@ P_Synthesis:

Modern OBE research is your friend. ‘Visions’ and ‘mystical experiences’ are not all of a piece. They go far beyond imagism.

Yes, I fully realize that—this little posting obviously wasn’t intended to cover the entire range of visionary experiences. Duh. But that doesn’t make them anything more than the product of our own neurology. ‘Cause they aren’t.

The biological/neurological basis for OBEs and visions is covered quite thoroughly here (i.e., in a different posting on this very same site): The Internal Mystery Plays. The experiences you place such value on are happening only inside your own head. Bummer, eh?

Finally, I’ll recommend a book to you, too: Sue Blackmore’s Beyond the Body. In which she details her own experiential research into out-of-the-body experiences … and shows, for anyone who’s prepared to listen, that they possess no ontological reality whatsoever. The landscapes you think you’re seeing, and the travels you think your astral body is undertaking in those experiences, aren’t real.

Heh.

Heh, not bad going. But not experiential enough for my liking in your approach. Modern OBE research is your friend. ‘Visions’ and ‘mystical experiences’ are not all of a piece. They go far beyond imagism.

Have you read:

“Out of this world” — Couliano
“Daimonic Reality” — Harpur
“Far Journeys” — Monroe
“Projectiology” — Vieira

And you might also enjoy if you don’t know:

“Modern Greek folklore and ancient Greek religion : a study in survivals” — Lawson
“The ever-present origin” — Gebser
“The Decline of the West” — Spengler
Anything by William Irwin Thompson
Anything by James Hillman

You mustn’t forget art!

I’m about to start a blog on a similar subject, not the same.

Have you ever had an OBE? Did you know there are techniques that work quickly now?

It will change your perspective. Only experience shows the way.