Category: Robert Crookall
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The Supreme Adventure: Analyses of Psychic Communications, by Robert Crookall, was published in 1961. It consists of reports describing the dying process, culled by Crookall from various books about mediumship. There are two points of particular interest about this material. First, even though it was collected from a variety of sources spanning many decades, it…
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A while ago, I posted some thoughts on Robert Monroe’s out-of-body experiences. I remarked that many of his astral adventures had a dreamlike or nightmarish quality, and I wondered if maybe he was experirncing hypnagogic hallucinations. That’s still possible, but more recently I’ve become aware of the very large body of esoteric literature purporting to…
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Many people complain that mediumistic communications are disappointingly trivial or obscure, and that the purported communicators forget basic facts they should remember. In his fascinating 1961 book The Supreme Adventure, Robert Crookall explores several explanations for these anomalies. One of them is that the communicators, in order to make contact with earthly minds, must "lower…
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Lately I’ve been reading The Supreme Adventure: Analysis of Psychic Communications, by Robert Crookall. In it, Crookall collects many accounts of the dying process from a variety of sources and examines them to see if they tell a more or less consistent story. His idea is that if the details of the story are consistent…