Tim, this is a well-researched, well-written piece. However, regarding OBE experience, I need to share an excerpt from a piece I published in Medium earlier this month. In 1960, when I was 20 years old, I was extremely ill with diphtheria and hospitalized. "On the 8th day, my already high fever shot up more. And at one point, I recall looking down from above, dispassionately, at this hospital bed and a corpse. There was a medical team around the corpse, trying to revive it. In the meantime, I just continued to float away in midair, perfectly lucid, calm, not a care in the world, especially about that corpse.

Then, as I was approaching a light (no, I’d never heard of this phenomenon before!), I felt myself suddenly being tugged back, back in the direction of the corpse. Then the pull got stronger, and I watched as an invisible force pulled me down and into the corpse.

Suddenly, I’m looking up to the face of the woman I saw a moment earlier from behind. Now, I’m looking her straight in the eyes at the very moment she finishes plunging a horse needle dead center into my solar plexus, straight into the heart!

The team of about 8 around her all sighed in unison, in relief, as the corpse came back to life. He came back to life, and the fever broke. He/I was no longer dead, but alive and drenched in gallons of his/my own sweat."

Tim, I too am a firm believer in science, and, as you can read in my article (via the link of directly below), I do not believe in the supernatural, nor in magic. But there are a few things I've experienced for which I have no explanation. Please click on this link:

https://medium.com/@uclabob/wtf-aka-some-things-that-truly-baffle-me-6bf3262a0749