An out-of-body experience is the subjective feeling that someone has during a period of time,

or during a window, that they exist without being in their physical bodies.

So during that time, they have the awareness that I exist. I'm still here, but I'm not in my physical body anymore.

And when I say it's a subjective feeling, I like to emphasize that, because as long as the

person had the feeling that they existed without being their physical bodies, you kind of don't

need that proof or that evidence anymore.

People can experience different things while they have the experience of being out of their

bodies. But to me, what really matters is the feeling that they exist without being in the

physical body.

So have you ever had one of those experience that just rocks you to your core, but it seems like so

different, so out of the ordinary, so extraordinary, and maybe hard to believe that you can't

even describe it to yourself, let alone to others, the kind that makes you question everything

you thought you knew about reality itself. I have had a few of those mind-bending moments in my life, little glimpses

that seem to reveal deeper layers of truth lurking beneath the surface. Experiences that leave you

wondering, is there more to this reality than meets the eye, more to our minds and our consciousness

than we have been taught? If you have grappled with those kind of questions, you're going

to love today's guest, because Marina Weiler has dedicated her career to rigorously studying

extraordinary human experiences that challenge our conventional understanding of the mind-body

relationship. Her recent focus is, wait for this, out-of-body experiences, where people report the

sensation of existing outside of their physical form, utterly mystifying, but it turns out

there is some powerful science at work here,

and Marina is a fantastic guide for us. She would know she is an assistant professor of

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