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Dictionary of Astroeschatology

This part of the Astronary covers a wide range of terminology relating to Astronist eschatology, the discipline concerned with the destiny of humankind and the afterlife in the astronomical world.

the pre-Astronist belief in the ability of the astral body as one’s soul or consciousness being able to travel outside the body throughout The Cosmos while one is still alive.

Astral projection

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the Astronist principle that just as humanity originates from among the stars, it is humanity’s destiny to return to them, especially used as a philosophical rationale for the Humanic Exploration of The Cosmos in that such a return would complete a naturally destined cycle for human existence, a belief manifested in the maxim “up above, return again.”

Astral return

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the transmigration of the soul to the stars upon death, especially when regarded as just one part of a broader post-corporeal process called transtellation; one of the earliest examples of such a belief is the prehistoric narrative underlying the Cosmic Hunt.

Astranthropy

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a person with a range of heightened sensory or extrasensory perceptions relating to the astronomical world.

Astrician

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the belief that cosmosis is the infusion of one’s soul with a particular celestial entity upon death rather than with The Cosmos as a whole.

Astricism

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the belief that one’s soul reincarnates into a celestial object after one’s death by uniting with the anima (or cosmic soul) of that celestial body as based on notions present within cosmic animism.

Astrincarnation

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the degree to which a person, a group or a whole society possesses the disposition for achieving astrosis.

Astrisability

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the achievement of astrosis when confirmed by the Astronist Institution.

Astrisation

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the practice of accurately predicting the occurrence of an astronomical event without technological or scientific aid, instead citing one’s connection to the astronomical world by way of astronality as the basis of such an ability.

Astrition

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the body of Astronist beliefs and practices regarding death, the afterlife and the destiny of both the individual and all humankind. The similar phrase “eschatology of Astronism” is used to denote a smaller collection of beliefs and practices regarded as orthodox by the Astronist Institution.

Astroeschatology

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the assertion that human life originated from the stars (as based on the theory of panspermia), often used as a means to support the occurrences of astranthropy and cosmosis after death.

Astrogony

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the syncretism of humanist ideals about the centrality of human agency with Astronist beliefs about the salvific capacities of the astronomical world in the form of transcension and the importance of the conferments of astronality, scope and stellancy to the potentialisation of the human condition.

Astrohumanism

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