Six feet over: Out-of-body experiences and their relevance to the folk psychology of souls

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 478-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kemmerer ◽  
Rupa Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Multisensory Integration ◽  
Folk Psychology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
The World

During an out-of-body experience (OBE), one sees the world and one's own body from an extracorporeal visuospatial perspective. OBEs reflect disturbances in brain systems dedicated to multisensory integration and self-processing. However, they have traditionally been interpreted as providing evidence for a soul that can depart the body after death. This mystical view is consistent with Bering's proposal that psychological immortality is the cognitive default.

The “tedious yammering of selves”: The End of Intimacy in Spike Jonze’s Her

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-192
Author(s):  
Richard Smith
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
The World

Spike Jonze’s unusual career trajectory, from the outer edges of popular culture to the center of indiewood, has resulted in a distinctive body of work that spans several genres and forms. This chapter traces Jonze’s career to ground a stylistic reading of his fourth feature film, Her (2013). Presented in three parts—Jonze’s short works, Gilles Deleuze’s “implied dream” and the “sound-image,” the lonely social world of Her—the chapter argues that Jonze’s cinematic style is an elaboration of a very simple image of a body in motion. As his style develops the relation of body and world becomes more central and more uncertain. In Her, the world is replaced by media affect and the body experiences itself as an aesthetic form. Smith explores a terrain of loneliness that sits at the center of much of Jonze’s work.

Out-of-Body Experience Status as a Moderator of Effects of Narcissism on Paranormal Beliefs

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome J. Tobacyk ◽  
Thomas E. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Paranormal Belief ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Paranormal Beliefs ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Belief Scale

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory and the Paranormal Belief Scale were given to 383 college students. As hypothesized, significant but small direct correlations were obtained between narcissism and belief in Psi and in Precognition. When the sample was divided into those 56 who reported out-of-body experiences and 327 nonreporters, an interaction emerged. Among the former, narcissism showed significant moderate correlations with belief in Psi, Precognition, Witchcraft, and Superstition. Among the latter only one small significant relationship was found between narcissism and Precognition. These differential relationships between narcissism and paranormal beliefs for reporters and nonreporters of out-of-body experiences were interpreted in terms of schemata theory.

Out-of-Body Experience and Personality Functioning

1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 481-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome J. Tobacyk ◽  
Donald H. Wells ◽  
Mark M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Purpose In Life ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Life Scale

Reporters of out-of-body experiences ( n = 21) and nonreporters ( n = 159) showed no significant differences on the Spheres of Control Scale, Self-efficacy Scale, and Purpose in Life Scale. However, reporters of out-of-body experiences showed significantly greater belief in Psi, Spiritualism, and Extraordinary Life Forms than nonreporters.

The Neuropsychology of Self-Objectification

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Riva ◽  
Santino Gaudio ◽  
Antonios Dakanalis
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Objectification Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Bodily Appearance ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Self Objectification ◽  
Health And Well Being

According to the objectification theory ( Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997 ) girls and women are thought to adopt a self-objectified view of themselves as objects to be evaluated on the basis of their appearance. More, this experience is proposed to have a direct link with the health and well being of female subjects. The paper analyzes and discusses the objectification theory within the context of recent research on memory and spatial cognition. On one side, it describes self-objectification as a specific cognitive process: a woman internalizes an objectified self image, when she uses an allocentric frame of reference (observer mode) to remember events in which she evaluates herself based upon bodily appearance. On the other side it directly connects the objectification theory with the Allocentric Lock Hypothesis ( Riva, 2012 ), suggesting that eating disorders have as antecedent an allocentric (objective, from outside) negative image schema of the body that is no more updated by egocentric sensory inputs from perception. Both the similarities between the allocentric lock and the out-of-body experience and a review of the recent studies supporting this claim are also presented and discussed.

