Paradigm. The main difference between the paradigm utilized by conscientiology and of other conventional sciences is that the object of research is the researcher himself. With this focus the researcher not only amplifies his understanding of the reality of the consciousness, he develops as well a greater potential for accomplishing his existential goals.

Laboratory. Modern technology is still not advanced enough to detect, analyze and study more subtle dimensions where the consciousness can manifest. One of the principal premises of Conscientiology is participative research, which allows the investigator to make use of his daily experiences, including those beyond the physical reality, as a mega laboratory for his/her self-research.

Conventional. Due to the Newtonian-Cartesian bases, conventional sciences consider only the material world, and approach the consciousness as being a sub-product of the physical brain. This limits perceptions and methodology, generating at many times inconsistent explanations, with little logical content.

Confirmation. An out of body experience, voluntary and lucid, is one of the investigative instruments to achieve the self-confirmation of the extraphysical dimension, or in other words, the reality that the consciousness transcends the biological body.

Proposal. The science Conscientiology was initially proposed and developed by Waldo Vieira, physician and dentist, independent researcher that has had lucid out of body experiences since he was 9 years old, and is considered one of the major researchers of the subject. In 1986, after 19 years of non-stop research in Brazil and abroad, Vieira published the treatise Projectiology: An Overview of the Consciousness Outside the Human Body, through which he officially presented Projectiology as a new science to the public and to the scientific community. Later, in 1994, he published his second treatise, 700 Conscientiology Experiments, establishing the technical bases of this science. In 2003, Vieira finished his third treatise, called Homo Sapiens Reurbanisatus (1,584 pages), that approaches the phenomenon of the extraphysical re-urbanization.