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Quoted in From Near Death Experiences by Ornella Corazza

One morning, during an initial training, I began to feel that the pain and the discomfort were gradually fading away and this was accompanied by my consciousness gradually becoming clear and transparent.

 It was a peaceful state.

Then at the moment when I started feeling peaceful, my soul swiftly went out of my body and I was looking down at my body, which was sitting in meditation, two to three meters above the floor. Even though I, who was sitting in meditation, had my eyes closed, I could clearly see, for example, steps in front of the God-altar, the windows, the ceiling, and the sitting cushion.

 I felt very strange and mystified, wondering what had happened, but at the same time I also had a feeling that it was nothing extraordinary. In ten minutes or so, I returned to my body. Afterwards, I remember going through a kind of blissful state for several hours.

 In less than a month after this experience, I had another experience of the kundalini ascending through the central tube of the spinal cord. This experience enabled me to exit my body at will.  (Motoyama 2008)