out of body experiences

Back in 1985, Robert Monroe, the founder of the Monroe Institute in Virginia, U.S.A — which trains many students in astral projection for exploration out of body, and many of these have gone on to publish books exploring consciousness — released the book, Far Journeys. This is one in a series of...

At 26.22 mins in They begin to discuss the value of having a human body and being on earth. Other NDE's at Robert Monroe have said something similar.

Are OBEs and Lucid Dreams the same phenomena? This is an interesting analysis detailed here: http://www.robertpeterson.org/obe-vs-lucid.html