed to involve the conscious dislocation of an ethereal, subtle, or “astral” vehicle into an immaterial dimension known as the astral plane.<\/p>\n Conversely, in contemporary cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychiatry, astral projection is classified as an intentional subtype or cultural interpretation of an out-of-body experience<\/a> (OBE). In this scientific view, the phenomenon is not an actual spatial dislocation of an immaterial soul, but a transient neurofunctional breakdown in the central nervous system’s capacity to integrate multisensory vestibular, visual, and somatosensory information, which normally sustains the coherent experience of embodied selfhood.<\/p>\n The phrase astral projection<\/em> is a compound term emerging from classical Greco-Latin roots and nineteenth-century western esotericism. The adjective “astral” derives directly from the Late Latin astralis<\/em>, which in turn originates from the Ancient Greek astron<\/em> (αỖστρον), meaning “star” or “celestial body.” Classical Neoplatonists, notably Plotinus (c. 204–270 CE) and Proclus (412–485 CE), posited that the human soul descended into corporeal incarnation through the planetary spheres, clothing itself in a luminous, star-derived intermediary vehicle known in Greek as the augoeides ochēma<\/em> (luminous vehicle) or astroeides<\/em> (starlike body).<\/p>\n The noun “projection” derives from the Latin proiectio<\/em> (a throwing forth, stretching out, or jutting forward), rooted in the verb proicere<\/em>, formed by pro-<\/em> (“forward”) and iacere<\/em> (“to throw”). While early occultists used terms such as “exteriorization of the double” or “traveling clairvoyance,” the specific collocation “astral projection” gained broad currency through late nineteenth-century movements, most prominently within Theosophy<\/a>, founded by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and William Quan Judge. The term was systematically cemented in the English vernacular through Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater’s occult treatises and popularized among the public by Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington in their 1929 landmark publication, The Projection of the Astral Body<\/em>.<\/p>\n Phonetically, “astral projection” is pronounced in standard International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation as \/\u02c8æs.tr\u0259l pr\u0259\u02c8d\u0292\u025bk.\u0283\u0259n\/ in Received Pronunciation and \/\u02c8æs.tr\u0259l pro\u028a\u02c8d\u0292\u025bk.\u0283\u0259n\/ in General American English. Grammatically, it functions primarily as a countable and uncountable compound noun. It designates either the overall theoretical paradigm and phenomenon (“the study of astral projection”) or a singular event (“an astral projection occurred during deep meditation”).<\/p>\n The verb form is rendered as “to astrally project” (e.g., “the subject reported the ability to astrally project at will”), with the present participle “astrally projecting” and past tense “astrally projected.” Adjectival usage is typically constructed through hyphenation or adverbial modification, as in “an astral-projective state” or “astrally projected consciousness.”<\/p>\n To understand astral projection comprehensively, one must differentiate between the subjective phenomenology experienced by the percipient and the theoretical models posited to explain that experience. Phenomenologically, an episode of astral projection typically unfolds in a discernible sequence. The individual, frequently lying in a state of deep muscular relaxation, trance, or hypnagogia, experiences prodromal sensations such as high-frequency internal vibrations, auditory sensations (rushing winds, buzzing, or melodic tones), and a profound sense of physical immobility. This is often followed by a distinct moment of detachment, where the center of sensory awareness detaches vertically, horizontally, or spirally from the biological body.<\/p>\n Once detached, the subject perceives their environment from an elevated or dislocated spatial perspective, typically looking down upon their own inert physical frame—a condition recognized clinically as autoscopy. Consciousness retains full cognitive lucidity, critical thinking capacity, and acute sensory acuity, although sensory input is non-physical: colors may appear hyper-vivid, spatial navigation is mediated by intentional thought rather than muscular exertion, and environmental barriers such as walls or furniture are frequently bypassed without physical resistance. In traditional occult literature, an ethereal cord, often termed the “silver cord” (referencing a passage in Ecclesiastes 12:6), is reported to maintain an energetic link between the physical and projected vehicles, ensuring the subject’s eventual return.<\/p>\n From the viewpoint of cognitive science and neuropsychology, astral projection is understood as an experiential state where the brain’s internal generative model of reality fails to bind the subjective sense of self to the physical body. Ordinarily, the central nervous system synthesizes visual, proprioceptive, tactile, and vestibular signals into a unified egocentric reference frame, situating the “I” precisely behind the biological eyes. When disruption occurs in this multisensory integration circuit, the brain generates an alternative egocentric perspective outside the physical form, while projecting an internal mental representation of the body back into perceptual space. Thus, the external environment perceived during an episode is not an objective non-physical dimension, but an internally generated virtual reality or hallucination constructed from memory, expectation, and residual sensory input.