Science Studying Spirit - Out-Of-Body Experiences

September 26, 2008 · Filed Under Musings · 2 Comments

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I want to thank Sarah Jones-Larson of What A Wonderful World for showing me this article that came out last week about science looking to uncover the truth about out of body experiences. I wrote a post called Transition Of The Soul which was about an experience I had with a bus driver telling me about her brother’s death and his actions and words as he neared death.

The article explains that at the University of Southampton in England a team of scientists will examine some 1500 people over a three year period. The people will be classified as clinically dead but then brought back to life. They will use patients from hospitals in the UK and the US. They will interview these people but also do some tests to determine in their estimation if there is a separation of consciousness and body during these times.

Of course they will be looking at it from a clinical basis with possibly a bias as to the veracity of the people’s stories. They will do things like put images high up on shelves in the patients rooms so they can only be seen from above and then ask them if they can recall what the pictures were.

I laughed at this quote from one of the doctors on the project;

‘If you can demonstrate that consciousness continues after the brain switches off, it allows for the possibility that the consciousness is a separate entity.

‘It is unlikely that we will find many cases where this happens, but we have to be open-minded’

The stories that I have read about people who have had near-death experiences have so many obvious similarities that I am not sure how anyone could doubt that consciousness or the soul or spirit is not a separate entity from the body.

It will be fun to hear the results of this study although it will be a long time before it is released. Lot’s of things can and will happen in this, the critical times coming that may make it a mute point. I love it when science gets into studying spirit.

Here’s the full article here from David Derbyshire of Mail Online. Science to uncover the truth of out-of-body experiences.

Tags: consciousness, near-death experience, science studying spirit, soul leaving body