Jurgen Ziewe

Jurgen Ziewe is a German artist, designer, and out-of-body experiencer.

Biography Jurgen Ziewe (born 1947 in Germany) is an artist, author, and consciousness researcher known for published accounts of out-of-body experiences OBEs, lucid dreaming, and extended meditative practice. He was trained as an artist at The Hamburg Academy of Art. He moved to England in 1975 and worked as a designer at multiple agencies.

Ziewe sees dream-like states as being another form of reality.

From the mid-1970s onward, Ziewe began documenting spontaneous and deliberate out-of-body experiences and lucid states that he attributes to long-term meditation practice. He has written several books and journals describing these experiences—often emphasizing observational detail and claiming sustained, full-awareness excursions into non-physical dimensions. His books include Multidimensional Man (2008) his later work Elysium Unveiled presents illustrated, near-photoreal renderings of astral landscapes alongside his reported observations.

Public engagement Ziewe has given lectures and interviews on consciousness and astral travel, and has appeared on podcasts and video interviews discussing his work and experiences. His talks to popular audiences and interviews (including Buddha at the Gas Pump and various podcasts) have expanded the public awareness of his experiential reports.

Reception and context Ziewe’s work occupies a niche at the intersection of contemplative practice, experiential reports of afterlife states, and visionary digital art. While his accounts are sourced to his personal journals and first-person observation, they have been widely read by audiences interested in near-death experiences, lucid dreaming, and metaphysical speculation. Independent critical appraisal is mixed; readers tend to view his work either as firsthand experiential testimony or as speculative metaphysical writing.