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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (107)	5/9/2003 2:40:13 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 520

History of Religion site: Northern Way this link is of an online book of the beliefs of the Norse and Poetic Edda. The authors makes a distinction of Northern beliefs (Asatru) and Wicca, and has interesting references of Christian use of some of these. (ceremony and symbols) northvegr.org

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (107)	5/9/2003 2:54:55 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

One of things I remarked was that we may have the same senses which should "sense" the same way......what if we didn't and to a degree did not know this, we would be experiencing the same thing differently...... In this month's Scientific American (May 2003) there is an article by By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran about when senses are experienced differently........synesthesia Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes [snip...........] Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880, when Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published a paper in Nature on the phenomenon. But most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects) or a mere curiosity. About four years ago, however, we and others began to uncover brain processes that could account for synesthesia. Along the way, we also found new clues to some of the most mysterious aspects of the human mind, such as the emergence of abstract thought, metaphor and perhaps even language. (the rest a very long article @ sciam.com and while you are there (or buy the mag) there is even a longer one on Parallel Universes which according to the author that there is a twin of you almost doing the same thing ......................just in a different universe. [snip........ By this very definition of "universe," one might expect the notion of a multiverse to be forever in the domain of metaphysics. Yet the borderline between physics and metaphysics is defined by whether a theory is experimentally testable, not by whether it is weird or involves unobservable entities. The frontiers of physics have gradually expanded to incorporate ever more abstract (and once metaphysical) concepts such as a round Earth, invisible electromagnetic fields, time slowdown at high speeds, quantum superpositions, curved space, and black holes. Over the past several years the concept of a multiverse has joined this list. It is grounded in well-tested theories such as relativity and quantum mechanics, and it fulfills both of the basic criteria of an empirical science: it makes predictions, and it can be falsified. Scientists have discussed as many as four distinct types of parallel universes. The key question is not whether the multiverse exists but rather how many levels it has. [more of this article @ sciam.com