Clinical Death - Out of Body Experiences (OBT)
Where do ghosts come from?
Probably the most significant sphere of manifestation of the multidimensionality of a human being is … death and states close to it, in particular, the so-called "experience outside the body."
The phenomenon of OBT (experience outside the body), became an object of scientific research relatively recently, but has already attracted the attention of not only scientists, but also the general public. It is likely that the general interest in OBT was caused by the direct connection of such a phenomenon with the most mysterious phenomenon in human life - with the field of other worlds and the posthumous state of consciousness.
The phenomenon of death and afterlife has always been interesting to most people. Surely there is no person who at least once did not think about what awaits him after death. When this problem became the object of not only religious and philosophical discourse, but also practical medical research, interest in it became almost universal.
Most of the cases of OBT are related precisely to the state of dying, clinical death, mental or physical shock, and this kind of "borderline states". Medical research data indicate that OVT is largely the result of clinical death or deep anesthesia during surgery. Doctors, especially resuscitators, were the first to encounter the mysterious OVT phenomenon. Here are just a few examples of OBT given by foreign researchers. All of them are convincing evidence that the OBT phenomenon is a much more complex phenomenon than just hallucinations.
Ghost in the TV studio
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1977 February - 55-year-old Jeff Barker was admitted to hospital in shock. The reason was anemia, due to which Barker constantly received blood transfusions. But this time the patient did not receive the transfusion on time, which caused the shock. Barker worked as an engineer for a television station, and since the attack happened to him on Friday night after work, no one at work knew what had happened to him. He was in critical condition in the hospital, unconscious. Those same Friday night ABC director Sheila Naulan - Barker's work colleague, walking down the corridor of the fourth floor of the television studio, felt a presence. Looking closer, she saw Jeff Barker. Sheila was initially surprised by his presence as she knew that he shouldn't have been on duty that night. When she got a good look at Barker,her surprise grew into fear: she realized that there was a ghost in front of her!
But, despite the understandable fear, Sheila still managed to notice that Barker was wearing some strange clothes: he was in a green hospital gown, in one place covered with purple spots. The ghost disappeared quickly and suddenly enough, and Sheila tried to forget about it, being sure that it was her dream. A few days later, Barker recovered and went to work. He told one of his colleagues about a strange experience that he experienced while unconscious. It turns out that during his illness, Barker experienced an "out-of-body trip." After losing consciousness, the engineer "out of habit," as he put it, ended up at a television studio. He saw the setting of the entire room so clearly that he retained a clear feeling that he was in fact at that moment at work, although his body at the moment was lying at a distance of many kilometers from the studio.in the hospital.
After hearing this story from a colleague of Barker's, Sheila Naulan, interested in what had happened, told Jeff about her vision, mentioning a green hospital gown with purple spots on it. During his "disembodied" journey through the studio, Barker did not see Sheila, but from her description he knew that she had actually seen his ghost. The purple stains on the green robe were blood spatter that Jeff knew from previous experience that had gotten onto clothing through blood transfusions. On a green background, blood always seemed purple …
This case of going out of the body is also curious in that it sheds some light on the nature of ghosts: a person outside his physical body took the form of a ghost seen by another person. Where do ghosts come from and what are they? Such a question, as it turns out, is directly related to the nature of OBT and a number of other paranormal phenomena.
It is transparent and spiritual
An explanation of this kind of phenomena came to modern science from esoteric philosophical teachings. Both the esoteric teachings of antiquity and modern research in the field of the biofield nature of the human body make it possible to assert that, in addition to the physical body, a person has several energy bodies (although it would be more accurate to call them not energy, but subtle). These invisible bodies in the special literature also received the names of subtle bodies, phantom counterparts of people, etc.
Many patients who were in a state of clinical death, usually accompanied by OBT, testified that in this state they had sensations of leaving the physical body and moving into some other shell, another body, similar, according to their stories, to a “clot of energy "," Gas "," fog "," cloud ", etc.
“I remember being brought to the operating room. Over the next few hours, my condition was critical. During this time, I left my body several times and returned to it. If I had to describe in words the new body in which I found myself, I would say that it is transparent and spiritual,”said one of the patients of Dr. Raymond Moody.
R. Moody, investigating OBT in clinical death, drew attention to the fact that the state of "going" beyond the boundaries of the physical body not only did not deprive a person's consciousness of the habitual perception of the environment, but also in some way gave this perception additional opportunities. "… The ability to see or hear what is happening, as is characteristic of the physical body, remains unchanged for the spiritual body, - writes Moody in his work" Life After Life. "- She, this ability, becomes even more perfect." Confirming his words, Moody cites the testimonies of patients he interviewed who were in a state of clinical death.
