Do astral trips have a scientific explanation?

On a previous occasion, Mysterious touched on the issue of why sometimes we sound that we leave our body, an experience that undoubtedly has to do with astral trips .Today we will talk about the possibility of these being explained from the scientific point of view.

Sherlock Holmes , the most famous character of Arthur Conan Doyle, on several occasions he lamented that things, when explained, lose their halo of mystery .In their particular case, when they exposed their method of observation , people seemed to be disappointed to realize how simple that was the most mysterious crime.

Something like this happens with astral travel.

Out of body experiences, mystical or scientific explanation?

First of all, let's describe a little these experiences that one in 10 people have felt at least once in a lifetime.

A trip astral is to have the sensation of floating out of the body ; a lot of people see themselves, as if they were an observer.It is also called unfolding.

From esoteric and oriental disciplines, this astral projection is a subjective mental experience in which the astral or "subtle" body separates from the physical body.It has different names: astral unfolding, astral travel, body unfolding, extracorporeal experience, projection of consciousness...The astral body is called (in the vasista yoga , from the writer Valmiki) linga-sharira , and is known as "symbolic body" or "invisible body".

Church of the astral body

Whatever your name, whoever experienced it knows that something "happens, something inexplicable, often paralyzing fear and many others enjoying immensely...but what if there was an explanation accepted by science? An explanation that would raise a situation very different from the religious, esoteric or mystical?

Science, revealing the mysteries

Carl Sagan says, in his book Broca's brain , that everything has a logical, rational explanation, that any experience can be explained.The fact that we don't know that Explanation does not mean that it does not exist, and only reveals our current limits of knowledge in some areas.

Well, something like this has happened with these extracorporeal experiences, with astral travels, whose lack of scientific verification (for not having adequate means to make measurements) has favored that they be considered as purely parapsychological or paranormal manifestations, and that there is no other definition for them other than trips of the soul, of the spirit, of the astral body...

Obviously there have been scientists who have not given them importance and consider that they are only the fruit of a fruitful imagination, even unleashed.

But There are others who have dedicated themselves to studying these phenomena.In controlled experiments through visualizations and stimuli to certain brain parts, they realized that indeed the brain does cause us to see our body from “outside.” But how does this occur? Phenomenon?

Is it proven that traumatic processes, severe epileptic attacks, drug abuse (especially psychedelics), heart attacks or car accidents can cause these experiences.

So some scientists at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanna , in Switzerland, have begun to experiment with healthy people : as we said above, visualizations and brain stimuli yielded more than satisfactory results ios; these people made induced astral trips .

The scientific explanation of astral projection is that it becomes effective when There is a distortion in the circuits of the brain that produce sensory information.The conclusion is also that they can be done at will-although this is already known by those who practice "getting out of the body" regularly.