{"id":1603,"date":"2007-08-23T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2007-08-23T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T22:27:09","slug":"out-of-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/08\/23\/out-of-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/23\/science\/23cnd-body.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUsing virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences \u2014 the sensation of drifting outside of one\u2019s own body \u2014 in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link to links to articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/317\/5841\/1020.1.short\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t this make you want to go out and buy some VR goggles, a camera, and a stick?  Seriously if someone set up a stand in a mall to do this, I&#8217;d want a ride.  Reminds me of a story my dad told me about how he would sell electric shocks to the local kids instead of lemonade.  It makes me worry, however, whether someday they will be able to induce Alien abduction experiences as well.  Might not be quite as pleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a New York Times article: Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences \u2014 the sensation of drifting outside of one\u2019s own body \u2014 in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science. Link to links to articles here. Doesn&#8217;t this make you want to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/08\/23\/out-of-body\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out of Body&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}