Out-of-body experience
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 3 linked claims and 6 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Survey of out-of-body experiences, including spontaneous reports, near-death contexts, laboratory induction, temporo-parietal junction findings, vestibular/body-schema models, and interpretive disputes.
How this source is used on the map
Use this for the broad OBE phenomenon. It should sit beside astral-projection and NDE sources so the experience, neurological mechanisms, and spiritual interpretation remain separate.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
An interpretive overlay on OBE, positing literal travel through 'astral' space. No controlled evidence beyond the OBE phenomenon itself.
A consistent core experience — peace, light, life review, OBE — reported across cultures and prospective hospital studies.
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.
Related evidence hubs
Psychedelic, contemplative, and out-of-body experiences and what they may reveal.
Psychedelic, contemplative, out-of-body experience.
Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.
Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.
The nature of subjective experience.
Whether anything of mind continues.
Related research reports
A source-linked synthesis of mystical experience, meditation, psychedelics, DMT entities, out-of-body experiences, lucid dreams, and synchronicity.
A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
What NDE studies support, what they do not prove, and why the phenomenon remains one of the strongest spiritual-adjacent evidence clusters.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
Related sources
The leading academic group publishing on cases of children claiming past-life memories and on Greyson's NDE work.
Standard reference body for NDE-related claims; archives many first-person accounts and links to peer-reviewed work.
Academic frame for first-person mystical and psychedelic experience reports, especially when users ask whether an experience can justify a metaphysical belief.
Use this for the astral-projection interpretation layer. Pair it with out-of-body and neurological sources so the claimed travel mechanism is not confused with the broader OBE phenomenon.
The institutional home for serious empirical work on past-life memories and survival-related anomalies.
Modern follow-up to AWARE that keeps the page current and helps distinguish reported awareness during resuscitation from stronger afterlife interpretations.