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Although thought of as two contrasting beliefs regarding possible after-life events,  both "reincarnation" and eventual "resurrection" of specific individuals might be possible. This is due to the concept of split consciousness, as far as I have understood it by the descriptions given by Robert Bruce.

There are good reasons to believe that "reincarnation" of  the soul is something more tricky than is usually comprehended. Ultimately, there is only one spirit that reincarnates in a multitude of bodies, something which in itself has a lot to do with the phenomenon of split consciousness.
(Now, even if "souls" are not ulimately real, have no fully independent existence, they nevertheless are rather stable seen with human eyes. I believe that the energy vortices that are "my" soul tend to "cling" together maintaining "itself" as an "entity" for several reasons. Therefore, it presumably is "half-true" that "my" soul "reincarnates" in another body).

Ultimately however, "reincarnation" presumably is a special variant of split consciousness – in time – of the one being.  And the simultaneous existence of zillions of beings in this very moment is another example of  split consciousness – in space – of the same one spirit.

Regarding the more christian belief of carnal resurrection of specific individuals, the concept of split consciousness works just fine. "My" soul might have "reincarnated" as some individuals who will be bodily resurrected while other of "my" individuals will not. Maybe these individuals will be strongly linked to each other much like twins or couples deeply in love, having an more or less telepathic communion but nevertheless be "individuals". (I do not suggest that "the others" who do not resurrect, are useless or get cast in hell or something. They are of course still parts of the one spirit).

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All this has something to do with another speculation of mine; that one important aspect with the whole existence of the Universe is the grand "reincarnation" of the one spirit in all of the material, in all "flesh", so that the physical world eventually becomes "spiritualised" as well as the spirit "materialised". A new heaven and a new earth.

Klaus S

 

This person's experiences suggest that they are not dreams, her neural activity was arrested by freezing her brain during an operation. If the brain is effectively dead it could not create the OBE or allow her to remember it:

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence01.html

If you have an ordinary etheric out of body experience you can check your surroundings and confirm it is real for yourself, I reckon most of us have done something like that.

I tend to agree about the psychotropic drugs and the difficulty in evaluating results. Only a person already out of their body when drugged could say whether they had an effect on their consciousness in the out of body state, and then you have only their insistence afterwards that they were either effected or not during the OBE, not very reliable evidence really. My feeling is, on a simpler level, when we are only drunk, there's still a little voice inside us that thinks clearly, that knows we are in a mess but it can't make the brain do what we want because we've messed it up temporarily. So I believe that consciousness is really a  seperate entity from the brain and therefore the OBE experiences are real.

Oh, ok, so we should support and sustain tyrannical dictators whose ideas of leadership include staying power at any cost, even if it means killing women and children.  

The sad truth is that in this world our motto often has to be:
"Si vis pacem, para bellum."

I'm no expert, in fact i've never even have alucid dream, but perhaps you are being taken to those places for a reason. Maybe your dream guides are trying to tell you something. Have you explored those areas where you land, have you asked any guides about this?

"American Werewolf in London"[}:)]