{"id":3322,"date":"2017-05-21T05:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2017-05-21T05:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:01:02","slug":"help-me-pin-this-one-down-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"Help me pin this one down, please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Halil:<\/strong><br \/>\nFound a new OBE [out of body experience] which sounds very compelling. Apparently this man was able to identify targets during his OBE:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/awareofaware.co\/welcome\/resourc &#8230; esearcher\/<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDoes this prove the soul? It seems quite scientific, although it has never been published in a scientific journal. That aside, what do you think of it?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nNormally I&#8217;m able to trace this sort of thing myself, but the break in the middle of the URL in your question (as I received it) makes it hard to tell which OBE story on <a href=\"https:\/\/awareofaware.co\/welcome\/resources-and-links\/\">AwareofAware<\/a> you&#8217;re referring to.  Feel free to post the full link in a comment, either Halil or anyone else who can work it out.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn the meantime there&#8217;s a basic statement I can make about NDE and OBE claims in general.  They&#8217;re proof of something supernatural if all alternatives can be eliminated, both to the source of whatever information was received and to the story of what physically happened.  That&#8217;s not just a contest between supernatural action and sheer luck, as we&#8217;ve seen in previous cases when other explanations and inconvenient details emerge, but even sheer luck cannot be discounted, especially if you&#8217;re literally looking for proof as opposed to merely internal justification for your own belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Halil: Found a new OBE [out of body experience] which sounds very compelling. Apparently this man was able to identify targets during his OBE: https:\/\/awareofaware.co\/welcome\/resourc &#8230; esearcher\/ Does this prove the soul? It seems quite scientific, although it has never been published in a scientific journal. That aside, what do you think of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help me pin this one down, please.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[688,689],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-obe","tag-out-of-body-experience"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-RA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}