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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Allsop<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 02, 2010 7:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Flash of insight...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><br><br><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823141057.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823141057.htm</a><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Alan, I bet you'd have fun if you could get a head set and camera setup like that, so you could experience such yourself. Certainly experiencing this would be very enlightening to everyone<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cool idea Brent! Rig up a hat with a rod about a meter long with a camera on the end, out behind and above, with the output rigged to video display glasses. Then you could pretend to be an avatar. And watch all the crazy looks you would get from normal people.</span><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I'm always chuckling at how people are so clueless when they talk about having a 'spirit' or an "out of body experience' in the traditional religious interpretation way<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I imagined myself as a disembodied spirit, but instead of an out-of-body experience, I demon-possessed my own body. It is kinda like The Exorcist, only it was me in here, so it became sorta self-referential, and without all the projectile barfing (eewww, that really turns me off.) And I am not really an evil spirit either, nor a saint by any means, but rather more like half way between good and evil. So it was like The Exorcist, except it was self-possession by a neutral spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>