Teachings from the published works of Britain’s bestselling spiritual author, Stephen O’Brien
This OOBE, related by a man in his mid-forties, raises several interesting questions:
One evening in the mid-1970s the subject retired to bed; then he was aware of rising up off the bed in his fully conscious spirit-body.
He went downstairs and opened the living-room door, to about two feet wide, and both parents were startled. They turned around to see what was going on, but the look on their faces told him that they couldn’t see him. Even his old black dog lifted its head and crooked its neck to look in his direction.
His parents stared at the empty doorway, their mouths wide open. So he shut the door, turned, went back
upstairs and walked over to his body in the bed, and just got back into bed.
The next day, his mother told him about the door that had opened of its own accord; and that there was no one standing in the hall outside.
This man’s remarkable experience indicates that the seat of consciousness cannot be the brain, for his brain was ‘fast asleep’ upstairs, while his personal awareness functioned in a separate vehicle of expression - another body just like his physical one, called the astral body.
The fact that two physically ‘awake’ persons (and a dog) reacted to the same event as the ‘sleeper’, is difficult for sceptics to explain away.