Am I here? Am I there? Am I,maybe,everywhere?

              "I know the nature of the one supreme Being;
               Like space, It extends everywhere.
               And all the forms that appear within It
               Are like the  water of a desert mirage."

                                                          The Avadhuta Gita

                                                        

" Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer."
                                                                                                            Nasseim Haramein

                                 

                                                        
I thought about this after reading about some unusual body swapping experiments, where a person can be made to feel :

                                              
                                                             - in a mannequin’s body

                                                             -in another person’s body

                                                             -invisible

                                                             -out of the body

The illusions are created with the help of the tactile and visual sensations.

 "By manipulating sensory impressions, it's possible to fool the self not only out of its body, but into other bodies too.”   Henrik Ehrsson, Karolinska Institute

You can read more about these experiments : https://www.livescience.com/14337-brain-tricks-body-swapping-illusion.html

Simillar experiments to create the illusions of being in a mannequin’s body or in another person’s body :

: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081202115148.htm?fbclid=IwAR3zMXaTvGd_MnZaT4hhYSNsJPqRt43eh_lSmIA5Zvrh-T6j-8mR2J864vg

Experiments that give the illusion of being invisible : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/23/scientists-trick-subjects-into-feeling-invisible/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d54e7fe11ec

And finally , the out- of- body simulations : http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20411858/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/scientists-simulate-out-of-body-experiences/?fbclid=IwAR1WwHhJUee-VO97uMKi-avuBv7pddht77d_eDAGh4ReH9s4h58tT94hcI8#.XBMiFmlOkkK

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/28/virtual-reality-illusions-produce-out-of-body-experiences-in-the-lab/#.XBPboWlOkkI

Looking at these experiments from a spiritual perspective,we might change our view of reality :

"Understand that it is not the individual that has consciousness; it is the consciousness which assumes innumerable forms."
                                                                                                       Nisargadatta Maharaj
 

The true impersonal Self identifies with different bodies.
This means that I may not even be in my own body, even if the illusion is so convincing!

A few quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from “I Am That”( http://www.nonduality.com/asmi1.htm)  will fit the puzzle nicely:

                                                            “As body, you are in space.

                                                             As mind, you are in time.

                                                             But are you a mere body with a mind in it?

                                                             Have you ever investigated?”

”You observe the heart feeling, the mind thinking, the body acting; the very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.”

“The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time.”

"As it is my presence,which is always here and now, that gives the quality of actual to any event,I must be beyond time and space,I was never born,nor will ever die."

So,I am asking myself : Am I here? Am I there? Maybe I am Everywhere!

“I am other than name, form and action.

 My nature is ever free!
 I am Self, the supreme unconditioned  Brahman.
 I am pure Awareness, always non-dual. “

Adi Shankara, Upadesasahasri