Astral Trapping

Astral Trapping is the ability to cause an astral projection or "ghost" to stay on the astral plane, usually in one specific place. Many people think this power has the capability to control spirits and ghosts, but that is incorrect, that power is Mediumship.

Also Known As

 * Astral Imprisonment
 * Astral Trapping
 * Ghost Trapping

Capability
The user can banish ghosts or spirits. Can prevent a ghost from manifesting and prevent an astral projector from entering their body, they have the ability to force ghosts on or off their plane of existence. Can sense a possessed individual, or a "devil-in-flesh", and can remove the invader-spirit.

With practice and experience, can summon such spirits in their true form, as physical manifestations, and banish them just as well.

Typically, this power is a bi-product of Magic, or Psionic powers.

Personality
Having an insider knowledge to one of the world's best kept secret truths, the Spirit World, users of Astral manipulation tend to be profoundly wise, and intuitive, but at the same time, operate with a very smart-ass tone to their speech, and run the risk of becoming apathetic to mundane matters. Usually, they work alone, or only with a small team of their most trusted associates, which is not an extensive list by any means.

Because of what they are capable of, users of this power tend to have a level of ominous sycnhronicity, showing up miraculously, in the right places, at just the right times, to save the day.

Uses

 * Trap spirits, ghosts, and demons onto objects.
 * Control over Astral energy.
 * Summon demons, ghosts, or spirits, to do the user's bidding.
 * 'Borrow' the powers of ghosts and spirits.
 * Access information that only spirits know.
 * Summon souls into another living body or 'Induced Possession'
 * Resistance from psychic assault.

Associations
May accompany Immortality, or Ancestral Evocation.

Known Users

 * Shamans (Shaman King)
 * Alice Hotwire (Radical)
 * John Constantine (DC Vertigo)
 * Hellboy (Dark Heroes Comics)
 * Bixlow (Fairy Tail)
 * Nicholas (Sword of Truth series)
 * Father Paul Rawlings (Clive Barker's Jericho)