If you read buddhist scriptures, you can find a number of stories about mind travel. It indicates that lord buddha used to mind travel to far away places and interacted with people. What do you think about its possibility? Is it something a person could achieve through training?
Thank you Pushkin. There should be so many things that science cannot explain. I believe, enlightenment is such. That is scientifically unexplainable. But plausible.
Is this different from what is more commonly called 'thinking'?
Jonathan William Firth It's supposed to be an out-of-body experience. Like looking at yourself from a height, except the distance is vastly increased. Various medical conditions or psychedelic drugs can lead to such "as if" experiences. Maybe in the future we can just get ourselves drugged and our brains hooked up to a programmable mind-travel machine instead of spending all that money on cruises to far away places (and risking viral infections).
The concept of astral body and astral projection is there in the literature. Near death experience is sometimes defined as an autoscopic hallucination. Mind travel is a different phenomenon where a person reaches a distant destination in mind.
Anuradha Ellepola Yes, the concept of mind travel is different, but are claims of the occurrence of mind travel veridical? Or is the alleged travel just a figment?
Maybe you should explain "mind travel". Is it supposed to be like willing yourself to be at another location and then arriving there bodily? Like Star Trek teleportation using your mind instead of the teleporter machine?
yeah it is possible i think not hallucination but it can be experience through meditation and yoga too i think.Sometime in meditation too i have little experience regarding this whats reality and scientific reason behind that is matter of research,but i personally think it is possible.
Very true Martin. However, the interesting fact is that people lived around 3000 years ago were talking about reaching places in mind. Some called it a state of enlightenment.
Thank you Karl Pfeifer :) Well I would say this is possible...as you say through drugs or illness we can hallucinate in this way, and I would suggest that such experiences could be voluntarily induced with the right regime and skills. I would suppose that it is just a subjective experience though, and real interaction (with other such minds) is not possible.
Thank you so much Thomas. I really would like to train myself in meditation. I haven't had any experience yet. Is it possible to feel a distant and unfamilier environment through meditation? or do we have to visit the place atleast once before we experience it?
Anuradha Ellepola You have yet to clarify what you mean by mind travel. You seem to have rejected out-of-body travel akin to astral projection. You seem to be receptive to the idea of remote viewing. You've mentioned interaction with people at remote locations as an element. Whole body teleportation aside, Martin Böhnert 's suggestion actually makes the most sense, except there'd be no tactile interaction, but even that could be simulated with virtual-reality gloves and the like. Moreover, with advancements in teledildonics you might even get pretty close to real sex except for the procreation aspect. Could telekinetic operation of internet-connected computers to accomplish remote interactions count as mind travel?
There is a concept of enlightenment in Buddhism.
Enlightenment is a state of complete awareness (going beyond the limits of the dualistic mind), in which the ego dissolves and the feeling of being a performer disappears, that is, the illusion of volition disappears. This leads to a state of unity with everything around.
In practice, this means that if you achieve enlightenment, you will know everything. In general, everything, even that which science has not yet guessed. You will understand the essence of things. Super-connect in the universal mind will allow you to create many "magic" things such as astral travel, conscious rebirths, etc.
Regards, Pushkin Sergey Viktorovich
Thank you Pushkin. There should be so many things that science cannot explain. I believe, enlightenment is such. That is scientifically unexplainable. But plausible.
Hello,
Here are some lyrics from a song by George Harrison (The Beatles), which I believe are true and hint mind travel is possible:
The farther one travels The less one knows The less one really knows
Arrive without traveling See all without looking Do all without doing
Time travel is a recognized concept in the philosophy of space and time, and time travel is considered a fantasy, but travel to a hypothetical point in time has very limited support in theoretical physics, and in conjunction with quantum mechanics usually in time travel or the Einstein-Rosen bridge.
In a way, yes. Assuming that mental travel is possible, it is now possible due to the limitations of real travel caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic, such alternative travel as mental travel may be a good solution. Besides, this is how you can develop your imagination.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
I certainly wish remote viewing was possible it would save me 2k a year paying to get into sports events. Mind you, in the last few years it has been that bad at United that my mind during games has travelled to many distant places.
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