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Transcendence of the Boundaries of Linear Time

(a)

Embryonal and Fetal Experiences, during which one experiences an intrauterine existence as well as various emotional experiences of the mother. This can extend back to cellular memory of the germinal cells and of conception.

(b)

Ancestral Experiences, during which one regresses along biological lines to achieve a full experiential identification with an ancestor, including body image, emotions, thought processes and memories.

(c)

Racial and Collective Experiences, which involve the experiential phenomenon of being a larger group, and through it gaining detailed insights concerning social structure, religious practices, morals, history and technologies of the culture.

(d)

Past Incarnation Experiences, that resemble ancestral, racial and collective experiences; which, however, are usually more dramatic, being associated with an intense emotional charge of either positive or negative quality. The essential experiential characteristic is a convinced sense of remembering an event that happened to an individual consciousness in a previous life.

(e)

Phylogenetic Experiences, that are closely related to animal identification, sharing with it the sense of total anatomical, physiological, psychological and biochemical identity with other species of living organisms. They differ since there is a convinced sense of regression of historical time. One identifies with the members of prior species in the evolutionary history of life.

(f)

Experiences of Planetary Evolution, where one witnesses panoramic images of the evolution of the entire planet, including its origins. This can be done as an observer, or the subject can experientially identify with the occurrence.

(g)

Cosmogenetic Experiences, which are similar to the last category except that the subject witnesses or identifies experientially with the birth and development of the entire universe. Certain subjects, including physicists and mathematicians, have reported remarkable experiential insights into problems related to astrophysics that can be expressed mathematically but cannot be fully intuited in the ordinary state of consciousness. Insights reported included Einstein's concept of an infinite but self-enclosed universe; non-Euclidean geometries; Minkowski's space-time; the "event horizon"; and the collapse of time, space, and natural laws in a black hole.

(h)

Various psychic phenomena, including precognition, clairvoyance and clairaudience of past and future events; psychometry; and time travels.