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Flights of the Soul: Visions, Heavenly Journeys, and Peak Experiences in the Biblical World is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reports of prophetic dreams, of journeys into the heavens, and of other alternate states of consciousness abound in the Old and New Testaments and in extra-biblical literature. And although some scholars consider such reports to be simple literary devices, John J. Pilch—a leading expert in social scientific interpretation of the Bible—argues that ancient accounts of alternate consciousness are...

patterned forms of ASC. Eighty percent of circum-Mediterranean societies shared the same experience. Since ancient Palestine and neighboring societies such as ancient Egypt and Greece were included in the databank, the ASC experience is a highly plausible, cultural explanatory model for New Testament reports of circum-Mediterranean people seeing the risen Jesus. During his lifetime, Jesus appears to have been recognized as a holy man, that
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