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The out of body part of this story is reasonable evidence that consciousness resides outside of the body and in some circumstances can be accessed as such.
Nowadays, philosophers and some physicists call that greater consciousness ‘mind at large’ or the ‘field of consciousness’ that underlies or inheres in all things.
Buddhists sometimes claim to have achieved awareness of that field of consciousness.
The Buddha is known as the Thus Come One and the Thus Gone One, meaning he came from that deep field of universal consciousness and went back into it when he achieved nirvana.
It’s a wonderful thing that medical science is seeing this side of sentient life and that the evidence for it has grown significantly in recent years. ABN
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