Can you really objectively study your OWN out of body experiences, or…..does simply studying any amazing experience that I found this man’s experiences, and his lifelong study of his own NDE at the age of 10, shot in the gut and with a life changing out of body experience to go with it…..fascinating for his even handed “study” what really happened to him that Winter day – AND, for all that he learned on the paranormal path in the many years, and the many experiences that followed.

Why do these stories interest me, so?

Very simple!  Most people either BELIEVE…..or dont’ believe.  There is rarely a middle ground.  So for someone so embedded in the experience, and to have so MANY amazing and unexplainable journeys to admit some “doubt” as to what these experiences meant, or really reflected – I find this much more interesting than the true believers on either side of the street.

Check out some of his story at the link below the jump- I think you’ll agree, pretty fascinating stuff indeed!

It was a bitter cold January day in northern Minnesota — about 15-below zero (Fahrenheit). As I lay crumpled and bleeding on a frozen farm field crusted with icy snow, I suddenly lifted out of my body like a hand slipping out of a glove. Floating free like a duplicate ghost of myself, I felt a wondrous blissful calm — a dynamic stillness that was yet electrifying and dazzling. On the ground I was dying, but floating above, I was hyper-alive! I was razor aware! I felt fantastically expanded! Also, to be suddenly released from the stunning, exploding pain which had shattered my being just seconds before was like the relief of salvation itself! But most of all, to find myself so obviously and clearly detached from the body which I previously thought was “all of me” was an astounding experience which changed my life forever.

My near death experience is long story, and perhaps I’ll tell it fully another day. Suffice it to say, however, that once you have had the experience of leaving your physical body behind with some other aspect of who or what you are, simply brushing that experience aside and dismissing it is not easily done. Thus, I was launched on a life-long journey to understand what happened to me that day. I wanted to know if what I experienced was a kind of elaborate illusion produced by those natural defense mechanisms which protect the human body from severe trauma — or if it was something more, such as evidence that we possess a soul, an astral body — or some kind of electromagnetic version of ourselves that can exist independently of the physical form.After all these years, and more than two decades of intense experimentation with out-of-body travel, I am still undecided if the OBE is literal, objective soul travel, or something than can be explained in more scientific terms. Let me just say, I now believe that absolutely anyone, with some effort, can induce and experience an OBE.

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