Unlocking the Unknown: Exploring Out-of-Body Journeys with Stefano Siciliano
6/16/202628 min
On the Get Obsessed podcast, host Mika Altidor interviews Stefano Siciliano, an American lifelong personal growth and spiritual path practitioner who began having spontaneous out-of-body experiences (OBEs) around age seven or eight and later learned to induce them. Inspired by Robert Monroe’s books, Stefano trained at the Monroe Institute, became a trainer in Europe, helped bring the technology to Eastern Bloc countries after the Soviet Republic collapsed, and now supports and endorses Darius J. Wright’s work. Stefano explains OBEs as normal and connected to sleep, dreams, and lucid dreaming, describing “mind awake, body asleep” as akin to deep meditation. He says conscious OBEs can transform one’s view of identity, reality, death, and loss, and frames adversity as a catalyst that can push people toward availability for “what more is possible,” recommending Wright’s online resources for further exploration.
00:00 Welcome and Intro
00:51 Stefano Background
01:31 Childhood OBEs
03:06 Monroe Institute Journey
03:54 Life Changes and Growth
04:57 Demystifying OBEs
05:53 Dreams Lucid and OBE
07:47 Mind Awake Body Asleep
09:13 Why It Matters
10:12 Seeing Your Body
12:13 Adversity as Teacher
15:15 Purpose in Suffering
20:20 Distortion and Chaos
23:29 Escapism and Cookoff
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First 90 secondsMika Altidor· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome, everyone, to the Get Obsessed podcast, where we talk all things about personal resilience, personal growth, and the human spirit, what the human mind and spirit is capable of. I'm excited to bring you our latest guest, Stefano. Stefano, welcome to the Get Obsessed podcast.
Stefano Siciliano· Guest0:32
Thank you. Thank you.
Mika Altidor· Host0:34
Yeah.
Stefano Siciliano· Guest0:35
Great to be here, Micah.
Mika Altidor· Host0:36
Oh, no, awesome. So you are so fascinating in so many different ways. If you can just introduce our audience on who you are and what you do.
Stefano Siciliano· Guest0:49
Who I am is an American that's had a lifelong interest and participation in personal growth- Mm-hmm ... or you could say s- the spiritual path. And I started to have what we now know as out-of-the-body experiences as a young child.
Mika Altidor· Host1:08
Wow.
Stefano Siciliano· Guest1:09
And I've spent my, most of my adult life, um, doing various kind of meditation practices and, um, inquiry into the nature of reality and what's really true. So that's the, that's the short of it.