Updated OBE Survey

[Greytraveller]

Hi All
Bout 2 or 3 years ago I posted a massive 8 part Informal OBE Survey here at AstralPulse. (If you'd like to read part of it do a search under "OBE Survey".)
Here is the updated and Abreviated survey. It is update to include the information from nearly 10,000 OBE reports (up from around 4,300 accounts). It has been abridged to fit into One (rather) long post.
So here goes ----



9,982 OBEs and NDEs Surveyed
Up Until August 31, 2009

Locales - Universes
Locale I       9,572     
Locale I*       120                         
Locale 27      389                               
Locale II        120     
Locale III         32     
Locale IV         88   
Locale I – BST 493   
Unsure        77       
Unknown        34     
Familiar Locations 8,375   (Note 8,375 OBE accounts took place in a familar location.)
Unsure                 89
                     
Familar Person(s)  2,850  (2,850 OBE accounts included a report of a sighting of a familiar person(s).)  Including--
Discarnate(s) of friend(s)  22
Family                     1,000    Friends     579
Discarnate(s) (D)      577    Spirit Guides (SG)      97
Person(s)                  129    Voice(s)          73+
Discarnate(s) of Family   381   Alien(s)         4
Animal(s)                    52      Animal discarnates 41
Higher Self                 67      Light Being(s)    12
Elemental(s)                 3      Medico(s) (M)  298
Old Souls 1, Soul Mate 16, Celebrity 1, ?Unsure 90

Other Person(s) or Being(s)   4,540 (4,540 OBE accounts reported an encounter with unfamiliar persons or beings.) Including
Deceased/Discarnate(s)  2,519   Person(s)    941
Spirit Guide(s)   258      Spirit Hinderer(s)  90   God      82
Jesus       99      Angel(s)  121      Alien(s)    205   
Alternate Family 2    Ancients    1        Animals     97+     Animal Discarnates 112   Archangels (inc. Michael, Gabriel) 5   Blue Ones 1      Buddha   5
Celebrities      11 (all discarnate including Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Jimi Hendrix, John Ritter, Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Steve Irwin, Mozart, Edgar Cayce)
Creatures(Disc) 146   Crystal Man  1   Demon(s)   46   
Deity  37  (Inc Ra, Nuit, Anubis, Ullr 11, Yama 5, Indra, Brahma, Thor)
Devil/Satan   9   Dragon(s)  15   Dream Disc  3   Dwarves     1
Elemental(s)   47 (including 12 Thought Elementals)      Elves     5  (Disc)
Faeries    12 (Disc)    Gargoyle(s)  (Disc)  3   Genie(s)     2   
Ghouls     4  (Disc)   Giant     1      Grim Reaper  12   Helpers  16 (Disc)
Historical     1      Imps  (Disc)  2   Incubus     3   Krishna    1
Light Being(s)  88   Lords Of Amenti 1   Medicos  202      Men in Black  1
Old Souls     1   Orbs       39      Oversoul  1      Phoenix     1
Pixies        1 (Disc.)   Prophets     1      Religious     10  (including  (Mary Magdalene 1, Madonna 1)
Saints 4 (inc. John the Baptist 2, St Peter 2 and St Pierre 1)   Shadow Persons  23
Shapeshifters  23   Shiva        1      Skeleton(s)  8
(Disc)Soul Group     5   Soul Mate      5   Sphinx     1      Stone People   1   Succubus     4 (*)
Trolls      2  (Disc)   Unicorns    3  (Disc) (*)            Vampire(s)    6  (Disc)
Virgin Mother 8   Voice(s)   393   Werewolves 1 (Disc)Witches    10  (Disc)
Wraith(s)     1      Zombie(s)  3  (Disc)   Other        4      Princess Diana  1 (Disc)
? Unsure   177

Phenomena
(Note - The numbers are the number of OBE accounts where that particular phenomena was reported)
Notes   Acute Senses 371  Acute Hearing 107   Acute Sight  239   ADC    178
AVP (accident Projection caused by a non-life threatening injury or drugs) 1,125    (AVP (Alien) Abduction   78) (AVP (Alien) Contact  6)
Awake     224 (2*)   Barrier   704      BWG/hemi-sync  81      Crystals  24
Confused   1,486   Deliberate    3,655    Dream>OBE  500+ (4*)   Drugs 320
DualConsc   310   Emotional    2,589   Energy   921         EPWE     920 (314*)
Experiment 144   Fight      352      Flight     2,129      Floated  3,050
Knowledge   401   Life Review   245   Light       904         
Location - Heaven  90, Hell  70, Limbo  3, Matrix  4, Void  79
Magick       86   Many        847   Meditation   528      Mirrors   68
NDE      1,157   Noise or Music  1,358   Option   275      Medical Exam 69
Physical Interaction   65   POV       43      Portal      206         Preview Event  160
Psi          105      Religious    176++   Saw Own (Physical) Body 2,263
Scared       1,134   Sex       72      Shared     101      Short      1,420
Silver Cord  242   Situations B   34   C   57   D   14   E   36
Sleep Paralysis 834   (In) Space   289   Starship    91         Time Change  356
Travel (Teleport)  3,167      Tunnel   929   Vibrations   2,042

Thanx for reading
Questions and comments are welcome 
Grey

[CFTraveler]

One question- what does the (*) mean?

