Out of your head:

Why oh why don't these "scientists" work with the experts? There are people who have been researching this phenomenon for decades...Intelligent, forward thinking scientists who already have a working philosophy complete with distinct and comprehensible terminology, scientifically tested. Some of the people over at the Monroe Institute have worked with the U.S. government on their psychic spy program(although I don't think the Monroe Institute was actually involved).

Robert Monroe started trying to piece together what it means to have an out of body experience back in the 60's and 70's. Frank Kepple has followed in his footsteps, and has worked out many of the confusing kinks that were left by Monroe.

This New Scientist article makes it sound as though someone who is having an OOBE has something wrong with them...as though a part of their brain isn't functioning properly. WTF people?!?!?!? IT IS NOT TRUE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE SICK OR HAVE A DISEASE TO HAVE SPONTANEOUS OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES OR EXPERIENCE SLEEP PARALYSIS. Any healthy human can train themselves to have them. ANYONE.

Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer wrote a book called "Mastering Astral Projection: 90-day guide to out-of-body experience". It's just like it sounds...a training manual to having out of body experiences.

The Monroe guys have figured out that consciousness is non-local. It's not in your brain. It's not in your body. Sorry, New Scientist. I hate to break it to you, Metzinger and Blanke, but if you're looking for the seat of consciousness inside the human body somewhere, you're in for a long, expensive, fruitless search.

Every human has the ability to focus their consciousness wherever they choose to. There are 4 major "zones" that are available to our conscious minds. The Monroe folks call these zones, "Focuses". Monroe had "visited" and documented a lot of these area's, but Kepple came along and figured out that there were really only 4. Monroe had mistakenly thought that since many of the "regions" looked different and had different inhabitants that they must be completely different areas.

Kepple found that there are really only 4.

Focus One is the hear and the now...it's what many astral projectors call RTZ(pronounced "ritz" and stands for Real Time Zone). In this focus zone alone, we have the ability to focus our attention anywhere we choose. Most of the time we all choose to focus our attention at our eyes, but we can actually focus it 10 feet from our eyes...20 feet...20 miles...2000 miles, whatever.

Focus Two is personal to every individual. It's our dream state. Everybody has one.

Focus Three is called the "Transition Area". It's where our focused consciousness naturally goes to when we die. There are BILLIONS of people there in all levels of consciousness. This is where "Heaven" and "Hell" are located, and every imaginable paradise or purgatory conceivable to man, and you(yes YOU!)can visit it any time you damn well please.

Focus Four, I have no idea how to explain. It seems almost like Plato's realm of the Forms(that's only a guess)...but you'll need to have Frank Kepple explain that one to you. I've never experienced it.

For anyone interested at all about human consciousness or out of body experiences, this is a real eye opening read. I highly recommend it.

http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html