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- From: Steve Itzenhuiser <cs.uwp.edu!itzenhui>
- Subject: Re: OOBE: How? Why?
- Message-ID: <Pine.3.03.9212281027.C9440-b100000b@cs.uwp.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:04:31 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- Original-Sender: Steve Itzenhuiser <cs.uwp.edu!itzenhui>
-
- On Sat, 26 Dec 1992 OOBE-Relay@gnosys.svle.ma.us wrote:
-
- > Original-Sender: acsrdl@UMASSD.EDU
- >
- > Stephen,
- > Some good questions there. I won't get into the theological side of
- > things, but from an evolutionary standpoint it seems that we have the
- > ability because it's useful, because it's an advantage in some way....
- > Of course, that's wide open to attack, the best being "Well, if i4's
- > useful then why can't we _all_ do it? If being able to scout out new
- > territory without physical risk is an ability that showed up somewhere
- > long ago, then why didn't that particular family/tribe prosper? (Likewise,
- > if one individual or clan could "fetch" fruit or small animals without
- > touching them, why didn't they become the dominant gene pool?)
- > I don't know. The hardest part is to make the explanation satisfy
- > the fact that very, very few people can do it well and reliably.... <shrug>
- >
- > Dave
-
- Not that I'm an expert on OOBEs or anything, but my thoughts lead me to
- believe that all of these concepts (what's referred to as "supernatural")
- were common to very many people, if not everyone, long ago. As
- "technology" developed--even such things as the wheel--people stopped
- using their abilities and started to depend upon the material items,
- thereby forgetting after many generations how to use those abilities.
- I think it's time to remember...and I think we are.
-
-
- Steve
-