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Projections of the Consciousness: A Diary of Out-of-Body Experiences

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I have read this precious book at least 3 times and now keep it as an indispensable reference book. My personal experience with this book has been extraordinary! Projections of the Consciousness is a rich fountain of practical information that enabled me to experiment with various energetic techniques and served as a reference guide in terms of the different extraphysical communities encountered when one is out of the body. THE MAIN DIFFERENCE THAT I FOUND BETWEEN THIS BOOK AND OTHER BOOKS ON THE OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE IS THAT THIS BOOK ADDRESSED OUR PERSONAL LEVEL OF ETHICS AND COSMOETHICS IN RELATION TO OUR OBES. Why are we researching the OBE? Why are we going out of our bodies in the first place? What are our INTENTIONS vis-a-vis extraphysical contact and communication with others? This book inspired these crucial questions. A MUST READ AND A BOOK TO ENJOY FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES. Most touching.

Of all the books on out-of-the-body experiences that I've read, I found Projections of the Consciousness to be the best due to it's realistic description of extraphysical reality. PC is not sugar-coated - it is to the point. It is filled with useful information that can be a help to conscious projectors and those yet to have the experience. I've read the book a total of three times and with each read, I get more incite. It is truly a worthwhile read.

I have found this book to be one of the best out there on the subject. It is the author's diary of 60 willed out of body experiences.

The layout is excellent with a short explaination of his mental and environmental state before the OBE, followed by a description of activities that occured while out of body. Then relevant material and hindsight are added.

I found myself reading one or two of the 60 chapters before bed and it really gets you inspired and appreciating that the phenomenon is real. I still refer to the book often.

It contains heaps of metaphysical info and great insight. The way that other conscious personalities assist the author in leaving the body, teach and perform tasks with the author while out of body is amazing and something rarely mentioned to any great extent in other books.

The author has formed his own glossary of terms and jargon in the study his "projectiology". Although this was a bit hard to grasp in the beginning, you soon get used to it and appreciate it's originality.

Quite often books on this subject are written by authors with all this information on the subject, ie: method, method, method; but they hardly ever mention their own experiences, and if they do, they are not seriously examined. This book is entirely different. It is a well thought-out, intelligent and inspiring record of real experiences.

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There are many kinds of incredible, rich experiences detailed in this book that I re-read random chapters every once in a while. Great synchronicities some times, but the main thing is that it has given me mental targets for my OBE's. Before I didn't know how to really take advantage of my experiences and I just had them spontaneously. After this book I started training to have them by will like the author. My experiences are not typically as advanced as his and but I am having them more and more often. I have helped other people, gone to Europe, met friends from South America, and had joint OBE's with my girlfriend. And I have met spiritual guides (Helpers, as Vieira calls them) which has been very profound. My infantile ideas about this are shedding away from my own experiences. And now I live life more often as a spirit then just a machine in the rut. Thank you Dr. Vieira. And Thanks to other authors like Monroe and Crookall. But this book stands out for the kinds of OBE's - wow.

The first time I read this book (in 2 days)- I thought "great stories, but so what.. what does this mean to me in my life?"

The last time I read the book, some months later; it seemed like an entirely different book. I read one or 2 chapters a night and really thought about all that was being said and explained - the insights, information and implications are amazing.
I have found most important and impressive the new ideas that I have generated, the better understanding of life and people that I am obtaining and the OBE experiences I have been having. Of course not all of the changes are because of this book but some are directly attributable to it.

I would think it is a great book for anyone who has a sincere interest in out-of-body experience (OBE) or wants to learn more about the possibilities that seem to be available to us all in this life.

Why should you get out of your body?This book presents some pretty good reasons, the principal one being that it's a pretty interesting thing to do if you are keen on reality.And what a strange reality it is.Before reading this book I thought I knew something, afterwards I could count myself in the good company of that wise guy who knows that he doesn't know didley.

That's the best book i've already read about out of body experience. The author is very serious and is absolutely scientific.

The Brazillian MD and spiritual investigator, Waldo Vieira, has here produced a log of 60 OBEs he made in the 70s, and they are absolutely fascinating. This would probably be better known if it had more direct OBE instruction in it. (It does have some interesting sidebars on technique, but you couldn't project from this book alone I don't think.)

It's true that his writing is stilted. He says he wants to write "an objective, rather than a literary work, composed of technical reports," and so he does... "After receiving some instructions from Transmentor through psychophonic monologue, I laid down in the dorsal position at 7:12 pm" is a fair sample of the style. But Vieira does have a sense of humour and a poetic soul, as ultimately proves, and the unvarnishedness of the reports is very valuable in itself.

The wealth of experiences described here is fascinating and will inspire any projector to improve their own mastery. There's much that hasn't been recorded by anyone else - a night journey which shows human encounters with heroic monsters are far from dead for example, or a gigantic storm clearing away psychotic ghosts, love lighting up a tombstone, a moving day in the life of a truly enlightened being, and more.

Many of Vieira's experiences have to do with illustrating conditions immediately before birth and after death for our race at this time, and there are often little moral insights that illustrate what he calls the 'cosmoethic' -- the means of living truly well in this universe, I suppose one could say.

Vieira is also the first of the modern OBE authors to really nail the truth talked about in older works and traditions (eg. Franz Bardon's course which would be very compatible with Vieira) -- that there is such a thing as the mental body, and that it can project without the astral body attached, just as the astral can without the physical. He plays with this a few times. He also works with Guides constantly, including energetic transfers, which are well delineated and will suggest ideas to some practitioners.

