Re: The Universe.

> > Depends on how you look at human intelligence, I guess. Some Eastern school
> > of thought say that a person has an "astral body," which is capable of
> > getting up and moving around, which relays data we percieve as "dreams," et
> > Mr. Hubbard says that a being is a thought unit, in control of a body, and
> > that that thought unit can size and re-size itself as it wishes. It can als
> > supposedly control the body from a great distance... it's in a different
> > dimension or something like that. There's even a course called
> > "Exteriorization and the phenomena of space" or something like that that, i
> > is claimed, can teach you how to "step back" from your body and view things
> > from the thought unit's perspective, which is usually above the head
> > somewhere (that would certainly explain people who claim to see their bodie
> > below them during surgeries, etc.) Frankly, I'm not really sure if I believ
> > any of that stuff... I have no physical evidence.
> Yeah, but judging from the very nature of that stuff, can there EVER be
> physical evidence?  Me thinks not.  Oh well.  Maybe it's true, maybe it's
> not, maybe I look like dried-up snot.

Yes... You'd have to do it yourself to be sure. Everyone would have to do it
themselves to be sure; you can't exactly take your video camera along with
you and video the experience to show all your buddies. 

Also mentioned is that stepping back in this manner lets you view things
closer to the way they actually are; imagine going from having a direct
involvement and steak in a matter to being just a casual, detached observer.
I think things would look a lot clearer! It's like those contests in
magazines where they have some extreme close-ups of sectors of photos in
the mags; you have to guess what picture the close-up came from to get the
prize.