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From: duo@teleport.com (Gratuitous Pseudonym)
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Subject: Re: physical transformation spells?
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 96 21:49:16 GMT
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In article <4ru6lh$qup@hermes.is.co.za>,
   bkelly@icon.co.za (Brady Kelly) wrote:

>I believe the body to be not a vehicular machine, but an expression of
>conciousness. It is a representation, or effect, on the physical
>plane, of some part of our being that exists on another plane.
>
>Just as the images, smells, textures etc. that we perceive, of objects
>that are spiritually further from us represent those objects, our
>bodies are perceptions of objects that are spiritually close to or
>part of us.
>
>Thus, the body is not a physical machine which we inhabit or drive
>while alive on Earth, but our perception of a spiritual or mental
>machine which we inhabit or use while alive in meta-space. The Earth
>itself a perception of the structure and workings of our strange
>machines.

Cosmic.  I prefer to view it the other way around, though.  The mind is a 
metaphysical extension of the body, which is a meat machine of sufficient 
complexity that the informational processing system embodied in the brain is 
so vivid and detailed that it becomes mistaken for a thing in itself.

Mind is an expression of DNA.  Spirit is merely an experience of consciousness 
in which the brain functions are so subtle and complex as to give us the 
illusion that it is not arising from physical processes.

I prefer this view as it does not rely on any untestable assumptions of 
non-physical entities.  Your view must accept such beings on faith, as there 
is no solid evidence to support an hypothesis for their existence.