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Date: March 14, 2014 at 17:33:05
From: jeffersonzuma, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
URL: http://www.popsci.com.au/science/the-woman-who-can-will-herself-out-of-her-body |
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The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body
Douglas Main
at 06:07 AM 07 Mar 2014
After a class on out-of-body experiences, a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa came forward to researchers to say that she could have these voluntarily, usually before sleep. "She appeared surprised that not everyone could experience this," wrote the scientists in a study describing the case, published in February in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Pretty crazy, right? One would think that if you could leave your own body and float above it, you'd be a little more... vocal about it. But since it was a common experience for her - one she "began performing as a child when bored with 'sleep time' at preschool... moving above her body" instead of napping - it may have appeared unremarkable. This is way more interesting than what I did, which was indeed napping.
The most exciting thing about this case, to me, is "the possibility that this phenomenon may have a significant incidence but [is] unreported because people do not think this is exceptional," as the authors wrote. "Alternatively," they continued, "the ability might be present in infancy but is lost without regular practice. This would be reminiscent of the discovery and eventual study of synesthesia that some researchers now hypothesized is more prevalent in young people or can be developed."
Those are fascinating suggestions - both that these out-of-body experiences may be more common than previously thought, or could be learned during a critical window early in life.
But back to the case study. The 24-year-old "continued to perform this experience as she grew up assuming, as mentioned, that 'everyone could do it.'" This is how she described her out-of-body experiences: "She was able to see herself rotating in the air above her body, lying flat, and rolling along with the horizontal plane. She reported sometimes watching herself move from above but remained aware of her unmoving “real” body. The participant reported no particular emotions linked to the experience."
An unusual find, wrote the scientists, University of Ottawa researchers Andra M. Smith and Claude Messier - this is the first person to be studied able to have this type of experience on demand, and without any brain abnormalities. Instead of an "out-of-body" experience, however, the researchers termed it a "extra-corporeal experience" (ECE), in part because it lacks the strong emotions that often go hand-in-hand (such as shock & awe, for example).
To better understand what was going on, the researchers conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of her brain. They found that it surprisingly involved a "strong deactivation of the visual cortex." Instead, the experience "activated the left side of several areas associated with kinesthetic imagery," such as mental representations of bodily movement.
Her experience, the scientists wrote, "really was a novel one." But just maybe, not as novel as previously thought. If you are capable of floating out of your body, don't keep it to yourself! {advice: be careful of the mental health and attitudes of the psychiatric authority aka pseudoscience inquisition and their de facto government priesthood such as insurance funded psycho "health authorities" who need only to make a "diagnosis" in order to get $$$$$ from the insurance fraud we have to pay for to "treat" you sans due process [itself evidence of fraud and the psychopathic treason of said "authorities"].}
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Date: March 15, 2014 at 20:10:53
From: Roger Hunter, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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If this was true she could win Randi's million dollar challenge with a simple demonstration.
Roger
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Date: March 15, 2014 at 21:22:27
From: jeffersonzuma, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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Date: March 15, 2014 at 15:29:56
From: marja, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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Date: March 23, 2014 at 22:43:12
From: Anne Redwood City, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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I used to do something like that every night as a child,
but I only explored the very short distance just above
my body. I enjoyed what it felt like to have my
physical body lying with my head toward one direction
and then switch the direction of my other body just
above it so my head was in the other direction. I
didn't tell anyone about it. I think I still have
synesthesia. If I only had understood more about it, I
could have continued the exploration!
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Date: March 24, 2014 at 16:52:36
From: marja, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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Anne, -that's so cool...I've had so many OBE's ever since I was a child, -it's fascinating to find oneself up on the ceiling or fly thru the walls or the ceiling....
I usually just go with the flow and try not to over analyze when it's happening....
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Date: March 24, 2014 at 18:26:14
From: Anne Redwood City, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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Marja, I don't know what happened that I stopped doing
it. Did you choose the OBE's?
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Date: March 25, 2014 at 13:05:25
From: marja, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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Anne, -maybe you can bring it back to your life, -something within your subconscious might be blocking it ??
my OBE's are mostly spontaneous though quite often I know it's time for a liftoff lol...it's usually the early am hours and there's a certain feeling ahead of the OBE, -it's so fascinating ...
did you happen to hear Robert Moss discuss it all last night, -I'm going to get his latest book....
he is such an interesting person with so many experiences.....
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Date: March 26, 2014 at 07:28:53
From: Anne Redwood City, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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Hi Marja,
I think something subconscious is blocking it and I've
been looking to find what it is. A friend who is very
accomplished in this area said I was extremely psychic
but not using it.
No, I don't know anything about Robert Moss.
Let's see if Mr. Bopp can link us up by email outside
the list.
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Date: March 26, 2014 at 09:21:52
From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body |
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send me an email anne...I don't think I have your address...
halebopp_surfer@yahoo.com
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