etheric

Etymology

ether + -ic

adj

  1. Of or pertaining to the ether (all-pervading medium); composed of ether; inhabiting the ether.
    Most commonly spirit beings appear in their etheric bodies, but there are many accounts of these old sorcerers calling up spirits in their fleshly bodies[.] 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 229
    In the etheric body of a yogini in meditation, the polarity is, therefore, not between the brain and the genitals, the second and sixth chakras, but between the inner sexuality of the womb and the heart. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19

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