From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:06:58 -0800, Stacey Whaley wrote:   
      
   > David Mitchell wrote:   
   > I don't know!  I believe in something bigger.  :)   
      
   I did too, for a long time; but then I realised that everyone was quoting   
   everyone else and that no-one had any objective, convincing evidence.   
      
   For instance, (and this will indicate how long ago I was looking into this   
   :-), I'd read Monroe, who'd say something like "This is the silver cord,   
   as described by Carrington", so I'd look up Carrington, and it would be   
   "The silver cord, was shown by Muldoon to connect the astral body to the   
   physical", and when I tracked down Muldoon, he would say "The ancient   
   Egyptians called the astral body the 'ka', and believed that it was   
   connected to the body by a silver cord".   
      
   No-one would ever actually _prove_ anything - it was just a castle built   
   on sand.   
      
   IMO, at least.  Your Mileage May Vary, of course (YMMV :-)   
      
   > Now there's an anacronym I don't know.  What is YMMV?   
      
   SA (See Above ;-)   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> But if you _could_ find a new planet, or a previously unknown   
   > satellite of   
   >> one of the gas giants, now _that_ would be interesting.   
   >   
   > :)  Yes it would!   
   >   
   >> Never happened though.  Wonder why that is ;-)   
   >   
   > Are you sure it's never happened?  ;)   
      
   Fairly.  I've been studying OBE's and all sorts of paranormal phenomena   
   for quite a long time; and I've never read of anything which I couldn't be   
   absolutely sure was garnered "paranormally" by anyone I trust.   
      
   There are, however, _lots_ of incorrect predictions (y'know "The world   
   will end", "We will have definite proof of aliens"), and vague, trite,   
   nonsense ("There will be unrest in the middle east". Well, duh.)   
      
   Haven't found anyone who, for example, predicted the recent tsunami though.   
      
   Always happy to be corrected though.   
      
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Hey, no one can stop me now.  I don't even think I could stop myself.   
   > :)   
      
   Have you tried, or considered trying, any of the free "binaural beat"   
   programs (such as BWGen, or Natura Sound Therapy)?   
      
   Hey, you could even try Dick's "Right Eye" technique.  It doesn't work for   
   me; but you might be one of the 60% he claims it works for.   
      
   >   
   > If great things come from dreams, like Mendeleev dreamed the Periodic   
   > Table, then I wonder if great things can come from OBEs?  :)   
      
   Probably, and for the same reasons.   
      
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