A minha jornada de autoconhecimento.

As vezes leio alguns testes que foram feitos no campo de experiencia fora do corpo (EFC) e me pergunto, e se? Mas sabe racionalmente falando, acho que nossa mente, nosso cérebro tenta organizar as informações de forma que a mensagem seja entendida por nós. E para o ser humano, faz sentido pensar que somo seres importantes com uma missão na Terra e bla bla bla... Não sei até que ponto os relatos de EFC são reais, ou apenas um truque do nosso cérebro, e aí acaba entrando no mesmo ramo das religiões. Tem que ter fé para crer. O problema é que nunca fui uma pessoa de fé.

Publicação do blog Psychology today escrito pela Dr. Susan Blackmore In 2002 the science of OBEs changed forever. By then I had long assumed I would never return to OBE research but this discovery dragged me straight back, and is why I wrote the book, ‘Seeing Myself’ (Blackmore 2017). In that year, a paper was published, not in an obscure fringe or paranormal journal, but in Nature, arguably the most prestigious science publication in the world.  It declared “The part of the brain that can induce out-of-body experiences has been located”. The Swiss neurosurgeon, Olaf Blanke, and his team were operating on a 43-year-old woman who had been suffering from frequent epileptic fits for 11 years (Blanke et al 2002). Her condition would not respond to drugs and she could not be treated unless the site of the epileptic focus was found, that is the area of the brain where seizures begin and from where they spread to the rest of the brain. But the surgeons had failed to find the...