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Letter: Astral experience

Published 7 April 2009

From Eric L. Altschuler, University Hospital, Newark and Vilayanur Ramachandran, Brain and Perception Laboratory, University of California, San Diego

We read your two-part series on out-of-body experiments with interest (14 March, p 33, and 21 March, p 36). We were surprised that you did not mention our method, which uses two mirrors to create within seconds the experience of standing outside oneself (Perception, vol 36, p 632). This 2007 paper was the first to report a method to perceive being outside of one’s body.

Newark, New Jersey, US , San Diego, California, US

Issue no. 2703 published 11 April 2009

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