When it comes to the topic of Pseudoscience everyone has an opinion, however not everyone clearly understands exactly what this entails. Pseudoscience can be defined as a classification of philosophies, assumptions, and procedures inaccurately regarded as scientific. Some examples include visiting a Psychic Medium, aromatherapy, astronomy, and hypnosis and conversion therapy. Although these methods may prove to yield some results, they are not scientifically founded. This is why I decided to examine if Astral Travel is Pseudoscience.
What is Astral Travel?
Astral Travel can be defined as the act of extrication the astral body, also known as the spirit or consciousness, from worldly or physical body and its passage into the universe.
Lara was sleeping when she heard someone calling her name. At first she thought it was a dream, but the voice continued to call her. She followed the voice to the window, which is when she realized that she is no longer in her body. She was transported to a different plane where she spoke to two of her soul guides. They told her about her past lives and that she was a Starseed who sacrificed herself to be reincarnated on Earth in order to help the benevolent races like Pleidadians fight the war against the Reptilians. During her travel’s they showed her the planet where was originally from and they made contact with her to remind her of what she had to do. Lara further explained that before her experience she had no idea what astral travel was and had never heard of any of the subjects they had spoken about before, but once she awoke in her bed they were confirmed by research.
Erin Pavlina’s first experience was not as pleasant as Lara’s. Erin explained that during her first astral travel experience she was alone in her room when she felt a strange vibrating sensation. She then heard three voices in her room as her spirit started to leave her body. She felt panicked and afraid because of the others in the room and struggled with them as they tried to pull her out of her physical body, which she had won. Erin later came to the conclusion that the others in the room were evil
During her time in the fMRI the individual remained conscious of her physical body although she was able to see herself from outside her body while rotating in the air and moving along the horizontal plane. By reviewing the images Smith and Messier found that the visual cortex was deactivated and the majority of the activation in the brain was in the left hemisphere and included the supplementary motor area and supramarginal and posterior superior temporal gyri which had previously been shown to be associated with out of body experiences. The impression of movement is caused by the cerebellum which is activated during the extra- corporeal-experience which denotes an infrequent type of kinesthetic metaphors (Smith et al, 2014). The results of this study indicates that the feeling of leaving the body or having an out of body experience is created by the activities in the brain which is why the person feels as though they are experiencing movement. Thus, by analyzing the brain scans researchers were able to determine that is not indeed the soul or spirit leaving the body, but rather it is an induced state which is taking place in the
on a journey of moving freely in time and space to allow them to know
The brain cells slip away, one by one. One hundred thousand of them a day, departing. If she is very still and concentrates very hard she can feel it happen. One by one by one, the cells descending to her rump. It is an exodus, a relocation. A mass conservation. Her brain is escaping.
into. She keeps her faith, by enduring to the end. She is a survivor through
LSD has proved that the mind contains much higher powers and energies, beyond the average 10% of the brain that a typical human uses. These powers and energies, under the right circumstances, can be taken advantage of to benefit humankind spiritually, creatively, therapeutically, and intellectually. LSD has given humans the option to chemically trigger mental energies and powers. Arguments that LSD is potentially a dangerous discovery and mind control should be strictly prohibited by the government hold much validity, although there are benefits and arguments of personal freedom of neurology to consider. Whether LSD reflects negativity as a weapon and mind control drug, or radiates euphoria as a mind-expanding chemical and sacrament, the choice to engage in such an experience should be through personal reasoning.
However, the primary energy for this type of interactive neurological function is always formed under the authority of God as the Creator. In this context, the flow of the soul/spirits is created by God, which then allows the brain to receive this energy through the pineal gland (brown, 2006, p.37). This is an important argument that shows the duality of God’s omnipotence and the soul’s energy as it flows into the brain and creates the mind. These are the vital characteristics of interactive dualism of the mind and body that occur in the brain of a human being. This type of interactive dualism defines a sensible aspect of brain function and the mysterious “energy” of the soul/spirit that enters the mind and forms a
she is in between the real world and in the land of the dead. In between the worlds she is able to
when her mother asked what she was doing, Akiane would answer, that she was visiting Heaven
Historically journeys were seen as the physical movement of a group of people migrating from one place to another. Additionally, journeys were usually only found throughout the history of civilization and religion. Despite this, journeys come in all aspects and are found in a variety of mediums. Specifically, two journeys that are found in the literary works of The Epic of Gilgamesh and Monkey: A Journey to the West are physical and intellectual. These two stories exemplify what a journey consists of by construction the plots around each protagonist participating in both journeys.
The what it is like to undergo an experience is essential to understanding that experience. Known by philosophers as subjective qualia, these characteristics are part of what makes a felt experience exactly that experience. If we introspect our own mental states, this seems apparent and incontrovertible. Most philosophers are unwilling to grant that subjective qualia are non-physical states, and attempts to face this problem and maintain physicalism must address arguments from qualia. While differing physical explanations for these subjective qualia exist, I will only briefly refer to them here as qualia will serve only as a means of leading the reader to the Explanatory Gap(1). The Explanatory Gap is a uniquely puzzling problem for physicalist philosophies of mind.
Claude Messier a 24 year old student in Canadian, a professor at the school of psychology at the University of Ottawa, said after he finished a class on “Out of body experiences” one of his students admitted she could do that at will. “She came after the class and literally said ‘ I thought everybody could do that. She thought i...
Sensation, as we know it, is thought to be a result of direct contact between the body and an internal or external stimulus. However, in the case of phantom limb phenomenon, sensation is explained rather differently. The phantom limb phenomenon, in short, occurs when a person with a missing limb still has sensations of limb being there; it is having the perception of missing limbs and feeling sensations from i...
Throughout human history people have sought experiences that somehow transcend every day life. Some sort of wisdom that might progress their knowledge of self and of the world that they live in. For some reason they believed that the tangible world just could not be all there is to life. Some believed in a greater force that controlled them, some believed of invisible beings that influenced their lives, some of an actual other world that paralleled their own. Many of these people also believed that it was possible to catch a glimpse of these forces, beings, or worlds through a variety of means that propel individuals into altered states of consciousness. These techniques include meditation, hypnosis, sleep deprivation, and (what will be discussed here) psychoactive drugs, more specifically psychedelic drugs.
she always used to wish for a way to escape her life. She saw memories
There is a great deal of skepticism about near-death experiences. While there are many written accounts available in medical and scientific journals, which describe near-death experiences, the phenomenon still raises questions. Some think that they are merely dreams, while others believe that they are actual windows showing them of what is to come in the after life. In this essay, I will try to provide positive evidence to suggest that they are indeed real, through facts, polls, scientific studies and personal stories from near-death experiences.
I was startled by the eerie presence of a little girl. My arms were soon covered in goose bumps! I told Rob, but he just rolled his eyes. He ran over to me when, minutes later, I gasped in fright. I dropped the box I was holding. “Her spirit flew into me, Rob!”