Single word describing something “outside of oneself”
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ie.: The idea was "(blank)". It didn't come from myself, it was divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc.
or maybe: My essence/spirit was outside my body. It was "(blank)".
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ie.: The idea was "(blank)". It didn't come from myself, it was divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc.
or maybe: My essence/spirit was outside my body. It was "(blank)".
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In your first example, it's possible you mean ex machina, which is used in describing stories, etc. In your second utterly and totally unrelated example, you're talking about a dualist view of life (a "religious", not "scientific" view, if you will). It's also possible you're just looking for "supernatural" which is a synonym for "spooky".
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The term "disembodied" might fit somehow.
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ie.: The idea was "(blank)". It didn't come from myself, it was divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc.
or maybe: My essence/spirit was outside my body. It was "(blank)".
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ie.: The idea was "(blank)". It didn't come from myself, it was divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc.
or maybe: My essence/spirit was outside my body. It was "(blank)".
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In your first example, it's possible you mean ex machina, which is used in describing stories, etc. In your second utterly and totally unrelated example, you're talking about a dualist view of life (a "religious", not "scientific" view, if you will). It's also possible you're just looking for "supernatural" which is a synonym for "spooky".
– Fattie
Jun 29 '15 at 4:01
The term "disembodied" might fit somehow.
– Hot Licks
Mar 30 '16 at 19:44
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In your first example, it's possible you mean ex machina, which is used in describing stories, etc. In your second utterly and totally unrelated example, you're talking about a dualist view of life (a "religious", not "scientific" view, if you will). It's also possible you're just looking for "supernatural" which is a synonym for "spooky".
– Fattie
Jun 29 '15 at 4:01
The term "disembodied" might fit somehow.
– Hot Licks
Mar 30 '16 at 19:44
In your first example, it's possible you mean ex machina, which is used in describing stories, etc. In your second utterly and totally unrelated example, you're talking about a dualist view of life (a "religious", not "scientific" view, if you will). It's also possible you're just looking for "supernatural" which is a synonym for "spooky".
– Fattie
Jun 29 '15 at 4:01
In your first example, it's possible you mean ex machina, which is used in describing stories, etc. In your second utterly and totally unrelated example, you're talking about a dualist view of life (a "religious", not "scientific" view, if you will). It's also possible you're just looking for "supernatural" which is a synonym for "spooky".
– Fattie
Jun 29 '15 at 4:01
The term "disembodied" might fit somehow.
– Hot Licks
Mar 30 '16 at 19:44
The term "disembodied" might fit somehow.
– Hot Licks
Mar 30 '16 at 19:44
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The two that immediately spring to mind would be external:
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
And extrinsic:
- external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- not belonging to, outside of
answered Jun 28 '15 at 22:50
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In regard to the second part, if you truly felt your spirit had left your body, there is a set phrase for this: out-of-body experience.
People who have near-death experiences (another set phrase) often report out-of-body sensations as a part of the experience.
People who are able to intentionally induce an out-of-body experience, wherein they "travel" to other places, are practicing what is sometimes called astral projection.
See also remote viewing which has been a recurrent topic discussed by Art Bell on his radio show Coast to Coast am. Here is one such episode:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/dames-major-ed/5589
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The word for something that arises outside oneself but affects or becomes parts of oneself is "exogenous." This seems to fit with the "The idea was" part of the question.
"External" merely means on the exterior and given no sense of the thing outside being intimately connected to the inside, which seems to the thrust of the "or maybe" part of the question. "Extrinsic" is good except for the connotation it has of "inessential," which the word gets from its antonym "intrinsic."
If you're content with a technical term specifically tied to the spiritual, then there's always "ectoplasmic."
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The idea was uncanny
Though the title of the OP merely asks for a single word that would describe something “outside of oneself,” the body of the OP is somewhat more elaborate and describes this something as of "divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc." For this reason, and despite Parthian Shot's apt and officially selected answer ("external"), I would also suggest the adjective "uncanny" as a suitable descriptor for the experience of something unusual, or even preternatural, whose origins lie outside of the normal, day-to-day, self.
uncanny
adjective: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched"
synonyms: eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly
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Extracorporeal has the exact meaning of something being outside one's body.
Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extracorporeal):
extracorporeal
adjective ex·tra·cor·po·re·al -kȯr-ˈpȯr-ē-əl
Definition of EXTRACORPOREAL
: occurring or based outside the living body "the heart-lung machine maintains >extracorporeal circulation during heart surgery"
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ecstasis or ekstasis: to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere
from ek- "out" and stasis "a stand"
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The two that immediately spring to mind would be external:
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
And extrinsic:
- external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- not belonging to, outside of
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The two that immediately spring to mind would be external:
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
And extrinsic:
- external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- not belonging to, outside of
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The two that immediately spring to mind would be external:
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
And extrinsic:
- external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- not belonging to, outside of
answered Jun 28 '15 at 22:50
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The two that immediately spring to mind would be external:
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
And extrinsic:
- external, separable from the thing itself, inessential
- not belonging to, outside of
answered Jun 28 '15 at 22:50
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In regard to the second part, if you truly felt your spirit had left your body, there is a set phrase for this: out-of-body experience.
People who have near-death experiences (another set phrase) often report out-of-body sensations as a part of the experience.
People who are able to intentionally induce an out-of-body experience, wherein they "travel" to other places, are practicing what is sometimes called astral projection.
See also remote viewing which has been a recurrent topic discussed by Art Bell on his radio show Coast to Coast am. Here is one such episode:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/dames-major-ed/5589
answered Jun 29 '15 at 4:24
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In regard to the second part, if you truly felt your spirit had left your body, there is a set phrase for this: out-of-body experience.
People who have near-death experiences (another set phrase) often report out-of-body sensations as a part of the experience.
People who are able to intentionally induce an out-of-body experience, wherein they "travel" to other places, are practicing what is sometimes called astral projection.
See also remote viewing which has been a recurrent topic discussed by Art Bell on his radio show Coast to Coast am. Here is one such episode:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/dames-major-ed/5589
answered Jun 29 '15 at 4:24
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In regard to the second part, if you truly felt your spirit had left your body, there is a set phrase for this: out-of-body experience.
People who have near-death experiences (another set phrase) often report out-of-body sensations as a part of the experience.
People who are able to intentionally induce an out-of-body experience, wherein they "travel" to other places, are practicing what is sometimes called astral projection.
See also remote viewing which has been a recurrent topic discussed by Art Bell on his radio show Coast to Coast am. Here is one such episode:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/dames-major-ed/5589
answered Jun 29 '15 at 4:24
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In regard to the second part, if you truly felt your spirit had left your body, there is a set phrase for this: out-of-body experience.
People who have near-death experiences (another set phrase) often report out-of-body sensations as a part of the experience.
People who are able to intentionally induce an out-of-body experience, wherein they "travel" to other places, are practicing what is sometimes called astral projection.
See also remote viewing which has been a recurrent topic discussed by Art Bell on his radio show Coast to Coast am. Here is one such episode:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/dames-major-ed/5589
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The word for something that arises outside oneself but affects or becomes parts of oneself is "exogenous." This seems to fit with the "The idea was" part of the question.
"External" merely means on the exterior and given no sense of the thing outside being intimately connected to the inside, which seems to the thrust of the "or maybe" part of the question. "Extrinsic" is good except for the connotation it has of "inessential," which the word gets from its antonym "intrinsic."
If you're content with a technical term specifically tied to the spiritual, then there's always "ectoplasmic."
answered Jun 29 '15 at 0:02
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The word for something that arises outside oneself but affects or becomes parts of oneself is "exogenous." This seems to fit with the "The idea was" part of the question.
"External" merely means on the exterior and given no sense of the thing outside being intimately connected to the inside, which seems to the thrust of the "or maybe" part of the question. "Extrinsic" is good except for the connotation it has of "inessential," which the word gets from its antonym "intrinsic."
If you're content with a technical term specifically tied to the spiritual, then there's always "ectoplasmic."
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The word for something that arises outside oneself but affects or becomes parts of oneself is "exogenous." This seems to fit with the "The idea was" part of the question.
"External" merely means on the exterior and given no sense of the thing outside being intimately connected to the inside, which seems to the thrust of the "or maybe" part of the question. "Extrinsic" is good except for the connotation it has of "inessential," which the word gets from its antonym "intrinsic."
If you're content with a technical term specifically tied to the spiritual, then there's always "ectoplasmic."
answered Jun 29 '15 at 0:02
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The word for something that arises outside oneself but affects or becomes parts of oneself is "exogenous." This seems to fit with the "The idea was" part of the question.
"External" merely means on the exterior and given no sense of the thing outside being intimately connected to the inside, which seems to the thrust of the "or maybe" part of the question. "Extrinsic" is good except for the connotation it has of "inessential," which the word gets from its antonym "intrinsic."
