…They included apparitions, auras, ancestral experiences, alien abduction experiences, early life experiences, entity encounters, interspecies communication, near-death experiences and phylogenetic experiences, to name a few.20Grof (2009); Luke (2012). There is also a consistent although weak relationship between kundalini experiences and both psychedelic and paranormal experiences, leading to speculation that endogenous…
…mind during the experience include: wakefulness – seeing with open or closed eyes awake but in an altered state of mind daydream hypnagogic or hypnopompic states dream lucid dream out-of-body experience (OBE) concentration meditation prayer Witnesses Like many exceptional experiences, light phenomena are reported to have occurred most often with…
…common with intermission experiences. Intermission experiences seemingly pick up where NDEs leave off.78Matlock & Giesler-Petersen (2016). Many NDEs begin with an out-of-body experience or OBE stage, during which the experiencer views his or her body, as if from outside it. NDEs then transition into a ‘transcendental stage’ that passes (in…
…the review of the controversy for the Psi Encyclopedia by Chris Roe, here. Works Books Parapsychology and Out-of-the-Body Experiences (1978). Hove, UK: Transpersonal Books. Beyond the Body: An Investigation into Out-of-Body Experiences (1982). London: Heinemann. Dying to Live: Science and the Near Death Experience (1993). London: Grafton. Sample chapter [Web…
…aspects of the out-of-body experience that might have implications for understanding the psyche, Rabeyron and Caussié interviewed sixteen people who experienced OBEs. Their responses indicated that out-of-body experiences usually occur during altered states of consciousness or during traumatic events. Rabeyron and Caussié found that during the out of body experience…
…& Dalton (1998–99). OBEs were explored in relation to spontaneous psychic experiences, alteration of consciousness, lucid dreams, openness to experience, and alterations of consciousness during the ganzfeld. Individuals who reported out-of-body experiences also experienced a greater number of parapsychological and dissociative experiences than those in the non-OBE group. The pattern…
Out-of-body experience literature acquired one of its classic statements in this book co-authored by experiencer Sylvan Muldoon and researcher Hereward Carrington. Framed in the language of ‘astral projection’, it assembled theory, testimony and recurrent features of the experience into a forceful argument for a subtle body independent of the brain….
…‘Lucid Dreaming’Stephen LaBerge and Jayne Gackenbach), ‘Out-of-Body Experiences’ (Carlos Alvarado), ‘Psi-Related Experiences’ (Elisabeth Targ, Marilyn Schlitz, and Harvey J Irwin), ‘Alien Abduction Experiences’ (Stuart Appelle, Steven Jay Lynn, and Leonard Newman), ‘Past Life Experiences’ (Antonia Mills and Steven Jay Lynn), ‘Near-Death Experiences’ (Bruce Greyson), ‘Anomalous Healing’ (Stanley Krippner) and ‘Mystical…
…probably be those in which young children receive new organs and thereafter experience themselves as sharing their body with the donor. Consider, for example, the case of Carter.28Described in Pearsall (1998). The young recipient described himself both as co-existing with his donor and as occasionally yielding his body to the…
