Out-of-the-body experience

Palmer's Experimental Method

In the search for a simple and effective method of inducing an OBE Palmer and his colleagues use relaxation and audio- visual stimulation. Subjects went through a progressive muscular relaxation session and the heard oscillating tones and watched a rotating spiral. One of the interesting findings was that many of the subjects claimed that they had been 'literally out of' their bodies, and there were indications that their experiences were very different in some ways from other those encountered in OBEs.