Projections of the Consciousness - Softcover

Waldo Vieira

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9781934079508: Projections of the Consciousness

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ISBN 10: 1934079502 ISBN 13: 9781934079508

Publisher: International Academy of Consciousness, 2007

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Projection allows one to replace belief with knowledge. To believe in the accounts is secondary. What is important is to accept the possibility of extraphysical events. Ideally the interested person should have his or her own experiences. With candid realism, Projections of the Consciousness recounts 60 of the author's most illuminating out-of-body experiences (OBEs, astral projections) from a six-month period in 1979. The unparalleled diversity and richness of the experiences in this volume offer a rare insight into what awaits us beyond the physical dimension. Vieira's experiences include visits to non-physical educational communities, assistance to those who have recently passed away, encounters with highly evolved consciousnesses, and even a total expansion of consciousness (cosmoconsciousness, nirvana).

The author's sincerity and objectivity stand out as hallmarks of this book, as does the quality of his analysis and conclusions. Each chapter is packed with invaluable tips, insights, and recommendations that will help motivated readers produce lucid, controlled experiences: indeed this is one of the book's core objectives.

Now in its third edition in English and its seventh in the original Portuguese, this work remains as important today as it was when first published, and is one of the classics in the genre. The book's initial publication marked a new phase in the life of the author, during which he launched two new fields to investigate consciousness beyond the physicalist worldview: projectiology and conscientiology. As a testament to the book's significance, today fourteen organizations exist globally whose purpose is centered on deepening humanity's understanding and application of those two new fields.

This edition features a complete revision of the translation and a new foreword by Wagner Alegretti, author of Retrocognitions. It also includes a full glossary of technical terms, to help interested readers initiate a more serious, scientific study of the subject.

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About the Author:

Born on April 12, 1932, in Monte Carmelo in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Waldo Vieira graduated in Medicine and Dentistry, followed by post-graduate studies in Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery in Tokyo, Japan.

A conscious projector since the age of nine, he has been researching the consciousness and its out-of-body manifestations for more than 50 years. He is the progenitor of the sciences of projectiology and conscientiology, which he outlined in two treatises: Projectiology: A Panorama of Experiences of the Consciousness Outside the Human Body (1986) and 700 Conscientiology Experiments (1994).

He is the author of hundreds of published articles and 18 books related to consciousness research, and in 2002 was included in the International Biographical Centre s Who s Who of the 21st Century.

He was among the founders of the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology IIPC, a non-profit education and research organization based in Brazil. Today there are a full 14 organizations whose existence can be attributed to his pioneering work in projectiology and conscientiology.

He is currently pursuing research at the Center for the Higher Studies of Conscientiology (CEAEC), a research center located in Iguassu Falls, Brazil, home to 17 research laboratories and Vieira s personal library of more than 63,000 volumes one of the largest collections in the world on the theme of the consciousness and the out-of-body experience. There he coordinates teams of researchers who compile entries relating to the broad universe of the consciousness for inclusion in a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Conscientiology.

From Introduction:

Experiences outside the dense body are facts, regardless of how each person explains them to him or herself. Separations from the body are experienced every day by men and women during natural sleep. Having lucid memories of extra-physical occurrences remains the most difficult, but surmountable, problem. [In order to develop your projective skills], it is necessary to discipline the memory and, above all, to sharpen one's mental concentration with a lot of willful determination, self-analysis and perseverance, by following techniques similar to those used here. After that, prepare yourself for deep renovation in all sectors of existence. Practical and descriptive, more objective than literary, this book is composed of technical accounts of more than sixty conscious disengagements from the body, selected from those that occurred during non-consecutive nights in the second half of 1979. Emphasis was given to those projections which offered greater evidence or clarification of multi-dimensionality. They ranged from the simple to the complex, from the brief to the more prolonged, from the nearby to those far away, from those of a cleansing nature to those of profound destiny, from those in which the psychosoma (astral body) was used to others in which only the mentalsoma (mental body) was utilized - aiming to reveal the anatomy of projection in all of its aspects, and trace the panoramic lines of exchange among the spheres of existence.

From Chapter 23:

The satisfaction of relaxing once more in free flight, away from material limitations and the influence of gravity was marvelous, perhaps due to my fatigued state when I had gone to bed. The state of expansion, plenitude and freedom outside the soma brought me indescribable pleasure. How I wish at moments like these to contaminate others with this joy! I wish I could talk over every loud speaker, radio and television station to the whole world and tell them about this practical resource to achieve absolute inner peace that is within everyone's reach. I wish I could let all my friends and acquaintances feel this extraordinary condition of the expansion of the consciousness beyond dense matter!

From Chapter 38:

The assistance provided by evolved extraphysical consciousnesses can be felt from the noblest programs down to the most humble and apparently uncivilized human activities. Well intentioned human volunteers arduously work in all conceivable areas, and deserve assistance in order to minimize any setbacks they may suffer.

From Chapter 41:

The environment was brightly illuminated. I flew away profoundly happy. I began to feel a tranquil inner power and an indescribable sensation of non-physicality and lightness. I again experienced the euphoria of extraphysical life, which is incontestably superior to intraphysical existence. This experience leaves one with a feeling of being absolutely at peace with humanity and the entire universe. All of life's setbacks, pain, labors, emotions, aspirations, and efforts all but disappear in light of the multi-dimensional reality experienced while in the extraphysical dimension. Any human attempt to express this experience does not do it justice. I have noticed over the past few years, that even projections that last a few minutes stimulate the soma and protect one's physical health. Is this a consequence of extraphysical euphoria? Projection is not at all a mysterious process. It is within the reach of anyone, requiring only a certain degree of personal effort. The projector is able to lead a double life, going anywhere he or she pleases in the liberated psychosoma.

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