…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…
…that elapsed between the experience and her first interview with Sabom.19Augustine (2007). Sabom counters that while Augustine is correct with regard to the moment when the out-of-body experience commenced – when the saw started up – Reynolds herself identified its conclusion as the operation being brought to a close by…
…non-physical actuality, depending on the state of the observer. Without this understanding, mysticism cannot begin to make sense. Direct experience of ‘the other worlds’ occurs mainly in out-of-body experience, which Whiteman preferred to term ‘separative’ experience, since there is usually awareness of a body of some kind. The commonest type…
…blind people who had experienced NDEs or out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Sixteen of the subjects had experienced both NDEs and OBEs, ten OBEs only and five NDEs only, and about half had been blind from birth. The results are described in the pair’s 1999 book Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in…
…study.23Tart (1993). Furthermore, these studies support the hypothesis that psychedelics can induce some paranormal experiences, although the arguments that are advanced for and against the genuineness of field reports also prevail here.24Stokes (1997). Of the reviewed surveys, correlations between the occurrence of paranormal experiences (including psi and mystical experiences) and…
…of conviction, types of precognitive experiences, intervention in precognitive experiences, aspects of hallucinatory experiences, and the relationship between agents and percipients.42respectively, L.E. Rhine (1951; 1954; 1955; 1956a; 1956b). In later studies she assessed to what extent ESP information was conveyed by waking and dream experiences.43L.E. Rhine (1962a; 1962b). The abstract…
…in coal-forming plants. He resigned from his role as Principal Geologist in 1952 and devoted the rest of his life to psychical research, in particular out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Case Collections Crookall collected over three hundred testimonies of out-of-body experiences, deathbed visions and near-death experiences, also reports by mediums and clairvoyants,…
…experiences had in life, that somehow go beyond the boundaries of ordinary ego-consciousness, as data’. Such experiences might include ‘unitive consciousness, meta-needs, peak experiences, ecstasy, mystical experience, being, essence, bliss, awe, wonder, transcendence of spirit’ and so on. Laughlin places a central significance on a first-person phenomenological approach to the…
…& Zingrone (1994). In further research, they explored the suspected association between synaesthesia and seeing auras, finding a robust relationship across their five studies.11Zingrone et al. (2009). Out-of-body Experiences Zingrone and colleagues investigated the effect of body posture and activity on the nature of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). From previous research,…
