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Ekstasy : Out-of-the-body Experiences by David Black, David Black is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ekstasy : Out-of-the-body Experiences about?

Firstly, as regards the book’s misnomer of a title, “Ekstasy”, there is nothing about “ekstasy” or even ecstasy in it apart from a short reference to an OBE or rather NDE experienced by the famous psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in 1944. This was interesting but ecstasy is hardly an essential or a characteristic feature of the book. Where Black gets the word/spelling “Ekstasy” I don’t know. Secondly, the book as a whole is characterized by the author’s extreme skepticism about the whole matter of the feasibility of out-of-body experiences. He has an ambiguous attitude towards the subject since he doesn’t believe such experiences are possible but was attracted enough to the subject to embark on writing the book. The book is packed with skeptical terms, phrases, expressions and insinuations of disbelief, such as the following: “there is no reliable evidence for life-after-death” (Black is in for a shock/huge surprise when it’s his time to go) “often claimed to have the power of out-of-the-body flight” “confused out-of-the-body experiences with the mythology of astral travel” “the out-of-the body phenomenon, as suspect as phrenology and UFOs” “the fact that he (Krippner) even entertaine

Author

David Black, David Black

Publisher

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co.

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780672519727

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Humanities

Rating

1 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14