OBE's or Delusions?

[desertrat]

I think thing to is to witness something while out of body . See what your wife/gf is doing , see what your friends are eating for diner , and ask later to see if you realy watched them. Some one out of body at a hospitle saw a pair of shews on a high ledg not easly seen. A doctor found them just where that person said they were. desert rat

[Tigerlily]

Why are people referring to lucid dreams like they are some paranormal magical pixie unicorn fairy thing?
Lucid dreams are a real thing, as real as sleep walking or sleep paralysis or any other real conditions that can happen when you're asleep.
It's not paranormal AT ALL.
I had them all the time when I was little, before I knew what they were. I had them without putting any effort or intention into it. I still have them but less frequently.
Idk...my brain just operates like that.

[t4488]

Originally Posted by Radical

It is true that the majority of Americans believe in god, but that doesn't mean the majority of educated thinkers do. In fact the majority of scientists do not believe in a supernatural god. Einstein himself did not believe in a supernatural god.

Also, I bet you didn't know that the founding fathers of America were in fact atheists. You claim my skeptism is "unhealthy", but I believe showing blind faith in something is alot unhealthier! Just look at the world around you, all the jihads going on in the name of religion, or blind faith. Now, you might claim that my blind faith in science is unjustified, however unlike other belief systems, science actually provides empirical evidence for its claims.

You also claim people have already undergone many of these tests. Then why have we not heard about the results? Surely an unbiased controlled experiment proving psychic phenomena (OBE's etc) to be real would have circulated in to the mainstream by now.

Stop bashing people who prefer to use their common sense instead of foolhardily accepting convictions without empirical evidence to back them up.

The actual links have self explanatory descriptions.

Is this evidence that we can see the future? - life - 11 November 2010 - New Scientist

Have Scientists Finally Discovered Evidence for Psychic Phenomena?! | Psychology Today

[kenny r]

Originally Posted by Hoejer

If you take a look at the story about the 3 year old boy, where the parents are claiming him to have had past life, the facts are just not congruent.
A child just turned 3 years old, has only just started talking so one can understand them, but writing his own name, and even adding a 3 is over the top, for a 3 year old.

Maybe it's the parents telling a story, using their unknowing child as a mean for attention.

If a child is indicating a past-life in some way, which in itself seems inexplicable, how can him writing his name by age 3 be any more implausible? Once you've left the ordinary behind who's to say what is over the top? How high is the top?

There are too many compelling and confirmable aspects of these stories for me to remain unconvinced.

When it's confirmed that a person with the specific name, dying in a specific town at a specific time, with a particular illness or injury or accident which a child accurately described; and if the child (or his parents for that matter) would have no "normal" way of knowing such information, it's pretty obvious to me that there's more going on than science is able to prove.