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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!
Synergy (SQ Admin), Rahie (SQ Staff)
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~ SQ Featured FREE E-Book! ~
Spirit-Quest: Journey Out-Of-Body by Synergy (pdf)
An excellent FREE guide to the Out-Of-Body Experience: 105 pages written by Synergy based on her personal experiences and knowledge gained throughout the years. The book includes theory and practical sections including techniques, information on related phenomenon, personal experiences, experiments, and even some OBE inspired poetry written by the author.
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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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Marine Channels NDE Into Helping Poor In Peru |
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FOX NEWS - Monday Aug 25, 2008
Marine Corps Staff
Sergeant Todd Bowers knows the exact date and time an insurgent bullet
embedded itself in his head: October 17, 2004 at 11:36 a.m.
At
the time, Bowers was serving in Fallujah with a U.S. Marine Corps civil
affairs unit. His job was to help Iraqi residents rebuild their lives —
literally and figuratively — by repairing battle-damaged homes.
Then came the gunshot wound that changed his life.
"It's
funny. Everybody seems to think you'll have an afterlife experience,
your whole life will flash before your eyes," reflected Bowers. "I
initially thought my rifle had exploded because I couldn't see out of
my left eye and my safety glasses had blown off and my helmet had blown
off."
Aware that he no longer held onto his rifle, Staff Sgt. Bowers instead pulled out his 9mm side-arm, and crawled for cover.
"When
I looked into the ground, I just saw blood pouring into the dirt and
realized something had gone really, really wrong," he said. "I was
having difficulty seeing out of my eye and obviously losing a lot of
blood."
Bowers' close call with death didn't
sink in at first. "It wasn't until probably about five minutes later
when I was getting patched up by the Corpsman that they realized the
bullet had actually struck the side of my rifle and skimmed into my
left temple. The rifle took the brunt of the blast, and that's pretty
much what saved my life."...
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Astral vs Etheric Projection - OBEs |
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  Many authors on the subject of Out-Of-Body Experiences, seem to
incorrectly lump all OBEs into the definition of Astral Projection. This leads
beginners astray, as the experiences are very unique compared to each other and
deserve to be treated as such.
The description of etheric projection as a separate entity from
astral projection seems to have been lost in literature and teachings somewhere
around the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, and has continued until today where
most authors still want to combine the two into one experience. Prior to this,
etheric and astral projection were clearly explained as separate experiences.
It
has been suggested that the highly influential writings of occultist Mdme
Blavatsky were a major contributing factor to this merger. She combined the two
principles in her written work The Secret
Doctrine, published in 1888. Very few current authors make the distinction
anymore. The exception to this would be the author Robert Bruce who explains
OBEs taking place in the Real Time Zone (RTZ) which is for all intents and
purposes, synonymous with etheric projection.....
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