Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions
Olaf Blanke, Stephanie Ortigue, et al. · 2002 · Nature, 419(6904), 269-270
Summary
Case report showing that electrical stimulation near the right angular gyrus could induce illusory body-part and out-of-body-like perceptions in a neurological patient.
Why it matters here
Core neuroscience counterweight for OBE pages because it links the felt sense of bodily self-location to brain mechanisms.
Linked claims
An interpretive overlay on OBE, positing literal travel through 'astral' space. No controlled evidence beyond the OBE phenomenon itself.
OBEs are reliably triggered by temporo-parietal junction stimulation and certain drug states; veridical perception is rare and contested. 'Astral projection' is the same phenomenon read maximally — as literal travel through an astral plane — with no independent evidence beyond the OBE itself.
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