If you're content with a technical term specifically tied to the spiritual, then there's always "ectoplasmic."
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The idea was uncanny
Though the title of the OP merely asks for a single word that would describe something “outside of oneself,” the body of the OP is somewhat more elaborate and describes this something as of "divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc." For this reason, and despite Parthian Shot's apt and officially selected answer ("external"), I would also suggest the adjective "uncanny" as a suitable descriptor for the experience of something unusual, or even preternatural, whose origins lie outside of the normal, day-to-day, self.
uncanny
adjective: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched"
synonyms: eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly
(Google)
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The idea was uncanny
Though the title of the OP merely asks for a single word that would describe something “outside of oneself,” the body of the OP is somewhat more elaborate and describes this something as of "divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc." For this reason, and despite Parthian Shot's apt and officially selected answer ("external"), I would also suggest the adjective "uncanny" as a suitable descriptor for the experience of something unusual, or even preternatural, whose origins lie outside of the normal, day-to-day, self.
uncanny
adjective: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched"
synonyms: eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly
(Google)
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The idea was uncanny
Though the title of the OP merely asks for a single word that would describe something “outside of oneself,” the body of the OP is somewhat more elaborate and describes this something as of "divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc." For this reason, and despite Parthian Shot's apt and officially selected answer ("external"), I would also suggest the adjective "uncanny" as a suitable descriptor for the experience of something unusual, or even preternatural, whose origins lie outside of the normal, day-to-day, self.
uncanny
adjective: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched"
synonyms: eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly
(Google)
The idea was uncanny
Though the title of the OP merely asks for a single word that would describe something “outside of oneself,” the body of the OP is somewhat more elaborate and describes this something as of "divine inspiration, dumb luck, etc." For this reason, and despite Parthian Shot's apt and officially selected answer ("external"), I would also suggest the adjective "uncanny" as a suitable descriptor for the experience of something unusual, or even preternatural, whose origins lie outside of the normal, day-to-day, self.
uncanny
adjective: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. "an uncanny feeling that she was being watched"
synonyms: eerie, unnatural, unearthly, preternatural, supernatural, otherworldly
(Google)
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Extracorporeal has the exact meaning of something being outside one's body.
Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extracorporeal):
extracorporeal
adjective ex·tra·cor·po·re·al -kȯr-ˈpȯr-ē-əl
Definition of EXTRACORPOREAL
: occurring or based outside the living body "the heart-lung machine maintains >extracorporeal circulation during heart surgery"
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Extracorporeal has the exact meaning of something being outside one's body.
Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extracorporeal):
extracorporeal
adjective ex·tra·cor·po·re·al -kȯr-ˈpȯr-ē-əl
Definition of EXTRACORPOREAL
: occurring or based outside the living body "the heart-lung machine maintains >extracorporeal circulation during heart surgery"
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Extracorporeal has the exact meaning of something being outside one's body.
Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extracorporeal):
extracorporeal
adjective ex·tra·cor·po·re·al -kȯr-ˈpȯr-ē-əl
Definition of EXTRACORPOREAL
: occurring or based outside the living body "the heart-lung machine maintains >extracorporeal circulation during heart surgery"
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Extracorporeal has the exact meaning of something being outside one's body.
Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extracorporeal):
extracorporeal
adjective ex·tra·cor·po·re·al -kȯr-ˈpȯr-ē-əl
Definition of EXTRACORPOREAL
: occurring or based outside the living body "the heart-lung machine maintains >extracorporeal circulation during heart surgery"
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ecstasis or ekstasis: to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere
from ek- "out" and stasis "a stand"
a form of ecstasy
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ecstasis or ekstasis: to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere
from ek- "out" and stasis "a stand"
a form of ecstasy
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ecstasis or ekstasis: to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere
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a form of ecstasy
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ecstasis or ekstasis: to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere
from ek- "out" and stasis "a stand"
a form of ecstasy
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In your first example, it's possible you mean ex machina, which is used in describing stories, etc. In your second utterly and totally unrelated example, you're talking about a dualist view of life (a "religious", not "scientific" view, if you will). It's also possible you're just looking for "supernatural" which is a synonym for "spooky".
– Fattie
Jun 29 '15 at 4:01
The term "disembodied" might fit somehow.
– Hot Licks
Mar 30 '16 at 19:44