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The Advent of Parapsychology and the Figuration of “Out-of-the-Body Experiences” (1880–1930)

by Jens Schlieter

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  • 21st century

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This chapter outlines how the term “out-of-the-body experience” emerged in spiritualist and parapsychological literature. As is shown, “psychical researchers” such as Frederic W. Myers and William James made a significant contribution. The chapter also deals with the “filter” theory or “transmission” theory, i.e., the idea of the brain as a means for the inhibition of consciousness. This theory, as is shown, has been developed in close interaction with phenomena “near death”—in particular, the “panoramic life review.” The filter theory, discussed in subsequent chapters 2.6. and 2.7, too, is still favored by many recent protagonists of near-death experiences (e.g., Moody). Finally, the chapter turns to the increase of autoscopic out-of-body experiences, discussed as a phenomenon attesting a changing relationship of the disembodied consciousness toward its own body.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies, and Parapsychology and psychical research.

  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Retained metadata contains “near-death” in the description and “Near-death experiences” in the description.

    • “near-death”· in description
    • “Near-death experiences”· in description
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref matched “parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the title and “Parapsychology” in the edition title.

    • “parapsychology”· via Crossref
    • “Parapsychology”· in title
    • “Parapsychology”· in edition title
  • Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies

    Retained metadata contains “out-of-body” in the description and “Out-of-body experiences” in the description.

    • “out-of-body”· in description
    • “Out-of-body experiences”· in description
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the description.

    • “Consciousness”· in description

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2018-09-20Oxford University Press——Unknown

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