From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:36:58 -0800, Stacey Whaley wrote:   
      
   > I want to talk to entities.  I want knowledge.  I want to learn things   
   > I never knew and see things I've never imagined.  Is that what it will   
   > be like?   
      
   Perhaps.   
      
   :-)   
      
   While you may indeed experience unusual things, which may well appear real   
   to you, there is no convincing evidence that these things are much more   
   than an unusual kind of hallucination.   
      
   That said, there is no reason to suppose that you won't enjoy them hugely.   
      
   However, I would be surprised if you were to learn anything of any   
   significance - most of the accounts of "astral realm" OBE's I've read are   
   just the same old trite bollocks that you always see.   
      
   You never find anyone discovering a new branch of science, or finding a   
   solution to a mathematical puzzle, or an explanation of why the various   
   physical constants are the way they are, etc.   
      
   IOW, I've never heard of an OBE in which anyone discovered anything that   
   wasn't either already known, trite, or wrong.   
      
   YMMV, of course.   
      
   But if you _could_ find a new planet, or a previously unknown satellite of   
   one of the gas giants, now _that_ would be interesting.   
      
   Never happened though.  Wonder why that is ;-)   
      
   Please don't let my, IMO understandable, cynicism put you off.  It's a   
   worthwhile endeavour in its own right, even if it's just an   
   hallucination.   
      
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