Edgar Cayce: “The sleeping prophet” Edgar would conduct sessions with his clients in which he would travel out of body to the Akashic records, the library of knowledge. Here he would retrieve information to bring back to his woke state.
Emanuel Swedenborg was one of the first practitioners to write extensively about the out-of-body experience, in his Spiritual Diary (1747–1765).
Robert Monroe: Robert Monroe’s accounts of journeys to other realms (1971–1994) popularized the term “OBE” and were translated into a large number of languages. Monroe also founded an institute dedicated to research, exploration and non-profit dissemination of auditory technology for assisting others in achieving projection and related altered states of consciousness.
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), through visualization and controlled breathing, followed by the transfer of consciousness to the secondary body by a mental act of will.
Oliver Fox (1885–1949)
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) discusses his teacher Don Juan’s beliefs about “the double” and its abilities in his books Tales of Power (1974), The Second Ring of Power (1977), and The Art of Dreaming (1993).
Florinda Donner, a student of Castaneda, further describes methods of using the double to access the physical world while dreaming and access the dream world while in a waking dream state in her 1992 book, Being-in-Dreaming.
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) gives lengthy and detailed explanations and experience of astral projection in his 1988 non-fiction book Travels.
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