The End of Materialism by Charles T. Tart

Author:Charles T. Tart
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: spirituality, consciousness, science, telepathy, esp, precognition, paranormal abilities, psychokinesis
Publisher: D. Patrick Miller

As for ascertaining whether Miss Z was, in some sense, really “out” of her body during her OBEs (Tart 1968, 8):

Each laboratory night, after the subject was lying in bed, the physiological recordings were running satisfactorily, and she was ready to go to sleep, I went into my office down the hall, opened a table of random numbers at random, threw a coin onto the table as a means of random entry into the page, and copied off the first five digits immediately above where the coin landed. (38) These were copied with a black marking pen, in figures approximately two inches high, onto a small piece of paper. Thus they were quite discrete visually. This five-digit random number constituted the parapsychological target for the evening. I then slipped it into an opaque folder, entered the subject’s room, and slipped the piece of paper onto the shelf without at any time exposing it to the subject. This now provided a target which would be clearly visible to anyone whose eyes were located approximately six and a half feet off the floor or higher, but was otherwise not visible to the subject.

The subject was instructed to sleep well, to try and have an OBE and, if she did so, to try to wake up immediately afterwards and tell me about it, so I could note on the polygraph records when it had occurred. She was also told that if she floated high enough to read the five-digit number, she should memorize it and wake up immediately afterwards to tell me what it was.

Over her four laboratory nights, Miss Z reported three clear-cut incidents of “floating,” in which she felt that she might have partly gone out of her body but the experience didn’t fully develop, and two full OBEs. My general impressions of the physiological patterns accompanying her floating and full OBE experiences are that she was in no way “near death.” There were no major heart-rate or blood-pressure changes and no particular activity in the autonomic nervous system. A physician wouldn’t call for the crash cart to resuscitate her. This finding was reassuring: it meant we could investigate OBEs without necessarily having medical worries.

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