Waldo Vieira’s Projectiology and out-of-body research

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Waldo Vieira developed Projectiology, later associated with Conscientiology, as a system for cataloguing alleged projections of consciousness, including lucid out-of-body experiences, self-observation, and paranormal perception. His books and institutions provide a substantial modern Latin American corpus of first-person reports, technical vocabulary, and proposed experimental methods. The material matters for comparison with sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, dissociation, and NDE accounts. Its evidential status is disputed because much reporting is autobiographical, community-mediated, and not independently replicated under controlled conditions.