A slight caveat: I'm using these fairly standard terms (astral, physical), but Vieira doesn't. Like other determinedly 'scientific' researchers -- eg. Monroe -- he wants an all-new and more objective-sounding terminology, rejecting older systems as overly mystical or vague. I don't blame him for it exactly, but his choice of terms is frankly ugly. Why we have to put up with 'intraphysical' and 'extraphysical' instead of the more common 'physical' and 'non-physical' I cannot understand; certainly there is no improvement in readability, and I doubt there is one in clarity. Perhaps it sounds better in Portuguese? Some of his other terms are somewhat better, but I'm not wild about 'soma' (body), 'psychosoma', 'mentalsoma' (mental body) etc. either. I would have thought that new terms ought to be coined only for new phenomena, if at all. The overwhelming number of them here really does make the English awkward.

I guarantee though that if you are able to get past this linguistic oddity you will be rewarded with a very insightful collection of reports. Most are to the low or middle earthzone, but the last shows that, even in 1979 when these projections were taking place, Vieira was able to reach a high spiritual level. His language goes into very unscientific raptures as he encounters a taste of mental perfection, well worth reading and very inspiring.

Vieira would rank highest for me, I think, of all the modern projection authors who belong to no spiritual tradition, and such people as Buhlman or Bruce would be well rewarded by looking at his work. Someday I might tackle his larger and more technical book, 'Projectiology'. I confess, I don't look forward to the vocabulary! But there is a unique and valuable spiritual voice here, and one with a great deal of expertise.

This book, meanwhile, really should not be missed by anyone with an interest in this subject matter. It is a great piece of work.

this is a great book when you want to get an idea about the possibilities during out-of-body-experiences. The variaty of experiences is huge. This book is very interesting and will give you a lot of goals when out of the body. And there are more books by this writer!

This is a description of the author's 60 out-of-body experiences (OBEs) from the end of the 1970s, carefully and systematically recorded right after the experiences themselves took place.

While the issue of OBEs itself is extremely interesting, the book, although describing fantastic events, was less so. Why? It is written for an average person, man from the street, not a projectionist, a dedicated mystic,yogi etc. It is an easy reading, especially compared to Mr Vieira's encyclopedic "Projectiology" which is a real nut to crack. Most of the ordinary readers today would probably dismiss the whole subject as total crap, sheer fantasy. For those interested enough (or maybe open-minded enough to take interest?) the main question would most probably be: is it real? a) Isn't it mystification? There is no firm proof but we could reasonably assume that Mr Vieira is sincere and honest. He has done enormous work studying the OBE phenomenon. He feels having a mission in this life. To do all this just for the pleasure of cheating? Let us drop this possibility. So, believing that he believes in what he is saying: b) Is it subjective reality (SR) or objective reality (OR)? In other words, is it something taking place in our minds - say, like a specific kind of lucid dream (SR)? Or does some non-corporeal part of us really depart from our sleeping bodies and is capable of moving, thinking, perception, remembering (OR)? In the first case, OBEs would still be interesting but mainly for psychologists/psychiatrists. But if the case of OR could be proved, it would be an enormous change of our total world view, with all the consequences. So, the question of SR/OR is probably most important for ordinary readers who seem to be the target group of such books.

Strangely, the author does not seem to be concerned with this question at all. For him OBEs are most real. He stresses more than once that for a person having experienced OBEs, they are absolutely real and constitute a life-changing event. But so what? This is nothing to convince neither the man from the street nor the scientific researcher.

Unfortunately, reports like those in this book can neither be verified nor refuted. The person experiencing them can be 100% sure of their reality, however, he/she cannot prove it to other people. All the "scientific" details given here (time, temperature, humidity, lying down in the dorsal position etc) are quite irrelevant in this sense. You read and get more and more frustrated. Is there really nothing to rely upon? Is it all merely "anecdotal evidence", non-verifiable accounts? Finally, at least, there is something: projection No 47 can be taken as giving at least some evidence for the OR case. The projector experiences an OBE in his apartment; he notices that his wife is not where she is usually sleeping; and he sees some numbers high in the bookshelves that he has not noticed before. The reality of those experiences is verified after his return to the body and waking up.

The issue of SR/OR was just one Nagging Question while reading the book. Later, another Nagging Question arose: why are those other realms/other realities in their majority SO predictable, like carbon copies of our physical world? If you read at least one popular book on cosmology and quantum mechanics, you can see that scientific discoveries concerning the nature of the universe have been so fantastic and unexpected that they surpass our wildest dreams: no-one has ever been able to predict anything even close to Einstein's discoveries or the laws of quantum physics. To say that our physical world is fantastic would be just a trivial understatement. And here now, when we speak of other dimensions of existence, even more fantastic discoveries could be expected. In fact, there are none. Almost everything is expectable. Doesn't this (unfortunately) support the SR hypothesis, something like projections being "dreams" molded by our expectations?

There is an extract from projection No 37 that could add weight to this doubt. Citing: "Only with greater experience is the projector able to discern when he or she is in fact seeing physical objects with clarity and when he or she is adding his own morphothosenes based on his perception. Thought is an extraordinarily creative resource. If the projected mind thinks that a detail is missing in an object, it can immediately add it, including it in its perceptions." This phenomenon could explain what Robert Bruce calls "reality fluctuations" in the projective state, and it complicates the picture even more.

It must be admitted that the book certainly contains a lot of interesting and really very important ideas. But as such, they remain just declarations and so doubts remain as to their validity.