Your brain can put your body wherever it likes....
Increasingly there seems to be little point in hanging on to new age spiritual, paranormal, or esoteric fantasies about altered mental states in which we seem to leave our bodies. We're actually not going anywhere... our brains are just making it up. We can, readily alter our sense of body ownership, as in the well known "rubber hand" illusion.
A nice graphic in today's New York Times prompts me to go ahead and mention a recent report from Blanke and coworkers in Nature that I was going to pass by, because it has received wide notice in the press and other blogs. This paper adds to a growing literature whose bottom line is that perturbation of nerve firing in brain areas near where the temporal and parietal lobes meet can cause a variety of distortions of our subjective sense of our body in space. Most commonly this is felt as an "out of body experience" where we are looking at ourselves from some external perspective or experiencing a 'shadow' version of ourselves. Here is the graphic from the New York Times based on work from the Blanke laboratory:
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3 comments:
i understand what you are trying to show by using science but it just doesnt fit into Echenkars beleifs, such as... out of body experiences have happend to people declared dead... as well as people who have unlocked many other worlds that may exist.. i dont find it right that your trying to dumb down an entire religion by saying its not spiritual and its just a science...many people who have had these out of body experiences have unlocked future content by meeting others before physically meeting, so if you have a scientifical explanation for meeting someone in an experience like this please post it.
i do understand that it is possible that out of body experiences can be triggered by a part of your brain, but honestly i have had an OBE and i have travelled to rooms in a friends house where i have never physically seen, and in the morning i checked these places and they were exactly as they were when I travelled in soul,so are you saying our brain is so powerful it can move us into different places that physically we have not experienced yet? or is it our soul as i believe. as well as this, I do not think it is right you are contredicting things that well established guru's of this art have said and done, for they have inspired many to unlock these keys to life and you'v thrown their words and books in the mud by not fully explaining your self.( i dont normally post blogs but this truly frustrated me when i read it.)
when a person is having OBE without the lab observation , whose finger is stimulating his left or right brain hemisphere. LOL. you can create a similar sensation but how can you say that both experiences are smiliar. LOL. you have failed to achieve perceive the different states of conciousnes, thats why you put these silly experiments. :P:P
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