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- From: scrutton@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body
- Subject: Re: Reality Test
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.230815.10485@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:08:15 -0400
- References: <C15Ks3.LAH@newsserver.technet.sg> <1993Jan20.195403.22084@ctp.com>
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- In article <1993Jan20.195403.22084@ctp.com>, ebail@ctp.com (Erik Bailey) writes:
- > In article <C15Ks3.LAH@newsserver.technet.sg> dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon) writes:
- ..
- >>>have seen the effects. A similar thing happened with jumping off a bridge.
- >>
- >> Thanks for the independent observation/confirmation on the usefulness
- >>of RT. I do feel that it is a subject worth investigation in greater depth.
- .
- > I remembered the cannonballs, and these discussions, and said "What the
- > hell" and jumped. IT WAS GREAT!!! An *amazing* feeling of flying (I've
- > never skydived, but I imagine it was similar). BTW - I didn't end up
- > hitting the ground, I basically woke up at that point.
-
- Why imagine the similarity? Do the real deal. It's relatively cheap
- as great life experiences go, quite safe, and not often addictive.
- My first free fall was way more spectacular (and much less painful)
- than my near death oob trip.
-
- You won't have to question this reality -- you'll live it.
-
- "I shit myself, therefore I am."
-
- I've never had dreams about skydiving, but most who have tell me
- they do hit the ground and often bounce or just stand up.
-
- Skydivers are a pretty irreverant bunch but all this reality/jump
- shit is starting to bug me out.
-
- Later.
-
- --
- -Jeff scrutton@ac.dal.ca Dalhousie University Oceanography Dept.
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