Sometimes, I think I’d have liked to have been a scientist. At others, I realise I already am. After all, a scientist, by its simplest definition, is one who enquires and gathers knowledge about the natural and physical world. Then again, perhaps I should have been a philosopher for I spend a great deal of time thinking about things to do with our existence, reason and mind. Perhaps, at heart, we are all both. Why this sudden foray into the scientific and the philosophical? Well, I have just been reading a report on ‘out of body experiences’, a subject I am more than mildly interested in, since I am not…