Scientific article on "Eject Button for the Soul"

[Parmenion]

They still have a ways to go yet those white-coated, bespectacled chaps havent they? Still , im glad science is catching up, even if only a little.I would love to see the mainstream beliefs changing and realising that what seems impossible isn't allways so. "Believe that the mountain will move and it will"
Its a shame that people in generall wont believe in anything that science hasn't 'proved', but hey, thats life i guess.

Parmenion

[rodentmouse]

in  my  2  breif OBE's   and  when  i wake  up  from  a  dream  into the   re-entry  process  whilst  consious,   i  feel/felt   an  incredible  pulsating  sensation  in  and  around  my  brow  chakra,  lodged  somewhere in my  brain.

i  think  this  is  how  Frank  projects,   he  focuses  on  this  point  in  the  brain  which triggers  the  seperation.

This  is  the button  i beleive  they  are talking  about.

trouble  is  these  scientists  think  they  can  learn  from  "guinea pigs"  when  they  could  learn  so much more  by  trying  it  for themselves.

[Jacque]

Ah, yes rodentmouse, i remember Frank talking about that.  The 'brain method' i think.  Quite fasinating, the possible link with this article.  
Hmm, i wonder if Frank has had any progress with this lately...

[filipcza]

If this is true, then it means we have a full proof method of inducing OBE! [] Now we could also prove that OBE isn't just in our minds.

Just put a obstacle next to lying person and a piece of paper with a number to the other side of the obstacle. Then press the "eject" and the candidate can float out to read the number, shout it aloud, come back to body and amaze the audience!

I wonder would it be enough for Randi..I quess nothing ever will be,  sad..

[Leviiathan]

The problem is that it creates two possible interpretations, hence a paradox.

What I fear is that scientists (and people), as well as skeptics, will take this discovery, then use it to indite that OoBE is nothing more than a hallucinatory (artificial) experience that is not at its roots authentic or legit.

An interesting observation I made was that the woman was able to account the experience of OoBE at it was happening. What I am confused about here is this: how could she be having an OoBE and still be consciously in her body at the same time as if she wasn't outside of it to begin with?

Isn't an OoBE / AP indeed a conscious dump of the body? (i.e. it throws the focus of the conscious outside of the body, even though the person is still present within themselves). I have heard of remote viewing (another form of AP, OoBE?), but I would not exactly call it an OoBE, AP.

[MJ-12]

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[Leviiathan]

MJ-12: I'm well aware of the theory, but stating what I feel is an inconsistency with the woman's account.

[MJ-12]

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[Leviiathan]

The episode seemed more like an episode of clairvoyance than it did an OoBe.

[Pete]

Here's an interesting article I thought appropriate for this forum.

SCIENTISTS FIND THE EJECT BUTTON FOR YOUR SOUL!
Anyone can have out-of-body experiences at will

By MICHAEL CHIRON

GENEVA -- Excited Swiss scientists say they've found the "eject button"
inside your head that catapults your soul from your body when you die!

What's more, stimulation of the tiny area of the brain -- called the angular
gyrus of the right cortex -- is also what triggers out-of-body experiences!

Until this extraordinary discovery, scholars were puzzled about exactly how
the soul is sprung free from a human's mortal shell -- most theologians
attributing it to an intangible force. But the dazzling experiment conducted
at Geneva University Hospital pinpoints a concrete physical mechanism.

"God literally installed a soul-ejector button in every human being, not
unlike the button on your VCR -- it gives Him easy access to each and every
soul He has created," explains Christian psychologist Rob Hallidoy of
Columbia, S.C., who
calls the finding breathtaking.

"When a person dies, one of His angels of death just reaches
in, presses the button and the soul exits the body to travel to its final
destination."

Before the discovery, experts assumed out-of-body experiences
(OBEs), in which you feel yourself leaving your body, were a random
occurrence.

"Now it's clear that God selects certain people to take these
out-of- body voyages, in which they often visit Heaven or Hell and are given
a foretaste -- or warning -- of what awaits them after death," says
Hallidoy. "An angel hits the button and their souls fly out like pilots
ejecting from a jet fighter."

The mind-blowing discovery was made by neurologist Dr. Olaf Blanke.

"This could be an explanation for out-of-body experiences," he confirms.

Dr. Blanke and his colleagues stumbled onto the breakthrough
while treating a patient for epilepsy, as they tried stimulating areas of
her brain with electricity. When they stimulated the angular gyrus, she had
an OBE.

"It was a totally unexpected effect," Dr. Blanke, whose report was published
in the scientific journal Nature, said in an interview.

"At first, she felt as though she was falling. Then, when the current was
increased, she felt she was looking down on her body. She was floating just
under the ceiling. It was a very
spectacular experience."

Scientists say that knowing precisely where the soul-ejector
button is -- and how to artificially press it -- may someday soon allow
ordinary folks to enjoy thrilling astral-projection-type journeys outside of
their bodies.

Published on: December 20, 2002