Michael Beloved In a sense he is still on the planet. He is an earthbound soul, most of us are, which means that even in the deceased condition, we remain with the earth’s atmosphere but on the subtle side of it. Our astral forms do not have the power to leave the earth’s atmosphere. Many people who do astral projection do so from one subtle earthly place to another, they do not go into outer space and only reach astral dimensions which are near in vibration to the physical earth. Death of the physical body does not necessarily release an individual from being earth-bound.