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Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Out of body
Identifier
004884
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker
I looked again for our home. But our home had vanished. The very ground on which I had been sitting was gone. Instead there lay below me an insubstantial gloom. And I myself was seemingly disembodied, for I could neither see nor touch my own flesh. And when I willed to move my limbs nothing happened. I had no limbs. The familiar inner perception of my body .. had given way to a vague lightness and exhilaration. Soon the earth below me was like a huge circular table top, a broad disc of darkness surrounded by stars. I was apparently soaring away from my native planet at incredible speed.