The degree and nature of the body's role in thought has always been problematical. To a purely mechnistically-minded researcher, of course, i is the noiton of a "tinker" aside from the body that is problematical.

Here is a general survey on the subject of out-of-body perception and movement.

The implication is simply that there is a large collection of experiences going n in the world supporting an alternate model: that a unit of awareness operates as different from the body, and capable of being fully identified and locked inside it, or of various degrees of freedom from it.

Personally I find this to be a hopeful idea. But aside from that it is an interesting spectrum of experiences being discussed. It is, as you would expect, wildly variable in the consistency and analysis provided.

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