Ryan D. Hurd sits down with medical anthropologist and author Samantha Lee Treasure to explore the fascinating and often misunderstood world of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Samantha shares how growing up on a reportedly haunted farm in Ontario set her on a lifelong path of researching consciousness beyond the body.
In this episode:
- How a veridical cherry cheesecake sparked Samantha's career in anthropology
- The surprising variation in OBE content
- Haunting narratives and astral projection
- How OBEs differ from lucid dreams and why the line can be blurry
- The "astral marketplace" and the wellness world's complicated relationship with OBEs
- Gen Z's reality shifting phenomenon, a new culturally shaped altered state for the streaming generation
- Samantha's ongoing "Future Tokyo" OBE experiences: a consistent, semi-dystopian world she's been visiting since age three
What is Dream Studies?
What if consciousness studies were to make it out of the academic journals and into your life? That’s the guiding ethos of the Dream Studies Podcast – to support ways of knowing that integrate the best of 21st century thought with the intuitive skills prized by our ancestors: dreams, visions and the imagination.