Oliver Fox

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Oliver Fox , actually Hugh George Callaway / Calloway (born November 30, 1885 in Southampton , England - † April 28, 1949 ), was a British short story and poetry writer and parapsychologist . He occupied himself with attempts at astral projection, that is, too consciously experienced out-of-body experiences , in which field he was a pioneer.

Life

Fox describes his childhood in London as being shaped by disease. In addition, he was afraid of sleep as he was tormented by nightmares; In particular, the vision "small [r] vibrating [r] blue [r] or mauve [r] circles [...] that resembled frog spawn" and from which nightmarish faces could emerge burdened him. However, he learned to control his dreams and visions as a child.

Fox also had out-of-body experiences through his dream events. At the age of 17 he first experienced a lucid dream (for which he used the term dream of knowledge ), so he knew about the fact of dreaming while he was dreaming. To remain in this state for longer, he succeeded only with great effort and practice; even though he often did not recognize them as such, illogical, unnatural, or obvious contradictions in his dreams sometimes led him to the realization that he was dreaming. From this ability to dream lucidly, his out-of-body experiences eventually evolved over the years. Only later did he realize that his dreams of knowledge did not necessarily have to precede one. By concentrating on the area of ​​his pineal gland before going to sleep and imagining that it would leave his body through it, he developed a method of inducing an out-of-body experience, an astral projection, practically at will. He comments on this as follows: “I was now able to pass from the usual waking state into this new state of consciousness [...] and return without interrupting my consciousness. This is easy to write, but it took me fourteen years to achieve this ”.

Fox was an electrical engineer, he studied at the Harley Institute . In 1907 he married Bertha Knight.

Fox described phenomena such as the silver cord connecting the physical and astral bodies; Experiments with friends for joint astral projection; Attempts to interact with people and animals perceived during the projection; and finally three different methods of locomotion in the astral body. The first is the horizontal flight through purely mental exertion, which is easy to do as long as no excessive pull is exerted on the silver cord. The second is a kind of levitation , comparable to a dream of a flight. The third he called "sky flight", since it takes place at a rocket-like speed.

Fonts

  • Astral projection. A Record of Out-of-the-Body Experiences.
  • The Pineal Doorway. ( The pineal gland as a gateway to the astral world. ) In: Occult Review. Vol. XXXI. No. 4 April 1920. pp. 190ff.
  • Beyond the Pineal Door. ( Beyond the gateway of the pineal gland. ) In: Occult Review. Vol. XXXI. No. 5 May 1920. pp. 251ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglas M. Baker: The techniques of astral projection.
  2. ^ Anthony Shafton: Dream Reader. Contemporary Approaches to the Understanding of Dreams.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Muldoon, Sylvan J .; Carrington, Hereward: The sending out of the astral body. 9th edition. Hermann Bauer. Freiburg in Breisgau. 1996. p. 41ff.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Susan Blackmore: Who is Oliver Fox? In: Beyond the Body. An investigation of out-of-body experiences. London. Heinemann. 1982. p. 23ff. (translated by Werner Zurfluh.)
  5. ↑ a b Spirit Book. 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calloway, Hugh George (real name); Callaway, Hugh George (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British short story and poetry writer and parapsychologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Southampton , England
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1949