This study attempts to contribute to our understanding of the Out-of-Body-Experience (OBE) by exploring the lived experience of one advanced meditation practitioner with over 25 years experience of consciously inducing hundreds of meditative OBEs. Two face-to-face, semi-structured interviews along with one previously published article of the participant's life story were analyzed according the principles of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Three themes emerged including:
The OBE as mystical experience and initiation, (2) astral body as immortal soul, and (3) astral body as vehicle of consciousness. The findings reveal the OBE to be a spiritually transformative experience resulting in a fundamental shift in the research participant's world-view and belief governing personal immortality. The research also highlights the role of meditation as a development process, which may inform how we conduct OBE studies based on the projection-model in the future.
The OBE as mystical experience and initiation, (2) astral body as immortal soul, and (3) astral body as vehicle of consciousness. The findings reveal the OBE to be a spiritually transformative experience resulting in a fundamental shift in the research participant's world-view and belief governing personal immortality. The research also highlights the role of meditation as a development process, which may inform how we conduct OBE studies based on the projection-model in the future.
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