STYLE GUIDE FOR AUTHORS OF THE ANTHOLOGY

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION: Please include the following information with your account:
- Your name:
- A title for your Projective account:

FONT & SIZE: Times New Roman 12 point. A minimum of 500 words to a maximum of 3000 words is required.

STYLE: Accounts should be submitted in freestyle prose using the first person singular. Authors are encouraged to include the details they feel necessary to best convey their experiences but equally, they should maintain objectivity and frankness. Please remain as impassionate as possible.

Accounts should include [if possible] the following projective phases:

1. Narration of the sensations and phenomena experienced during take off. The date (day/month/year) of the projection should also be included if it is known, otherwise, at least mention the month and the year in the body of the account as it suits you. The time of projection ___ AM or PM, if you know it, should also be included.
Note: If there are relevant details related to the period prior to the projection, you may include them in the introduction.

2. Description of events occurring during the extraphysical period.

3. Ending your account you should ideally describe the landing and the post-projective period.

If there is any relevant observation, reflection, mental association or analysis that occurred after the study of the chief idea of your conscious projection, you may also include them at the end of the account. If your experience illustrates any process in regards to which you could offer a “suggestion” to the reader, you may do so.

Note: If you do not have information related to the phases prior and posterior to the projection focus on the extraphysical phase of your experience. You should write your account as a continuous text without sections divisions, but observing the appropriate and clear flow of ideas.

SUGGESTIONS: The following points have been included as a non-exhaustive guide to assist you with the writing of your account. We suggest that you respond to points that may be applicable by including them as it seems most appropriate in the body of the account:

- Duration of the projection: ___’
- Physical position before and after the projection.
- Physiological condition of the projector before and after the projection.
- Psychological condition of the projector before and after the projection.
- Did you have any significant variances to your usual routine on the day of the projection? For   example did you take any medication before the projection?
- Did you apply a projective technique? (Please mention the name of the technique or what it is   based on). Important note: if you used a technique that you have developed, you are welcome to   send this technique to us [in a separate file] for publication in the techniques section of this book.
- Did you set a mental (projective) target?
- Did your level of lucidity remain the same throughout the projection?
- How was your recollection of the projection? Fragmentary (fragments of the projection) or in-block   (integral memory)?
- Climatic conditions at the physical base before and after the projection.
- Temperature and humidity inside the physical base [if relevant, or of your knowledge].

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Submissions must be sent no later than the 30 of November 2003. Accounts will be selected based on the clarity of the narration and originality/validity of the type of experience illustrated.

Please forward your contributions by e-mail to ‘Rodrigo.Montenegro@iacworld.org’ in MS-Word format (extension .doc). Accounts are accepted for consideration for inclusion on the understanding that they have not been previously published before and are not currently under offer to any other publication. If that is not so, authors must explicitly inform that when submitting their account.

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