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**jeargefef** · 07-25-2007, 11:00 AM

Being a scientist myself, I think it would be very difficult if not impossible to prove conclusively that OBE's exist and then write a peer reviewed article on the results. Scientists like hard facts/evidence. The first step would be coming up with a scientific experiment to test OBEs. Maybe have someone in one room astrally project and then figure out things in another room? But then that may just prove that the person is a psychic, not necessarily astral travelling. We need some device that could record astral bodies to prove OBE's.

In Journeys Out of the Body, Robert Monroe did just that, but still it only proved it to himself- there is always a theory to explain it away. Since this was back in the (50s or 60s) the idea of telepathy wasn't even considered- the researchers still wanted to say that he was a good guesser or that he somehow knew who was outside. Of course, these were not double-blind studies, but it was enough for Monroe to realize that he wasn't having some really interesting delusions, which is what he feared at the time.

07-25-2007, 11:00 AM	#29
jeargefef Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 649 Senior Member	Being a scientist myself, I think it would be very difficult if not impossible to prove conclusively that OBE's exist and then write a peer reviewed article on the results. Scientists like hard facts/evidence. The first step would be coming up with a scientific experiment to test OBEs. Maybe have someone in one room astrally project and then figure out things in another room? But then that may just prove that the person is a psychic, not necessarily astral travelling. We need some device that could record astral bodies to prove OBE's. In Journeys Out of the Body, Robert Monroe did just that, but still it only proved it to himself- there is always a theory to explain it away. Since this was back in the (50s or 60s) the idea of telepathy wasn't even considered- the researchers still wanted to say that he was a good guesser or that he somehow knew who was outside. Of course, these were not double-blind studies, but it was enough for Monroe to realize that he wasn't having some really interesting delusions, which is what he feared at the time.
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