How Does an Out of Body Experience Work In the Brain? - Yogi Explains

Summary

November 10, 2023, 15 min

Out-of-body experiences explained through the brain: the left temporal lobe projects physical life while the left parietal lobe maps an energetic body, two layers likened to the yogic koshas. Includes two exercises for separating the energetic body, and frames the experience as a partial freedom on the way to non-dual samadhi.

In this video

Teaches

Out-of-body experiences

Discusses

Temporal lobeDream nature of lifeProjectionKoshasParietal lobeLeft and right brainDual and non-dual

Mentions

Kriya YogaTodd MurphySri YukteswarHoly ScienceDorsal Vagal ComplexOM Japa in the ChakrasRoll-Up of ConsciousnessTranquil BreathExpansionSamadhiHRV ResonanceSitting Very Still (SVS)Freeze Response

Key moments

00:00Out-of-body experiences in terms of the brain 01:02Separating the body from the energetic body 01:41Todd Murphy's exercise: move in bed, then keep the feeling while still 02:38Project yourself 100 feet away and feel the snap at 15 feet 04:46Doctors find the temporal lobe hallucinating life 05:26Yukteswar's Holy Science: is life a dream?06:00Projection: we see what we hold in our heart 06:34Koshas as Russian nesting dolls 07:18The parietal lobe maps the body like Google Maps 09:17Identity inside the two hallucinations of the left brain 10:09Yoga as a journey from the left brain to the right brain 10:44Don't breathe through the brain: float through on the tranquil breath 11:07An out-of-body experience as partial freedom in the astral body 12:59Letting go of even the energetic form for non-dual samadhi 13:46A yogi floats above his own body on a hike 14:06How every practice on the channel unlocks the left brain