Out of body experiences - could this research be linked to .. MIND CONTROL?

Scientists study 'out of body experiences'
Telegraph Media Group
2008-09-19



This rings a bell with me! I had an out of body experience after falling off a ladder and being knocked unconscious. While out of my body I was looking down at myself lying on the ground with those around me. I noticed that I had lost one of me sneakers and thought how strange it was! The next two hours in hospital seemed like 5 mins but I never said anything to anyone because I thought I had just imagined it. During my next week, while recovering from a broken rib, the couple who where present at the accident came over to see how I was going. During the conversation the lady said that they couldn't understand how I lost one shoe!!!! I couldn't believe it at first and asked her to repeat herself. So it seems that I really did see myself from above and that the memory was registered and stored somewhere outside this physical body only later to be recalled by the physical brain. What fascinates me about this is that I usually would only associate eyes with seeing but I was seeing the physical world through non physical eyes!




People who report seeing bright lights or tunnels as they leave their bodies in near-death experiences are having their claims treated seriously in a hospital study.

Doctors in hospitals in Britain and the US will study 1,500 heart attack patients to see if people with no heartbeat or brain activity can have "out of body" experiences.

Some people report being able to soar out of their bodies and look down on themselves and medical staff.

The study at 25 UK and US hospitals will include doctors placing images on shelves that are only visible from the ceiling to test the theory.

Dr Sam Parnia, an intensive care doctor who is heading the study, said: "If you can demonstrate that consciousness continues after the brain switches off, it allows for the possibility that the consciousness is a separate entity.

"It is unlikely that we will find many cases where this happens, but we have to be open-minded.

"And if no one sees the pictures, it shows these experiences are illusions or false memories.

"This is a mystery that we can now subject to scientific study."

Dr Parnia said that after a cardiac arrest, where the body is technically dead, doctors restart the heart and reverse the dying process.

He said: "What people experience during this period of cardiac arrest provides a unique window of understanding into what we are all likely to experience during the dying process."

Hospitals involved include Addenbrookes in Cambridge, University Hospital in Birmingham and the Morriston in Swansea, as well as nine hospitals in the US.