Out Of Body – Is It Really Possible?
‘Out of Body’ is a term that is denoted to specific experiences of man which involves a feeling of traveling or floating outside one’s own body. Commonly known as OBE, short for out of body experiences, the concept is synonymous to ‘autoscopy’, which refers to watching one’s own body and the world from a separate location and ‘astral projection’, referring to leaving one’s body and traveling to another astral plane.
The various stages through which any out of body experience occur are those of withdrawal, paralysis, progression, freedom and re-entry. In the withdrawal stage, the physical body ceases to interact with the external environment, that is, it withdraws itself from the world. Your mind assumes a focused state while your body sleeps.
The second cataleptic phase involves total paralysis of the physical body with absolutely no muscle movement at all. Though the limbs lie limp along with the body without any external sense perceptions, a lot of extra sensory perception takes place like that of hearing loud noises, ability to see through closed eyelids, tingling sensations or even severe vibrations.
After the body has withdrawn from interacting with the external environment and in the state of sensing various extra sensory perceptions, the crucial time for the actual detachment comes. This is the phase where the actual out of body experience occurs with one’s spirit or the perceptual being leaving the physical body and traveling forward. One feels a floating sensation and the spirit floats out observing the world from outside. It is the most difficult phase of any out of body experience since even the slightest of apprehensions in the mind about not being able to return back into the body acts as an obstruction and does not let one travel forward.
The fourth stage of freedom is where the real out of body experience is enjoyed. After the initial inertia and a tendency to get pulled back into the body, your astral body starts moving freely once a certain distance is covered. Watching your own body from a distance can be an eerie but out of the world experience and you travel to higher planes and realms.
Lastly, your perceptual existence slowly meshes with your physical one and you return to reality, gradually awakening from a deep trance like condition. However, in case you become suddenly anxious about traveling too far out, which is usually the case, the re-entry would be quite sudden with a sensation of being sucked in or pulled in within the body.
An out of body experience, most often than not, is seen to occur in relation to sleeping or a near death experience. Most of the time OBE takes place before, after or during sleep, especially while lucid dreaming when the body sleeps but the mind is wakeful, focused and in control of the dreams. This is an extremely rare phenomenon but is highly conducive to out of body experiences. Moreover, near death experiences like drowning or road accidents also results in an OBE with the individual being able to watch the accident as if from a distance.
If one wants to induce out of body experience himself, a deep trance condition through meditation is one of the best ways to attain it. Channeling all your attention and energy with increased control of your mind with the help of meditation and strong visualization in terms of seeing yourself floating outside the body facilitates OBE. Moreover, one can use technological induction methods like binaural beats, which involves using different sound vibrations in each ear which synchronizes and fuses together in one’s brain to create a mental condition which is conducive to out of body experiences. Whatever the method used, an out of body experience is difficult to achieve and requires a lot of focus, but once attained it is an out of the world experience.
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