Astral Travel and OBE News

Dreams are an alternate world to our reality. Famed psychologist Sigmund Freud described dreams as a way for humans to experience their deepest desires those that they could not fulfil in real life. However, often we are left wondering what we dreamt about at night....

Two remarkable poems written in the latter half of the 20th century, Wislawa Szymborska's "Could Have" and Jane Kenyon's "Otherwise", address the shadow life that presses itself against us in every living moment. It could have happened. / It had to happen; so begins...

A new book, Blowing America's Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen, documents the experiences of two University alumni who were subjects in LSD and hypnosis experiments at the now-defunct New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute's Bureau of...

Thomas Metzinger had his first out-of-body experience when he was nineteen. He was on a ten-week meditation retreat in the Westerwald, a mountainous area near his home, in Frankfurt. After a long day of yoga and meditation, he had a slice of cake and fell asleep. Then...

New research by the University of Derby into near-death experiences (NDEs) has shown that they can be induced through meditation, with wider implications for our understanding of the phenomena and our ability to examine what happens to an individual during an NDE. In...

"This state... cannot be described with words," Sam, a regular user of hallucinogenic drugs, wrote to me when he described one of his experiences with N,N-Dimethyltryptamine known as DMT. "It's a state where you exist in your purest form, [a state] of deep peace and...