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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...

chiefly to the anthropological and other social scientific literature I consulted in my research. I have also listed biblical studies that incorporate social-scientific insights in the interpretation of the Bible. In each case, however, I have updated the bibliography. Some of the references I used and listed as articles have since been incorporated into books. Along with the original reference, I have listed the current published reference. Regarding terminology, in 1993 I began researching “altered
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