In Tibetan Buddhism, Bardo denotes transitional states, especially the postmortem interval up to forty‑nine days. Traditions map phases of dying, reality, and becoming, guided by rituals like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and relate bardos to dreaming and meditation.
Reported experience of awareness seeming to leave the physical body to perceive from another location. Covers phenomenology, traditional subtle-body frameworks, methods of induction, and current neuroscience linking OBEs to multisensory integration at the TPJ.
Ascension is a modern spirituality term describing perceived rises in consciousness, often framed as self-transcendence. It blends New Age and esoteric ideas with practices like meditation, energy work, and ethics, while research debates metaphysical claims.