The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

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Language: English
Content type: Fiction

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"The Jacket (The Star-Rover)" by Jack London is a novel published in 1915. The story follows Darrell Standing, a university professor imprisoned at San Quentin, who endures torture through a compression device called "the jacket." To survive, he enters trance states where he walks among the stars and experiences vivid past lives across different ages and cultures. London based the novel on interviews with a former convict who actually endured this torture device. The work blends science fiction with mysticism and reincarnation themes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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

Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “reincarnation”. Retained metadata contains “Reincarnation” in the description and “Reincarnation” in the subject metadata.
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Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies
Controlled discovery queries from project-gutenberg matched “astral projection”. Retained metadata contains “Astral projection” in the subject metadata.
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Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	1998-01-01	Project Gutenberg	English	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)