NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/outofb/477

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From: [e-mail] (Robert McGrath)
Subject: Re: reading / FAQ projects (was Re: Silver cord)
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:47:37 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Gary S. Trujillo) writes in part:
|> My point is that I'd prefer to talk at a greater level of specificity.

My comments are at exactly the same level of specificity as everyone
else's.

|> But how about a reading project?  Does anyone know what Ken Ring or Raymond
|> Moody has written recently (I read the classics about near-death experiences
|> several years ago, including Moody's _Life After Life_ and Ring's _Life at
|> Death_).  I'd prefer to consider something that makes more explicit refer-
|> ence to the OBE experience, even if in the context of a discussion of NDEs
|> (near-death experiences).  Or should we start with something more specifi-
|> cally about OBEs?  (I suppose that Susan Blackmore's book is worthy of a
|> joint read at some point, but first I'd like to become better acquainted
|> with what people who have had the experiences and/or who have collected
|> anecdotal accounts have to say about them).

Fine.  I should point out that Blackmore'e "Beyond the Body" was based
on her study of the archives of the SPR in London, which contain one
of the largest collections of anecdotal accounts.  The book also has
over 100 references, including the classic collections of anecdotes.

--
  Robert E. McGrath
  Urbana Illinois
  [e-mail]