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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study has identified common factors in people who have had out-of-body experiences (OBEs), the odd phenomenon where people describe experiencing the world as if from a location outside their own ...