[kurtykurt42]

Can you briefly explain the different universe/locales. 

Also, where the individuals aware of what the differences are in each locale in order to correctly pick which one they projected to?

How many individuals where used to conduct the survey?

[Greytraveller]

CFTraveler and KurtyKurt - Thank you both for replying.

CFTraveler
The asterisk for the unicorns is, frankly I believe to be a typo. (got to check my notes on that one.
2* for "awake" means that there were 2 reports of people having a full OBE while driving a car !
4* for "Dream>>OBE" means that 4 OBE accounts reported going into an OBE from a dream (or more likely a lucid dream) while simultaneously keeping both dream imagery And OBE awareness.
314* for EPWE" ( = Eyewitness Physical World Event) means that in 314 OBE accounts something that the person saw happening while they were OOB was later verified. (Note that this usually happens during NDEs when the NDEer is watching medical personnel working on them while they are outside their physical body, eg. floating near the operating room ceiling, and the doctors and/or nurses later verify that what the person saw Did, in fact, actually take place. Some of these NDEs are Very compelling stories. btw)

Kurtykurt
Universes/Locales are inspired by the late OBE pioneer Robert Monroe.
Briefly Locale I is this 4 dimensional space-time universe.
Locale I* is an alternate/parallel 4 D universe.
Locale II is something that I don't consider valid anymore. It stood for a 'timeless' universe where time does not exist. I discontinued using Locale II years ago but included it here because it was in the original survey.
Locale III is another cosmological 4 dimensional universe. (Where the time flow, and the physics are completely different.)
Locale IV is a higher dimension than the 4th dimension. This includes the "Astral Plane, the 'Mental Plane' the Buddhic Plane" and so on.
A BST is a Belief System Territory. A BST is a location that does not have any c corresponding physical location and is usually inhabited by people of similar social and religious beliefs and 'worldviews"
Locale 27 is a special BST where the newly dead are often sent to get acquainted with their new conditions.
I did not send out a questionaire to answer. Instead all the 9,982 OBE accounts were either found on various internet websites or were published in various books. A few were told to me  nd about a hundred are my own personal experiences.
Hopes this answers most of your questions.
Regards 
Grey

[Psychic19]

What the heck is this? How do you know everyone who has OBE? I don't understand.

[CFTraveler]

What the heck is this? How do you know everyone who has OBE? I don't understand.

He doesn't.  He did an informal massive survey here some years ago.  So he's showing us the tabulations.
It's a sample in a closed system.  It's a good example of x the things projectors report they see, etc, based on almost 10,000 responders.

[Psychic19]

oh that's cool! I haven't Astral Projected yet.

How does he know how many Aliens there are?

[CFTraveler]

oh that's cool! I haven't Astral Projected yet.

How does he know how many Aliens there are?

Maybe you need to go back to the beginning and read the post?  Because all these questions have already been answered.

[Psychic19]

No way there's too many.

I have not been here very often. I'm mostly on its sister site for Our Ultimate Reality.

[Greytraveller]

HI Psychic19
The information in this OBE survey was mostly found on the internet. I read OBE reports on many different websites (including Astral Pulse). I did not send out a questionaire or personally interview people. That would have taken way too much time and cost too much money.

I do Not know how many aliens there are. Nor do I know how many aliens people have encountered during their OBEs. The number of aliens encounters in this survey are only the number of OBE reports that mentioned an encounter with aliens. In other words 205 OBE accounts reported an encounter with at least one alien. As another example only one OBE account reported an encounter with ethereal pixies.
Regards 
Grey

[Psychic19]

I didn't know their were OBE reports out there. I never read any.

[Greytraveller]

Psychic19
Sure, there are Many reports of OBEs on this website alone. Just go to the "Welcome to OBE Experiences Forum" and you can read a report of my latest 2 OBEs. There are many other websites and blogs also. Such as AstralDynamics.com (I believe CFTraveler has her own journal on that site). Also check out OBERF.org (OBE Research Foundation) and NDERF.org (NDE Research Foundation).
Regards
Grey 

[Psychic19]

Do people meet there Spirit Guides while out of body? That is what I want to do.

[CFTraveler]

Some of us do.

[Psychic19]

Unless you are out of body and meet them face to face then how do you know what they say and who they are?

I have done meditations where you communicated with them but I don't know if it was just my imagination. I think it was must my imagination.

[CFTraveler]

Unless you are out of body and meet them face to face then how do you know what they say and who they are?

While out of body, by telepathy.  And by what they do.  They always go with me to places I can't get to by myself and protect me.

[Psychic19]

What kind of places CT?

[CFTraveler]

Belief system territories, mainly.

[Psychic19]

Yuck, I don't wanna go to that place!