Actualy I'm a very scientificaly minded person. Not in the conventional sense as my views aren't taken from a scientific journal or the result of a consensus among scientifically educated researchers. But rather it's a personal science that I practice as I try to live by the fundamental scientific principles: objectivity and doubt. I simply observe facts, but obviously out of my own perspective only - essential it's all I have (solipsism anyone?). From my personal viewpoint, what I have experienced has convinced me that the phenomenon of astral projection is something beyond the physical mind, because for example I am able to gather information about the physical world that I did not know before the experience. Yes there is a chance that it is simply an unlikely coincidence, and as far as you are concerned I might aswell be lying. I question my own experience but cannot find a reason besides coincidence for some of the things that have happend, coincidence is not good enough when it is repeatable. Therefore I do the unholy thing that separates me from the scientific community and I doubt conventional science itself because it does not want to explain what I have experienced, and even if it did there is no reason not to doubt it any way because everything is doubtable, nothing is so holy that it can't be doubted atleast once.
I don't demand that anyone listen to me, and I don't expect anyone to believe me either (Unless you have actualy experienced it of course). All I'm doing is offering this as a possiblity for others to explore, I don't believe in limiting one's possibilites because of a belief no matter what that belief may be.
I don't demand this either but it would be nice if more people were brave enough to find things out for themselves instead of waiting for someone else to tell them what to think is real and not real. And by this I don't mean that people neccesarily need to find out that AP is real, they might aswell find out that it isn't real, just as long as they don't say 'Those guys say it isn't real so it must not be real' rather say 'I have personaly disproved AP so I know from experience that it is not real'. If everyone had an open and objective mind that would be great, but it is alot to ask, so I don't ask for it.
BTW I myself am open to the fact that it might all be in my mind and it might all be a coincidence, I won't be moved by this because if this is the case then thats reality and theres nothing more to it. But my personal experience tells me that it is reality, and I have to doubt both that which tells me that it isn't and that which tells me that it is.