The External Life - Out Of Body?
'To be or not to be' is still flaming question. This article talks about experiencing out-of-body or near to death.
We don't have a wise reason to exist in this world. The reason what we have is only Nature or God's made. We hide ourselves in our make belief world. As Meister Eckhard truly said "A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as on ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."
Attachment of Soul and Body
While seating alone, have we ever tried to see 'Self' from inside?
"As a person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within" says Sri Krishna in Holy Gita.
The experience that we are going to talk about is between 'Soul' and 'Vanishing Body'. According to Nature's rules everything that is born has to die. While dictating this truth Shakespeare says "All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity." The earth is nature. All animals including us are part of the nature. The end of body enters soul into eternity. This may be our imagination but what if it is the truth.
We call it as a mystery when we try to look into the window of eternity (the life after death) standing from life's balcony. Many of us might have experiences of death in advance but yet not died. What is so mysterious stage?
Such experiences are well researched in hospitals where patients who have seen parts of a ward or hospitals which would not have been visible to them normally. Many people experienced being very near to death. Probably they might have drowned into exploration of their feelings and beliefs concerning death and the after life.
Experiencing Out Of Body
Being separated from your body is just etheric. When the etheric (invisible to the physical eyes) body of a person leaves the physical body but the etheric body is connected with a silver cord and is returned to the physical body after a short period. A very few gifted people are able to move out of their body, retain consciousness, able to observe a particular target and when return to the physical body are able to remember what they saw when they were out of their physical body.
Henry David wrote 'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.' Probably you can learn what really you miss in life only when you feel being separated from life. This is just like giving you a chance to value life to live coming years better.
The difference between calling 'Brain' and 'Mind' is superficial levels of mind. Something that recognizes emotions also recognizes self-standing at the gate of life. The deepest flow in the mind is what Einstein identified 'kind of optical delusion of consciousness' that makes us see ourselves as separate from the rest of life.
The phenomenon of out of the body experience is known under several names including separating experiences and extra sensory perception projection although the best known are 'Astral Projection' and 'Astral Travel'. This is a state in which the spirit of a person travels to the astral plane. It is said that people can in some instances travel to other locations on the physical plane.
In 'Out-of-body Experience', the experienced is aware of viewing the surrounding environment while being 'detached' from his or her body. When the consciousness leaves the body in this fashion it is virtually always in the here/now plane, and close to the physical body.
What do you feel while being separated from your body?
Most OBEs have common features. Take some examples.
1. The subjects often see their own physical body during the experience, like any other object in the room.
2. They usually report having "ghostly" bodies that can pass through solid objects during the experience.
3. Sometimes their ghostly bodies are even seen by others! They also report floating or flying, and often report seeing places or events that were out of eyesight.
4. Although usually confused, anyone experiencing an OOBE should not be afraid, it is a natural process - no harm will come to you, and the non-physical body will always return to the physical.
Blackmore's scientific work is quite impressive on analyzing human experiences being at stage of out-of-body. Beyond The Body is the most complete examination of "out of the body experiences" (OBEs) to date, and will probably never be surpassed.
Blackmore concluded "At least 5 and perhaps as many as 35 of every 100 people have had an OBE at least once in their lives."
Anyway experiencing death in advance may thrill you till you really find way to death - the ultimate reality or the ultimate eternity.
The One remains,
The many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines,
Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments!
- Percy Bysshe Shelly
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