<\/p>\n The boundaries of astral projection are traditionally delineated by its intentionality and phenomenological structure. Unlike spontaneous depersonalization, where an individual feels disconnected or detached from their emotions and physical identity without leaving the physical container, astral projection entails a complete dislocation of the spatial locus of observation. It also differs from simple daydreaming or guided visualization, as it features profound perceptual realism, vestibular sensations of floating or falling, and an overwhelming conviction of ontological reality during the event itself.<\/p>\n The belief that human consciousness possesses a subtle vehicle capable of separating from the body during sleep, illness, trance, or near-death states is virtually universal across world history. In ancient Egyptian religion, the soul was conceptualized through multiple distinct components, notably the Ka<\/em> (vital essence) and the Ba<\/em> (represented as a human-headed bird symbolizing mobility of consciousness after death or during specialized priestly rites). In ancient Greece, the Orphic and Pythagorean mystery schools articulated concepts of the psyche’s release from the somatic prison, directly influencing Plato’s dialogues, notably the Phaedo<\/em> and the Myth of Er in the Republic<\/em>.<\/p>\n During late antiquity, Neoplatonic philosophers such as Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus formalized the doctrine of the ochēma-pneuma<\/em>, a semi-material subtle body linking the rational soul to the biological body. This philosophical paradigm was preserved throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance by Hermeticists, alchemists, and Christian mystics such as Paracelsus, who spoke of the “astral body” (corpus sidereum) governed by celestial influences, and Emanuel Swedenborg, who documented exhaustive, fully conscious journeys into spiritual planes in his eighteenth-century diaries.<\/p>\n The modern era of astral projection began in the late nineteenth century with the advent of Spiritism and Theosophy. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky integrated Eastern philosophical concepts, specifically Hindu Vedantic ideas regarding the subtle sheaths of the self (koshas<\/em>), into Western occultism. Blavatsky and her successors, Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, mapped an intricate cosmology of seven planes of existence, arguing that the human being possesses an astral body capable of deliberate exteriorization through esoteric disciplines.<\/p>\n In the twentieth century, the discourse shifted from strictly occult doctrines to empirical and psychological inquiry. In 1929, Sylvan Muldoon collaborated with parapsychologist Hereward Carrington to publish The Projection of the Astral Body<\/em>, providing an autobiographical, empirical taxonomy of spontaneous and induced projections. This was followed by Oliver Fox’s Astral Projection: A Record of Out-of-the-Body Experiences<\/em> (1939). In the 1950s and 1960s, radio broadcasting executive Robert A. Monroe experienced sudden, spontaneous exteriorizations, leading him to author Journeys Out of the Body<\/em> (1971). Monroe eschewed esoteric terminology in favor of secular, pragmatic descriptions, introducing the abbreviation “OBE” into popular parlance and founding the Monroe Institute to research altered states using acoustic brainwave entrainment (“Hemi-Sync”).<\/p>\n Simultaneously, parapsychological laboratories, such as those directed by Charles Tart at the University of California, Davis, and Karlis Osis at the American Society for Psychical Research, attempted controlled laboratory experiments to determine whether individuals in out-of-body states could perceive hidden optical targets. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, clinical neuroscience, led by researchers such as Olaf Blanke, relocated the phenomenon entirely into the neural domain, showing that electrical stimulation of specific brain regions could reliably trigger full or partial out-of-body experiences.<\/p>\n The theoretical frameworks accounting for astral projection fall into three primary epistemological categories: esoteric-dualist, cognitive-neuroscientific, and psychological-dissociative.<\/p>\n The Esoteric-Dualist Framework<\/strong> is grounded in substance dualism and multi-plane metaphysics. It posits that human identity is not an emergent property of neurochemistry, but an immortal, immaterial monad inhabiting nested layers of energetic matter. Under this theory, the physical body represents merely the densest vehicle; surrounding and permeating it is the etheric double, the astral (emotional\/desire) body, and higher mental structures. Astral projection occurs when the conscious ego shifts its primary operational focus from the physical nervous system into the astral vehicle, detaching from the somatic body and navigating an objective, higher-frequency dimension governed by non-physical laws of space-time.<\/p>\n The Cognitive-Neuroscientific Framework<\/strong>, dominating contemporary science, rejects substance dualism in favor of materialist and functionalist paradigms. This model views astral projection as an illusion generated when the neurobiological mechanisms responsible for constructing the bodily self-consciousness (BSC) fail. According to researchers such as Olaf Blanke and Thomas Metzinger, the brain continually runs an internal predictive simulation of the world and the self within it. Bodily self-consciousness relies on three core pillars: self-identification with the body, self-location in space, and the first-person perspective. When cortical circuits responsible for integrating vestibular information with visual perspective and somatosensory proprioception are disrupted, the brain’s internal algorithm computes an erroneous spatial coordinate for the observing agent. Consequently, the self-location and first-person perspective decouple from the perceived physical body.