In this article I explore the part sensory deprivation has played in my journey into altered-states of consciousness and the out of body experience.

My most recent out-of-body experience took me to the rainforests of Africa, an area of profound beauty and rich with life. It also evoked the famous hundredth monkey theory and a surprising take on morphic fields.

An article about my powerful and transformative Shared Death Experience, which took place twenty years ago today, August 29th, 2016. I describe the experience and the later experience that would reconnect me with the events of that day.

This article first appeared in Kindred Spirit magazine in 2009. It explores the first 20 years of my evolution with the out-of-body experience.