Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

Scientists study why healthy people have them. July 13, 2011 — -- You don't have to be crazy to have an out-of-body experience, viewing yourself floating above your own body lying on a premature ...

Out-of-body experiences – where people feel like spirits disconnected from their physical form – may be a coping mechanism triggered by trauma or other overwhelming stress, new University of Virginia ...

Ruston Kelly was in the middle of a years-long existential crisis when he left his own body and watched himself sitting at his piano. An astral projection. He was sober, clean from drugs for a few ...

They were at death’s door and opened a window to a whole new world. About 15% of severely ill patients report enduring a near-death experience (NDE), which may mean having an overwhelming out-of-body ...

For centuries, people who described floating out of their bodies were dismissed as being out of their minds. A case study offers insight into this phenomenon, in the first clinical description of an ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Marina Weiler, PhD, and colleagues suggests that out-of-body experiences may be a coping mechanism in response to trauma or ...

In my previous post, I explored claims that psychics can see a human aura, with experiments showing that the aura is not physically present around people’s bodies. One final claim worth testing is ...