Do I have that straight? Because honestly, this sounds like it’s being spoken verbatim from Dungeons and Dragons, where it’s a 9th level spell.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/astralProjection.htm
By freeing your spirit from your physical body, this spell allows you to project an astral body onto another plane altogether.
You can bring the astral forms of other willing creatures with you, provided that these subjects are linked in a circle with you at the time of the casting. These fellow travelers are dependent upon you and must accompany you at all times. If something happens to you during the journey, your companions are stranded wherever you left them.
You project your astral self onto the Astral Plane, leaving your physical body behind on the Material Plane in a state of suspended animation. The spell projects an astral copy of you and all you wear or carry onto the Astral Plane. Since the Astral Plane touches upon other planes, you can travel astrally to any of these other planes as you will. To enter one, you leave the Astral Plane, forming a new physical body (and equipment) on the plane of existence you have chosen to enter.
While you are on the Astral Plane, your astral body is connected at all times to your physical body by a silvery cord. If the cord is broken, you are killed, astrally and physically. Luckily, very few things can destroy a silver cord. When a second body is formed on a different plane, the incorporeal silvery cord remains invisibly attached to the new body. If the second body or the astral form is slain, the cord simply returns to your body where it rests on the Material Plane, thereby reviving it from its state of suspended animation. Although astral projections are able to function on the Astral Plane, their actions affect only creatures existing on the Astral Plane; a physical body must be materialized on other planes.
You and your companions may travel through the Astral Plane indefinitely. Your bodies simply wait behind in a state of suspended animation until you choose to return your spirits to them. The spell lasts until you desire to end it, or until it is terminated by some outside means, such as dispel magic cast upon either the physical body or the astral form, the breaking of the silver cord, or the destruction of your body back on the Material Plane (which kills you).
Lol, I don't deal with spells! All christians are collectively called to be soldiers in God's army and we are given an armor and weapons. The defensive weapon is The Shield of Faith and the Offensive weapons are the Word of God and Prayer. We do battle in the Heavenlies, the Earth, the Seas and the underworld to enforce the victory & rule of Christ.
A lot of people are drawn to these stuff of magic & sorcery, but they do so at grave risk to themselves, their families and descendants.
In dealing in spiritual warfare, we are dealing with Demons of all types & ranks, Fallen Angels and Evil human spirits. Not to puff up myself, but God has recently released the Revalation on how to identify & deal with them all; and since this is a public forum I'm releasing it for all to learn. It's by the Water, the Spirit and the Blood that we defeat these enemies.
We invoke the Blood & Name of Jesus against all demons and they tremble and cower at this. We use the Water against the Fallen Angels & Nephelim as that was what God used against them via the Great Flood of Noah. Lastly we use the Holy Spirit when we are facing an evil human spirit inside a person and breathe gently on them which calms & soothes them and then allows a way for use to discern just Who we are dealing with and even give them a chance to repent to salvation. The physical person whose spirit is inside the possessed may even be on the other side of the world or several light years away but it matters not as distances is irrelevant in the spiritual world.
Btw, I am not talking about hypothetical stuff here. I'm talking about stuff that we've dealt with over the years and stuff we have learned from experienced classroom settings while helping people among us getting free from these evil ones.
And as for the number being as 1.5 million, that is a joke as the real figure is more closely to 30 million or more if you add up every form of evils including the cults & false churches. That is not to say that everyone who is sincerely seeking God and ends up in a false church is a witch, but they are trapped in evil without their knowledge. I am reffering to those who definitely know that they are rejected the one true God and salvation via Jesus Christ.
In almost every major city, if you were to do a search for Psychics you will find hundreds of them and they are to be found on almost every highway in the city. I count those people as witches as well. BTW did you know that to merely enter the business place of one of these people will automatically bring curses on your life? From God's point of view, you are seeking after other gods instead of Him which brings the condemnation.