The Link Between Sleep and Death - OBE's, NDE's, and Sleep Paralysis
Must give us pause."
and,
"We found it surprising that out-of-body experience with sleep transition seemed very much like out-of-body experience during near death," Nelson said
We live in in this world of matter, and we need a body of matter in order to move around and effect changes in it. This principle pervades even subtler realms than the physical. The next subtler world (which exists in and around us) is the "astral plane". It follows that we have an "astral body" to move in it and to effect change in it. These are two gradations in a universe with seven major gradations and countless sub-gradations in between them. In order to be functional in them, we need the appropriate body, composed of the same matter as that gradation. These different bodies are what we are referring to as "energy bodies".
We at Subtle Realm have the attitude that any set of beliefs or premises presented to others without also indicating ways others can verify those things is thereby incomplete. An unverifiable system from any area of life is at best a proposal, a set of provisional understandings to be taken as possibly true until repeatedly proven either to be true or to be useful with corrections or adjustments in concept practice and understanding … or to be incorrect altogether. This we term “provisional truth”: a set of assumptions people make in order to make decisions, take action, gain experience and understanding through trial and error.
In considering how human consciousness may exist beyond the confines of the physical body we therefore posit a collection of assumptions as a basis for a departure point on the path of enquiry, experiment, discovery, learning and understanding.
Sometimes called 'lucid dreaming' or 'astral projection', an Out of Body Experience (or OBE) is the experience of being fully conscious and functioning while being outside one's physical body. People who have experienced this often report sensations of floating, perceiving one's own physical body from a different place, and being able to direct or control one's experiences by using thoughts...
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