New Scientist Article - What exactly is an out-of-body experience?

[Alex-Anderson]

 
Interesting article in New Scientist about Out of Body Experiences and suggested causes.
 
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427291.100-out-of-your-head-leaving-the-b

[OBEvanCHERNOBIL]

This sounds like a crap to me, or I'm just mentally f***ed up

[Stookie]

Why would they begin a scientific article with such a out-of-the-ordinary anecdote? As if that's a common experience...

[no_leaf_clover]

Why would they begin a scientific article with such a out-of-the-ordinary anecdote? As if that's a common experience...

Because they have an agenda?

I think is rather funny.  People's interest in OBE's has greatly increased in recent years with the internet.  This forum's huge jump in membership growing stats in recent months is one sign,  I've also seen it on the ATS forums in the part of that site that relates to astral projection.

[ka0s]

I've had hundreds of OBE's and I honestly dont think the article was that bad. I am rather open minded and will believe what i believe--but i thought it was an interesting read.

[Tiny]

Just remember, modern mainstream science is a religion based upon materialistic-atheistic belief systems, nothing more, nothing less. And that's all there is to it.


Does there really have to be said anything else? I don't think so.

[Alex-Anderson]

I thought it was interesting about the temporoparietal junction (such as it malfunctioning) being described as a possible cause for the experiences people encounter, however I will have to do some more research but I find it hard to believe it could be as simple as that.   

[no_leaf_clover]

There is nothing "simple" about the brain.  Not even a single neuron is fully understood in its operation to this day.

[CFTraveler]

I didn't get into the whole article (maybe it illustrated all kinds of translocation experiences) but what the anecdote described was not a classic OBE, but an episode of autoscopy, which a different thing.