(2019-07-25, 07:52 AM)Typoz Wrote: I think the context Sue describes was one of using a whole range of drugs over a period of time. Perhaps, rather like regular meditation, or regular inducement of OBEs via non-drug means, these activities can re-arrange some paths of the brain, whether deliberately or accidentally, to make an out of body experience occur more readily.I'd want to know what the neighborhood was like around the building she was in. If I suddenly found myself in an OBE and drifting away from the building I was in, I know there's a good chance I could get turned around by the weird vantage point on things. Was there a building with old gutters and chimneys in the vicinity?
The real questions here are not so much over the actions of various drugs, but on how to consider the 'reality' of what happens in an OBE. I think Blackmore discounts it on the grounds that there were discrepancies between observations during the OBE of such things as chimneys or gutters on the rooftops, and subsequent checking of the physical world.
However, she is not the first nor the last to have noted such discrepancies. It seems it is common for the world in the OBE to differ from the present-day physical counterpart. But people still reach different conclusions on what this means. Blackmore's position is not the only possible one. Other OBE practitioners or experiencers reach different conclusions.
Susan Blackmore's Psychology Today blog posts
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