<\/p>\n The Psychological-Dissociative and Sleep-State Framework<\/strong> conceptualizes astral projection as an exceptionally vivid manifestation of hypnagogic imagery, sleep paralysis, or lucid dreaming<\/a>. Researchers such as Susan Blackmore have proposed that when sensory input is significantly attenuated (as in sensory deprivation, relaxation, or deep sleep), the cognitive cognitive architecture relies purely on memory and cognitive schemas to maintain a continuous perceptual world model. If the brain adopts a mental model built from a bird’s-eye perspective (a common cognitive strategy during spatial navigation recall) while retaining conscious executive function, an individual experiences a fully immersive projection into an apparent external world.<\/p>\n Astral projection manifests across several distinct structural components and phenomenological variations:<\/p>\n Numerous historical and clinical accounts illustrate the subjective complexity and empirical puzzles associated with astral projection.<\/p>\n A classic historical example is found in the meticulously recorded personal logs of Sylvan Muldoon<\/em> during the early twentieth century. From age twelve, Muldoon experienced spontaneous nighttime awakenings wherein he found himself completely paralyzed, followed by a sensation of soaring vertically above his bed. Muldoon documented the physics of this condition, noting that the intensity of heart palpitations and somatic vibrations was directly proportional to the proximity of his subtle body to the physical form. When he traveled beyond a critical distance—roughly six to eight feet—the vibrations subsided entirely, yielding an extraordinary clarity of mind and unhindered movement through local space.<\/p>\n Another illustrative case is that of Miss Z<\/em>, an experimental participant examined by psychologist Charles Tart at UC Davis in 1968. Tart placed the subject in an electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep laboratory. She lay on a bed above which was mounted a high shelf invisible from the mattress, containing a five-digit random number generated after she had retired for the night. On the fourth night of testing, after presenting brainwave patterns characterized by an unusual alpha rhythm devoid of standard sleep stage architecture, she correctly reported the five-digit number (25132). While critics, including James Randi, argued that methodological vulnerabilities (such as the possibility of reflection or inadequate optical shielding) precluded definitive parapsychological proof, the case remains one of the most widely cited empirical investigations into traveling perception.<\/p>\n A modern clinical case documented by neurologist Olaf Blanke involved a 43-year-old female patient undergoing presurgical cortical mapping for refractory epilepsy. When Blanke’s team delivered focal electrical stimulation to the patient’s right temporoparietal junction<\/a> (TPJ), she immediately reported: “I see myself lying in bed, from above, but I only see my legs and lower trunk.” Repetitive applications of the current consistently induced the feeling of floating near the ceiling and perceiving her body below, proving that localized neuroelectrical perturbations can induce the visual and vestibular hallmarks of an astral projection experience on demand.<\/p>\n Assessing astral projection requires a dual methodology: psychological psychometrics to quantify phenomenological characteristics, and neuroimaging modalities to evaluate corresponding physiological signatures.<\/p>\n From a psychometric perspective, researchers utilize standardized questionnaires designed to assess dissociation, out-of-body states, and anomalous conscious experiences:<\/p>\n Neurophysiologically, researchers utilize high-density Electroencephalography (EEG) to examine spectral power shifts, focusing on the boundary states between waking alpha rhythms (8–12 Hz) and hypnagogic theta activity (4–7 Hz). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) evaluate functional connectivity within the default mode network (DMN), the insular cortex, and particularly the bilateral temporoparietal junctions. Vestibular caloric stimulation and galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) are additionally deployed in laboratory setups to induce sensory mismatch, systematically examining how artificial disruption of graviceptive signals induces feelings of illusory self-motion and displacement.<\/p>\n While mainstream medicine treats astral projection as a neurocognitive anomaly, study of this phenomenon yields practical applications across multiple domains.<\/p>\n In Cognitive Neurorehabilitation and Virtual Reality (VR)<\/strong>, understanding how the brain constructs spatial self-location has revolutionized the treatment of phantom limb pain, body integrity dysphoria, and stroke-induced hemispatial neglect. By employing immersive head-mounted displays and full-body illusions (such as the “virtual out-of-body illusion” pioneered by neuroscientists), clinicians can project a patient’s visual self-location onto a virtual avatar. This visual-proprioceptive dissociation assists in modulating central neuropathic pain by re-calibrating the brain’s internal sensorimotor map.