EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN EXPERIENCE, OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES

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Exceptional Human Experience
homo noeticus (the model of which is Jesus or
Buddha), has not only awakened but "has
awakened the wisdom-eye" (p. 192). NDErs are
called to live from wisdom, make it real, as well as
from the heart. - R.A.W.
NEW AGE
ENCYCLOPEDIAS / DICTIONARIES
04373. Melton, J. Gordon, Clark, Jerome, and Kelly,
Aidan A. New Age Encyclopedia (1st ed.). Detroit,
MI: Gale Research, 1990. 586p. Index: 527-586
The subtitle of this encyclopedia delineates its
scope: "A Guide to the Beliefs, Concepts, Terms,
People, and Organizations That Make Up the New
Global Movement Toward Spiritual Development,
Health and Healing, Higher Consciousness, and
Related Subjects." The coverage is limited to the
New Age Movement per se (including the holistic
health movement) and "its immediate and direct
antecedents" not the historical roots. There are 334
numbered entries, ranging in length from a
paragraph to 10 or more pages. Each entry lists
additional sources of information. The volume
begins with a useful and informative introductory
essay and chronology entitled "An Overview of the
New Age Movement." It describes the origin and
history of the movement, the role its major leaders
have played, and summarizes the main beliefs and
"ideological commitments" of the movement. It is
followed by a listing of the major works by the
authors to obtain an overview of the New Ave.
The 4-page New Age chronology begins with the
founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875 and
goes through Shirley MacLaine's televised version
of her book Out on a Limb in 1987. An important
appendix is a 10-page listing of educational institu-
tions that offer degrees or programs on New Age
subjects. - R.A.W.
OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES
04374. Josephs, Allen. Hemingwa 's out of body ex-
perience. Hemingway Review, 1983, 2(2), 11-17. 15 refs
Describes Ernest Hemingway's out-of-body arguing that it was not fabricatedy but
authentic. Josephs says "it affected him
profoundly enough to become a repeated event in
his fiction and to influence his eschatology, and
particularly his focus on the subject of death" (p.
16). He documents these statements with frequent
references to the Nick Adams stories, and offers
some speculations on Hemingway's OBE itself
based primarily on Charles Tart's writings and an
interview with him. - R.A.W.
EXPERIMENTS
04375. Verpeaux, Pierre. Hypnosis, telepathy and
OBEs. Revue Francaise de Psychotronique, 1988 (Apr-
Jun), 1(1), 27.
Using a S who was experiencing a good type
of hypnotic trance and also an OBE, the author
reports some preliminary results with telepathy
(with or without hypnosis). Furthermore, the S
describes (clairvoyantly?), in an OBE, several very
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good details of a picture in a room he had never
seen or been in before. - B.O.B.
SCHOLARLY OVERVIEWS
04376. Vicira, Waldo. Projeciologia: Survey of OBE
Experiences. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Brasil-
America S.A. EBAL, 1986. 900p. Bibl: 699-771; 40 il-
lus; Name Index: 775-787; Place Index: 789-794; Sub-
ject Index: 795-866.
The author is director-president of the newly
formed "Institute of Projectiology" and editor of
its Boretim In formativo since June, 1989. Vieira is
also a physician working in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
The book surveys 22 years of research on the out-
of-body problem. There are 15 chapters (each one
with its own bibliography), plus 2 additional ones
covering open letters" and a "general bibliography
about OBEs" (for Viera, "Projeciologia") (pp. 699-
771). The whole work is preceded by an
"Introduction" and a short glossary. Titles of chap-
ters are as follows: (I) The Foundation of ProJ'ec-
tiology; (II) OBE-Projectiology Phenomena; (III)
Altered States of Consciousness; (IV) Manifesta-
tion Channels of Consciousness; (V) Philosophical
Considerations; (VI) Previous Physical Wakeful-
ness; (VII) Techniques of Conscious Projection;
(VIII) Exteriorization of Consciousness States; (IX)
Extra-Physical Moment of Consciousness; (X) Rela-
tions of Projected Consciousness; (XI) Internaliza-
tion Period of Consciousness; (XII) Ulterior Physi-
cal Wakefulness; (XIII) The Subject and his
"Projections'; (XIV) Relations of the "Conscious"
Projection; (XV) Scientific Approaches; (XVI)
Open Letters'; (XVII) Bibliography (699-771); In-
dexes; a) Names (775-787); b) Places (789-94); c) Sub-
jects (795-866). The subject index deals with
nearly 2,000 topics. This has to be considered a
basic reference work on OBEs. - B.O.B.
SURVEYS
04377. Blackmore, Susan. Out-of-body experiences in
schizophrenia: A questionnaire survey. Journal of Nerv-
ous and Mental Disease, 1986 (Oct), 174(10), 615-619. 15
refs; 2 tables
Questionnaires on perceptual distortions,
symptoms of schizophrenia, and out-of-body ex-
periences (OBEs) were completed by 71 volunteers
with a history of schizophrenia and 40 control sub-
jects (patients in a hospital accident ward). Sig-
nificantly more of the schizophrenics (42%) than
of the control group (13%) answered "yes' to a ques-
tion about OBEs. However, a follow-up question-
naire showed that only 14% of schizophrenics (i.e.,
the same as the control group) had had "typical"
OBEs, in which a change of viewpoint was
reported. Those reporting typical OBEs did not
report more perceptual distortions or symptoms of
schizophrenia than did those' reporting no OBEs,
although those reporting other atypical ex-
periences did. On this basis there is no evidence
to consider the typical OBE as pathological or as
symptomatic of schizophrenia. - DA
04378. Blackmore, Susan J., and Wooffitt, Robin C.
Out-of-the-body experiences in young children. Journal
of the Society for Psychical Research, 1990 (Apr),
56(819), 155-158. 17 refs; 1 table
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