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started telling me about how he had experienced clinical death, an exit from the body, travel through a tunnel, etc. But after asking him some questions, it became clear that no clinical death had occurred, and that the rest of the experience had happened during a standard, spontaneous exit from the body. This is because clinical death is when doctors establish the fact of cardiac arrest, which is different than dozing off after a sumptuous breakfast of jam doughnuts. What’s more, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that you’re dying when having an out-of-body experience. Such thoughts occur in about a fifth of all exits from the body. Even after having had thousands of OBEs, I still fall into such terror myself from time to time. That’s to say nothing of novices, who often cower back into the body after having just left it: (Budushee) ...I actually fell onto the floor, but felt no physical sensation from it, just a panicky fear and omen of looming death... (Yuri) ...Upon becoming fully aware of my nature, I clearly understood that I didn’t have a body, it was simply gone! My first thought was, “so this is what death’s like!” (Lilia) ...That’s when it hit me that I was dying. I ran to the living room and saw myself lying on the bed. And I jumped back into myself… However, you might argue that with all of the above I have just proved that there is life after death. Actually, the correct deduction is that we can have near-death experiences without the threat of dying. Meanwhile, there is one more kicker here. During my first years of practicing out-of-body travel, I was sure that my soul was actually leaving my body and that I was therefore immortal. But after undertaking endless experiments, it turned out that my “soul” was not travelling through the physical world at all, but throughout something else entirely. It’s possible that this is all just a