Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2014
Julia Mossbridge, Patrizio Tressoldi, Jessica Utts et al.
A recent meta-analysis of experiments from seven independent laboratories (n = 26) indicates that the human body can apparently detect randomly delivered stimuli occurring 1-10 s in the future (Mossbridge etal., 2012). The key observation in these studies is that human physiology appears to be able to distinguish between unpredictable dichotomous future stimuli, such as emotional vs. neutral...
Enrico Facco, Edoardo Casiglia, Benedikt Emanuel Al Khafaji et al.
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Inducing out-of-body experiences in hypnosis (H-OBEs) offers an almost unique opportunity to investigate them in a controlled condition.OBEs were induced as imaginative task in resting conditions (I-OBE) or in hypnosis (H-OBE) in 15 high hypnotizable subjects. A 32-channel EEG was recorded and the spectral power and imaginary coherence were calculated. At the end of each session, the...
Patrizio Tressoldi, Fabio Mattiussi
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Objectives: To analyze the subjective experiences reported by long-term meditators, focusing on their highest meditative experiences and their personal interpretations of consciousness.Methods: Forty-five long-term meditators with a minimum of five years of continuous daily practice were requested to describe their highest meditative experiences using an adaptation of the self-inquiry...
Fabio Mattiussi, Patrizio Tressoldi
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This study investigates the perspectives of Advanced Meditators (AMs) on death, focusing on their beliefs, emotional responses, and sense-making processes related to the end of life. Drawing on the responses obtained through direct interviews with 45 experienced practitioners, we utilized thematic analysis to identify a distinctive pattern of existential attitudes shaped by long-term...
Luciano Pederzoli, Elena Prati, Arianna Ballati et al.
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Four participants, chosen for their experience in reaching an Out-of-Body state of consciousness via hypnotic induction, were asked to describe five different and unknown locations, at first using Remote Viewing conditions in an ordinary state of consciousness and then again using Remote Viewing in Out-of-Body state of consciousness. According to an assessment by two independent judges, the...
Graham Nicholls, Luciano Pederzoli, Patrizio Tressoldi
The aim of this paper is to compare the exteroception and general phenomenology of naturally arising, or spontaneous out-of-body experiences (OBEs), sometimes also referred to as extra-corporeal experiences (ECEs) with those that have been induced via the use of hypnotic induction in order to compare their phenomenology. The similarities and differences emerged from this comparison offer a very...
Patrizio Tressoldi, Luciano Pederzoli
The aim of this study is the investigation of the perceptual and cognitive characteristics of Out-of- Body Experiences (OBEs) induced by hypnotic induction.Five participants selected for their experience with hypnotic inductions were induced into an OBE and were requested to verbally describe six selected images, either one or two per session, that were located in two different rooms that were...
Enrico Facco, Fabio Fracas, Patrizio Tressoldi
Aim of this theoretical paper is to review the ontological status of so-called altered states of consciousness, suggesting a revision of their common interpretation as abnormal, or anyway less-than-normal conditions. The term Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions (NOMEs), is described and emphasized as a new conceptual tool allowing a more comprehensive interpretation of the varieties of the normal...
Patrizio Tressoldi
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This is a systematic review of all veridical near-death perceptions, published in scientific journals up to August 2024.Eleven studies reporting 11 single cases of veridical near-death experiences during or concomitant with severe illnesses in a clinical condition of general anesthesia or cardiac arrest, were included in the review.Ten of the eleven cases reported visual perceptions. Four of...
Patrizio Tressoldi, Luciano Pederzoli, Patrizio Caini et al.
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The possibility to induce real Out of Body Experiences (OBEs) using hypnotic inductions, with the opportunity to interview participants during their experience, permits to investigate in depth the characteristics of different aspects of this particular state of consciousness from a first-person point of view.In a companion article, Tressoldi et al. (2014), investigated the accuracy of five...
Luciano Pederzoli, Patrizio Tressoldi
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After having demonstrated that it is possible to control an OBE (Out of Body Experience) by means of hypnotic suggestions, we furthered our knowledge of this type of experience by carrying out many OBEs with different subjects, all of whom had particular talents; some of them repeated the experiment many times, such that a total of over 20 hours of OBEs were completed for each of these...