Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. Although scientists have developed biological-based explanations for ...

A new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences suggests that people who report out-of-body experiences, where they feel separated from their physical body, tend to show ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Marina Weiler, PhD, and colleagues suggests that out-of-body experiences may be a coping mechanism in response to trauma or ...

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There is now plenty of evidence to home in on the right TPJ as the source of out-of-body experiences, as described in my previous post (Blanke et al 2002) but what does it mean to have found this ...

I must now return to that critical question – what do we learn about OBEs by discovering a specific brain area that can induce them? Is the TPJ (the temporo-parietal junction) the mystical opening to ...