One man said to Dr. Moody, "I didn't understand how I could see so far." A woman who returned after clinical death said: "It seemed to me that this spiritual vision has no boundaries, because I could see anything and anywhere." Another patient recalled: “There was an extraordinary commotion, people were running around the ambulance. When I peered at others in order to understand what was happening, the subject immediately approached me, like in an optical device that allowed me to "flow" when shooting, and I seemed to be in this device. But at the same time, it seemed to me that a part of me - what I call consciousness - remained in place, a few yards from my body. When I wanted to see someone at a distance from me, it seemed to me that a part of me was attracted to what I wanted to see. I had the feeling that if I wanted to, I could see everything that is happening anywhere in the world."
Here, of course, the question can be asked: are not such sensations purely subjective? What can serve as evidence that the ability to perceive the environment during OBT is preserved and even enhanced? Let's turn to the facts for help. By the way, they have been known to doctors for a long time. Many resuscitators were perplexed by one mysterious circumstance: having come to their senses, the patients resuscitated by them could describe in detail all the procedures that were performed on them while they were in a coma and, as a result, could not see and know what happens to them. One girl said that while she was in a coma and was out of her body, she somehow ended up in the hospital waiting room, where she saw her older sister - she was crying and whispering: “Oh, Katie, please don't die! . Subsequently, her sister was extremely amazed when Katie described to her in detail where she was sitting, what she was wearing and what she was saying at the time.
The ability to consciously perceive the environment while leaving the body is also characteristic of children. 1983 - a five-year-old boy was operated on for the installation of an artificial heart valve. According to the child's mother and nurses, the boy woke up from anesthesia with one question: “Mom, why did the doctors not answer me when they put this thing in me? I was on the ceiling and watched. The boy described not only the whole procedure, which, of course, he had not seen before, but also an artificial valve, although no one had told him about such things before the operation - he was too young to understand it.
Out-of-body flight
No matter how amazing a person's ability to see and be aware of what is happening under anesthesia or while leaving the body, even more amazing is the ability in this state to perceive the environment at such distances that are completely inaccessible to ordinary human senses. The statement of a patient who has experienced clinical death that spiritual vision has practically no boundaries is absolutely true. The example given in the work of one of the foreign researchers of the OBT problem once again confirms the incredible features of human consciousness.
One day a British Air Force plane crashed while taking off from a small rural airfield. A doctor and crew members were on board. When the plane crashed, the doctor was thrown out of the cockpit. He lay on the ground showing no signs of life. From the hollow in which he found himself after the accident, the buildings of the airfield could not be visible to him, and yet he clearly saw all the stages of the rescue operation. He recalled looking at the area where the accident occurred from a height of about 200 feet and saw his body lying nearby. Looking as the brigadier and the pilot who survived the accident ran to him, he wondered why they needed this, wishing at that moment only one thing - to be left alone.
The doctor saw an ambulance leave the hangar and immediately died out. The driver got out of it, started the engine with a handle, jumped into the cab, drove a little and slowed down to take the orderly along the way. The doctor, who was lying unconscious at the scene of the accident, also watched the ambulance stop near the hospital, where the orderly took something with him, and then moved to the scene of the accident. At this time, the unconscious doctor felt that he seemed to be moving away from the airfield, flying over Cornwall and rushing at great speed over the Atlantic. Suddenly this journey ended: when he regained consciousness, the doctor saw that he was being given a solution of smelling salt by the orderly, whom he had already seen, "flying" outside the body over the airfield. Subsequent investigation of the circumstances of the accident showed the full correspondence of everything seen by the doctor to real events. Recallthat the doctor himself was unconscious at that time.
This strange ability to see the environment - and even at incredible distances - at the moment when the usual senses are "disabled", can not be explained by anything other than the ability of the astral body to perceive everything that happens without the help of physical sight and hearing, and at the same time to move instantly in space. Information about "travel" in the astral body is well known from esoteric literature. It is not by chance that people who have experienced such states felt themselves flying or hovering in space - this is probably how the astral shell released from the physical body behaves. As a consequence, the essence of OBT consists not so much in the loss of consciousness (in which no perceptions are possible), as in its movement from the physical body to the subtle, astral body. This kind of explanation of the OBT phenomenon, contained in esoteric teachings,are now shared by many representatives of both Western and Russian medical science. In esoteric sources, not only an explanation of the internal mechanisms of OBT is given, but also a whole teaching regarding the creative possibilities of the subtle body of a person and the methods of mastering its potential.