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.

An experience of such magnitude consists of five phases namely Withdrawal, cataleptic, separation, flexibility and return to ones physical body. These are the steps that an out of body experience has with it where the inner self separates from the materialistic body, floats celestially and then return back to the body after really having an out of the world experience.

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 toughest part of the out of the body experience is when the soul tries to separate from the body. The physical body generally tries to prevent the separation and any type of doubt or fear regarding the result of the astral traveling can prove destructive and is not something necessary for such an experience. Once we keep such anxiety while the soul is trying to separate from the body, the physical body will pull the soul back and the person will come back to the senses with a jerk. Thus the out of body experience will become impossible if the mind is filled with such thoughts. Hence we must be calm and relax while such practices are followed.

Then as the soul is successful to leave the physical body the suction powers of the latter tend to end and the mind and soul feels the happiness of ultimate freedom and can view the world beneath.

The last stage of this miraculous journey is the return to ones own body. But it might happen that an individual’s soul may suddenly pull back into his or her body if he retains some amount of anxiety regarding the pros and cons of the out of body experience. However without such fears the return tends to be smooth and after the soul comes back to where it belongs he or she awakes form a dazed sort of a feeling and the person feels as if everything he experiences was a dream.

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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