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- From: acs.ucalgary.ca!bishop (Lionel Richard Clark)
- Subject: Silver cord
- Message-ID: <9211050556.AA60126@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:56:10 GMT
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- Original-Sender: acs.ucalgary.ca!bishop (Lionel Richard Clark)
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- Quoting from _Beyond_The_Body_, Susan J Blackmore (pg 3!)
-
- "Again, as I formulated answers, the muth below spoke. It
- seemed quite capable of saying what I wanted said, and I soon let it
- be and concentrated on the experience. From the ceiling I could
- apparently see the room quite clearly. I saw the desk, chairs,
- wondow, my friends, and myself all from above. Then I saw a string
- or cord, silvery, faintly glowing and moving gently, running between
- the neck of my body below and the navel, or therebouts, of a
- duplicate body above. I thought it would be fun to try to move it.
- I reached out my hand and immediately learned my first lesson. I
- needed no hand to move the cord, thinking it moved was sufficient.
- Also I could have two hands, any number of hands, or no hands at all,
- as I chose. And so I learned a little of how to act in this
- thought-responsive world. Much later I learned that I needed neither
- cord nor duplicate body, and when I realized this they evaporated."
-
- What M(r)s Blackmore is telling us is profound. Actually,
- her claim of not needing any silver cord is also supported by a
- similar claim from _FLight_of_Mind_, a book that Anglela used in her
- series of essays. It seems that unless you desire it, you do not
- NEED a silver cord, but it probably is a handy little direction
- finder if you get lost 8).
-
- Also, what we learn here is that the astral body is not
- necessary either, and that a link can be formed and used to
- manipulate the shell below. My task, if any Active OOBErs want to
- try it, is to:
-
- 1) Go OOBE.
- 2) See if YOU yourself can move or influence the mundane body.
- Like talking, moving, anything.
-
- Is it possible for astral forms to manipulate corporeal
- objects? One poster mentioned some sort of telepathy with the
- corporeal, but that was about all I have seen...
-
- Srcs: Beyond the Body , By Susan Blackmore, G Britain 1982, ISBN 0 586 08428 2
- Flight of Mind, H J Irwin, London, 1985, ISBN 0 8108 1737 3
-
-
- Something to ponder...
-
- - Bishop the temporarily grounded... (see above for address)
-