Re: The Universe.

> > OK, so go tie a bag around your head and jump in a lake. You have the right
> > to determine howsoever you will survive. But if you decide that survival is
> > impossible, at least have the courtesy to allow others to survive after you
> > are gone.
> Can it be an airtight plastic bag with tubes hooked up to an O2 supply on the
> surface?
> Depends how you define "outside."  To me, there's not really an outside.  My
> "inside" doesn't stop at the walls of my rather thick skull, but goes farther
> I'm not sure how far, but far enough.  Maybe it extends for a 12 cubic mile
> radius.  Maybe not.  I dunno.

Depends on how you look at human intelligence, I guess. Some Eastern schools
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," etc.
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 also
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, it
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 bodies
below them during surgeries, etc.) Frankly, I'm not really sure if I believe
any of that stuff... I have no physical evidence.