<\/p>\n In Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy<\/strong>, understanding astral projection is critical for differential diagnosis. Mental health professionals must distinguish between healthy, spiritually transformative anomalous experiences and severe psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, or ictal psychoses. Recognizing that non-pathological populations frequently experience spontaneous out-of-body events prevents the misdiagnosis of healthy individuals experiencing sleep paralysis, transient vestibular migraine aura, or stress-induced dissociation.<\/p>\n In Transpersonal Psychology and Palliative Care<\/strong>, the phenomenological architecture of astral projection shares striking structural overlaps with near-death experiences (NDEs). Familiarity with these states enables clinicians to offer supportive integration counseling for hospice patients or cardiac arrest survivors who report having viewed resuscitation attempts from outside their physical bodies. Experiencing an out-of-body state frequently produces profound, permanent reductions in the fear of death, increases in psychological well-being, and enhanced existential resilience.<\/p>\n Empirical investigation into astral projection has evolved across two parallel tracks: parapsychological efforts seeking evidence for veridical, nonlocal perception, and neuroscientific research mapping the neural correlates of self-location.<\/p>\n Early parapsychological studies conducted by Charles Tart, Karlis Osis, and Donna McCormick in the 1960s and 1970s attempted to establish whether an “exteriorized” agent could detect physical targets hidden in separate rooms. While occasional statistically significant results were reported, replication across independent laboratories proved problematic, and meta-analyses consistently revealed that target identification was prone to methodological confounders, perceptual leakage, and low effect-size reproducibility.<\/p>\n In contrast, neuroscientific exploration has yielded robust, reproducible findings. Olaf Blanke and his colleagues at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) demonstrated that the core features of the astral projection experience stem from a failure to integrate multisensory signals at the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), particularly within the right hemisphere. The TPJ acts as an executive hub integrating vestibular inputs (sensing gravity and acceleration), proprioceptive inputs (sensing limb position), and visual inputs. When electrical disruptions, micro-lesions, or functional disconnectivity occur at the TPJ, vestibular signals of upward or downward motion occur in the absence of corresponding muscle movement, forcing the brain to reconcile the conflicting data by generating an external visual viewpoint.<\/p>\n Complementary work by Henrik Ehrsson at the Karolinska Institute demonstrated that out-of-body experiences can be reliably induced in healthy subjects through simple multisensory conflicts. In Ehrsson’s paradigms, participants wear head-mounted video displays displaying a view of their own backs filmed by a camera positioned two meters behind them. When the experimenter strokes the participant’s actual chest while simultaneously stroking the empty air at the location of the virtual camera, the participant undergoes a cognitive recalibration, subjectively feeling that their physical locus has migrated backward into the virtual body. This confirms that the sense of embodying a physical frame is highly plastic and continuously computed from real-time sensory congruence.<\/p>\n Research into sleep neurobiology, led by J. Allan Hobson and Jerome Siegel, has highlighted the critical role of REM-sleep intrusion phenomena. Astral projection often occurs alongside sleep paralysis<\/a>, a dissociative state wherein the muscular atonia characteristic of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep overlaps into conscious wakefulness. Under these conditions, the brain remains fully conscious, but the motor cortex is inhibited by pontine brainstem mechanisms, and endogenous REM imagery is projected directly onto the perceived bedroom environment, creating the multisensory illusion of floating away from an immobile physical frame.<\/p>\n Cultural context deeply influences how exteriorization experiences are interpreted, cultivated, and integrated into broader worldviews.<\/p>\n In indigenous shamanic traditions, particularly across Siberian, Amazonian, and Native American cultures, soul flight or “ecstasy” (from the Greek ekstasis<\/em>, meaning “standing outside oneself”) is the foundational technique of the shaman. As documented by anthropologist Mircea Eliade in Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy<\/em>, the shaman intentionally leaves the physical frame via repetitive drumming, fasting, or entheogenic plants to traverse upper and lower spirit worlds to retrieve lost souls, diagnose tribal ailments, or communicate with tutelary spirits.<\/p>\n In Tibetan Buddhism, the phenomenon is codified within the esoteric practices of the Six Dharmas of Naropa<\/em>, specifically the disciplines of Gyulu<\/em> (the Illusory Body) and Phowa<\/em> (the transference of consciousness). Practitioners undergo rigorous contemplative training to decouple consciousness from the gross physical aggregate, consciously generating a subtle “mental body” (manomayakaya<\/em>) that can navigate intermediate states of existence (the bardo<\/em>) before, during, and after physical biological death.