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Copyright© 200 I by John R. Violette All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work in any form whatsoever, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief passages in connection with a review. Cover design by Jane Hagaman Cover digital imagery© 2004 by Getty Images/Comstock Images Excerpts reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack. Copyright© 1994 by John E. Mack, M.D. Also reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright© 1994 by John Mack. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. 1125 Stoney Ridge Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-296-2772 fax: 434-296-5096 e-mail: [email protected] www.hrpub.corn If you are unable to order this book from your local bookseller, you may order directly from the publisher. Call 1-800-766-8009, toll-free. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Violette, John R. Extra-dimensional universe : where the paranormal becomes the normal/ John R. Violette. p. ern. Summary: "Presents an expanded framework of space, time, and consciousness that for the first time scientifically explains how paranormal phenomena such as UFOs, near-death experiences, and other mystical phenomena can exist"-Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57174-446-0 (5-112 x 8-112 tp: alk. paper) I. Parapsychology. I. Title. BF1031.V56 2005 130--dc22 · 2005004237 ISBN 978-1-57174-446-3 1098765432 Printed on acid-free, recycled paper in the United States to parents my Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1x Introduction ....... ............ ...... .... . . . . . . ...........x i Part I. A New Framework of Space, Time, and Consciousness 1 The Theory 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................... 2. Worlds of Space 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . ........... 3. Levels of Consciousness 38 ........... .......... ............ 4. What Time Appears to Be, and What It Really Is ............5 4 Part II. The Paranormal as the Normal 5. The Mystical Experience: Dawn of a New Species .77 ........... 6. Psychic Phenomena .....................................9 2 Z UFOs and Abductions ......................... .........1 24 8. Life after Death 158 . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ .. Part Ill. A New Worldview 9. Extra-Dimensional Theory and the New Physics 185 . . . . . . . . . . . . Endnotes 209 . . . . . . . . . .... ......... ......................... Bibliography 221 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............................. Index 231 . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................ About the Author .......................................2 35 Acknowledgments Interior illustrations by A1 Cabral, graphic arts/photographer, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Permission to reprint selected passages by Raymond E. Fowler and Simon & Schuster. In addition, there are many references and quotations from sources either in the public domain or that fall into the category of "fair use for comment and review." All sources are credited in the text and/or endnotes section, and my appre ciation for all. Also, I wish to thank Booklocker.com, where this work first came out in book form, and Richard Leviton, senior editor at Hampton Roads, for noticing it. ix

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UFO sightings and alien abductions, mystical experiences and psychic phenomena, the near-death and the out-of-body experience—millions of ordinary people around the world report experiencing these events at some point in their lives. Yet, because there is no accepted scientific theory to explain t