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mediumship should be noted, as several projectors have had psychic gifts or an association with psychical phenomena. Both Sylvan J. Muldoon and Vincent N. Turvey appear to have had their psychic faculties intensified by long periods of illness.
Since the present book was published there have been a great many cases of astral projection, but they do not make the headlines. Essentially this experience is an intensely personal revelation which many ordinary people do not discuss for fear of ridicule. I have met several people who did not know that their uncanny experiences were not indicative of mental disorder, and it has been fascinating for me to listen to firsthand descriptions of classic phases of astral projection by people who had never heard the term or known that there were books on the subject.
The idea that astral projection is simply an hallucination can be dismissed out of hand as a vague speculation of critics who have never had personal experience of the subject.
Obviously if you need any reliable account of unusual or specialised and subtle knowledge you naturally approach people with first-hand experience. Anyone who has had some degree of experience of astral projection knows that the actual awareness of being outside one's body cannot be brushed away as hallucinatory, any more than the experience of physical consciousness in normal waking life. My own experience is slight, but I have never forgotten the intense solemnity and awe-inspiring wonder of existence outside the physical body.
All such extensions of consciousness have metaphysical implications. For thousands of years, different religions have taught that man has a subtle soul for which the physical body is only a temporary residence. One brief experience of astral projection has often proved more convincing than many sermons, and brought an individual face to face with the great enigma of existence for the first time. The testimony of such people is more important than the ingenious arguments of
Since the present book was published there have been a great many cases of astral projection, but they do not make the headlines. Essentially this experience is an intensely personal revelation which many ordinary people do not discuss for fear of ridicule. I have met several people who did not know that their uncanny experiences were not indicative of mental disorder, and it has been fascinating for me to listen to firsthand descriptions of classic phases of astral projection by people who had never heard the term or known that there were books on the subject.
The idea that astral projection is simply an hallucination can be dismissed out of hand as a vague speculation of critics who have never had personal experience of the subject.
Obviously if you need any reliable account of unusual or specialised and subtle knowledge you naturally approach people with first-hand experience. Anyone who has had some degree of experience of astral projection knows that the actual awareness of being outside one's body cannot be brushed away as hallucinatory, any more than the experience of physical consciousness in normal waking life. My own experience is slight, but I have never forgotten the intense solemnity and awe-inspiring wonder of existence outside the physical body.
All such extensions of consciousness have metaphysical implications. For thousands of years, different religions have taught that man has a subtle soul for which the physical body is only a temporary residence. One brief experience of astral projection has often proved more convincing than many sermons, and brought an individual face to face with the great enigma of existence for the first time. The testimony of such people is more important than the ingenious arguments of
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