Nuggets from Occult Invasion

Consider the case of William, an intelligent, well-adjusted, 21-year-old college student hypnotized by Professor Charles Tart. William experienced the same cosmic consciousness and self-realization induced by yoga and clinical death. He experienced a deep peace, then detachment from his body, then release from his own identity to merge with the universe, the feeling that he was everything and had no limitation upon what he could experience or become. He sensed the fullness of God-consciousness “in which time, space, and ego are supposedly transcended, leaving pure awareness of the primal nothingness from which all manifested creation comes.”