Most people have experienced some sort of out of body experience, the feeling that you have simply stepped out of your body for a few moments. The experience can be a bit jarring since often you are able to see yourself on the bed or couch. It’s a lot like dreaming except that you are very much aware of the experience. This experience often happens in near-death cases or in severe illnesses.
In most cases, people who have experienced OBE tend to report having been asleep or on the verge of sleep even though they are not in a particularly deep sleep as noises from other areas are often heard. Some actually feel or sense they are out of the body after the fact and it comes as a surprise and at other times will feel themselves being pulled out of the body. Many people report they feel some kind of vibration or that they can hear a loud buzzing or popping noise before going back into their bodies.
There are many explanations for this phenomenon. Some think it feels like the soul leaving the body and maybe that is exactly what it is. Others feel it is a little more than a dream and skeptics don’t believe it is anything more than a dream and point to neurologist’s experiments that have recreated OBE in the lab by stimulating certain areas of the brain. The points that they are missing however is those who have experienced an OBE generally do not need any stimulation at all outside of their minds and it often happens spontaneously.
There is no evidence that anyone has actually left their bodies except antidotal evidence. There are some who have experience OBE in the hospital and have traveled outside of their bodies. They have described the conversations the physicians were having or may have noticed a piece of equipment that they don’t recognize. There would be no other way for the people who experienced these types of OBE to know what was in the room if they hadn’t been there, physically or in spirit form. Others have received messages from those loved ones who have passed on or from other ‘forms.’
The out of body experience is different from astral projection or astral travel. Astral projection does not need the perception of one’s own body. In Astral Projection, your spirit or your soul travels and sometimes you can view a tether or a kind of safety cord often referred to as silver.
What ever OBE’s are, it is a function of our minds and that being the case, whatever the experience is, it gives us a new perspective on things, a new way of looking or thinking and most of all in most cases, a new kind of awareness. And that’s a good thing.
Conrad Raw is an expert in practical techniques for personal and spiritual development. He is the author of "Forbidden Secrets of Personal and Energetic Development." He travels the world to learn and teach and is the founder of http://www.greaterhumanpotential.com a website devoted to bringing you easy to learn techniques to increase your human evolution. Visit his website for a free newsletter filled with tons of great tips and advice.
