Jul 20 2022

Short Stuff: Death from Astral Projection

Short Stuff 16 min 3 movies discussed
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In 1975, yoga enthusiast Robert Antoszczyk retired to his room in a group house in Ann Arbor, MI to try a meditation technique that would allow him to astrally project his spirit. He died, never coming out of his meditative state. What happened?

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In this episode, the guys dive into the bizarre and unsettling true story of Robert Antoszczyk, a yoga instructor and devoted astral projection practitioner who died under mysterious circumstances in 1975 while meditating in his Ann Arbor apartment. When his roommates finally checked on him after several days, they found him dead in a perfect meditative pose with no apparent cause, leaving medical examiners completely baffled—until a shocking cocaine overdose ruling emerged that contradicted everything known about his clean-living lifestyle. The episode explores the eerie possibility that his spirit may have become permanently separated from his body during astral projection, a fate that believers consider one of the most terrifying things that can happen to a human soul.


Movies Discussed

Quincy, M.E.
Quincy, M.E.
1976
★ 7.5
"They even brought in Quincy and Quincy had no idea. — Josh jokes that the medical examiner in the case was like the TV character Quincy, unable to determine the cause of death." — Josh
That's Incredible!
That's Incredible!
1980
★ 5.0
"there were like, like on that's incredible and stuff in the 80s, there were yogis who did tricks — Josh mentions the TV show as an example of where yogis performed heartbeat-slowing demonstrations in the 1980s." — Josh
The Jetsons
The Jetsons
1962
★ 7.3
"They said it's kind of like the Jetsons version of it. — Josh references The Jetsons when explaining how a 1975 Detroit Free Press article described astral projection." — Josh

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