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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001 -8 LN734-85 . entered” a land filled with light and warmth. There she met her deceased friend. This happy visit lasted until someone blew a long note on a trumpet. People told her she had to hurry and go back. Otherwise she would be stuck between two worlds and could go nowhere. Cases like this cannot be verified. It is just like people having a "peek at heaven". It could be nothing more than a dream. Therefore, this sort of experience may have nothing to do with parapsychology. oe The second case was reported by a woman from New York. A doctor had written her a presciption for some monor ailment. She planned to have the prescription filled the next day. She awakened the next morning at nine o'cleck. Although she was knew she was lying on her own bed, she clearly felt herself flying over the stairs, and into her doctor's bedroom where she had never been before. The doctor's father was in the next room. He waslistening to the morning news. She saw the doctor sitting on th side of the bed. He was leafing through a book. She knelt down beside the bed. While she prepared herself for what the doctor had to tell her, the doctor reached out his hand, which passed through her body, and picked up the telephone. The sound of the telephone brought herback to reality. She was still in her own bed. The telephone call was from her doctor. He told her that the presciption he gave her the day before was wrong. He asked her to come and pick up the correct prescription. When she reached the doctor's ‘office, she told him of her unusual "visit". Actually it was exactly as it had happened. The book the doctor had been leafing through was a telephone directory. The doctor was looking for her telephone number. What she had tried to make out in the living room was a writing desk. It was very much out of place in a corner. The doctor's father was actually in the room right next door listening to the nine o'clock news. In this case, the material can be verified. They have proved to be accurate. This type of experience may be considered to fall in the realm of parapsychology. However, this only means that she was capable of supersensitive consciousness. However, this does not mean that the person actually left her own body and went to the place she saw. The main reason parapsychologists are interested in "out of body experiences" is that they seem to point out that: The spirit is able to leave the flesh and have an independent effect. If this can be proven, it will be of utmost significance. It will reveal much knowledge in to the nature of man. However, there is one fatal flaw in the evidence of these kinds of experiences, No matter how free that person feels when he has left his own body, his body is still alive. This is entirely different from death. Therefore, there is no evidence to prove that the connection between the brain and the spirit has acatually been broken. As long as there is insufficient evidence to prove that the separation actually took place, this kind of phenomena cannot be said to ' fall in the realm of parapsychology. Whether or not there is an ESP factor therein, "out of body experience" may be nothing more than a creative imagination, which leads people to feel that they have gone somewhere else. In other words, this may be only a "flight of fantasy". -~79- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8