Hi Kardec-
There's a very true saying, that "If your only tool is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail." Brazil has active cultural roots that reach back to basic belief systems and awareness. While us who live in "advanced technologies" prohibit people from taking anything that alters the mind, and then actively deny any insights that people have, unless we can explain them in material terms, Brazil is still open to spiritual discovery. (As an extreme example, if I were to take ayahuasca and then discover anything, no matter how useful, it would not be allowed, and I'd be termed insane. My culture is scared spitless that we might actually be forced to accept moral responsibility - a threat much less dangerous than the idea of a spiritual reality transcendental of our everyday material world.)  Thus, your neighbors view spiritual concepts in relatively uncomplicated terms, while we tend to see all manner of technology in the spirit world because we live with technology all day long.

By the way, Kardec - as I recall, you were studying some spiritual practices - I was wondering how that was doing? Are you now an apprentice shaman?

dave

Greetings Kardec,

That's a hard question because most of us are just where we are and don't have the overview
to speak of another culture, which must surely affect the spirit(uality) of its people.
OutofBodyDude is from New Jersey USA but lives in Brazil now, I think.  He might have a good
take on your question.

Do you have any theories on it?

Bets

Kardec

I think there is less difference between US and Brazilian OBErs than you may think.  I have not read any Brazilian authors... I am still learning the Portuguese language... but from what you wrote I have an impression about what they experience.  I have read many American authors, my favorites being Monroe, Moen, and Bruce.  I am positive that all three of these popular American authors have experienced and wrote about the same things that you describe the Brazilian authors to have experienced.  They have visited schools where spirits go to learn, they see spirits getting treated in hospital type places, and they do other things to learn and advance spiritually, just like your Brazilian authors.

It seems that maybe the American authors tend to go above and beyond what the Brazilian authors look for and experience.  Perhaps the Brazilian authors are simply satisfied with observing the spirit world and writing about what they see.  The American authors that I know of are not satisfied with simple observation and slight interaction.  The authors that I know of want answers to important questions, why we are here, where we came from, these American OBErs seek for the answers to these difficult questions, which is why their experiences may be so complicated at times.  I am not saying that Brazilian OBErs are simple, that is just the impression I get from your description.  Places without ground and 3D blackness are very, very common in OBEs.  I think that whether you are Brazilian, American, or Chineese, you will experience these things at some point.  I have been to places that I cannot even describe to you.  I dont think the complications we encounter in waking consciousness when trying to describe our experiences come from a difference in culture.  But it seems that perhaps our goals or desires when we are out of body may differ.

I agree with that last remark, Don.  I sometimes tell people to give me information while in a regression, and it is expressed in a manner that more or less "fits" my immediate state of mind.  I notice that this seemed to be true for my advanced students when they were doing deep regressions and getting information that seemed better suited to their individual atitudes.

It's all one thing!