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Then explain how can the dead manifest themselves in said places when in the "real world" they couldn't*?The characters go there as astral projections. That's not the same as saying they are going to the astral plane. The occult believe you can use astral projection to travel this plane of existence.
The places they go to are clearly still physical realms following physical rules, albeit with a few more on top (like magic) or a rule altered here or there.
*And before you cite the phone call at the beginning of the game as a example of the dead manifesting in the real world, one of the theories there is that Orion experienced a partial bleeding effect similar to the one he experienced during the college shrooms trip that made him think there was a phone call when in actuality there wasn't.