> On Jul 6, 3:15 am, Art zilch.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:30:25 -0700 (PDT), "bigflet...@gmail.com"

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>>>Just watched an episode of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".

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>>>How time 'flies'.He had a wonderful infectious passion for his
>>>subject.

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>>>Three things jumped out. One,when describing the big bang, he said
>>>words to the effect that 'bits' started to fly off in all directions,
>>>but of course, there were no directions. Easy mistake to make :-)

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>>>Secondly, the computer model created at Stanford, of the combined
>>>galaxies, looked exactly like the 'dance of shiva' icon at the centre,
>>>and finally, his speculation that the observable universe was a mere
>>>electron in a greater universe, ad infinitum.

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>>>Such observations confirmed why masters tell us we each have to
>>>transcend the mind to see reality.
>>>His first comment re 'many directions' confirmed that fact.

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>>>To look 'through' the mind creates only illusions.

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>>>Thanks Carl, for illustrating how even such a beautiful mind as yours
>>>can only see 'that which isnt'.

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>> Whenever I think of "astonishing Carl" I'm reminded of his book
>> Broca's Brain where he offered his absurd theory of the NDE
>> "tunnel and light" experience. He claimed it's nothing but a
>> memory of the birth experience ... traveling through the
>> birth canal and finally seeing the bright lights of the delivery
>> room with "loving presences" all around. I thought that Carl,
>> as a scientist, would at least first find out the obvious ...
>> whether or not those born Caesarian experience the
>> dark tunnel travel portion. Sure enough, some years later I read
>> that later NDE studies showed that people born Caesarian
>> do also experience the tunnel travel ... completely blowing
>> Carl's absurd hypothesis.

>> Well, Carl passed away some time ago. I suppose his
>> astonishment at finding out he was still consious after
>> "death" was even larger than his astonishment at the
>> magnificent illusions of the physical universe :)

> His movie/book "Contact" demonstrated how far he had come from his
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> His description of the astral plane was as good as it gets.
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> I think it was to his credit, that he didnt let his scientific
> discipline get in the way of his early speculations.