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Out-of-Body Experiences by Samantha Treasure
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9781398840072
Published:
01 May 2025
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
304 pages
Dimensions:
234x153x19mm
Weight:
0.322kgs
Author:
Out-of-Body Experiences are a fascinating phenomenon which has captivated the scientific and spiritual world. This comprehensive guide takes a fresh look at these enigmatic occurrences, weaving together anthropology, science, spirituality and fascinating accounts.
"Samantha Treasure's groundbreaking book stands as probably the most comprehensive review of the out-of-body experience yet published." - Graham Nicholls, author of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience
The Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) is a fascinating phenomenon that has captivated the scientific and spiritual world. This comprehensive guide takes a fresh look at these enigmatic occurrences, including why they happen, how to make sense of them, as well as how to pursue or avoid these experiences.
An experiencer of OBEs herself, Samantha Lee Treasure has dedicated over a decade to better understanding these extraordinary events. This illuminating guide is the culmination of this research, taking a holistic approach which draws together neurology, psychology, anthropology, parapsychology and religion. Her research has taken her from interviewing Korean and Siberian shamans, to participation in neuroscience experiments, fieldwork with the religious movement Eckankar, a year interviewing alien contactees and attendance at various workshops and retreats marketed within the growing spiritual marketplace.
Based on experiencer interviews the author has conducted since 2015, the book will also explore how astral projection changes over the course of an episode or lifetime, taking into consideration generational, cultural, and biological differences. For example, utilising her background in medical anthropology, Samantha Treasure explores the links between OBEs and sleep paralysis and dreams, interviewing both experiencers and specialists.
This book will also aim to reclaim OBEs from their growing commodification within social media and the wellness industry and will challenge definitions that privilege certain types of experience or narratives. While including evidence for their potential as a healing or spiritual tool, the author will also include the voices of experiencers and researchers who think otherwise, exploring their rationale while avoiding either sugar-coating or fear-mongering.
With a forward by bestselling author Anthony Peake, this is the definitive guide to OBEs for anyone wanting deeper insight into this incredible phenomenon.
About the Author: Samantha Lee Treasure grew up on a farm in Ontario, Canada which had multiple reports of ghost sightings, where she became especially interested in OBEs after her brother's experiences. This led her to learn how to have them herself, which in turn inspired her to pursue a BSc in Social Sciences and an MA in Medical Anthropology in order to research them cross-culturally. During her studies in London, she conducted fieldwork with experiencers in the UK, focusing on entity encounters and how they compare with dream characters. She also conducted a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study on sleep paralysis with a psychiatry professor in Russia during this time. In addition, she has also conducted fieldwork with the new religious movement Eckankar, with "Contactees", and has worked as a participant and research assistant in two neuroscience studies in Europe. During her MA, she conducted fieldwork in South Korea, exploring the nuances between spontaneous and deliberate OBEs and their implications for health. Due to the futuristic nature of some of her personal experiences (and those of some interviewees), Samantha is particularly interested in the futurism of this phenomenon, and her chapter Out-of-body Experiences in the Screen Age for the edited volume Deep Weird discusses modern day content such as cartoon entities to floating screens. Her second book Phantom Media expands on this theme to include media- and technology-related content in Charles Bonnet syndrome, sleep paralysis, psychedelics, fictionkin, and other anomalous perceptual phenomena. Samantha has given talks on OBEs in person in the UK and Japan, and online in the US, Russia, and Australia. She divides her time between London and Geoje Island, South Korea, where she is currently researching out-of-body experiences among South Korean mudang.
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