The Daily Mail seems to be on a mission to spread nonsense about OBE's and other paranormal events being nothing but a trick of the mind. Apparently two other universities have carried out similar experiments into OBE's etc and came to the same conclusions as other recent experiments, but yet again offer no proof to back up their claims.
http://www.dailymail...tricks-you.html
Some report feeling as if they are hovering above their own bodies, while others find themselves drawn towards a blinding light. But out-of-body experiences are nothing more than a trick of the mind, scientists claim.
They say that common spooky scenarios, such as floating above a hospital bed or walking towards the light at the end of a tunnel, can be explained by the brain trying to make sense of the process of death.
Scientists from the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge reviewed studies into changes in the brain that cause certain sensations associated with near-death experiences. Researcher Caroline Watt said one common vision – that of people seeing a bright light which seems to be drawing them into the afterlife – is probably produced by the death of the cells we use to process the light picked up by our eyes and turn it into pictures.
So probably = hard undeniable evidence. LOL
Funny how they completely ignore cases whereby patients have proofed they have been outside their bodies.
Dr. Bruce Greyson is also the editor for The Journal for Near-death Studies, which has published several accounts of veridical of body experiences. These are cases in which a person has an out of body experience, sees something that would not be visible from their body's location, and then later has their perception validated. In one case, an elderly woman in intensive care had a heart attack followed by a near-death experience which included an out of body experience. During her out of body experience she saw the roof of the hospital and noticed are red tennis shoe. A maintenance worker and some medical observers went to the roof of the hospital where they retrieved the shoe. While this seems to prove consciousness can exist separate from the brain, it leaves open one possibility. It may be that the mind, when it is outside of the body has a structure, and that structure reflects the structure of the brain. Proving the existence of consciousness outside the body, or separate from the brain may prove to be very elusive, even if the ideas that support it are valid.
http://www.shaktitec...ogy.com/obe.htm
http://www.web-us.com/oobe/oobe.htm
Ironically the Daily Mail is now claiming Apple's Steven Jobs was having a mystical experience before he passed away and his final words were WOW,WOW,WOW!

(He probably saw and angel with an Ipad).
http://www.dailymail...ons-eulogy.html
Edited by AI Construct, 31 October 2011 - 12:16 PM.