The Advent of Parapsychology and the Figuration of “Out-of-the-Body Experiences” (1880–1930)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Schlieter
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
William James ◽  
Life Review ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Filter Theory ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
The Brain

This chapter outlines how the term “out-of-the-body experience” emerged in spiritualist and parapsychological literature. As is shown, “psychical researchers” such as Frederic W. Myers and William James made a significant contribution. The chapter also deals with the “filter” theory or “transmission” theory, i.e., the idea of the brain as a means for the inhibition of consciousness. This theory, as is shown, has been developed in close interaction with phenomena “near death”—in particular, the “panoramic life review.” The filter theory, discussed in subsequent chapters 2.6. and 2.7, too, is still favored by many recent protagonists of near-death experiences (e.g., Moody). Finally, the chapter turns to the increase of autoscopic out-of-body experiences, discussed as a phenomenon attesting a changing relationship of the disembodied consciousness toward its own body.

She Climbs Toward the Light: Karen Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase in a World of Displaced Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Maxine Walker
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Faith Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Spiral Staircase

The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong’s self-narrative, shows the limitations of theological or religious reflections within a specific religious community. Leaving the Sisters of Charity for a tumultuous academic life, historian of religion Karen Armstrong lives a wrenching ontological dislocation that originates in her undiagnosed epilepsy and negative body experiences. Using semiotician Algirdas Greimas’s ‘Semiotic Square’ as an interpretive strategy, the unresolved tensions and contradictions exposed in the deep narrative structure of this non-traditional conversion memoir are resolved by ‘compassion’ at the manifest level. Armstrong’s experiences, both in and out of the convent, will inform her academic study and lead her to compassionate solidarity with the marginalized. Armstrong’s memoir reveals various internal and external forces that shape an individual woman’s way of being in the world, and that inform her investigation of multiple faith practices and beliefs. In a time of mass refugee migration and ‘homelessness’, the one woman, the one ‘other’, matters in how one thinks about the body and about God.

When is an Out-of-Body Experience (Not) an Out-of-Body Experience? Reflections about Out-of-Body Phenomena in Neuroscientific Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter F. Craffert
Keyword(s):  
Historical Record ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Real Progress

In recent years there has been an increased interest in the study of out-of-body experiences (obes) by cognitive and neuro-scientists. Nowadays, far-reaching claims regarding the uncovering of the neural mechanisms and pathways, as well as the mystery ofobes in the anthropological and historical record are on offer. In this article the implicit assumption thatobes are much better understood and that real progress has been made are questioned on the basis of the definitional and conceptual problems that still haunt this area of research. It is suggested that progress will only be registered once the spectrum of out-of-body phenomena (obp) is recognized and attention is paid to the neurocultural complexity of distinct instances ofobes.

Re-thinking teachers’ body awareness to support well-being and resilience practices during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Gisselle Tur Porres ◽  
Washington Ires Correa
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Supporting Teachers

In this paper, the concept of body awareness is introduced in view of supporting teachers’ well-being and resilience practices, with a focus on COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers experience high rates of stress and pressure to cope with current working conditions due to COVID-19 pandemic. Depression and anxiety related to teachers’ duties have been largely researched worldwide. Research is being done around well-being from different perspectives, mental health, emotional and spiritual well-being, among other research done. However, little research has been done associated with body experiences and awareness from a holistic dimension that focuses on developing well-being and resilience practices; a state of mind and body that goes beyond acquiring physical skills to develop better physical condition. Thus far, despite relevant reviews and works have been published in relation to well-being and resilience practices in education, there is a need to explore the body experience to support teachers’ challenges during COVID-19 pandemic. For doing so, this work aims to review literature on the concept of well-being to elaborate, first, on the importance of supporting teachers’ well-being during COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we elaborate on the concept of body awareness in education. Third, we briefly explore the concept of resilience in relation to teachers’ well-being. Last, we raise some critical remarks about body experiences in education post COVID-19, and the need of re-thinking well-being and resilience practices in the school community to face with uncertainty.

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