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the brain has flatlined and the electroencephalo- Crookall, Robert. More Astral Projections. London:
Russ Tamblyn, Clair
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Bloom, and Richard
Johnson in a scene from Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901) has Ingram, Jay. “Can Consciousness Exist When the
the 1963 movie “The written that cases of astral projection present Brain Is Off-line?” Toronto Star, January 15, 2002.
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Haunting.” (THE KOBAL perhaps not the most useful, “but the most
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COLLECTION) extraordinary achievement of the human will.
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What can lie further outside any known capac-
ity than the power to cause a semblance of Monroe, Robert A. Far Journeys. New York: Double-
oneself to appear at a distance? What can be day, 1987.
more a central action—more manifestly the Muldoon, Sylvan, and Hereward Carrington. The
outcome of whatsoever is deepest and most Phenomena of Astral Projection. London: Rider &
unitary in man’s whole being? Of all vital phe- Co., 1966.
nomena, I say, this is the most significant; this
self-projection is the one definite act which it
seems as though a man might perform equally Phantoms
well before and after bodily death.” Almost every city, town, or village in the
world has a bit of folklore about a Phantom

M Delving Deeper Dog with red eyes that guards the grave of a
Black, David. Ekstasy: Out-of-the-Body Experiences. master long dead, a Phantom Nun who still
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. walks the ruins of a convent that burned to

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