Out-of-body experience: Could it transform life?
“The soul has been given it’s own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
– Rumi
We often come across a popular meme with a template that gives the impression of “soul leaving its body”. It is used whenever a person is so shocked to even react. But jokes aside, there are people in this world who claim to have seen a soul leaving its body and others who claim that they have looked back at themselves as an onlooker. Sounds eerie, right? There are n number of phenomena in this world that could not be explained or understood easily. One such concept is OBE- Out of Body Experience.
This brings us to a point where everything changes. Do humans really have a soul? There is no scientific evidence to support the existence of a soul. It is simply a belief that souls had, from the moment of their creation by God, the property of being complex yet existentially unified. But spirituality strongly supports this notion. Religious texts from every culture in this world are brimming with out-of-body adventures and travels across the spirit realm.
OBE is something that has fascinated humanity for centuries, entering folklore, spiritual belief, and mythology. For a curious mind, this is the perfect mystery that ever existed in the history of mankind waiting to unfold.
Let’s dive deep and find the answers to the oldest mysteries of our existence.
What does OBE- Out of Body Experience feel like?
An Out of Body Experience is the feeling or sensation of our consciousness leaving our physical body. It is quite difficult to exactly pen down the feeling of it. But one can picture it as
- looking at our own physical body from a third person’s point of view,
- a fleeting feeling that body and mind have come loose,
- the feeling of floating far away from the physical body,
- a sense of awareness of what’s happening is real,
- traveling to otherworldly plains without a physical body.
It may sound fascinating at first but it is a powerful feeling that is far beyond what a human mind can comprehend. Everyone who has experienced OBE would have had different perceptions and sensations. There are numerous reports that show people experiencing separation from their physical body and some even reported an awareness of events they wouldn’t have seen from their actual perspective.
How do these people have experienced OBE? Is there a trigger to evoke this feeling or is it just a hallucination?
Journey of Consciousness: Is it all imaginative?
In France, a patient suddenly experienced a bizarre sensation while driving his car. While he was still seated at the wheel, he felt like he was outside his vehicle, looking in at his physical self.
Does anything happen physically or is this all sort of a hallucination? Some even say that it is just a lucid dream or something related to sleep paralysis or trauma. But we never know. Various studies and case reports indicate that some people experience a distinct sense of floating out of the body. Whereas for some it is quite a spontaneous separation from the body. Interestingly people reported having such an experience during resuscitation, while sleeping, under the influence of drugs, any near-death experience, or when extreme G-forces are encountered.
In addition, it led to yet another controversial concept of Veridical perception, an aspect of OBE. Although skepticism abounds, these stories are for sure intriguing and compelling. If only these unverified stories and anecdotes are backed with evidence, then this will prove to be a huge breakthrough extending the limits of our physical senses and our intellect.
Changing life perspective
OBE has transformed many people’s lives in every way possible. Most people insist on having an inner awakening and expressed feeling of having formed a connection with their spiritual essence which is beyond physical limits. It opens the door to endless possibilities for humans to explore beyond the narrow limits of our senses, expanding a new frontier of human potential.
The most interesting of all, the ability to exist independently of our human body and unlock the unlimited knowledge of our subconscious mind. This leads to a profound inner calmness- a sense of knowing instead of believing. All this feels like being a part of some sci-fi movie, literally impossible to believe yet we desperately want to. So, if we require proof, the only way is to have a direct personal experience. Although there is no proof,-not yet- the fact that millions of people across centuries have reported experiencing the sensations of their consciousness leaving their bodies must account for something.
“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul and light up the brain.”
– Tom Robbins
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