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Out-of-Body Experience: A Powerful Tool for Self-Research Continued from page 58 The main premise of conscientiology is About the Author: narticinatary research Tn other words — Sandie Gustus is the Director of Marketing About the Author: Sandie Gustus is the Director of Marketing and Communications with the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC ) — UK. She joined the IAC in 2002 as coordinator of its activities in Geneva, Switzerland, where she was working with the United Nations, and took up her post at the [AC's London office in 2003. The IAC is a non-profit scientific and educational organisation dedicated to consciousness studies and research. Its origins date back to 1981 with the cre- ation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of the Center for Continuous Consciousness, the brainchild of Waldo Vieira, MD, author of Projectiology (2002), Our Evolution (1999; reviewed in NEXUS 7/06) and Projections of the Consciousness (1997; reviewed in 7/03). Dr Vieira's books and related videos, such as Out-of-Body Experience: A Glimpse of Immortality (2000; reviewed in 8/01), can be pur- chased through the IAC's website, http:/Avww.iacworld.org. Sandie Gustus can be contacted at: IAC - UK, 3rd Floor, 45 Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London W1H 7LH, UK, tel/fax +44 (0)20 7723 0544, email London@iacworld.org. The main premise of conscientiology is participatory research. In other words, researchers, students and all interested indi- viduals are encouraged to have their own experiences and verify the true nature of their existence for themselves by using the OOBE as their main research tool. The science of projectiology is a sub- discipline of conscientiology, exclusively dedicated to the investigation of the out-of- body experience and related phenomena. °° A new science for a new century Many societies of the 21st century have matured beyond the unfounded fears and superstitions that may have limited the per- spective of their ancestors. As more people around the world have better access to edu- cation, ideas, information and the world at large than ever before, they have become tant to traditions belonging and are more questioning, critical, discerning and independent in their thinking. Consistent with this general shift towards transparency, it is possible today to study the out-of-body experience within formal, structured, academic environments. In Brazil in 1989, for example, a new conscientiology, was proposed for the study of consciousness (individual essence, soul or spirit) with rationality and logic, free of all dogma, rituals and mysticism. This relatively new science takes into account all the attributes of the consciousness, its phenomena (including the out-of-body experience), and the fact that it has multiple lives and can manifest both inside and outside the physical body. Bibliography ¢ Carrington, Hereward Hubert Levington, Psychic Oddities, Rider & Co., London, 1952 * Crookall, Robert, The Study and Practice of Astral Projection, University Books, New York, 1966 * Crookall, Robert, The Techniques of Astral Projection, The Aquarium Press, London, 1977 * Muldoon, Sylvan Joseph, The Case for Astral Projection, The Aries Press, Chicago, 1936 ¢ Vieira, Waldo, Projectiology, International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology, Rio de Janeiro, 2002 APRIL — MAY 2004 NEXUS +77 www.nexusmagazine.com