Out of Body Experience: Have you had your OOBE yet?

Ten percent of all people worldwide say they have had an out-of-body experience at least once in their life. Most of the experiences were unintentional and followed a near-death experience.

Even if you are not a religious person and do not believe in the Immortal Soul, you cannot wish the “out-of-body experience” phenomenon to go away. Out-of-Body Experiences, or OOBE for short, is an experience that generally involves a sensation of floating out of the body and, in some cases, perceiving the physical body from an out-of-body location. First coined in 1943 by GNM Tyrrell in his book Apparitions, this is a globally accepted phenomenon with one in ten people claiming to have had an out of body experience once in their life. OOBE has been adopted by experts like Robert Monroe and Celia Green as an alternative to belief-focused labels like “astral projection” or “spirit walking,” but there is little to distinguish between them.

There are many scenarios under which out-of-body experiences occur. While sometimes the phenomenon appears to occur spontaneously, other times it is associated with physical or mental trauma, the use of psychedelic and dissociative drugs, or a dreamlike state. Many techniques have been developed in recent years to stimulate the OOBE, of which brainwave technology has been found to be particularly effective. Using a certain combination of alpha and theta harmonics, this allows the user to experience a distinct consciousness transfer resulting in an out of body experience while in perfect health.

The different ways to induce OOBE are:

1. spontaneous
* During or near sleep
* Near death experiences
* Extreme physical exertion

2. Induced
* Mental induction sleeping without losing wakefulness, waking up mentally but not physically, deep trance, meditation and visualization.
* Mechanical induction by brain wave synchronization (mentioned above), magnetic and electrical stimulation of the brain, sensory deprivation and sensory overload.
* Chemical induction with drugs such as ketamine, dextromethorphan (DM or DXM) and phencyclidine.