Remembering How to Breathe

Clouds above PetalumaI’ve read that people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease die when they finally forget how to breathe.

It’s taken me all of my adult life so far to experience action out of stretch, and action out of the distinction of sense without the exercise of volition. As far as I can tell, it’s all remembering how to breathe, as ...  read more

Research on the Sense of Self

I’d like to offer some excerpts from Olaf Blanke’s articles on his medical research into out-of-body experience (also known as autoscopic phenomena, or AP-variants include AH or autoscopic hallucination, HAS or heautoscopy, and OBE or out-of-body):

Several authors have also highlighted the role of proprioception ...  read more