People who have had “near-death experiences” (NDEs) often report seeing a light at the end of a dark tunnel. TV shows, movies and books drill this crossing-over concept into viewers’ minds. However, a study published in Neurology, a scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, finds that these events have a biological explanation. “It is not clear … that NDEs are caused by the same mechanisms associated with REM sleep,” said Andrew Newberg, M.D. “That there is an association is interesting.”
The suggestion that arousal system disturbances may cause out-of-body experiences (OBE's) is a classic example of mistaking correlation for causation in an effort to dismiss an experience that challenges the predominant materialistic, reductionist Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm. As someone who has been developing the ability to have will-induced, conscious out-of-body experiences and has been investigating the matter for a decade, it is no news that OBE's can be triggered in many ways: spontaneously and unexpectedly, by will, or even "forced" (near-death experience). Indeed, sleep paralysis can be related to the out-of-body experience (which is why it is also referred to as projective catalepsy in this context). However, it does not happen every time one has an OBE. It is quite the opposite: according to projectiogists (scientists who study the OBE as an objective phenomenon), when someone experiences projective catalepsy, they are partially out of the body. Anyone can verify this fact through several personal experiences. Scientist who attempt to reduce the OBE to neurophysiology do not have frequent, lucid, will-induced OBE's that would reveal it as an objective, albeit more subtle, reality amenable to scientific study through corroboration of personal experiences. Nelson Abreu, Instructor & Investigator International Academy of Consciousness
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Study: ‘Out-of-Body’ Experiences Linked to Brain Activity
Posted by: Meryl K. Evans April 11, 2006 03:58 PMPeople who have had “near-death experiences” (NDEs) often report seeing a light at the end of a dark tunnel. TV shows, movies and books drill this crossing-over concept into viewers’ minds. However, a study published in Neurology, a scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, finds that these events have a biological explanation. “It is not clear … that NDEs are caused by the same mechanisms associated with REM sleep,” said Andrew Newberg, M.D. “That there is an association is interesting.”
As someone who has been developing the ability to have will-induced, conscious out-of-body experiences and has been investigating the matter for a decade, it is no news that OBE's can be triggered in many ways: spontaneously and unexpectedly, by will, or even "forced" (near-death experience).
Indeed, sleep paralysis can be related to the out-of-body experience (which is why it is also referred to as projective catalepsy in this context). However, it does not happen every time one has an OBE. It is quite the opposite: according to projectiogists (scientists who study the OBE as an objective phenomenon), when someone experiences projective catalepsy, they are partially out of the body. Anyone can verify this fact through several personal experiences.
Scientist who attempt to reduce the OBE to neurophysiology do not have frequent, lucid, will-induced OBE's that would reveal it as an objective, albeit more subtle, reality amenable to scientific study through corroboration of personal experiences.
Nelson Abreu, Instructor & Investigator
International Academy of Consciousness