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The question posed most often is: How do you know you aren't dreaming, that what you experience is nothing more than a vivid dream or a hallucination of some sort?

— Robert Monroe Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

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Having described the "physical" aspects of the Second Body, it would seem most important to examine how the mind apparently operates in reaction to the Second Body experience.

Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

What does one do when faced with an unknown? Turn away and forget about it? In this case, two factors negated that possibility.

Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

Most of all, who quietly insisted that I return to the physical when I drifted in that seemingly eternal bliss? I don't know whether to be grateful or sad for that particular help.

Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

The duality of existence is completely contradictory to all available scientific training and human experience. Again, the ultimate proof of such affirmation is to experience one's self in this state of being.

Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

As reported elsewhere, I was certain that these experiences were dreams or hallucinations for a long period in the early stages. They were seriously considered as something more only when evidential data began to accumulate.

Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

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