Have scientists gone OBE themselves to see what it is?

[Tongo]

Well this is simple: we talk about all of us and our OBE experiences and we are not sciences I assume but do scientists actually deliberatley induce OBE's for themselves to see what they are about?

If they have, do they still say they are all in the mind?

[Steel Hawk]

Even some ranking occulists (Donald Tyson, in Soul Flight) say it's all in the mind, then again everything is in the mind, timespace is an illusion.

And well if you think about it, even when we're awake everything is all in our mind. But our mind really doesn't exist; as space time is an illusion, and if there is no space and no time how can anything physical exist?

Which gets into some very bizzare philosophy, actuality vs. perceived reality, etc. And well, whatever. Doesn't matter to me much either way -- as everything I experience while lucid and sober is "real" to me.

I've heard of a few experiements using rotational magnetic fields to induce "altered" states of reality, other experientments with scientists and psychologists were done by the Monroe Institute. But not quite sure on all the details.

Scientists in general would say that an OBE is either a hallucination or something akin to a dream.

[Beero]

there is that guy Albert Taylor he was a NASA engineer or something and he's now considered an authority on OBE.  and didn't Gregg Braden used to be some kind of scientist for NASA also
maybe NASA are trying to cut costs by astral-projecting off the planet rather than flying lol