The idea of travelling through the universe astrally has intrigued me, as well as others, for some time. The Cluster series of novels by Piers Anthony and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon are examples of astral travelling. Do Tibetan monks travel astrally? At least for a decade or more, I have been pondering about the fragility of the human body for deep space travel. Would transhumanism at least be necessary, the technological augmentation of the human body and mind? Or, would wholly mechanical entities with artificial general intelligence, or even uploaded human minds, do the job?
Religion in future outer space is a subject of some sci-fi. The Dune franchise is a great example. Frank Herbert created the thousands-of-years-from-now Dune series, focusing on an Arab-like culture and language group of the Fremen on the desert planet Arrakis in a galactic imperium in which the language Galach is spoken, a derivative of ancient English and Slavic languages. I have read another book, The Jesus Incident, by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, about a spaceship that is like a god to its human crew, looking to colonize another planet.
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