Hey there,
Thought you all might wanna know that reasearchers in New York were able to trigger the astral projection sensation by stimulating a certain part of the brain. I'm looking for an article online to back me up... one of my proffessors told the class.
Kyle
intresting as soon as you get the links or get more information please send it in im very intrested.
Thanks.
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Kieran.
I'm not sure that the study that you mention is the same one that I read, but whn I looked at the details, what the experiencers were having were episodes of autoscopy, which is relatively different from what we consider an astral projection. Then again, we may be talking about different studies.
Isn't it the study that gets linked by a newbie every month? :P
Which part of the brain was it? I can remember reading once that they thought it was the amygdala.
Here it is http://www.astralvoyage.com/projection/amygdala.html
I find something odd about the study personally. Why has it not been repeated a hundred times? It also suggests that you can experience a conscious projection through stimulation of a particular brain part, reflexively.
To me this is more of a claim than a scientific study. Not to mention the frontal lobe is responsible for higher processing. Thoughts more precisely. Over time the brain has evolved and developed the frontal lobe. Is this suggesting that before the evolution of the brain, we were not able to experience astral travel?
Given no scientific evidence this information realistically renders any conclusion to a part of the brain being the cause of an OBE, premature.
IMO, it offers more hope to projectors that we are not delusional than any solid form of argument.
This link is on the argument against the notion that the amygdala is responsible for projection, and more responsible for the 'hallucination'.
http://www.meta-religion.com/Psychiatry/The_Paranormal/hallucinations.htm <---may have to scroll down to find what I'm talking about.
-AM