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Less Incomplete: A Guide to Experiencing the Human Condition beyond the Physical Body
This, the first book to summarize the work of Brazilian consciousness researcher, Waldo Vieira MD, for a general nonacademic audience, has the backing of some of the world's most eminent academic and medical researchers of life after death.
Based on two new sciences proposed by Vieira, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the human condition beyond the physical body, offering readers a profound opportunity to increase their self-awareness, self-confidence, balance and maturity, and fulfil their potential.
Readers will
* How to master their energy and use it as a tool
- experience conscious and controlled out-of-body experiences (OBEs)
- increase their psychic abilities
- protect themselves energetically
- heal themselves and others
* How to have more positive helpers (spirit guides) and more positive people around them
* How to facilitate the recollection of past lives
* How to identify their purpose in life and move towards it with discernment, conviction and self-motivation
* How to be more consistently good natured and how to deal better with conflict, misunderstandings and resentments in their relationships
* How to become more mature and more (cosmo)ethical and thus improve their karma
* How to exercise more control over their lives
* How to lose their fear of death and prepare themselves for what will happen when they die
* How to take the maximum opportunity of what this life offers to develop and evolve as an individual.
. . . in short, how to be a little less incomplete.
Based on two new sciences proposed by Vieira, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the human condition beyond the physical body, offering readers a profound opportunity to increase their self-awareness, self-confidence, balance and maturity, and fulfil their potential.
Readers will
* How to master their energy and use it as a tool
- experience conscious and controlled out-of-body experiences (OBEs)
- increase their psychic abilities
- protect themselves energetically
- heal themselves and others
* How to have more positive helpers (spirit guides) and more positive people around them
* How to facilitate the recollection of past lives
* How to identify their purpose in life and move towards it with discernment, conviction and self-motivation
* How to be more consistently good natured and how to deal better with conflict, misunderstandings and resentments in their relationships
* How to become more mature and more (cosmo)ethical and thus improve their karma
* How to exercise more control over their lives
* How to lose their fear of death and prepare themselves for what will happen when they die
* How to take the maximum opportunity of what this life offers to develop and evolve as an individual.
. . . in short, how to be a little less incomplete.
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332 pages, Paperback
First published June 16, 2011
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May 1, 2016
Thank you, Dave Zebian, for recommending this wonderful book to me! Like Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe, Less Incomplete is about out-of-body experiences and how to have them. Unlike Monroe's book, there's less personal narrative in this one and more about ethics and practical exercises for the out-of-body state. So, in that way, it wasn't as fun to read, but for people who are just starting out, I could see this book being an excellent place to start. I had never heard of Dr. Vieira and his work with the IAC (International Academy of Consciousness), so now, I have another resource to investigate too. Hooray!
Sandie's reasons for writing the book: "...Vieira's own books are notoriously sophisticated, technical and intellectual in style... My endeavor, with this book, is to make his work available to a wider nonacademic audience by presenting it in a language and format that everyone can understand follow, without compromising the integrity of his ideas in any way." pgs 14-15 I feel like she really succeeded at that.
A simple explanation of other dimensions: "... when thinking about where the extraphysical dimensions are, we can say that many of them coexist and share space with the physical dimension. They are all around us. They are right here, right now. This fact is much easier to understand when we remember that we are also sharing space with innumerable invisible artificial electromagnetic waves, such as those used to broadcast television and radio and to transmit data across mobile phone networks and between aircraft and military installations." pg 39 Sounds so normal when she puts it like that.
Sandie stresses the importance of exploring consciousness for evolutionary reasons: "If we take into account the broader, more detailed picture of what it means to be a consciousness... it is clear that physical life, rather than being meaningless or arbitrary, provides us with a sophisticated, challenging environment that is rich in opportunities to better ourselves and to mature- in other words, to evolve." pg 162 I think it's fun too. Consciousness exploration is a chance to evolve, certainly, but it's also a way to play, explore, and simply exist in a way that is entirely different from regular reality. That's my only criticism of this book, I feel like it takes itself too seriously at times.
I was having trouble fitting my visions/meditations into the paradigm provided by this book until the chapter on Lucid Projection Techniques, section Projection through the Mental Body Technique: "Targets for a projection in the mental body are notional concepts that are outside the boundaries of ordinary life. The point of them is to break out of the boundaries of what's known. The experience is epitomized by having an epiphany- suddenly you consider the concept of infinity or spirituality or oneness and you have an expansion of consciousness in which you grasp the whole idea. pg 254 Bingo.
