The Technique of Astral Projection
About This Book
Robert Crookall's The Technique of Astral Projection is a rigorous and methodically organised compilation of out-of-body experience accounts gathered from hundreds of independent sources — ranging from published first-person accounts through correspondence with practitioners through reports in psychical research journals — systematically analysed to identify the common features and recurring patterns that suggest a genuine underlying phenomenon rather than individual imagination or cultural suggestion. Crookall, a retired geologist with scientific training, applied the same systematic comparative methodology to OBE research that a natural scientist would apply to biological or geological specimens.
The book documents the consistent features of spontaneous and induced out-of-body experiences across independent accounts: the specific sensations accompanying exit and re-entry, the appearance of the physical body as observed from outside it, the characteristics of the silver cord, the nature of the quasi-physical environment encountered near the physical world, and the qualities that distinguish the nearest non-physical dimensions from those further removed from physical reality. Crookall's comparative method — presenting parallel accounts from multiple independent sources that describe the same features without knowledge of each other — constitutes a form of indirect replication that is genuinely valuable as evidence.
What You'll Learn
• Understand Crookall's comparative methodology: how he gathered and systematically analysed hundreds of independent OBE accounts, what criteria he used to evaluate their reliability, and why the consistency of specific features across independent accounts constitutes meaningful evidence
• Grasp the consistent features of the exit process across Crookall's data: the specific sensations of vibration, the cataleptic state, the sense of movement or rolling free of the physical body, and the characteristic visual and auditory phenomena that accompany successful separation
• Recognise the silver cord evidence: how independent accounts consistently describe a connecting link between the physical and non-physical bodies during OBE states, what it appears to be made of, and what its behaviour suggests about the relationship between the bodies
• Learn the characteristics of the 'vehicle of vitality': Crookall's term for the etheric body that typically accompanies the consciousness in the nearest non-physical environments, its appearance, its relationship to the physical body, and the process of its gradual dissolution in the early stages after physical death
• Appreciate the comparative project as scientific method: how the accumulation of consistent independent accounts, methodically compared, creates a form of evidence for the OBE phenomenon that transcends the limitations of any single first-person report
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