Can You See Yourself From Outside?

Even without any scientific gadgets, there are many ways to trick the human mind.

- Sadhguru

Are there techniques to achieve that level of human intelligence that you can observe yourself from outside? I must tell you my experience of this. I do not subject myself to such indignities anymore, but many years ago, it so happened that I was at some institute in India, and they wanted to measure the gamma waves in my brain. 

Diagnosis With Meditation

I was asked to meditate. I said, "I don't know any meditation." They said, "But you teach meditation to everyone." I said, "Yes, because people don't know how to simply sit still, we teach them methods to do so. If you want, I will sit still." They placed some 14 electrodes on me and I simply sat there. After maybe 15 to 20 minutes, they started hitting my knee with some metallic object. I thought, it's a part of their experiment and continued to sit there.

Then they started hitting my ankle bone - a very painful place. I still thought, okay, it's their experiment, but it became very persistent and extremely painful.