Paramahansa Yogananda (The Autobiography of a Yogi) and other yogis talk about self-realized people who leave their bodies consciously. Yogananda did it himself in 1952.
My spiritual teacher once mentioned to us that he had found out that his time-line was too short for him to accomplish everything he had set himself up to. So he simply prolonged his time-line. (I believe this is something that comes from NLP).
I myself haven't experimented with that, I might sometime in the future, though.
Merrick
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