Thanks, Alexander, for the interesting link on Gang Stalking.
This thread reminds me of a peer contemplative and OOBE experiencer from the 70s. His name was Roger Davis, and he was friends of many of my peers at the time in Tucson. He was heavy into OOBEs, astrology, herbal medicine and UFOs and believed strongly that the the CIA was bombarding him with EMF. At the time I was having many encounters with what seemed to be space aliens, so we connected there, but his encounters were extremely negative whereas mine were mostly kind and beneficial. He was also a vet, and had worked in a military psych ward earlier on in the Vietnam war.
I was also heavy into science and astronomy, whereas, he was mostly into Edger Casey, herbal medicine and astrology. So, the problem I had to explain was, why was I encountering space aliens on the planets and moon, when space exploration was finding the planets and moon were hostile to life? My explanation was these space beings were disembodied spirits who did not know that they were dead. So, on a spiritual level the planets and moon team with life, but not on the material plane. In fact my experiences with traveling out of body to the moon, Venus and Mars were remarkably similar to George Adamsky, a UFO author claiming he had taken rides on space alien craft to the moon and Mars; and CS Lewis's trilogy; which suggested to me that Roger Davis, George Adamsky and CS Lewis were most likely traveling out of body, but did not realize the astral experience is not identical to the material world, but parallels it.
For years I used to visit Roger as a friend and peer. He was older than I so he maintained a superior attitude, and rejected my hypothesis that these goings on on the astral plane were not real. My first wife and her close friends were very close to Roger and subscribed to his belief that reptilian space aliens were running our world and the mother ship would land any day, which has yet to happen and Roger died in the mid 90s from hepatitis still believing that his illness was due to EMF bombardment by the CIA. I used to tell him, "You really think that you are that important? I say the same thing to David. And, I also add to David, just learn to still your mind.