<\/p>\n In Western societies, cultural attitudes remain polarized. Scientific materialism largely dismisses astral projection as a benign hallucination or psychopathological symptom. Simultaneously, alternative spiritual subcultures, the New Age movement, and internet communities view the practice as an accessible method for personal enlightenment, consciousness exploration, and experiential verification of an afterlife. This dynamic shows that while the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness are universal across all human populations, the subjective meaning, emotional valence, and cultural utility ascribed to the event are entirely shaped by social framing.<\/p>\n The academic and philosophical discourse surrounding astral projection remains characterized by heated debate, centered around three main controversies:<\/p>\n The Nonlocality Controversy:<\/strong> The principal divide remains between metaphysical dualists and materialist scientists. Proponents of parapsychological models claim that consciousness can exist independently of neural substrates and perceive objective information non-locally. The primary critique from mainstream cognitive neuroscience, championed by skeptics like James Randi, Susan Blackmore, and Richard Wiseman, is that decades of parapsychological trials have failed to furnish incontrovertible, replicable proof that an individual in an out-of-body state can retrieve verifiable, hidden visual information under double-blind, tamper-proof laboratory conditions. Neurologists emphasize that all documented characteristics of projection—autoscopy, floating, spatial movement, passing through walls—are exhaustively explained by cortical modeling, hallucination, and spatial memory.<\/p>\n Methodological Vulnerabilities in Esoteric Research:<\/strong> Much of the literature supporting literal astral projection relies on subjective retrospection, self-selected anecdotes, and unstandardized qualitative interviews. Retrospective reports are highly vulnerable to source amnesia, confirmation bias, confabulation, and the integration of post-event suggestions. Controlled laboratory setups often find that when subjects believe they are looking at their physical body from the ceiling, their descriptions of specific details (e.g., hidden markings, room layout anomalies, clothing variations) fail to align with objective reality.<\/p>\n Pathologization vs. Normalization:<\/strong> A persistent debate in psychiatry concerns the clinical status of spontaneous out-of-body experiences. Historically, reports of floating outside oneself were frequently categorized as early signs of dissociative disorders, depersonalization\/derealization disorder, or temporal lobe epilepsy. Contemporary clinicians increasingly advocate for normalization, recognizing that between 5% and 10% of the healthy global population experiences at least one spontaneous out-of-body experience during their lifetime. Unless the experience causes marked distress, impairment, or occurs as part of an active psychotic process, it is now widely viewed as a benign variant of normal cognitive functioning.<\/p>\n Astral projection is frequently confused with or used interchangeably with several related psychological and parapsychological constructs. The following distinctions delineate its boundaries:<\/p>\n Astral projection represents an intersection between historical metaphysics, human experiential phenomenology, and contemporary cognitive neuroscience. While esoteric traditions conceptualize the phenomenon as the conscious departure of an incorporeal subtle vehicle into non-physical dimensions, modern cognitive neuroscience has demonstrated that the experience is generated by specific, identifiable neurobiological mechanisms. Disruptions in the multisensory integration of vestibular, visual, and proprioceptive signals—principally localized within the temporoparietal junction—cause the brain’s internal spatial algorithm to dissociate the first-person perspective and self-location from the physical form.<\/p>\n Far from being merely an occult novelty or an indicator of psychiatric pathology, astral projection provides vital clues regarding the architecture of human self-consciousness. By revealing the inherent plasticity of bodily self-location, ongoing research into these out-of-body states deepens scientific comprehension of how the brain builds its unified model of physical reality, simultaneously unlocking therapeutic strategies in neurorehabilitation, virtual reality engineering, and palliative care.<\/p>\n Explore the comprehensive academic analysis of astral projection, tracing its history from ancient metaphysics and Theosophy to modern neuroscience and bodily self-consciousness research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1002,468,15218,254],"tags":[27025,36925,15207,3124,36927,36926,3667,7014],"class_list":["post-12650","psych_term","type-psych_term","status-publish","hentry","category-consciousness-studies","category-neuroscience","category-parapsychology","category-psychology","tag-altered-states-of-consciousness","tag-astral-projection","tag-lucid-dreaming","tag-neuroscience","tag-obe","tag-out-of-body-experience","tag-philosophy-of-mind","tag-temporoparietal-junction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/psych_term\/12650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/psych_term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/psych_term"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/psych_term\/12650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashadocs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. 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