July 23, 1998: Out of Body Travel - Dr. Albert Taylor
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
April 1, 20243h 17m
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Show Notes
Art Bell opens with an hour of news and open lines covering melting Antarctic glaciers, magnetic compass anomalies reported from Australia, and a bizarre fax about a mysterious P-38 pistol found on Mel Waters'' property that fires silently and never needs cleaning. He then welcomes Albert Taylor, aerospace engineer and author of "Soul Traveler," to discuss a profound personal experience Art had while on vacation in Paris.
Art describes lying in a hotel room when, without any warning or the typical buzzing and paralysis associated with out-of-body accounts, he suddenly accelerated upward at tremendous speed. He found himself above Paris looking down on the Eiffel Tower, overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling of ecstasy and joy unlike anything in his prior experience. The sensation was so shocking that he snapped back almost immediately and woke his wife to tell her what had happened.
Taylor explains that Art likely experienced a spontaneous etheric projection rather than a standard astral projection, noting the absence of a visible astral body and the profound rapture as indicators of a higher-level experience. He reassures Art that this state represents what consciousness feels like freed from the physical form and suggests the interrupted sleep pattern of vacation life combined with deep relaxation created the conditions for the event. Callers share their own encounters with soul travel and sleep paralysis.
Art describes lying in a hotel room when, without any warning or the typical buzzing and paralysis associated with out-of-body accounts, he suddenly accelerated upward at tremendous speed. He found himself above Paris looking down on the Eiffel Tower, overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling of ecstasy and joy unlike anything in his prior experience. The sensation was so shocking that he snapped back almost immediately and woke his wife to tell her what had happened.
Taylor explains that Art likely experienced a spontaneous etheric projection rather than a standard astral projection, noting the absence of a visible astral body and the profound rapture as indicators of a higher-level experience. He reassures Art that this state represents what consciousness feels like freed from the physical form and suggests the interrupted sleep pattern of vacation life combined with deep relaxation created the conditions for the event. Callers share their own encounters with soul travel and sleep paralysis.