ASTRAL PROJECTION Discover how spontaneous out-of-body projection occurs during accidents, birth, death, sleep and meditation. Unlock your hidden powers and learn to project your "other self" from its physical shell. Brad Steiger Experience Out-of-Body Travel Imagine being able to project yourself into the future. How would you conduct your life today if you knew what was going to happen in a day, a week or even in a decade? The key is Astral Projection and Brad Steiger's new book can teach you to master it. In Astral Projection, internationally known psychic researcher Brad Steiger has compiled all the major cases about this amazing phenomenon. Steiger's compendium of astral travel presents case histories and techniques that will allow you to conquer the constraints of time and space. Far more than just a scholarly dissertation on out-of-body experiences, Astral Projection examines the scientific and non-scientific evidence of this amazing occurrence. You'll find everything from controlled laboratory experiments to Steiger's work with color and Peruvian whistling vessels as means of controlling your out-of-body experiences. Take part in experiments that will tell you about your past life. Maybe you were a peasant, a soldier or even an aristocrat. Discover how these past lives affect the way you are now. Imagine being able to contact long- dead relatives. What could you do with the knowledge they can pass on to you? Learn a variety of techniques that will allow you to project your spirit out of your physical body and find out why those who have mastered astral travel have no fear of death. Brad Steiger, internationally known psychic researcher, has authored more than 80 books in the metaphysical, psychic and inspirational fields. The motion picture rights for a number of his books such as Valentino have been sold. Steiger was also a writer of Unknown Powers, a 1978 film that won the Film Advisory Board's Award of Excellence. Some of his other works include True Ghost Stories, Astral Projection, The Healing Power of Love, Indian Medicine Power, Kahuna Magic, and Discover Your Past Lives. He and his wife, Sherry, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. Other Brad Steiger books published by Whitford Press Astral Projection Brad Steiger Predicts the Future Discover Your Past Lives Exploring the Power Within: A Resource book for Transcending the Ordinary The Healing Power of Love Indian Medicine Power Mysteries of Time and Space The Teaching Power of Dreams True Ghost Stories ASTRAL PROJECTION 77 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, PA 19310 Published by Whitford Press A Division of Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 77 Lower Valley Road Atglen, PA 19310 Please write for a free catalog. This book may be purchased from the publisher. Please include $2.95 postage. Astral Projection by Brad Steiger FEB 25 1999 Copyright © 1982 Brad Steiger All rights reserved. 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Contents 1 Mind Travelling through Time and Space 1 2 The Spiritual Body of Man 9 3 Projection at the Time of Accident 15 4 Leaving the Body during Intense Pain 25 5 Out-of-Body Experiences during Illness 33 6 Projection during Surgery 41 7 Astral Travel during Sleep 47 8 Projection at the Moment of Death 63 9 Masters, Teachers and Guides 73 10 Conscious Out-of-Body Projections 83 11 Doppelgangers and Human Doubles 91 12 Teleportation and Bilocation 97 13 Encounters with Spirits of the Dead 103 14 The Old Pros 109 15 Some Experiments with Hypnosis 127 16 Visiting a Haughty Lady from Old Scotland 147 17 Into the Time Tunnel 167 18 Hypnosis, Mind Control and ESP 189 19 Medical Diagnosis and Therapy through Mind Travel 205 20 Science Looks at Consciousness and Out-of-Body Experience 215 1 Mind Travelling through Time and Space One night Sara Norris arose sleepily from her bed, reluctant to leave the hollow of warmth beside her husband. It was 3 A.M. Time to feed the baby. She walked into the kitchen and turned up the gas flame beneath the old pan she used to warm the baby's bottle. While Sara waited for the water to heat, she looked out over the moonlit farmyard and listened to the night noises. She had felt exhausted when she went to bed that evening. She had carried the heavy load of her pregnancy through an exceptionally hot summer. The delivery had been long and difficult, but Sara had left her hospital bed to come back to the farm at harvest time, and she was never able to get caught up on her sleep. There was extra cooking for the hired hands; the meals were often late; and they could not afford a woman to help with the housework. Then, while her husband slept, she had to get up during the night to see to the baby. What she wouldn't have given to be able to sleep one night through. Just one night's sleep without interruption. The bottle was ready. She tested it on her arm, then walked into the baby's room and slid the nipple between his lips before he had time to cry. Sara did not want to waken her husband or their two other children sleeping in the next room. Nor did she wish to hear a piercing scream shatter the kind of blissful somnambulism in which she moved. 2 Astral Projection Returning to bed, Sara was startled to see her own sleeping form lying next to her husband. Hair in disarray, mouth slightly open, one forearm resting across her brow - the form was unmistakably that of her own body. But how could she be in two places at once? There was a tingle of fear... a strange tugging sensation.. then Sara jerked awake with a jolt. A dream. A bizarre dream. But the baby had his bottle and lay contentedly working the rubber nipple. Had Sara's soul, her essential stuff, her basic essence, separated itself from her sleeping body so that the bone-tired physical shell could rest undisturbed while her spiritual self saw to the baby? A prison inmate decided to blunt the ragged edge of his loneliness by taking an afternoon nap. "I had one wild trip," he writes. "You see, I am very much in love with this lady, and she with me. But we are apart for two reasons. One, I am here; two, she is married and lives in Idaho. "But this one day I went to sleep and dreamed that I was there. I saw that she lived in an upstairs apartment, and I could see that it was raining very hard. It was so real that I kept trying to talk to her, but she just went about her business doing housework. "Then I was outside and saw her girl coming home from school in the rain on her bike. I saw the girl fall off her bike and hurt herself. I tried to help the girl, but I could not. This is when I woke up. "Later I got a letter from my lady written on the day I had my dream. She told me that her little girl fell off her bike and that she took her to the doctor. So I wrote back and asked her what was the weather like the day she fell. She wrote back and said it was raining, plus she wanted to know how I knew she lived in an upstairs apartment. I had never been to Idaho in my life." Jewell Hooker says when she was seven years old, she died of pneumonia. Early in April, 1923, in her farm home in Missouri, two doctors removed a rib and part of a lung in their efforts to rid her of the infection. They slipped a door off its hinges to serve as an operating table. Jewell's father had died only three years before, and the child's mother prayed that she would not have her daughter taken from her as Mind Travelling through Time and Space 3 well. But Jewell heard one of the doctors say, "No use now; she is gone." Then the girl found herself walking across a footbridge into a beautiful place she thought must be heaven. At the end of the footbridge stood her father with an angel. "Go back, Julie May," he said in a gentle voice, "your mother needs you." Mrs. Hooker writes that she protested that she wanted to stay there with him in that beautiful place. "Childlike, I turned to the angel and said, 'I want to see Jesus.' She smiled and said, 'Not this time. You have a lot to do yet and your mother is waiting.' My father urged, 'Go back now. You can come later. We all will be together later on.' " The child seemed to walk back to the room in the farm house where the doctors stood over her mother, holding the child's body in her arms and sobbing over and over, "Thank you, God!" When she was older, Jewell learned that she had been dead for fifteen minutes. The three cases just cited appear to be sound examples of what parapsychologists term out-of-body experience (OBE); instances in which the spirit, the mind, the very essence of a man or woman is projected outside the body to locations across a room, across the country or into another plane of existence, able to return with conscious memory of the experience.