Out-of-the-body experiences

I read the old literature of psychical research and the literature of parapsychology voraciously during my late teens, but it was an isolated intellectual quest. No one I knew really shared my interest in the subject. When 1 entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study electrical engineering in 1955,1 found other students interested in this subject, and we formed a club to further our mutual study of it. During my sophomore year, I carried out my first serious study of psi an attempt to produce out-of-the-body experiences by hypnosis. 

We shall touch here on telepathic dreams, precognition, remote viewing, and out-of-the-body experiences. There are other... 

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A second psychophysiological study of out-of-the-body experiences in a gifted subject, int. 3. Parapsychol., 1967, 9, 251-258. 

Some Methodological Problems in Research on Out-of-the-Body Experiences, in w. Roll, R. Morris, and 3 Morris (eds.). Research in Parapsychology, 1973. Metuchen, N. 3. Scarecrow Press, 1974, pp. 116-120. 

Out-of-the-Body Experiences, in T. x. Barber et al (eds.). Alterations in Awareness and Human Potentialities, 1973 Annual. New York Psychological Dimensions, 1974. 

Because ketamine comes in an iniectahle form and because many of its users are medical personnel, it tends to he taken by injection, usually intramuscularly Given in this way it produces an altered state of consciousness that begins in a few minutes and lasts about half an hour. The feeling is one of dreamy, floating disconnection from external reality. Some ketamine enthusiasts like to cake it while lying in sensory isolation tanks in attempts to have out-of-the-body experiences. 

Review of Celia Green, Lucid Dreams and Out-of-the-Body Experiences. J. Am. Soc. Psych. 

Altered States of Consciousness. 2nd. ed., revised. New York Doubleday Anchor, 1972. Sleep EEG study of out-of-the-body experiences. Psychophysiology, 1972. 

Some Methodological Problems in Research on Out-of-the-Body Experiences. In W. Roll, R. 

Fox, Oliver (1962). Astral Projection A Record of Out-of-the-Body Experiences, University Books,New Hyde Park, NY, pp. 34-35. 

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