re dreams and out of body incidents in article may athos rutgers edu dt cs hub ucsb edu david e goggin writes i d like to get your comments on a question that has been on my mind a lot what morals ethics apply to dreams and out of body incidents dave you might like to read a book by florence bulle god wants you rich other enticing doctrines which discusses oobes in one of her chapters in the bible we have examples of men caught up in the spirit eg ezekiel paul i believe that also this experience is counterfeited by satan so that for example yoga and other eastern medatitive techniques can be used to induce the soul to leave the body and float off someone tried to sell me a book in los angeles airport entitled easy journeys to other planets which uses such techniques the occultic trance of a medium sometimes involves such body departure the book the challanging counterfeit about a former medium who gets saved tells how the author on his last trance was attacked by evil spirits who tried to kill him while returning to his body at the end of the seance because of his interest in christianity and how he was supernaturally protected by the lord there may be some similarities in mind altering drugs and the phenomena of tripping as regards the connection between body and soul there is an interesting verse in ecclesiastes in a passage talking about old age the preacher writes then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets remember him before the silver cord is severed my understanding of this silver cord is that it is something that attaches body and soul in a manner somewhat similar to an umbilical cord or an astronaut s air line to his spaceship when a person goes out of body this silver cord still attaches the soul whereever it goes and is vulnerable to being broken astral projection can be dangerous bulle i think reports a case of a yogi off on an oobe who was found dead in his apartment with no apparent external cause barney resson many shall run to and fro knowledge shall increase daniel
