Out of Body: In Body. Being Present

June 24th, 2006 Fred McVittie

Presence, in the sense of theatrical attractiveness or charisma, is a phenomena which is the exact opposite of an OOBE or ‘out of body experience’ (see Metzinger). In the OOBE the sense of self is decoupled from the somatosensory body and instead relies solely on internal maps and models for orientation in space etc. In the condition of enhanced being that we refer to as theatrical presence the sense of self is very firmly lodged within the somatosensory body, (or rather, there is a near-total match between internal model and somatosensory body).

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