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Not at all, I consider far more people than those who claim to have these experiences liars or delusional
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Millions of people across cultures and throughout history have reported the out-of-body phenomenon. Saying that the vast majority of these people are lying and deluded seems rather illogical to me. Perhaps you have reasoning for your claim?
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It is certainly unfortunate that science can be self blinding to these things, but it is almost impossible to study
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How are these experiences almost impossible to study? They can be induced through the use of certain drugs (eg. ketamine), relaxation techniques and/or binaural beats. Experienced OBErs report having near-daily projections.
I would say something like
subjective tinnitus is far more difficult to study, yet it still tends to be well-received and even studied by mainstream science.
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if it is truly supernatural, beyond science anyway.
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Original reports of sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, etc. included supernatural undertones (and in some cases still do). Yet science eventually did study these topics, and have come to much more natural, logical and rational explanations for them. Eventually the public's paranormal explanations dissappeared.
I suspect it would be the same for "psi" abilities and veridical OBEs. If they are to exist, science will eventually be able to explain them naturally and rationally.