Reply To: Do Family Members Share The Same Mental Plane?

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Lal
Keymaster

Tobias said: “At night I woke up and suddenly found myself in outer space surrounded by flower blossoms and turning around..”

Is it possible that you were actually out there in space, with the gandhabba body?

In my case, I am positive that did not happen. I could open my eyes and see that I was in my room. Then I closed my eyes and was able to see it again. So, I never had the gandhabba coming out.

By the way, your description reminded me of the accounts of Robert Monroe in his book, “Journeys Out of the Body”. He has written several books about his “out of body experiences”.

I hope these discussions would not deviate out attention from focusing on Dhamma. But it is good to know that such experiences may happen. I never strive for any such experiences. If they happen, they happen.

Furthermore, it may never happen to some people. So, this is NOT to be taken as a REQUIREMENT. I hesitated to write about my experience because of this. We must remember that there were Arahants, who never even had a jhanic experience even; see, for example, the Susima Sutta.

By the way, Sutta Central has changed its sutta format. I liked the previous format, but may be they will make this better with time.