Out of Body Expreriences.

Many religions believe in an after life. Christians believe in heaven and hell, Klingons believe in the barge of the dead. This is a very significant part of religion because it gives a little more purpose in life. It gives us something to live for and something for us to strive to achieve.

Having an afterlife also implies something else. It means that there is part of us which exists regardless of the state of our body. We don't realize that that part can be separated until it actually happens which means we wouldn't realize it usually until we die, but rarely, we come extremely close to death which leads to the partial separation.

Out of body experiences happen in different cases. Yogis who have meditated intensly have claimed to find themselves in a different far away place while still being located in their original spot. Mainly, a good portion or out of body experiences happen during near death experiences. A quick article about a near death experience explains what one man saw and also that research is going to be done in a couple different hospitals to actually monitor patients who are very near death.

One video that i found addresses these experiences saying they are all in the mind by bombarding the temporal lobes with electromagnetic pulses. They have gotten definite responses to this treatment, but it cannot account for every instance. I believe this technique only shows one way to trigger an out of body experience and that they can happen. while the video claims that they only happen in the head, they must realize that what happens in our head can also be real. The collective unconsciousness is an example of that. While everything happens in our head, it is still quite real.



So now, how does this connect with religion? While this video tries to explain that all OBE are in our heads, i only believe they show it can happen, and that there is a certain part of us that can be detached which at the moment cannot be observed. This leads to the question of what that part of the mind might be, and if it detaches itself normally from the body at death. Whether this might mean an afterlife where our essences collect, or that we go drifting off into space, it shows that there are parts of us that we don't understand which could point in the direction of and afterlife.