The transfiguration of the psychosoma is a phenomenon by which 
the psychosoma is capable of changing form without altering its integrity; in 
other words, it is susceptible to being modified in form but not in its nature. [...]
In the projected state, the familiar human shape in maintained because of 
some automatic process of the mind or habit or simply because we can not 
conceive ourselves in any other way. The physical body is always our point of 
reference.