Can we leave our bodies?
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Case reports suggest that the conscious self can part from the physical body and see it from the outside. The subject may be clinically dead, yet later is able to recall events happening at that time. Out-of-body experience, or OBE, is often a component of near-death experience, but it may also occur in healthy people.
Cross-cultural studies show a belief in OBEs in 51 out of 54 cultures. Surveys of their incidence in various populations indicate that between 10 and 25% of people have experienced them. The most common characteristics reported are a distinct sensation of distance from the body, heightened awareness and extended powers of perception.
Profesional researchers have sought proof that some life force can temporarily leave the body. In 1965-66 Dr Charles Tart of the University of Virginia tested businessman Robert Monroe, who was asked to project his non-physical being from one room to another and report on what he saw. He apparently managed two brief OBEs in eight sessions. In the 1970s Dr Karlis Osis of the American Society for Psychical Research test and OBE-adept artist, Ingo Swann, who could sometimes describe objects beyond his range of vision. Osis also tested schoolteacher Alex Tanous, who affected sensitive vibration detectors when he attempted OBEs. While no test was conclusive, there was suggestive evidence of OBEs in each case.
Dr Robert Morris of the Psychical Research Foundation carried out some interesting experiments with researcher Stuart Blue Harary in 1973. Harary tried to make his OBE presence felt to a cat while he himself was wired up to various devices in another building. Physiological measurements indicated the OBE was a distinct state, and changes in the behaviour of the cat did suggest that it sensed something at the time of OBEs.
OBEs have long been associated with sages and yogis, and 20th-century writers have claimed such experience. In a classic text, The Projection of the Astral Body (1929), an American named Sylvan Muldooon provides a record of his OBEs from the age of 12. Skeptical psychologists have suggested that OBEs are just a kind of reconstruction of memories, hallucinations or particularly lucid dreams. Yet these theories cannot account for the ability of OBE subjects to report events that occurred while they were ostensibly unconscious.
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I've only got 'Out of Office' experience before...?
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I believe that OBEs are possible...
There was this guy who could go into a trance and after that make his soul leave his body....He even managed to travel to Mercury with his soul and gave an almost perfect description of the planet's surface even though he has no astronomical knowledge~!
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wah....mercury.........tts bery far.........
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i don't plan on leaving my body until after i'm dead
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Wahahaha me too dude..Originally posted by the Bear:i don't plan on leaving my body until after i'm dead
However in some cases, an OBE is involuntary...
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Yah loh...and can you believe that he actually managed to project his soul there~!Originally posted by FireIce:wah....mercury.........tts bery far......... -
Astral projection....its possible in some New age meditations.....but i strongly discourage all who try to practice or is practising this..its DEMONIC by nature and when ur spirit leaves ur body.....its never left empty...other evil spirits will enter it and manipulate it.
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hmmm... it's a storyline in the comic Judge Dredd..
where some monk emptied out his mind and then got taken over by an evil entity called Judge Death and it caused the death of 40 million people
cool storyOriginally posted by NeonTetra:Astral projection....its possible in some New age meditations.....but i strongly discourage all who try to practice or is practising this..its DEMONIC by nature and when ur spirit leaves ur body.....its never left empty...other evil spirits will enter it and manipulate it. -
yah....but what i have just said is not fiction hor....its the way the spiritual realms functions.Originally posted by the Bear:hmmm... it's a storyline in the comic Judge Dredd..
where some monk emptied out his mind and then got taken over by an evil entity called Judge Death and it caused the death of 40 million people
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Exprience it once many years ago...
That is the period where i always keep searching answer to many question about birth and after death...
Once during some mediatation and concentration... somehow its juz happen. Really freak out with that exprience and never dare to try it again since then...
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