Inducing out-of-body experiences
2007 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568773.003.0027 (opens in new tab)
Abstract
In an out-of-body experience (OBE), people seem to be awake and feel that their ‘self’,or centre of experience, is located outside of the physical body. It is from an elevatedextracorporal location that the subjects who undergo an OBE experience seeing theirbody and the world. The following example from Irwin
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