I have a college education, Mr. Henry, I studied Oceanography, Marine Biology, Seamanship, Mathematics, and my minor was Anthropology. I am firmly grounded in the sciences.
First the issue of god/God. No proof one way or the other, no way to obtain proof one way or the other. The existence of god/God is moot, why discuss it?
Second, your condescending tone is hardly called for, is it? I've studied something that you have not, I don't intend to have anything to say to you about your reluctance to examine the subject. My position is that the job of science is to investigate the unexplained not explain the uninvestigated. If you have never had the experience then how can you know if it has value? I had never had the experience either, but I was curious enough to look at something new and it changed my perspective. You seem to want a guarantee of ultimate value before you put yourself out to look at something new. I can't give you that guarantee, the world is full of weird things, look at them, don't look at them, it makes no difference to me. Suit yourself, the world is full of willfully ignorant people who are too comfortable or too frightened to look beyond the edges of their current experience.
The only way you'll ever be able to decide if out of body consciousness is real or a hallucination is to experience it for yourself. I did not say that it was real, just like god/God, I don't know if it was real, but it certainly seemed real. In one instance I was able to access information that was not available to me from any readily recognizable source, and I verified the accuracy of the information as well. Proof? Nope, but it was an interesting experience that I will accept at face value until I have some reason not to.
Mystical just means that science hasn't figured it out yet. Don't put words in my mouth or meanings in my posts that are not there. Objective science is fine as far as it goes, but it breaks down at some point. Even quantum physics is beyond objective science. The whole business of a particle not having a real existence until someone measures or looks at it seems to put objectivity in a very different light. Objectivity is simply one way of seeing/interacting with the Universe and nothing precludes the possibility of there being other modes of interaction.
