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Author: Robert McLuhan
One of the first books I read on paranormal matters was Sylvian Muldoon's Projection of the Astral Body, published (I think) during the 1930s. It talks about how he started having out-of-the-body experiences, and how he learned to bring them on regularly. I'd never come across such a thing before, and the idea of it blew me away.
Later I came across collections of OBE anecdotes by Robert Crookall and Celia Green, the work of Robert Monroe and others, and realised that this is a well attested phenomenon. I was also impressed by veridical details that suggest it's genuinely supernormal. By the time I discovered Susan Blackmore's study I was disinclined to accept her 'all-in-the-mind' explanation, which I found well argued but thinly supported by experience, being derived from her single episode.
Yet I realise now that I've treated the out-of-body experience from a research perspective, not from a practical one, as something that might be exciting - and spiritually educational - to actually do. When Graham Nicholls, an out-of-body expert, got in touch to invite me to one of his workshops last year, I was tempted, but it seemed like a big leap to take.
Now Nicholls has sent me his new book to review, about how to induce OBEs. I soon realised it would make no sense without reading his first one, Avenues of the Human Spirit, which tells how he first started having these experiences. So this post is by way of comment on both.... continues
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