dave_a_mbs wrote on Jul 7th, 2006 at 5:04pm:Actually, Snoop, I can suggest a trick that you yourself can learn - it's not OBE, but clairvoyance. I once convinced a large number of friends to do this one, and got better than 80% successes out of a dozen trials. I did an excellent workup, made the proper statistical calculations, demonstrated a statistical proof at the .05 alpha level and wrote it up to be published. I was informed that the topic was "too controversial". "Good heavens," I thought, "Scientific discoveries have to be reined in before we upset somebody with new facts! We have to maintain the notion of a flat earth, for fear those others will fall off." However, if you're willing, try this ... (Oh yes - the explanation is actually not OBE by simply a multidimensional awareness, nothing really exotic.) This requires a little skill, but can be learned in less than an hour, and will leave you with a skill for use elsewhere.
Get a swivel chair, or the equivalent. Sit in it quietly, eyes closed, and move your hands back and forth in front of you. Eventually you'll see their image though your closed eyelids. (IR light penetrates. No big deal.) Look into the space in which you see your hands and allow imagery to form. Now have a friend rotate you. Notice that the outside world rotates along with you. However, it rotates either in phase, like with eyes open, or out of phase, as if you and context were on meshing gear wheels. This is vaguely difficult, and can take several minutes to stabilize the images.
Now, place an open container in front of you, on a shelf, for example. Focus your attention on it. Now as you rotate physically in the swivel chair while you keep focussed on the object, it will seem to rotate as well, showing you a side otherwise hidden from view. Look upward, holding the image tightly, and the box will show you its bottom (often through the shelf). Look down and you can see into its interior.
All of this can be explained by very simple (multi-dimensionl) geometry. It's not a spiritual trick, nor is it anything spooky. If you are like most of my old friends, this is an ability that you already have and simply weren't using.
dave
Boy, would I love to be in the same room as you for just 5 minutes.