Out of Body Experience or OBE in short is an experience in which one’s subtle within, his inner self, soul, or in other words his perceptual existence separates from his physical body and travels out to other conscious realms. Simply put, it is the phenomenon in which you keep your physical body behind and move out of it towards higher ethereal realms observing yourself and the world at a distance.
Any out of body experience happens gradually through five distinct phases. These phases are that of the Withdrawal, cataleptic, separation, flexibility and return respectively. It is through these five stages that your astral self within will move out from your physical body, travel astrally and then ultimately return back into the same, leaving you with an experience of a lifetime, a journey like no other.
The withdrawal phase generally is when the body reaches a state where no instigation happens to reach the sensory organs. The body turns stiff and does not respond to any external catalytic effect. The physical body detaches itself from the external world.
The body under the state of prolonged rigidness is known as cataleptic and in this condition the body becomes sluggish as if drugged and unconscious. There will be rigidness in the muscles and the body refuses to move even a minimal distance due to this. The sensory organs seem to stop functioning. But at the same time the extra sensory perception become very active and this gives rise to things like shivering, visualizing bright light and even seeing with the eyes closed.
The third stage which comprise of the soul separating from the physical body is the most important in this type of practice. This feat to separate is strongly resisted by our body in the way that even a small amount of doubt or fear regarding the after effects can bring the soul back to the body and the individual may return to consciousness with a jerk. The solutions to such suction and so that the soul can successfully move out of body are by completely relaxing ones mind and keeping absolutely calm in such a stage.
After moving forward despite the initial pull-back force, after you cross a certain distance, all such forces acting against you will cease to exist and you will experience free movement in this stage of flexibility of an out of body experience. Your movements are no longer restricted now, with a mind that is focused and a spirit that is free, your soul can gradually travel to higher layers of consciousness observing the world from a distance.
The out of the body experience ends with the returning of the soul to the physical body. The soul while leaving the body in the initial stages can be pulled back in a rather rough way. This happens if the mind is filled with feelings of fear and anxiety about the consequences of the out of the body experience. However without such inhibitions the return become swift and the individual will ultimately awake up feeling the whole thing as something out of the world.
An out of body experience can be induced via any of the three avenues of Mental, Mechanical or Chemical. While the mental path towards experiencing an OBE is through advanced meditation and increased control over one’s subconscious mind, the mechanical and chemical methods of doing the same is by using technology such as sound waves, electro magnetic or electrical simulations of the brain in case of the former or using hallucinogen drugs for inducing the hallucination like trance state of mind in case of the latter.
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