Out of body experiences -brain and selfhood

One of the stranger things to get reported and then subjected to religious and spiritual speculation is the OBE. He's some research that anyone with interest in new spiritualities and brain/spirituality stuff should check out (and certainly those of us involved in interface with new spiritualities are likely to have come across it): Out of your head: Leaving the body behind - life - 13 October 2009 - New Scientist And here's your whetting the appetite titbit: "Other brain regions have been implicated too, including ones close to the TPJ. The emerging consensus is that when these regions are working well, we feel at one with our body. But disrupt them, and our sense of embodiment can float away. This does not, however, explain the most striking feature of out-of-body experiences. 'It's a great puzzle why people, from their out-of-body locations, visualise not only their bodies but things around them, such as other people,' says Brugger. 'Where does this information come from?'"
Be aware as you read the article that the question doesn't get answered with experimental data: only speculations, some of which seem reasonably well-founded but the question isn't really answered. There are some who have a vested interest in mind or soul-body dualism who are very keen to interpret such data as we appear to have in such a way as to support the idea of a 'detachable' something which goes beyond the body. I'm skeptical -partly because it raises further questions about the means of sensing and the means of information storage and retrieval without a brain in direct contact; so an affirmative on this idea just opens up a whole can of worms. Not that such a consideration should foreclose the issue; just that it seems it complicates things. I'm also skeptical because a Christian view of personal wholism doesn't need to defend or even propose a soul-body dualism. The idea of the resurrection of the body would seem to indicate that if it were possible that soul or mind could exist independently of material support, then it is not a state to be desired or set too great a store by ...
I could say more but I'll leave it there -for now at any rate.