Chapter Notes

Chapter 1: A Stranger in the Captain’s Cabin

1. Stuart Holroyd, Psychic Voyages (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 6–8.

2. Ibid., pp. 86–88.

Chapter 2: OBEs Past and Present

1. Brad Steiger, Astral Projection (Rockport, Mass.: Para Research, 1982), pp. 49–50.

2. The Bible, II Kings 6:8–22 (AV).

3. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 420.

4. Herbert B. Greenhouse, The Astral Journey (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975), p. 23.

5. Charles A. Lindbergh, Autobiography of Values (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), pp. 11–12.

Chapter 3: Tied by a Silver Cord

1. Herbert B. Greenhouse, The Astral Journey (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975), p. 189.

2. Stuart Holroyd, Psychic Voyages (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 20–21.

3. Greenhouse, p. 188.

4. Benjamin Walker, Beyond the Body (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), p. 65.

5. Greenhouse, pp. 46–47.

6. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), pp. 64–66.

7. Greenhouse, pp. 187–188.

8. Guiley, p. 421.

Chapter 4: Standing at the Edge

1. Stuart Holroyd, Psychic Voyages (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 88–92.

2. Verlyn Klinkenborg, “At the Edge of Eternity,” Life, March 1992, p. 66.

3. Carol Zaleski, Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 122.

4. Klinkenborg, p. 71.

5. Zaleski, p. 144.

6. Hans Eysenck and Carl Sargent, Explaining the Unexplained (London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1982), p. 160.

Chapter 5: Science Takes a Look

1. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), pp. 422–423.

2. Editors of Time-Life, Psychic Voyages (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life, 1987), pp. 35–36.

3. Ibid., p. 41.

4. Richard Broughton, Parapsychology: The Controversial Science (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991), pp. 249–251.

5. Psychic Voyages, p. 45.

Chapter 6: Setting Sail on an Astral Voyage

1. Herbert B. Greenhouse, The Astral Journey (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975), pp. 339–340.

2. William Jon Watkins, The Psychic Experiment Book (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980), pp. 44–45.