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Welcome To Spirit-Quest
-->> Here, we delve into the vastly
uncharted territory of human Consciousness, it's nature, and of the
spectacular world of mind travel, including the Out-Of-Body Experience
(OBE), the Near-Death Experience (NDE), Remote Viewing, Dreams, and Lucid
Dreaming. <<-- We offer many free resources including an e-book library, music downloads, and streaming video links. We also have a links directory for related sites, and links to published works around the web. Join the community and meet others to discuss these topics in our forums, send PM's, and create your own online journal/blog! Registration is easy and free! Please enjoy your stay! We are continually updating and adding new content, so please check back!
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Scientists study 'out of body experiences' |
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Jessica Salter, UK News 2008
Doctors in hospitals in Britain and the US will study 1,500 heart attack
patients to see if people with no heartbeat or brain activity can have "out
of body" experiences.
Some people report being able to soar out of their bodies and look down on
themselves and medical staff.
The study at 25 UK and US hospitals will include doctors placing images on
shelves that are only visible from the ceiling to test the theory.
Dr Sam Parnia, an intensive care doctor who is heading the study, said: "If
you can demonstrate that consciousness continues after the brain switches
off, it allows for the possibility that the consciousness is a separate
entity.
"It is unlikely that we will find many cases where this happens, but we
have to be open-minded.
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And if no one sees the pictures, it shows these experiences are
illusions or false memories.
"This is a mystery that we can now subject to scientific study."
Dr Parnia said that after a cardiac arrest, where the body is technically
dead, doctors restart the heart and reverse the dying process.
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Is it possible to have an 'out-of-body'experience? |
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 Jerome Taylor, The Independant Science, 2008
Floating above one's body or travelling down a long tunnel leading to a
white light has become such a clichéd description of near-death
experiences that many remain deeply suspicious of them. And yet time
and again people from different walks of life have described the same
scenario.
Traditionally debated by theologians and philosophers, the scientific
community is now taking a look in an attempt to answer one of life's
most enduring questions: what happens to our consciousness when we die?
A coalition of British and US scientists has launched an experiment to
study more than 1,500 heart attack patients over the next three years
to see if people with no heartbeat and brain activity can have genuine
"out-of-body" experiences.
Key to the experiment is an investigation into whether those who say
they briefly departed their body while clinically dead "physically"
left themselves behind or were simply imagining it during their
resuscitation.
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Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind |
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 James Randerson, The Guardian, 2008
Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy.
The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self.
The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia.
The research follows a related study from the same group last year in which the scientists convinced volunteers that they were having an out-of-body experience. It was the first time it had been done in the lab and showed that the intensely spiritual experiences that patients sometimes have while on the operating table, for instance, can have a scientific explanation.
"We are interested in how normal perception works, how we recognise our
own body. And we do that by studying these perceptual illusions," said
Dr Henrik Ehrsson at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. "Critically it
depends on the visual perspective and the so-called multisensory
integration or the combination of visual signals and tactile signals."
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