Category: OBEs
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Sometime on Saturday morning I had my first lucid dream. I’d read about these things, but never experienced one. However, my reading probably came in handy, because it allowed me to recognize that I was in a dream state. In the dream, I was expecting the mailman to deliver a package to me. (In reality,…
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I've just read Supernatural by Graham Hancock, a highly enjoyable and thought-provoking exploration of altered states of consciousness brought about by the ingestion of psychoactive chemicals. Previously, I had read only one other book by Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods. I enjoyed it for his lively writing style and boundless speculation, but I wasn't convinced…
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Currently I'm reading Adventures Beyond the Body, by William Buhlman, an interesting look at the author's many out-of-body experiences. With a book like this, you are asked to take the author at his word; he says he has had hundreds of OBEs and has taught other people how to do it. I have no reason…
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How common are out-of-body experiences? Are there other experiences we don’t normally think of as OBEs that nevertheless might fit into the same general category? What got me thinking along these lines was the book Abduction by John Mack, the controversial study of people who claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrials. Right off the…