Please define astral projection, out of body experiences, remote viewing, and near-death experiences.?

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If you're not afraid to rub shoulders with a skeptic for a minute (yes, you know who you are), I'd like to hear from believers (though it's open to all, of course) as to what you mean when you use these various terms. It seems that when one person says astral projection they really are talking about what I've heard described as remote viewing, and so forth, while others mean a more mystical experience apart from the real world. So, I'm to learn whether you think these terms are all synonymous, or groups of synonyms, or all different.
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Astral Projection (AP)
Remote Viewing (RV)
Out of Body Experience (OBE)
Near-Death Experience (NDE)
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Do you consider these to all be talking about the same thing? Do you consider two or three to be the same thing, such as AP and RP being one, and OBE and NDE being the other, or perhaps with RV being set apart, while AP, OBE, and NDE are all the same? Specifically, I want to distinguish between phenomenon that allow us to see the real world in which we live, which RV definitely means, versus those that project our consciousness to an astral plane separate and apart from the real world. In particular, do you consider the term "astral projection" to show us the real world, or a different one? If you think they mean different things, do you believe in some of them but not others?
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Thanks to everyone who answers, believer or not.
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Answer 1

Astral projection is almost the same as an OBE, usually projected near your body.



Remote Viewing to me is the same as a dream or vision of your past life, or seeing your near future is a possibility.



OBE is either out of body experience- near your body or you astral traveled...to the past, present, or future, other dimensions.



Near death experience, is when you either died and came back, or you had a near death, but you were lucky to walk away....OBE can be consider a NDE since that is about as close to death as many get.

Answer 2

Other than AP being considered as an OBE, the other topics you mentioned should not be considered the same. Here is a brief explanation of each below.



Astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it. Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane.



What is the astral plane? The astral plane, also called the astral world, is a plane of existence postulated by classical (particularly neo-Platonic), medieval, oriental and esoteric philosophies and mystery religions. It is the world of the planetary spheres, crossed by the soul in its astral body on the way to being born and after death, and generally said to be populated by angels, spirits or other immaterial beings.



Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using subjective means, in particular, extra-sensory perception (ESP) or "sensing with mind".

Typically a remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person or location that is hidden from physical view and separated at some distance. The term was coined in the 1970s by physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute, to distinguish it from clairvoyance.



An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body. Astral projection is considered a for of an OBE.



An NDE is a near-death experience, the perception reported by a person who unlike the others, only happens when a person has nearly died or who was clinically dead for any given period of time and revived.



Personally yes I do believe that all of the above experiences are possible. I personally have experienced remote viewing and was later able to confirm that what I witnessed during this experience was accurate. But I did not set out to have this experience purposely. It actually happened by accident while I was attempting to go to sleep but never quite fell asleep completely. Yet I can't say I was fully awake either. It's sort of an inbetween state of conscienceness is the best way I can describe it. Also incase you are unaware, there is risks to anyone who is successful in having these experiences. So anyone attempting to achieve any of the above experiences, please do research regarding the dangers/risks of such tasks BEFORE attempting to do so

Answer 3

AP, RV, ONE and NDE are basically the SAME thing. The impression that a part of you (ie a soul composed of a "different sort of matter or parallel universe aspect) detaches from your physical body and can travel and see things.



In some people it happens spontaneously, some can do it at will, others have to be nearly killed for the effect to happen. The reports have a consistency (especially in some details I will not discuss here) that tends to suggest they might be real.



The CIA and NSA used "Remote viewing" in secret some 20 years, before Agent David Morehouse, exposed the operation in the 1990s. In his book, "Psychic Warrior" he claims that Stanford University Confirmed the existence of RV back in the mid 1970s---and the Government immediately took it and went secret with it. He claims the Russians and other major powers use it too.--That there is also technology installed in secure locations to detect or block RVers.



Morehouse exposed the operation because he resented the government keeping this "Gift to man" secret.--The CIA then publicly dropped the project, posted some negative "misinformation" on how RV "did not work (after 20 years?) and promptly resumed--at a more secure , more secret level.



Physicist Michael Talbot, a big promoter of the "holographic" theory of physics of Einstein's protégé, physicist David Bohm. Remembered having RV experiences as a younger man., Which later drove him to study Physics. On one of his RVs, he saw a book on the ground, with a French title. He later met a friend of his who was lamenting the loss of a library book he had lost. It was the book Talbot had seen.---They went and retrieved it. Talbot said that THIS incident confirmed RV a being real to him (see his You Tube interview)

Answer 4

Astral Projection

Is done usually while meditating and like a dream, the laws which govern reality, do not apply. For example you could astral project yourself to Mars, even though you had never been there and have no idea what the environment would be like, but you are in such control, that what you are "seeing" or imagining, according to Jainist beliefs, IS REAL..

It is almost always done as a form of relaxation or exploration and rarely done out of necessity.



Remote Viewing

Is what the Nazi's, Americans and Russians call Astral Projection, but the experience is almost NEVER pleasant. Instead of meditation and peace of mind guiding you as with astral projections, remote viewing is done with intense focus and on a PARTICULAR subject, which is believed to be at the location or at that time in space.



They are both out of body experiences, but only one of them can be pleasurable, while the other is Intense and confusing. Almost anyone can astral project with very little effort as it uses the right hemisphere of your brain, which is your imagination, to take you there in your mind. Now a remote viewer, uses ONLY the left hemisphere of their brains to view the required remote location, as it is an actual, existent place and ALL laws of the universe apply, Only using the left hemisphere of your brain would increase the likelyhood of your having a successful remote viewing experience as you are using left brain for logic will creating an abstract version of where you must go with your right hemisphere.



I did my best, I actually covered this subject in a presentation of mine several years ago, but never persued it as many of my collegues considered it to be a pseudo science

Answer 5

I agree with Inteleyes on everything except Remote viewing... Remote viewing it more akin to Spacial intuition... In remote viewing you are simply relaxing and concentrating on a place trying to draw,write or verbally describe it in great detail without ever having been there... Maybe remote viewers are sending out a part of there astral selves just on a cord to go and look around... Either way Remote viewers are normally awake lucid and just in a mild meditation... like a psychic writer.... very similar in state... Otherwise Intel is spot on.