Are people who have out-of-body experiences out of their mind?

Two factors the same causal chain out of body or out of mind are those people who have out-of-body experiences are they out of their mind medical history has been documenting with more and more frequency cases of people who have had near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences in a typical near-death experience a person who gets a cardiac arrest or who is because of some accident near death they feel themselves coming out of their body and they observe themselves from a perspective about their body and they describe events that happen around them they may also describe going on a journey to some distant place where they meet deceased relatives or they meet religious icons or they meet people sacred in their tradition and then they come back transformed sometimes miraculously healed now among these near-death experiences the most scientifically intriguing are the perceptions by these people when they unconscious skeptics like to dismiss these near-death experiences as hallucinations of people who are just near death of a brain that is about to fall become dysfunctional and they can be right in many occasions at the same time even for hallucin for the brain to hallucinate there has to be some brain activity but there are cases when the brain has been completely inactive documented to be inactive intentionally made inactive and yet there has been conscious perception let’s discuss one such case which points towards the non-material implication of outer body experiences Pam Reynolds was an American citizen who was diagnosed with aneurysm a giant bacillus aneurysm at the bottom of her brain in the cranial cavity and the only way she could be healed was through a operation pioneered by Dr. Richard Spetzler named operation standstill this operation is called standstill because to be do the operation the whole body is brought to a standstill artificial so she was given a she was artificial heart attack was induced in her body by which her heart stopped beating then the blood stopped flowing through the brain and once the blood flow stopped to the brain whatever blood was there in was drained out her whole body was kept in a refrigerated environment which was below zero degrees celsius and once all the blood was drained out of the brain at that time the heartbeat the heart is not beating at that time the brain waves there are no brain waves at all this way after the whole body is brought to a standstill then the surgeon literally lifts the brain out of its cavity and reaches down to the bottom and cuts off the aneurysm and after cutting off the aneurysm then the brain is replaced back in its position the body temperature increased and the patient is resuscitated now when this was done to Pam Reynolds at that time she had an outer body experience and she observed herself from above her body and the first thing she noticed was her hair had been cut in a peculiar way and the second thing she noticed was there was somebody operating near her groin area she was concerned this was meant to be a brain surgery why is somebody operating near the groin and then she heard a female voice saying that the veins in her leg were too small and then she heard a male voice replying this male voice she sensed was Dr. Spetzler says that try the other leg and then she heard several other bits of conversation and afterwards the surgery was successful she came back to consciousness she actually described along with that seeing various things in the surgical room Dr. Spetzler when he heard her account he found that whatever she said was accurate actually there had been a cardiac surgeon who was assisting and she was a female and to have the system for a bypass they had they were going to operate they had to have a pathway through the thighs up to the heart and now for doing the surgery the brain has to be brought to a standstill there is absolutely no wave coming out of the brain there is absolutely no consciousness in the brain in fact to ensure that there is not even the slightest consciousness in the brain the the surgery procedure demands that some clickers be put in the ears and these clickers they keep clicking 10 to 30 times a second very fast and they in they give out sounds as as big as the whistle of a train as it is moving fast now with this click going on so loudly right in the ears and if there’s a slightest consciousness in any area of the brain that is sensed and that brain part gets awakened it seemed to be activated in the scans so these clicks were clicking in her ear continuously and yet Pam Reynolds heard conversation which happened at a normal room conversational level with those clicks in her ears how could she hear and she did not report having to struggle to hear through those clicks actually she didn’t even hear the clicks when she was asked how she heard she said that she was above the body and she heard from non-material means so Dr. Spetzler reporting this he said that there is no scientific way that she could have been conscious but he said I have seen enough incredible things in my life to not be so arrogant as to say that it is impossible so what is this point to even if the near-death experiences were induced by hallucinations but some brain activity has to be there even in the near-death experiences where because of the chemicals given to the person during surgery some brain activity has to be there if there’s no brain activity at all how is there the possibility of consciousness even if somebody says that some people might just be guessing what whatever might have happened and they may be fabricating an account but here Pam Reynolds what she told was not general patterns of events that happened during a standard surgery she described specific events that happen only in her surgery so she’s just hers is just one case there are many other cases of people who have empirically documented observations which were later confirmed to be true and which were documented when they were unconscious so near-death experiences can be dismissed those out-of-body experiences can be dismissed by some people as if the people are out of the mind out of their mind they just hallucinating however such cases point to the reality that there is a profound mystery over here how can anyone be conscious when they are unconscious if they are medically unconscious and their brain state shows that they’re unconscious how can they be conscious this suggests that consciousness doesn’t come from the brain it comes from somewhere beyond the brain and that source is what is conscious even when the brain is unconscious what that source of consciousness is we’ll discuss in our.