The Phenomena of Astral Projection

Plot

Sylvan Muldoon's out of the body experiences first occurred in his early teens - frequently and involuntarily. During his quest for voluntary projection he chanced to read a book by Hereward Carrington, a noted writer and lecturer on psychical research, and there began a fruitful collaboration between them resulting in "The Projection of the Astral Body" and "The Phenomena of Astral Projection".

What is it that Muldoon and Carrington claim? They claim that they have a simpler explanation, that is, one based on fewer assumptions, of all psychical experiences including telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, hauntings, psychic healing, and survival. Their only assumption, which they claim they have demonstrated and that anyone can demonstrate for himself, is that there are two of us in each of us, a physical body and an astral or etheric body. Each one of us is then double, each one has a double. Usually the double, the astral body, "the body of feeling and sensation", resides in the physical body and "animates" the physical body. But under special circumstances (and always with death) the astral body leaves the physical body so that one may veritably be in two places at the same time. Accepting this hypothesis of Muldoon and Carrington, it is possible to explain logically all other psychical experiences and, what is more, to answer many of the questions which psychical researches have only been able to ask.