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Get your out-of-body experience; $20 a pop!
Topic Started: Nov 4 2007, 11:38 AM (294 Views)
ThinMan
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Nowhere Man
Many things that started as medical novelties have become common, almost recreational aspects of life, like some drugs (e.g. heroin) and cosmetic surgery.

According to this article (and many others), a team of Belgian scientists has discovered the part of the brain that is responsible for the so-called "out-of-body experience" while treating a 63-year-old man for tinnitus.
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To alleviate his condition, doctors had implanted electrodes in a region in the right side of the man's brain known as the temporoparietal junction. Unfortunately, stimulation of the electrodes failed to halt the ear-ringing. However, in the process of doing so, the attending physicians found that the patient repeatedly experienced what he described as an out-of-body experience.

What seems to be a joke at the expense of Belgian medical expertise, actually raises some interesting questions about the matter.

Now, getting a patient in the out-of-body state probably has no medical use (except for checking for suspicious-looking moles in a mirrorless room), so what about its "recreational" potential? If the patient talked about is not a new-age nutcase and the effects would be the same on every person, and safe - would it be "wrong"? Is it ethically "correct" to charge people to give them what is probably a quasi-religious experience? Is there a market for the temporal separation of mind and body? Think of it as space tourism, only into the microcosm of the human essence.
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Aqueronte
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I'd do it, I wouldn't care about the price because I'm not a religious guy.
I'd definetly do it, I have a friend who had this experience and it's pretty much a landmark in his life now.
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