Scientists' discover brain source of OBE's lol

Well, its been figured out everyone! OBE's explained!! 

Have Scientists Found the Source of Out-of-Body Experiences? (msn.com)

It just never ends.

Well, its been figured out everyone! OBE's explained!! 

Have Scientists Found the Source of Out-of-Body Experiences? (msn.com)

It just never ends.

(From the article):  "Now, scientists have pinned down a part of the brain that may be going haywire during out-of-body experiences." 

They never give up. It's getting tiresome how the dominant orthodox community of materialist neurology keeps trying to explain experiences like NDEs as some sort of physical malfunctions of neuronal structures in the brain. Totally and deliberately ignoring all the veridical evidence that the experiences are real indicators of the existence of a human spirit that can separate from the brain and body and travel to other physical locations and also to some sort of spiritual realms. Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the very few serious neuroscientific researchers who has been open mindedly looking into this and he has concluded that yes, the human spirit can apparently leave the body and brain.

From the article in the OP:

The patient felt “like an observer to conversations” going on in his mind, Parvizi tells the publication. The neuroscientist had a hunch that whichever brain area was undergoing unusual activity in the patient due to his epilepsy could also play a part in this altered state of consciousness.

I'm not directly addressing the topic of OOBEs to begin with.

It's just the statement made by the patient in that excerpt. 'The patient felt “like an observer to conversations” going on in his mind'

For me this is simply a matter of degree. I could say I feel like that all the time - it isn't something I'd consider abnormal, just everyday existence. Though when I add, a matter of degree, I mean sometimes I may feel more detached, more of an observer.

One occasion which was a little bit more than usual was after drinking alcohol for a period of some hours, passing through any initial effects and then almost feeling completely sober, though my ability to walk in a straight line might have indicated otherwise. Another time I was at school and in class we were taking it in turns to read aloud from a book we were studying. When it came to my turn, I read from the book, just like everyone else, but it wasn't something I enjoyed. I became somewhat of an 'outside' observer, though not in the OOBE sense. I could hear my voice reading the words, it sounded strange, not like my voice at all, I was curious or anxious about how the others in the room would be responding to my speaking. The person reading aloud and stopping when interrupted by the teacher as I reached the end, that was a different me to the actual me who was taking in this scene and weighing it all up. Busily having thoughts about something other than the book, I probably had no idea what was the meaning of the words in the book, that was just a kind of 'reading machine' in me.

(I might add that sometimes when listening to audiobooks or even plays on the radio, I get the impression that the reader or actor has no idea what it is that they are saying. I guess this kind of disassociation is very common).

Still, to get back on topic. It's the labelling of the OOBE as something 'going haywire'.

Now, scientists have pinned down a part of the brain that may be going haywire during out-of-body experiences.

Though I understand that epilepsy is something different to the everyday, on which I'm not qualified to comment, having no experience, not even second-hand, of the condition. However it seems almost like a sleight-of-hand to use this condition to imply by association the OOBEs are a kind of illness or malfunction.

My view is that because they can be achieved by a deliberate and conscious entering of a certain meditative state, then the OOBE does not need to be associated will ill-health or malfunction. It could be an accompaniment to good health and a state of well-being.