Spiritual concepts
Atonia
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Observations
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- A bird flying round the room and a wasp trying to sting her
- A Lucid dream using Casimiroa edulis
- A presence (I always thought of as a witch) trying to enter the kitchen
- A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF
- A spider like a large lobster with a lot of legs chewing at the top of her shoulder
- A very detailed account of a hypnagogic hallucination
- African nurse meets her dead grandmother
- An experiment in catatonia
- Azam, Dr Etienne Eugène - Hypnotism, Double Consciousness and alterations of personality – The case of Marie X
- Azam, Dr Etienne Eugène - Hypnotism, Double Consciousness and alterations of personality – The side effects of hypnotism - catalepsy
- Braid, James – Hypnotism, a definition, a method and its effects
- Braid, James – Inducing catalepsy as a consequence of suggestion only
- Brendan
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret Egypt - A night inside the Great Pyramid 3
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret Egypt - A night inside the Great Pyramid 4
- Crowley, Aleister - Yoga for Yahoos
- Curly strands of color just sitting in my doorway
- Dislocated clavicle from hallucination
- Dr David Hufford – The Old Hag, Incubus, Succubus, Alien Abductions and Sleep Paralysis
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – A housewife has an OBE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Alan M Bain has an OBE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – F. Yeats-Brown’s accounts of yogis
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mr F.E. G. Lewis from Burnham-on-sea has multiple OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mr J. A. Dennis, a tinsmith, of Brockley, London
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs B. Titterton, of St Ives has a number of OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs E. Sheppard has an OBE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Olive Mytton-Hill of Edinburgh has multiple OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Winifred Burles, of Bath has several OBEs
- Dr Stephen Black - The trances of the babalawos, or witch doctors, of the Yoruba people
- Dr. C. E. Simons goes out of body in January 1890, when he was 23 years old and a medical student
- Dr. Sollier - Bulletin de l'institut Général Psychologique – The Doppelganger of a Morphine addict
- Eighty three Irish students go out of body
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - The Ecstasy of Love making
- Entities twitching at the bedclothes
- Eva Vidal - Tidal waves, heavy gravity and false awakenings
- Extreme hallucinations and paralysis each night
- Fancher, Mollie - For a period of about nine years, day and night, she was subject to trances, spasms and catalepsy
- Fancher, Mollie - The multiple personalities - Sunbeam, Idol and Pearl
- Fell about in a catatonic state
- Found the 'On' Switch in My Soul Ibogaine by allotrope
- Fox, Oliver - Catalepsy and headaches as side effects
- Fox, Oliver - False awakening 02
- Fox, Oliver - Revelling in the beauty of an OBE
- Fox, Oliver - Skyrising
- Fox, Oliver - Visits Mrs X in Lumsden Avenue
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 05
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 07 - 2nd OBE
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 12 - 2nd OBE
- Harary, Blue - Achieving the ‘cool down’ state
- Harner, Michael - The ayahuasca experience
- Hearing and seeing people so vivid, it's as if they're real - sometimes very abusive
- I dream I'm being raped, by people I know or by aliens
- I would awake to a pressure on my chest
- Is your body trying to send you a message?
- J goes as rigid as a plank of wood
- Joan Baez - Dream Song
- Keeping calm during paralysis
- Ketamine abuse and emergency admissions
- Laubscher, B J F – The amaxhwele herbalists, the amagqira healers and the isanuses
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – Ten year old girl sees hell
- Louise and Mr Romer’s daughter go out of body to the moon
- Madame Turban's dying sister goes to hear her fiance preach
- Messing, Wolf - Self induced trance - The psychiatrist announced she couldn't feel his pulse
- Metamorphosis San Pedro by Anopseudonym
- Miss M, an 18-year-old girl, hysterical and cataleptic goes out of body and hears celestial music
- Monroe, Robert - Hearing the hiss
- Mr S H Beard wills a series of OBEs to his fiancée Miss Verity and her sister, and he is ‘seen’ by both!
- Mrs Thomas Doan of Long Beach, California and her son have an OBE visitor and an OBE
- MS sufferer and TMS
- Muldoon, Sylvan - First OBE
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Loneliness allayed
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Stages in separation OOB
- My mind is falling down through the pillow
- Night terrors
- Night terrors
- Night terrors
- No Boundaries Ibogaine by TPTB
- OBE from meditating in his holiday static caravan, practising deep breathing
- Oliver Sacks - Christina sees a wild eyed man
- Oliver Sacks - L-DOPA, Parkinson's, Tourette's and mania
- Ostoja, Count Roman - Levitating a table
- Out of body and atonia
- People sitting on my chest mumbling random stuff
- Physical and mental exhaustion
- Playing WOW
- Powerful But Gentle Ibogaine by C.S.
- Practising atheist physics student nearly has out of body
- Primidone induced catatonic schizophrenia
- Professor Arthur Ellison - Goes out of Body
- Professor Carmagnola witnesses the little girl who could hear with her shoulders and see with her hands
- Professor David H Hufford and the Sitting ghost
- Punched my low-table-thingy over because I saw a face in it
- Ralph Shirley - The Mystery of the Human Double – Atonia and Going out of body by lying on your back
- Ralph Shirley - The Mystery of the Human Double – Death, Trance and being Buried alive
- Rare effects of stroke – Stroke Association November 2012
- Religious Revivals, visions, hallucinations and other side-effects
- Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body - Scott’s own OBEs - 01 The first time
- Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body - Scott’s own OBEs - 03 Getting used to the OBE, after one aborted experience
- Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body – Heat, atonia and the fear of not getting back into the body
- Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body – Sinking, floating and humming or buzzing from OBEs
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Rapture 1
- Seeing spiders -- hundreds of them -- coming down from my roof and on my walls
- Shaunna is sexually assaulted by a spirit and wants it to stop
- She felt his body parts against her
- Sleep paralysis, hallucinations and terror from Paxil
- Something got into bed with her
- Spiders
- Spiders
- Spiders, always spiders!!
- Tahra Bey - With knife in chest
- Tahra Bey - An account by Raymond Bayless of his stage act
- Tahra Bey - Breaking stones on his stomach
- Tahra Bey - Buried in a coffin
- TED Talk - Filmmaker Albert Nerenberg, runs a series of standard hypnotic inductions on the audience at TEDXQueens
- The other night, I dreamed of a weasel with one eye biting my arms
- The Tiger pulled down her pants
- The voice that said it wanted to come in
- Thinking of elevators
- Tholey, Paul and LaBerge, Stephen - Perspectives of the Dream Figures
- Trapped in his mattress
- Vignoli, Tito - On atonia
- Vitamin B12 deficiency and psychosis
- Wallace, Alfred Russel - Personal spiritual experiences [Mesmerism]
- Xam bushmen - Goes underwater
- Yram - First stages of out of body