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 in normal dreams you can t control anything so obviously you aren t morally responsible for your actions but if you can contrive to control the action in dreams or do an oobe it seems like a morality applies i think that if someone often has immoral dreams like lustful dreams or dreams where you commit acts of violence etc etc it may be a sign that he has something sinful in his heart it may be the holy spirit s way of allowing the sinfulness that is in us to come to light so that we can pray about it and have it removed generally if one has a pure heart and sets his mind on things that are holy he will be holy even when he dreams dreams also can be from the lord joseph and nebucadnezzar are two examples of people in the bible who received dreams from the lord regarding out of body experiences this is something that we have to be careful with what is called an oobe can be spiritual in nature especially if what one saw is the same as an experience witnessed by someone else christians should certainly avoid any occult activity that would generate an out of body experience some things that might be called an oobe might actually be from the lord paul wrote of what might of been an oobe in ii corinthians he wrote of a spiritual experience of being caught up into the third heaven is an oobe truely an oobe does one really leave his body or is he just seeing an image being shown to him by a spirit be it a demon or the holy spirit i don t think it matters that much paul could not tell be that as it may we should be careful not to open ourselves up to satan to experience oobe s we should not meditate and pretend we are in a place until our spirits apparently float there this is dangerous if god wants to gice us what seems like an oobe then he can do that of his own sovereign will in the bible most often it seems that prophets are just taken up by god s sovereign will and not because they are seeking an oobe john was in the spirit praying on the lord s day when he was caught up in the visions he received ezekial was talking with some jewish leaders when he was caught up into the visions of god one time if god wants to take one of us up into a vision he can do it people should be careful not to open themselves up to evil spirits for the sake of a few thrills link hudson
