Soul Traveler: A Guide to Out-Of-Body Experiences and the Wonders Beyond

It's hard to simply dismiss an aeronautical engineer who spent two decades with the NASA space program when he writes of his extensive paranormal experiences. After intermittently entering a ""paralysis state"" (beginning at age four) in which he can hear and see but not move, Taylor claims to have realized over the years that this state is ""the personal doorway to the ultimate truth."" From there, Taylor has moved on to lucid dreaming, where he can control and change his mind's wanderings and perform gravity-defying feats like flying. He coined the term ""soul traveler"" to explain these out-of-body experiences, proposing that when the body falls asleep, ""the soul mind comes to the forefront of consciousness."" He tracks these phenomena in journal entries that document his increasing abilities, peppering his account with references to the literature on the paranormal and with speculation on the religious import of his travels. Self-published in 1996, this slim book has managed to vault itself onto the shelves, but those flipping through and coming upon its ""Arcs of Spiritual Evolution"" or ""Preflight Preparations"" will be unlikely to take it further. Author tour. (Sept.)