There is a very interesting news story today on the BBC website about the out-of-body experience recreated - in a lab. Basically, research volunteers have experienced seeing themselves from outside their bodies through the help of science - using virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking that the body was located elsewhere.
Clearly, the research will make us ask a whole lot of questions around whether the out-of-body phenomenon is a spiritual one or a physical one - nothing but an illusion in the brain, or a near-death experience related to a separation of the soul from the body.
The research in itself has all kinds of implications for the furthering of technology and medicine, but where does it leave those people who have had a near-death experience and since have found spirituality?
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