What is an OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE AND ASTRAL TRAVEL?
An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is an experience a person may have in which they feel that they are floating outside of the body. This is sometimes called Astral Travel or Astral Projection. Seeing one's physical body from a place outside one's body is called autoscopy. Surveys have shown that one in ten people claim to have had an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives. Some astral projectors and Spiritualists claim they can see a silver cord linking their astral form to their physical body.
OUT OF BODY NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES (NDE)
Advances in medical technology
have enabled doctors to resuscitate patients that would otherwise
have died, and some of them report very strange stories indeed.
Although for a short time clinically brain-dead, these patients
have described seeing the operating theatre's proceedings from
a vantage point on the ceiling. They travel out of their bodies!
Some of the most interesting studies
were of blind patients who correctly reported the colours and
designs of the clothes worn by their surgeons. Some were even
able to give the exact readings on the anaesthetists' machinery.
In dreams it is possible to do the
same without any danger to our health. Psychics call this 'astral travelling' and in the East it has been known for centuries as
'Cloud Walking'. The American Indians believed the same.
Psychics believe that all have
a duplicate etheric body (The Astral Body) . This is an exact copy of our physical
body and survives death. When we sleep this astral duplicate sometimes
goes on night jaunts. Using simple techniques it is possible to
release yourself from the physical and really fly in your dreams. |
