What If the Sleep Paralysis Demon Were Real?
Many people, when first encountering a phase state (lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experience, etc.), wonder what would happen if what they saw in their mind’s eye were actually real.…
What Came First: Sleep Paralysis or Belief in the Paranormal?
About 80% of all cases of sleep paralysis (SP) are accompanied by hallucinations: visual, auditory, and tactile. Often a paralyzed person sees an incubus or a demon. But what comes…
Near-Death Experience: an Evolutionary Approach vs. the Esoteric
In June 2021, a group of scientists from Denmark and Belgium published an article in the journal Brain Communications with a hypothesis about the biological origin of near-death experiences (NDE).…
The Last Rite: the Demon of Sleep Paralysis in Reality
A young woman suffers from sleep paralysis (SP) and becomes the victim of a demon. She is forced to seek help from a local priest. This is how the new…
Half a Million Dollars for Best Proof of the Afterlife
Billionaire Robert Bigelow founded the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) in June 2020, and announced a competition for the most convincing proof of the existence of life after death.…
The Saudi Arabian Genie of Sleep Paralysis
Each country has its own legends about the “demons” of sleep paralysis (SP). Researchers from Saudi Arabia (Aledili, Albahrani, Alalawi, Aleliwi, Bomouzah, Alghasham, Alhajri, and Alabdali) conducted a survey among…
The Influence of Sleep Paralysis on One’s Worldview
The dissertations of Keith Hearne and Stephen LaBerge on the topic of lucid dreaming in the late 1970s–early 1980s were, of course, a novelty at the time. Today, there is…
Empty Lucid Dreams as Clear Mind
Vedic traditions and Tibetan Buddhism describe a special state of consciousness that occurs during deep sleep called sushupti. This is a kind of lucid dream (LD) without the dream as…
Drummer of Hi Rhythm Section Says He Talked to God
Howard Grimes is an American drummer, best known as a member of the Hi Rhythm Section, one of the greatest house bands of all time, according to the portal Commercial…
Near-Death Experiences in Science and Religion
In ancient Greek philosophy, there was a concept of “revenants” – people who returned after death to become a kind of bridge between the living and the dead. Plato, Heraclitus,…
A “Death Angel’s” Meeting with Satan
The American thrash metal band Death Angel from California was active from 1982 to 1991, and then revived in 2001. It is symbolic that one of the musicians from a…
Meeting Jesus in a Near-Death Experience
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are still an under-researched field but evidence of such occurrences has been collected by scientists for some time now. One of the most extensive databases of such…
Lexical Analysis of Near-Death Experiences
While science and religion argue about what near-death experiences (NDEs) are, even the term itself and the identification of those who survived it are yet to be fully defined. Descriptions…
Does Religion Affect Near-Death Experiences?
It is generally accepted that NDEs are experienced in different ways by people with different cultural and religious views. A study led by Hadi Khoshab of the Bam University of…
Scientist Studies Jesus’s Near-Death Experience
Many ancient cultures testify that people in the olden days already had ideas about the afterlife and leaving the body during near-death experiences. In particular, such references can be found…
Sleep Paralysis Is Still Considered a “Spiritual Punishment” in Turkey
Recently, we talked about how culture and mythology influence the perception of sleep paralysis in different countries, often leading to interpretations of the phenomenon as a demonic presence. In March…
How Your Culture Affects Perception of Sleep Paralysis
Those who are unfamiliar with the causes of sleep paralysis (muscle atrophy on the verge of sleep) often describe this phenomenon as a “paranormal” experience. Sleep paralysis is experienced by…
How Science and Religion See Lucid Dreaming
Scientists only began studying lucid dreaming in the twentieth century, while world religions have emphasized the importance of this phenomenon in their doctrines for a much longer period of time.…
