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Astral body
Astral body: a subtle-body concept in Theosophy and derived occult systems, used by Blavatsky for the linga-sarira double and by Besant and Leadbeater for the emotional body (kama-rupa), with roots in Hindu subtle-body ideas.
Astral plane
The astral plane, also called the astral realm or astral world, is a non-physical dimension in esoteric philosophy where dreams, emotions, and out-of-body travel are said to take place.
Astral projection
Astral projection, also called astral travel, is the esoteric practice of deliberately leaving one's body, which mainstream psychology classifies as an out-of-body experience linked to the brain's temporo-parietal junction.
Astrana Health
Astrana Health, formerly Apollo Medical Holdings, is a physician-centric, risk-bearing healthcare company headquartered in Alhambra, California, with over 20,000 contracted physicians and about 1.6 million patients.
Astri Aas-Hansen
Astri Aas-Hansen is a Norwegian Labour Party politician serving as Minister of Justice and Public Security, responsible for the Schengen cooperation and representing Norway among EU and Schengen justice and interior ministers.
Astrid of Sweden
Astrid of Sweden, known as Queen Astrid of Belgium, was the wife of King Leopold III and queen from 1934 until her 1935 death in a car accident.
Astrology
Astrology, also known as Astrologia, is a set of traditions holding that celestial positions correlate with earthly events and human lives, with roots in Mesopotamian divination.
Astrology and science
Astrology and science examines astrology's shared history with astronomy and its scientific testing: double-blind experiments such as Carlson's 1985 study found natal astrology's predictions no better than chance.
Astrology and the classical elements
Astrology and the classical elements: fire, earth, air, and water as the four triplicities sorting the twelve zodiac signs, their Greek origins, humoral-medical extension, modern psychological reading, and scientific testing.
Astromind (星尘智能)
Astromind (星尘智能), whose product brand is Astribot, is a Chinese embodied-AI startup founded in Shenzhen in 2022 by ex-Tencent engineers that builds tendon-driven dual-arm robots.
Astronergy (正泰新能)
Astronergy (正泰新能) is the photovoltaic cell and module manufacturer of China's Chint Group, based in Haining, Zhejiang, and among the first to mass-produce n-type TOPCon modules.
Astronomical Diaries
The Astronomical Diaries, also known as the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, are Akkadian cuneiform records kept at Babylon from 652 BCE, recording celestial phenomena, prices, and events.
Astronomy in Goryeo
Astronomy in Goryeo was the state-run practice of celestial observation, calendar computation, and timekeeping under Korea's Goryeo dynasty, 918–1392, whose Goryeosa records are still used today.
Astroscale
Astroscale Holdings (株式会社アストロスケールホールディングス) is a Tokyo-based space debris removal company founded by Mitsunobu Okada in Singapore in 2013, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2024.
Astroturfing
Astroturfing is the practice of disguising a coordinated, sponsor-funded campaign as a spontaneous grassroots movement, through front groups, forged comments, or coordinated social media accounts, notably in climate politics and elections.
Astroworld Festival crowd crush
Astroworld Festival crowd crush: November 5, 2021 crowd surge at Travis Scott's festival at NRG Park, Houston, killing 10 by compression asphyxia; grand jury no-billed all defendants in 2023.
Asturian language
Asturian (asturianu, bable), an Asturleonese Romance language of Asturias, Spain, with about 100,000 speakers, three dialects, protected but non-official status, and an academy since 1980.
Astute Medical
Astute Medical was a San Diego in vitro diagnostics company founded in 2007 by former Biosite executives, best known for the FDA-cleared NephroCheck test for acute kidney injury risk.
Astuwatamanzas
Astuwatamanzas, also read Astuwalamanza, was an early Iron Age ruler of Carchemish on the Euphrates in northern Syria, of the house of Suhi, dated to about the 10th century BC.
Astyages
Astyages, known in Akkadian as Ištumegu, was the last king of Media, son of Cyaxares, who reigned from about 585 to 550 BC until Cyrus II captured his capital Ecbatana.
Astyanax
Astyanax (Ἀστυάναξ), also Scamandrius, is the infant son of Hector and Andromache in Greek mythology; "lord of the city" by name, he was killed at Troy's fall, flung from the walls by Neoptolemus or, in other versions, by Odysseus.
Asuene Inc.
Asuene Inc. (アスエネ株式会社) is a Tokyo-based climate-tech company founded in October 2019 by Kohei Nishiwada, selling the ASUENE carbon-accounting cloud used by more than 22,000 companies.
Asuka Kiyomihara Code
The Asuka Kiyomihara Code (飛鳥浄御原令) was a 22-volume administrative legal code of ancient Japan, ordered in 681 and issued in 689 under Empress Jitō; its contents are almost unknown today.
Asuka Kiyomihara Palace
The Asuka Kiyomihara Court (飛鳥浄御原宮) was the imperial palace complex at Asuka, in Nara Prefecture, serving as Japan's seat of government under Emperor Tenmu and Empress Jitō from 673 to 694.
Asuka period
The Asuka period (飛鳥時代) is the era of Japanese history from 592 to 710, named for the Asuka district south of Nara where imperial palaces stood.
Asukadera
Asukadera (飛鳥寺), also known as Hōkōji, was Japan's first full-scale Buddhist temple, founded by Soga no Umako in Asuka and completed in 596 with Baekje craftsmen.
Asukai Masatsune
Asukai Masatsune (飛鳥井雅経, 1170–1221), also called Fujiwara no Masatsune, was a Japanese court noble and waka poet who helped compile the Shin Kokin Wakashū in 1205.
Asura
Asura (Sanskrit asura; Chinese 阿修羅, axiuluo; Tibetan lha min) is a class of powerful non-human beings: originally an honorific for Vedic gods like Varuna, later the anti-gods warring with the devas, and in Buddhism both guardians of the teaching and one of the six realms of rebirth.
Asura (阿修罗) (Buddhism)
Asura (阿修罗, Tibetan lha ma yin) in Buddhism: a class of powerful, conflict-prone beings, enemies of the devas and Śakra, one of the six rebirth destinies, dwelling beneath or around Mount Sumeru.
Aśvaghoṣa (अश्वघोष)
Aśvaghoṣa (अश्वघोष, Ashvagosha) was an Indian Buddhist poet, dramatist, and philosopher of about 100 CE, in the era of Kaniṣka, whose Buddhacarita is the earliest surviving Sanskrit epic poem.