A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a new theory)

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 20 Apr 2001, 10:40 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (whorl) A Point about Astral Travel (was re: The Secret: a new theory)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:40:08
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> Also, the astral travel surprises even the inhumi who=20
> participate in it, which makes it even more unlikely that
> Krait told Horn about it.=20

...which caused me to note something that hadn't occurred to
me before: The Narr is capable of astral travelling only after
he's had his whole-body transplant. The dumb explanation would
be "it's a power Silk has had all along but never knew about
because he never slept around any sleeping inhumi," which is
possible but not very plausible. A somewhat better explanation:
it's somehow due to the fact that the Narr is not attached as
firmly to the body of Silk as most people are to their bodies.

--Blattid

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