Vieira doesn't seem to have a high opinion of remote viewing: "Vieira describes it in Projectiology as "a daydream with some flashes of awareness or clairvoyance at a distance." pg 270 I was surprised by that. It seems like, in this sort of research, one would want to consider all modalities for their possible contributions to the topic.
If you're looking for more books on how to do out-of-body experiences, you may want to consider Soul Flight: Astral Projection & the Magical Universe by Donald Tyson, Soul Traveler: A Guide to Out-of-Body Experiences and the Wonders Beyond by Albert Taylor, and, one of my favorites, Otherwhere: A Field Guide to Nonphysical Reality for the Out-of-Body Traveler by Kurt Leland.
Sandie's reasons for writing the book: "...Vieira's own books are notoriously sophisticated, technical and intellectual in style... My endeavor, with this book, is to make his work available to a wider nonacademic audience by presenting it in a language and format that everyone can understand follow, without compromising the integrity of his ideas in any way." pgs 14-15 I feel like she really succeeded at that.
A simple explanation of other dimensions: "... when thinking about where the extraphysical dimensions are, we can say that many of them coexist and share space with the physical dimension. They are all around us. They are right here, right now. This fact is much easier to understand when we remember that we are also sharing space with innumerable invisible artificial electromagnetic waves, such as those used to broadcast television and radio and to transmit data across mobile phone networks and between aircraft and military installations." pg 39 Sounds so normal when she puts it like that.
Sandie stresses the importance of exploring consciousness for evolutionary reasons: "If we take into account the broader, more detailed picture of what it means to be a consciousness... it is clear that physical life, rather than being meaningless or arbitrary, provides us with a sophisticated, challenging environment that is rich in opportunities to better ourselves and to mature- in other words, to evolve." pg 162 I think it's fun too. Consciousness exploration is a chance to evolve, certainly, but it's also a way to play, explore, and simply exist in a way that is entirely different from regular reality. That's my only criticism of this book, I feel like it takes itself too seriously at times.
I was having trouble fitting my visions/meditations into the paradigm provided by this book until the chapter on Lucid Projection Techniques, section Projection through the Mental Body Technique: "Targets for a projection in the mental body are notional concepts that are outside the boundaries of ordinary life. The point of them is to break out of the boundaries of what's known. The experience is epitomized by having an epiphany- suddenly you consider the concept of infinity or spirituality or oneness and you have an expansion of consciousness in which you grasp the whole idea. pg 254 Bingo.
Vieira doesn't seem to have a high opinion of remote viewing: "Vieira describes it in Projectiology as "a daydream with some flashes of awareness or clairvoyance at a distance." pg 270 I was surprised by that. It seems like, in this sort of research, one would want to consider all modalities for their possible contributions to the topic.
If you're looking for more books on how to do out-of-body experiences, you may want to consider Soul Flight: Astral Projection & the Magical Universe by Donald Tyson, Soul Traveler: A Guide to Out-of-Body Experiences and the Wonders Beyond by Albert Taylor, and, one of my favorites, Otherwhere: A Field Guide to Nonphysical Reality for the Out-of-Body Traveler by Kurt Leland.
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December 17, 2017This book is fabulous, it is a must read guide to people starting to understand astral travel, many things described in this book were not fully grasped, but it was worth the effort.
December 28, 2021
This book is beyond impressive.
It took me a good long while to finish reading this, but I'm glad I took my time to let this all sink in.
This book in a nutshell is a formal approach to astral projection, different planes, different versions of you. You won't find any woo woo fluff here, with never-ending sentences describing the fluffiest of spirituality.
You'll see a good chunk of insightful information with steps to get started.
1000% recommend reading and keeping on your shelf forever.
It took me a good long while to finish reading this, but I'm glad I took my time to let this all sink in.
This book in a nutshell is a formal approach to astral projection, different planes, different versions of you. You won't find any woo woo fluff here, with never-ending sentences describing the fluffiest of spirituality.
You'll see a good chunk of insightful information with steps to get started.
1000% recommend reading and keeping on your shelf forever.
February 4, 2013
There are parts of this book I don't completely agree with or feel are true (at least for me). That being said, I still really got a lot from this book.
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