Among the many positive elements of the out-of-body experience is the fact that it can be used??"at least when the astral body is in the "heavy" state to help sick and suffering persons. Many such astral healing miracles are attributed, for instance, to the late, much??"celebrated Roman Catholic

Knowledgeable astral projectors are aware that their astral bodies may change from episode to episode. At times the second body may be quite "thin." At  other times it is "heavier." This is because the astral body is a composite, made up in varying proportions of a physical (or semi-physical)

"I was not conscious of leaving the body, but woke up out of it. It was not a dream, for the consciousness was an enhanced one, as superior to the ordinary waking state as that is to the dream state. I became conscious of what, for want of a better term, I must call music; gentle and sweet it was

Of all the implications of the phenomenon of astral projection, surely the most profound is that we have an existence??"a conscious existence, with intelligence, feeling, memory and perception??"that is able to operate outside the physical body. If this consciousness can separate from the body

One moonlit evening in 1924 a restless, depressed young man named Sylvan Muldoon came home from a walk. He collapsed on his bed without bothering to take off his clothes. Instead of relaxing, however, his body grew rigid. Muldoon, who had undergone many out-of-body experiences, knew what was

Stressful situations can cause people spontaneously to leave their bodies. The phrase "stressful situation" hardly begins to describe the plight of Ed Morrell, who as an inmate of a state penitentiary, was subjected to terrible tortures but who succeeded in escaping the attendant agony by

One of the most remarkable parapsychological experiments of all time took place on April 27, 1973, at the Stanford Research Institute in California. As physicists monitored their activities, two of America’s leading psychics, Harold Sherman and lngo Swann, projected their consciousnesses into

While you are traveling on the astral plane, you will not necessarily always be traveling alone. You may meet other astral travelers, perhaps friends or lovers whom you have arranged to meet there. You may also meet (as we shall see a bit later) spirits of the dead. Possibly, too, you will

One hot day in May 1967, 16-year-old Reinee Pasarow of La Crescent, California, awoke suffering from the effects of a severe allergic reaction. A doctor was summoned and he gave her an injection, then left, assuring her that she would be fine. Over the next several hours, she struggled to remain

Where do people go when they leave their bodies? Frequently they go to see those persons they most care about: absent family members, friends and sweethearts. One famous example of astral reunion occurred in 1862 and concerned a Bridgeport, Connecticut, man named Wilmot who was returning home from