The phenomenon known as a near-death experience has a great deal of overlap with out-of-body experience.In a near-death experience, people often experience phenomena almost identical to those of out-of-body experiences, such as "I went through a dark tunnel and emerged in a heavenly place like a flower garden," or "I was outside of my body and saw my body from outside of myself.Also, this near-death experience seems to be a very significant turning point in the lives of those who have experienced it, such as "my view of life has fundamentally changed since then," or "I have come to believe in the afterlife.
In my case, the first time I went out of my body, for some reason I felt "dead" on an emotional level.My subsequent out-of-body experiences have fundamentally changed my outlook on life, and I have come to believe in, or at least know about, the afterlife.I also experienced various trips to the spirit world and experienced the existence of various consciousness.(I often mention this on this website.) Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism monks also refer to out-of-body experiences as "near-death" experiences.
As I have been teaching many people about out-of-body experiences, I have come to understand why near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences are similar phenomena.In normal waking life, the brain performs various functions to keep the astral body (soul) in the body at all times.The reason why the brain keeps the astral body (soul) in the body at all times is that if you experience out-of-body experience in normal waking consciousness, you will experience what is called virtual death (the afterlife), and ordinary people cannot endure the fear.No one would want to see a dead person or an unidentifiable spirit!The human brain has the ability to limit what it does not want to see.
In out-of-body practice, we can train this brain function to be weakened in the opposite direction.It is actually possible to actually weaken the brain's ability to keep us from leaving our bodies by training our consciousness and autonomic nervous system sufficiently through meditation.People who have had near-death experiences have also experienced serious illnesses or accidents that have brought them to the borderline between life and death.In such a life-or-death situation, the body is so badly damaged that the brain, in an emergency situation, weakens or stops secondary functions that are not directly related to life support.Therefore, the "functions that normally keep us from leaving our bodies" are suspended, and the ability to leave the body is temporarily released.
I hope you now understand the close relationship between near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences.
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