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PROJECTIOLOGY: A PANORAMA OF EXPERIENCES OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OUTSIDE THE HUMAN BODY by Waldo Vieira, M.D. Brazil: International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology, 2002. Pp. 1232. $90 (hardback). ISBN 85-86019-58-5
Dr. Waldo Vieira, founder of the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology (IIPC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has produced an erudite compilation of extensive research in the field of so-called "lucid projection" (conscious out-of-body experience). Vieira's perception of projectiology as an integral element of consciousness is reflected in the following statement:
Projectiology acts exclusively within the scope of essential wisdom, or that of Conscientiology [study of multidimensional consciousness], because it concentrates all of its research, without any messianism [belief in a savior or deliverer], in the third basic state of the consciousness, or the projected state, which is important to the intraphysical consciousness [consciousness in embodied human form, incarnate] and even to the extraphysical consciousness [consciousness outside or beyond human embodiment, discarnate.] (p. 381)
According to the author, the primary intent of this body of research is "to demonstrate that it [the hypothesis of the objective bodyconscious personal observation] is the most adequate hypothesis for explaining a greater series of consciential phenomena (phenomenology) which are currently considered to be parapsychic" (pp. 2-3).
This 525-chapter volume is deemed to be of interest to parapsychology researchers, psychology students, and devout seekers of comprehensive information regarding lucid projection. Data was collected from eight sources with heavy emphasis on the research...