The Out-of-Body Experience: the history and science of Astral Travel
Anthony Peake
Watkins, 2011
133.95 P357o
mapping other realities
"As far back as written records can take us, and it is fairly reasonable to conclude, as far back as man has discussed his inner world with his fellow human beings, this place of dreams and hallucinations has presented a window to another reality...throughout the millennia, mysitcs, magicians and saints have encountered this alternative world and experienced it on their own terms, and in doing so have devised techniques and processes whereby this place can be entered and left at will. These 'travellers' have reported back to their associates a geography and structure of these 'Astral Planes' that are surprisingly consistent..." -ch. 2
The Out of Body Experience is a hot topic these days and Anthony Peake has extensively covered various fields of enquiry that may, at last, help us to understand this unusual phenomenon. It is the first book on the topic to cast its net around dreams, shamanism, Eastern thought and quantum physics, with OBEs as the central core... -Stanely Krippner, Saybrook Univ.