CULTURE

OBE Across Time and Culture

Single copies of this file, with copyright notice, in any form, are permitted for non-commercial use.

nd. Black Elk. Black Elk speaks.

1950 Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Egyptian book of the dead. Dover Publications, New York.

1958 Walker, D. P. The astral body in renaissance medicine. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute, 21:119ff.

1960 Evans-Wentz, W. Y. [Comp. & Ed.]. The Tibetan book of the dead. London: Oxford University Press.

1963 Murdock, G. P. Outline of world cultures. 3rd revised edition, Human Relations Area Files, New Haven.

1967 Kendrick, T.D. Mary of Agreda: Life and legend of a Spanish nun. Routledge & Keegan-Paul, London.

1968 Castaneda, Carlos. The teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui way of knowledge. Ballantine, New York. [288p.]

1968 Crookall, Robert. Out-of-the-body experiences and cultural traditions. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 44:358-363.

1968 Rogo, D. Scott. Astral projection in Tibetan Buddhist literature. International Journal of Parapsychology, 10:277-284.

1970 Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstasy [2nd ed.]. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.

1971 Castaneda, Carlos. A separate reality: Further conversations with Don Juan. Simon and Schuster, New York. [317p.]

1971 David-Neal, Alexandra. Magic and mystery in Tibet. Dover, New York.

1972 Casteneda, Carlos. Journey to Ixtlan: The lessons of Don Juan. Simon and Schuster, New York.

1973 Harner, Michael J. (Ed.). Hallucinogens and shamans. Oxford, New York.

1974 Castaneda, Carlos. Tales of power. Simon and Schuster, New York. [287p.]

1974 'Ubayd, Ra'uf Sadiq. Zawahir al-khuruj min al-rasad, adillatuha, dalalatuha.. [212p.]

1975 Blacker, Carmen. The catalpa bow: A study of shamanistic practices in Japan. George Allen & Unwin, London. [376p, illus, index]

1975 Grosso, Michael. Plato and out-of-the-body experiences. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 69(1):61-74 (Jan). [considers Plato's Phaedo and OBEs]

1977 Castaneda, Carlos. The second ring of power. Washington Square Books, New York. [328p.]

1978 Drury, Neville. Astral projection: The pioneers. In his, Don Juan, mescalito and modern magic (pp. 19-34). Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.

1978 Sheils, D. A cross-cultural study of beliefs in out-of-the-body experiences, waking and sleeping. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 49(775):697-741 (Mar).

1978 Williams, Wayne. Review of: Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa, The Tibetan book of the dead: The great liberation through hearing in the Bardo. Theta, 6(2-3):37-38.

1979 Sharkey, J. Celtic mysteries: The ancient religion. Thames & Hudson, London.

1980 Harner, Michael J. The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing. Bantam, New York. [also published by Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1980]

1980 McIntosh, Alastair I. Beliefs about out-of-the-body experiences among the Elema, Gulf Kamea and Rigo peoples of Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 50(785):460-478 (Sep).

1983 Counts, Dorothy Ayers. Near-death and out-of-body experiences in a Melanesian society. Anabiosis: The Journal for Near-Death Studies, 3:114-135.

1983 Drab, K. J. Altered states of consciousness on Guam: A survey. Unpublished research report, University of Guam. [ref by Irwin, H.]

1985 Ginzburg, C. The night battles: Witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Penguin, New York.

1987 Bernardi, S. Shamanism and parapsychology. In B. Shapin & L. Coly (Eds.), Parapsychology, Philosophy and Religious Concepts: Proceedings of an International Conference held in Rome, Italy, August 23-24, 1985 (pp. 41-50; discussion pp. 50-54). Parapsychology Foundation, New York.

1987 Bowyer, R.A. Some medieval accounts of "out-of-body" and "near-death" experiences. Christian Parapsychologist, 7:47-53.

1987 Zaleski, Carol. Otherworld journeys: Accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times. Oxford University Press, New York. [275p, appendix, notes, bibl, index]

1988 Arguelles, Jose. Surfers of the Zuvuya: Tales of interdimensional. Bear & Co, Santa Fe NM.

1988 Thongthiu Suwannathat. Tai laeo pai nai. Kongthun Lok Thip, Kotho.

1989 Boyd, Doug. Mystics, magicians, and medicine people: Tales of a wanderer. Paragon House, New York. [xxii+330p]

1990 Goodman, Felicitas D. Where the spirits ride the wind: Trance journeys and other ecstatic experiences. Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN. [xii + 242p, illus]

1990 St. Victor, O. Secret Christians: the teachings of the mystics. [137p. Essays on wide range of historical Christian mysticism]

1991 Couliano, I.P. Out of this world: Other worldly journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein. Shambala, Boston.

1991 Donner, Florinda. Being-in-dreaming: An initiation into the sorcerer's world. HarperCollins, New York.

1991 Lett, James. Interpretive anthropology, metaphysics, and the paranormal. Journal of Anthropological Research, 47:305-329 (Fall). [75 refs]

1992 Eagle Feather, Ken. Traveling with power: The exploration and development of perception. Hampton Roads Publishing, Norfolk VA.

1992 Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan book of living and dying. Rider, London. [Also published by Harper Collins, San Francisco, 1996.]

1993 Devereux, Paul. Shamanism and the mystery lines: Ley lines, spirit paths, shape-shifting and out of body travel. Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul MN.

1994 Brown, Tom. Awakening spirits: A native American path to inner peace, healing, and spiritual growth. Berkley Books, New York.

1994 Houston, Jean. Manual for the peacemeker: A native American journey of transformation. Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton IL.

1994 Somé, Malidoma Patrice. Of water and the spirit: Ritual , magic and initiation in the life of an African shaman. Penguin, New York.

1995 Eagle Feather, Ken. A Toltec path: A user's guide to the teachings of don Juan Matus, Carlos Castaneda, and other Toltec seers. Hampton Roads, Charlottesville VA. [273p, notes, bibl]

1995 Reiner, Erica. Astral magic in Babylonia. From the series, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol 85, part 4. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia PA. [xiii, 150 p, illus, bibl, index]

1995 Vitebsky, Piers. The shaman. Little, Brown; New York.

1995 Wesselman, Hank. Spiritwalker: Messages from the future. Bantam, New York. [383p, notes. Shamanism]

1997 Bryant, Page. Starwalking: Shamanic practices for traveling into the night sky. Bear & Co., Santa Fe NM. [xxvi, 319 p, ill, bibl]

1998 Wangyal, Tenzin; Tenzin Wangval Rinpoche; and Mark Dahlby (ed.). The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca NY. [220p]

1999 Taves, Ann. Fits,trances and visions: experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James. Princeton University Press. [444p,index. Study of paranormal phenomena in religion: Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, possession, OBEs, animal magnetism, mesmerism; decline of Calvinist orthodoxy, expansion of Methodism. Author is professor of history of Christianity and American religion at Claremont Graduate Univ.]

Go to the introduction of these bibliographies.