---
id: sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience
title: "Out-of-Body Experience"
primary_class: states
primary_domain: body-evolution
secondary_domains: [memory-identity, mind-consciousness]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Out-of-Body Experience

> **the out-of-body experience inner witness.** Within the Oracle, Out-of-Body Experience holds together the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together and embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.

## Origin

Rather than assign Out-of-Body Experience an impressive ancient pedigree, the record begins with lived and reported experience. It then asks which inheritances are demonstrated and which are interpretive. Because the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation, provenance work must name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.

## What It Is

Within the Oracle, Out-of-Body Experience holds together the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together and embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility. In the Oracle it is classified as States & Experiences, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Out-of-Body Experience became culturally durable because the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together could be re-read under new pressures. Durability here demonstrates adaptability, not literal proof. At collective scale, the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality; this matters because transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Out-of-Body Experience has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** nih-nde, nih-nde-scoping

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Out-of-Body Experience; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** nih-nde, nih-nde-scoping

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Out-of-Body Experience as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Within the Oracle, Out-of-Body Experience holds together the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together and embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. That combination creates both an interpretive tool and a responsibility.
- **Archetype:** the out-of-body experience inner witness
- **Gift:** connect individual perception with the wider conditions expressed by the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together.
- **Shadow:** making uncertainty frightening enough that premature certainty feels like safety.
- **Guidance:** Separate the need from the explanation serving Out-of-Body Experience. Meet that need through translate the promise into mechanism, benefit, burden, access, and care obligations without granting unsupported certainty. Use this guidance where the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; keep visible that transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.
- **Healing / integration:** Identify one institution, relationship, body, and landscape touched by Out-of-Body Experience. Trace the consequence across all four. Review the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together through embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Question:** Which part of Out-of-Body Experience is observation, inherited story, active claim, or chosen symbol? Answer by testing how the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation against embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation.

## Meanings

### Psychological

The inner movement of Out-of-Body Experience runs between orientation and enclosure. the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together can give experience shape without becoming the only shape allowed. A grounded check for the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together is to name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up, especially where the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

### Social

Out-of-Body Experience coordinates people around the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together. That coordination can create care and shared purpose, or punish those who do not accept the same map. In shared life, the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality. Test that specific the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together pattern by asking people to name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.

### Spiritual

Through the out-of-body experience inner witness, the card offers a relationship to the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together. The reader is asked to receive that relationship without demanding possession of the unknown. In symbolic practice, the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together can be interpreted as opening, ordeal, initiation, illusion, or integration; keep in view that transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.

### Technological

Technologically, Out-of-Body Experience may be measured, induced, mediated, recorded, or misclassified by tools. Analysis begins with mechanism, input, dependency, constraint, operator, and failure. When the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together becomes a capability, it may be measured, induced, mediated, recorded, or misclassified by tools. Verify the implementation of the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together by asking participants to name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.

### Political

the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together becomes political when institutions allocate its costs and benefits. The Oracle traces those allocations instead of treating power as atmosphere. When the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together becomes governance, it raises questions about credibility, autonomy, accommodation, and coercive interpretation. Make authority over the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together answerable by requiring decision-makers to name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Out-of-Body Experience upright restores context around embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation. Use the larger view to find a neglected point of agency. The capacity within the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together is strongest when change is assessed by lived wellbeing and agency rather than purity or perfection, even as the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Shadow state:** In shadow, the out-of-body experience inner witness claims special exemption from ordinary care, evidence, or reciprocity. Return authority to shared review. To keep the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together from escalating, name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up, because the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Threshold state:** Out-of-Body Experience marks a threshold between the role already inherited and the response that can still be chosen. Embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation are in play. Operationally, the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; the reader should name the mechanism, affected body, evidence, risks, alternatives, consent, and follow-up.
- **Practical move:** Identify one institution, relationship, body, and landscape touched by Out-of-Body Experience. Trace the consequence across all four. Review the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together through embodiment, care, inheritance, adaptation, disability, and the politics of transformation, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

## Game and Story Function

- condition
- perception-filter
- consequence

**Story seed:** Out-of-Body Experience begins as harmless symbolic play, then acquires material authority. The characters must decide when imagination became governance. The world of the story must show how the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation and why transformation can expand capacity or rank bodies against an imagined ideal.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-states-ego-dissolution--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-lucid-dream--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience--sfoc-states-astral-projection
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-ontological-shock--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience--sfoc-states-panoramic-awareness
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-andromedan--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-hive-mind--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience--sfoc-technologies-consciousness-transfer

## Visual Direction

Out-of-Body Experience visualized as the out motif, embodied capacity and limit, and lived perception before causal settlement acting together: a layered interior halo expressing a condition without diagnosing or literalizing a person. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: nih-nde, nih-nde-scoping, iep-jung, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Out-of-Body Experience? Which communities use Out-of-Body Experience differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Out-of-Body Experience?
