PSYC 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Astral Body, Clairvoyance, Autoscopy

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 321
• Professor: Dan Worthen

Document Summary

Obe seems as though you left your body and are able to float. Happens when body is relaxed or laying down. Can see their own bodies and distant scenes. It"s an experience or mental state, like a dream or any other altered state of consciousness. Common factors relaxation, loss or disruption of body image, reduced sensory input. In nde (near death experience), some start with experience of traveling down a dark tunnel, white or golden light at the end. Or rushing sensation or a brief blackout. Seem to leave body from a specific point and return to that point while in others they find themselves out and back again. When they"re out they have another body or double = astral body. Asomatic experience = person feels as though they"re just disembodied awareness or a point of consciousness. Obe isn"t related to age, gender, educational level or religion.