Foreword: A Multidimensional World by Wagner Alegretti
It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to write the foreword for Luis Minero’s first book, and I think that contextualizing this meritorious contribution to conscientiology and consciousness studies in general can help readers to grasp the depth and possible benefits of this work. Conscientiology was formally proposed with the publication of the book 700 Conscientiology Experiments in 1994 in Brazil by the medical doctor Waldo Vieira. This work followed the publication a few years earlier of the treatise Projectiology: A Panorama of Experiences of the Consciousness Outside the Human Body, wherein Vieira disseminated his structuring of studies on out-of-body experiences. Due to his personal experiences with psychic and paranormal phenomena starting at the age of nine, Vieira strived to include non-ordinary human manifestations within the scope of science under a new paradigm: the consciential paradigm. By the time Projectiology was published, he and many other collaborators, myself included, founded the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscientiology (IIPC) to promote research and education of these new sciences. In 1994, when conditions were mature for a more international exposure of conscientiology, a new phase started during which some of the researchers-instructors left Brazil to establish the conscientiological and projectiological work abroad. This led to individuals going to Lisbon, Portugal, and to New York and Miami in the United States. Motivated by the certainty my wife and I have about the reality of all these phenomena, since we’d had our own out-of-body experiences since childhood, we moved to Miami, where we worked as hard as the human body can bear in order to continue
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