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Remote Perceptions: Out-of-Body Experiences, Remote Viewing, and Other Normal Abilities

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.... ...this book, which I just finished this evening, held my interest throughout. I start many books and finish only a few. The main insight gained from her book was the relationships between remote viewing, OBE and Astral Projection. It seems that these psi activities are on the same continuum; that one interested in proving the reality of it will retain the consious mind and use RV, one wanting to explore the physical will use imagery and other techniques to induce an OBE, and those of us that want a mystical, spiritual, ecstatic experience will pursue AP.

Some of the chapters, particularly later in the book, do seem a bit choppy; but they are informative and provide a very good bibliography.

I read this book in preparation for interviewing Ms. Smith on Talkcity.com about this book. I found the book to be an excellent discription of the research process that has gone on in the past twenty years. She also updates the jargon of the profession. Remote perceptions is a nice term to describe the variety of experiences that extend our consciousness beyond our normal locale. I found her explantions to be accurate. The follow-up interveiw also revealed she is authentic.

This book was confusing, tangential, and disorganized. If you really want to understand Remote Viewing, read Joe McMoneagle's books. If you want OBE experiences, read Robert Monroe's. If you want practical OBE techniques, read Bob Perterson's book. If you want to be blown away with the possibilities of altered state exploration, read Bruce Moen's books or Rosalind McKnight's (wow!). I read the whole blasted book because Hampton Roads Publishing Co, published it (they usually do wonderful books)! It wasn't the money I wasted on this book that I regret, it was the time.

A really terrific book, and an excellent complement to Joe McMoneagle's Remote Viewing. As a beginning remote viewer (I can do it sometimes, so I know it works) I found Thompson Smith's book both helpful and encouraging. I also enjoyed it immensely -- the writing was straightforward and engaging.

From and individual who has read just about everything published on these topics, from Muldoon to Bruce to Castaneda, I highly recommend this as a good place to start.

So many books on these subjects are simply hard to finish. They have a good start but become so repetitive by the end that you simply put them down. This book has avoided that by combining two sections. The first is a series of stories about Angela's experiences. The second is a well-researched history of modern psychic research. Both are very interesting! And in the end it provides this book with a very satisfying, well-rounded feel. It's a page-turner for sure!

This book is expertly written, and contains chapter-by-chapter bibliographies for any who wish to pursue further reading.

I was fortunate enough to have spent a week with Angela in Las Vegas doing her remote viewing course. I concluded that she possesses extraordinary talents and has the natural ability to share her unique knowledge with her students in an easy-going, graphic manner. Her book is written in the same style. It is required reading for any individual who is developing an interest in the 21st century mind-science of remote viewing. -- Editor - AUSTRALIAN LATERAL THINKING NEWSLETTER

This book had minimal value as a source of information regarding Remote viewing. I found the same information just form surfing the web. However, while surfing the web I was not forced to read the life story of a woman who had several bad marriages (due to her propensity for finding men who like to abuse their wives, whic she should have known if she were such a great psychic). In telling her life story she goes from childhood to adulthood and back to childhood experiences so rapidly that you can easily become lost. Then she jumps into her contact with extraterretrials. I personally believe in ET's, but this womans ramblings had me doubting her completely.

As for useful information on RV, read something else. I was attempting to learn something about the practice of RV from this book, what I learned was that she could not write. How this got past an editor astounds me as much as the fact that Ingo Swann endorses the book. Makes me think that if you remote view you lose sight of the ability to be coherent.

ms. Smith does a superb job treating a difficult subject. She handles the abilities which some people consider black art smoothly and temperently. a wonderful book filled with insightful facts and analyses

If you really want to feel something stronger on this subject then read, "Apocalypse Angel," by Charles Rivers.