It's also important not to forget that, even though something is an experience, what it is an experience of is the core question.
If I take an hallucinogenic drug and *see* a group of cockroaches in white tie and tails doing a buck and wing while singing 'Pinball Wizard', what I'm experiencing is the effect of the drug, not singing, dancing, well-dressed insects. Similarly, while meditation can produce an out-of-body sensation, what is being experienced is a sensation brought on by an altered state of consciousness, it is not an experience of the *self* leaving the physical body.
This is not a slam against meditative practices, by the way. It is a caution against over-interpreting what occurs during a meditative state.
Boru
If I take an hallucinogenic drug and *see* a group of cockroaches in white tie and tails doing a buck and wing while singing 'Pinball Wizard', what I'm experiencing is the effect of the drug, not singing, dancing, well-dressed insects. Similarly, while meditation can produce an out-of-body sensation, what is being experienced is a sensation brought on by an altered state of consciousness, it is not an experience of the *self* leaving the physical body.
This is not a slam against meditative practices, by the way. It is a caution against over-interpreting what occurs during a meditative state.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
