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…avoid assumptions about the ontological status of experience, permitting researchers from different disciplinary perspectives to investigate the phenomenon using common terminology. Since then, the term has been adopted in parapsychology, consciousness, and bereavement literature, although there is no strict definition of ‘experience’. Prior to the Guggenheims, ADC experiences had been…
The idea that ‘something leaves the body’ during an out-of-body experience (OBE) has a long history in the literatures of spiritualistic and psychical research. ‘Projection’ theories suggesting that consciousness can function outside of the physical body and the idea that OBEs supported the notion of postmortem survival were common from…
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…the same experience may later be reframed as transformative, reduced away or endured as a long unresolved burden. Description A distressing near-death experience (dNDE) is an event in consciousness distinguished by painful emotional tone and unpleasant content but otherwise sharing in the common elements of NDEs (ie, ‘going somewhere’, out-of-body…
…wider constellation of anomalous human experience. Adjacent States of Consciousness Sleep paralysis frequently occurs alongside neighbouring transitional states of consciousness. Experiencers describe transitions between sleep paralysis, hypnagogic and hypnopompic experience, dreaming, lucid dreaming, false awakenings and out-of-body experiences, sometimes within a continuous experiential sequence.10Cheyne et al. (1999); Pryce Brooks (2024)….
…messages and having out-of-body experiences in a voluntary and progressive way. Several contactees studied by Martins have set up clinics that facilitate alternative, religious or esoteric practices, attributing successes to the direct or indirect intervention of the aliens.18Martins (2015). It is increasingly common for out-of-body experiencers to report having met…
